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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.

Alan Lightman

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Compare Condition Consider Human Being Other Satisfy
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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Escape Father Free Immortality Own Person Shadow Some Son
Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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Across Course Culture Cut Emotional Experience Language Music
Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Illogic Justification Logic Postdiction Prediction
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Back Brood Doubt Look Movement People Predictable
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
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 novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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Feel Love Magical Something
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Cycle Life Listen Lot Osprey Spend Time Watch

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