For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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