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The reality is regulation often lags behind innovation. -- Bill Maris
San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city. -- Gavin Newsom
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. -- Barbra Streisand
The minute you're working with the government, you're dealing with bureaucracy, you're dealing with time lags, you're dealing with rigidity, you're dealing with a slow pace. -- Bob Simon
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men. -- Lael Brainard
If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? -- Maria Montessori
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time. -- Baltasar Gracian
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. -- Edmund Burke
For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? -- Maria Montessori
Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create. -- Robert E. Ornstein
The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art. -- Franz Kafka
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. -- Thomas J. Sargent
Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him He lags the long bright morning through, Ever so tired of nothing to do. -- Walter de La Mare
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. -- Samuel Johnson
Upon my lips the breath of song, Within my heart a rhyme, Howe'er time trips or lags along, I keep abreast with time! -- Clinton Scollard
Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output -- Richard Posner
Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up. -- Kevin Drum
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough -- Barbra Streisand
How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. -- William Cowper
The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants. -- Amory Lovins
The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world. -- Walt Whitman

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