We have only to look around to recognise the benefits of this positive approach in business or local government, in sport, music and the arts.
To get an idea of where it may take us, we have only to look North to Canada and the impact of the tar sands on the strengthening of Canadian economy.
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But in the wake of Sandy, Republican Governor Christy and Democratic Governor Cuomo have begun to openly discuss that this is a problem that we have to not only prepare for, but work to change.
Along with many others, we have only begun to explore the potential of this amazing technology.
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And we have only begun to glimpse the benefits of that revolution, exemplified by smartphones, netbooks, and the applications that run on them.
We have only ourselves to blame for some health problems.
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Mr. HANFT: We have only ourselves to blame for creating, yeah, the hypercompetitive environment that now, in many ways, is an outgrowth of that kind of Spock-like obsession with creating a perfect world for our children.
"We have to find a way to not only have better control over who we receive e-mail from, but also to authenticate or trace the e-mail, " says an executive for a major brokerage firm, who asked not to be named.
And what if my kids have 20 things they want to see and we only have two hours to see everything?
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This would mean that we have not only failed to make short-term changes to save biodiversity, but that we have also not made the underlying institutional and behavioral changes that would take us off the long-term course we are on toward the catastrophic loss of species and ecosystems by the end of the century.
But while the reams of statistics that back these articles are usually treated as lamentable, what most of their authors fail to realize is that we only have to look to our inner cities to see how potentially dangerous young men become when they no longer buy into fatherhood and by extension the civilizing influences that families bequeath.
"We have such a small budget that we have to focus on only a few technologies, " says Grundler, who notes that other carmakers are looking at the EPA's invention.
And the good news about policy problems is that we can solve them, if we only have the will to do so.
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We only have to wait until CES 2013 to see if webOS is next up to power its efforts, stay tuned.
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And the hard truth is that we may have only begun to see the effects of what the endless sugar avalanche is doing to us.
Without doubt, the World Club Tournament must help bridge this difficulty, but we only have to look to football to see that club success does not map precisely onto national glory.
But understand, we only have three to four percent of the world's oil reserves and we use 25 percent of the world's oil, which means that we can't drill our way out of the problem.
"We only have to look at other restored canals to see the dramatic difference they have made to our local towns - increased tourism and employment, improved access to the countryside and enhanced habitats for wildlife, " he said.
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We want a world with more global cooperation where we act alone only when we absolutely have to.
The good news is that there are practical and affordable steps we can take to mitigate these threats, if only we have the will and the wit to adopt them before we are hit by heavy space weather or its man-caused counterpart.
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"Once out of the car, we make it very clear that we're not there to be offensive to them, we're not there to hurt him, and we're only there to have a talk to them about what they're doing, " Scumm Buster said.
In other words, data is truly a unique economic resource that up to now we have been able to industrialize only partially.
And as president, I will bring back this nation's time-honored tradition: The United States of America never goes to war because we want to, we only go to war because we have to.
"It is incredible to what degree we have been able to not only win the Slams, but also in the Masters 1000s, " Federer said.
We could try to do everything everywhere, but we only have 8, 000 people globally who can work to deploy those resources.
" So to plagiarize blatantly, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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But this is nonsense: what we want to know is what is the wealth after we have changed the distribution: only then can we try to work out whether we would like to change it some more.
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We now know that willpower is a finite resource, and we only have so much willpower to go around.
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