#counts

The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent. ↗

— Gary Miller

#crude #crude oil #demand #depends #driven

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system. ↗

— Dennis Moore

#encourage #establish #help #off #people

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. ↗

— Barbara Cartland

#chastity #counts #historical #kind #only

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. ↗

— Michael Ende

#beings #beliefs #better #comes #controlling

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#administration #all americans #benefits #cutting #guaranteed

After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#counts #neck #throat #washes #where

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#counts #effort #never #only #result

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts. ↗

— Pat Buckley

#both #counts #good #good and bad #religion

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. ↗