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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

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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.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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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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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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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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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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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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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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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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Belief Contradict Determine Evidence Experiment Method Oppose Science

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