“ In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. ”
- Walter Gilbert- Copy
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“ We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. ”
- Edward de Bono- Copy
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“ One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; and that which grows slow endures. ”
- J. G. Holland- Copy
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“ Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”
- Ernest Dimnet- Copy
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“ What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again… ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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“ Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. ”
- Brian Harris- Copy
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“ Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. ”
- Stewart Alsop- Copy
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“ The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order … the continuous thread of revelation. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
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“ The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy — when properly aged. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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“ Developing the plan is actually laying out the sequence of events that have to occur for you to achieve your goal. ”
- George L. Morrisey- Copy
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“ A plan is a list of actions arranged in whatever sequence is thought likely to achieve an objective. ”
- John Argenti- Copy
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“ A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead. ”
- John Acton- Copy
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“ Jazz is capable of doing much more than depicting the dope fiend and the drunk and the slinky gal. In our show there are many very funny sequences where we were able to use jazz as it can be used-in a happy way. ”
- Henry Mancini- Copy
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“ Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters. ”
- Elizabeth George- Copy
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“ Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. ”
- Leonhard Euler- Copy
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“ Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story - an idea - is a very old form of graphic communication. It began with the hieroglyphics in Egypt, it first appeared in a recognizable form in the Medieval times as copper plates produced by the Catholic church to tell morality stories. ”
- Will Eisner- Copy
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“ program - A set of instructions, given to the computer, describing the sequence of steps the computer performs in order to accomplish a specific task. The task must be specific, such as balancing your checkbook or editing your text. A general task, such as working for world peace, is something we can all do, but not something we can currently write programs to do. ”
- From Unix User’s Manual Manual- Copy
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“ Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. ”
- Peter Ackroyd- Copy
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“ Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection… ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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