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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.

Alan Lightman

When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Content Contradictory Long People Reason World
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Book Creative Finish Good Let Novel Participate Raeder
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Belief Beneficial Consider Contradiction Faith Matter
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Desert Footprint Man Occasion One Someone Something Then Writer
I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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Computer E-mail Live Merciful Service Summer Talk Telephone
Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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Escape Father Free Immortality Own Person Shadow Some Son
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Opposition Technology Thing Think Use Wonderful
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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Action Contemplate Future Imagine Person Result
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Nature Purposeless Simply
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Ability Exuberance Honor Moment Other Passion Ride Stillness

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