Quotes About Trends

if we could act a little more according to common sense, and a good deal less according to fashion, we should find many things work easier;

No hay una explicación única, y no voy a ofrecer aquí ni una gran teoría ni una solución universal. Pero sí hay un tema de fondo: dadas las condiciones adecuadas, cualquier sociedad puede dar la espalda a la democracia. De hecho, si nos hemos de guiar por la historia, a la larga todas nuestras sociedades lo harán.

With roughly half the population of the United States, Russia now has about the same number of addicts.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

News may not be very profitable anymore, but it sure is popular.

Just seeing the progression, the evolution of the NBA game, I feel like you have a lot of big men shooting 3s.

R&B was really prominent in the '90s, and we can all admit that it kind of fell off. But my generation is more in touch with our emotions - we're not afraid to show them. We're bringing that decade back.

I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

Fashion comes and goes; prints come and go. Proper camo never really goes away.

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.

The hilarity or brilliance of a forwarded link is inversely proportional to the number of people it's sent to.

You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

Solar adopters often are found in neighborhood clusters in California, with three or four adopters located on the same block. Other consumer innovations like home computers are relatively less observable, and thus diffuse more slowly.

They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them 'clever.

My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

Mortality rates in the United States fell by 40% from 1900 to 1940 and life expectancy rose from forty-seven to sixty-three, note researchers David M. Cutler and Grant Miller.

For at least ten years, the revenues of the video gaming industry have exceeded those of Hollywood and the music business put together.)

But looking under the covers of Indian democracy one sees a more complex and troubling reality. In recent decades, India has become something quite different from the picture in the hearts of its admirers. Not that it is less democratic: in important ways it has become more democratic. But it has become less tolerant, less secular, less law-abiding, less liberal. And these two trends—democratization and illiberalism—are directly related.

The number of people on the planet has risen fivefold since 1900, while the average lifespan has doubled.

War and organized violence have declined dramatically over the last two decades.

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the

the general magnitude of global warfare has decreased by over sixty percent [since the mid-1980s], falling by the end of 2004 to its lowest level since the late 1950s.