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"Her description of the 'what is moving problem' reminds me of The Order of Time description of how we perceive time." — Jun 21, 2019 02:43PM
Bayard Taylor wrote his fiancée from California in 1849: I cannot express to thee how I have been charmed with this country. Its pure, cloudless sky; its spring-like airs, always filled with the odor of balmy shrubs and grasses; its vast
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― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
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― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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― The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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