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Everything you've learned in school as 'obvious' becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

R. Buckminster Fuller

The problem of dealing with conflict on a large, sort of society-wide scale, is a bit analogous to building a complex aircraft. You need a whole lot of different parts. You can't fly an airplane with just a jet engine, you need wings, you needs control surfaces, you need avionics, you need a seat for the pilot, fuel tanks, all sorts of stuff.

Guy Burgess

In covered lagoons, which are less efficient than fixed-film anaerobic digesters, the digestive bacteria float around, making only random contact with the manure particles. In fixed-film digesters, the bacterial growth occurs on the surfaces of the internal media that the waste must flow over, thereby assuring frequent contact. In this way, higher volumes of wastewater can be processed.

Ann Wilkie

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

Most of the common infections -- colds, flu, diarrhea -- you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

Charles Gerba

The coating basically causes water that hits the surfaces to develop a sustained sheeting effect, and that prevents fogging.

Michael Rubner

The surfaces on here aren't as hard or as impervious to scratching and damage as the commercial ones are.

Norm Nichols

The flu virus can stay alive for 48 hours on hard surfaces. So people really need to disinfect and clean. Bedding and towels should be washed in hot water, 130 degrees, and dried in a hot dryer.

Amy Olson

Floods can be exacerbated by a hardening of surfaces which increases the runoff as the water does not soak into the grounds.

David Lindley

The good news is that parents can help significantly reduce deaths and injuries to children by taking simple safety precautions such as making sure their kids wear helmets, ride only on smooth surfaces and avoid riding at night.

Hal Stratton

The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

Iannis Xenakis

This is an unbelievable turf, probably the best in the league. I love it. I'm not as physically exhausted and sore like you would be from a typical game on other hard surfaces.

Chad Brown

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work: the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons.

Ambrose Bierce

If you have a problem with [water] condensation on some of your walls or other surfaces in a home, you need to have the house checked for mold.

Rachel Lipsey

I've been in the stadium where all four ribbons on top of the goalposts were blowing toward each other. It doesn't make any sense, but I've seen it. That's just what happens when you've got so many surfaces for the wind to blow against.

Shayne Graham

With development, you get impervious surfaces like pavement and roofs of houses, ... This really relates to water quality because it increases the speed in which surface water (containing sediment) runs off and gets into the waterways.

John Weber

Simple, geometric forms and planar surfaces define Jeep Patriot's timeless, purpose-built design.

Trevor Creed

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, when it was the fashion to place furnishings along the walls, the chair rail prevented chairs from banging up against the wall and damaging the plaster surfaces. The dado and chair rail became more of a decorative feature in the Victorian era, when furnishings were moved out from the walls in various groupings.

Doug Bucher

Clay is one of my better surfaces and if was definitely an advantage for me. She is a big hitter and the clay neutralized some of her power.

Jamea Jackson

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

Richard Corliss

Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.

Jim Angel

He said. ''It's best when done on flatter surfaces, or when you have the appearance of a flat surface.

Ben Crenshaw

It's worth the drive. Different surfaces are really good for your body. If you're on the treadmill you're always striking the exact same spots. Varying terrain allows a break from that. It mixes it up. Psychologically, varying the environment is good as well.

Jeff Pigg

You can feel surfaces, you can feel textures, you can feel dynamics and momentum.

Tom Anderson

When I saw the actual sculpture, I had quite a shock. I never imagined the play of light on the surfaces. There are subtle optical effects that you can feel but can't quite put your finger on.

Adrian Ocneanu

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

Nicholson Baker

Marshall had an excellent surface. The artificial surfaces now are as good or better than grass.

Jimmye Laycock

We're going to show it on a very unconventional surface. Many unconventional surfaces in the park will be utilized as we project different Thomas Edison films and (images).

Brandee Bryant

Fortunately, we have great tires for this type of race. The surface of these slick Cooper A1 tires can become almost gel-like with the high track temperatures, and the way that they 'squash' into the track surfaces really helps with grip and cornering.

Scott Speed

The voice has a limited frequency range, ... So, to make it beneficial for singers, we had to dampen the basses by using softer, more flexible surfaces for the side walls. You'd never do that in a symphony hall - people love to hear the deep bottom of the bass section.

Robert Mahoney

The thing about Ruth jerseys is that there aren't very many of them. When one surfaces, you go for it.

Howard Rosenkrantz

We suspect that people are probably coming on board with the virus. On a cruise ship, people are out and about in very public areas, and so we have this depositing of the virus on various surfaces that then would be easily picked up by others.

Dave Forney

Restoration no longer attempts to strip everything down to the original surfaces. There are so many layers of history here. We want to be able to present that.

Anne Stillman

The advantage here is that these bacteria live in water and so they bind to all sorts of surfaces in water. This means that this glue is very versatile.

Yves Brun

It's easy to come up with one new example of a minimal surface, but this one is of a very different nature than others that have been found before. So it's opened a new field within the theory of minimal surfaces.

Matthias Weber

The DEA will hire contractors to come and properly dispose of the chemicals, but they don't take out the drapes, carpet, countertops, clothes or any of the porous surfaces inside the house. And what happens if a new family moves into that house without knowing what used to be in there? There is just no standard on how clean is actually clean.

Bruce Freeman

The danger of the fire is reduced, but then we have the scene danger that we have to address, as the firefighters have to move around on the slick surfaces. So we deal with a lot of different issues with these weather conditions.

Capt. Michael Pruitt

Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Alex Noble

X-ray fluorescence imaging has the potential to become a major tool in epigraphy [the study of incised writing on various surfaces, including stone].

Robert Thorne

A basic rule for managers is 'Pass the pride down.' People like to create when they can earn recognition for their ideas. When a good idea surfaces, the creator's immediate superiors should show prompt appreciation.

James L. Hayes

This is the most comprehensive collection of minimal surfaces available. Users can download programs that recreate the surfaces, allowing them to conduct numerical and visual experiments.

Matthias Weber

We're looking to raise money through them to get us two new synthetic turf playing surfaces. So when we make it to the playoffs, we're not going to have home field advantage, and we never have had it.

Audrey Wallace

I think our department is a good one. I'm very proud of our police officers, ... Certainly when a complaint of misconduct or inappropriate behavior surfaces, it's disturbing. We want to do everything we can to address it, learn from it and make sure it doesn't reoccur.

Michael Spears

For example, some boulders seem to have just disintegrated on the surface. We've also seen that some of the fine surface material moves downhill, filling low areas and creating flat surfaces in craters, even with Eros' low gravity. These are big puzzles and we need to get a better look.

Joseph Veverka