Accounts Quotes - Page 5

• Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

  Quentin Crisp

  Journey, Laughing, Misfortunes

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• In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

  Kenny Marchant

  Children, School, Each Day

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• I'm letting no man handle my bank account.

  Hattie McDaniel

  Letting Go, Men, Bank Accounts

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• A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

  Ezra Stiles

  Two, People, Together

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• The Mole had long wanted to make the I acquaintance of the Badger. He seemed, by all accounts, to be such an important personage and, though rarely visible, to make his unseen influence felt by everybody about the place.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Long, Important, Unseen

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.39, Delphi Classics

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• There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

  Giorgio Armani

  Ambition, Artist, Ego

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• I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

  Clive Bell

  Trying, Degrees, Emotion

  'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3

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• Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.

  Omar Bongo

  Development, World, Trade

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• Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

  Jim Leach

  Drawing, President, Reform

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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  Harold Brodkey

  Long Ago, People, Stories

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• In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Wiping Out, Saving

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• Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

  Jacob Hacker

  Home, Qualms About, People

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• For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.

  Charles M. Vest

  Real, Science, Technology

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

  John W. Snow

  President, Saving, Transformation

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• I like the idea of giving workers control and putting their money into their personal accounts.

  Virginia Foxx

  Ideas, Giving, Growth

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• If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

  Grace Napolitano

  Aggravation, Benefits, Investment

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• Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Shoes, Tennis, Trying

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Book, America, Quality

  "The Supreme Court in the American System of Government". Book by Robert H. Jackson, p. 30, 1955.

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• To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Causes, Erode

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• I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Bystanders, Internet Access, People

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• No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

  Joe Biden

  Real, Cutting, Matter

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• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  George Eliot

  Country, Spiritual, Taken

  'Daniel Deronda' (1876) bk. 3, ch. 24

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• Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.

  Bill Frist

  Senior, Retirement, Powerful

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• Voluntary personal savings accounts would enable future retirees to harness the power of the marketplace when saving for their retirements.

  Bill Frist

  Retirement, Growth, Saving

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• We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

  Susan George

  Needs, Tools, Arithmetic

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