"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
I understand that Earth weighs 81 times as much as the moon. I wonder how they tested the scales?
What would it be worth to reduce absence from school by half?
In one trial, there was a 51% reduction in absence due to illness by having kids wash their hands upon arriving at school, before and after eating lunch, and before leaving to go home.
It is not true that President Clinton doesn't have a post-Cold War foreign policy:
It is not true that the standard of living (mean real income)has dropped...however, the rate of increase has slowed. Real personal income adjusted for inflation:
1960's, +4.0%...1970's, +2.5%...1980's, +1.8%...1990's so far, +.7%
Although there has been a slowdown in productivity growth, it is possible that the government statisticians have been underestimating both productivity and income and that inflation may have been systematically overstated.
--See "Publius" [Yardeni] in "Federalist Paper #89"
Unfortunately the perception of stagnation or loss is widespread...perhaps due to the more expensive gadgets we are buying...and are real to someone who had to take a lower paying job after a layoff/downsizing.
As one person was told, "you'll still have a seven figure income--but the two numbers after the decimal are included now."
The number of lawbreakers goes up in direct proportion to the number of laws enacted--Lao-Tse
American equivalent: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
What is more important to your life than being able to see? Glasses are expensive. Why don't we recycle used eyeglasses? US Federal law prohibits it. Credit lobbies.
When asked what articles of clothing men consider essential, 62% said a business suit. 82% said jeans. You're suprised! About suits? or jeans?
Keeping Score? In 1995 personal computers outsold TV sets in the US for the first time.
U.S. fourth graders read better than any country's children except Sweden and Finland according to an international study conducted in 1992. Why do politicians perpetuate the myth of public school failure? What is the hidden agenda? $ for private schools? --San Francisco Chronicle, 6/18/96, p. A5.
Following the first round of Russian presidential election:
"Boris, there is bad news. Your opponent, Zyuganov, got 65% of the votes!"
"But there is good news, too. You got 75%!"
"So the world will last--we must give back as much as we take--plus a little more to make up for when we didn't know." (author unknown)
Remember, one-half of all MDs graduated in the bottom half of their class.
You never heard of Irian Jaya? The new name for New Guinea.
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." --Noelie Altito
On Indicators: "Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet." --Labor Secretary Robert Reich [4' 10" tall]
On Wall Street Week 5/3/96 after a bad market day reacting to a good economic report:
Mary Farrell: "...we go back and revise these economic numbers over and over again...."
Louis Rukeyser: "What do you think of the wisdom of people who take one week's economic reports and change their investment philosophy?"
Mary Farrell: "If you look at the history, its not even just one revision...they benchmark revise four years back. Not only don't we know where we're going, we don't know where we are or where we have been!"
According to a press release 5/3/96, in a national poll 50% of men and 35% of women couldn't recognize the word melanoma. If this many Americans aren't aware of the most deadly form of cancer, how can the public expect every high school graduate to know details of anything?
Mark Twain on lessons learned: "A cat that sits on a hot stove won't sit on a hot stove again--or a cold one either."
"Every time you think you've discovered the key to the [stock] market--some SOB changes the lock." G M Loeb
Pat Buchanan: "How long will I continue to fight?" "We'll fight until hell freezes over--and then we'll continue to fight on the ice."
Robert Reich: "There are only two kinds of people who predict the [stock] market on a day-to-day basis. Those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know."