Mario Vargas Llosa

I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.

Peruvian Writer

Pankaj Mishra

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.

Indian Novelist

Richard Lamm

Medical need is an infinitely expandable concept. There is always one more marginal procedure that can be done. There is no end to the medical and surgical treatments that a technologically sophisticated and advanced society can give to aging bodies.

American Politician

Pete Buttigieg

We need to consider a financial transactions tax. And we need to ask whether the top marginal tax rates are really appropriate, given that the effective tax rates paid by the wealthy are often actually lower than those paid by the rest of us.

Ezra Pound

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

American Poet

James B. Stewart

The appreciation of capital assets is already taxed at an extremely favorable rate compared to labor. That's why the rich pay such a low effective tax rate no matter what their marginal tax bracket.

American Journalist

G. Willow Wilson

Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.

American Writer

Phil Hellmuth

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!

American Celebrity

Lawrence Kudlow

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

Ben Domenech

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

Used when something is just enough to meet the requirements or needs.

Barely Sufficient

'Marginal' often suggests a lack of significance or effort.

Negative Connotation

Reflects an increase or decrease that is very small and not always impactful.

Small Difference

Highlighting something that could be easily ignored because it's minor.

Often Overlooked

Used to describe something that is on the outer limit of an area or concept.

Edge or Boundary

Indicates a position away from the main or important areas.

Not Central

Refers to a change in economic measurement due to adding one more unit.

Small Economic Change

Essential for understanding many economic principles and calculations.

Key in Economics

Important for business decisions, like setting production levels.

Decision Making

 That's when you begin to choose diamonds over water. And it's not just necessities like water. When it comes to most things, the more of it you acquire, the less useful or enjoyable every additional bit becomes. This is the law of diminishing marginal utility. You might gladly buy two or three helpings of your favorite food,

The paradox of value -...

 This stuff that once seemed so shocking and marginal and, frankly, just ignorable, it's now so normalized that we hardly even notice it. So I spent about three years in this world. I talked to a lot of people. Some of them seemed to have no core beliefs at all. They just seemed to be betting, perfectly rationally,

Inside the bizarre world...

 so that's fine, you can reject them. But then imagine the next person to come along is just marginally less boring, dull and terrible than everybody that you've seen before. Now, if you are following the maths, I'm afraid you have to marry them

The mathematics of love...

 made a marginal note. He said, "Did you quit or were you fired?" "'I give life and I take it away. Forgive me, for I know not what I do.' Eventually, I broke down in front of friends, and everybody convinced me to take more medication.

A tale of mental illness...

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Clever Queen Bumble Bees...

 furry hairs on her body help to conserve what he chooses to generate at the moment she's only a few degrees warmer than the surrounding vegetation as the thermal camera clearly shows her body is only marginally more pink and the blue

Top 5 Most Intelligent...

 marginal areas were areas where you've never looked the dusty corners of the world that is where you should be looking if you want creative satisfaction and a groovy job I should

Advice from the world’s...

 get into my archaeology and I said no it could teach us a little bit about living enough in an environment that may be slightly marginal it could teach us a

Interview: George &...

 most dominant wonder there's not much any size wise but just being this close you can tell that one is marginally smaller but considered a more dominant

World's Cutest Baby...

 most dominant wonder there's not much any size wise but just being this close you can tell the one is marginally smaller but considerably more dominant