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I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil... I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well - disproportionately well. Mike Tyson, too. If you can knock a guy out in 10 seconds and earn $10 million for it, this world will pay a lot for that. If you can bat .360, this world will pay a lot for that. If you're a marvelous teacher, this world won't pay a lot for it. If you are a terrific nurse, this world will not pay a lot for it. Now, am I going to try to come up with some comparable worth system that somehow (re)distributes that? No, I don't think you can do that. But I do think that when you're treated enormously well by this market system, where in effect the market system showers the ability to buy goods and services on you because of some peculiar talent - maybe your adenoids are a certain way, so you can sing and everybody will pay you enormous sums to be on television or whatever -I think society has a big claim on that. – Warren Buffett	added by anonymous 10 years ago
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. – Ted Nelson	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. – Lenny Bruce	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Who would have known? I was walking in a mall and between the crowd of shoppers shoving around and wandering about their business my eyes meet a familiar face. A face I haven't seen in years. Our gazes meet. We stare for mere seconds before the both of us look away pretending one hadn't seen the other and we quickly disappear into our now separate lives. But when I went home, I still had the Best Friends necklace you gave me in Elementary and the Senior ring we had in high school , stuffed in some drawer beneath clothes and books gathering dust as the years rolled by. I still have that photo album that starts with our picture as little girls dressing up as princesses to the day we held certificates with our gowns on. All through that journey we had been hand in hand from our first day of school to our first fight to prom night. From skipping class to plotting against teachers to every crush we had. Every exam we failed and every rule we broke. The times we sat together in detention and the times we never bothered showing up. All the hard times we pushed through and all the success we celebrated. Every fire alarm, birthday candle and breakup. We've been with each other through all and more until the day college split us apart. Your texts became shorter and your calls became rare. And I wonder how brutal graduation was for ripping us apart like that. Yesterday inseparable sisters, today a stranger. – Conseuquel	added by anonymous 12 years ago
We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it. – Margaret Thatcher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you"? – William Arthur Ward	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son! – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. – Rudyard Kipling	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My time has been passed viciously and agreeably at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that 'Carpe Diem' is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds-for who can trust to tomorrow – George Gordon Byron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes. – William Davis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. – Sam Levenson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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