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The truth is, women, you've had our back on this issue for a very long time, starting with Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" to Theo Colborn's "Our Stolen Future" to Sandra Steingraber's books "Living Downstream" and "Having Faith."

The piercing-sucking mouthpart consists of a long, tube-like structure called a beak.

The siphoning mouthpart, a friendlier version of the piercing and sucking beak, also consists of a long, tube-like structure called a proboscis that works like a straw to suck up nectar from flowers.

When I can’t do something like run a long distance, or go on an intense roller coaster, I know what I’m missing out on.

In the majority of African cultures, women have been forbidden to play drums and percussion for a very long time.

Mhm? (Laughter) Women had been brainwashed and led on for so long until we had fallen victim and actually started believing in this ourselves.

They've been around a long time, very important to coastal communities.

And we tagged them very simply, not very high-tech, with a big, long pole.

Now maybe that's been obvious to all of you for a long time, but for me, as often as I'd encountered that exact difficulty on a daily basis, I had never seen the inherent challenge of communication in so crystalline a light.

But back in 2009, the question Joel and I kept turning over and over was why this late in the game so much energy was being spent talking about the science when the policies necessary to address climate change were unequivocally beneficial for humanity in the long run regardless of the science.

Behavioral finance has a long way.

Words, for so long his friends, now mocked him.

Now medical devices have come a long way technologically.

And with salting, it became possible to store fish and to transport it long distances.

So all of a sudden, this labor of love for no obvious economic reason has become a critical piece of information in terms of how that system is going to recover, how long it will take and how the lawsuits and the multi-billion-dollar discussions that are going to happen in the coming years are likely to be resolved.

And it shows that the ocean, because of its vastness, can hide secrets for a very long time.

So Darwin, he took long walks alone in the woods and emphatically turned down dinner-party invitations.

We're all willing to play by the rules and follow things along, as long as certain conditions are met.

Or like how in Honolulu, the large prison population of native Hawaiians like Kimmy is heavily influenced by the island's long history with US colonialization, its impact passing down through generations to today.

And if you don't find the highest expression of your talent, if you settle for "interesting," what the hell ever that means, do you know what will happen at the end of your long life?

Sometimes when I'm on a long plane flight, I gaze out at all those mountains and deserts and try to get my head around how vast our Earth is.

But we still have a long way to go.

The road between Swenet and Alexandria was a road of commerce, and commerce needed to know how long it took to get there.

So this is where we are, but we have a long row to hoe.

But other days I am the one who is lifted up by the ribs then lowered into the dining room of a dollhouse to sit with the others at the long table.

But then again, it took us a long time to put the wheel and the suitcase together.

We had been working with canned data, fake data, for so long, that when we saw this for the first moment, it was like an archaeologist who had just dusted off these dinosaur bones.

I don't think there's been a mission like that in a long time.

So it makes you think about how to design your equipment for long range, away from a safe haven.

This is a picture that Al Gore gave me a few years ago that he took when he was in the Soviet Union a long, long time ago, showing the fishing fleets of the Aral Sea.

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