#ago

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#disappeared #earth #ever #face #quarrelsome

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#colleagues #consider #cult #find #had

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know? ↗

— Fisher Stevens

#being #chicago #cold #cranky #day

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#crowd #else #everybody #everybody else #fascinating

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#belly #better #candidacy #clear #fast

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#ago #died #faith #family #father

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price. ↗

— George Stigler

#came #chicago #conditions #dispersion #economic

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. ↗

— George Stigler

#graduate #i #main #received #training