#serves

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#anwr #bring #consumption #enough #estimated

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. ↗

— William Scranton

#citizens #direct #display #government #interest

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#becomes #bereft #commander #dependence #deserves

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. ↗

— Tommy Shaw

#deserves #guitar #guy #i #instruments

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#cannot #contempt #into #law #laws

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certainly #clear #cultural #cultures #i

It is not every question that deserves an answer. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#deserves #every #question

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#certain #conscience #god #good #him

Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#cities #fills #heaven #itself #kingdoms

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#bank #because #below #calm #central