“Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.” UsedPowerfulMinutesSafeProgramAccountsSecureSavingMost PowerfulRetirementSeniorSavingsBankruptcySavings Accounts Author:Bill Frist
“Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.” IfsGivingMayMatterCareAcceptingEconomicMinutesReturnProgramEconomicsAccountsClaimsMeetingsSeriesDoctrineItalianFascismAssemblyCrumblingGuildsPointers Author:Benito Mussolini
“Imagine you had a bank that each morning credited your account with $1,440 - with one condition: whatever part of the $1,440 you failed to use during the day would be erased from your account, and no balance would be carried over. What would you do? You'd draw out every cent every day and use it to your best advantage. Well, you do have such a bank, and its name is time. Every morning, this bank credits you with 1,440 minutes. And it writes off as forever lost whatever portion you have failed to invest to good purpose.” WritingWellsUseWould BePurposeNamesLostMorningForeverImagineMinutesConditionsBalanceDrawsAdvantageAccountsCreditPortionsCentsEvery Morning Author:Ann Landers
“It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!” YearsHoursMinutesAccountsRateEightBudgetsNational Debt Author:Richard Darman
“Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.” PeopleHardMomentsSocialFiveMinutesConversationDrawsAccountsStrikesMeaningfulHard TimesFuelReservesFive MinutesBank AccountsSocial CapitalMeaningful Conversations Author:Michelle Gielan
“Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.” MinutesAccounts Author:John Lubbock
“What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few million potassium atoms succumb to radioactive decay. The energy that powers these tiny atomic events has been locked inside potassium atoms ever since a star-sized bomb exploded nothing into being. Potassium, like uranium and radium, is a long-lived radioactive nuclear waste of the supernova bang that accounts for you. Your first parent was a star.” FirstsLongHas BeensLightEnergyStarsParentMillionsMinutesEventsWasteAccountsPatternsNuclearTinyOpeningBombsGutsAtomsLockedDecayBangsUraniumSupernovaNuclear WastePotassium Book:Weight Source: Weight
“Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to.” FactsScienceOrderEasyMinutesMetsProveAccountsRoundsObservationExceptionalFloatsOrderlyScientific FactsIrregularity Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope that Science will not always remain powerless before such enemies.” IfsBodyScienceLife IsEnemyMinutesMercyAccountsOrganismsPowerlessMultiplicationConsolingMicrobes Author:Louis Pasteur