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In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

~Alan Guth

Topics: About Almost Bend Best Best Way Big Context General Imagine Just Just Kind Kind Piece Pull Relativity Rubber Space Stretch Substance Think Twist Way You

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Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

~Albert Camus

Topics: Bend Blessed Broken Hearts Never Shall

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If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

~Alice Oswald

Topics: Another Begun Bend Branch Colon Comma Flower Form Grown Had Hardened Horizontal Itself Keep Leaf Leaves Line Made Out Over Pause Point Sap Slow Spirals Stopping Unable Unfolds Until Which Will You

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Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

~Amy Sherald

Topics: Bend Imagination Rules Temporal World You

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It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

~Andrew Jackson

Topics: Acts Bend Government Often Own Powerful Purposes Regretted Rich Selfish Too

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I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

~Anita Shreve

Topics: Almost Always Beach Bend Bit Bits Bottle Chunk Collecting Fire Glass Green History Hours Inside Lantern Many Medicine Pick Piece Sea Ship Spent The History Of Up Used White Who Wonder

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Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

~Anne Michaels

Topics: Always Another Another Way Bend Brutal Certain Certain Things Closer Describing Even Getting Interested Language Makes Moment Most Necessarily Painful Reader Scene Things Truthful Way Which

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Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Backward Bend Democratic Few Fight Nation Offend Over Rights Same Same Time Terror Time Visitors War

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My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

~Anupam Kher

Topics: Beckham Bend British Film First Huge International Like Success Which

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It's not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn't leave very often.

~Ara Parseghian

Topics: Bend Leave Left Never Often Player Recruit South True Very

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