#arrangement

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

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I was determined to get it right on the pitch. Then, if I had to leave at the end of the season, so be it. I never felt threatened or isolated by the arrangement. We worked together and it worked out. ↗

— Bryan Robson

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For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design. ↗

— Michael Arad

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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away. ↗

— Jello Biafra

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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key. ↗

— Carla Bley

#band #banner #bus #elected #france

But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen. ↗

— Brian Epstein

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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind. ↗

— William Falconer

#direction #effect #judicious #produced #sailing

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting. ↗

— Helen Clark

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The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped. ↗

— David Knopfler

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