After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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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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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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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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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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