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“General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.”

Fall Social Class Health Rate Improvement Inequality Mortality Decline Social Inequality

Author:Michael Marmot

“Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.”

Life Heart Seems Lying Memories Loss Evolution Rate Bones Lists Resistance Familiar Immune Decrease Immune System Kidneys Weakening Arteries Filtration

Book:The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

Source: The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee

“To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.”

People War Values Interest Forget Common Business Gone Taxes Rate Radio Determined Defense Finance Corporations Witch Relevant Burned Earning Risen Whim Interest Rate Martians

Author:James Grant

“Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.”

Real Projects Percent Raises Rate China Estates Loan Financing Hong Kong Developers Bond Market

Author:James Chanos

“The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.”

Bigs Term Interest Structure Rate Worried Interest Rate Big Questions

Author:Ray Dalio

“Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.”

Stills Given Trade Dollars Rate Uncertainty Volume Sensitivity Economist Deficit Reduction Imports

Author:Martin Feldstein

“I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.”

Years Age Film Fun Path Taken Dangerous Walking Presses Rate Agents Festivals Venice Casualties Film Festivals

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.”

People Stills Rate All Time Wrestling Hart Bret Hart

Author:Owen Hart

“No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.”

Matter Challenges Issues Economic Middle Emotional Spring Happenings No Matter What Rate Critical East Middle East Palestinian Unemployment Israeli Arab Spring

Author:Abdallah II

“As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.”

Would Be America Results Poverty Benefits Universal Rate Currents Senior Over 50

Author:Steve Israel

“We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.”

Interest Rate Interest Rate

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.”

Way States Care Values Quality Program Rewards Rate Reform Efficient Volume Expanding Payment Disadvantages Medicare High Quality Minnesota Quality Care

Author:Amy Klobuchar

“I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.”

Heart Enough Home Water Land Rate Fortunate Surfing Pulse Heart Rate

Author:Ryan Kwanten