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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.

Alan Lightman

“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Book Change Diagnosis Draft Significant Ten Through Whole Wholesale
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Ability Exuberance Honor Moment Other Passion Ride Stillness
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Brood Children Father Monogamous Mother Osprey Summer Through Watch
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Decision Event Glance Happen Lose Occur Reality
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 also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Simplu Already Down Exploration Lot Put Write Writer
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Consequence Effect Future Little Presence Present Weight
We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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Aside Connection Mind Reciprocity Relationship Strong Wall
After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor

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