Many politicians and pundits claim that the credit crunch and high mortgage foreclosure rate is an example of market failure and want… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary… — William John Wills Copy Share Image
Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea. — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down. — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
I suspect that the peer-review system carries a good part of blame for the fact that something like sixty percent or more… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
I was going to say it's pretty bad these days, but I actually think it's pretty much the same as it's always… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends… — John Hull Copy Share Image
You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
It's simply cheaper to operate the business offshore than it is domestically because of the tax rate, 35%, which is higher than… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who… — Mark Van Doren 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
We actually know that our crumbling pipelines, roads, and bridges are ticking time bombs. That is why President Obama and Congressional Democrats… — Christine Pelosi 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
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
We are living in the richest country in the history of the world, yet we have the highest rate of childhood poverty… — Bernie Sanders 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
Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize -… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
We're guessing at our future opportunity cost. Warrenis guessing that he'll have the opportunity to put capital out at high rates of… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image