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Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see. ↗

— Edward Witten

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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. ↗

— Edward Witten

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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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I feel that I, and the people under my command, tried to use all the traditional methods of recruiting agents which were also used by other intelligence services; adopting also means like pressure, money, sex - but that did not characterize my service. ↗

— Markus Wolf

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One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. ↗

— Markus Wolf

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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

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Capitalism is not an economic system, but a world-outlook, or rather, a part of a whole world-outlook. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

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The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. ↗

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. ↗

— Owen D. Young

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