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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.

Alan Lightman

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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Been Country Leader People Think
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Always Been Begin Book End I Idea People Person Portrait Write
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Acausal Helpless Scientist 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
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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Consciousness Interest Most Problem Science Unsolve
I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Book Comic Diagnosis Funny Modern Overall Tragedy
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
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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Anything Love Person Possible Pure Want
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Beyond Cliff Future Hang Laugh Nothingness Present
I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Down Maybe Minute People Sit Think
We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Connect Dream Haunt Hope Thing Tiny Try Underneath Understand Whole World
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
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

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