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• General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all the forces of nature in terms of geometrical structures.

  Paul Davies

  Structure, Force, Theory

  " Einstein, the first spin doctor" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2004.

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• As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Dark, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.206, Modern Library

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• A thrumming of piano-strings beyond the gardens and through the elms. At length the melody steals into my being. I know not when it began to occupy me. By some fortunate coincidence of thought or circumstance I am attuned to the universe, I am fitted to hear, my being moves in a sphere of melody, my fancy and imagination are excited to an inconceivable degree. This is no longer the dull earth on which I stood.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Moving, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  Gary Burton

  Guitar, Style, Fans

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• His (Lloyd Kaufman) string of low-budget, lowbrow horror comedies stretching back to the ’80s has been cited as influence by Peter Jackson, the Farrelly Brothers, Quentin Tarantino, Takashi Miike, and Guillermo Del Toro, just to cite a few prominent examples.

  Lou Lumenick

  Brother, Example, Comedy

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• That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Should, Said

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• Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.

  Chuck Mangione

  Writing, Trying, Instrumentalists

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• I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

  Carlos Boozer

  Dream, Games, Shoes

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• Your giving is sacred and therefore should be kept secret. It is wise to give quietly with no strings attached.

  Catherine Ponder

  Wise, Strings Attached, Giving

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• Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

  Anne Fine

  Drinking, Holiday, Kitchen

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• The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

  Franz Liszt

  Law, Foundation, Thrones

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• I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

  Ronnie Montrose

  Guitar, Guy, Age

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• The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

  Roger McGuinn

  Guitar, Firsts

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• In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Tangled, Coincidence In Life

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• Harmonics are vibrations a fraction of the length of the vibrating string, which add higher-pitched and more complex content to the notes. With a dull instrument, the harmonics die out, but with a sustaining instrument, the harmonics continue to sound along with the fundamental note.

  Steve Albini

  Sound, Add, Fundamentals

  "Talking to Shellac About Music, Food, and Poker". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. October 07, 2011.

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Freedom, Integrity

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• Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

  Roger McGuinn

  Assistants, Firsts, Janitor

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• The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.

  Cyril Connolly

  Rivers, Sitting, Tipping

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• I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

  Marlon Brando

  Motivational, Dancing, Fool

  "Fictional character: Don Corleone". "The Godfather", 1972.

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• So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

  Al Oerter

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.40

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• Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

  Mark Carwardine

  Heart, Imagination, Mind

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• I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Past, Hands, Hygiene

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