“A hundred years ago, of course, the question that the German Composers' Co-operative asked itself sounded a lot more fundamental: How do you create a fair share for those who ensure that works can actually be performed at all?” YearsCoursesShareHundredFairsYears AgoFundamentalsComposerFair Share Author:Johannes Rau
“Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.” YearsOrderShareYears AgoLettersBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Sam Wyly
“There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.” YearsRememberShareCoupleSolutionsYears AgoCongressMillionaireRecessions Author:Jay Leno
“Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.” ThinkingWayYearsImportantEnoughStoriesMillionsShareYears AgoSpeciesCampfire Author:John Daly
“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.” YearsLongRememberNextTermHalfCompanyShareMonthsSixYears AgoFundamentalsSellsInvestingLong TermShockFundDozenElsewhereEmployedSix MonthsRecommendations Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.” YearsFoundCitiesShareFairsYears AgoSevenPopulationVariousKingdomsRepresentativesParliamentFair Share Book:The Public Letters of John Bright Source: The Public Letters of John Bright
“A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.” YearsLooksCompanyShareYears AgoSeekingThirtyBuyingMotivatedProfitableBargainsPropsStock Price Author:Charlie Munger
“I photograph in public and semi-public spaces that date from various epochs. These are spaces accessible to everyone. They are places where you can meet and communicate, where you can share or receive knowledge, where you can relax and recover. They are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, as of a few years ago, zoos. All of the places have a purpose, as for the most part do the things within them.” YearsPurposeWaitingChurchSpaceRoomsShareYears AgoLibraryPhotographUniversityVariousCommunicateRelaxHotelMuseumsZoosWaiting RoomsSpas Author:Candida Hofer
“The next song I wrote in Paris years ago in a dream. So I didn't really write it, the universe wrote it. And that's what I believe about music, I believe it belongs to the universe, it comes from there and it's this beautiful energy that we share that transcends normal flash existence and that we inspire each other through.” WritingYearsBelieveDreamBeautifulSongUniverseNextEnergyI BelieveExistenceShareInspireNormalYears AgoParisFlash Author:Serj Tankian
“Maybe 20 years ago, there would be an event every few months or so, maybe once a year. Now, it just seems like every week there are things happening that remind us that Bible prophecy is being fulfilled and Christ is coming. Having said that, I think that should produce in the Christians, an urgency to share their faith.” ThinkingShouldYearsSaidSeemsWould BeChristianChristWeekShareEventsProduceMonthsHappeningsYears AgoThings HappenFulfilledProphecyUrgencyBible Prophecy Author:Greg Laurie
“The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In national polls almost half of those surveyed have reported that they believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago (or less) and that man shares no common ancestor with the ape. There are similar beliefs about the Second Coming.” MenWorldYearsBelieveHumansFormBeliefUnderstandingReligiousCommonHalfShareYears AgoImpactExtraordinaryScalesEnormousUnusualAncestorFundamentalismPollsApesReligious Fundamentalism Author:Noam Chomsky
“I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.” ThinkingWayYearsKindHas BeensImportantStoriesProblemBigsFacesLinesShareInformationCitizensNewsYears AgoImpactEntertainmentCoveredTransformedEvidentRatingAmerican CitizensBig Impact Author:Al Gore
“To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.” YearsBigsShareYears AgoFilledDisappointmentDivisionSenatorsComebackIllinoisGreat HopeCandidacy Author:Paul Ryan
“If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to us. They could trace their origins back to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago, and they would share with us the universe's future. However, the surest common culture would be mathematics.” IfsYearsMadeBigsWould BeScienceCultureUniverseStarsCommonSharePlanetsFutureYears AgoIntelligentMathematicsBillionsContactAliensAtomsBangsLiving OnCommon Culture Author:Martin Rees
“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.” LifeYearsEndsFeelingsEarthFormScienceUniverseThreeStarsSunGenerationsShareDyingStudentsPlanetsPrideYears AgoCookingBillionsNineSubstanceCentsCarbonInteriorsOxygenNinetySolar SystemNinety NineNitrogen Author:George Wald