In some ways, we are traveling in time now. We just happened to be prisoners of the present in the eternal transition from the past to the future.

Neil Degrasse Tyson
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  3. The past is obdurate. - Stephen King

  4. He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. - Diana Gabaldon

  5. Can the future hsitory of the world be so fragile that it will not allow two high school teachers to meet and fall in love? To marry, to dance to Beatles tunes like "I Want to Hold Your Hand, " and live unremarkable lives? - Stephen King

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  1. The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...

  2. We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

  3. The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make up the human body, are traceable to the crucibles that cooked light elements into heavy elements in their core under extreme temperatures and pressures. These stars- the high mass ones...

  4. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

  5. I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

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