some of the best music was composed by Beethovan,but he was deaf,some of the best poetry of nature was written by Milton,but he was deaf.possible is always inside the impossible...
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development.
In this context, the current recovery in the Japanese economy is taking place in tandem with the growing interdependence with the rest of the world, particularly with the other East Asian economies.
They emphasize the viewpoint that the protracted economic stagnation in Japan derives from incomplete economic adjustments to significant changes in relative prices.
The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.
If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what.
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes excessive.
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of course they were not.
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.