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“It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.”

Years Country Constitution Independence Declaration Declaration Of Independence

“We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude agreements and possibly that will happen next year.”

Needs Years Stills Country Happens Next Agreement Next Year

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.”

Years Country Company Havens Taxes Paper Trade Corporate Dozen Citizenship Papers Bermuda

Author:Richard Neal

“What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.”

Years Mean Country Source Direct Cooking Rounds Boxes Woods Heat Grilling

Author:Jamie Oliver

“My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.”

Years Two Country Hundred Opposites Twenties Opening Observation Japan Splits Ambiguity Present Day Two Opposites Modernisation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.”

Years Country Political Conditions Office Leaving Administration Diapers Toddler Leaving The Country

Author:Graydon Carter

“For them (the peoples of the Soviet Union) We cherish the warmest paternal affection. We are well aware that not a few of them groan beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who in very large part are strangers to the real interests of the country. We recognize that many others were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the system with its authors and abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with a plan elaborated years ago, and who from there continue to spread it from one of the world to the other.”

Men World Years Wells Real Country Interest Plans Fields Years Ago Blame Unions Affection Jew Stranger Spread Russia Cherish Soviet Soviet Union Deceived Yoke

Author:Pope Pius XI

“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.”

Ifs Years Country Fighting Energy Technology Cutting Cost Committed Spending Billions Massive Cents Carbon Gdp Save A Life

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“Being in L.A., it was really hard to find a country writer and producer. I eventually - years of searching - found this guy, Dan Franklin. He's an incredible musician and producer. We write so well together... It's been a really cool experience.”

Writing Years Wells Country Hard Together Guy Found Musician Incredibles Producers This Guy Really Cool Franklin

Author:Sasha Pieterse

“President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.”

World Want Should Years Said War Country Turns President Democracy Achieve Style Capacity Western Secure Aspiration Realistic Afghanistan President Obama Poorest

Author:David Petraeus

“The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.”

Years Country Problem Government Given Effort Crisis Financial Size Storm Passing Passings Our Country Financial Crisis Insistence

Author:Lucas Papademos

“The last four years under President Obama have been trying and troubling for this entire country. The tired big government policies of the past have failed us. We can't afford more disappointments. We need a new direction. We need a new president.”

Needs Trying Years Has Beens Country Bigs Government Lasts Past President Four Policy Tired Disappointment President Obama Four Years Big Government New Directions Government Policy

Author:Reince Priebus

“I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Two Country Crazy Hot Helen Going Crazy Two Countries Helen Of Troy

Author:Colin Quinn

“There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.”

“I was elected by the people of Australia as Prime Minister of Australia. I was elected to do a job, I intend to continue doing that job. I intend to continue doing it to the absolute best of my ability. Part of that job has been to steer this country through the worst economic crisis the world has seen in 75 years.”

People World Years Has Beens Country Jobs Ability Economic Worst Absolutes Crisis Ministers Australia Prime Prime Minister Steers Economic Crisis

Author:Kevin Rudd

“The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.”

Needs Years Country Force Plans Commitment Originals Soldier Billions Experts Occupation Afghanistan Marshall Plan

Author:Ted Rall

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

Want Giving Years Country Wanted Opportunity Parent President Chance Succeed Give Me President Obama New Opportunity

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

Years Firsts Country Facts Nations Fronts Pages Native Native American Tribes Sovereignty Interfaces Settlers New Relationship

Author:Ken Salazar

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

Should Years Country Seems School Humanity Difficult Challenges Achieve Crime Buddhism Politician Rate Pace Should I Governing School System Crime Rates Symbiosis

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.”

Ifs Years Looks Made Country Character Able Lasts Poverty Economy Progress Generations Example Grew Percent East Indian Asian 1960s Phenomenal Asian Countries

Author:Manmohan Singh

“There is a battle to be waged over what kind of country we are going to leave our children and grandchildren and that battle is happening now in Washington, not two years from now.”

Years Kind Children Two Country Battle Happenings Our Children Two Years Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

Author:John Thune

“We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!”

Ifs Years Wells Country Dies Years Ago Western Clubs Texas Austin Emo

Author:Alan Vega

“If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.”

Ifs Years Country Done Wanted Years Ago Pops Singers Country Love

Author:Chely Wright

“In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.”

People Way Years Country Enough Lasts Lost Four Heard Our Country Four Years Had Enough Drifting

Author:Ted Yoho

“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.”

Ifs Years May Long Art Country Able Culture Imagination Christianity One Thing Capture

Author:Rowan Williams

“I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the US.”

People Thinking Years Stills Country Ability Watches Television Tvs Internet Wide Inches Foreign Countries Csi

Author:Leslie Moonves

“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

“I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.”

Knows Way Years Looks Country States Evolution Blessing South Evolve Wow Grandfather My Grandfather Carolina South Carolina

Author:Tim Scott

“The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It's a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.”

Years Country Beautiful Life Is Culture Tree Significance Reminders Cherries Beauty Of Life Fragility Japanese Culture Cherry Blossom

Author:Homaro Cantu

“I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future.”

Knows Years Persons Ideas Country Whole Happens Winning Minutes Ten Our Country No Idea Iowa Hampshire New Hampshire Caucus Whole Picture

Author:Jackie Mason

“March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.”

Years Stills Country Light Seems Deals Months Activity Spring Violent Weather Frustration March Yards Springtime Light Years Outdoor Activities

Author:Thalassa Cruso

“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”

Years Stills Country Song Voice Powerful Issues Industry Calling Thousand Environmental Elders Statesmen Nelson Environmental Issues

Author:Willie Nelson

“I had been secretary of state for eight years, attorney general for four years, lieutenant governor for four years, and governor for four years - I had all these friends around the country - so I thought I could gin up a campaign not for me but against George W. Bush, against his war, against his economic policies, and against his education policies.”

Years War Country States Four Economic Policy Eight Campaigns Four Years Governors Secretary Attorney Gin Economic Policy Lieutenants

Author:Don Siegelman

“We're comfortable financially, so it wasn't a financial issue that I voted Conservative. Basically, it was for the same reason we voted for Diefenbaker. First it was Mackenzie King, then St. Laurent -- Christ, the Liberals were in something like 20 years in a row (22 actually) --and we simply needed a change. It was getting like a dictatorship. Whether elected or not, that's not good for the country. I didn't go to war for a dictatorship.”

Years Firsts War Country Reason Christ Issues Kings Needed Comfortable Financial Conservative Dictatorship

Author:Don Drysdale

“I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.”

Years Said Country Running Wanted Father Politics Capacity Years Ago Breweries

Author:Pete Coors

“I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.”

Years Looks Country Streets Wall Profession Lawyer Time Spent Foreign Countries

Book:Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Source: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.”

Years Long Has Beens Country Enough President Media Six Flaws

Author:Robert Dallek

“Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.”

Years Country Lasts Gone Economic Perception India Beggar Superpower

Author:Vivek Wadhwa

“Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.”

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

People Ifs Way Years Country Reason Motivational Remember Dies Three Reading Loses Numbers Prove Retiring Three Years Contributing Will To Live Prove To Me

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“We are already engaged in World War III. It is a war against nature, and it is simply no contest. As a result, the threat from the skies is no longer missiles but ozone-layer depletion and global warming. Leaders who assert they will not concede one square meter of national territory to an invader should think of the hundreds of square kilometers of topsoil eroded from their countries each year.”

“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Long Important Country Bigs Term Environment Taxes Projects Important Things Seeking Decades Long Term Predictable Payback

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”

World Way Years Made Country Grows Stuff Mystery Figures Ambition Hatred Significant Surround Legends Boundless Visiting Menace

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Mean Country Facts Stories Feelings Memories Fiction Happened Findings Distance Details Versions Being True Conquer Paradise Wilderness Transformed Sad Story

Author:Jayne Anne Phillips

“Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.”

People Years Country Poor Five Planets Average Billions Zero Carbon Making Changes Carbon Dioxide Poor Countries

Author:Bill Gates

“The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.”

Source: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire

“In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.”

Years Long Soul Country Freedom Land Pride Honor Let Me Perseverance Shade Fades Vistas

Author:John Keats

“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.”

People Ifs Years Children Littles Said Country States Home Government Force United Common Pay Company United States Masters Politician Slave Debt Statistics Loan Monopoly Sharks

Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease

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