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• Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

  Kevin Drum

  Fall, America, Long

  "We’ve Reached #cut50 For Young Black Men" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2017.

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• Usually I'll drive to certain locations over and over again, over a course of months really. And then it might just be I hit it at the right time, and the right light. And then I might go to that location over and over again, and then what happens in that lag time where - the image sort of locks in - all of a sudden I see it in my mind's eye.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Eye, Light, Mind

  Source: theamericanreader.com

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• There is little history in the study of nature, and there is little nature in the study of history. I want to show how we can remedy that cultural lag by developing a new perspective on the historian's enterprise, one that will make us Darwinians at last.

  Donald Worster

  Perspective, Environmental, Want

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• Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part and not enough on their own enterprise.

  William Greider

  Wisdom, Too Much, Reason

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• Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Men, Dust, Progress

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.156

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• Sometimes I think the Congress feels that if you only decided tomorrow to switch to wind power that in two years we'd be getting 80 percent of our electricity from wind power. It's nonsense. Normally it takes 20 to 30 years after a new technology is demonstrated and deployed before it powers even 15 or 20 percent of the grid. There's this long lag time, and we haven't even decided which directions to go.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Technology, Thinking, Years

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Because of the inherent time lag in the climate system, the greenhouse gases that have already been pumped into the atmosphere will undoubtedly lead to a certain increase in temperature in the coming decades.

  Hans von Storch

  Atmosphere, Climate, Temperature

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.

  Kenny Loggins

  Careers, Want, Tense

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.

  George Will

  Iraq, Facts, Architect

  "Togetherness In Baghdad" by George Will, www.newsweek.com. November 5, 2006.

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• As you walk, you simply walk. Don't go ahead, don't jump here and there. Mind always go ahead or lag behind. Remain with the moment.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Here And There, Moments

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• There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects

  Milton Friedman

  Team, Government, Needs

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• Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Couple, Mean, Years

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• The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
  it comes or it lags behind,
  It comes from its embowered garden
  and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Garden, Soul

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.118, NYU Press

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• How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

  William Cowper

  Light, Arrows, Mind

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.114

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• How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.

  Alastair Reynolds

  Reading, Sunday, Technology

  Alastair Reynolds (2012). “Blue Remembered Earth”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

  Dr. Seuss

  Places You Go, Sometimes, Gang

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• It's time now to rent a car, roll down the windows and prepare for your first big thrill: the freeways. They're so much fun they should charge admission. Never fret about zigzagging back and forth through six lanes of traffic at high speeds; it erases jet lag in a split second. You're now heading toward Hollywood, like any normal tourist. Breathe in that smog and feel lucky that only in L.A. will you glimpse a green sun or a brown moon. Forget the propaganda you've heard about clean air; demand oxygen you can see in all its glorious discoloration.

  John Waters

  Fun, Moon, Air

  John Waters (1986). “Crackpot, the Obsessions of John Waters”, Vintage

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• There seems to be no unexpressed self in animals, as if they are as fully themselves in flesh as possible, with no lag of consciousness to fill up, while we keep trying to grow into something else.

  Jane Roberts

  Animal, Self, Trying

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• The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that you are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore is always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Memories, Past, Reality

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• The center of my life is my kids, I woke up at 3 in the morning with four kids with jet lag and two babies. I put myself together for a few hours and go out. And then I go home. This is my job.

  Angelina Jolie

  Baby, Morning, Jobs

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• Upon my lips the breath of song,
  Within my heart a rhyme,
  Howe'er time trips or lags along,
  I keep abreast with time!

  Clinton Scollard

  Song, Time, Heart

  Clinton Scollard (1916). “Ballads, Patriotic & Romantic”

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• I too have a certain idea of America. Moreover, I would not feel entitled to say that of any other country, except my own. This is not just sentiment, though I always feel ten years younger – despite the jet-lag – when I set foot on American soil: there is something so positive, generous, and open about the people – and everything actually works. I also feel, though, that I have in a sense a share of America.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Feet, America

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• Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Behinds

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• We need from every man who aspires to leadership-for himself
  and his company-a determination to undertake a personal
  program of self-development. Nobody is going to order a man
  to develop .... Whether a man lags behind or moves ahead in
  his specialty is a matter of his own personal application. This is something which takes time, work, and sacrifice. Nobody can do
  it for you.

  Ralph J. Cordiner

  Determination, Moving, Sacrifice

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• Learning research tells us that the time lag from experiment to feedback is critical.

  Kent Beck

  Design, Research, Feedback

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