I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.
It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.
When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could relate to.
When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?
Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents' claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America's internal fighting - and our increasingly siloed news consumption - more than Vladimir Putin.
My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
If there is a course that is quant-oriented, you need to focus on that, but if it is a course that is more general management-oriented, do you not need entrance examinations which are more all round?
In the course of my life, for more than half a century, June 1989 was the major turning point. Up to that point, I was a member of the first class to enter university when college entrance examinations were reinstated following the Cultural Revolution (Class of '77).
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.
I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
A text conversation is a short exchange of often grossly truncated language that corresponds to a thought made all the more shallow by the process.
Ultimately, in the long run we need to immunise our system from being overly responsive to fluctuations in the exchange rate; that is, people should, by and large, be reasonably hedged, or they should borrow more in domestic currency rather than foreign currency.
