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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out. Ramez Naam
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The total amount of energy we use every year - from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else - is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion. Sarah MacLean
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I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.
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We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.
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I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas. Rudy Giuliani
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The decision condemned a company for not saying yes to a company who requests a huge amount of secret technology for the future. The Windows source code is copyright. It is valuable, the fruit of lots of effort.
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The deer ran frantically through the living room, kitchen and hallway, leaving behind a large amount of blood throughout the house.
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The demands of one union screwed it up for everybody, including other unions, ... I think their representative overplayed their hand and thereby cost his and other unions a significant amount of work.
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The definitions of those terms -- 'mass-market status' and 'foreign availability' -- are so sweeping that they would essentially command the secretary of commerce to decontrol a tremendous amount of sensitive equipment. I don't see any need for that.
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The December meeting and their plan is pretty important. If they don't show the requisite amount of creativity, the market is not going to treat them kindly.
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Time is our enemy here. This small amount of time that we have here this week is the start of putting this team together. These guys have to find a way to come together and it starts here. Pat Quinn
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tremendous amount of response from police around the area.
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You know, there's a tremendous amount of genetic propensity not necessarily for what TV shows you like but for literally how you view the world, how you react to things, how things touch you and how things move you. Mayim Bialik
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You know, driver-crew chief relationships, if you get six good years, that is longer than a lot of marriages, ... We do have a huge amount of respect for each other, and Todd has brought back a leadership that we haven't seen since he left, really. Dale Jarrett
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You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have. John Banville
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When I first started on the project, I wondered what I'd gotten myself into. It took a lot of time. But here was the Forest Service telling me they wanted us to cut a certain amount of timber so they'd have funds to do some other stuff they wanted to do. They're telling me I have to cut the trees.
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We never have considered that, because of the way he jumped early last season. His first couple of episodes over fences weren't great. He was a bit of a slow learner. In his first chase, it was as though he had never seen a fence in his life. But we have given the horse a serious amount of work in every sphere.
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We never got a rhythm. We started to get something going, and we couldn't get it in a quick enough amount of time. Sarasota kept it away from us. They had a good strategy.
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You know, I start with the assumption that -or with, with the belief that this president has to succeed. We all have an enormous amount of capital invested in his success. His success is the country's success. Michael Bloomberg
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We've been hearing for several years now that the industry is operating on a razor's edge due to a small amount of refining capacity we have in the United States in relation to demand.
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We've been following the New Jersey situation, and we think the amount of contributions required there to qualify is too much for someone to do on their own, ... that will just make people ticked off about their tax money going for something that must be done fairly, on an equal basis, the same for both sides. It can be. And it should be.
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I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl. Halston Sage
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Unlike most films, it examines a side of a person's life that's hidden, and I think there's a lot of people who carry around a fair amount of darkness and keep it private for a lifetime. The film is about a very public figure and his very private tragedy. Bennett Miller
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We get everything from people who are brand new to the area to 30-year residents who want to learn how to decrease the amount of turf on their lawn.
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We generated a fair amount of offense. We hit the crossbar twice and the post once, so we had some others that were really close. Marcus Miller
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We aren't talking about anything substantial, a nominal co-pay, maybe a couple of dollars, ... It would be enough of an amount to make them think whether every trip is truly necessary.
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We aren't looking at why one guy got $200,000 and another guy got $300,000. We want to understand how audit partners are compensated, what the incentive is that drives their behavior, and whether they are being given incentives on the quality of the work they do, rather than just on, for example, the amount of new business they bring in. We want to figure out how to build this into a standard where compensation becomes an important factor in motivating audit partners to do the right thing.
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We are now producing a significant amount of oil from the North Slope of Alaska, all (with) environmentally sound technology, ... That environment has not been disrupted ... it's in as good a shape as before we ever put a drill in there. Chuck D.
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We are not putting more people in housing with that amount of money, we?re putting fewer people in housing. This is not a move forward in any way.
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We have a few guys who can step into the six role if needed. Brett has had a limited amount of game time, but I'd like to think he could step up to the plate if he is called upon.
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We forced a great amount of turnovers (20), but we couldn't capitalize on those breaks.