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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.

Alan Lightman

It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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Every Just Moment Speak Spoken Word 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
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Belief Include Larger Ourselves Spirituality Thing
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
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Happy Joy One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Bring Develop Emotional Excite Express Nurture Side Student Use
It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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Country Lead Philosophy Republic
I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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Book Came Dream Happy Inspiration Out Person Single Still Way
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Beyond Cliff Future Hang Laugh Nothingness Present
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
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
But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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Experience Irrational Lead New Rational Thought
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time

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