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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.
— Margaret Atwood
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
— Jeremy Bentham
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The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a day. But…
— Buffalo Bill
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I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
— Herb Alpert
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting up of…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.
— Janet Morris
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down…
— William Shakespeare
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Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee…
— Freeman Dyson
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When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and…
— Brian Tracy
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Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
— John C. Maxwell
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The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us…
— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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No matter how old I get, the race remains one of life's most rewarding experiences. My times become slower and slower, but…
— George A. Sheehan
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