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"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"We were the only two people in the entire airport who lost total track of time, for we were consumed by space-time at that present moment. Time was irrelevant to our existence, for we didn't want to exist outside the tight and glorious knots of each other's arms. Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all our experiences, there is no actual existence of the past and the future. All that there is, is the present."

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth."

"It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure."

"One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union."

"If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess."

"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

"I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way."

"The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction."
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