"After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff of chaos and impose a beginning, middle, and end on it, like the simplest and most profound of folktales, to reflect the shapes of our own tiny lives? And if the physicists are right, that the physical world changes as it is observed, and we are its only known observers, then might we not be bending the entire chaotic universe, the eternal, ever-active Now, to fit that familiar form?"
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"Oh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run."
"You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers..."
"When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you."
"I like playing with fashion and bending the "rules," or what was "rules" - there are no rules anymore, you know? Fashion is way bigger than that and it's about wearing what you want and wearing what makes you feel comfortable and what makes you feel confident."
"Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind."
"This will of Stirner's, this restless probing of all given knowledge, this endless questioning, and the continuous bending towards new understanding."
"We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off."