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  • HARRY DRESDEN"?WIZARD Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Parties, or Other Entertainment -- Jim Butcher
  • Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
  • I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. -- Barbara Lee
  • The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. -- Thomas Sowell
  • Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. -- Jeb Bush
  • There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis. -- Emily Oster
  • People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. -- Elton John
  • Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts. -- Angela Merkel
  • Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. -- Darell Hammond
  • Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens. -- Susan Estrich
  • Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. -- Shashi Tharoor
  • We have one of the highest interest rates in the world, and we owe more money per capita than any other country. All we need is a nail hole in the bottom of the boat and we're sunk. -- Pauline Hanson
  • Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. -- Michael Ende
  • If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important. -- Steven Pinker
  • There's even an aircraft sensor system that sends down hundreds of thousands of pulses of light measured at different return rates. It allows you to literally strip away vegetation and see entire cities beneath the rain forest canopy. This is the unbelievable future of archaeology. -- Sarah Parcak
  • It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. -- Florence Kelley
  • Older fatherhood isn't all bad: testosterone rates drop about 1% per year as men age, making them less reactive and more patient, and a professionally established middle-aged man is likely to have more time and money to devote to his kids than a twenty-something who's just getting started. -- Jeffrey Kluger
  • I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors. -- Najib Razak
  • Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon. -- Peer Steinbruck
  • I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • The reality is that business and investment spending are the true leading indicators of the economy and the stock market. If you want to know where the stock market is headed, forget about consumer spending and retail sales figures. Look to business spending, price inflation, interest rates, and productivity gains. -- Mark Skousen
  • The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems. -- David Malpass
  • Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. -- Alex Tabarrok
  • The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
  • I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
  • I mean, I'm a conservative. I believe that, you know, if you borrow too much, you just build up debts for your children to pay off. You put pressure on interest rates. You put at risk your economy. That's the case in Britain. We're not a reserve currency, so we need to get on and deal with this issue. -- David Cameron
  • We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers. -- Herman Cain
  • Taigs don't pay rates. -- Sammy Wilson
  • Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%. -- Greg Walden
  • Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates. -- Shawn Achor
  • Most savings rates are based on underlying interest rates. -- Martin Lewis
  • Interest rates are used to achieve overall economic stability. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility. -- Leon Black
  • Everybody will have lower rates, better quality, and better access. -- Nancy Pelosi
  • The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates. -- Seth Klarman
  • Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases. -- Ben Shapiro
  • Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • High interest rates focus on the revenue of a parasitic class. -- Linda McQuaig
  • We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
  • Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. -- Steve Irwin
  • America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view. -- Jim Ratcliffe
  • Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary. -- Thomas W. Horton
  • If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded. -- Robert Kuttner
  • Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double. -- Chaka Fattah
  • Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. -- Elizabeth Warren
  • After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal. -- Anibal Cavaco Silva
  • The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment -- Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks. -- Robert Hughes
  • When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers. -- Niall Ferguson
  • If we get kids eating right, we could decrease cancer rates by 90 percent. -- Joel Fuhrman
  • A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue. -- W. H. Auden
  • We are all are equal, but some pay higher tax rates than others. -- Jeff Rich
  • The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business. -- Pauline Hanson
  • Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase. -- John Kline
  • High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue. -- Cedric Richmond
  • Multimillionaires cannot pay lower rates than their secretaries and other people working for them. -- Hillary Clinton
  • It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up. -- Bill Gross
  • Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. -- Barack Obama
  • The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes. -- Bob Beauprez
  • Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates. -- Timothy Noah
  • At 1970 rates of production, Canada's reserves represent 923 years supply for oil and 392 years for gas -- Joe Greene
  • If inflation-adjusted interest rates decline in a given country, its currency is likely to decline. -- Ray Dalio
  • And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise. -- Franklin Raines
  • Tax rates should never be raised in some brackets without being raised in all brackets. -- Bradley A. Smith
  • Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry
  • Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry
  • You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion. -- George P. Shultz
  • An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits -- John F. Kennedy
  • There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers -- Lindsey Graham
  • You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax. -- Nick Clegg
  • The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country. -- Leona Lewis
  • Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates. -- Greg Walden
  • Time is priceless. Spend it with people you have high value and energy exchange rates with. -- Amy Jo Martin
  • The way I choose to live my own life rates time and space as real luxuries. -- Ben Elliot
  • Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years? -- Jared Diamond
  • Those who want luxury cars should buy them at market rates and not ... abuse public funds. -- Gideon Gono
  • Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans -- Dean Cavanagh
  • The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates -- H. Bentley Glass
  • It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. -- Ernst Mayr
  • If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that. -- Janet Yellen
  • Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. -- Thomas Sowell
  • There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children -- Amartya Sen
  • The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. -- Mark Millar
  • When you invest in high-quality brands, it pays off with high-quality audiences and, ultimately, high-quality advertising rates. -- Jim Bankoff
  • Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. -- Marek Belka
  • The Colombian economy is very strong. We have one of the highest rates of growth in Latin America. -- Juan Manuel Santos
  • The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. -- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
  • Or is it the mind state that's ill, creating crime rates to fill the new prisons the build -- Talib Kweli
  • Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. -- Archie Kalokerinos
  • Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed. -- John Hull
  • I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows -- Paul Taylor
  • In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections. -- Barack Obama
  • NCI now actually anticipates further increases, and not decreases, in cancer mortality rates, from 171/100,000 in 1984 to 175/100,000 by the year 2000! -- Samuel Epstein
  • If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts. -- Patrick McHenry
  • There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty. -- Cedric Richmond
  • If gun control bore any relation to homicide rates, Washington, DC would be the safest place in the country. -- Mark Steyn
  • Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable. -- Jane Bryant Quinn
  • The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced -- Jeremy Paxman
  • You can increase conversion rates and return on investment (ROI) by several times by making PPC landing pages extremely relevant. -- Brian Halligan
  • Despite the deep reforms we are making, traders and speculators have forced interest rates on Greek bonds to record highs. -- George Papandreou
  • Every specific tax, as well as the nation's whole tax system, becomes self-defeating above a certain height of the rates. -- Ludwig von Mises
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  • Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. -- Josh Billings
  • Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that. -- Renee Montagne
  • If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer. -- Randolph M. Nesse
  • The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about. -- Ray Dalio
  • Each money-printing exercise brings about unintended consequences. These unintended consequences are higher inflation rates than had no money been printed. -- Marc Faber
  • Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. -- Bill Gates
  • If you look at sentencing in America, African-Americans and Latinos get sentenced for the same crimes at very different rates. -- Tim Kaine
  • I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature, -- Sung Won Sohn
  • I'm here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn't make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration. -- Kevin Drum
  • I would support eliminating certain tax breaks that are not economically justifiable if they are offset with reductions in tax rates. -- Jason Chaffetz
  • The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. -- Lois Capps
  • I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families. -- Scott Howell
  • Declining welfare rolls and increasing work participation rates demonstrate that Missouri is moving people away from welfare dependency and into jobs. -- Mel Carnahan
  • Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates. -- Ron Wyden
  • We know from hard research that educated populations have lower growth rates, are more peaceful, and add to the global economy. -- Peter Diamandis
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