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“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

Should Years Country Seems School Humanity Difficult Challenges Achieve Crime Buddhism Politician Rate Pace Should I Governing School System Crime Rates Symbiosis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”

Long War Jobs America Left Term Taxes Office Percent Gains Rate Long Term Elders Capital Gains

Author:Andrew Tobias

“The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.”

People Reason Gone Percent Rate Quitting Unemployment Discouraged Recessions Unemployment Rate

Author:Jim Talent

“I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.”

Thinking One Thing Serious Ten Rate Folds Realised

Author:Tinie Tempah

“I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets.”

Littles Interest Lows Rate Financial Spread Aids Income Loan Interest Rate Brackets Repayment Financial Aid

Author:Charles M. Vest

“On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.”

Should Hands Economic Policy Fairs Argument Raises Rate Faster Not Fair Tuition

Author:Charles M. Vest

“Small businesses are seeing huge rate increases every year, and more and more of them are saying they just can't afford to provide coverage. That's part of the reason more than 45 million Americans are now uninsured.”

Years Reason Millions Seeing Huge Increase Rate Small Business Coverage

Author:Greg Walden

“Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt.”

Stills Interest Rate Debt Corporate These Days Borrowing Interest Rate

Author:Thomas Frank

“If the kundalini is flowing through you at a very rapid rate, if you are not in harmony with the dharma, then you will have great problems with the study.”

Ifs Problem Study Buddhism Harmony Rate Rapids Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We have a body, but we also have a subtle body, a body of energy that looks like our physical body. The subtle physical body is made up of energy, of light that vibrates at a very high rate so the human physical eyes can't see it.”

Humans Looks Made Body Light Eye Energy Buddhism Rate Subtle Physical Body Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate.”

Body Growth Buddhism Structure Rate Factors

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.”

Universe Awareness Buddhism Evolution Method Structure Rate Determine

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.”

Christian America Rate Christian Inspirational Symbols Eagles Vulture

Author:Vance Havner

“The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]”

“At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.”

World Needs Helping Rate Focused Clients Interconnected Rate Of Change Interconnected World

Author:Mike McGavick

“The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest level of analytics and information to solve problems for our clients.”

Problem Levels Company Information Demand Highest Innovation Rate Solve Clients Spectrum Analytics Rate Of Change

Author:Mike McGavick

“If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.”

Ifs Reality Jobs Loses Company Rate

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.”

Years Stills Two Together Band Thirds Rate Poison Two Years

Author:Bret Michaels

“My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.”

My Own Taxes Lows Rate Executives Governors

Author:Jack Markell

“I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.”

Persons Jobs Situation Calling Percent Rate Seeking Genuine Opening Employment Unemployment

Book:Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

Source: Public Economics: Selected Papers by William Vickrey

“The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.”

Fall Interest Worst Particular Lows Deserve Rate Financial Credit Administration Panic Household Phases Housing Empowered Mortgage Interest Rate

Author:Mark Zandi

“There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.”

Way Hard Helping Records Lows Advantage Rate Fixed Payment Better Ways Mortgage Homeowners Buoys Mortgage Rate

Author:Mark Zandi

“If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Feelings Memories Loss Struggle Meditation Willing Rate Corruption Settling Abundance Vague Dissatisfaction Provocative Zimbabwe Specifics

Author:Jabari Asim

“Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access.”

Quality Rate Access

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.”

Source: First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently

“The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead; ask about the scale of their dreams - their Apple-, Google-, Amazon-scale dreams - how they measure their progress toward those dreams, and what resources they need to make them come true, regardless of what the overhead is.”

Needs Dream Next Asks Progress Resources Charity Rate Scales Apples Google Next Time Amazon Overhead

Author:Dan Pallotta

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

People World Years Littles Kids Bits Difficult Term Stage Succeed Little Bit Lows Rate Starting Like Me

Author:Daley Thompson

“After awhile size means nothing. It gets back to whether you're making 100% rate of return on 10k or 100 million dollars. It doesn't make any difference.”

Mean Differences Millions Return Dollars Rate Size Get Back Million Dollars

Author:Paul Tudor Jones

“Once you've been committed to a mental institution you're considered a second-rate citizen from then on and retroactive.”

Citizens Institutions Rate Committed Second Rate

Book:Counterclockwise

Source: Counterclockwise

“Believe it or not, I have about the same success rate as anyone else. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss.”

Believe Sometimes Missing Rate

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.”

Ifs Needs Study Crime Flower Development Areas Garden Victim Green Plant Rate Psychological Torture Proven End Times Spend Time Psychological Development

Author:Jane Goodall

“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.”

Firsts Energy Pay Company Share Industry Higher Taxes Percent Fairs Rate Currents Oil Debate Despite Gas Fair Share Oil And Gas

Author:John S. Watson

“In fact, the recent increase in intra-firm trading enables businesses to shift their activities across borders smoothly, thereby strengthening the response of economic activity to exchange rate movements in the long run.”

Long Facts Running Economic Movement Activity Increase Response Rate Firm Borders Long Runs Trading Strengthening

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change.”

Increase Impact Structure Aging Rate Population Immigration Reaching Fertility Aging Population

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.”

Should Interest Policy Perception Rate Bounds Spite Zero Monetary Interest Rate Central Banks Avert Monetary Policy Deflation

Author:Toshihiko Fukui

“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

“And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.”

Strong Interest Results Produce Lows Rate Investors Very Strong Recessions Interest Rate Mae

Author:Franklin Raines

“And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.”

Ifs Interest Economy Danger Industry Rate Housing Interest Rate

Author:Franklin Raines

“And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.”

Increase Rate Careful Be Careful Provoking Stimulus

Author:Franklin Raines

“Right now the long-term investors are telling us that they're not as concerned about inflation and so we're seeing these rates now move into the marketplace and out to the street - rates that individuals can get.”

Long Moving Individual Term Economy Seeing Streets Right Now Concerned Rate Long Term Investors Inflation Marketplace

Author:Franklin Raines

“They flooded liquidity in the marketplace but the mortgage rate is based much more on expectations of inflation. So if the average investor believes that there is inflation coming, they'll move that rate up.”

Ifs Believe Moving Expectations Rate Average Investors Inflation Marketplace Mortgage Liquidity Mortgage Rate

Author:Franklin Raines

“Well, I think as long as people are talking about stimulus, I think the Fed will be thinking about cutting rates because monetary policy is the better way to go because you can turn it on and turn it off.”

People Thinking Way Wells Long Turns Talking Economy Cutting Policy Rate Feds Stimulus Better Ways Monetary Monetary Policy

Author:Franklin Raines

“Now, wages in the automobile industry are made up of two components, what we call base rates and the cost of living factor which is fed in by the operation of the escalator.”

Made Two Industry Cost Rate Factors Operations Feds Wages Components Automobile Cost Of Living Escalators Automobile Industry

Author:Leonard Woodcock

“The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.”

Thinking Long Social Change Danger Standing Rate Determined Speed Experts Customs Pace Speeding Cultural Change Speeding Up

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“By any reasonable standard of proof, the combination of human epidemiology and track-analysis demonstrates that there is no threshold dose or dose-rate below which "repair" invariably prevents health harm.”

Humans Danger Standards Rate Track Harm Proof Nuclear Combination Analysis Reasonable Threshold Dose Epidemiology

Author:John Gofman

“How can it be other than right to worship the Body of the Lord, all-holy and all-reverend as it is, announced as it was by the archangel Gabriel, formed by the Holy Spirit, and made the Vesture of the Word? It was at any rate a bodily hand that the Word stretched out to raise her that was sick of a fever (Mk. 1:31): a human voice that He uttered to raise Lazarus - the dead (Jn. 11:43); and, once again, stretching out His hands upon the Cross, He overthrew the prince of the power of the air, that now works (Eph. 2:2) in the sons of disobedience, and made the way clear for us into the heavens.”

“NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000!”

Years Increase Rate Cancer Mortality Anticipate Decrease Chemotherapy

Author:Samuel Epstein

“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

“Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.”

Position Students Succeed Rate University Bars Grades Passages Qualified

Author:Mary Kissel

“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

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