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“Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...”

People Long Doe Individual Social Term Accepting Century Endure Conservative Decades Experiments Evolve Controlled Ongoing

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.”

Thinking Needs Should Kids Creativity Support Should Have Various Versions Ongoing Grownups

Author:Jules Feiffer

“A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.”

People Knows Able Lost Hours Half Know How Jokes Constant Hopeless Camps Ongoing

Author:Tim Cahill

“I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.”

Believe Doe Culture Grows Company Building Innovation Excellence Hardest Hardest Thing Ongoing

Author:Sam Altman

“I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.”

Thinking Needs Long Real Speak Loss Models Satisfying Distraction Offering Ongoing Continuity Disruption Coherence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“It's not supposed to make you distracted from your life, it's supposed to make you challenge the ongoing distraction with focused intention. Simply discussing how asleep we can be gives credence to the possibility of finding moments of true honest alertness.”

Giving Moments Challenges Honest Possibility Findings Intention Focused Distraction Ongoing Distracted Discussing Alertness Credence

Author:Dan Mangan

“Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.”

World Should Persons Important Planets Destruction Thirds Scary Debt Corporations Global Warming Ongoing Outrage Third World Railway Uselessness Takeovers

Author:Arthur Smith

“Most clients expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.”

Problem Process Effort Study Design Products Activity Behavior Research Evolve Users Clients Ongoing Responding Discrete Specifications Research Study Continually Learning

Author:Dan Brown

“I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.”

“Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.”

Knows Happens Culture Process Democracy Our Lives Events Building Ought Election Ongoing Election Time

Author:Jim Hightower

“There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.”

Different Facts Body Causes Common Disease Block Destroyed Primaries Scar Ongoing Viruses Liver Tissues Regeneration Scar Tissue Autoimmune Disease Hepatitis Scarring Hepatitis C Cirrhosis

Author:John Roberts

“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.”

Stills Today Pay Issues Rights Battle Equal Abuse Etc Globes Ongoing Parental Equal Pay Suffragettes Parental Rights

Author:Sarah Gavron

“I can always see ways to improve what I've done. At the same time, knowing it's all an ongoing life's work allows me to be less precious about blind alleys, failed experiments, and misfires.”

Way I Can Done Knowing Blind Experiments Ongoing Alleys

Author:Grant Morrison

“If you're going to do a memoir, then it's sort of at this age - in your late sixties or seventies - that you do it. I don't understand people who do memoirs when they're 20. I think most people need a little more time than 20 years to become the person they are. In fact, that process of becoming who you are is still ongoing when you get older, where you go, "Let's see where my next 10 years is going to take me." S”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Years Littles Persons Stills Facts Age Next Process Becoming Late Who You Are Memoir More Time Take Me Sixty Seventies Ongoing Becoming Who You Are

Author:Grace Coddington

“There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.”

Humans Doe Self Reason Earth Natural Simple Perfect Tools Species Invention Working It Selection Ongoing Not Perfect Natural Selection Correcting Cerebral Misused Human Inventions

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Am I the only person in the world who is shocked and amazed at the ongoing flattery of uebergeek Mark Zuckerberg?”

World Persons Mark Amazed Shocked Flattery Ongoing Zuckerberg

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.”

Chance Our Lives Risk Dying Wake Up Significant Waking Ongoing Chances Are

Book:Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

Source: Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness

“As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.”

Feels Made Ends Moments America Lines Decision Environment Fate Planets Paper Adults Green Series Reports Plastic Ongoing Competent Groceries Buyers Hinges Brief Moments Quake Checkouts

Author:Brian Williams

“Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.”

Knows Trying Editing Ongoing

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency's Internet-eavesdropping program may be something more sinister - namely, a willing tool in China's ongoing cyberwar against our nation.”

May Guy Nations Security Willing Fool Internet Hero Evidence Program Tools Details China Agency Patriot National Security Ongoing Traitor Sinister Snowden Eavesdropping

Author:Arthur L. Herman

“Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.”

Belief Given Goal Interest Community Support Commitment Solidarity Ongoing Occasional Sisterhood

Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”

Years Art War Character Numbers Novel Events Hundred Baseball Works Of Art Ongoing Improbable Folklore Anecdotes

Book:The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game

Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game

“Easterly, a celebrated economist, presents one side in what has become an ongoing debate with fellow star-economist Jeffrey Sachs about the role of international aid in global poverty. Easterly argues that existing aid strategies have not and will not reduce poverty, because they don't seriously take into account feedback from those who need the aid and because they perpetuate western colonial tendencies.”

Needs Stars Sides Poverty Roles Accounts Fellows Strategy Western International Aids Arguing Debate Tendencies Economist Feedback Ongoing Global Poverty

Author:Amy Lockwood

“Herbalife has been a part of the most challenging expeditions that I've done and the products have become a really critical and ongoing part my diet.”

Has Beens Done Challenges Products Critical Diets Ongoing Expeditions Herbalife

Author:Sebastian Copeland

“Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.”

Two Might Choices Essentials Bases Drinking Investment Insight Reform Beer Being The Best Wasting Time Ongoing Reformation Underestimated Drinking Beer Best Investment

Author:Carl R Trueman

“In other countries, success has been achieved with embryo transfer in a different rhino species, thus that as a technique can be presupposed to be the most promising, However, consultations are ongoing amongst different reproductive technique experts on the way forward.”

Way Has Beens Different Country Success Species Technique Experts Other Countries Ongoing Transfers Embryos Way Forward Consultation Rhinos

Author:Paul George

“The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.”

Trying I Can Philosophy Father Belief Sports Lessons Life Lesson Ongoing Avenues

Author:Apolo Ohno

“To do one's best in the face of the commonplace struggles of life, and possibly in the face of failures, and to continue to endure and persevere with the ongoing difficulties of life - when those struggles and tasks contribute to the progress and happiness of others and the eternal salvation of one's self - this is true greatness.”

Self Faces Struggle Progress Greatness Eternal Tasks Difficulty Salvation Endure Ongoing Persevere Commonplace Life Struggle True Greatness

Author:Howard W. Hunter

“The Love Dare for Parents really came from an ongoing response from people who went through the couple's book asking us to do the same for children. It's been a long time coming after a couple years doing this. But we're excited that it's now hitting shelves. We learned a lot going through the process of writing it, so we can't wait to see what happens.”

People Writing Years Children Long Book Happens Waiting Process Parent Couple Long Time Asking Response Dare Excited Hitting Shelves Ongoing Love Dare

Author:Alex Kendrick

“For Paul 'righteousness' and 'justice' are the same word, as they were in Hebrew. Paul clearly believes that helping the poor is a central and ongoing part of Christian commitment, precisely because in Jesus Christ God has unveiled and launched his plan for the rescue, redemption and renewal of the whole creation. Justification and justice go very closely together.”

Believe Whole Helping Christian Together Jesus Christ Justice Poor Plans Creation Commitment Jesus Christ Redemption Righteousness Rescue Justification Renewal Ongoing Hebrew

Author:N. T. Wright

“This "human thing" is the permanent process of seeking the sacred through revealing what is hidden. It is an ever ongoing and indefinite process of understanding and interpretation.”

Humans Process Understanding Sacred Seeking Permanent Interpretation Revealing Ongoing

Author:Curtis White

“Men accept without questioning that this world is real and important and worthwhile. This is faith. Philosophy is the ongoing questioning of this faith.”

Men World Important Real Philosophy Accepting This World Worthwhile Questioning Ongoing

Author:Josiah Royce

“It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.”

Film Process Rooms Emotion Laughing Comedy Stupid Scripts Being True Editing Ongoing Melodrama

Author:Jon Turteltaub

“I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.”

Life Is Process Strive Ongoing

Book:Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.”

“By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.”

Knows Want Two Hard Running Challenges Leader Position Instinct Intellect Ongoing

Author:Bill Walsh

“Content pays an ongoing information annuity that other forms of marketing simply do not.”

Form Pay Information Marketing Ongoing

Author:Jay Baer

“When we were negotiating the ongoing financial period in 2013, I talked myself hoarse. London and Berlin in particular insisted on reducing the budget. So we - to the applause of German journalists - made cuts to central future-oriented areas and slashed the budget for development aid, research and technology.”

Made Technology Cutting Particular Development Periods Research Areas Financial London Aids Journalist Budgets Ongoing Applause Reducing Berlin Negotiating Development Aid

Author:Martin Schulz

“It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.”

“Eliminate the clutter and all the things that are going on outside and focus on the things that you can control with how you sort of go about and take care of your business. That's something that's ongoing, and it can never change.”

Care Focus Take Care Ongoing Never Change Clutter

Author:Nick Saban

“We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.”

Self Process Events Habit Excellence Series Definitions Ongoing

Author:Aristotle

“Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.”

Writing Fronts Computer Sitting My Family Let Me Misery Screens Plenty Blank Ongoing

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“People who experience negative or stressful emotions on an ongoing basis are less healthy and live shorter lives.”

People Emotion Healthy Negative Bases Ongoing Stressful

Author:Tony Robbins

“If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“I think that any show that doesn't have huge ratings, that's what you're always up against. Meanwhile, conversations are ongoing. Everything is running the way that things usually run, in these types of situations. I guess we'll find out, like everybody else. But, we don't fret about it because, really, it's out of our control. We can only step back and do our work, and therein lies the serenity. We're hoping for the best and just doing what we love.”

Thinking Way Shows Running Lying Situation Steps Huge Type Conversation Serenity Ongoing Rating Hoping For The Best

Author:J.H. Wyman

“Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.”

Mean Law International Definitions Overwhelming Ongoing International Law Instantaneous

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.”

Men Firsts Black Jokes Ongoing

Author:J. B. Smoove

“Television gives you the opportunity to create more of an ongoing camaraderie with everyone you're working with.”

Giving Opportunity Television Ongoing Camaraderie

Author:Mary Ellen Trainor

“I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn't want to do it anymore is foolish!”

Thinking Want Jobs Industry Entertainment Foolish Bored Ongoing Entertainment Industry

Author:Melissa Rivers

“The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means”

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