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• On a scale of one to 10, I'd rate my body confidence as a good seven. Everyone has their hang-ups, but I see my body as a training tool and I feel good about it.

  Jessica Ennis

  Feel Good, Training, Tools

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

  Frank Vincent

  Believe, Home, People

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• When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

  Michael Arad

  Army, People, Volunteer

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• There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Psychotherapy, Correlation

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?

  Lisa Edelstein

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Health, Childhood, Acting

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• General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen.

  Michael Marmot

  Fall, Health, Class

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• Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

  Jared Diamond

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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• To suppose that the value of a common stock is determined purely by a corporation's earnings discounted by the relevant interest rates and adjusted for the marginal tax rate is to forget that people have burned witches, gone to war on a whim, risen to the defense of Joseph Stalin and believed Orson Welles when he told them over the radio that the Martians had landed.

  James Grant

  Business, War, People

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• The big question is: When will the term structure of interest rates change? That's the question to be worried about.

  Ray Dalio

  Worried, Structure, Bigs

  "RAY DALIO: The US Economy Is Facing A Rare Set Of Circumstances That Will Be Bad For Markets". www.businessinsider.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Reduction, Given

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• I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Taken, Years

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• Not only was it that I surprised people by beating Bret Hart, but it was a great match. They still rate it as one of the best wrestling matches of all time.

  Owen Hart

  Wrestling, People, Hart

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• No matter what's happening in the Middle East - the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment - the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

  Abdallah II

  Spring, Emotional, Issues

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• As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

  Steve Israel

  Senior, America, Would Be

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• We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Interest, Interest Rate

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• Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Quality, Way, Reform

  "Klobuchar, Franken outline specifics on their health-care views". Interview with Cynthia Dizikes, www.minnpost.com. September 02, 2009.

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• I'm fortunate enough with the surfing to be very much at home at the water - my pulse and heart rate are slower in the water than they are on land.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Home, Heart, Land

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• Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

  Patrick McHenry

  Cutting, Generations, Taxes

  "Patrick McHenry:'All We Can Talk About Is Tax Cuts'" by Megan Slack, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 07, 2009.

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• In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Jobs, Past, Years

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• We need to be careful when we talk about cutting health care costs. They are not going to be reduced - what we really want to do is do is slow the rate of increase.

  Dave Obey

  Cutting, Needs, Cost

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• The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Views, Development, Creation

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• The distinction between the old and the new formulations consisting in the incorporation of the concept of the rate of chemical reactions is so great that it immediately asserted itself in the objective development of catalysis.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Development, Chemical Reactions, Chemicals

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Media

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