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For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor. ↗

— Max von Laue

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For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location. ↗

— Max von Laue

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It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges. ↗

— James Lind

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No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I've done it 30 years. I don't know what there is to gain by doing it 40. But I think there is something about doing it over that length of time that says something. That's seven U.S. presidents and five presidents of McDonald's. ↗

— Don Novello

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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. ↗

— John Byrne

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