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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Alan Lightman

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Dixxle Pace Proceed Technology
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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Feel Love Magical Something
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Complete Different Every Reader Sense Something Way
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Act Each Impulse Island Judge Own Rather Sincerity World
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Country Lead Philosophy Republic
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Been Country Leader People Think
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Alpha Another Brain Clock Heart Mysterious Ruthless Tick Wave
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
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

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