#count

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #balanced budget #budget #budgets #genuinely

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#beginning #completely #democratic #fact #form

I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#any #believe #country #dig #everyone

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountability. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#again #attention #haven #high #high school

But the other notion is, we also believe that those folks closest on the ground that we're holding accountable for the results can decide, and ought to evaluate which programs get results. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

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I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#advance #age #attended #born #count

The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#climate #first #founded #gave #glowing

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#away #children #common #common thing #countries

What I can do for my country, I am willing to do. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

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