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• The revelation we've come to is that we can trust our memories of a past with lower, not higher, entropy only if the big bang - the process, event, or happening that brought the universe into existence - started off the universe in an extraordinarily special, highly ordered state of low entropy.

  Brian Greene

  Memories, Past, Special

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.175, Vintage

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• Despite its name, the big bang theory is not really a theory of a bang at all. It is really only a theory of the aftermath of a bang.

  Alan Guth

  Names, Aftermath, Bigs

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• The reason we'd stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom. Whoever was charged with making the announcement momentarily lost all sense of procedure and we got this tantalizing glimpse into the chaos on the trains, and all we could hear was (bangs on microphone) "Gary, it's burning, what we gonna do?!" And everyone on the carriage just cheered, "Hooray! We're rubbish!"

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Fire

  "Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

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• People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

  Luis von Ahn

  People, Together, Computer

  "For Certain Tasks, The Cortex Still Beats The CPU". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. June 25, 2007.

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• Big bang cosmology is probably as widely believed as has been any theory of the universe in the history of Western civilization. It rests, however, on many untested, and in some cases untestable, assumptions. Indeed, big bang cosmology has become a bandwagon of thought that reflects faith as much as objective truth.

  Geoffrey Burbidge

  Civilization, Objective Truth, Assumption

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• Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

  Hideo Kojima

  Today, Digital, Entertainment

  Nintendo Power, November 2010.

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• It is flat-out strange that something-that anything-is happening at all. There was nothing then a Big Bang, then here we all are. This is extremely weird.

  Ken Wilber

  Life, Sex, Strange

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community, but also enthusiastically supported by that same community - this is our opportunity to give back, in that spirit, our 'Big Bang' family has made a meaningful contribution, and together, we'll share in the support of these future scholars, scientists and leaders.

  Chuck Lorre

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Giving

  "'Big Bang Theory' Cast Announces UCLA Scholarship Endowment". www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 28, 2015.

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• And the National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill people, people do," but I think the gun helps, you know? I think it helps. I just think just standing there going, "Bang!"
  "That's not going to kill too many people, is it? You'd have to be really dodgy on the heart to have that.

  Eddie Izzard

  Heart, Thinking, Gun

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• The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Kissing, Italian

  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang "A Note on the Title" (1968)

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• You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiring, Bigs, Force

  "What Is Reality?". Book by Alan Watts, 1973.

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• When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

  S. T. Joshi

  Wall, Want, Looks

  S. T. Joshi (2003). “The Weird Tale”, p.15, Wildside Press LLC

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Lonely, Home

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• All you have to do is put on the Bettie Bangs and everybody automatically knows what it means.

  Olivia De Berardinis

  Mean, Knows

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• Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and I’ll… well, I’ll probably bang my shoulder on the door frame as I storm out. Many of the most unforgettable female fictional protagonists are gauche, self-doubting, plain and think too much.

  Charlotte Mendelson

  Reading, Thinking, Doors

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• If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Stars, Moving, Moon

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• Polisse' is the sort of cop thriller where people do things like angrily bang on a desktop or sweep everything off it. If it happens once, it must happen six times. But every time it did, I wanted to stand up and cheer, which I've never wanted to do for any such thriller.

  Wesley Morris

  Cheer, People, Six

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• Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Fall, Missing, Balls

  "Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1945.

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• When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

  John Wayne

  Looks, Half, Faces

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• Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

  Patrick Marber

  Thank God, World, Body

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• Sex in space (Earth included) far exceeds our wildest imaginations, and is more than a big bang, that's for sure, it's cosmic.

  Vanna Bonta

  Sex, Space, Bigs

  "Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space". Femail Magazine, www.femail.com.au. June 2008.

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• The best way to find out things, if you come to think of it, is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun; bang it goes, and everything takes flight and runs for shelter. But if you sit quite still and pretend not to be looking, all the little facts will come and peck round your feet, situations will venture forth from thickets and intentions will creep out and sun themselves on a stone; and if you are very patient, you will see and understand a great deal more than a man with a gun.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Running, Gun, Men

  Elspeth Huxley (2000). “The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood”, p.264, Penguin

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• The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

  Clive James

  Giving Up, Wall, Artist

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• The Big Bang has made Idealists out of almost anybody who thinks. First there was absolutely nothing, then Bang! Something. This is beyond weird. Out of sheerest Emptiness, manifestation arises.

  Ken Wilber

  Thinking, Firsts, Emptiness

  Ken Wilber (2007). “A Brief History of Everything”, p.36, Shambhala Publications

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• When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Hopeful, Doe

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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