I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we're required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection. I believe that we need to slow down.

Alan Lightman
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More Quotes By Alan Lightman
  1. The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

  2. Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their sincerity and sweetness, their sharing an instant in a fleeting life. It was almost as if a secret had passed between them. Was this some kind...

  3. If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

  4. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

  5. Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

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