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• Physics has entered a remarkable era. Ideas that were once the realm of science fiction are now entering our theoretical — and maybe even experimental — grasp. Brand-new theoretical discoveries about extra dimensions have irreversibly changed how particle physicists, astrophysicists, and cosmologists now think about the world. The sheer number and pace of discoveries tells us that we've most likely only scratched the surface of the wondrous possibilities that lie in store. Ideas have taken on a life of their own.

  Lisa Randall

  Lying, Taken, Thinking

  "Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions". Book by Lisa Randall, 2005.

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• There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Past, Caught, Behinds

  "Galileo's Dream". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2009.

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• At a better pace, slower and more calculated
  No chance of escape.

  Thom Yorke

  Chance

  "Song: 'Fitter Happier'". 1997.

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• Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Mourning, Rhythm

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• Move at your own pace, don't be afraid - and know that it's going to be okay.

  Connor Franta

  Moving, Okay, Knows

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Grandpa did everything at his own pace, a speed that my sister and I referred to as 'when snails attack.' ... My grandparents' house was only about ten miles from ours, but the ride there would necessitate sandwiches packed for the trip, and several books to keep us occupied.

  Jenny Lawson

  Book, Grandpa, House

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.31, Pan Macmillan

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• The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yield, Perspective, Serenity

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• As we take, in fact, a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is this different pace of its parts. Like a bird 's life, it seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings.

  William James

  Views, Bird, Different

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.243, Courier Corporation

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• It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

  Charles Dickens

  Believe, Echoes, Sound

  Charles Dickens (1851). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. The old curiosity shop and other tales”

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• If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

  Alvin Toffler

  Faster, Cycles, Ifs

  alvin toffler (1970). “future shock”

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• Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved.

  Gary L. Francione

  Philosophy, Animal, Rights

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• At a stage when young people want more than anything to be like everyone else, they find themselves the least alike. Everyone their age is growing and changing, but each at his or her own pace.

  Laurence Steinberg

  People, Age, Growing

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Drs, Letters

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.783, Library of America

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• I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, "My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds." That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Wall, Heart

  "Deposition of a Disciple". Book by Neal A. Maxwell, Deseret Book Co. (Salt Lake City), p. 5, 1976.

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• I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Running, Book, Writing

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• If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Stress, What Matters, Good Times

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• Whatever your passion is, keep doing it. Don't waste time chasing after success or comparing yourself to others. Every flower blooms at a different pace. Excel at doing what your passion is and only focus on perfecting it. Eventually people will see what you are great at doing, and if you are truly great, success will come chasing after you.

  Suzy Kassem

  Success, Flower, Passion

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Technology paces industry, but there's a long lag in the process.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Long, Lag

  "Beyond Left & Right: Radical Thought for Our Times". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, p. 368, "The Designers and the Politicians" (1962), 1968.

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• The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.

  Frances Trollope

  Spring, Moving, Mean

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.124

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• To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Science, Men, Light

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.38, Powell Publications, LLC

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• ...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Two, Doors

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.34, Hackett Publishing

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• Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.

  Charles Dickens

  Crush, Hammers, Use

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.225

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• A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

  David Nicholls

  Reading, Cutting, Numbers

  "David Nicholls: Adapting Great Expectations for the screen" by David Nicholls, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2012.

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• To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Trying, Development, Aids

  "The Human Predicament: A Way Out?". Contemporary Philosophy 11(6), p. 4, 1985.

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• Those seeking the life of the spirit should be cheerful and free, and not neglect recreation. Married people must act in conformity with their vocation--but their progress will of necessity be but the pace of a hen.

  Teresa of Avila

  People, Progress, Cheerful

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