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• My emotional investment is in finding truth. If string theory is wrong, I'd like to have known that yesterday. But if we can show it today or tomorrow, fantastic.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Yesterday, Today

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• String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.

  Brian Greene

  Space, Would Be, Bread

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• String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.

  Brian Greene

  Stars, Reflection, Bangs

  Brian Greene (2010). “The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory”, p.5, W. W. Norton & Company

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• String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.

  Brian Greene

  Believe, Together, Mechanic

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• The central idea of string theory is quite straightforward. If you examine any piece of matter ever more finely, at first you'll find molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles. Probe the smaller particles, you'll find something else, a tiny vibrating filament of energy, a little tiny vibrating string.

  Brian Greene

  Ideas, Energy, Molecules

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• As for the bracelet Mom wore to the funeral, what I did was I converted Dad’s last voice message into Morse code, and I used sky-blue beads for silence, maroon beads for breaks between letters, violet beads for breaks between words, and long and short pieces of string between the beads for long and short beeps, which are actually called blips, I think, or something. Dad would have known.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

  Douglas Coupland

  Prayer, Wish, Together

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

  Hugh Kingsmill

  Table of Truth (1933) "Two Poems, after A. E. Housman," no. 1

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• A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Arguing, Holes, Made

  "Ben Stein Dukes it Out with Darwin" by Jeffrey Kluger, content.time.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Without putting the brakes on out-of-control campaign contributions from individuals and corporations - it will be business as usual, with 1 percent of Americans pulling the strings.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Usual, Campaigns, Corporations

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.

  Anne Lamott

  Looks, Moments, Made

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• I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

  Alvin Lee

  School, Guitar, Practice

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• But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive. We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

  John Green

  Mean, Roots, Long

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Ideas, Issues, Way

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• There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Believe, Second Chance, Violin

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• [Money] is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Destiny, Puppets, Sardonic

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Home, Night, Light

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

  Bill Nighy

  Hurt, Guitar, Fingers

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• Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse people less intelligent than you. In any case, it means: Life is tough, so you'd better fight hard-or something like that.

  Obert Skye

  Mean, Fighting, Intelligent

  Obert Skye, Ben Sowards (2007). “The Whispered Secret”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

  Sarah Dessen

  Knowing, Perfect, Together

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• If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Should, Know How

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.38, Anchor

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• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

  James O'Barr

  Men, Nerves, Arms

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• After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

  Susanna Clarke

  Rain, Sight, Blue

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing

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