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“With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?”

People Helping Together Past Social Community Imagine Built Ties Interaction Familiarity Faded Fingertips Social Interaction

Author:Dean Ornish

“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.”

Today Past Animal Civilization Built Slavery Slave Comparison Vegan Exploitation Exploits Civilisation

Author:Donald Watson

“The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.”

Whole Past Grows Research Built Foundation Structure Firm Firm Foundation

Author:Owen Chamberlain

“The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing.”

Stills Past Jesus Love Is Leader Gone Growing Military Built Foundation Empires Burned Ashes Great Military Military Leader Foundation Of Love

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”

“Looking past the immediate crisis, a more resilient system must be built on stronger and better designed shock absorbers, both in the major institutions and in the infrastructure of the financial system.”

Past Majors Built Stronger Crisis Institutions Financial Shock Infrastructure Resilient Financial System Shock Absorber

Author:Timothy Geithner

“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.”

“Television is a pretty great job, to begin with, and I wouldn't have anything, if it weren't for the jobs that I've had in the past that have built up to that”

Ifs Jobs Past Television Built Great Job

Author:Zachary Levi

“The past has been given to us. The future must be built, as others have built our past.”

Has Beens Past Given Future Built Our Past

Book:Sing Out the Glory

Source: Sing Out the Glory

“Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. Hes built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.”

Hard Running Past Opportunity Stars Advice Talent Needed Fame Built Reaching Halls Legends Reach Out Athletic Sculptors Hall Of Fame Seizing

Author:Don Yaeger

“What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.”

People Seems Past Religious Common Strange Worship Built Shrines

Author:Hafez

“Surveying the way viruses have been discovered in the past, I came to the conclusion that I could use my technology that I developed as a graduate student - DNA microarray technology - to create a chip that would simultaneously screen for all viruses ever discovered, and furthermore have the built-in capability of discovering new viruses.”

Way Has Beens Use Past Technology Students Built Screens Conclusion Capability Graduates Discovering Dna Chips Viruses Graduate Students

Author:Joseph DeRisi