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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.

Alan Lightman

In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
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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Brood Children Father Monogamous Mother Osprey Summer Through Watch
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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Disparate Essay Guide Important Pick Power Say Seemingly Thought
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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Century Children Embrace Forget Grow Last Parent Rapidly Second
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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Connect Enormous Grateful Humble Kafka Way
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Cost Determine Free Future Immortality No Person Such Whole Woman
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Complete Different Every Reader Sense Something Way
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Book Change Different Every Few Good Life Own Place Year
Continents of memory had been lost.
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Been Continent Lost Memory
The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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Between Humanity Place Relationship Science Two Way World
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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Alpha Another Brain Clock Heart Mysterious Ruthless Tick Wave

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