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Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat. George C. Williams

Other Digestive Respiratory System Systems Crossing Throat Had Since Involved End Itself Very Human Human Body Then Much Body Descendant Forward Each Ever Two

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. George Crumb

Today Music Diversity Rich Enormous Consider Say Systems Would Composers Most Styles Am Procedures Confusing Certain Technical

As part of our dedication to safety engineering in biology, we're trying to get better at creating physically contained test systems to develop something that eventually will be so biologically contained that we won't need physical containment anymore. George M. Church

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. George Packer

Age Sign Systems Self-Confidence Journalism Surrendering Lack Jargon Dismal

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. George Saunders

Life Truth Good You People Other Saves Unlike Machine Says Favor Systems Kind Bad Sloth Bet Cruel Knowing Another Answers Eradicate Yes Fiction Literature Us

For many centuries, humans have speculated that there might be planetary systems around other stars and that there could be extraterrestrial life there and even intelligent being. However, those were simply speculations, and now we have evidence for the first part of these ideas. George Smoot

Life First Stars Other Extraterrestrial Evidence Those Systems Could Part Simply Ideas Around However Were Intelligent Being Centuries Might Planetary Many Even Now Humans Speculations

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. Glen Duncan

Sewage Systems Know Literature Much English English Literature

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem

Death You Try Reward Job Believe Think Incredible Corporations Systems About Something Exchange Con Make After Even Now

We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life. Gordon W. Allport

Life Personality Young Too We Cannot Systems Hierarchy Adolescence Onward Adult Adult Life Attention Studying Know Reactions Surest However His Child Impulsive Cannot Interest Loves Clue Interests Loyalties Including

No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond. Heidi Hammel

Solar Own Universe Our Solar System Everything System Tell Systems Neptune About Seems More No-One Share Beyond Well Than Hold Formation Information Us Planet

You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. Helen Fisher

Love You People Somebody Build Fall Think Complementary Systems Somewhat Unconscious Also Call Within Brain Fits Up Traits List Childhood Certain Your Who Map Grow Grow Up Actually Gravitate

Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. Henry Knox

Government Nature Men Too Our Distance Say Rulers Apt Systems Collected High Admired Been Accuse Taxes Who Assessed

Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, U.S. payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion. Henry Paulson

Day Business Important Settle Settlement Market Typical Valued Systems Critically Trillion Over Overall Stability Transactions Payment

Sure, there were hopes that Constellation's systems could later be adapted to support more ambitious goals. But Apollo had those hopes, too. It didn't work in 1970, and it wasn't going to work in 2020. Henry Spencer

Work Goals Too Later Those Systems Hopes More Could Had Support Sure Were Ambitious Going Apollo Adapted

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves. Herbert A. Simon

My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand. Hilary Mason

Job Build Analyze Our Systems Easy Data Clean Raw Look Make Understand Math Up Products Set

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. Huston Smith

World Political Located Ways Crisis Systems Finds Something Economies New Particular Hinge Itself Than Political Systems Organizing Swings Deeper Millennium

The college and university systems, at least, have become like television. There's a bit of this and a bit of that and some compulsory program with its components connected in a way that only a planner could understand. Ivan Illich

College Become Way Bit Television Systems Components Some Only Compulsory Could Like Understand Least Planner Connected Program University

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. J. D. Hayworth

Time Car Solar Giving Out Systems Hybrid New Industry Overnight Branch New Technologies Tax Succeed Created Grow Extending Credits Technologies

Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature. Jack Kingston

Nature Marriage People Harmony Systems Laws Segregation Perfect Brutally Institution Were Oppress Fits Whereas Thereby Designed Violated Slavery

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. Jack Kroll

Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s. Jacob Weisberg

Government Rebellion Benefits Tyranny Country State Back Our Out Systems Intrusion Colonial Tradition Providing Germany Suspicious Against Social Workers Interference Naturally European Grow Comparison Founded

With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile systems on the sphere we inhabit. It has shaped debates about business, design, and our lifestyles. Jamais Cascio

Environmental Business Design Increasing Our Indeed Sphere Complex Those Has-Been Systems About Lifestyles Shaped Since Concerned Scientists Been Debates Fervor Sustainability Inhabit Activists Fragile

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