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“The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.”

Lasts Levels Sea Century Late Rate Decades 20th Century Satellites Acceleration Sea Level Rise

Author:Nils-Axel Morner

“1.7% increase in terms of success rate a year, its nothing. By the time we get to the 24 century we might have effective treatments, Star Trek will be long gone by that time.”

Years Long Might Stars Term Gone Century Increase Rate Treatment Chemotherapy

Author:Ralph W. Moss

“I trace the inequality to a particular set of decisions that we took when we lowered the tax rate from 91% down to very low levels at the top, where we stripped away regulations. So the result of that was not a more dynamic economy, but a more unequal society. We tried the experiment of trickle-down. A third of a century later, we can say fairly definitively that it was a failure.”

Decision Levels Results Economy Century Particular Taxes Lows Thirds Rate Experiments Inequality Regulation Low Level Trickle Down

Author:Joseph Stiglitz

“Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of the two economies are surpassing the sustainable yields of the ecosystems that underpin them. For example, one-third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil at a rate that is undermining its long-term productivity, fully half of the world's rangeland is overgrazed and deteriorating into desert, and the world's forests have shrunk by about half since the dawn of agriculture and are continuing to shrink.”

“Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans”

Culture Century West Rate Rap Diseased

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement Of Man), and also rate as undoubtedly one of the greatest books of the twentieth century”

Men Book Century Theory Evolution Importance Rate Twentieth Century Supplements Greatest Book

Author:Ronald Fisher

“The United States has experienced high rates of inflation in the past and appears to be running the same type of fiscal policies that engendered hyperinflations in 20 countries over the past century.”

Country States Running Past United United States Century Policy Type Rate Investing Inflation Over The Past Fiscal Policy Hyperinflation

Author:Laurence Kotlikoff

“The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.”

Humans Has Beens Two Simple Technology Century Rate Remarkable Technological 20th Century Physiological Physiology Synergy

Author:Robert Fogel

“Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .”

Hell Century Fashion Rate Affair Bars Gaps 20th Century Skulls Dungeons Inferno Buchenwald

Author:J. G. Ballard

“In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.”

“If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live under more modest circumstances. But all those new branches of industry which supply the masses with articles unheard of before, would operate, if at all, on a much smaller scale, and their products would be beyond the reach of the common man.”

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)”

Men Given Century Terrible Rate Poison Antidote Nineteenth Century Daguerreotypes

Book:Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

Source: Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites