Brock Pierce

Most people are playing the game of compounding interest, which is self interest - how do they take care of themselves and produce more for themselves, storing value for their own benefit. I play a different game. A game I call 'compounding impact.' How do you make a positive impact in the world?

American Businessman

Irvine Welsh

Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

Scottish Novelist

Valtteri Bottas

In Formula 1, the neck is really important. There's a lot of force that's going to your head. We also have a helmet and it's not that light. When it's all about g-force, all of that extra weight in the helmet compounds and puts more and more pressure.

Finnish Driver

Peter Bergen

Afghanistan's winters in the north are legendarily harsh, and southern Afghanistan, by contrast, is bleak desert. These difficulties are compounded by the fact that Afghanistan is one of the world's most heavily mined countries.

American Journalist

Steve Israel

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

American Politician

Brad Pitt

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Actor

Hugh Miller

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

Scottish Scientist

Priscilla Chan

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.

American Philanthropist

Anderson Cooper

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

Abby Lee Miller

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

American Dancer

Refers to the product formed by mixing specific elements in science or chemistry contexts.

Elemental Combination

The word can apply to abstract concepts, not just physical mixtures.

Not Just Physical

Emphasizes the worsening of a situation, especially in formal or serious contexts.

Negative Intensifier

Implies a series of events that together make a situation worse.

Sequential Events

Used to describe areas that are enclosed by fences or walls, often for security.

Physical Enclosure

Often implies a place with controlled access for safety, like military bases.

Safety and Control

In pharmacology or cooking, to blend ingredients to create something new.

Creating Substances

Can describe a mix of qualities or characteristics in an entity or person.

Metaphorical Mix

Indicates something made up of multiple parts, especially in linguistics.

Combined Parts

Can also refer to the blending of ideas or concepts.

Abstract Concepts

 And there's a whole range of compounds that they do use. And this was not going to be an easy task. And therefore we set up various experiments. Why did we set up these experiments? Because half the world's population runs the risk of contracting a killer disease like malaria

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 is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item

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 lead, chromium, and mercury. Other harmful compounds and chemicals can cause widespread contamination when released as toxic waste water in rivers and oceans. Technologies are now so advanced in some countries that the entire process of growing and producing fabric

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 that prevents your blood from clotting. That compound, which we're mildly allergic to, triggers the release of histamine, a chemical that makes our capillaries swell. This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response

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 It flows like a current through everyday life. Politics is the work of harnessing that flow in a direction you prefer. Policymaking is an effort to freeze and perpetuate a particular flow of power. Policy is power frozen. Law number power compounds.

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 Plants' defenses start at their surface. The bark covering tree trunks is full of lignin, a rigid web of compounds that's tough to chew and highly impermeable to pathogens. Leaves are protected by a waxy cuticle

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 so imagination was my survival kit every step of the way so an unusual outsider childhood followed by politicized schooling Quaker peace rallies were were a regular event compounded by the

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 and has become the worlds most widely used psychoactive substance. Caffeine is a chemical compound that stimulate the central nervous system. It accomplishes this by attaching itself

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 When stars eventually collapsed and exploded into supernovas, these new elements were spread across the universe and combined into new compounds, like the now familiar H2O.

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 Now that we're integrating them into the compound, one of the most important aspects is obviously being on display here, where the public can see them.

Compound

Elemental Combination

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