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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

Alan Lightman

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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Author Great Heritage Idea Paint Science
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Body Contain Exquisite Fact Flow Hydrogen Laboratory Oblivious Variable
Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Care Evidence Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Suggest Tornadoes
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Simplu Already Down Exploration Lot Put Write Writer
I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Belief Contradict Determine Evidence Experiment Method Oppose Science
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
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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Computer E-mail Live Merciful Service Summer Talk Telephone
Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Church Clock Divide Increment March Month Succession Tower
Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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Canyon Chemical Diminish Faint Fireflies Glow Light More Red Sexual
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Book Down Experience Happen Shor Someone Speak Strange

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

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