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“The man in the street has unfortunately been sold the idea that the breakthrough cure for cancer is just around the corner... The very prospect of effective treatment seems so remote that it doesn't even enter into the speculative day-to-day conversation of people engaged in cancer research... New treatments have not produced any detectable decline in the total annual cancer mortality, even for children.”

“I got a postcard from my gynecologist. It said, Did you know it's time for your annual check-up? No, but now my mailman does.”

Knows Doe Said Checks Annuals Did You Know Postcards Mailman Gynecologists

Author:Cathy Ladman

“While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana.”

Inspiration Motivation Grew Republic Revenue Microsoft Annuals Gdp Ghana

Author:Patrick Awuah, Jr.

“Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'”

Thinking Ends Economy Products Birth Drama Eating Consumers Agriculture Participants Annuals

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“Will a guaranteed annual wage kill incentive among the poor? If a man is given a certain amount of security, won't he quit working? Exactly the same contention could be made about the sons of the wealthy who are left large fortunes. Yet the evidence suggests that, given economic freedom, people will generally choose to do that which interests them most. It is up to society to see that these interests are widened and that too requires investment.”

People Ifs Men Made Certain Left Given Interest Poor Economic Security Son Amount Evidence Fortune Investment Quitting Wealthy Incentives Annuals Contention Economic Freedom

Author:Pierre Berton

“When you only have a million dollar annual budget and a Super Bowl ad costs $4 million, you have to do something very creative to get onto the Super Bowl.”

Millions Creative Cost Dollars Budgets Ads Bowls Million Dollars Super Bowl Annuals

Author:Allen St. Pierre

“Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.”

Giving Years Institutions Customs Have Faith Annuals

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.”

House Healing Tradition Sacred Cinema Classic Holiday Celebration Annuals Holiday Traditions

Book:Simple Abundance

Source: Simple Abundance

“In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.”

Years Firsts Time President Return Honor First Time Passing Passings Distinguished Comeback Visiting Philadelphia Annuals Passing Through

Book:End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“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.”

Important Use Used Streets Events Tradition Democratic Presidential Protest March Boston Marathon Parades Annuals Inauguration Boston Marathon

Author:Amby Burfoot

“For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the summer sends a message: Here's the data that would have helped you improve your teaching based on the needs of these students if you would have had it in time, but since it's late and there's nothing you can do about it, we'll just release it to the newspapers so they can editorialize again about how bad our schools are.”

Ifs Needs Long School Can Do Cases Learning Teacher Teaching Students Months Late Summer Messages Tests Newspapers Release Data Score Assessment Annuals Departed Test Scores

Author:Douglas B. Reeves

“Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.”

Guy Reports Other Guys Annuals Playboy Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

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

World Matter Energy Equal Genocide Consumption Annuals Annihilation Energy Consumption

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.”

Way Looks Ideas Helping Government Policy Als Senate Organize Lenses Conferences Moderates Annuals Government Policy

Author:Tipper Gore

“...the NCI...Annual planning Project Requirements (says that) by July 1, 1975, it is estimated that 670,000 people in the US will be working on cancer.”

People Age Dark Projects Cancer Medical Planning Requirements July Dark Ages Annuals

Author:June Goodfield

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

Years Firsts Science Fiction Science Fiction British Annuals Chum

Author:A. E. van Vogt

“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.”

Want Years Understanding Havens Assessment Annuals Statutes Connecticut

Author:Margaret Spellings

“NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.”

Years Space Ocean Budgets Fund Exploration Space Exploration Nasa Annuals Ocean Exploration

Author:Robert Ballard

“When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.”

Years Successful Investing Reports Annuals Buffett Annual Reports

Author:Warren Buffett

“We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened . . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.”

Feels Jobs Causes Black White Program Income Minimum Threatened Annuals American Family

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty.”

Ifs Age Source Baby Disease Comfortable Doctors Asking Shoes Illness Forty Triggers Flu Vaccines Annuals Chronic Illness Aspirin Sneaky Comfortable Shoes Flu Vaccine

Author:David Agus

“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.”

Looks Used Boys Figures Kings Hero Horror Fairs Pity Shock Murderer Chamber Emperor Annuals Unreality

Book:I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller

Source: I was a German: the autobiography of Ernst Toller

“We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?”

Home Values Wealth Class Middle Taxes Majors Property Middle Class Wealthy Why Not Assets Annuals Property Taxes

Author:Robert Reich

“The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.”

Giving Poor Rich Conscience Wounds Enterprise Annuals Bonus

Author:E. B. White

“If any person had told the Parliament which met in terror and perplexity after the crash of 1720 that in 1830 the wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams, that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that debt which they considered an intolerable burden, that for one man of”

Ifs Men Persons Dream Wealth Progress Mets Equal England Terror Burden Debt One Man Principal Crash Revenue Parliament Annuals Perplexity Wildest Dreams

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Only yonder magnificent pine-tree... holds her unchanging beauty throughout the year, like her half-brother, the ocean, whose voice she shares; and only marks the flowing of her annual tide of life by the new verdure that yearly submerges all trace of last year's ebb.”

Years Lasts Voice Half Tree Share Brother Ocean Mark Tides Last Year Magnificent Annuals Like Her Unchanging Pine Trees

Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

“Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?”

World Helping Faces Strong Nations Millions Amount Developing Cream Lipstick Annuals Gum Chewing Chewing Gum

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees.”

Thinking World Giving Writing Littles Company Speech Letters Video Reports Employee Ceo Annuals Memos Annual Reports

Author:Lou Gerstner

“It is an inconvenience, being located in a city where taxes are ludicrously high, where you pay twice your annual income to rent an apartment that could easily be carried on a commercial airline flight.”

Funny Pay Cities New York Taxes Humorous Income Flight Apartment Airline Annuals Inconvenience

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a remarkable job of getting New Yorkers from Point A to an indeterminate location somewhere in the tunnel leading to point B.”

Doe Funny Jobs New York Humorous Budgets Remarkable Location Boast Stolen Tunnels New Yorkers Maintenance Subway Annuals

Book:Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

Source: Dave Barry's Greatest Hits

“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.”

Thinking Easy Numbers Taken Cutting Honest Example Balance Taxes Spending Being Honest Budgets Deficit Contradictory Exceed Governing Pledge Annuals Budget Deficit

Author:Brian Baird

“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.”

Television Majority Radio Corporations Stations Formulas Annuals Broadcasting Appropriation Public Radio

Author:Earl Blumenauer

“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.”

Feels Years Hands Parent Numbers Comfortable Trade Unions Debate Agendas Nuts Conferences Format Annuals Attending Trade Unions

Author:Saffron Burrows

“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.”

Thinking Ends School Hours White Decision Wonder Standing Ridiculous Shirts Bedroom Costumes Annuals Disco Jumpers White Shirts

Author:Guy Berryman

“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.”

Play Wanted Christian Mother Hate Baseball Unions Meetings Engaged Annuals Temperance Skiing

Author:Maureen Forrester

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