Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.
The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.
If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
G.D.P. is not a measure of how much value is produced for consumers. Everybody should recognize that G.D.P. is not a welfare metric.
In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!
We never did a lot of weights, but a lot of repetitions. The most I would use doing squats was 300 pounds.
I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
In your mid-20s, you think you'll go on for eternity. Then a point comes where you realise that's not going to be the case.
It's rare enough as an older generation player that you're 100% fit - there's always something niggling.
Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
I used to trapshoot. I was actually a junior national champion. My parents are trapshooters, so I'm more into target stuff.
I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.
It will be said, however, that protection tends to destroy commerce, the civilizer of mankind. Directly the reverse, however, is the fact.
