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I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

~Elaine Pagels

Topics: Am Environments Music Prayers Religious Susceptible I Am

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Higher SAT scores mean better college matriculation rates. So it's no wonder that private schools in ultra-competitive environments would grease the qualifying process as much as possible.

~Eliot Schrefer

Topics: Better College Environments Grease Higher Mean Much No Wonder Possible Private Process Qualifying Rates Sat Schools Scores Wonder Would

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Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system written for a Hewlett-Packard computer ran only on H.P. computers; I.B.M. controlled its software from chips up to the user interfaces.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Chips Closed Computer Computers Computing Controlled Dominated Early Environments Only Operating Operating System Ran Software System Up User World Written 1970S

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I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their shoulder pads through crowds of men. There was no legal protection against 'hostile environments for women.'

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Against Broke Computing Crowds Early Environments Hostile Just Legal Men Pads Poke Protection Ranks Shoulder Starting Through Were Women 1980S

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The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments where no one is paying attention, like Mark Zuckerberg's dorm room at Harvard.

~Eric Ries

Topics: Attention Bad Best Dorm Early Entrepreneurship Environments Expectations Get Happens Harvard Involved Launch Like Mark Mistake Paying People Product Releasing Room Something Start Up Version Want Where You Your

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When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

~Evgeny Morozov

Topics: Allowed Alone Also Board Build Bus Cases Certain Challenges Commit Courts Covering Crime Debate Environments Even Existing Face Go Laws Media Meet Once Profile Revision Smart Start Trigger Where You

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Whenever you move to a new atmosphere, the first few days are difficult. But I always felt that an actor needs to move out of his comfort zone and experience different working environments. And that's why I was looking at moving out of my own comfort zones and work with different kinds of people. It helps you grow as an actor.

~Fawad Khan

Topics: Actor Always Atmosphere Comfort Comfort Zone Days Different Different Kinds Difficult Environments Experience Felt Few First Grow Helps His Kinds Looking Move Moving Moving Out My Own Needs New Out Own People Whenever Why Work Working You Zone

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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.

~Flume

Topics: Ads Creative Different Doing Environments Film Games Long Many Music Possible Requires Scores Sort Stuff Tv Video Video Games Want Whether Writing

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Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.

~Frankie Cosmos

Topics: Around Choose Environments Just Much Once Position Toxic Where You

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We will have to make a decision, as we go into new environments outside of earth, whether we want to drag along with us all our pathogens. We can, or we can't - it's up to us - but I consider that part of genome engineering is how we interact with the huge part of our genome which is our microbiome.

~George M. Church

Topics: Along Consider Decision Drag Earth Engineering Environments Genome Go How Huge Huge Part Interact Make New Our Outside Part Up Us Want Whether Which Will

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