The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The growth of the American food industry will always bump up against this troublesome biological fact: Try as we might, each of… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year. — John Adams Copy Share Image
The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000, 'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200, marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco, just… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million… — Rajiv Shah Copy Share Image
I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in… — Ethan Nadelmann Copy Share Image
Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography… — Kristi Funk Copy Share Image
Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
