Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

I would like to mention astrophysics; in this field, the strange properties of the pulsars and quasa...
WERNER HEISENBERG We already knew that powerful quasars are very efficient at making light. Now we know that black hol...
KIM WEAVER

Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN

Billions and billions of stars and planets out there, and behind them all are God.
BILLY GRAHAM

He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly...
RICK RIORDAN

Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN You see the night sky and billions of stars stare down at you. In their eyes there are billions of p...
KAYLA RAE The doubt has the mysterious power to bring out the hidden reality of life.
ANUJ SOMANY

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?”
“Probably,” Frank said.
“She�...
RICK RIORDAN

Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a ...
RICK RIORDAN

China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn't China involved? They're going out spending billio...
DONALD TRUMP

At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN

I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta."
Leo snorted. "What's a wine...
RICK RIORDAN

The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to hav...
RICK RIORDAN

Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat.
RICK RIORDAN

I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.
RICK RIORDAN

Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN We're talking billions and billions of dollars.
ERICK KAARDAL How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's int...
ANDREA M. GHEZ

One of the strengths, and weaknesses, of liberal democratic societies is giving the benefit of the d...
GARRY KASPAROV

Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the sh...
RICK RIORDAN

Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” RICK RIORDAN

Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboa...
RICK RIORDAN

How good is it to remember one's insignificance: that of a man among billions of men, of an animal a...
LEO TOLSTOY

Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN

We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Anybody have any money?”
Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five ...
RICK RIORDAN Oh Ronald McDonald when you smile each of your teeth gravestones stands for billions and billions of...
O ANNA NIEMUS The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the on...
SUBRAHMANYAN CHANDRASEKHAR Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN And,” Annabeth continued, “it reminds me how long we’ve known each other. We were twelve RICK RIORDAN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!”
Then he gasped and pointed to th...
RICK RIORDAN I could have killed you.”
“Or I could have killed you,” Percy said.
Jason shrugged....
RICK RIORDAN Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
RICK RIORDAN You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. S...
RICK RIORDAN He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right ther...
PATRICK NESS be in the billions of dollars.
CAROL WALKER Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN I sat up in bed. "What did he say?"
Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on ...
RICK RIORDAN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN I’m nobody’s sidekick,” Annabeth growled. “And, Percy, his accent sounds familiar because he...
RICK RIORDAN Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.
RICK RIORDAN I give the victim the benefit of the doubt when it comes to allegations of rape and sexual abuse. I ...
ROXANE GAY A black hole an extremely dense concentration of matter equal in mass to millions or billions of sun...
WALTER SULLIVAN What exactly did you find in Atlanta?”
Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s...
RICK RIORDAN Basically, the Internet is just the way now. It's the end-all, be-all of self-promotion. It'...
WALE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.”
Percy raised his eye...
RICK RIORDAN Instead of mindlessly tossing billions at or taking billions from the Net as such, investors should ...
JAMES SUROWIECKI We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think i...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think i...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.
RICK RIORDAN [Iris] squeezed his hand. "Don't lose hope, Frank. Rainbows always stand for hope.
RICK RIORDAN Hope," Frank grumbled. "I'd rather have a few good weasels.
RICK RIORDAN Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There are a 100 billions nerves in the human body, and there are people who have the ability to irri...
ANONYMOUS Even as we pour hundreds of billions of dollars into our efforts in the Middle East, there is much t...
HERB KOHL It may be that these objects are older radio pulsars which are dying and unable to produce normal ra...
MAURA MCLAUGHLIN As Hazel marched down the hill, she cursed in Latin. Percy didn’t understand all of it, but he got...
RICK RIORDAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU On a submicro scale, pure diamond is billions of billions of carbon atoms bonded to one another. If ...
SAM KEAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond o...
CHARLIE PIERCE Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by t...
GORDON SINCLAIR It's okay,” he said. “We're together.” He didn't say you're okay, or we're alive...
RICK RIORDAN We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG We're being asked to bail out the utility companies for billions of dollars, but they're not worth b...
DOUG HELLER Billions of years it´s taken to evolve human conciousness and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the...
CHARLIE CHAPLIN We're going there despite all the differences we have with the People's Republic to try to work cons...
MIKE MCCURRY i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that hav...
LAUREN OLIVER For all the billions of dollars created here, Silicon Valley is remarkably stingy when it comes to g...
SARAH LACY What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!”
Percy had no intention of doing that.
RICK RIORDAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I mean, all these billions of dollars they've made off of us, you know.
JAMES HUGHES Regulating and taxing marijuana would simultaneously save taxpayers billions of dollars in enforceme...
GEORGE SOROS I excel at pulling strings!” said Arachne. “I’m a spider!
RICK RIORDAN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others th...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a basta...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organize...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on e...
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.
PERCY WYNHAM LEWIS All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mis...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light s...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something af...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY . . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not, Our sincerest laughter With some pai...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Around, around in ceaseless circles wheeling With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the i...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?

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