The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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