100 Quotes About Matter

The world is full of things to do, places to go, and people to see. Although we all have our own ideas about what we wish we could do, see, and be, we don’t always get to do them. And while it’s not always easy to figure out what you should be doing with your life, there is one thing that stands out as a true blessing: You get to decide how you want to spend your time. And even if you didn’t, what you end up doing with your time is up to you Read more

That’s why these matter quotes are such a great way to remind yourself that it’s okay if the only thing you get done today is watching TV. The important thing is that you did enough — or at least tried — to make it a productive day.

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Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? Jodi Picoult
When you're frozen in time, nothing else really seems to...
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When you're frozen in time, nothing else really seems to matter. Anthony T. Hincks
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Without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would be no matter. But it does not matter -Because what is matter, If there is no light? Suzy Kassem
I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all...
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I was transformed the day My ego shattered, And all the superficial, material Things that mattered To me before, Suddenly ceased To matter. Suzy Kassem
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Some years ago, there was a lovely philosopher of science and journalist in Italy named Giulio Giorello, and he did an interview with me. And I don’t know if he wrote it or not, but the headline in Corriere della Sera when it was published was "Sì, abbiamo un'anima. Ma è fatta di tanti piccoli robot — "Yes, we have a soul, but it’s made of lots of tiny robots." And I thought, exactly. That’s the view. Yes, we have a soul, but in what sense? In the sense that our brains, unlike the brains even of dogs and cats and chimpanzees and dolphins, our brains have functional structures that give our brains powers that no other brains have - powers of look-ahead, primarily. We can understand our position in the world, we can see the future, we can understand where we came from. We know that we’re here. No buffalo knows it’s a buffalo, but we jolly well know that we’re members of Homo sapiens, and it’s the knowledge that we have and the can-do, our capacity to think ahead and to reflect and to evaluate and to evaluate our evaluations, and evaluate the grounds for our evaluations. It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation. Daniel C. Dennett
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Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover! ’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. Toba Beta
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I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact. Toba Beta
No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that...
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No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me. Craig Groeschel
Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is...
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Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be. T.F. Hodge
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To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning. . Dejan Stojanovic
The less you know, the more you will be known...
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The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you are, the more you will be Vivian Amis
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Usually, when people get an idea, they are eager to start acting immediately, immerse themselves in the process without creating a system of actions, without being knowledgeable of the matter, without analyzing and estimating everything beforehand Sunday Adelaja
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Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward – and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs – only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms. . Suzy Kassem
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You may not understand issues that do not pertain to the heart, but be a master in areas that do. Nobody knows everything, and nobody can be a master of everything. Nobody was created perfect, and nobody should be measured according to perfection. It is the weight of your heart that matters the most in the end. All else is irrelevant. Suzy Kassem
Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't...
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Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that. Germany Kent
No matter how giant and rich you are, if you...
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No matter how giant and rich you are, if you are isolated you will fall and remain alone in this world Sunday Adelaja
If you are in a position where you can reach...
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If you are in a position where you can reach people, then use your platform to stand up for a cause. HINT: social media is a platform. Germany Kent
Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.
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Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen. Bill Bryson
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Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else. Unknown
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CIRCLES OF LIFEEverythingTurns, Rotates, Spins, Circles, Loops, Pulsates, Resonates, AndRepeats.CirclesOf life, Born from Pulses Of light, Vibrate To Breathe, While Spiraling Outwards For Infinity Through The lens Of time, And into A sea Of stars And Lucid Dreams. Poetry by Suzy Kassem Suzy Kassem
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A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to. . 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence, ' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities. Jane Bennett
The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and...
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The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a flux of events; we are processes, for a brief time monotonous Carlo Rovelli
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It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the contemplation and exploration of objective and timeless things. How happy and grateful I am for having been granted this blessing, which bestows upon one a large measure of independence from one's personal fate and from the attitude of one's contemporaries. Yet this independence must not inure us to the awareness of the duties that constantly bind us to the past, present and future of humankind at large. Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here, involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing the why and the wherefore. In our daily lives we feel only that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often troubled by the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings, and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them. I do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills, ' accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others, even if they are rather painful to me. This awareness of the lack of free will keeps me from taking myself and my fellow men too seriously as acting and deciding individuals, and from losing my temper. I have never coveted affluence and luxury and even despise them a good deal. My passion for social justice has often brought me into conflict with people, as has my aversion to any obligation and dependence I did not regard as absolutely necessary.[ Part 2]I have a high regard for the individual and an insuperable distaste for violence and fanaticism. All these motives have made me a passionate pacifist and antimilitarist. I am against any chauvinism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as does any exaggerated personality cult. I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I know well the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual have always seemed to me the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated. The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as of all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our minds cannot grasp, whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly: this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all there is. Albert Einstein
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Our [Western] science has cut itself off from an adequate understanding of the Subject of Cognizance, of the mind. This is precisely the point where our present way of thinking needs to be amended, perhaps by a bit of blood-transfusion from Eastern thought. Unknown
It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is...
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It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us Sunday Adelaja
Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside...
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Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter. Richie Norton
What happens when I love, you ask, does the world...
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What happens when I love, you ask, does the world start making sense? No, my dear, it does not. But it won’t matter to you then. Kamand Kojouri
At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you...
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At some point, you will hit a plateau. If you keep doing same things you did to get to that point, make a change. J.R. Rim
Body and soul can never be married I need to...
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Body and soul can never be married I need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell Sarah Kane
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What matters is what appears in your soul, not what your eyes see and what you can name. Unknown
What does the body matter if the soul is dead?
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What does the body matter if the soul is dead? Francine Rivers
Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the...
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Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the breath of life. Suzy Kassem
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It really doesn't matter, are you fat or thin, large or small or whatever horrible and ungly and so on and so on..., to don't go so in details because from reading this your day becomes with more insults, my purpose is not to insult you, but to show you the path! I know one all people can be clever if they want to be. Deyth Banger
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This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases. Arthur C. Clarke
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MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSEWithout the orchestra of the universe, There would be no ether. And without its instrumentation By the ether, There would be no waves. And without any waves, There would be no sound. And without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would be no matter. But it does not matter - Because what is matter, If there is no light?. Suzy Kassem
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It doesn’t matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it. Kamand Kojouri
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I wish she could see how it hits him. The look on his face, his life caving in. Because then maybe she’d realize, if only for a split second, that even though the world doesn’t matter to her, she matters to the world. David Levithan
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YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU. Vivian Amis
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No matter the amount of money a person may have , a dishonest way of life will cost him everything he has Sunday Adelaja
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And she had the magic I had never come across all my life. A minute with her messed up my mind and heart in a way that all the theories of right and wrong didn't matter anymore. All of a sudden opening my arms to the storm seemed a better choice, than dancing under the rainbows. Akshay Vasu
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Doesn’t matter if you can dream it or not, all that matters is if you can begin it or not? Take that first step. Vikrmn
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Right is right, no matter how wrong the time is. Vikrmn
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The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable. Edgar D. Mitchell
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Truth is what reconciles thought and experience. Raheel Farooq
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If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. Deyth Banger
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Lack of sound mind and judgment — the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions, is a matter of frustration and disillusionment to God Sunday Adelaja
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If you can successfully embrace the Anti-Matter version of yourself, Time would cease to exist for You. You are God! Vishwanath S J
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The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter. Zenfex
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Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and pebbles and rocks and iceballs and worlds and stars, all the unthinking galaxies and superclusters, wheeling through the oblivious time-haunted megaparsecs of the cosmic supervoid. In all that immensity, she had somehow contrived to BE a human being, a microscopically tiny, cosmically insignificant bundle of information-processing systems, wired to a mind more structurally complex than the Milky Way itself, maybe even more complex than the rest of the *whole damned universe*! . Alastair Reynolds
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The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss
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Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter. Robert G. Ingersoll
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Matter is plastic in the face of Mind. Philip K. Dick
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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most powerful expressions of that sovereignty of the intellect that inspired the thought of those times. At a later epoch, when the intellectual despotism of the Church, which had been maintained through the Middle Ages, had crumbled, and a wave of scepticism threatened to sweep away all that had seemed most fixed, those who believed in Truth clung to Geometry as to a rock, and it was the highest ideal of every scientist to carry on his science 'more geometrico. . Hermann Weyl
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There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone ... Mind cannot arise alone without body, or apart from sinews and blood ... You must admit, therefore, that when then body has perished, there is an end also of the spirit diffused through it. It is surely crazy to couple a mortal object with an eternal... Titus Lucretius Carus
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Is there any good left in the world/ And if there is, can you still find it in the places that matter? Why is it that the only places i see it now, is in the graves of the victims, and the tears of those who mourn them? Christina Engela
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The world is progressing. One man cannot slow it, no matter how determined he is." He stopped in the Brandon Sanderson
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My message to you is this: pretend that you have free will. It's essential that you behave as if your decisions matter, even though you know they don't. The reality isn't important: what's important is your belief, and believing the lie is the only way to avoid a waking coma. Civilization now depends on self-deception. Perhaps it always has. Ted Chiang
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There were no witnesses to what was about to happen. 'Happen' didn't yet exist. Reality was timeless. Space also didn't exist. The distance between two points was immeasurable. The points themselves could be anywhere, hovering and bouncing. Infinity tangled into itself. There was no here and now. Only Being. Marcelo Gleiser
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As researchers of the paranormal, we must understand there are ways to change the rhythm of time within us, ways to change the beat. These ways have been known since the beginnings of civilization, and possibly much earlier. And these ways would require no more effort than simply recognizing the secret rhythms of things. Moreover, we may learn to beat with them and begin to perceive a different kind of space, and ultimately discover an altogether different conception of reality…. Ojo Blacke
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In the end, all or nothing will matter. Unknown
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It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such an assertion involves a far greater departure from the natural position of mankind than is involved in the assertion of the unreality of Space or of the unreality of Matter. So decisive a breach with that natural position is not to be lightly accepted. And yet in all ages the belief in the unreality of time has proved singularly attractive. . J.M.E. McTaggart
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I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another. Amaka Imani Nkosazana
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No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us Sunday Adelaja
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Wherever sufficiently numerous series of the remains of any given group, which has endured for a long space of time, are carefully examined, their morphological relations are never in discordance with the requirements of the doctrine of evolution, and often afford convincing evidence of it. At the same time, it has been shown that certain forms persist with very little change, from the oldest to the newest fossiliferous formations; and thus show that progressive development is a contingent, and not a necessary result, of the nature of living matter. Thomas Henry Huxley
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Destiny is a matter of chance and choice. Mark Verndick
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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! Immanuel Kant
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The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang instead of unnoticed silence. We all, deep down, want to believe in a future where our historical monuments and literature hold significance. We want our deaths to be important. We want to matter. Caroline George
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It doesn't matter when, how old am I and how. When the first robot is build and it can be like a human which will mean can think, and communicate I will go and buy it. Because this will be the best friend ever will have and ever had! Deyth Banger
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Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations cannot always be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition. Suzy Kassem
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When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now! Israelmore Ayivor
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Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don’t believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you’ll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn’t make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is. Will Advise
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You like the comfort, don't ya? You wanna be there... wanna and gonna aren't nigga words so far... you are very bad at judging so far all people will be in prison because of you.... No matter...>! ~ Deyth Banger
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The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength Steven Magee
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First of all there is matter–and, remarkably enough, all matter is the same. The matter of which the stars are made is known to be the same as the matter on the earth... The same kinds of atoms appear to be in living creatures as in non-living creatures. Richard Feynman
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God created… light anddark, heaven and hell–science claims the same thing as religion, that the Big Bang createdeverything in the universe with an opposite.“ Including matter itself, antimatter Dan Brown
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So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Harald Biscay. It was bad for business. He had the murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly. Five and a half thousand souls onboard. Five and a half thousand suspects. Three days. So far, nothing. Now it would be taken further by the planetary authorities on the colony world below. A forensic team (cunningly disguised as a cleaning crew) was now rummaging through Smiffs apartment, examining every single particle. He had a feeling -- a strong feeling, about what they were going to find. Somehow, Biscay was of the opinion that this was going to be another contender for the Unsolved Murders show. Christina Engela
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Like the weather or bonds between lovers, transformations can never be predicted. All energy transmutes one day or another, in one way or another. Either in its form or composition, or in its position or disposition. Suzy Kassem
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No matter how short or long your journey to your accomplishment is, if you don't begin you can't get there. Beginning is difficult, but unavoidable! Israelmore Ayivor
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Remember, without a goal, your stamina is useless no matter how you get trained. You may defend your integrity and attack your obstacles, but when you have no target in focus, you will score many zero number of goals... Israelmore Ayivor
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Don't keep looking for "something" in the bag of "nothing". You will see the same thing again and again no matter how many times you repeat the look. Israelmore Ayivor
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No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream. Mouloud Benzadi
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Consult your memory to know what matters most in your life. Amit Kalantri
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Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter. Patricia Robin Woodruff
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In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters. Philip Roth
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The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck. Sunday Adelaja
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Without you, without your onslaughts, without your uprootings of us, we should remain all our lives inert, stagnant, puerile, ignorant both of ourselves and of God. You who batter us and then dress our wounds, you who resist us and yield to us, you who wreck and build, you who shackle and liberate, the sap of our souls, the hand of God, the flesh of Christ: it is you, matter, that I bless. Unknown
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There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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I’m fulfilling my calling no matter what is happening and against whom Sunday Adelaja
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Obsessions are the only things that matter. Patricia Highsmith
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Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life. And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infection, a sickening of matter? Was that which one might call the original procreation of matter only a disease, a growth produced by morbid stimulation of the immaterial? The first step toward evil, toward desire and death, was taken precisely then, when there took place that first increase in the density of the spiritual, that pathologically luxuriant morbid growth, produced by the irritant of some unknown infiltration; this, in part pleasurable, in part a motion of self-defence, was the primeval stage of matter, the transition from the insubstantial to the substance. This was the Fall. The second creation, the birth of the organic out of the inorganic, was only another fatal stage in the progress of the corporeal toward consciousness, just as disease in the organism was an intoxication, a heightening and unlicensed accentuation of its physical state; and life, life was nothing but the next step on the reckless path of the spirit dishonored; nothing but the automatic blush of matter roused to sensation and become receptive for that which awaked it. . Thomas Mann
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Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption. Jim Sturgess
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Amongst it all my soul craved one thing, Love, for it was the beginning and end of anything that will ever truly matter. Nikki Rowe
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No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of. Bill Courtney
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Perhaps the universe is a big fat consciousness and the matter is just an illusion. Erol Ozan
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We need to have an understanding that no matter how difficult the situation is, the victory is ours Sunday Adelaja
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The most fundamental laws of physics are not restrictions on the behaviour of matter. Rather, they are restrictions on the way physicists may describe that behaviour. Victor J. Stenger
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics. Max Born
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painting and poetry on the one hand and modem chemistry and modem algebra on the other. In poetry and algebra we have the pure idea elaborated and expressed through the vehicle of language, in painting and chemistry the idea enveloped in matter, depending in part on manual processes and the resources of art for its due manifestation. James Joseph Sylvester
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Please, Katsa, " he finally said. "At least talk to me". She swung around to face him. "What it there to talk about? You know how I feel, and what I think about it."" And what I feel? Doesn't it matter? Kristin Cashore