- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only Quotes
On narrowed choices and the one option that remains.
The word 'only' frames very different ideas here: a single film genre praised for its originality, a physicist's account of shifting foundations, and a stated view on Cold War-era power struggles across Europe. For more, see our Life quotes.
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.
- Discovery
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
With increased growth in the U.S. population, especially in urban areas, transport bottlenecks will only become more frequent and severe.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.
- Headquarters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020