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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.

Alan Lightman

As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Answer Human Being might Need Question Someday Well
In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Cell Clamp Head Phone Restaurant Walk
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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April Back Came Enter Father Middle Mother Separate Vacation
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.
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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Ability Exuberance Honor Moment Other Passion Ride Stillness
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
Continents of memory had been lost.
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Been Continent Lost Memory
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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Better Fulfil Future Libe Life One Seen Time World

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