We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while been gathered into collections that think they are us.
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Related It has taken fifteen billion years to get you here. That is scientific fact. We are not just the pro... MATTHEW FOX We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could ... WENDY MASS The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expre... FIDEL CASTRO These are steps that could not have happened even two years ago. It would have been unthinkable, sui... DAN GILLERMAN We think that conditions like those today have existed for billions of years. DAN MCCLEESE I am pleased to hear that decrees have now been issued that should have been issued years and years ... COLIN POWELL The last three years we've been eliminated from the playoffs on the last drive of the game. We've be... MARK REEVE This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON As for evolution, I have a hard time believing that billions of years ago two protozoan bumped int... ROBERT G.LEE The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded th... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON What's not perceived to be an A movie anymore, is often subject matter that would have been thought ... WALTER HILL The idea that we are physical beings descended from primeval cells in nutrient soups, that idea does... RICHARD BACH We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago.... DON BROWNLEE A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to mak... BETHANY JOY LENZ I would love to have faith. When you take God out of the universe, there is no-one taking care us - ... MICHEL FABER Maybe so, but the last couple of years have been close games that they could've won. We're not good ... GENE CATHCART We have a really excellent collection. I've been told that we have the best Spanish language collect... CAROLE WINKLEBLACK Ten years ago or so he may have been a hothead but nothing to warrant this; nothing to say there was... DONALD EDIE If Harvey had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay an... DUSTIN LANCE BLACK Mars rocks are falling on Earth as we speak. Some have actually been observed. Integrate that over b... BRUCE RUNNEGAR I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have foun... ADAM GILCHRIST The teachers complaints from 20 years ago have been taken very seriously and we have been vindicated... KAREN BEST You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years," he sa... CARL SAGAN [Southern California] have a very strong team, a lot of history. They were national champions a few ... GEORGE HUSACK The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a... CARLO ROVELLI We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would... DAVID SCHERTLER We might have been able to say 20 years ago that it was unanticipated consequence, but we know now t... DAVID LODGE Considering the amount of talent that comes out of this country, it should have been done 20 years a... OZZY OSBOURNE This is the fight that I have been shouting out for over the last few years and I am delighted that ... JOE CALZAGHE We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... T... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think if they didn't struggle at first, this would have been a close one. We're just a well-rounde... ASHLEY TUIASOSOPO I could forget that part, but it had to have been true. DEB CALETTI We came out flat today. We have been at home for a while but it's no excuse for us to come out like ... JUAN DIXON I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had n... MARK TWAIN We are a good group of guys and we play well together. We're very close. A lot of us have been here ... LANCE WATSON But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I ... HARRY HOUDINI Definitely. We were dribbling when we would have been passing, playing short balls that should have ... BILL DENT I'd rather not get into it. For me to comment is out of line. Frank has been a tremendous player. Ju... JIM THOME Hostile bidders are more courageous than they would have been a few years ago. EDWARD NASH It's been tough. We've played some teams that have really pushed us. We're glad to be where we are. ... JACOB TAYLOR We have played in a lot of close games, so I think that helps us. We've been there before, and they ... ROBYN ANDERSON Of course we have always had good players technically but in recent years we have not been able to c... LUIS ARAGONES I think they are a pretty good team. They have so much tradition there. The last two years the talen... GARY SWENSON I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. ... HOWARD SCHULTZ Cities were monitoring more and going into shock over what pollution had been ignored for years if n... BRUCE REZNIK We are getting information that indicates that there was a third son, there may have been a sibling ... CHIP PATTERSON Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER They've worked their butts off, but what I think the big thing is that they have been a close-knit u... GEORGE SOURLIS The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there f... BALTASAR KORMAKUR Several factors are going to go into that. Obviously, length of time on the job, how much money they... BILLY ESTES While many are focusing on the infamous bankrupt entities as the primary culprits for the market los... TOBIAS LEVKOVICH We are closer every time we step on the field than we were two years ago, I don't think there is any... MIKE STOOPS Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out o... THOMAS HUNT MORGAN If I had been asked this question four years ago, I would have said there was no need because it is ... DENNIS HUSCH [Initial information gathered from local residents indicates the soldiers] may have been involved in... GEOFFREY HOON The average adult goose is over 7 years old. It has been hunted for six months a year its whole life... BRUCE BATT So we are pretty much a family-owned and operated (business), we've been like that for years and yea... LYNDA LUBELCZYK The cable companies have been talking about getting into the wireless market for about three years a... MICHAEL PAXTON You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been cha... STEVE MARABOLI I know that they think they've done a very good job, and all kudos to them. But they're still only j... MARK TOWNSEND A lot we have in our head, But things of heart are not yet dead, They have done none, but ... NUMEY White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by i... ADAM MCKAY Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun a... MICHIO KAKU Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been p... SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS This station is woefully inadequate. They should have been starting from something bigger 20 years a... ELLEN HANSEN The price action of the past 10 years shows that while Japanese investors have been sellers of forei... BOB LYNCH But if they want to really think about the fiscal future of this country, then think about how we ha... CHAKA FATTAH We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibili... AJAY SINGH But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibili... AJAY KUMAR SINGH That ain't bad. In our humble forecasting, we've been predicting a gradual decrease in unemployment.... JOE ROSS These Double Eagles were never lawfully issued, but instead, were taken from the United States Mint ... DAVID LEBRYK There have been a lot of similarities with our progression. We upset a No. 1 as they did 20 years ag... JOHN BRADY We were forced into this situation. Unfortunately our friends did not stand by us, ... The action th... AYUB KHAN Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers ... BILL LEE Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live ... HAIM SHAPIRA I do think that if MEN were the ones that bore the children a more effective means of birth control ... AMBER BENSON [For families that have been coming for years, even generations,] every year they know they can get ... CRAIG MORGAN It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes w... STEPHENIE MEYER You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Wherever the capital inflows come from, it is clear that Iceland would not have been able to run so ... STEPHEN LEWIS Once you have damaged the fields, there is almost nothing you can do about it. I have a great worry ... FAROUK Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate ... KATE BECKINSALE It's not good. It has not been good at all, ... The penalties have hurt us and our lack of execution... JON GRUDEN It's no coincidence that we've been able to open and close the festival with two films that have a d... SANDRA HEBRON I don't have computer-ease. They created that and that's been pretty nice. We've heard from a lot of... BOB HILMER If we had lost today we would have definitely been out because they would have been 10 points ahead ... CALVERT FITZGERALD Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned lon... BRIGITTE BARDOT You have to question whether it's legal for the state, in essence, to take away benefits from a pens... STEVE BAKER The one thing you can say is that we all have our own thing that we've been true to and it was just ... BOBBY PINSON As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 ... FRANK DIXON Five years ago, [these companies] wouldn't have been sponsoring events. Today, they are doing quite ... LANCE HELGESON We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a seco... JOHN MCPHEE They are great girls. It's just that things worked out that they didn't get a lot of playing time. T... CHRIS YODER It's not often we have people who have been convicted of a crime -- in her case took a plea -- and h... WILLIAM BASTONE One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that ... TINA BROWN Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing.... STEPHEN HAWKING Staying with them was good, but I don't think that any of us believe they are better than we are. Gi... MARIA PRETNAR All it does is put us in a position to take 10 years to build projects that should have been built 1... DEE STANLEY
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