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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.

Alan Lightman

There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Ay Cultural Different Diversity Look Valuable World
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
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
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
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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Beyond Down Equally Law Particular Stretch
“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.
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Book Change Diagnosis Draft Significant Ten Through Whole Wholesale
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time 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
I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Compare Country Food Like Lunch Note Really Someone
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Different Each Fiction Group Influence Several Stand Woven Write

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