84 Quotes About Layers

  • Author Nancy Baker
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    The idea is that someone is watching that child. Layers of protection are for when that fails.

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  • Author Paal Brekke
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    By looking at the sun at different wavelengths, we can peel off the different layers in the (solar) atmosphere, just like peeling an onion.

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  • Author Douglas Coupland
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    Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.

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  • Author Laurie Colwin
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    That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.

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  • Author Noam Chomsky
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    If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

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  • Author Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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    And now, as a germination of planetary dimensions, comes the thinking layer which over its full extent develops and intertwines its fibres, not to confuse and neutralise them but to reinforce them in the living unity of a single tissue.

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