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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?

Alan Lightman

Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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Born Movement Parent Passion Person Record Somewhere
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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April Back Came Enter Father Middle Mother Separate Vacation
And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Dep Discover History Human Imagine Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Image Imagine Nom Time World
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Happy Joy No One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap
When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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Body Cell Ground Hyperspace Phone Somewhere
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Bak Bend Circle Itself Suppose Time
What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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Disturb Everything Faster Happen Less Quiet World

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