#earlier

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China. ↗

— Steve Forbes

#another #century #challenge #china #cost

So maybe there are three parts in my life - earlier background living in exile in Xinjiang in a very political circumstance, then later the United States from 24 to 36 years old. I was quite equipped with liberal thinking. Then the Internet. If there is no Internet, of course, I cannot really exercise my opinion or my ideas. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#cannot #circumstance #course #earlier #equipped

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

#dropped #earlier #had #i #interest

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#earlier #expressed #individual #many #miracles

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

#aside #assist #casting #complicated #developments

One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low. ↗

— John Hull

#concerns #earlier #extreme #fat #i

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#american #association #become #begins #conducted

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work. ↗

— Robert Caro

#chapter #coming #earlier #end #excited

I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#bloomer #earlier #i #i always #later

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#co-operation #earlier #extraordinary #i #mentioned