All Quotes

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved.
‐‐ Jonas Gahr Store

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another.
‐‐ Ernst Mayr

According to the Epilepsy Foundation of America, there are more than two million Americans with epilepsy. Half have what I have, idiopathic epilepsy, meaning there is no known cause for the seizures.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

According to the FBI and the director of national intelligence, Syria's becoming a perfect platform to strike our nation. I've got a very simple strategy as your president against ISIL. Whatever it takes, as long as it takes, to defeat them.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

According to the 'food waste pyramid,' ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

According to the Gallup Poll, 24 percent of American adults exercised regularly in 1961, and 50 percent after 1968. The peak was 59 percent in 1984, dropping off to 51 percent last September.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

According to the Gorean way of looking at things a taste of the slave ring is thought to be occasionally beneficial to all women, even the exalted free woman.
‐‐ John Norman

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
‐‐ Sheldon Whitehouse

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
‐‐ Virchand Gandhi

According to the Law of Biogenesis, life arises only from preexisting life.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.
‐‐ Ray Comfort

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

According to the now almost universally accepted theory, all the races of mankind had a common origin.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.
‐‐ Zbigniew Brzezinski

According to the oil and gas industry and their proponents, I am a communist, terrorist, Nazi, Russian-sympathizing, anti-American, arsonist, extremist.
‐‐ Josh Fox

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
‐‐ Vince Cable

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

According to the percentage people, you would be perfectly comfortable.
‐‐ Bobby Bragan

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
‐‐ Luis Gutierrez

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
‐‐ Phillip E. Johnson

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
‐‐ Harbhajan Singh

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
‐‐ Kit Bond

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.
‐‐ Larry Elder

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
‐‐ Luis Gutierrez

According to the supermarkets, there is no such thing as 'out of season.' Berries in the middle of February? Why not? Seafood flown in from Japan? Sure. While it all adds up to appetizing and varied meals throughout the year, regardless of the weather, it comes with a price tag - both ethical and financial.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.
‐‐ Bodhidharma

According to the U.N., more than 2.7 billion people will face severe water shortages by 2025. Many social scientists predict that the next big wars will be over water. Nevertheless, the average American family blissfully consumes 300 gallons a day, when you add in watering the lawn and washing dishes, clothes, and cars.
‐‐ Alex Shoumatoff

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

According to the White House, the president's proposed 2016-2017 spending would add - get this - $62 billion to the deficit.
‐‐ John McLaughlin

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
‐‐ Salvatore Quasimodo

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
‐‐ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
‐‐ Jonathan Mayhew

According to USA today, the average length of an attention span of a man in America is 23 minutes.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
‐‐ John Doolittle

According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by a force which runs perpendicular to the direction of motion of the electron and to the direction of the magnetic field, and whose magnitude is easily determined.
‐‐ Pieter Zeeman

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
‐‐ Ulrich Beck

Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement.
‐‐ Tim Holden

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.
‐‐ Nicolaus Copernicus

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
‐‐ John Buchanan Robinson

Accountability and democratic choice, I deeply believe, are guaranteed by rigorous scrutiny only.
‐‐ Jemima Khan

Accountability breeds response-ability.
‐‐ Stephen Covey

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.
‐‐ Zarin Mehta