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The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
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Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely.…
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The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication,…
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True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,…
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Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static…
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses,…
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Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.
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At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains;…
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Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.
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We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie…
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If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look…
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The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are…
— Jean Giraudoux
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I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and…
— Louis Kahn
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The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. .…
— Louise Bourgeois
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That's what all painting is about, it”s space and light occupied by human presences.
— Unknown Author
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The things that stayed were things that didn't matter except they stayed, night and day, all seasons the same, and were peaceful…
— William H. Gass
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Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.
— May Sarton
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And I found both literature and the church very dramatic presences in the world of the 1950s.
— Thomas Keneally
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The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.
— Emma Bonino
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The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences,…
— Robert Grudin
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Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving…
— Virginia Woolf
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
— Octavio Paz
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