The risk of developing carcinoma of the lung increases steadily as the amount smoked increases. If the risk among non-smokers is taken… — Richard Doll Copy Share Image
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and… — Rick Carlisle Copy Share Image
The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I've got a chart here that shows our debt-to-GDP ratio. And while we did run deficits in the past, we now number… — Mark Kirk Copy Share Image
... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral,… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles]… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and… — B. J. Fogg Copy Share Image
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections. — Noel Clarke Copy Share Image
If men are to remain civilized or to become so, the art of associating together must grow and improve in the same… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
A ground frequently taken by Christian theologians is that the progress and civilization of the world are due to Christianity; and the… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The obese are eating the worst diet in the country if you define worse as ratio of calories to essential micronutrients. They're… — Bruce Ames Copy Share Image
De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question is not whether the good outweighs the bad. The question is whether or not the good excuses the bad. And,… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image