• And finally, ground yourself regularly, with exercise and meditation, or with direct service, like spending time each month quietly serving in a soup kitchen.

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  • In her spare time, Lo quietly collected Chinese jewelry, especially "finger pieces, " including jade ornaments, precious stones and items linked to China's ancient times.

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  • The third priceless moment takes longer to notice because it happens quietly over time.

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  • Indeed, there could be no greater testimony to its health than the unsentimental ability to let one-time national champions float quietly off into another's embrace.

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  • And it seems to be benefiting Mr. Pawlenty, who's taking advantage of the extra time and space to quietly line up support in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

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  • Restrictions have eased over time and bands have quietly performed to small gatherings over the years, but the public performance of Egyptian metal band Wyvern to a crowd of almost 15, 000 at the SOS festival was a breakthrough.

    BBC: SOS Music festival fans

  • And finally they come to this elderly black man who's been sitting there quietly the entire time.

    NPR: Obama Forced to Address Relationship with Pastor

  • Over time most South Africans have quietly come to accept the fact that he will not be here forever.

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  • In practice, only the first two or three are likely to be discussed at any length, and the remainder will be quietly axed when time is called at 2.30pm.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Some are quietly relieved that the time-consuming and costly dispute may soon be over.

    ECONOMIST: Canada

  • Pressure from demography, climate change and shifts in economic power builds up quietly for a long time and then triggers abrupt shifts.

    ECONOMIST: The politics of global disruption, and how they may change

  • These efforts have been quietly afoot for some time, but they took Beijing and the world by surprise, and may have reshaped the balance of power in Asia more than any similar rat-a-tat-tat in a generation.

    FORBES: That Was the Week That Was in Asia

  • And it calls for powers for regulators to punish former directors, rather than accepting an assurance that they're off quietly to spend more time with their pensions, and, er, not to worry, chaps, they won't be troubling the financial sector again.

    BBC: Carrying on banking

  • We were sitting in the garden listening to the intoxicated hum of late-autumnal wasps, talking quietly and for a long time of Lajos and the children, as well as of Vilma, my dead sister.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Esther's Inheritance'

  • Meanwhile, his father sat quietly and said nothing the entire time.

    NEWYORKER: Letting Go

  • How much reflective time did the president have to be by himself to quietly and thoughtfully prepare?

    FORBES: The Real Lesson of Obama-Romney 1--Why You Always Have To Bring Your 'A' Game

  • This time around, he has done things a lot more quietly and must have learned from the mistakes of the past.

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  • But Larson is also a data point in an economic revolution that is quietly turning millions of people into part-time entrepreneurs, and disrupting old notions about consumption and ownership.

    FORBES: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy

  • Many students who volunteered their time to keep the massive event from devolving into chaos Wednesday quietly expressed hope that a trend was developing, and that the Atlantic Coast Conference school would become a regular election-year stopping point for presidential hopefuls.

    CNN: Wait Chapel event a homecoming for the debate commission

  • She sat quietly, with her head down, for a long time.

    CNN: 'Honey, you're really sick'

  • Picco quietly left a few weeks later, however--about the time that a scandal flared up in the media over a corrupt U.N. procurement officer, Alexander Yakovlev.

    FORBES: Freedom's Edge

  • Washington has been quietly allowing the greenback to slide in international currency markets for some time as a way to make U.S. exports more competitive and that will likely continue at least until China revalues the yuan in a meaningful way.

    FORBES: The New Gold Rush

  • I've quietly sent them back to their offices with instructions to do better next time--and they have.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • About this time, he started looking very tired and I stepped around the counter to ask quietly if he was all right.

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  • Yet for some time after America invaded Iraq in 2003, Syrian intelligence was widely reckoned to have quietly aided the flow of foreign jihadists to Iraq.

    ECONOMIST: Syria and Lebanon

  • Coincidentally, the previous-gen PlayStation 3 (CECH-3012A and CECH-3012B, as sold in Hong Kong) was quietly granted a China Compulsory Certificate or "CCC" around the same time, only to be withdrawn by Sony soon after the discovery in November, as the database screenshot below shows.

    ENGADGET: China's complicated history with video games: when a ban isn't really a ban

  • There's a strong argument the torch has passed to Dan O'Dowd, the 10-year veteran GM who's quietly put the budget-conscious Colorado Rockies into the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • That the winner was quietly revealed overnight at about 2:35 a.m. local time came as somewhat of a surprise.

    NPR: Kenya Final Vote Total: Kenyatta Has 50.03 Pct

  • Labour may be getting a bit hot under the collar over the UK government's reluctance to devote parliamentary time to a discussion of the Welsh government's revenue-raising abilities but peers have quietly got on with the job.

    BBC: Peers discuss whether Wales should have taxation powers

  • Like other central banks, it has been quietly taking on fewer bonds from the American Treasury and more from other issuers for some time anyway.

    ECONOMIST: Collywobbles

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