#rates

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#child #clothes #developed #eight #even

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

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#already #associated #both #communities #crop

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies

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

The scanning of barcodes, or the reading of RFID transponders, generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information. ↗

— Mike Marsh

#data #generates #information #management #package

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#lot #love #loves #moderates #much