Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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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 not.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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