Kevin DeYoung

Many people suffer at the hands of others. The world can be unfair, at times mercilessly so. Millions of people in the world are genuine victims, right now. All of us will be at some point, whether it's for small matters or large, for a long duration or short. But we aren't all victims, not all the time anyway, not for everything.

American Theologian

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.

Russian Businessman

Sunita Williams

When you are thinking about going away for a long duration mission, it has to be part of your mindset that you're leaving your family, but it's for the right reasons, for good reasons, and hopefully helping humanity.

American Astronaut

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

To play these twisted, tormented characters is very draining. You have to sit in the pocket of that character for the duration of the shoot, which is normally an average of three months, and that can be taxing!

British Actor

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Austrian Philosopher

Lisa Gansky

Insurance and funding traditionally drive capital investment. But in a world based on access, not ownership, the duration, value, cost and extent of financial services is distinctly different.

American Businesswoman

Myles Munroe

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

Bahamian Clergyman

Jessica Simpson

Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.

American Musician

S. Jay Olshansky

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

American Scientist

Peter Marshall

The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.

Scottish Clergyman

The meaning of 'duration' can change slightly based on context, referring to entertainment, events, or experiences.

Context Matters

'Duration' is often preceded by descriptive adjectives like 'long', 'brief', 'average', indicating the length.

Adjective Form

In a legal context, 'duration' usually refers to the time assigned for punishments or contractual terms.

Legal Time Span

In legal contexts, 'duration' can be set (fixed) or changeable (variable), impacting rights or penalties.

Fixed vs Variable

In physics, the concept of duration can be intuitive, like the time it takes for a ball to drop.

Duration Intuition

Unlike an instant, duration implies a process or event with a distinguishable time length.

Duration vs Instant

In finance, 'duration' helps investors understand how long their money will be tied up in an investment.

Investment Timeframe

Bond 'duration' affects how sensitive the investment is to the changes in interest rates.

Interest Rate Impact

 So how did the idea for this come about? As an architect, I've been working for most of my adult life on better ways to build for natural disasters. Oh, everyone's familiar with big earthquakes here in the Bay Area. If you want to separate a house or a structure from the earth for the duration of an earthquake,

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 It's not because I think I'm special. This story is important precisely because I'm not special; because nothing that happened to me was all that unique. My dependence on opioids was entirely predictable given the amount that I was prescribed and the duration for which I was prescribed it.

The agony of opioid...

 college test on and on have far less impact less intensity and much less duration that people expect them to have effect a recent study this almost fleurs me a recent study showing how major life traumas affect people suggests that if it happened over three months ago with

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 In the long duration chairs, you're transported to the big place where you're going to see the work. And if you fall asleep, which is very possible because it's been a long day, you're going to be transported to the parking lot. And you know, sleeping is very important.

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 who haven't yet developed Alzheimer's disease, worsening sleep quality and sleep duration are associated with a greater amount of amyloid-beta building up in the brain, and while it's important to point out that these studies don't prove that lack of sleep or poor sleep

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 age varies when you're five years old one year is twenty percent of your life but when you're 50 years old one year is only two percent of your life we may be constantly comparing intervals with time with the duration that we've already lived third with aging they come

What does your time feel...

 In an instant, the palace dissolved around them. The doctor found himself in an immense cave lined with countless quivering candles, each representing the duration of a life. As punishment for his Godson’s foolish attempt to master mortality,

The tale of the doctor...

 In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one. And because the world is becoming now

We Are What We Eat:...

 it was never explained to me the commonness of these factors that women consider, like the risk of passing on hereditary illness, the danger of having to stop life-saving medication for the duration of your pregnancy,

I don't want children --...

 the virus may reappear seasonally, so vaccines will continue to protect people. And although it may take years to create, disruptions to most people’s lives won’t necessarily last the full duration.