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He likes to travel as long as it doesn't involve a cruise ship.
Well, not too long after that, I found this guy, Thevenin, and he said that he was culturally Jewish, he said that his job was an arctic baby seal hunter, which I thought was very clever.
Landing on the moon occurred in the context of a long series of technological triumphs.
V.C.s have always struggled to invest profitably in technologies such as energy whose capital requirements are huge and whose development is long and lengthy, and V.C.s have never, never funded the development of technologies meant to solve big problems that possess no immediate commercial value.
If you go to an amusement park and don't want to stand in the long lines for the popular rides, there is now a solution.
In Washington, D.C., long lines, queues sometimes form for important Congressional hearings.
Now some people don't like to wait in long queues, maybe overnight, even in the rain.
You can pay them a certain amount of money, they hire homeless people and others who need a job to stand waiting in the line for as long as it takes, and the lobbyist, just before the hearing begins, can take his or her place at the head of the line and a seat in the front of the room.
In the very short run, you can sometimes fool yourself into thinking that there's fundamentally opposing goals, but in the long run, ultimately, we're learning in field after field that this is simply not true.
The fact of the matter is that this has become a very poignant question because there is for the first time in a long time a real challenge to the Western ideological systems of politics and economics, and this is a system that is embodied by China.
In a recent study, the evidence has shown that income is the greatest determinant of how long a democracy can last.
Because we've talked a long time about diet, and we know that diet impacts weight, and weight of course impacts health.
So what we do is, in humans, we all have a layer of stem cells on the outside of our long bones.
That's all it does for seven long minutes.
So no, right now, I think we've got a hell of a long way to go.
It will stop them from doing simple, back-to-back, limited arbitrage to really thinking strategically about how to move grain across long distances from [surplus regions] to [deficit areas].
We’re still a long way from understanding all the different causes and interconnected mechanisms of hallucinations.
By contrast, today, when we have to build a major new apartment building somewhere, we have to build lots and lots of elevators and lots of fire stairs, and we have to connect them with these long, anonymous, dreary corridors.
In the first volume, Swann's Way, the series of books, Swann, one of the main characters, is thinking very fondly of his mistress and how great she is in bed, and suddenly, in the course of a few sentences, and these are Proustian sentences, so they're long as rivers, but in the course of a few sentences, he suddenly recoils and he realizes, "Hang on, everything I love about this woman, somebody else would love about this woman.
You would have to wait a really long time before it happens, but believe me, quantum tunneling is a real phenomenon, and it has been observed in many systems.
Our calculation shows that quantum tunneling of the Higgs field is not likely to occur in the next 10 to the 100 years, and this is a very long time.
Our story, therefore, needs two dimensions of time: a long arc of time that is our lifespan, and the timeframe of direct experience that is the moment.
You and I answer only to nature's rhythm and flow, to the sun, the moon and the seasons, and this is why we need that long arc of time with the past, the present and the future to see things for what they are, to separate signal from noise and the self from sensations.
It might have happened while we were playing an instrument, or looking into the eyes of someone we've known for a very long time.
The self that lives in the long narrative arc and the self that experiences the moment become one.
The weight takes a long time to get used to.
Of course bridges have been around for an awfully long time.
She was wobbling like this for quite a long time, and notice this twisting motion.
And it's also really lightweight, and as we'll see in a moment, lightweight is really important for long spans, and everybody seems to want us to build longer spans.
Our bridges are designed for a long time.
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