#yet

But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#any #arrangements #controls #directs #energy

We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#better #catastrophes #century #cnn #consequence

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet. ↗

— Nia Long

#committing #couple #date #even #fun

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best. ↗

— James Longstreet

#am #been #best #better #cannot

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #country #every #ii #just

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#been #big #enough #feel #hasn

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. ↗

— John Lubbock

#how #knows #last #learn #little

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later. ↗

— Derek Luke

#age #came #conversation #even #front

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#cannot #care #ceos #communication #corporate

No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#attached #been #fact #higher #higher levels