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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

Alan Lightman

When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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Exist God Know Nature Sense
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Brood Doubt Look People
Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Debate Much Public Room Subtitle Unfortunately
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 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
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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Give Little Love Other Return Selfish Want
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
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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April Back Came Enter Father Middle Mother Separate Vacation
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Acausal Helpless Scientist World
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Dixxle Pace Proceed Technology
Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Complex Cream Discuss Issue President Subtleties
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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Born Movement Parent Passion Person Record Somewhere

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