"To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness."

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Source : Dan Falk (2010). “In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time”, p.3, Macmillan

Dan Falk

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“One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.”
“The future is an infinite succession of presents.”
“The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.”
“I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.”
“I do not want "Mormonism" to become popular; I would not, if I could, make it as popular as the Roman Catholic Church is in Italy, or as the Church of England is in England, because the wicked and ungodly would crowd into it in their sins.”
“It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action.”
“While some are as loathe to trade a Bishop for a Knight as a Cadillac for a Chevrolet, others are prepared to do so without hesitation.”

Source : Larry Evans (1974). “How to Open a Chess Game”
“Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond; But is there anything Beyond?”

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