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• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  Garrett Hardin

  Taken, Growth, Population

  Garrett James Hardin (1972). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”, Viking Adult

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forever, Expanding, Observation

  "10 Questions for Stephen Hawking". Time Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I'm an eternal realist and the success rate for being an actor is pretty low.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Actors, Realist, Lows

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• I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Evolution, Process, Exception

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• Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Science, Men, Common Sense

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1887). “The "Breakfast-table" Series: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table; The Professor at the Breakfast- Table; The Poet at the Breakfast- Table”

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• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  Randy Houser

  Change, Believe, School

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• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  Sam Houston

  Men, Second Chance, Texas

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• In tough economic times, desperate people do desperate things, and the abortion rate goes up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Tough Economic Times, People, Abortion

  Interview With Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2009.

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• Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

  William James

  Believe, Science, Two

  William James (2013). “Pragmatism: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.

  Steve Jobs

  Technology, Simple, Numbers

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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• People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

  Elton John

  Sadness, People, Political

  "Elton John: 'There's A Lot Of Hate In The World'". Interview With Dotson Rader, parade.com. February 17, 2010.

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• My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Children, Average, Poverty

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• Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Kids, Men, Years

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• The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in which complacency is virtually absent.

  John P. Kotter

  Mean, Anxiety, Doe

  John P. Kotter (2013). “Leading Change, With a New Preface by the Author”, p.130, Harvard Business Press

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• The loyalty rate isn't that high. I could have a big hit, then put out the next single, and they say, Oh yeah, who are you? Prove it again.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Loyalty, Next, Yeah

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• And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

  Arthur Laffer

  Government, Done, Too Much

  "The Journal Editorial Report", www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2010.

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• It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

  Arthur Laffer

  Cutting, Economy, Increase

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Success, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Rays

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• If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.

  Spike Lee

  Men, Drug, Black

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• What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Inspirational, Needs

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Historical, Audio, Mimicry

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