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Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.

~Adam Riess

Topics: Away Back Before Collapsing Constant Could Dark Discovered Einstein Energy Even Expanding Gravity He His Keep Knew Like Looking Play Problem Pushing Role Something Theory Things Universe Way

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My heroes were people like Jim Jarmusch. Scorsese was my god. Spike Lee was exciting, doing exactly what we thought we were going to do: personal movies based in, and about, New York. My heroes were all participating in an economic model that was collapsing as I was finishing film school.

~Alan Taylor

Topics: About Based Collapsing Doing Economic Exactly Exactly What Exciting Film Film School Finishing God Going Heroes Jim Lee Like Model Movies New New York Participating People Personal School Scorsese Spike Thought Were York

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My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

~Alice Walker

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The State of Israel is not collapsing and will not collapse.

~Ariel Sharon

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I think it's disingenuous for people to talk in their living rooms about government collapsing, the possibility of total anarchy, but when someone says it in public, it's so terrifying they have to persecute that person.

~Augustus Sol Invictus

Topics: About Anarchy Collapsing Disingenuous Government Living People Persecute Person Possibility Public Rooms Says Someone Talk Terrifying Think Total I Think

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All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who are creative to do what they need to do without having institutions block their art.

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: Art Block Collapsing Creative Doing Door Film Having Institutions Models Music Need Open People Publishing Things Traditional Who Wide Without

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It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

~Ben Nicholas

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Obama seems to inspire a bizarre personal loyalty among his advocates, particularly among young people who should by all rights be concerned with their fading futures and collapsing prospects.

~Ben Shapiro

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Obviously it happens very fast on the field during the game; if anything, it's more of a feel. You feel when the pocket is collapsing around you. You feel when someone is close to you. It is a split-second decision.

~Brock Osweiler

Topics: Anything Around Close Collapsing Decision Fast Feel Field Game Happens More Obviously Pocket Someone Very You

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The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can - we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world - we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out?

~Dexter Filkins

Topics: Collapsing Danger East Formed Gaze How Ignore Kind Know Long Middle Middle East Modern Our Out Power Say Settlement States Stay United United States Want War Whole World World War World War I You

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