“The Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention argues that no two countries that are both part of the same global supply chain will ever fight a war as long as they are each part of that supply chain.” LongTwoWarCountryFightingTheoryConflictArguingChainsTiesPreventionSupply ChainTwo CountriesDell Author:Thomas Friedman
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to ancestry by many factors ... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.” LongSelfMemoriesEternalIntellectualMereFactorsChainsAncestorAncestryAllegoryChained Author:Erwin Schrodinger
“[G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.” LongDoeProcessCircumstancesEqualBehaviorSeriesComplexesRateSeekingReactionsChainsChemicalsGenesNoveltyIdentificationCausationChemical ReactionsEnzymes Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.” MayLongHappensEventsChainsSignificanceOverwhelmingColossal Book:100%: The Story of a Patriot Source: 100%: The Story of a Patriot
“I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.” WorldWantLongCharacterStoriesLiteratureGivenAbilityChainsAgentsHostPublishersLibrarianBooksellers Author:Karl Marlantes
“All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.” PeopleLongFieldsWindStandingWestBoundsForgottenChainsMy TimeCorn Book:Mid-American Chants Source: Mid-American Chants
“There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.” MenGivingHumansLongEndsEnoughActionPainTogetherSufferingPleasureEventsConsequenceChainsThis LifeProvidenceLinked Book:The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition Source: The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition