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“Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.”

Life Has Beens Different Past Change Movement Decades Life Changing Agendas Usual Idealism Pursued Over The Past Idealism And Realism

Author:Anita Roddick

“Warming of the climate system is unequivocal...most of the global average warming over the past 50 years is very likely due to anthropogenic greenhouse gases increases.”

Years Past Energy Environment Increase Climate Climate Change Average Dues Over The Past Greenhouses Greenhouse Gases Unequivocal

Author:Rajendra K. Pachauri

“Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.”

Has Beens Past Fighting Band Majority Affected Crew Viruses Over The Past

Author:Mika

“When Ronaldo gave that little wink everyone interpreted it that he had got his team-mate sent off. You felt then that he would become a much criticised figure. But that's not really what happened. So for him to overcome all of that and emerge as one of the players of the season is quite a remarkable achievement. He is a phenomenal talent. He has tremendous pace, he goes past players and he has added the ability to shoot. He can also pick out team-mates. There is not a lot he cannot do now. I believe his game has improved immeasurably over the past couple of seasons.”

“I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.”

People Light Past Sides Issues Week Position Gay Concern Governors Over The Past Gay Rights Good Faith Veto

Author:Andy Tobin

“Whenever I have a birthday, I think back over the past year, how I've spent my time, what I've accomplished, what regrets I have, how I've tried to make the world a better place, and what exactly I've been doing with my life over the past 365 days, and I think to myself: 'Man, I wish I'd gotten laid more'.”

Thinking Men World Years Past Wish Sex Regret My Time Accomplished Better Place Over The Past

Author:Richard M. Weiner

“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy. The Fed has followed a consistent policy of flooding the economy with easy money, leading to a misallocation of resources and an artificial 'boom' followed by a recession or depression when the Fed-created bubble bursts.”

“The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken.”

Facts Past Simple Levels Taken Century Months Climate Change Average Fallen Temperature Measurement Over The Past Satellites

Author:Peter Lilley

“Over the past eighteen years I have acted as a scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the subject of unidentified flying objects - UFO's. As a consequence of my work on the voluminous air force files and, to a greater extent, of personal investigation of many puzzling cases and interviews with witnesses of good repute, I have long been aware that the subject of UFO's could not be dismissed as mere nonsense.”

Years Long Past Force Cases Greater Air Subjects Objects Consequence Mere Flying Witness Interviews Nonsense Investigation Files Ufo Eighteen Over The Past Air Force Consultants Puzzling

Author:J. Allen Hynek

“Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.”

Has Beens Past Beautiful Next Months Blessing Institutions Decades Celebrate Brides Over The Past Anniversary Celebrate Life

Author:Todd Tiahrt

“If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us.”

Ifs Looks Past Growth Results Greater Growing Fields Possibility Future Entrepreneur Over The Past

Author:David H. McConnell

“You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.”

Thinking Want Giving Years I Can Whole Past Can Do Rooms Path One Thing Tears Right Now Giving Up Logic Stopping Never Giving Up Over The Past Do Whatever You Want

Author:Emma Stone

“I've been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. I've managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, I'm very thankful”

Years Moments Past Grows Careers Twenties Trapped Selflessness Thankfulness Over The Past Very Thankful

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.”

Past Our Lives Awareness Anxiety Mindfulness Guilt Over The Past

Author:Russell Targ

“It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future.”

Made Real Wanted Past Born Example Particular Advantage Odd Prisoner Unjust Clown Over The Past Pitiful

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that”

Littles Light Seems Past Beauty Figures Elements Favors Swim Recollection Over The Past Mellow

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.”

Years Persons Done Past Leadership Movement Safety My Time Professors Over The Past Sids

Author:Jackie Stewart

“We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.”

Knows Years Today Earth Past Degrees Climate Change Surface Rising Trends Temperature Risen Over The Past Cooling

Author:George W. Bush

“The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than their climate models predicted.”

Years Two Past Three Environment Models Happenings Scientist Climate Environmental Scared Observation Faster Global Warming Three Years Over The Past

Author:Gwynne Dyer

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

Life Past Wise Over The Past

Author:Brian Tracy

“There's what I'll call best practices and then there's reality. Based on our research over the past two to three years, there are significant differences in performance results that companies are experiencing with their security programs. There are some common things that are done very well among the best-class enterprises suffering the least amount of breaches and damages. But even having said that, there's probably no way to defeat a serious security threat today and it wouldn't matter what the tool is. The only way to do that would be to unplug the computers.”

“History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.”

Littles Past Path Strange Future Historical Unpredictable Over The Past

Book:Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

Source: Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait

“You have to look at the past in order to learn from it and move on. I've done a lot of reflecting over the past year. And certainly, I've turned the corner and am looking more toward the future in a lot of ways.”

Way Years Looks Done Past Moving Order Corners Reflecting Over The Past

Author:Tiger Woods

“There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation which aims at the methodical cultivation of their spiritual and their moral gifts. As long as the exemplary work of the Waldorf School Movement continues to spread its influence as it has done over the past decades, we can all look forward with hope. I am sure that Rudolf Steiner’s work for children must be considered a central contribution to the twentieth century and I feel it deserves the support of all freedom-loving thinking people.”

“What is at stake is how to answer the potential threat Iraq represents with the risk of proliferation of WMD. Baghdad's regime did use such weapons in the past. Today, a number of evidences may lead to think that, over the past four years, in the absence of international inspectors, this country has continued armament programs.”

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.”

“The creation message has matured over the past three decades, as the discernment and understanding of creationist leaders has matured. More and more, the emphasis is on the foundational issue: compromise of Genesis ultimately undermines the gospel itself.”

Past Three Understanding Leader Issues Creation Messages Decades Compromise Emphasis Discernment Genesis Over The Past Matured Creationist

Author:Ken Ham

“But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?”

Knows Past Values Subjects Decades Unexpected Japan Assets Irrational Over The Past Exuberance Contractions

Book:The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

Source: The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World

“Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?”

Knows Past Values Risk Subjects Higher Lows Rate Decades Uncertainty Unexpected Japan Assets Irrational Earning Inflation Over The Past Ratios Exuberance Contractions Inverse

Author:Alan Greenspan

“Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.”

Years Has Beens Past Change Ten Pitcher Over The Past Designated Hitter

Author:Gaylord Perry

“Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.”

Ifs Want Years Children Past President Five Plans Mets Our Children Your Children Five Years Secretary Over The Past Do It Yourself

Author:Geoffrey Canada

“And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.”

People Past Economy Perspective Couple Lessons Management Decades I've Learned Over The Past

Author:Steve Case

“House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.”

Years Two Past House Strong Levels Economic Activity Percent Areas Increase Fundamentals Two Years Risen Over The Past House Prices

Author:Ben Bernanke

“The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.”

Past Economy Risk Months Over The Past Downturn

Author:Ben Bernanke

“But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.”

“Over the past 60 years, marketing has moved from being product-centric (Marketing 1.0) to being consumer-centric (Marketing 2.0). Today we see marketing as transforming once again in response to the new dynamics in the environment. We see companies expanding their focus from products to consumers to humankind issues. Marketing 3.0 is the stage when companies shift from consumer-centricity to human-centricity and where profitability is balanced with corporate responsibility.”

Source: Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit

“One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.”

Years Art Past Artist Dies Process Art Is I've Learned Over The Past

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet over the past 40 years we have clear-cut the forests, fished rivers and oceans to the brink of extinction and siphoned oil from the earth as if it possessed an infinite supply. We've sold off our planet's natural capital and called it income. And now the earth, like the economy, is stripped.”

Ifs Years Earth Past Natural Economy Rich Clear Cutting Planets Ocean Economics Rivers Infinite Sells Oil Income Forests Possessed Extinction Our Planet Over The Past

Author:Kalle Lasn

“Imagine all the food mankind has produced over the past 8,000 years. Now consider that we need to produce that same amount again — but in just the next 40 years if we are to feed our growing and hungry world.”

Ifs World Needs Years Past Next Growing Imagine Mankind Produce Amount Hungry Over The Past

Author:Paul Polman

“Over the last 40 years, I have built MW into a multi-billion dollar company with amazing employees and loyal customers who value the products and service they receive at MW. Over the past several months I have expressed my concerns to the Board about the direction the company is currently heading.Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the Boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the Board has inappropriately chosen to silence my concerns through termination as an executive officer.”

“The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.”

Years Government Past Social Economy Land Spending Engineering Fabric Over The Past Social Service Government Spending Undisciplined Social Engineering

Author:Stockwell Day

“I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.”

Years Past Moving Purpose Stuff Crazy Window Moved Sole Over The Past

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I feel honored and privileged to have represented the USA program over the past 16 years. USA Hockey will always be a part of me and I will cherish the experiences and memories with this team.”

Feels Years Past Memories Team Program Usa Cherish Hockey Privileged Honored Over The Past Experiences And Memories

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.”

Persons Reason Past Interesting Modern Century Concepts Incredibles Forgotten Interesting Things Over The Past

Author:David Bentley Hart

“Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.”

Heart Past Grief Ready Over The Past

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.”

Past Causes Five Four Type Months Over The Past Diabetes Overweight

Author:Paula Deen

“The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne and His train still fills the temple. He still walks on the wings of the wind, He still rides on the backs of the mighty cherubim, and He still is the Triumphant Champion from Calvary. All hell still bends to His will, and sin and death have lost their hold on all who rest in the shadow of His presence. And the God who calmed storms, raised up dead men to life, and multiplied fishes and loaves to feed thousands is the same God we have today.”

Men Years Stills Today Past Lost Bits Sin Walks Lord Hell Wind Shadow Wings Train Raised Fishes Storm Champion Temples Thrones Our Lord Over The Past Dead Man Triumphant Power Of God Calvary

Author:Eric Ludy

“I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling”

Years Feelings Past Form Good Things Resolution Over The Past Good Feeling

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.”

Feels Years I Can Two Play Lasts Past Opportunity Felt Roles Player Team Years Ago Seasons Two Years Capability Over The Past Two Years Ago Ottawa

Author:Dany Heatley

“Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey over the past two years”

Years Two Past Gone Journey Rose Leaving Incredibles Two Years Over The Past

Author:Billie Piper

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