The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
You get recessions, you have stock market declines. If you don't understand that's going to happen, then you're not ready, you won't… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political… — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“One of the most dangerous signs of decline is the sudden reluctance to tolerate different points of view in political debate. Questions… — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
We are like a judge confronted by a defendant who declines to answer, and we must determine the truth from the circumstantial… — Alfred Wegener Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
China and the U.S. have a very symbiotic relationship which will not decline any time soon. There are more shared interests as… — Mark Mobius Copy Share Image
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at… — Narciso Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
We have populations now in the West with a very short memory span. One reason for this short memory span is that… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual… — Jon Appleton Copy Share Image
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty… — Paul Cook Copy Share Image
Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
[ Bob Dylan] should let the Nobel Prize Committee know if he is accepting it or not. He will not be the… — Sjon Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with rock seems to be on the decline. There's not a lot of rock stations or MTV… — Travis Barker Copy Share Image
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.” — Plato Copy Share Image
[Whenever the average intellect of the clergy declines in the balance with the average intellect of the people] the churches will be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they… — Cyril Clarke Copy Share Image
All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The talk show, as a genre, has been in decline for a while. It started with Jerry Springer, when the talk shows… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
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