“It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.” Has BeensStatesCausesUnitedUnited StatesModernPercentIncreaseMereInvestmentAbsenceProductivityWornEquipmentMachineryAnnualsWorn OutSubstitution Book:Political Econ of Growth Source: Political Econ of Growth
“The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not democratic. And it will fall just like communism fell. The richest 1 percent now own 50 percent of the wealth. It didn't use to be that way. The average CEO 20 years ago made 20 times as much as the average employee. Now they make 212 times as much.” WorldWayYearsMadeStatesUseAmericaFallEvilWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomicModernPercentFairsYears AgoDemocraticAverageCommunismEmployeeEmpiresCeoModern WorldEconomic SystemsNot FairUse To Be Author:Michael Moore
“Oil is essential for a modern, industrial society. It's unique, first of all, because it's the primary source, at 40 percent, of the world's entire supply of energy, and it's irreplaceable in the transportation field; it provides 98 percent of world transportation energy.” WorldFirstsEnergyModernFieldsSourceEssentialsUniquePercentOilPrimariesTransportationIrreplaceablePrimary Source Author:Michael Klare
“When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.” IfsWayTryingPlayCharacterImpossibleModernNormalPercentGravityJeansCostumesDiminishLarger Than LifeCenter Of Gravity Author:Ray Stevenson
“My wife and I have been together for 11 years, and seven of those married. We got married on 07/07/07. We support each other 150 percent. We have fun. We are a modern-day Sonny & Cher. I don't sing. My wife sings. We're so different, but so alike. We got that ying and yang thing going on. You see it, but you don't know how it works.” KnowsYearsHas BeensDifferentTogetherFunSupportKnow HowWifeModernMarriedPercentSevenMy WifeHaving FunModern DayYangYing And Yang Author:J. B. Smoove
“I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it.” ModernProvePercentConceptsMedicineWesternPhysicsWhy NotEnergeticModern PhysicsWestern Medicine Author:Deborah King
“Modern love is the enterprise that everyone wants to be a part of, yet there's a fifty percent divorce rate in round one and a sixty-five percent divorce rate in round two.” WantTwoLove IsFiveModernPercentRateRoundsDivorceFiftyEnterpriseSixtyDivorce RatesModern Love Author:Esther Perel