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One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.


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MAGNUS CARLSEN Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't ge...
MAGNUS CARLSEN It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
MAGNUS CARLSEN I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov&...
MAGNUS CARLSEN I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we ...
MAGNUS CARLSEN Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
MAGNUS CARLSEN If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other peopl...
MAGNUS CARLSEN There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People w...
MAGNUS SCHEVING Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't....
MAGNUS CARLSEN Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sp...
MAGNUS CARLSEN You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flex...
MAGNUS SCHEVING This game, I know it was important to the conference to get these two schools to be a part of it. We...
BURKE MAGNUS I feel like there's a really deep and rabid fan base there that would take as much TV content as we'...
BURKE MAGNUS Our job is to put on the best possible service and make it available through cable to fans. We don't...
BURKE MAGNUS That kind of technique, which was used a lot during the early days of ESPN2, really didn't work the ...
BURKE MAGNUS We don't own the syndication rights to the ACC.
BURKE MAGNUS Actually, we're ahead of schedule. We've done a pretty good job having DirecTV right out of the gate...
BURKE MAGNUS We are thrilled to be able to revive coverage of Midnight Madness as a television franchise in partn...
BURKE MAGNUS Can they survive as a business? I don't know. That's not for me to say. From a product standpoint, m...
BURKE MAGNUS From a general sense, there's certainly more than enough product out there for more than one network...
BURKE MAGNUS We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influenci...
BURKE MAGNUS Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwis...
MAGNUS FLYTE It's a mammoth task. We don't have the resources in terms of our treasury departments, we don't have...
MAGNUS RANSTORP This kind of research should not be done without proper ethical oversight. These are very, very tric...
DAVID MAGNUS Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.
STEPHEN MAGNUS It's a tough, tough issue that people could legitimately have different views about. The prudential ...
DAVID MAGNUS They are really training for specific missions, ... And it's weeding out the elite of the elite, the...
MAGNUS RANSTORP The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars dr...
MAGNUS FLYTE There hasn't been any situation like we saw recently with the Greek case where you were so close to ...
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