How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Drs. Margolis and Fisher have done a great service to education, computer science, and the culture at large. Unlocking the Clubhouse should… — Anita Borg Copy Share Image
The tax rate increases reduce economic growth; they shrink the pie; they cause more poverty, more despair, more unemployment, which are all… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known… — Alan Mollohan Copy Share Image
The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We also need to reduce corporate tax rates. This applies to small, medium and large businesses. At 35 percent, we have the… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Science is progressing at such a rapid rate that when you make a prediction and think you are ahead of your time… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: 'Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
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Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
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Right now we have a closure rate between discovery and exploitation of four to six months. We need to be more in… — John W. Thompson Copy Share Image
If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When they so-called 'target the interest rate', what they're doing is controlling the money supply via the interest rate. The interest rate… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But I think that sometimes, when one's behaved like a rather second-rate person, the way I did at breakfast, then in a… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why the tax comes as such a body blow to many people since the rate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I get very little sleep. But I try to stay constantly busy. My fear is that if I stop working I'll, like,… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think what the Fed fears is that, if Donald Trump gets big tax cuts and big spending increases that take effect… — David Wessel Copy Share Image
With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
There have been times when the Federal Reserve has restricted the money supply and raised interest rates to gain an end, which… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient,… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life…My precept is, do something, my… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Believe me: The day [Barack] Obama goes off, and he leaves, and goes out to the golf course for the rest of… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
he economy favors throughput over quality and craftsmanship, and economists are terrified because the American savings rate has crept upward from about… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image