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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead,… — Alan Lightman
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and… — Catherynne M. Valente
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless… — David James Duncan
If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body,… — Alan Watts
I realized early in my career that precisely what one reader doesn't like is what another reader loves. Collectively, any writer's audience presents a mishmash… — Karen Marie Moning
It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together. — Gackt
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If youâ€™re really in favor of free speech, then youâ€™re in… — Noam Chomsky
My being subsists only from a supreme point of view which is precisely incompatible with my point of view. The perspective in which I fade… — Maurice Blanchot
It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless… — Nick Harkaway
For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely,"… — Cassandra Clare
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.… — James A. Baldwin
We have to be back in three hours', Ronan said. 'I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.' 'This', Gansey replied, 'is precisely why… — Maggie Stiefvater
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even… — Javier MarÃas
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be… — Gilles Deleuze
There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our… — Karl Popper
We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into the paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers... one saying to the other:… — Richard P. Feynman
Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if weâ€™re all… — John Green
...Recognising, as I do, that you are the second highest expert in Europe--" "Indeed, sir! May I inquire who has the honour to be the… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that… — Cheryl Strayed

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