Most people have learned to live in the moment.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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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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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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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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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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