So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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