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What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.


Stephen Harper


#appeal #commons #get #govern #government

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.


Alfred Kastler


#atom #close #considerable #extent #intense

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.


Helen Keller


#allotted #backwards #civilization #flow #headstrong

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.


Rose Kennedy


#beauty #capacity #children #friends #gave

Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.


Dale Turner


#being #determined #everything #influence #length

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.


Pat Toomey


#afraid #after #budget #called #done

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


#factor #further #integral #long #maximum

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


#both #brightness #exert #factor #factors

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


#lengths #same #sense #slave #wife

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


#companionship #deprived #devise #exercises #human