#mic

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5. ↗

— Margaret Chan

#assessment #available #based #current #decided

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China. ↗

— Iris Chang

#also #child-bearing #china #country #epidemic

Your money myth affects your gain and luck. In economics, illusion of money affects wealth. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gain #illusion #luck #money #myth

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#anything #dedicated #excitement #finding #fun

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. ↗

— John Clapham

#economic #human #human progress #progress #same

Overborrowing or overlending? Lenders encourage indebtedness because it is profitable. Developing country governments are sometimes even pressured to overborrow ... Even without corruption, it is easy to be influenced by Western businessmen and financiers ... Countries that aren't sure that borrowing is worth the rist are told how important it is to establis a credit rating: borrow even if you really don't need the money. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#politics #money

The trouble is, nobody knows exactly how the world really works. We are all fallible people with limited knowledge. It is only through Biblical revelation from the One who knows how the world really works because He made it and actively sustains it that anyone can come to a competent understanding of the world. ↗

— Gary North

#christianity #economics #reconstructionism #money

I don't really think anything Microsoft does puts pressure on Apple. ↗

— Tim Cook

#apple #does #i #microsoft #pressure

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research. ↗

— Juan Cole

#accept #argument #balance #david #government

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #atomic bombs #bombs #consequence #fact