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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. (Quote by - William Osler)

I am suggesting that when they can absorb a position ? absorb it. (Quote by - Joe Schmitz)

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light. (Quote by - Frank O'Connor)

They're suspended on a system of ropes, so catch the waste before it reaches the seabed. As we harvest them, they're tested to see how much of the waste nutrients they're absorbing. The seaweed is there to absorb dissolved nutrients and the shellfish to dispose of particles. (Quote by -Angus MacMillan)

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation "alter" nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again. (Quote by - Camille Paglia)

They remain absorbed in the fear of God; they never leave it. Who can estimate their value? They remain lovingly absorbed in the Lord. (Quote by -Atharva Veda)

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. (Quote by - Amber Chia)

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency. (Quote by - Ben Bernanke)

We have a sense that there is a lot of thought that needs to go into this process. We need to absorb the work of the Personnel Board. (Quote by - Craig Ross)

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally. (Quote by - Louise Nevelson)

When I come back and come back and come back I'm making a statement that this is for real. You're about to listen, absorb and to challenge yourself to move in a positive direction. Strength, that's what. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)

A dark-colored home absorbs as much as 90 percent of the solar radiation that strikes it, and even white walls can absorb solar radiation. By reflecting this infrared radiation rather than absorbing it, the Cool Wal coatings dramatically reduce the load on a home's air-conditioning system. And because they are reflective, they are less prone to fading even dark colors stay darker longer than conventional paint technologies. (Quote by -Jay Haines)

We'll absorb Jamie's loss and move forward and, to be honest with you, I'm not going to get real wrapped up in it this week. I have one other priority that sits a little higher than replacing Jamie, as valuable as he was, and I have a lot of confidence in the people that I have that we'll be able to absorb it for the short-term until we find a replacement. But I'm not going to let it be a distraction. (Quote by -Barry Alvarez)

A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. (Quote by - Stephen Crosby)

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. (Quote by -William Morris)

Microwave emitting mobile devices irradiate self-absorbed minds. (Quote by -Sean Maurice Hunt)

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security. (Quote by - Ang Lee)

We're not sure what the state is going to do, they can meet back in the legislative session in the winter and pass mandates that we have to be able to absorb, its going to take a little time to accomplish what we want here. (Quote by - Arturo Freeman)

The adult relation to books is one of absorbing rather than being absorbed. (Quote by -Anthony Burgess)

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light. (Quote by - Ali Fabbro)

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself. (Quote by - Loren Eiseley)

We have seen a strong increase in oil prices and up to this year we see that the world has been able to absorb that. (Quote by - Andre Cook)

This is not a day for the hard word, ... This is a day for trying to absorb what has happened, giving Ian Paisley the space to absorb it also and put it to the two governments. They have to create the place where engagement takes place. (Quote by -Gerry Adams)

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great. (Quote by - Proverb)

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