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• Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units.

  Margaret Chan

  Europe, Toxic, Needs

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• All we can thus far say about the duration of the units of [the business cycle] and each of [its] two phases is that it will depend on the nature of the particular innovations that carry a cycle,... and the financial conditions and habits prevailing in the business community in each case.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Business, Two, Community

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• in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

  Eugenie de Guerin

  God, Tears, Eternal

  Eugénie de GUÉRIN, François Guillaume Stanislas TRÉBUTIEN (1866). “Letters of E. de G. Edited by G. S. Trébutien. [Translated from the French.]”, p.132

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• When I'm writing a play I hear it like music. I use the same indications that a composer does for duration. There's a difference, I tell my students, between a semi-colon and a period. A difference in duration. And we have all these wonderful things, we use commas and underlining and all the wonderful punctuation things we can use in the same way a composer uses them in music. And we can indicate, as specifically as a composer, the way we want our piece to sound.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Differences

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• Intravenous injections of extract from dog's pancreas, removed from seven to ten weeks after ligation of the ducts, invariably exercises a reducing influence upon the percentage sugar of the blood and the amount of sugar excreted in the urine ... the extent and duration of the reduction varies directly with the amount of extract injected.

  Frederick Banting

  Dog, Exercise, Blood

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• Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Drug, Credit, Disease

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• Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Space, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius Antonius (2016). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”, p.89, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.

  Karl Marx

  Determined, Individual, Process

  Karl Marx (1974). “Capital: The process of circulation of capital”

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• Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.

  Seamus Heaney

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

  Lucretius

  Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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• Just listening carefully to what the musicians are really doing, putting the music in the right time... I became aware of the degree to which time, and therefore duration, was important in music and in art. It had a direct influence on my painting.

  Guido Molinari

  Music, Art, Listening

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• It is not events and the things one sees and enjoys that produce happiness, but a state of mind which can endow events with its own quality, and we must hope for the duration of this state rather than the recurrence of pleasurable events.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Mind, Quality

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by Andre Maurois, 1971.

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• I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

  Antonin Artaud

  Unique, Moments, Realms

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

  Anthony Trollope

  Simple, Trials, Matter

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.425, 谷月社

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• From 1836, down to last year, there is no proof of the Government having any confidence in the duration of peace, or possessing increased security against war.

  Richard Cobden

  War, Years, Government

  Richard Cobden (1850). “Speeches on Peace, Financial Reform, Colonial Reform, and Other Subjects: Delivered During 1849”, p.103

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• Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.

  David Niven

  Making Love, Hammocks, Fame

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• What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowledge, Men, What Matters

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Men, Great Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Memorable, Comfort, Made

  Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.

  Rick Warren

  What Matters, Differences, Long

  "Purpose Driven Life". Book by Rick Warren, 2002.

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• Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Giving Up, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.263, Stanford University Press

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• The Lord said: 'Without Me you can do nothing' (Jn. 15:5). So for the duration of our life, every day and at every moment, we must keep unchanged in our heart the feeling, conviction and disposition, that on no occasion can we allow ourselves to think of relying on ourselves and trusting ourselves.

  Lorenzo Scupoli

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Party, Causes

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1865

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• Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes.

  Ari Fleischer

  Iraq, Wmd, Mass Destruction

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• Dauer in Wechsel.
  Duration in change.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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