The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. — William Weld Copy Share Image
The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
We did not think about the personal nature of killing in the air. We were proud of every victory in the air,… — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of… — Basil Rathbone Copy Share Image
With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Schools of science and physics replacing each other at a faster and faster rate. Just the nature of our world is constant… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
There is no evolutionary pressure to create minds capable of forming sciences; it just happened. Evolutionary pressure has not led to higher… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved… — Robert Fogel Copy Share Image
To put it in context, the federal government was, at the beginning [of the Vancouver meeting], talking about a $15-per-tonne floor for… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and… — Rory Carroll Copy Share Image
Religions have been universal in the sense that all the people we know anything about have had a religion. But the differences… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I get butterflies just like everyone else. So I meditate for at least ten minutes before I perform. I breathe in and… — Matthew Moy Copy Share Image
If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Somebody asked Somerset Maugham about his place in the pantheon of writers, and he said, "I'm in the very front row of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
In 1986, our commencement speaker was George Schultz, secretary of state, fourth in line to the president. You get me-basic cable's second… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
