“Tardiness is next to wickedness in a society relentless in its consumption of time as both a good and a service--as tweet and Instagram, film clip and sound bite, as sporting event, investment opportunity, Tinder hookup, and interest rate--its value measured not by its texture or its substance but by the speed of its delivery, a distinction apparent to Andy Warhol when he supposedly said that any painting that takes longer than five minutes to make is a bad painting.” SaidFilmValuesNextOpportunitySoundInterestFiveMinutesEventsPaintingInvestmentRateSpeedSubstanceDistinctionBitesConsumptionWickednessFive MinutesRelentlessInstagramTextureTweetDeliveryInterest RateClipWarholSound BitesSporting EventsTinderTardiness Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsHas BeensRealSchoolMillionsFiveProductsDevelopmentHighestModelsPercentThirdsThreatMeetingsRateDefeatPrimariesVietnamAsiaLiteracyGrossThird WorldBasic NeedsUnescoSecondary SchoolEnrollment Author:John Pilger
“In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.” YearsStatesFiveLowsPercentIncreaseRatePopulationFive YearsImmigrantsJoblessWashington State Author:Dave Reichert
“We moved to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1979, when I was five. The funny thing is that, even though Baltimore had one of the top murder rates in the country in those days, I grew up hearing about how dangerous New York was.” CountryFiveDangerousNew YorkGrewGrew UpMurderMovedRateHearingFunny ThingsBaltimoreMaryland Author:Philipp Meyer
“If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.” PeopleIfsJobsLosesFiveFourIndustryPrisonRateEmployedImprisonment Author:Eugene Jarecki
“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.” MadePoetryLiteratureLostLinesDealsFireFivePoetThousandForgivingRateSakeAbsurdSmokeRighteousObscurity Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.” ProblemAnswersFiveRateAnnoyingAnnoying Things Book:Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“It takes 150 years to build an investment bank and only five minutes to convince you to sell me preferred stock in it at a 10% interest rate.” YearsInterestFiveMinutesSellsInvestmentRateConvinceFive MinutesInterest RatePreferred Stock Author:Warren Buffett