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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.

Alan Lightman

Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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Disturb Everything Faster Happen Less Quiet World
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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Autumn Day Life Moment One Season Snowfall
“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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Appointment Body Exist Morning Precisely Think
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Bring Develop Emotional Excite Express Nurture Side Student Use
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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Dead Microscopic Question Stop Universe
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People

I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.

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