Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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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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