We were the best and the brightest.

The brightest star in all the heavens.

Fill brightest hours with labour

He's supposed to be one of the brightest men in the faculty.

We need our best and our brightest to start entertaining this issue.

In a very deep well, you can see a star even on the brightest day.

The parents love it, because when they open up the laptops, it's the brightest light source in the house.

They used the brightest galaxies to measure the distances and velocities of 119 clusters, creating the cluster reference frame.

The brightest spot in China, which you can see on the edge of the outline here, is Hong Kong.

We've recruited a team of scientific rivals, the best and brightest who all have different hypotheses for what's at the heart of this epidemic.

He said with emotion to the reporter from China News Service, Our motherland has a vast territory and abundant resources. It is the brightest pearl on earth!

And it was because of a rule, which, to me, is a very good rule Never be the brightest person in a room, and we weren't.

And another key thing that I learned a lot throughout this whole process, last year Google named me as one of the brightest young minds in the world.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.

As a result, the government s suppression of Western values not to mention its relentless war on the Internet is likely to spur an exodus of the country s best and brightest. In 2013, an unprecedented 413,900 Chinese studied abroad and the figure is expected to be even higher for 2014.

Well, if you only focus on your brightest students, you know what happens is disparities grow, and you can see this bubble moving slightly to the other direction, but still, an impressive improvement.

President Putin (spoke in Russian) For six decades the destiny of this world has been inseparably linked to the work of the United Nations the contemporary, and one of the brightest symbols, of the victory over Nazism.

And when it inevitably does, the best and the brightest reach for the financial equivalent of the junk shot in this case, throwing massive amounts of much needed public money down a very different kind of hole.

Thus, demoralization of Balkan society creates a dynamic of its own when the best and the brightest see their future outside of their own countries and where stability is just another name for political and economic stagnation.

If the best and brightest are to be attracted to and retained by the United Nations, they must be recruited, trained, promoted and paid according to procedures which are as good as the best employed by Member States.

The only solution for Japan is to open up not only its economy, but its society, its universities, its media, its think tanks, and, indeed, its bars and bathhouses. Many young Japanese often the brightest and most entrepreneurial demand to live in an open society, but the option they are choosing now is emigration.

In many poor countries, except those like India and South Korea, which have now developed superb educational institutions, the brightest citizens receive their education abroad. The challenge, then, is to prevent them from staying there and settling down.

So I started to go around the world finding the best and brightest scientists I could at universities whose collective discoveries have the chance to take us there, and we formed a company to build on their extraordinary ideas.

Throughout this period, the brightest students were drawn away from their native lands, attracted by superior research universities and opportunities. Until recently, more than half of all mathematics, science, and engineering graduate students in the US were foreign born.

Last month, I attended a conference in France entitled What if work were the key? The attendees France s best and brightest resoundingly concluded that work does seem to be the key to enhancing social cohesion, and to more fulfilling lives.

For the first time in America since John F. Kennedy s presidency, politics is seen as a potentially noble venture. The idea that you can make a difference not only for yourself but for your country and the world, that self interest and personal enrichment are not the only possible goals in life for the best and the brightest, has slowly and irresistibly been gaining ground in the Obama generation.

The current government in Ukraine has an unprecedented electoral mandate for change. It has also drawn into public service some of the country s best and brightest (including from the Ukrainian diaspora) to fight a war and stave off an economic meltdown simultaneously.

Given such systemic debasement of merit, few Chinese citizens believe that they are governed by the best and the brightest. But astonishingly, the myth of a Chinese meritocracy remains very much alive among Westerners who have encountered impressively credentialed officials like Bo.

Meanwhile, American universities still attract the world s best and brightest in many fields, most notably in science and technology. And the country s other longstanding advantages flexibility, capacity for renewal, economic mobility, international regulatory strength, and the world s main reserve currency remain in place.

The New York Times reported last month that United States officials are planning to scale up the production of one experimental drug, but it is still not likely to meet demand. If some of the brightest minds in business and health care had found a way to encourage the production of an Ebola drug before the outbreak, thousands of lives might have been saved.

A major hindrance to scientific progress is the increasing scarcity of research funding a trend that has been exacerbated by the global economic crisis. Uncertain funding prospects not only discourage scientists from pursuing risky or undirected lines of research that could lead to crucial discoveries they also make it more difficult to recruit the best and brightest for scientific careers, especially given the extensive training and specialization that such careers require.

I was sitting in a slum outside Gurgaon just next to Delhi, one of the flashiest, brightest new cities popping up in India right now, and I was talking to workers who worked in garment sweatshops down the road, and I asked them what message they would like me to take to the brands.

Given that financial institutions had been attracting the best and brightest from around the world, one would have expected nothing less. But, upon closer inspection, it became clear that most of this innovation involved devising better ways of scamming others, manipulating markets without getting caught (at least for a long time), and exploiting market power.

Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen. Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.

Singapore s former leader, Lee Kwan Yew, an astute observer of both the US and China, argues that China will not surpass the US as the leading power of the twenty first century, precisely because the US attracts the best and brightest from the rest of the world and melds them into a diverse culture of creativity. China has a larger population to recruit from domestically, but, in Lee s view, its Sino centric culture will make it less creative than the US.

But if finance continues to take a disproportionate number of the best and the brightest, there could be little British manufacturing left by 2050, and even fewer hi tech firms than today. Anyone concerned about economic imbalances, and about excessive reliance on a volatile financial sector, will certainly hope that this aspect of the BoE s forward guidance proves as unreliable as its forecasts of unemployment have been.

(c) Attracting and retaining staff is at present hindered by the inability of spouses of United Nations staff to work in many countries where United Nations offices are located. Member States should be encouraged to review existing national legislation together with the Secretariat in order to allow United Nations spouses to work, so that conditions will be favourable to attracting and retaining the brightest and most competent staff members

Please allow me to explain my position with an example. The progress achieved in bringing about a global ban on the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of anti personnel landmines has been lauded as one of the brightest successes in a relatively bleak year for disarmament. Following the agreement reached within three weeks in Oslo last month, more than 100 countries are now expected to support the Treaty when it is opened for signature in Ottawa in December this year.

Not the other fellas. Not the teachers. And not my folks even.

Not he. Not the world.

The truth is what the jury decides, not you, not me, not Frank.

Not at all, not the slightest.

Not you? You're not the one.

You're not the first and not the last.