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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.

Alan Lightman

For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
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
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
I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Different Institute Over People Recognize Think Understanding Valuable
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Arousal Chemical Ending Flow More never Sexual
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Cost Determine Free Future Immortality No Person Such Whole Woman
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Atheist Consider Myself Spiritual
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Clarity Right See Wrong
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
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Opposition Technology Thing Think Use Wonderful

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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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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