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And on a Wednesday afternoon, I was walking down the corridor of my high school kind of minding my own business.
And so for the remaining two years of my high school, I cut all my classes.
And that's how I got out of high school.
And now that I've given lots of speeches, we had a bunch of high school principals come and see me, and they said, "Mr.
It looks like your average high school cafeteria in your average town in America.
And I have children with high school diplomas that they can't read.
I can take these children and in 20 weeks, demonstrated aptitude; I can get them high school equivalent.
And by the time I cut these kids loose from high school, they've got four shows on their resume before they apply to college because it's all up here.
And I stood on that stage with Dizzy Gillespie on sound check on a Wednesday afternoon, and I said, "Dizzy, why would you come to a black-run center in the middle of an industrial park with a high crime rate that doesn't even have a reputation in music?"
So, we've become one of the hot, young jazz recording studios in the United States of America (Laughter) in the middle of the inner city with a high crime rate.
And we're going to have high school kids growing Phalaenopsis orchids in the middle of the inner city.
So, the Hispanics and the black folks have formed a partnership to grow high technology orchids in the middle of the inner city.
And I told my United States senator that there was a very high probability that if he could find some funding for this, we would become a left-hand column in the Wall Street Journal, to which he readily agreed.
This is Beijing then, not a single high rise building in Beijing or Shanghai.
If you're wealthy, you live there, if you're poor, you live there, but high density it is, and it's not just Asia.
In Singapore, we had an opportunity: 10 million square feet, extremely high density.
Why don't we use data about the person's high school transcript?
She had been t-boned at a high rate of speed, critical, critical condition.
And lying in intensive care, facing the prospect of being blind and paralyzed, high on morphine, I was trying to make sense of what was going on.
In seeking and identifying employees with high potential, the potential to go to the top of organizations, the skills and competencies that relate to that green box are rated twice as heavily as those in the other two elements of leadership.
Norman Rockwell hangs in living rooms and bathrooms, and this is not something to be considered high art."
These things resonate with us, and, if you think about blogs, you think of high art blogs, the history paintings about, you know, all the biblical stories, and then you have this.
So I've been working on the history of income and wealth distribution for the past 15 years, and one of the interesting lessons coming from this historical evidence is indeed that, in the long run, there is a tendency for the rate of return of capital to exceed the economy's growth rate, and this tends to lead to high concentration of wealth.
How can we account for the fact that until World War I, wealth inequality was so high and, if anything, was rising to even higher levels, and how can we think about the future?
So of course some families will consume more than that, some will consume less, so there will be some mobility in the distribution, but on average, they only need to reinvest one fifth, so this allows high wealth inequalities to be sustained.
And then, in the postwar period, you had unusually high growth rate, partly due to the reconstruction.
So if you look at this, these are the best estimates we have of world GDP growth and rate of return on capital, average rates of return on capital, so you can see that during most of the history of mankind, the growth rate was very small, much lower than the rate of return, and then during the 20th century, it is really the population growth, very high in the postwar period, and the reconstruction process that brought growth to a smaller gap with the rate of return.
When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.
We've found that sleep may actually be a kind of elegant design solution to some of the brain's most basic needs, a unique way that the brain meets the high demands and the narrow margins that set it apart from all the other organs of the body.
My grades in school started to collapse, and when I sat for my final high school exams in 2015, I was devastated to receive a C grade.
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