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“Failing to curb the impact of climate change could damage the global economy on the scale of the Great Depression or the world wars by spawning environmental devastation that could cost 5 to 20 percent of the world's annual gross domestic product.”

“Watching a spring training game is as exciting as watching a tree form its annual ring.”

Form Games Tree Spring Training Baseball Exciting Rings Annuals Spring Training

Author:Jerry Izenberg

“As president, I will fight illegal immigration in order to preserve an appropriate level of legal immigration. At the same time, I believe our system of legal immigration needs to be re-examined. As part of this re-examination, I support a modest, temporary reduction in the annual rate of legal immigration.”

“How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for 7 years, and reduce per capita GNP growth over 25 years? A bill that will admit 30 million people to permanent legal status in the next 10 years? That will dramatically increase the annual immigration flow, and will double the guest worker flow?”

People Years America Next Growth Millions Flow Vote Increase Bills Workers Average Immigration Permanent Guests Unemployment Wages Annuals

Author:Jeff Sessions

“If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'”

“New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.”

Source: Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864

“A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.”

Wells Littles Remains Cease Holiday Dozen New Year Strain Oath Snaps Annuals New Years Eve Happy New Year New Year Friendship

Author:Mark Twain

“The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined by the hungriest unfortunates whom the non-union operators can employ.”

Principles Struggle Acceptance Standards Agree Unions Determined Permit Earning Annuals Miners Operators Economic Inequality

Author:John L. Lewis

“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.”

Years Age Earth Inspiring Stronger Aging Seven Fats Diets Nurse Nutrition Shocked Seven Years Weight Loss Examination Annuals Dieting Fat Girl

Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

Problem Views Virtue Industry Drug Incredibles Point Of View Alcohol Aids Hiv Dose Annuals Pharmaceutical Hiv Aids Pharmaceutical Industry

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“It is particularly appropriate that we unveil this campaign on this first day of the annual international coastal clean-up effort. Beach cleanups are something each of us can do any time of the year. I'm proud to be participating in the cleanup efforts today and I encourage everyone to make the time for these types of activities.”

Years Firsts Today Can Do Effort Type Proud Activity Ocean Clean International Campaigns Beach Appropriate Participating Annuals Coastal

Author:Ted Danson

“The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.”

I Can Science Duty Thousand Office Research Plant Philosopher Titles Leisure Principal Invited Observing Salary Annuals Dukes Tuscany Highness

Author:Galileo Galilei

“If we continue on the trend we’re on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than 700 million people out of dollar-and-a-quarter a day poverty and back from the brink of hunger and malnutrition. But if we accelerate our progress from 3 percent annual reduction to over 6 percent and focus on key turnarounds in some difficult countries, we could get a 90 percent reduction. We could essentially eliminate dollar-and-a-quarter head count poverty.”

People Ifs Country Difficult Poverty Millions Focus Progress Keys Percent Dollars Hunger Extremes Trends Quarters Lifting Reduction Annuals Accelerate Malnutrition Extreme Poverty Turnaround

Author:Rajiv Shah

“Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.”

Death Dying Amusement Posterity Impermanence Annuals

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.”

“Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely a matter of outrage that over half a million women die annually from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. This is nearly half the annual global death toll, and arguably, a direct reflection of the disempowerment of women in social, economic and political life.”

“Greenhouse gas emissions: Ultimately, stabilisation - at whatever level - requires that annual emissions be brought down to more than 80% below current levels”

Levels Climate Change Currents Gas Emissions Annuals Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases

Author:Nicholas Stern

“According to the International Institute for Environment and Development, the annual amount spent globally on advertising aimed at increasing consumption topped $430 billion in 1998.Consumer capitalism is dedicated to the proposition that production is good in itself, no matter what is produced. The net effect is the massive production of absurd, empty and useless items which are nevertheless utterly serious since we earn our living from them, and dedicate our leisure time to them.”

“As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.”

“Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.”

Should Government Politics Nations Wish Honest Ought Taxes Constant Strings Restraint Taxation Purses Annuals Honest Government

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When we most want it, it does not come.”

Want Doe Two Inspiration Song Three Results Rely Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs Annuals Output Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the return of the declination to its original value is slightly ahead of the period of the centre. Hence it necessarily follows that the equinoxes and solstices seem to anticipate their timing, not because the sphere of the fixed stars moves to the east, but rather the equatorial circle moves to the west, being at an angle to the plane of the ecliptic in proportion to the declination of the axis of the terrestrial globe.”

Source: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

“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.”

Source: Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman

“As you all know by now, this is the 51st annual Academy Awards. Two hours of sparkling entertainment spread out over a four-hour show.”

Knows Two Shows Hours Four Entertainment Spread Awards Academy Annuals Sparkling Academy Awards

Author:Johnny Carson

“If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.”

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Author:John Oliver

“Consider the problem of over-population. Rapidly mounting human numbers are pressing ever more heavily on natural resources. What is to be done?... The annual increase of numbers should be reduced. But how? We are given two choices -- famine, pestilence and war on the one hand, birth control on the other. Most of us choose birth control.”

Should Humans Two War Done Problem Hands Choices Given Natural Numbers Birth Resources Increase Population Famine Natural Resources Annuals Birth Control Pestilence Two Choices

Author:Aldous Huxley

“You do something annual every year, don't you?”

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Author:George Noory

“The arrangement was simply FreedomWorks paid Glenn Beck money and Glenn Beck said nice things about FreedomWorks on the air. I saw that a million dollars went to Beck this past year, that was the annual expenditure. I put it down now as basically as paid advertising for FreedomWorks by Beck.”

Years Said Past Millions Saws Nice Air Paid Dollars Advertising Arrangements Million Dollars Nice Things Annuals Expenditures

Author:Dick Armey

“She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.”

Hands Light Names Space Support Fine Hot Filled Unity Missions Cards Addresses Philanthropy Too Short Pledge Annuals Projectors

Book:The Dog of the South

Source: The Dog of the South

“Clients have no trouble paying $5,800 for an hour in a Gulfstream corporate jet or $425 for a month of parking. But God forbid they spend $3 per on a glossy annual report.”

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Author:Bill Cahan

“At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.”

Years Ends Done Events Pages Boxes Dinner Shelves Calendars Annuals Skates

Author:Sloane Crosley

“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.”

Ifs Believe Real Reason Film Program Don't Believe Sake Artistic Being Real Dose Annuals Film Music

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“I look at my annual budgets for everything and anything, and I look to see where I can save the most money on those items. Saving 30% to 50% buying in bulk - replenishable items from toothpaste to soup, or whatever I use a lot of - is the best guaranteed return on investment you can get anywhere.”

Looks I Can Use Inspiring Business Return Entrepreneur Investment Saving Budgets Buying Soup Items Annuals Toothpaste Return On Investment Buying In

Author:Mark Cuban

“The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.”

Should Government Values Justice Rights Land Equal Currents Locals Acquire Users Efficiency Revenue Adequate Payment Duration Annuals Local Government

Author:Robert Solow

“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.”

Years Made Ends Half Computer Income Apples Annuals

Author:Bill Budge

“One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.”

Years Firsts Two Ends Whole Night Three Memories Morning Five Brother Eating Decided Memorable Pounds Be Grateful Thanksgiving Contests Annuals Most Memorable Two Brothers

Author:Charles Kelley

“The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires no vaccinators, distributes no vaccine. It is a small Geneva bureaucracy run by several hundred international delegates whose annual votes tell the organization what to do but not how to do it.…The only substantial resource that WHO has cultivated is information and expertise.”

Government Running Information Authority Hundred Resources Vote Organization International Bureaucracy Expertise Vaccines Annuals Delegates Geneva

Book:Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Source: Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

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

Long Made Gone Medical Expenses Hospitals Surgery Senior Hospitality Annuals

Author:Jim Gerlach

“Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don't do equations with Greek letters in them.”

Letters Investing Greek Reports Equations Annuals Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

Nations Growth Materials Mad Population Engaged Immigrants Funeral Annuals Future Growth

Book:Freedom and reality

Source: Freedom and reality

“National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.”

Lost Audience Magazines Annuals National Lampoon

Author:Ricky Van Veen

“It boggles my mind that the same people who cry ‘foul’ about rationing an instant later argue to reduce health care benefits for the needy, to defund crucial programs of care and prevention, and to shift thousands of dollars of annual costs to people – elders, the poor, the disabled – who are least able to bear them.”

Source: Promising Care: How We Can Rescue Health Care by Improving It

“The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.”

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Author:Vincent Canby

“In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of their rated total generating capacity. Today, as a result of several decades of experience and an intense focus on performance ... nuclear plants in the United States operate at over 90 percent of capacity. That improvement in operating efficiently is so significant in its impact that it can almost be seen as a new source in electric power itself.”

“Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.”

May Long Moments Running Turns Opportunity Waiting Fishing Retiring Vacation Long Runs Urgent Annuals

Author:Ted Trueblood

“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.”

Years Humans States United Millions United States Rights Percent Human Rights Budgets Usa Council Funding Annuals

Author:Michael McCaul

“A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“What has been the most rewarding moment in your decades of entrepreneurship? Our last annual managers meeting. I gave my motivational talk and then I asked, How many people here started as a forklift operator, a warehouse person, a roof loader, or a truck driver? We had 600 people and almost half of them stood up.”

People Persons Has Beens Moments Lasts Business Half Meetings Decades Entrepreneurship Managers Drivers Roof Truck Annuals Stood Up Operators Warehouse Truck Driver

Author:Ken Hendricks

“Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.”

“I can't recall ever once having seen the name of a market timer on Forbes' annual list of the richest people in the world. If it were truly possible to predict corrections, you'd think somebody would have made billions by doing it.”

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Author:Peter Lynch

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