Highly Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Highly Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.

Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain
highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality. —
Lyall Watson
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the
highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.' —
Jesse Ventura
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Reproduction is so primitive and fundamental a function of vital organisms that the mechanism by which it is assured is
highly complex and not yet clearly understood. It is not necessarily connected with sex, nor is sex necessarily connected with reproduction. —
Havelock Ellis
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Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware of yourself as a solitary creature, possessing your own particular tastes, memories, associations, beliefs. Even as it fully engages you with another mind (or maybe many other minds, if you count the characters' as well as the author's), reading remains a
highly individual act. No one will ever do it precisely the way you do. —
Wendy Lesser
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Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as
highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability —
Albert Bandura
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We do not charge an author with unpardonable ignorance because his twelfth-century characters never stop arguing about The Smiths. It is possible that the writer, having only a feeble grasp of history, really does believe that The Smiths were around in the twelfth century, or that Morrissey is such a superlative genius as to be timeless. But the fact that this occurs in a work of fiction inclines us to the charitable view that the distortion is deliberate. This is
highly convenient for poets and novelists. Literature, like an absolute monarch among his fawning courtiers, is where you can never be wrong. —
Terry Eagleton
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Much of our
highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality. —
Sigmund Freud
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Everything blurred the days following Avery's passing. Their home in Georgetown filled with mourners and well-wishers before they even had a chance to make it home from the hospital. Avery had been well-loved and
highly-respected by most everyone he came in contact with. —
Kindle Alexander
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I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that
highly intellectual game. —
Albert Einstein
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An idea is like a virus. Resilient.
Highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define ... or destroy you. —
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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No degree of prosperity could justify
the accumulation of large amounts of
highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to
make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or
even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself,
a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man.
The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man
as if people did not matter at all. —
E.F. Schumacher
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The central idea in this book is that
highly aroused, negative emotion - dysregulated emotion - is the core problem for high-conflict couples and that there are specific skills partners can learn to manage their emotions effectively, which in turn makes effective communication (accurate expression followed by understanding and validation) possible. With enough practice, conflict can be transformed into closeness and couples can achieve the closeness, friendship, intimacy, peace, and support that brings us joy and reduces our suffering. —
Alan E. Fruzzetti
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Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very
highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that. —
Jonathan Miller
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Friends range from acquaintances all the way to our best friends and beloveds. A tremendously powerful energetic love can be created from close friends who are
highly aligned. —
John Friend
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You're telling me that this teenage girl has not only escaped from your prison and evaded capture by your
highly trained military, but has now invaded your palace and the private quarters of the emperor himself, kidnapped him, and again gotten away with it?'
'Precisely correct, Your Majesty. —
Marissa Meyer
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The combination of these two trends - declining real wages and inflated asset prices - led the American middle class to use debt as a substitute of income. People lacked adequate earnings but felt wealthier. A generation of Americans grew accustomed to borrowing against their homes to finance consumption, and banks were more than happy to be their enablers. In my generation, second mortgages were considered
highly risky for homeowners. The financial industry re-branded them as home equity loans, and they became ubiquitous. Third mortgages, even riskier, were marketed as 'home equity lines of credit. —
Robert Kuttner
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I was enjoying conducting
highly charged sexual banter with you."
"As was I, although if we continue along that line, you're going to make it extremely painful for me to walk. Shall we cool down our libidos with a spot of crypt viewing? —
Katie MacAlister
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The theory of positivity teaches us to, "always look on the bright side" and to, "point out the bright side to others". However, any
highly empathic individual will know, that this mindset alienates us from other people. What connects us with other people is the ability to identify with what they are feeling and thinking, regardless of whether or not we've actually been in their place before. If you want to point someone out to the light, first you need to get into their dark cave with them, light a candle, and say, "Hey, I'm here with you and look, remember what the light feels like?" That's the kind of positivity that actually bears real change in people, in the world. —
C. JoyBell C.
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On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like Marxism, libertarianism is a utopian worldview based on an economic-determinist vision of history. Unlike Marxism, libertarianism is
highly specific in its predictions about the transition to the utopian world order, rendering it vulnerable to fact. —
Michael Lind
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What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else. It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are ... because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the
highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real thing. It is important to tell our secrets too because it makes it easier ... for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own ... —
Frederick Buechner
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Neither criticism nor praise should be
highly regarded. —
Tex Winter
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response.
Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling. —
Stephen Covey
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be
highly rated. —
Thomas Paine
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You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system including media, intellectual opinion forming magazines and the participation of the most
highly educated sections of the population. Such people ought to be referred to as "Commissars - for that is what their essential function is - to set up and maintain a system of doctrines and beliefs which will undermine independent thought and prevent a proper understanding and analysis of national and global institutions, issues, and policies". —
Noam Chomsky
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Successful people are often times
highly motivated people. —
Jon Jones
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Garret picked up his board and turned to me, waiting. And for about the hundredth time this afternoon, my stomach gave a weird little jolt. His hair shone in the sun, and his sculpted arms and shoulders were
highly noticeable without his shirt. As was the lean, tanned, washboard stomach and chest. The boy definitely worked out or did something strenuous in his free time. One did not get a body like that from sitting around. —
Julie Kagawa
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Art ... can become the direct organisation of more
highly evolved sensations. —
Guy Debord
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The creative triangle connects three dimensions: the individual, the domain (the particular symbolic system in which the individual works) and the field (other people working in the domain). So imagine, for example, a sculptor called Kate. To assess Kate's chances of becoming recognised as a
highly creative artist, we need to consider not only Kate's own talent and originality (the individual), but also the history and current state of sculpture, in particular the kind of sculpture that Kate produces (the domain), and her connections with curators, journalists, critics, art buyers and other gatekeepers (the field) who contribute to establishing who becomes recognised and celebrated. Without a knowledge of the domain, and connection with the field, Kate is unlikely to make an impact. —
David Gauntlett
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Sure, you're an intelligent and
highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in. —
Kathryn Minshew
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Consider that the simplest social interactions between two people requires performing an astonishing array of tasks: interpreting what the other person is saying; reading body language and facial expressions; smoothly taking turns talking and listening; responding to what the other person said; assessing whether you're being understood; determining whether you're well received, and, if not, figuring out how to improve or remove yourself from the situation. Think of what it takes to juggle all this at once! And that's just a one-to-one conversation. Now imagine the multitasking required in a group setting like a dinner party.
(p237) —
Susan Cain

He thinks too
highly of me, places me on a pedestal i've never deserved. —
Tahereh Mafi

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people
highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information. —
Christina Romer

We make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to
highly moral motives, rather than in examining what our motives really are. —
Joan Robinson

Bombay, you will be told, is the only city India has, in the sense that the word city is understood in the West. Other Indian metropolises like Calcutta, Madras and Delhi are like oversized villages. It is true that Bombay has many more high-rise buildings than any other Indian city: when you approach it by the sea it looks like a miniature New York. It has other things to justify its city status: it is congested, it has traffic jams at all hours of the day, it is
highly polluted and many parts of it stink. —
Khushwant Singh

I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is
highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity. —
William Allingham

Decorum is
highly overrated and probably causes cancer. —
Jenny Lawson

Speech is
highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill. —
Bergen Evans

The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party ... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was
highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal. —
Ian Kershaw

Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence. And this reminds me that had the great Sperm Whale been known to the young Orient World, he would have been deified by their child-magian thoughts. They deified the crocodile of the Nile, because the crocodile is tongueless; and the Sperm Whale has no tongue, or at least it is so exceedingly small, as to be incapable of protrusion. If hereafter any
highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it. —
Herman Melville

Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I
highly recommend this book. —
Russell Delman

Persistence and tenacity are two of the most
highly paid attributes anyone can develop. —
Bill DeWees

Academics always feel that they deserve more. (Roberto Bolano)
Reading and enjoying fine literature is a
highly cultivated and refined activity, whereas writing it is everything but so.
(xxx) —
Kim Leine

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is
highly dangerous —
Eckhart Tolle

It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a
highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers ... I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God ... —
Susan Jacoby

Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart experience correlates to the matters they love to discuss so eloquently. They are often
highly esteemed by others, but those closest to them would quickly betray a life out-of-sync with their words. The mask fashioned by fluency with all subjects divine hides their real life. —
John Bunyan

As we all know, the spine ridges of adult cats are
highly poisonous. If you are coming to see a kitten that you have adopted, it is important that you check for the location and severity of the spine ridge before attempting any petting. Also, keep your hands away from their mouths. A few of them have developed their venom sacks. We lost two cat adopters already this month, so...let's just be careful people. —
Joseph Fink

The reality of AIDS in America is that gay men of color-finding no home in either their birth communities or the
highly commercialized, white gay world-represent the majority of HIV infection in America. The time
has come for the gay community to take responsibility for reaching these gay men as gay men, insisting that their lives are as important as the first group of gay men lost to AIDS in the 1980s. —
Patrick Moore

The
highly spirited girl stood up to face her challengers & smiled.She had learnt from the age of thirteen, that what men wanted from young naked girls, was sex. And although the crafty Typhon had stipulated that she would be evaluated in five different areas, & the sixth, in accordance to his mood, all six only spelled sex differently.[MMT] —
Nicholas Chong

We think of dogs as being more like people than pigs; but pigs are
highly intelligent animals and if we kept pigs as pets and reared dogs for food, we would probably reverse our order of preference. Are we turning persons into bacon? —
Peter Singer

Achievements in successful export industries, which need
highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore. —
Stef Wertheimer

The Bible is useful because it opens our eyes, and because it's
highly impractical to walk through life with our eyes closed. —
Peter J. Leithart

The truth is ... that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is
highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. —
H.L. Mencken

It's a common myth that athletes and other
highly active people need the protein from meat and dairy to fuel their activities and build and repair muscles and other bodily tissues. In fact, there is growing evidence that consumption of too much protein can lead to very serious health issues, including kidney disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. The active body can get all the protein it needs from a diverse, 100% plant-based diet. —
Sharon Gannon

Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most
highly —
Laura Miller

The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been
highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it. —
Cornel West

We have a great location between Boston and New York, a
highly educated work force, and Connecticut is a beautiful place to live. —
Susan Bysiewicz

It's true that what is morbid is
highly valued today, and so you may think that I am only joking or that I've devised just one more means of praising Art with the help of irony. —
Czeslaw Milosz

Service members will only stay on active duty if they can provide for their families - and DOD schools provide a world-class education that has proven time and again to be an incentive for sailors, soldiers, airmen and marines to reenlist. Military dependents that attend DoDDS schools are
highly regarded by prestigious universities the world over for a number of reasons, but there's one that you'd have a hard time replicating in a stateside school system: they've lived overseas, traveled the world, seen and experienced other cultures, learned foreign languages through immersion, and they've gained an understanding of the world that you can't get in a traditional classroom. Add a rigorous curriculum and a long track record of high test scores throughout DoDDS, and it's pretty easy to see why military kids are in such high demand. —
Tucker Elliot

Moving on has allowed me to know who I am and to be present in all that I do. I take this forward in my work and in my personal relationships. It is a powerful program and I
highly recommend it to anyone wanting to move on with their life. —
Lou Reed

In a city where public executions,duels, fights, magical feuds, and strange events regularly punctuated the daily round, the inhabitants had brought the profession of interested bystander to a peak of perfection. They were, to a man,
highly skilled gawpers. —
Terry Pratchett

The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps
highly polished. —
Sheilah Graham Westbrook

It is
highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace. —
Charles Albert Gobat

Toxic derivatives were underpinned by toxic economics, which, in turn, were no more than motivated delusions in search of theoretical justification; fundamentalist tracts that acknowledged facts only when they could be accommodated to the demands of the lucrative faith. Despite their
highly impressive labels and technical appearance, economic models were merely mathematized versions of the touching superstition that markets know best, both at times of tranquility and in periods of tumult. —
Yanis Varoufakis

We won with the military. We won with
highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won. —
Donald Trump

The mind is never more
highly gratified than in contemplating a natural landscape. —
Henry Home, Lord Kames

Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so
highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19) —
David Eso

The Light willing, we will see one another again," Rand said. He held out his hand to Perrin. "Watch out for Mat. I'm honestly not sure what he's going to do, but I have a feeling it will be
highly dangerous for all involved."
"Not like us," Perrin said, clasping Rand's forearm. "You and I, we're much better at keeping to the safe paths. —
Robert Jordan

In everything we do, in order to succeed, we must believe in ourselves; that we are
highly motivated achievers. —
Ellen J. Barrier

It was calling me, that button," he offered as his excuse. "I couldn't resist." -MULCH DIGGUMS ON A HIGHLY PRESS-ABLE BUTTON- —
Eoin Colfer

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was
highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. —
Anne Bronte

Your head could fit in the muzzle of this thing," Vik said, awestruck. "Seriously. Come on and let's see."
"I'm not sticking my head in a cannon thing. Stick your own head in."
"I have
highly temperamental hair. It'll get nestlike. You don't care when your hair gets nestlike, Tom. You can't possibly. —
S.J. Kincaid

I'm not perfect. I think more
highly of snow and ice than love. It's easier for me to be interested in mathematics than to have affection for my fellow human beings. But I am anchored to something in life that is constant. You can call it a sense of orientation; you can call it woman's intuition; you can call it whatever you like. I'm standing on a foundation and have no farther to fall. It could be that I haven't managed to organize my life very well. But I always have a grip - with at least one finger at a time - on Absolute Space. That's why there's a limit to how far the world can twist out of joint, and to how badly things can go before I find out. I now know, without a shadow of a doubt, that something is wrong. I —
Peter Hoeg

In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is
highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated. —
Leonid Shamkovich

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and
highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth. —
Moshe Sharett

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more
self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And
highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances. —
Neal Stephenson

Generally office and home were far apart, and home was much more important than office. I was not ashamed of valuing my private life more
highly than my work; that, to my mind, is what everyone ought to do. —
Diana Athill

If we're
highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator. —
Adelyn Birch

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of
highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash. —
Sara Sheridan

If then, said I, the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man
highly endowed by nature and possessing great means and influence and yet who employs those faculties for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion-I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape. —
Thomas Huxley

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of
Highly Effective People. —
John Spence

Without thinking
highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want. —
Jane Austen

In Hollywood, the real stars are all in animation. Alvin and the Chipmunks don't throw star fits, don't demand custom-designed Winnebagos, and are a breeze at costume fittings. Cruella DeVille, Gorgo, Rainbow Brite, Gus-Gus, Uncle Scrooge, and the Care Bears are all superstars and they don't have drug problems, marital difficulties, or paternity suits to blacken their images. They don't age, balk at promoting, or sass
highly paid directors. Plus, you can market them to death and they never feel exploited. I'd like to do a big-budget snuff film starring every last one of them. —
John Waters

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the
highly improbable. —
Johnny Rich

I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was
highly ambitious would be an understatement. I'm never one to sit around, I always have to be creating in various facets to keep myself entertained. —
Ashley Purdy

The more
highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change. —
Ronald Fisher

Every
highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat —
Eldridge Cleaver

I think the first feature of any director is going to hold a special place in their heart. It's kind of like a first kiss in that its
highly anticipated and will be forever ingrained in your memory, but at the end of the day you're just trying not to slobber all over the other person. —
Nicholas Ozeki

non-Western countries had, until quite recently,
highly unreliable legal systems and differing accounting rules. If a foreign trading partner decided to default on its debts, there was little that an investor situated on the other side of the world could do. In the first era of globalization, the solution to this problem was brutally simple but effective: to impose European rule. —
Niall Ferguson

I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're
highly mobile; they reject the idea of place. —
Hari Kunzru

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his
highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland. —
George Steiner

Good, don't think. Thinking is
highly overrated. —
Mary Jane Auch

I have a very
highly developed sense of denial. —
Gwyneth Paltrow

The most common-place people become
highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,
efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon. —
Arthur Helps

People might think that my queen should be
highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one. —
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

It is, I believe, one of the few dangerous forms of eccentricity, a
highly contagious mania, to be precise, of the rampant social variety! In your friend's case, we may not yet be dealing with out-and-out insanity ... No ... Maybe his trouble is only exaggerated conviction ... But the contagious manias are well known to me! ... I've known a good many sufferers from conviction mania ... Of many different types ... And in the last analysis, those who talk about justice seem to be the maddest of the lot! ... At first, I must confess, I took a certain interest in justice fanatics ... Today those particular maniacs annoy and exasperate me more than I can tell ... Don't you feel the same way? ... Human beings show a strange aptitude for transmitting this mania. It terrifies me, and we find it, mind you, in all human beings! —
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I
highly recommend Hazardous Duty. —
Colleen Coble

Icon Books has a fine series called "Revolutions in Science." These works are succinct,
highly readable, and authoritative. The series includes John Henry's Moving Heaven and Earth: Copernicus and the Solar System (Duxford, Cambridge: Icon Books, 2001). Henry's book can be read in an afternoon, and, while not as detailed as Kuhn's classic, it tells the story with verve and lucidity. —
Howard Margolis

Chapter 4,'Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief', uses Zizek's (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse. The central argument of this chapter is that organised abuse has come to public attention primarily as a subject of ridicule within the
highly partisan writings of journalists, academics and activists aligned with advocacy groups for people accused of sexual abuse. Whilst highlighting the pervasive misrepresentations that characterise these accounts, the chapter also implicates media consumers in the production of ignorance and disdain in relation to organised abuse and women's and children's accounts of sexual abuse more generally. —
Michael Salter

Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be
highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level. —
Ragnar Frisch