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“This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

Long Dark Environment Possibility Winter Academic Bothered Edinburgh Advisable

Author:Paul Nurse

“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.”

People Knows World Feels Years Long Running Used Stars Environment One Thing This World Football College Comfortable Prepared Nuts Senior College Football Senior Year

Author:Donal Logue

“The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.”

Long Order Natural Environment Balance Intervals

Author:Joan D. Vinge

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”

“I think there are shows that are long-running and successful, where some or all of the cast members hate each other, but I think it's a lot easier to have an environment where everyone feels secure and supported to do the best work possible.”

Thinking Feels Long Shows Running Hate Successful Environment Easier Members Casts Secure Do The Best Best Work Cast Members

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Long Play Able Wish Attention Environment Rocks Instruments Train Guitar Musical Divides Solo Guitarist Guitar Playing Train Of Thought

Author:John Frusciante

“I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.”

World Way Long Government Law Environment World Government

Author:Jawaharlal Nehru

“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Long Important Country Bigs Term Environment Taxes Projects Important Things Seeking Decades Long Term Predictable Payback

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.”

Way Years Long Has Beens Might Remember Term Millions Technology Environment Example Planets Civilization Bigger Assuming Leaving Global Warming Long Way Footprint Advanced Civilization

Author:Paul Davies

“We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression.”

People May Long Feelings Environment Rage Manipulate Attempting Our Environment Exaggerated Suppression Powerlessness

Book:The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition

Source: The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet