“We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth -- one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.” PeopleCareEarthThreeJusticeFiveFourTalentSkillsTrainingPercentHundredResourcesEnglandTwentiesWestIncludingLawyerMedicalNot SureGermanyJapanConcentrationOne TimeThree TimesNinetyTwenty OneMedical CareWest Germany Author:Jimmy Carter
“The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years ago.” YearsFirstsLawChurchModernHundredYears AgoOrganizationCatholicStructureWestEightCatholic ChurchCanon Author:Peter Drucker
“In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.” ThinkingWayMeanPersonsStoriesHeavenSidesWhiteWatchesSingingHundredRainAnd LoveTheaterWestMusicalAlbumsWizardsPottersGood PersonPenniesDetectivesMusical TheaterWest SideSondheimWest Side StoryWhite ChristmasSinging In The Rain Author:James Ponsoldt
“I think whenever you're around Kanye [West], you gotta take notes. The advice is taking notes, because everything he does and everything he says is very detailed and very up front. He's always one hundred what he says.” ThinkingDoeAdviceFrontsHundredNotesWest Author:Tyga
“From some tiny portion of the wealth the west accumulated in a hundred years of filling the atmosphere with carbon.” YearsWealthHundredWestTinyAtmospherePortionsCarbonFilling Author:Bill McKibben
“You know, Russia today is, what, 200 million people? In land mass, it's probably 50 times the size [of Japan], in natural resources a hundred times the size! Russia's not doing all that badly. The public there - not everybody - but they have things that the West offered, [that] were only available in the West a long time ago.” PeopleKnowsLongTodayNaturalMillionsLandMassLong TimeHundredResourcesWestSizeAvailableRussiaJapanLong Time AgoNatural Resources Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.” MenYearsHumansWellsMadeHardEnoughEffortPersonalityCostIllusionHundredYogaIndiaWestRoundsAncientTechniqueBuddhistThreadTextureMerryOnionsMerry Go RoundUnmasking Book:Steppenwolf: A Novel Source: Steppenwolf: A Novel
“Some Westerners […] have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.” YearsDoeProblemHundredWestIslamViolentExtremistFourteenIslamistsWesternersClash Of Civilizations Book:The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Source: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering a land already populated by indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. Columbus discovered America.” PeopleTwoAmericaLandCenturyCivilizationOceanHundredBlueWestCreditCommunistDiscoveringNinetyIndigenousFourteenColumbusIndigenous PeopleWest Indies Author:Jon Stewart