Salatherzen Quotes & Sayings

These findings stand in sharp contrast to the belief in "American exceptionalism" that once dominated US sociology, according to which social mobility in the United States was exceptionally high compared with the class-bound societies of Europe. No doubt the settler society of the early nineteenth century was more mobile. As I have shown, moreover, inherited wealth played a smaller role in the United States than in Europe, and US wealth was for a long time less concentrated, at least up to World War I. Throughout most of the twentieth century, however, and still today, the available data suggest that social mobility has been and remains lower in the United States than in Europe. — Thomas Piketty

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness. — Lucas Neff

A guitar has moonlight in it. — James M. Cain

Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier. — Jon Skovron

In 1986, I read a remarkable article by Israel Rosenfield in The New York Review of Books in which he discussed the revolutionary work and views of Gerald M. Edelman. Edelman was nothing if not bold. We are at the beginning of — Oliver Sacks

What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient. — Ron Rosedale

When we try to imagine a chaos we fail ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos. — George Iles

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived. — Arthur Golden

It is better for people to mistakenly think lowly of you than for them to erroneously think highly of you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I do better with routines and predictability. I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule. — Gretchen Rubin