The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date.… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective: 1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards… — Sheila Heen Copy Share Image
At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Unlike private enterprise which quickly modifies its actions to meet emergencies - unlike the shopkeeper who promptly finds the wherewith to satisfy… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
One of the issues that I have raised in that context is our transport system, road, rail and ports. We have raised… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
It is always the sign of the second-rate man when the decision merely meets the present situation. It is the left-over in… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
I think the ethos for Gov. Romney is to use a whole variety of policies, of which tax policy is one, to… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
That day the U.S. announced that the dollar would be devalued by 10 percent. By switching the yen to a floating exchange… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women gain equality... I believe income-earning… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, the northern hemisphere appeared to have been cooling at an alarming rate. There was frequent talk of a… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Interest-rate swaps are a tool used by big cities, major corporations and sovereign governments to manage their debt, and the scale of… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into… — Edwin Feulner Copy Share Image
Hollywood overstates both the romance of marriage and the prevalence of divorce. Celebrities have divorce rates that are atypical and higher than… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption,… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
If either person isn't 100% committed to scale every mountain that comes before you to make your relationship work then you aren't… — Cindy Wright Copy Share Image
I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The Fed has one power that is unique to it alone: it enables the creation of money out of thin air. Sometimes… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is a melancholy experience for a professional mathematician to find himself writing about mathematics. The function of a mathematician is to… — G. H. Hardy 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
I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
If I eat something a little crazy or if I feel sluggish, I know I have to eat better the next day… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
More than anything, rave was an intentionally designed experience. The music, lighting, and ambience were all fine-tuned to elicit and augment altered… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image