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- Nov 07, 2020
Rise Quotes
What lifts us, and what won't stay down.
A quieter image opens this page - rising at dawn to pick berries instead of arguing a point - paired with a grander claim about art's role in lifting up mankind. Related pages include Great.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
- Nov 07, 2020
'Rise' is a very empowering song.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been popular to threaten 'small islands and low-lying coasts' with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.
- Nov 07, 2020
More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
- Middle Class
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- Nov 07, 2020
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in financial history.
- Nov 07, 2020
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear.
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- Nov 07, 2020