“In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.” LongFactsRunningEconomicMovementActivityIncreaseResponseRateFirmBordersLong RunsTradingStrengthening Author:Toshihiko Fukui
“Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is like the ant who suddenly finds food and walks back to the anthill while sending out material called food attracting substance. The other ants follow the path immediately in order to benefit from the finding and continue to do so as long as the supply is rich.” WorldLongMadeScienceOrderWalksPathRichMaterialsActivityBenefitsFindingsDiscoverySignificantSubstanceEnterpriseAntsLaboratory Author:Bengt I. Samuelsson
“So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.” PeopleLongHomePoliticalLandArmsActivityResistanceOccupationPalestinianFactionsArranging Author:Khaled Mashal
“You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.” IfsKnowsWantGivingMayLongMadeI CanActivityStressTradeCancerSpreadMade ItLegacyFuelLove LifeActivistAfarTerminalOregonTrade OffsTerminal Cancer Author:Tom McCall
“As far as guitar goes, it's weird to have such a challenging activity in my life for so long - I love it. It kicks my ass every day.” LongChallengesActivityGuitarAssKicks Author:Vernon Reid
“Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.” LongFeelingsCoursesSeriousHigherExerciseActivityDiscoveryOriginalsSilentInventionFlashCultivation Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)
“The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status - that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided - something about their presence is constructive in the long run.” KindLongBookIdeasFactsRunningCommunityImaginationFiguresActivityBenefitsSpiteFascinatedLong RunsConstructiveOutlawWanton Author:Toni Morrison
“How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?” LongSchoolActivityAverageLondonHeelsInspectorsHead Over Heels Author:Charles Kingsley