#var

Families homeschool for different reasons, in unique situations, using a variety of methods. ↗

— Lisa Whelchel

#different reasons #families #methods #reasons #situations

Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#benefits #businesses #care #compensation #costs

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#actually #am #doing #encouraged #fundamentals

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety. ↗

— Ken Wilber

#i #most #nice #nice guy #our

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#envy #every #home #pride

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #barrier #becoming #dominated #evolving

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#exceed #exceeds #genes #life #likely

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#before #chemistry #department #faculty #father

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#acquire #cases #closely #diversity #drew