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Extensive Quotes
Depth built over years, not days.
This page gathers reflections on scale and depth, from digitizing four decades of environmental publishing into one archive to a maritime description of long, irregular seas. Another notes how few executives bring deep capital experience to the role. See Experience.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire?
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need more personal time and, given my extensive work in health care, I want to pursue that interest further.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
- Entrepreneur
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- Nov 07, 2020
Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best board members aren't elected by default. CEOs that set themselves up with their choice of board member - which means getting more than one term sheet and doing extensive reference checking - are better off.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
My extensive career, with its victories and defeats, championships, etc., has been well documented. My entire life has been focused on being the best race car driver I can be.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I looked up and saw I had an extensive resume and saw how I did that and did not realize it because you are constantly working and trying to build a body of work.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
- American Republic
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020