- Cash
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rise Quotes
What lifts us, and what won't stay down.
A quieter image opens this page - rising at dawn to pick berries instead of arguing a point - paired with a grander claim about art's role in lifting up mankind. Related pages include Great.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
- Netflix
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- Nov 07, 2020
While there continue to be critics of the Comcast-NBC merger, it's hard to argue that competition in news and entertainment has diminished as a result, given the rise of Netflix and Amazon and the explosion in entertainment options that followed the merger.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington, as we know it, is essentially run by men and women who are not elected or even appointed to their posts, staff members unaccountable to traditional constituencies. They rise according to the needs and whims of their own special constituency of elites.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inequality is on the rise in Canada and those at the top have no idea what life is like for most Canadian families.
- Forgetfulness
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You deal with what comes to you. If it's something you don't like, you deal with it the best you can. If it's something that you love, you rise to the occasion.
- Mental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates?
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020