The United States has 4 percent of the world's population and 34 percent of its Nobel laureates. — Max Fisher Copy Share Image
A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
“Our country is not so clean.......because of people f***......so we help to clean our country or in our house......so our country or… — Ashley Jaylo Copy Share Image
I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I… — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
There are historic examples where a soft domination of certain states worked well. For instance the US, who dominated the Western alliance… — Jaroslaw Kaczynski Copy Share Image
An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney.… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
The good news about fresh water is that, even after accounting for the larger volume of water that is unavailable to people… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives… — Charles Orville Whitley Copy Share Image
Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
In Colombia today we have 16% of the population, which is a very small amount of the population owning 90% of the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus,… — Gary Kleck Copy Share Image
Costa Rica remains peacefully and firmly committed to the well- being and safety of our population. We promote a model of development… — Laura Chinchilla Copy Share Image
I had actually, after the Paris attacks in this country, we all patted ourselves on the back and said, "Well, we have… — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
The majority of the population thinks that if the government runs healthcare, they're going to take away your freedom. At the same… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
It's a moral imperative, it's an economic imperative, and it is a security imperative. For we've seen how spikes in food prices… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A combination of very rapid population growth over the last 50 years and reckless economic growth during the same time has stored… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
