#rates

Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#biology #breakthrough #connected #exaggerates #explore

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62. ↗

— Marc Davis

#direction #done #early #early sixties #find

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ↗

— Doug Larson

#friend #overlooks #success #tolerates #true

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. ↗

— Socrates

#excellence #plato #socrates #trial #wealth

The aging and declining population will have far-reaching impacts. Declining fertility rates will possibly increase immigration. The structure of family and society will inevitably change. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#change #declining #family #far-reaching #fertility

The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#care #country #damages #demands #effect

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#budget #clean #come #costs #day

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On crime, you have all the major American cities where the crime rates at different points in their histories, have spiked dramatically. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#american cities #cities #corruption #country #crime

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#believe #delight #demonstrates #having #leads

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#desperately #i #longer #monotonous #nothing