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source: John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.50, Anza Publishing

topic: Years, Philadelphia, Honor, Annuals

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Years, Sea, Investment, Annuals

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

- John Quincy Adams

source: "Wise Words and Quotes". Book by Vernon K. McLellan (p.281), 2000.

topic: Patriotic, Voting, Slavery, Elections And Voting, Annuals

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

- Ernst Toller

source: Ernst Toller (1934). “I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller”

topic: Kings, Hero, Boys, Unreality, Annuals

Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?

- Henry Ford

topic: Marijuana, Growth, Age, Stoners, Medical Marijuana

I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

- A. E. van Vogt

topic: Science, Years, Fiction, Chum, Annuals

I don't believe in an annual dose of film music for the sake of it being film music. If we program film music, it will be because there is a real artistic reason for doing so.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

topic: Real, Believe, Film Music, Annuals

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

- Okakura Kakuzo

source: Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.84, Tuttle Publishing

topic: Flower, Sadness, Garden, Joy And Sadness, Inspirational Gardening

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, May Flowers, Inspirational Gardening

Always you find that the more decisive event wins so my father's sort of annual decisiveness which came upon him on the Day of Atonement every year, he suddenly remembered that he was Jewish.

- Janet Suzman

topic: Father, Winning, Years, Decisiveness, Annuals

When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.

- Maureen Forrester

topic: Christian, Baseball, Mother, Annuals

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

- Bill Budge

topic: Years, Apples, Half, Annuals

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

- Bernard M. Oliver

source: Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

topic: Energy, World, Matter, Energy Consumption, Annuals

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors annual medical expenses.

- Jim Gerlach

topic: Senior, Long, Gone, Annuals

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council.

- Michael McCaul

topic: Years, Rights, United States, Annuals

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

- Margaret Spellings

source: "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

topic: Assessment, Years, Understanding, Connecticut, Annuals

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting distributes an annual appropriation that we provide in accordance with a statutory formula, the vast majority of which goes directly to public radio and television stations.

- Earl Blumenauer

topic: Majority, Television, Radio, Public Radio, Appropriation

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

- Wallace Stevens

topic: Nature, Spring, Silly, Spring Inspirational, Spring Poems

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.

- Jack Welch

topic: Inspirational, Running, Challenges, Walks In The Park, Annuals

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

- Rudolf Arnheim

topic: Confusion, Hospitality, Mets, American Society, Anesthetics

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

- Brenda Ueland

topic: Cutting, Ideas, People, Annuals

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

- Katharine Whitehorn

topic: Weed, Nature, Years, Annuals

I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.

- Dave Barry

topic: Years, Nurse, Stronger, Fat Girl, Annuals

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Birthday, Wall, Years, Timetables, Consultation

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Science, Indian Happy New Year, Spiritual New Year

From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

topic: Views, Alcohol, Drug, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical Industry

Ignore the annual percentage rate when shopping for a mortgage.

- Suze Orman

topic: Shopping, Mortgage, Percentages, Annuals

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

- William Golding

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Novelists, Toronto, Alive, Annuals

At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

- Guy Berryman

topic: School, Thinking, White, White Shirts, Disco

The annual award of $5,000 goes to an author for a meritorious book published in the previous year for children or young adults. Scott O'Dell established this award to encourage other writers--particularly new authors--to focus on historical fiction. He hoped in this way to increase the interest of young readers in the historical background that has helped to shape their country and their world.

- Scott O'Dell

topic: Country, Children, Book, Dell, Previous Years

I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.

- Salvador Allende

source: Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

topic: Hard Work, Average, Income, Chile, Annuals

Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

- Saffron Burrows

topic: Hands, Years, Nuts, Format, Annuals

I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown to the Attica Historical Society, who enthusiastically responded to it and read it at one of their annual meetings resulting in an article in the local newspaper about this excellent paper being presented. As I now look back at it, I think of that as being really my first book and did indicate that I did have interest in research.

- Paul Smith

topic: Book, Thinking, Being Real, Locals, Annuals

Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause our gross domestic product, which has been growing at an annual rate of around 2 percent, to fall at a rate of 2.9 percent in the first half of 2013.

- Christina Romer

topic: Fall, Turkeys, Office, Gross Domestic Product, Cold Turkey

Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.

- David Rolf

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Jobs, Self, Earning, Food Industry, Annuals

The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

- Mark Zandi

topic: Mistake, Recovery, Cutting, Economic Recovery, Raising Taxes

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Guy, Annual Reports, Playboy, Annuals

Dying well is part of living well and one day our society will surely recognize that. But I suppose we'll only know that we've reached that promised land on the day that the President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society begins his address to the Annual General Meeting with the words: 'Tremendous news for the society. It's been our most successful year ever. So successful, indeed, that we now have no members at all.

- Victor Lewis-Smith

topic: Successful, Years, Land, Dying Well, Annuals

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

- Joe L. Wheeler

topic: Autumn, Nostalgic, Significant, Cascade, Annuals

Instead of ending U.S. military aid to the 23rd wealthiest country to use for its consistent violations of international law and human rights, we see the Obama administration escalating the annual amount of aid, so that Israel will now start each year with almost $4 billion, with $3.8 billion a year of military aid coming from our tax money to support its military, without any restrictions on how it makes - how it uses that money, what weapons in the U.S. it's able to buy.

- Phyllis Bennis

topic: Country, Military, Rights, Escalating, Annuals

Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.

- Brian Baird

topic: Taken, Cutting, Thinking, Annuals, Budget Deficit

I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.

- Warren Buffett

source: "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Years, Balance, Annual Reports, Annuals

This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Annuals, Boston Marathon

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