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

Alan Lightman

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Church Clock Divide Increment March Month Succession Tower
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
As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Inside Out Thing Total Understand Universe
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
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
Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Nature Purposeless Simply
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
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
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
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
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Author Fabulist Fiction Imagination Long Love People Such Write Time
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Death Each Friend Future Part World
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

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