#read

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order. ↗

— Tony Blair

#contagion #crave #economies #ever #fall

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. ↗

— Jeff Bingaman

#am #beyond #case #far #goes

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. ↗

— Alan Davies

#buy #four #friend #great #hundred

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#book #depends #experience #feeds #great

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#australia #care #dementia #leader #research

We are already seeing older people wanting greater choice in how, when and where they receive care. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#care #choice #greater #how #older

Here is my general approach to the energy companies. You have already charged the utilities a 50 percent credit penalty for the power they were buying from you. You're charging us a penalty. You're not going to get two bites of the apple here. ↗

— Gray Davis

#apple #approach #bites #buying #charged

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#allowed #back #childhood #fact #frogs

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. ↗

— Len Dawson

#catch #condition #essentially #improved #incurable