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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.

Alan Lightman

We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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Essay Every Him Himself Matter Subject Ultimate
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Often See
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Highly Live Need Polarized Respectful Society Try Understand Way
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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Bloodstream Book Day Deep Gom Got One Osprey Real Write
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.
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Simplu Already Down Exploration Lot Put Write Writer
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some
I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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Down Maybe Minute People Sit Think
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Happy Joy No One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Already Doing Done Money More Spend Thing Time Water
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Back First Forth Iron Massive Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
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
We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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Bridge Ferry Island Really Service Spiritual Telephone

A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.

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