Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
President Obama likes to talk about the Buffett Rule. Well, here's a Buffett Rule that all Americans should be able to support:… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
We are coming into a new era of flight, an ear in which all past conception of time and distance is changing… — Allan Haines Loughead 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
We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I've never had it so good in terms of taxes. I am paying the lowest tax rate that I've ever paid in… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Money solves a lot of problems and when you don't have money, you've got to do all this other stuff to solve… — Julie Davis Copy Share Image
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the stock market could have a negative wealth effect and weigh on capital spending, but a sharp decline in long-term interest… — Joseph Barbera Copy Share Image
Most women outlive their spouses. Divorce remains at record rates. Its important for a woman to be able to control her finances. — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Studies show that people who abuse animals are far more likely to engage in interpersonal violence. Violent crime rates tend to be… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people. — Nina Fedoroff Copy Share Image
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the… — Christy Turlington Copy Share Image
Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and… — Lord Chesterfield 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
The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Rosa Luxemburg maintained that the capitalist system can keep up its rate of investment (and therefore its profits) only so long as… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by… — Fred Singer Copy Share Image
