The United States is the richest and also the most unequal country in the world.
Alissa Quart
Recitation: by Male by Female
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
Jean Piaget
KnowledgeHistoryMomentPastMore
I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.
Stephen Hough
TimeHotelTelevisionTryWrite
Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
Tom Holt
CarLuckPushYouOnlyLike
We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.
Rita Hayworth
DestinyWayOurOurselvesTied
I often think of setting as an important character in my story. 'Dark Powers' takes place in Doncaster, a Maryland Eastern Shore community rich with watermen and historic atmosphere. I modeled it after a stunning little town called St. Michaels, but since a lot of bad things happen in Doncaster, I changed the name.
Ruth Glick
CharacterCommunityStoryThinkName
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
Moby
BestWordsCareerWholeOddPattern
Bowdoin was the first place that I fell in love with. When I visited, I just had never been to a place with that many resources and that much access to information. That was stuff that you saw in movies. I didn't know that existed in real life.
DeRay Mckesson
LifeLoveYouInformationPlace
We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.
Donella Meadows
LiveFoodSpeakStopAnimalsDead
The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
Boris Becker
HeartJobI AmNiceWhoVery
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
William Scranton
PowerPlantDrawingUsLikeKnew
The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson
ScienceChaosControlMoreAbstract
I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.
Sean Connery
ThinkPrivilegeDifficultJustMost
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