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• If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter.

  Itzhak Bentov

  Fashion, Brain, Body

  Itzhak Bentov (1988). “Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Creativity, Creative

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• We are looking for ways to decrease the dropout rate. I am pretty sure, if we eliminate career and technical education, we are going to increase the dropout rate.

  Michael Enzi

  Careers, Way, Quitting

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• We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

  Nina Fedoroff

  People, Support, Growth

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• As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate.

  Malcolm Potts

  Fall, People, Abortion

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• The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

  Steve Gleason

  Games, Nfl, Brain

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• We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Order, Decay, Faces

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• The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production.

  Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

  Oil, Risk, Arabia

  "Forecast of Rising Oil Demand Challenges Tired Saudi Fields" by Jeff Gerth, www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2004.

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• By analyzing data from Greenwich Observatory in the period 1836-1953, John A. Eddy [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and High Altitude Observatory in Boulder] and Aram A. Boornazian [mathematician with S. Ross and Co. in Boston] have found evidence that the sun has been contracting about 0.1% per century during that time, corresponding to a shrinkage rate of about 5 feet per hour. And digging deep into historical records, Eddy has found 400-year-old eclipse observations that are consistent with such a shrinkage.

  Jonathan Sarfati

  Years, Data, Feet

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• If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.

  John Ciardi

  Writing, Mean, Men

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• I'm not saying that people should not divorce, but at the rate at which it happens here is sick. The kids, they suffer. I don't care what anyone says.

  Eric Braeden

  Kids, Divorce, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Men

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.5186, Delphi Classics

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• At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

  William John Wills

  Girl, Education, Art

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.71, London : R. Bentley

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• Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

  David Stockman

  Horse, Trojans, Trojan Horse

  "The Education of David Stockman" by William Greider, www.theatlantic.com. December 1981.

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• Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

  Bruce Oldfield

  Cutting, Accepting, Corners

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• Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Blood, Pulse, Energy

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business.

  Andrew Mellon

  Taxation, Pressure, Taxpayers

  Andrew W. Mellon (2016). “Taxation: The People’s Business”, p.8, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Change, Years, Language

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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• The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites.

  William Weld

  Unemployment, Stills, Unemployment Rate

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• Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck.

  Donald Horne

  Running, Country, Australia

  Donald Horne (1981). “Winner take all?”

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• One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

  George Saintsbury

  Names, Two, Lateness

  George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.11, tredition

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• Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

  Richard Louv

  Emotional, Community, Attention

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.36, Algonquin Books

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• A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Soldier, Biographies

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• Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Children, Mean, People

  "Edie: Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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