John D. Barrow Quotes
Einstein showed us that the Universe might contain a mysterious form of vacuum energy. ...Last year, two teams of astronomers used Earth's most powerful telescopes... to gather persuasive evidence for the reality of the cosmic vacuum energy. Its effects are dramatic. It is accelerating the expansion of the Universe.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
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Anything that is profoundly energy-shifting - like having a child - is fodder for creative thought. So for me, I welcome it and look straight into it as something to learn from.
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I remember reading [ Studs Terkel's] "Working" when it first came out and just finding that very powerful. I was going into community organizing. What stuck was to reveal the sacredness of ordinary people's lives. That everybody has a story. And I think Studs is terrific at drawing out that shimmering quality of people's everyday struggles.
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The president has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet.
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Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest, a steadying element, a factor that helps to integrate the worker with society. Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.
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Einstein showed us that the Universe might contain a mysterious form of vacuum energy. ...Last year, two teams of astronomers used Earth's most powerful telescopes... to gather persuasive evidence for the reality of the cosmic vacuum energy. Its effects are dramatic. It is accelerating the expansion of the Universe.
