#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

With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county. ↗

— Bob Filner

#county #health #health care #health care system #integrated

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 society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

Star quality is one of the most difficult things to describe. It emanates from the person, and he may not even understand it himself. It's a quality that separates the star from the rest of us. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#difficult #difficult things #even #himself #may

The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year go back to where they were under Bill Clinton. That is the dispute about the taxes. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#above #back #bill #bill clinton #clinton

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#crazy #lack #little #make #you

Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#citizens #classes #constitution #knows #neither

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#basic #believe #broad #desire #everyone