Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it.

Karen Joy Fowler

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

Edward F. Halifax

Life is a Dance.

Roger W Hancock

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Adlai E. Stevenson

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Frank Zappa

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game. Kentucky gone, we can not hold Missouri, nor, as I think, Maryland.

Abraham Lincoln

There are no projects per se in the Computing Sciences Research Center.

Ken Thompson

The attitude of independence toward a constructed language which all national speakers must adopt is really a great advantage, because it tends to make man see himself as the master of language instead of its obedient servant.

Edward Sapir