"Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We kick reality and feel it kick back. From the intensity and duration of thousands of those kicks over many years, we have formed a coherent theory of matter and forces, called the standard model, that currently agrees with all observations."

-- Victor J. Stenger

#Reality Quotes #Years Quotes #Duration Quotes

“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
“The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.”

Source : Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. October 5, 1996.
“I believe people should study a little bit every day. It should become habitual, like brushing your teeth, combing your hair, having a shower or getting dressed. Study the mind, the laws of the universe and paradigms. There's enough information on those subjects to keep a person studying forever.”
“While the political debate over abortion will continue for a very long time, the federal government can and should be doing more to support programs and services that provide women with better options.”
“Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.27
“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p.40), 1895.
“You are born and then you die, but in between you can do anything you want. It's society that creates rules for us, but you can break out of that.”

Source : "20 Q&As: Zola Jesus". Interview with Karen Orton, www.dazeddigital.com. October 3, 2011.
“People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2003). “Being Dead”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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