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past years prison-population
The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott
past times-past age
I am 46, and have been for some time past. Anita Brookner
past people digital-marketing
It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future. Clay Shirky
past data make-sense
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? Clayton Christensen
past leader risk
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.
past illusion ability
The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future. Daniel Kahneman
past progress get-better
One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.
past ideas ease
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.
past intuition
I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.
two feet west
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east... Aldous Huxley
two challenges majority
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. E. O. Wilson
two doubt progress
No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous— Almost, at times, the Fool. T. S. Eliot
two creative minorities
Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony. Susan Sontag
two world extinction
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
two people female
The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.
two killers gorgeous
Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous Scott Westerfeld
two cigar two-things
There are two things worth living for, one is a good cigar, the other is a better one. Raul Julia
two car would-be
I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car. Ratan Tata
use bother
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them. Ang Lee
use-it-or-lose-it physical-therapist virgins
Is it true that if you don’t USE it you LOSE it? Steve Carell
useless get-up lumps
Get up, you useless lump, get up! J. K. Rowling
useless
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work. Milton Friedman
use revelations structure
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. Philip Glass
use safe sticks
You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick. Terry Pratchett
use teach mines
Once you teach me something, it's mine to use. Terry Goodkind
use force ifs
If there is no willingness to use force to defend civil society, it's civil society that goes away, not force. Teresa Nielsen Hayden
use shows
You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right. Randall Munroe