S Quotes
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“Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.”
Source: Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
“Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.”
“Strikingly, women who pass all of their introductory-level IT classes are still less likely to enter an IT major than men who fail. Failure is a significant obstacle for men but even failing an introductory-level class is not as much of a deterrent as being a woman.”
Source: Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science: Reconsidering the Pipeline
“String holders show up consistently. Kites cannot fly unless someone is holding the string.”
Source: Marriage Be Hard: 12 Conversations to Keep You Laughing, Loving, and Learning with Your Partner
“String of guilt pulls me
Deeper into an abyss,
Hangs my heart in the
Shadows of fleeting light.”
Source: Hang My Heart on the Shadows of Light: A Novel
“String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.”
“String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect.”
“String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loaf. The other slices would be displaced from ours in some extra dimension of space.”
“String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.”
Source: The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
“String theory is 21 st century physics that fell accidentally into the 20th century.”
“String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.”
“String theory is based on the simple idea that all the four forces of the universe: gravity, the electromagnetic force and the two nuclear forces, can be viewed, as music.”
“String theory is the most developed theory with the capacity to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics in a consistent manner. I do believe the universe is consistent, and therefore I do believe that general relativity and quantum mechanics should be put together in a manner that makes sense.”
“String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings.”
“String theory?[pause] It closed the conceptual gulp between relativity and quantum mechanics. It postulates that subatomic particles are not points, but strings, about one planck length long. The rate at which strings vibrate can generate the properties of all known particles. Huh? How did I know that?”
“Stringe le labbra e rimane seduto, in silenzio, a guardare i signori Baroni non avere alcun problema in merito al coming out del figlio, ma complimentandosi con il fidanzato sbagliato. Come se lui non fosse lì, come se non esistesse nemmeno. Come se fosse uno sbaglio infilato tra loro figlio e Mimì, quello che apprezzano davvero.
Gli viene da vomitare.”
Source: Distorsioni
“Stringent pollution control measures are imperative to mitigate the impact of industrial and agricultural pollutants on freshwater habitats. This requires the implementation and enforcement of environmental regulations, investment in wastewater treatment infrastructure, and the promotion of eco-friendly agricultural practices. In parallel, efforts to restore degraded ecosystems can aid in revitalizing habitats and providing a lifeline for endangered fish species.”
“Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures”
“Stringerla mi regalerà una parentesi di pace in un mondo di privazioni.”
Source: Il colore del caos
“Strings are the favorite data structure of bad programmers.”
“Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.”
Source: The Three
“Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.”
“Strings were out. Jazz was in.”
Source: Jazz Moon
“Strip away all self-interest, embrace self-sacrifice as the noblest of all pursuits, see your existence as the asset that amplifies the existence of another; embrace these things and courage will finally have a place to be courageous.”
“Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?”
Source: No Contest: The Case Against Competition
“Strip away the fear, underneath it's all the same love”
“Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love and sex and identity and memory and history and redemption.”
“Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.”
“Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.”
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, Cortés'll lay Tenochtitlán to waste again, and later, Ewing will sail again, Adrian'll be blown to pieces again, you and I'll sleep under the Corsican stars again, I'll come to Bruges again, fall in and out of love with Eva again, you'll read this letter again, the sun'll grow cold again. Nietzsche's gramophone record. When it ends, the Old One plays it again, for an eternity of eternities.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Strip clubs are great places to meet interesting people you only wanna know for about 40 minutes.”
“Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.”
“Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.”
“Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.”
“Strip malls are history.”
“Strip my soul bare. Run your fingers through my hair. Make forget I have a care. Show me no one can compare.”
“Strip naked...my two favorite words in the English language--”
Source: Southern Cross
“Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.”
“Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy.”
Source: Mark Twain at your fingertips
“Strip the poison, then be the Queen you're ordained to be.”
“Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.”
Source: The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868
“Strip those clowns down to nudity, shove the chrome where they doo doo be.”
“Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.”
Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
“Strip yourself naked, of your fancied ideas about What Is. Then, seek "It". That Which Is. Otherwise, all you're going to find is dick.”
“Stripe is building payment infrastructure for the Web, so we make it easy to accept credit cards online. Before Stripe, the way youd do this is using the legacy banking structure. It was slow, it was complex, it was expensive. It had this very chilling effect on e-commerce.”
“Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.”
“Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.”
“Striped mintbush
Meaning: Love forsaken
Prostanthera striatiflora | Centtral Australia
Found in rocky gorges and near outcrops. Very strongly mint-scented. Narrow leathery leaves. The white flower is bell-shaped with purple stripes inside the bloom and yellow spots in the throat. Should not be ingested, as it can cause difficulty in sleeping. Vivid dreams are also symptomatic.”
Source: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
“Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known.”
Source: The Letter Keeper