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The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

Quote by Martin Feldstein about power

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Quote by Russell Baker about suffering, power

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Quote by Albert Camus about people

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

Quote by Charles Dickens about sun, day, light

Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

Quote by Richard Ernst about need

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Quote by Bill Gates about life

I remember one of my first jobs, there was an old guy who had a fruit stand, I think it was Seven Corners; I helped him out one summer.

Quote by Jim Fowler about old, olderness

I love to race and haven't had an opportunity to do it this summer.

Quote by Don Johnson about haven, chance, love

Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.

Quote by Quincy Jones

In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

Quote by George Andrew Olah about life

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing, it's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway.

Quote by Timothy Olyphant about experience, things

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country, but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Quote by Thomas Paine about time, man, country, woman, love

I had spent a summer in Chicago doing community service work and loved the city, so when I finished my undergraduate degree I moved there permanently.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about city, work

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there.

Quote by Evan Parker about common sense, sense, moment

I plan on doing at least one classic ever year. That's why I'm going to be doing Enemy of the People this summer in Williamstown.

Quote by Mandy Patinkin about enemies, people

In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.

Quote by Li Peng about opinion, spring

Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you've already seen a lot of these movies 482 times.

Quote by Sean Penn about help

Beauty sat with me all the summer day, Awaiting the sure triumph of her eye; Nor mark'd I till we parted, how, hard by, Love in her train stood ready for his prey.

Quote by Robert Bridges about poetry, trains, beauty, day, love

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Quote by Hugo Claus about literature, autumn, spring, lie

To the night Maybe because you always have appeared The image of that fatal rest to me, O night! You come towards me so dear! Escorted by the summer clouds with glee And by the gentle breezes full of cheer.

Quote by Ugo Foscolo about poetry, night