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“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.”

“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.”

Years Father Winning Events Remembered Atonement Annuals Decisiveness

Author:Janet Suzman

“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.”

Should Would Be Mistake Cutting Economic Taxes Income Recovery Fragile Annuals Tax Cuts Raising Taxes Economic Recovery

Author:Mark Zandi

“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.”

World Way Years Children Book Country Young Interest Fiction Focus Reader Shapes Adults Increase Historical Young Adult Backgrounds Awards Historical Fiction Annuals Dell Previous Years

Author:Scott O'Dell

“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.”

Knows Years Wells President Successful Land Dying One Day Members News Meetings Addresses Our Society Annuals Live Well Euthanasia Promised Land Dying Well

Author:Victor Lewis-Smith

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

Significant Autumn Nostalgic Annuals Fall Autumn Autumn Leaves Cascade Autumn Love

Author:Joe L. Wheeler

“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.”

Source: The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition

“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.”

People Thinking Littles I Can Ideas Bigs Cutting Busy Budgets Meat Mice Annuals Big Ideas

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.”

“While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.”

Years Balance Percent Performances Accounts Impact Fund Unpredictable Annuals Fees

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“The 10th Annual Webby Awards represent an extraordinary opportunity to celebrate the evolution of the web from an esoteric medium to the driving force shaping popular culture, business, and society today, .. As the web enters its second decade as an integral part of everyday life, our expanded categories recognize those who are pushing the web in exciting new directions.”

“Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging way. That’s why I turned to Russ when I needed someone to present on the subject to the annual staff retreat of the Drug Policy Alliance. And it’s why I repeatedly recommend him for speaking and media opportunities. He’s good!”

“I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal Family, and has obtained an annual pension for life-the dreadful fear of poverty and want having left his house for ever; I felt the safety and shelter which the little chickens feel under the wings of the hen. This is what it is to abide under the shadow of the Almighty, and to hide under His wings until all dangers are past.”

“Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.”

Self Earth Humanity Sun Revolution Destruction Turmoil Self Destruction Annuals

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.”

Ifs Would Be Fire Five Bills Dollars Average Defense Aids Foolish Ridiculous Income Percentages Annuals Small Parts Dollar Bills Foreign Aid

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables of Cassine and Meyer (used in the 19-th century). The Indian tables give the same annual variation of the moon as the discovered by Tycho Brahe - a variation unknown to the school of Alexandria and also to the Arabs who followed the calculations of the school ... The Hindu systems of astronomy are by far the oldest and that from which the Egyptians, Greek, Romans and - even the Jews derived from the Hindus their knowledge.”

Giving Years School Used Stars Minutes Century Moon Tables Jew Astronomy Indian Greek Variation Vary Calculations Annuals Alexandria

Author:Jean Sylvain Bailly

“At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.”

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“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.”

Mets Confusion Hotel Conventions Aesthetic Hospitality Aesthetics Annuals American Society Anesthetics

Book:Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

Source: Parables of Sun Light: Observations on Psychology, the Arts, and the Rest

“Hence I feel no shame in asserting that this whole region engirdled by the moon, and the center of the earth, traverse this grand circle amid the rest of the planets in an annual revolution around the sun. Near the sun is the center of the universe. Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.”

Feels Whole Earth Universe Sun Planets Revolution Moon Shame Remains Dues Circles Regions Annuals Center Of The Universe Stationary Traverse

Book:Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

Source: Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions

“During the 1960s, and again in the 1970s, growth in manufacturing productivity in the United Kingdom was the lowest of all the seven major industrial countries in the world. During the 1980s, our annual rate of growth of output per head in manufacturing has been the highest of all the seven major industrial countries.”

World Has Beens Country Growth United Majors Highest Seven Rate Productivity Kingdoms Lowest 1960s Manufacturing Annuals Output United Kingdom

Author:Nigel Lawson

“We have spoken on many occasions of the need to achieve high economic growth as an absolute priority for our country. The annual address for 2003 set for the first time the goal of doubling gross domestic product within a decade.”

Needs Firsts Country Goal Growth Economic Achieve Products First Time Absolutes Decades Priorities Our Country Occasions Addresses Gross Economic Growth Annuals Gross Domestic Product

Author:Vladimir Putin

“After careful consideration, we have decided that for our next fiscal year, we'll issue guidance on comparable store used unit sales and on earnings per share only for the full fiscal year. We will no longer issue quarterly guidance. This decision reflects our continuing focus on longer-term store, sales, and earnings growth and on return on invested capital, and our recognition that the performance in shorter-term periods can be more volatile than over the longer term. As we report our quarterly results, we plan to comment on how our performance is tracking against our annual guidance.”

“It would take little more than $50 billion to raise every poor person above the official poverty line, yet the percentage of the population classified as poor hardly budges, while annual welfare spending amounts to four times that much. Where's the money going?”

Littles Persons Lines Poor Poverty Four Amount Economics Raises Population Corruption Spending Billions Welfare Officials Percentages Annuals

Author:Robert Higgs

“Today was the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. Usually when you see something rolling on the White House lawn it's a drunk Secret Service agent.”

Today House White Secret Drunk Agents Eggs White House Rolling Easter Lawns Annuals Secret Service Easter Egg Egg Rolls

Author:Conan O'Brien

“This weekend President Obama attended the annual Gridiron Club Dinner, and during his speech he joked that he is getting older and crankier. Which explains why he announced he no longer supports President Obama.”

President Support Speech Clubs Dinner President Obama Weekend Getting Old Getting Older Annuals Gridiron

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.”

Company Materials Source Reports Competitors Annuals Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.”

Simple Clear Focus Quiet Reflection Faithful Reminders Simple Things Annuals Quiet Reflection

Author:Charles R. Swindoll

“Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.”

Men Care Wealth Animal Planets Calling Abuse Function Regard Plant Grass Routine Vegetables Concrete Carbon Disrespect Cattle Never Ending Annuals Acres Swagger No Respect Enamored

Author:Joel Salatin

“If we functionally define a capitalist household as one that receives at least half of the annual income it spends on consumption in the form of return on invested capital, less than 1 percent of United States households are capitalists.”

Ifs States Wisdom Form Politics United Half United States Economy Return Percent Income Liberalism Capitalist Household Consumption Annuals

Author:Louis O. Kelso

“When I take a look at a company's annual report, if I don't understand it, they don't want me to understand it.”

Ifs Want Looks Company Reports Want Me Annuals Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“One of the loveliest things about being grown up is the knowledge that never again will I have to go through the miserable business of performing in Mrs. Smedley's Annual Piano Recital at McKinleyville's First Presbyterian Church.”

Firsts Church Miserable Piano Performing Adulthood Annuals Presbyterians Recitals

Book:A Window Over the Sink

Source: A Window Over the Sink

“The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.”

Want Persons Imagination Pleasure Tree Building Circumstances Promise Taste Equal Perfection Plant Suits Variety Lasting Decay Annuals

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Happiness is a hardy annual.”

Happiness Annuals Hardy

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.”

Stills Return Bed Twenties Green Rose Giants Annuals Skyscraper Asparagus

Book:I take great pleasure

Source: I take great pleasure

“A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.”

Pain Pleasure Journey Amount Mere Discrimination Reasonable Pens Notebook Annuals Pain And Pleasure

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to publish. Five years after his interment, Proust seems dead for the first time.”

Years Firsts Has Beens Seems Left Five Alive Reader First Time Appearance Five Years Publish Annuals Proust Posthumous

Author:Janet Flanner

“Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.”

Firsts Humans Brother South Legs Spots Meant To Be Rooted Annuals Roost

Author:Mitchell Burgess

“A ten per cent reduction in military expenditures per year would be reasonable, coupled with a programme of retraining the workforce and redirecting the resources in a manner that creates employment and advances social welfare. I also encourage all States to contribute to the UN's annual Report on Military Expenditures by submitting complete data on national defence budgets.”

“It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.”

Has Beens States Causes United United States Modern Percent Increase Mere Investment Absence Productivity Worn Equipment Machinery Annuals Worn Out Substitution

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“I believe we can balance the scales if Tom Cruise would lower his quote by a mere $29 million... I assure you my salary would not make a difference. My annual salary is the budget for Altoids on one of Tom's movies.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Differences Millions Balance Mere Scales Budgets Making A Difference Toms Salary Cruise Annuals

Author:Alec Baldwin

“The annual cost of cybercrime to the global economy is more than $4 billion”

Economy Cost Billions Annuals Global Economy Cybercrime

Author:Mark Rutte

“Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.”

Asks Annuals Yacht Upkeep

Author:J. P. Morgan

“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!”

Years Firsts Kind Long I Can Two Kids Used Stuff Cities Crazy College All Kinds Beach Piano Prize Two Years Contests Annuals Crazy Things Long Beach

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.”

People World Years Kind Two Book Country Today Hate Interesting Seeing This World I Hate Cooks Kitchen Culinary Olympics Competing Annuals Fattening

Author:Peg Bracken

“There is no better way to return the matter of taxation to full public discusssion than to repeal the withholding taxes on wages and salaries. Only when the American people are confronted with the enormous excesses of government in a personal and direct way - by an annual bill for services rendered - will they be able to make an informed judgment about which services they want and which ones they can do without.”

People Way Want Matter Government Able Can Do Modern Return Taxes Judgment Direct Bills Enormous Excess Wages Taxation Salary Modern Life Better Ways Annuals Withholding

Author:Karl Hess

“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.”

“Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.”

Writing Play Roles Unconscious Reports Annuals Annual Reports

Author:Mason Cooley

“Another myth we fed to the public through the media was that legalizing abortion would only mean that the abortions taking place i1legally would then be done legally. In fact, of course, abortion is now being used as a primary method of birth control in the U.S. and the annual number of abortions has increased by 1,500 percent since legalization.”

Mean Done Facts Used Courses Numbers Media Birth Percent Method Myth Primaries Abortion Feds Annuals Birth Control

Author:Bernard Nathanson

“A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.”

“Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a few thousand copies over a period of fifteen years, while the same title by Seymour Lipschutz in the The Schaum's Outlines will be considered a failure unless it brings in a steady annual income from the sale of a few hundred thousand copies in twenty-six languages?”

Years Science Language Periods Thousand Six Hundred Twenties Mathematics Income Titles Copies Steady Display Fifteen Outlines Linear Annuals Algebra Fifteen Years

Author:Gian-Carlo Rota