Timothy Noah Quotes

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

Timothy Noah

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Ultimately, what the tech industry really cares about is ushering in the future, but it conflates technological progress with societal progress.

Jenna Wortham

FutureProgressTechnologicalTech

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.

Andre Maurois

LoveDatingLiteratureOthersChosen

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Robert Penn Warren

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I still live in Sweden. That's my base. When I'm not working, I'm there.

Stellan Skarsgard

LiveWorkingStillSwedenBase

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Steve Wozniak

LifeDesignFindTryRealThings

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

ThinkTalkingYouRebelDownKids

Rather than numbing or drowning out the difficult-to-describe but urgently sensed feelings that are part of being human, poetry invites us to tease them out, to draw them into language that is rooted in intricate thought and strange impulse.

Tracy K. Smith

PoetryThoughtLanguageFeelingsOut

I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

Robert Capa

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The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

Rudolf Steiner

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In so many interviews, they bring up the sexual aspect of the record. I've had some journalists say it sounds like I'm lying down in bed singing with a microphone. It gets so old!

Lucinda Williams

SingingDownBedSayLyingOld

The country was not focused on terrorism before September 11th.

Louis Freeh

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Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.

Lisa Madigan

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