quotes about Contemporary Society

“I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.”

“. . . the fact that [English] has shed most of the old grammatical forms which time has rendered useless and scarcely intelligible, has made English a model, pointing the way which must be followed in building the Interlanguage. . .”

“I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.”

Source : "Quiz Show". 1994.

“You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.”

Source : "Online Extra: At Costco, "Good Jobs and Good Wages"". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. May 31, 2004.

“I refuse to sit on my laurels.”

“As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape of the sun and the moon, they're circles, so every time you see a circular thing, there's pi embedded in it.”

“Hopefully, with some years of practice and just getting to that state, I'll try extreme sports again.”

“The Israeli strategy has been proven to be a complete failure.”

“Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”