George Cowan Quotes
Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.
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I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.
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One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.
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Maybe war isn’t really fun, but I certainly was enjoying it.
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Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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He's a rat. That's not true. I'm just concerned about my son.
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The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
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Donald Trump represents the same rigged system that he claims he's going to change.
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Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.
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D.C. is known as Hollywood for ugly people.
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He treats books like treasured, rare things, and I guess they are, but my father used to dog-ear books and read them until they fell apart, and I like his method better.
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I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.
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If you can’t get the wicket of Rohit Sharma, you are struggling in life...
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It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.
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I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.
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If I lose myself tonight it’ll be by your side. If I lose myself tonight it’ll be you and I.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained.
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Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.
