#duration

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

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The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for the duration. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. ↗

— Peter Marshall

#duration #life #measure

I demonstrated the characteristics of experimental fever. It appears after an incubation period which is never less than five days. It follows the same pattern as natural fever in man, but is of shorter duration and less pronounced. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

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It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness. ↗

— Robert Plant

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Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

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Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people. ↗

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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