“How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many different peoples names appear in the New York Times each year? How many watermelons would fit inside the U.S. Capital building? What is the volume of all the human blood in the world?” WorldYearsHumansDifferentStatesNamesUnitedUnited StatesBloodNew YorkBuildingFitLogicCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningVolumeDifferent PeoplesConsumedPizzaNew York TimesOntology Author:John Allen Paulos
“As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.” MeanStatesAmericaOpportunityEnergyLostNaturalUnitedCasesUnited StatesGreaterBuildingResourcesTradeChinaDebtAccessChainsConsumptionGlobesNatural ResourcesLost OpportunityBuilding RelationshipsEnergy Consumption Author:Reince Priebus
“The criminal justice system is accurately symbolized by a large sculpture that sits at the foot of the United States attorney's building: four metal circles that interlock. The wheels of justice, as it were, frozen in legal and social gridlock.” StatesSocialJusticeUnitedUnited StatesFourFeetBuildingCriminalsCirclesWheelsMetalsFrozenSculptureAttorneyJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemGridlock Author:Jonathan Larson
“My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.” PeopleWorldNeedsLongStatesProblemEarthMovingHumanityUnitedViewsCommonResponsibilityUnited StatesEnvironmentMilitaryBuildingBenefitsCommitmentBetter OffBad PeopleSuperpowerCommon HumanityShared Responsibility Author:William J. Clinton
“The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major fighting force that could assist in defending Asia against communism. Pakistan repeatedly failed to live up to its promises to provide troops for any of the wars the United States fought against communist forces, instead using American weapons in its wars with India.” WarStatesFightingForceUnitedUnited StatesBuildingArmsPromiseMajorsWeaponsIndiaCommunismCommunistTroopsAsiaPakistan Book:Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding Source: Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
“The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.” WorldIdeasGovernmentOrderNationsUnitedStepsBuildingResourcesAimPeacefulUnited NationsWorld OrderPeaceful WorldManpower Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“We've been able to watch on our television screens sophisticated weaponry find a building; and we've seen dramatic reports from the front where Pulitzer Prize-to-be winning reporters stood up and declared, the United States is attacked, and all that.” StatesHumorAblePoliticalWinningUnitedWatchesUnited StatesFrontsTelevisionBuildingScreensDramaticReportsPrizeSophisticatedReportersStood UpPolitical HumorWeaponry Author:George W. Bush
“Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.” StatesMovingParentLossUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingBuilding Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.” FirstsStatesNationsUnitedPowerfulFictionUnited StatesTeachingBuildingToolsIraqAfghanistanVietnamInitialsVery PowerfulPhilippinesNation BuildingTeaching History Author:Miguel Syjuco
“Nothing highlights better the continuing gap between rhetoric and substance in British financial services than the failure of providers here to emulate Jack Bogle's index fund success in the United States. Every professional in the City knows that index funds should be core building blocks in any long-term investor's portfolio. Since 1976, the Vanguard index funds has produced a compound annual return of 12 percent, better than three-quarters of its peer group.” KnowsShouldLongStatesThreeTermUnitedCitiesUnited StatesGroupsBuildingReturnPercentInvestingFinancialBritishCoreBlockSubstanceLong TermFundGapsInvestorsQuartersContinuingRhetoricPeersCompoundsAnnualsHighlightsEmulateProvidersPortfoliosBuilding BlocksVanguardIndex FundsFinancial ServicesPeer Group Author:Jonathan Davis
“The spirit of Dr. [Martin Luther] King and the thousands of people he worked with set the races on a different course in the United States... In that same spirit, we must have the courage - and teach our students the courage - to be bearers to the world of this transforming love, co-creators of a more deeply human world, collaborators with Christ in the building of God's Kingdom.” PeopleWorldHumansDifferentStatesSpiritCoursesChristUnitedRaceTeachUnited StatesCourageStudentsBuildingKingsCreatorKingdomsDrsLutherTransformingCollaboratorsDr Martin Luther King Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“I hope (the United States) will change and they will now focus entirely on helping and building a stronger, better Afghanistan.” StatesHelpingChangeUnitedUnited StatesFocusBuildingStrongerAfghanistan Author:Hamid Karzai
“We must understand what our idea of wealth is. Is it just about more buildings, more machines, more cars, more of everything? More and more is death. In the most affluent societies in the world, for example in the United States of America, a significant percentage of the population is on anti-depressants on a regular basis. If you just withdraw one particular medication from the market, almost half the nation will go crazy. That is not wellbeing. Generally, an American citizen has everything that anyone would dream of.” IfsWorldIdeasStatesDreamAmericaNationsWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesCrazyCarExampleBuildingParticularCitizensMachinesBasesPopulationSignificantUnited States Of AmericaPercentagesWellbeingMedicationAmerican CitizensAffluenceAffluentDepressants Author:Jaggi Vasudev
“The sooner we switch away from carbon-based fuel and start relying on renewable energy sources available in the United States, the sooner we will grow our economy by creating the millions of new jobs that will come from retrofitting homes and businesses, building smart grids, renewable energy systems and planting trees and all the rest. We need to create a lot of jobs that can't be outsourced.” NeedsStatesHomeJobsEnergyGrowsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesEconomyTreeBuildingSourceCreatingSmartAvailableFuelCarbonRenewable EnergyNew JobGridsEnergy SourcesRenewable Energy SourcesOutsourced Author:Al Gore
“This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.” YearsMeanStatesLastsUnitedMillionsUnited StatesBuildingCreatingCapableBillionsAdministrationOppositionLast YearSheerScenariosIdentifyingTrackingOrwellianAlarmists Author:William Safire