Quotes #26: Gorbachev, Marut, Wodehouse, Kempner, Swift, www.globalist.com, Schane, Nissenbaum, Ripken, Gwynn
The Americans want so much to be winners. The fact they are sick with this illness, this winner's complex, is the main reason why everything in the world is so confused and complicated. --Mikhail Gorbachev
I identify as a worker, nameless and without glory, like every other worker. I have learned through suffering that the worker is a thousand times more interesting and many-sided a person than Rockefeller, Morgan, Coolidge, Gloria Swanson or Tom Mix. --Ret Marut aka B. Traven
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose. --P.G. Wodehouse
Nothing can replace the cut, fit and love that goes into a couture outfit. It has been made by an artist. And besides, it mixes very well with the Gap. --Nan Kempner
2004 was the first full year when the number of babies born to Latina mothers nudged past 50% of the children in California; it reached 51.5 % in 2005. These newest Californians are the leading edge of a Latino demographic that will remake the state in unknown ways during the coming decades. --Mike Swift
South America has the highest urbanization level in the world, at over 82%. While many people around the world think of the continent in terms of its rain forest, pampas and Patagonia, the fact of the matter is that four out of every five people in South America live in a city. www.globalist.com
It is not known precisely why searching in the databases, known as data mining, raised such a furious legal debate. But such databases, compiled by American companies and stored in the United States, contain records of the phone calls and e-mail messages of millions of Americans. --Scott Schane
They call it the "Gaza Riviera". Lime-green Hamas banners flutter over Gaza City with a message in English for aid workers and journalists worried about being kidnapped: "No more threat for our foreign visitors and guests." --Dion Nissenbaum
Circularity has been reduced. But I don't think that explains the full decline. Migration patterns do tend to rise and fall with economic activity. --David Martin
Whether you like it or not, we are all role models. The only question is, will it be positive or negative? --Cal Ripken, Jr.
When you sign you name on the dotted line, it's more than just playing the game of baseball. You've got to be responsible and make decisions and show people how things are supposed to be done. --Tony Gwynn
