Top 187 Marginal Quotes & Sayings

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

Biology occupies a position among the sciences at once marginal and central. Marginal because-the living world constituting but a tiny and very "special" part of the universe-it does not seem likely that the study of living beings will ever uncover general laws applicable outside the biosphere. But if the ultimate aim of the whole of science is indeed, as I believe, to clarify man's relationship to the universe, then biology must be accorded a central position . . .

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Reduced marginal tax rates on individuals and business fosters growth every time.

I said earlier [2015] year that I thought we'd get to 10 or 20 bucks [per barrel ] because that's the marginal cost, and when you're in a price war, it's the marginal cost that determines the price.It is a price war because basically the OPEC reason did not cut production in their November 2014 meeting was that they got tired of cutting production and having American frackers and Russians et cetera grab market share.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

If I was a marginal guy or a practice squad player or a career-long special teamer, you take a hell of a lot less hits in those roles.

Producing more reams of detailed policies that have marginal and limited effects on our society is futile.

Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

The marginal people on the trading desks, there's no skill set. If they don't trade derivatives, I don't know what they can do. The next stop is driving a cab.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

Here's the question for my fellow Republicans: Do we want to be the first-ever GOP House majority to raise federal marginal income tax rates?

If we think that high marginal tax rates are bad because they distort incentives, the same is then true for tax subsidies.

The delusional is no longer marginal.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut marginal tax rates, when President Bush imposed those tax cuts, they actually generated economic growth. They expanded the economy. They expand tax revenues.

If top marginal income tax rates are set too high, they discourage productive economic activity. In the limit, a top marginal income tax rate of 100 percent would mean that taxpayers would gain nothing from working harder or investing more. In contrast, a higher top marginal rate on consumption would actually encourage savings and investment. A top marginal consumption tax rate of 100 percent would simply mean that if a wealthy family spent an extra dollar, it would also owe an additional dollar of tax.

Keynesian modelling relies on marginal propensity to consume and marginal propensity to invest. The idea that if we give more money to the poor, they have a propensity to consume that's much higher than the wealthy, though I wish they would talk to my wife about that; she seems to have a propensity to consume.

The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

I'm inspired by people that are marginal. I'm excited by their resilience.

I've rooted all my life for a marginal team.

There is only a "marginal difference" separating those who are truly successful and those who merely do well.Whether you believe you can do something or not, you are right!

in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.

Music that touches the transcendental aspect of a human being is reserved for a marginal audience

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'

I'm still a marginal figure living from book to book, but, as long as I'm producing labour as a good Marxist prole, I guess I'm satisfied.

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

I feel we have to begin standing our ground in the places we love. I think that we have to demand that concern for the land, concern for the Earth, and this extension of community that we've been speaking of, is not marginal - in the same way that women's rights are not marginal, in the same way that rights for children are not marginal. There is no separation between the health of human beings and the health of the land. It is all part of a compassionate view of the world.

The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

There is nothing so marginal as a party that has been in power for 18 years and slides into opposition. You influence nothing.

The margin is very marginal.

It's true that women appear very little in [Albert Camus] works. They have a very marginal place.

The social and legal discrimination that relegates hundreds of women to subordinate or marginal economic roles has a huge aggregate cost.

If you get a veteran guy that's getting marginal pitches, you know you're in for a tough night and a battle.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

I can't imagine an argument that says that raising marginal tax rates on high income people, many of whom are business owners, is a recipe for economic growth.

The Indians are a marginal people in Guatemala just like I am a marginal person in the first world.

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.