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God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians. Samuel Butler
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If we wish to preserve the diversity of natural ecosystem processes, we must preserve the larger ecosystems where the longest food chains are found, ... As ecosystem size decreases (e.g., through the fragmentation of forest patches), we may see the loss of large, often rare, top predators. Those top predators that can survive in smaller ecosystems will likely feed lower in the food chain, which may alter the feeding relations and community structure through out the food web.
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If trees go down, it's fine as long as the reason is a naturally caused one. Our real concern is altered water flow from upstream, and hurricanes don't change that one way or another. Rick Cook
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If the City Council does not radically alter the trend in housing, then Davis in 2020 will become a much more exclusive community and ... a larger percentage of its workforce than today will be living elsewhere. ... And that, in particular, if we do not require a good portion of the new houses to be permanently affordable, then while we may have smaller homes, they will be very expensive homes.
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If the injury is serious he will surely have to alter his plans.
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If students do not want the staff of their university to be able to see their profiles, they should alter their privacy settings so that they are only available to other students.
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He was also a wonderful communicator in terms of acting. He knows how to give you one word or one physical thing that's going to alter everything. Elizabeth Pena
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I wouldn't use them both at the same time, ... I'd alternate them, keep them fresh. It's a long season, and you're going to need the talent of both of those guys. Don Shula
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I would say I'm very sympathetic toward Gerald. He has exactly the same thing going on on his side. I'm every bit on pins and needles. I've got a lot of logistical things that would have to be altered (if the tournament got a March date).
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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. Alfred Kazin
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If we can give patients exercises that are easily altered for home practice, they will be much more likely to continue therapy on their own and have success. Because mental practice can produce such powerful reactions in the body and the brain, we think stroke patients can benefit substantially from this exercise.
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If we can understand how (ants) protect themselves from disease, we might be able to alter their defenses.
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If we cannot go on Friday, we have an alternate schedule where all four teams will play twice on Saturday. We'll just have to see about the weather.
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I have had threats, people saying they were going to get me. The police have told me to alter my routine, not to frequent certain pubs and clubs. There's a playground-bully mentality that I have lived with.
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We're looking at an alternate school assignment for that student. This is a case that's probably going to have a more far-reaching outcome in the criminal court world than in the school board world. These young ladies are facing some serious charges. From our standpoint, there's not much we can do.
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A scuffed up shoe on the red carpet or at a big premiere is never okay! It can really alter the vibe of a trendy look. Brad Goreski
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No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. Huston Smith
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You can control and censor a child's reading, but you can't control her interpretations; no one can guess how a message that to adults seems banal or ridiculous or outmoded will alter itself and evolve inside the darkness of a child's heart. Hilary Mantel
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Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.
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Secular cycles are the long periods - as long as decades - that come to define each market era. These cycles alternate between long-term bull and bear markets. Barry Ritholtz
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Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim Lord Byron
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In the Muslim world, I had seen that men with white complexions were more genuinely brotherly than anyone else had ever been. That... was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about 'white men.' Malcolm X
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. Dan Hill
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'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. Annabelle Wallis
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It's easy to see why dog rescue is a mushrooming culture. Turning a troubled person's life around is difficult, but rescuers with commitment and time and a few dollars can radically alter the fate of a dog. And there are millions of dogs - nearly 10 million in the shelter system, many others mistreated in private homes - in need of rescuing. Jon Katz
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Traffic is not an immutable force. When faced with less space to drive and more places to walk, people will alter their behavior and walk more, drive less. E. B. White
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To do otherwise would run the risk that monetary policy would be too accommodative, pulling resources from the future in a way that would alter the trajectory for the growth of the capital stock, perhaps amplifying the imbalances, and compromising the price stability. Timothy Geithner
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While the timing of this executive departure is not particularly good for Wal-Mart in light of the Coughlin situation, which exposed weakness inside the upper ranks of Wal-Mart management, the loss of Kevin Turner is not going to alter the course of the company.
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While there have been other extinction crises, this will be a dramatic alteration that will fundamentally threaten the future of humanity.
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When you get someone in a position like that where he is deliberately using his own initiative to alter the words of very experienced scientists, that is clearly going beyond the bounds of ethics, and certainly going beyond the bounds of his job description.
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When you know the player is not going to be there, you make alternate plans and go on, Al Groh
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What's holding up the consumer is habit. Until things change in a very material manner, American consumers won't alter their shopping habits significantly. The jobs market is strong and there's been a little bit of improvement in wage growth. I still don't believe that gas prices are high enough to derail consumers. If there is one thing that could shake consumers it's the housing market and not gas inflation. Richard Hastings
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Withdrawing the LSIF program is a dangerous move, unless we have alternate sources of capital in place.