At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years… — Henry Cuellar Copy Share Image
We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent -… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do… — Laozi Copy Share Image
You might want to get up," he said. "Everyone will be here quite soon to rescue you, and you may prefer to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The specific danger is us; we are rampant; this earth is our only friend; we are destroying it increment by increment at… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
Tax laws favor capital over labor, giving capital gains a lower rate than ordinary income. The rich get humongous mortgage interest deductions… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The most common mistake you'll make is forgetting to keep your own scorecard. Very little at work reinforces your ability to do… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
For many years, they said the drug lords in Colombia were unbeatable, but all the same, we've eliminated all the big capos… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I think the retirement crisis globally is a major problem. I think it's especially prevalant in countries such as Japan, where immigration… — Martin Gilbert Copy Share Image
Starting in the '80s or so, after the United States sharply cut its rates, other countries decided they better do it too,… — T.R. Reid Copy Share Image
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it… — Ben Bernanke 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
What the Tea Parties are standing for is constitutional principle. It's not fundamentally about tax rates or whether to have a consumption… — Robert P. George Copy Share Image
I am never out there just jogging for the heck of it. I never do that. I start to run with a… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Close loopholes, close the special interest Washington carve outs and that means more incomes subject to taxation so we're going to lower… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates… — Richard Bentall Copy Share Image
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
I have a simple plan to solve the economic crisis. Give every American a $100 credit to the dog track of their… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
The marriage rate has hit an all-time low, with 1 in 5 adults over 25 having never been married. In fact, an… — Jimmy Little Copy Share Image
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound… — Benjamin Graham 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
I want to have a tax on people who are making a million dollars. It's called the Buffett rule. Yes, Warren Buffett… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two points. But the most important… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average… — Franklin Raines Copy Share Image
The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an… — Nicholas Culpeper Copy Share Image