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Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.

The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big.

For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again.

Never upstage a man. Don’t top his joke, even if you have to bite your tongue to keep from doing it. Never launch loudly into your own opinions on a subject – whether it’s petunias or politics. Instead, draw out his ideas to which you can gracefully add your footnotes from time to time.

Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity of Ptolemaic model of the universe after it was explained to him. Footnote: Carlyle says, in his History of Frederick the Great, book ii. chap. vii. that this saying of Alphonso about Ptolemy’s astronomy, ‘that it seemed a crank machine; that it was pity the Creator had not taken advice,’ is still remembered by mankind, – this and no other of his many sayings.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

What was really interesting in his speech, which, by the way, had (inaudible) footnotes – the written version of it – which might be a personal record for Donald Trump – the source of a lot of his numbers on the free trade section of the speech came from an organization called the Economic Policy Institute, which was a think tank or is a think tank that was founded by labor unions to promote the labor unions’ point of view on free trade agreements.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

For the young Gaels of IrelandAre the lads that drive me mad,For half their words need footnotesAnd half their rhymes are bad.

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

I’ve been associated with Warren ( Buffett) so long, I thought I’d be just a footnote.

The planets. Now footnote, I’m including Pluto in the planets, because I think it’s terrible what they did to Pluto. And it’s still a planet to me. I grew up with Pluto as a planet, it will always be a planet.

I’m just a footnote in the grand scheme of things. Brother Walfrid was the visionary who started things and his is a name that should stay in people’s minds.

Time after time … today’s crisis shrinks to next week’s footnote to a newly headline disaster.

Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book.

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian’s footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.

The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to the validity of the work, the integrity (and the humility) of the historian, and to the dignity of the discipline.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

Of all the facts I daily live with, there’s none more comforting than this; If I have two rooms, one dark, the other light, and I open the door between them, the dark room becomes lighter without the light one becoming darker. I know this is no headline, but it’s a marvelous footnote; and comforts me in that.

Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion’s tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers’ more pious brethren.

One of my favorite footnotes in the hypochondria book [The Hypochondriac’s Guide to Life. And Death.] was about the death of one of the King Charleses. He was essentially bled and vomited to death by his doctors. They also drilled holes in his head.

I am only a footnote, but proud of the footnote I have become. My subsequent work on eliciting principles and developing the theory of interface design, so that many people will be able to do what I did is probably also footnote-worthy. In looking back at this turn-of-the-century period, the rise of a worldwide network will be seen as the most significant part of the computer revolution.

Equality means equality for all – no exceptions, no ‘yes, buts’, no asterisked footnotes imposing limits.

One day America and all its presidents will be a footnote in history, but the kingdom of Jesus will never end.

Novelists never have to footnote.

If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy’s history.

According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: It was the footnotes.

The illusion is an agreement between the reader and writer that this [story] will be like life. The emotional temperature drops when you have footnotes.

I think whatever I’ve done, I hope I’ve earned a footnote in India’s long and tortuous history.

If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.

Having to read footnotes resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.