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• We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

  Jared Bernstein

  Slumps, Wages, Midst

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• The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

  Alice Rivlin

  California, Low Income, Pressure

  "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.

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• The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. ... Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. ... If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.

  Mark Thornton

  Moving, Successful, America

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• The world is progressing, the future is bright and no one can change this general trend of history. We should carry on constant propaganda among the people on the facts of world progress and the bright future ahead so that they will build their confidence in victory.

  Mao Zedong

  Peace, War, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Country, Party, Technology

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• There is a trend in the whole [U.S.] culture toward making things shorter. People have been watching too much television, and they have a television mentality. I think people really are wary of sitting in a theatre too long. They're not used to it.

  Rocco Landesman

  Thinking, Long, People

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• For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

  Mary McCarthy

  History, House, Nonchalance

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Numbers, Interesting

  "Reishi, Ling Zhi: ‘Mushrooms of Immortality’" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 4, 2012.

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• You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

  Eric Rohmer

  Know How, Knows

  "The French revolutionary". Interview with Tobias Grey, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2001.

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• The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Civilization, Parent

  "Machine to End War by Nikola Tesla as told to George Sylvester Viereck". "Liberty", www.pbs.org. February 1937.

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• Planned parenthood" in the social history of the Western countries is, indeed, a phenomenon instrin-sically related to those very changes in peoples attitudes which, on the political plane, have been causing the trend towards economic planning.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, Attitude, Parent

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• Jim Rohrbach sticks to his rules. You can learn from him and win, or ignore him and lose. It's an easy choice. He gives trend following a good name!

  Michael Covel

  Winning, Names, Giving

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• The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up.

  Mike Lazaridis

  Sorry, Keyboards, Exciting

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Don’t just follow the trend. You may have heard me say that it’s good to think in terms of the physics approach of first principles. Which is, rather than reasoning by analogy, you boil things down to the most fundamental truths you can imagine and you reason up from there.

  Elon Musk

  Thinking, Principles, Fundamentals

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• Trends come and go, but cool is forever.

  Steve Stoute

  Forever, Comes And Goes

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• I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Powerful, Data, Challenges

  "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like sympathetic vampires.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Vampire, Way, Now And Then

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• Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

  Ed Seykota

  Exercise, Moments, Responding

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• Trends become more apparent as you step further away from the chart.

  Ed Seykota

  Steps

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• I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves through the things we own. I don't believe in trends. I believe in collecting things that you connect with. We should surround ourselves with things we care about, that have meaning.

  Nate Berkus

  Believe, Home, Collecting Things

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• I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative language, which goes against the trend in fiction.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Reading, Trying, Fiction

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• My style of dressing is extremely personal. I am impressionable only to a certain extent. The rest of
  it is my personal concoction consisting of my favourite trends.

  Shraddha Kapoor

  Style, Favourite, Certain

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• Style a classic pencil skirt with on-trend prints to end the week in style.

  Lubov Azria

  Style, Skirts, Classic

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• Out of my general world-pattern-trend studies there now comes strong evidence that nothing is going to be quite so surprising and abrupt in the future history of man as the forward evolution in the educational process.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Education, Strong, Men

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• Multi- polarisation has become an inevitable trend in the process of shaping a global political pattern and has been widely welcomed by the international community as it reflects the common interests and aspiration of the overwhelming majority of countries.

  Li Peng

  Country, Community, Political

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