#lengths

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries. ↗

— Hans Blix

#countries #distributed #even #television #use

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

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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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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In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#films #get #go #lengths #made

It never ceases to amaze me the lengths that some people will go to to try and speak to me or meet me. ↗

— David Ginola

#ceases #go #lengths #me #meet

White House operatives went to great lengths to show Obama shifting focus from wars abroad to domestic issues at home. ↗