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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham J. Heschel

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Lenny Bruce

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month.

Ray Williams

We have raised minimum investment levels in order to attract bigger investors and boost total investments.

Lakshman Watawala

What I like to tell people is, leave it minimum. The playing field is relatively even if the equipment is even.

Darrell Spencer

We want to raise a minimum of $600 to help purchase books.

Miguel Drew

We just try to keep the B.S. to a minimum, ... The bigger you get, the more there is.

Todd Nance

By not paying or by paying only the minimum balance, you can hurt your credit rating. Students can come out of school with not only educational but also consumer debt.

Noreen Lephardt

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Leslie Jones

The economy has hit an air pocket, at minimum.

Bill Sterling

McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.

Dan Cantor

There's so much investment capital out there for profitable new technologies. Investors are constantly looking for good ideas to invest in. If these ideas are as good as these companies say, they should have no problem, at minimum, finding a loan.

Brian M. Riedl

Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards. We're merely restating our authority. We're the agency that sets standards. Our standards are not minimum standards.

Rae Tyson

It'll be an economic catalyst for this region. We're estimating 100 full-time equivalent on staff at a minimum.

Bob Workman

Stocks that have minimum exposure to higher interest rates.

William Hummer

I think you'll find that minimum wage is pretty much dictated by the market.

James Hardway

We still have real concerns about mandatory minimum sentences.

Sarah Kenney

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

La Monte Young

The door to the cabinet is to be opened using a minimum of 15 Kleenexes.

Howard Hughes

The older stations often had only one bay, and now there is a minimum of two, often three. Also the new equipment (engines and ladders) does not fit in the older stations.

Sam Olens

He'll probably throw a minimum of two innings (at the all-star game).

Greg Shepard

They had done the bare minimum to make it a house. We tried to eliminate everything from 1950 and take it going back to 1910 and doing everything that should have been done in 1950.

Gene Mcguire

A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.

Richard Cobden

This bill will set a new minimum, and the minimum becomes the zero step on the salary schedule.

Dale Douglass

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

Nothing or minimum was being done.

Terry Griffin

He was barely minimum weight. He used to drink supplements and eat seconds on everything.

Paul Hutchison

We are trying to narrow down to the minimum that we feel we need before we put a cost out there.

Ann Thompson

As long as the argument that they make to the judge comports with the minimum and the maximum allowed by the statute and the aggravating factors they bring forward are allowed by the sentencing statute ... that's their discretion and their job, ... And if they didn't do it, then we'd probably live in a less safe community.

Charles Rose

We have relied upon certain flows over the last 20 years. If House Bill 800 passes, we have to assume the minimum.

Greg Panter

But they will also do the minimum to stop people from going to fight in Iraq to avoid a sectarian conflict at home.

Abdel Bari Atwan

If they place their child in unregulated care, they're not inspected, not regulated, they don't follow minimum standards, and they don't know if they meet the minimum standards.

Alma Garcia

Minimum wage issues have been a historic source of difference between the parties.

Paul Beck

Called Peter Wallison -- Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran.

Caspar W. Weinberger

This is going to be a messy bankruptcy, and it is going to take a long time to sort through. We believe that will be a minimum of two years, and given the complexity of this bankruptcy, could very well be longer.

Dot Matthews

We forget that most students, if not all, can exceed the minimum.

Harold Brown

In Syria, the minimum capitalization to start a business is 50 times the (annual) per capita income.

Joe O'keefe

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, (which is set at $5.15 an hour). After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

Most funds we see keep their interest rate bets to a minimum.

Scott Berry

We knew they had that big-play ability. I'm glad we were able to keep that to a minimum.

Jimmy Shaver

We probably AI a minimum of 300 head a year before turning out clean-up bulls.

Don Zilverberg

You're looking at a minimum bid of $6 billion. This is, realistically, the last bank for foreign players to get into Korea.

Lloyd Ong

My social life is down to the minimum. I don't go out. I don't drink. My lifestyle is pretty boring.

Apolo Ohno

We will continue to search. Weather will determine if we have air or K-9, but at a minimum we will have vessels back in the area.

Sgt. Ken Turner

A lot of people will transfer their balances (to a lower-rate card), but then fail to send more than the minimum due.

Michael Kidwell

They've gone from having just the minimum to setting the minimum and the maximum. Under this regulation, there's absolutely no incentive for any manufacturer to go beyond the standard.

Sean Kane

Nothing we do today is in a vacuum. Your objectives might change. The economy will change. The tax laws will change. At minimum, you should look at everything in a comprehensive manner on an annual basis.

David I. Lampe

They made the approach here. They tried to get in. But the weather (conditions) were below minimum.

Robert Stanley

Increasing the minimum wage is a bad move economically, philosophically and politically.

Marc Freedman

It's a good idea because if you just make the minimum payment, you're in trouble.

Nancy Williams

They've been distracted with the minimum wage, the water issue, so I didn't want to bug them about it. But we can't wait for this.

Gail Warden

You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. The minimum wage is $5.25 an hour. You can't live on that.

Francisco Lopez

I can't think of anything that's a plastic derivative that hasn't gone up a minimum of 20 percent.

Jim Franklin

It's tough when you're working for minimum wage and have four kids.

Andy Payne

With respect to our audience and our concern over inappropriate material for our WWF viewers, we do, however, ask Mr. Gore to keep his public displays of affection to a minimum.

Mick Foley

Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't afford a house or an apartment. It is tough for everyone to pay $3 a gallon for gas, but think about how tough it is for people on the minimum wage.

Danny Thompson

PISD provided more than the minimum 20 percent.

Tina Hardison

We don't use these numbers to make management decisions, because of the bias that's inherent in the number, not knowing how many we miss from year to year. These are a minimum count.

Holly Edwards

We really need to find out, No. 1, the characteristics of these people, and No. 2, how many of them are earning minimum wage and accessing public assistance.

Pamela Atkinson

We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.

Cathy Mirelez

It's inevitable that we're going to see a minimum-wage increase. We have to face that reality.

Bill Dombrowski

At a minimum, ... would eliminate the possibility of the death sentence and could exculpate him from the specific conspiracies charged in this case.

Leonie Brinkema

There is no mandate for corporations except for the minimum wage, which is set at $5.15 an hour. After that, the issue's up to the ethicists.

William Dickens

The way it works out is that the minimum fee will be $100 for the permit and $100 per hour for the visits, and there is always a minimum of two visits.

John Gifford

The market needs at least a minimum of three 350,000-barrel-per-day refineries to comfortably meet and keep up with the pace of demand here in the U.S.,

John Person

At a minimum his conduct has been curious. At the worst, it's been very, very suspicious. As a lawyer, I know that could mean absolutely nothing. However, as a a member of Congress and one who respects this body and institution and has affection for my friend, I'm deeply concerned.

Harold Ford

The biggest challenge for many consumers in going to a brokerage firm or opening a money-market account is that these accounts can require a minimum balance of $1,000, $5,000 or even $25,000.

David Bach

If consumers would simply maintain the minimum balance requirement, they wouldn't get hit with monthly fees and wouldn't bounce checks. You want to find a bank that has a minimum balance requirement you can meet.

Stephen Brobeck

I don't think any of us really put a lot of faith in (the construction grant). We'll proceed with the minimum plan as the funding for that is within our control.

Sean Matheson

Bring an elk rifle on an elk hunt, ... A .270 (caliber) is not an adequate elk rifle. Of all the elk that my clients have shot and not recovered, most were hit in the vitals with a .270. The minimum caliber for elk is a .30-06.

Gary Hubbell

This is an area where local government should make its own decision. Richmond's role should be setting the minimum number of days.

Brian Wheeler

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

John Freeman

We're formalizing our commitment to this platform. We'll continue shipping Office [for the] Mac for a minimum of five years.

Roz Ho

We can spend whatever we want to acquire rights. But at a minimum, we have to make $1 on the deal.

Sean Mcmanus

We base everything around pitching and defense. We have been doing a good job of catching the ball and keeping the errors to an absolute minimum.

Scott Benedict

We don't have an upper limit at all. We have a minimum age limit of 19, but no upper age limit.

Virgin Blue

We don't want the minimum wage increase.

Angela Jones

Many people believe that as long as they pay the minimum balance each month that that's all they have to pay. What they don't understand is that you owe the entire balance, not just the minimum payment.

Brian Lawrence

Everyone should get a home inspection; it really makes sense. The cost relative to the investment is so minimum.

Andy Allen

In their view, even leisure time had to be used to the full, so as to extract the maximum of entertainment and relaxation with the minimum of delay.

Michael Ende

These mines can't operate unless they meet minimum standards.

Ruben Escudero

September 2005 will set a new record minimum in the amount of Arctic sea ice cover.

Mark Serreze

We have to keep our mistakes to a minimum and not worry about what happened the last three games, ... Even if we were 3-0, we still couldn't worry about what we did in the last three games. We can't let it go to our heads whether we are 3-0 or 0-3.

Ahman Green

There's a state law that says they have to pay their employees minimum wage for 90 days ... We found out the day before yesterday that at the end of 90 days, we're all going to be terminated.

Carol Farley

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you're capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anything that is most favorable toward the ends you desire.

Nido Qubein

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

Damien Hirst

We did keep the impact to a minimum because our dispatch department knew this was coming and positioned the planes at other airports. We didn't leave planes at those airports to get stuck.

Brandy King

The market was very comfortable with the minimum price.

Andre Dreicon

Without these enforceable minimum standards, operators will be invited to cut corners and compromise fire safety.

Bob Crow

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Tim Barrett

[When the Lewis Co. bought the land it knew it was zoned agricultural and was limited to one home for every 10 acres.] Going from an agricultural zoning of a minimum 10 acres to one acre lots is a huge change, ... It's more in the best interest of the developer; it's not in the best interest of the community.

David Holtz

That affords us the opportunity to hopefully always have a minimum of six home games and, in some years, seven.

Mike O'brien

The operation went well, but the minimum he will be out is two months, so he is definitely out of the autumn internationals.

Mark Davies

You have to go so much because you have things to do and you have to go to work, but some of the pleasure things I was doing like going fishing or going hunting ... I've cut it back to a minimum.

Henry Winter

We not only meet, but exceed the standards. It's not a problem for us. We're really confident that we will more than meet the minimum requirements.

Karen Huxtable

Unless you have a minimum of $5,000 to invest [each time], you should not be buying individual stocks, ... is inappropriate.

Marc Freedman

It's going to take five or six years, at a minimum, to fund it properly, and it's going to take another 10 years to see outcomes.

Mike Blouin

That's where we are now?at minimum.

David Hathaway

We have a minimum amount of risk for a really substantial reward.

Patrick Ryan

We will not have an open wallet for this. We will have to keep food and lodging expenses to a minimum.

David Hansen

I think we'll get a minimum of four teams and we'll have a chance to get five.

Wayne Morgan

Having a kit at the minimum will make life more pleasant.

Michael Morton

I'm sure there are shops out there making the effort. I'm sure a lot are doing the bare minimum. Probably two-thirds of shops don't care or don't know.

Shawn Lowery

That was the minimum donation for anyone who came.

Linda Mitchell

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

Albert Low

We had games where I played 12 kids, and at the minimum, I played nine or 10 every game.

Jim Pettis

We want to achieve pest control by using the minimum amount of input.

April Borders

Going from an agricultural zoning of a minimum 10 acres to one acre lots is a huge change. It's more in the best interest of the developer; it's not in the best interest of the community.

David Holtz

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.

Chris Cramer

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Mike Enzi

You'll always have a need for toll collectors. Not everyone wants their credit card information out there, some can't afford the minimum amount on a credit card for it, and some don't want it.

Franceline Ehret

More than 95 percent of MBNA customers always pay more than the minimum every month. Of those who do pay the minimum, very few do so for more than two months in a row.

Jim Donahue

Alternative minimum tax is a misnomer. It isn't an alternative, because you don't have a choice. And it isn't the minimum, because you end up paying higher taxes than you would have otherwise.

Claudia Hill

I don't think the minimum wage change would have a lot of impact on grape growers.

Nick Frey

At a minimum, we do not see any dramatic reversals for North American automakers.

Robert Schulz

Eleven states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than we have here in New York, ... caboose on the economic train.

Andrew Cuomo

Choteau is a minimum-wage town. Montana is not all that great for wages.

Susan Miller

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Kevin Knox

As a small business, I have to compete with the larger businesses, so in reality I hire very few people for minimum wage anyway.

Chef Lou Aaron

The terrace seats were clearly put in for the Lions game to try and meet the requirements of a minimum of 7000 premium seats.

Russell Gray

Ten-fifty is a heck of a lot better than minimum wage.

Terry Hilton

These are the years that the locusts have eaten, ... It will take a minimum of two years for us to get back on our feet.

Alberto Romulo

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Robert Mckinley

The SPD lies on around 30% support. That's a minimum - less than that would be its worst result since 1949.

Peter Loesche

They're four crucial games for us. We are looking to win six points minimum out of these games. We have got to have 20 points on Boxing Day, including from Boxing Day - that's our goal. Then in January we have a chance to see if we can enhance our quality.

Milan Mandaric

It will be at the minimum a moderate issue, one of the tip five issues for Republican voters, ... At the extreme end it could be the issue that affects the Republican Party.

Richard Lamm

We're recommending a minimum of three days and preferably five days.

Bruce Burtch

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even the barest of minimum resources to address any of the public health crises that Africa faces.

Jeff Sachs

He's not a bad kid. He's smart, scored well over the minimum on his GED and was looking for a job.

Johnny Richardson

You need to analyze your own banking behavior. That means sitting down with your checkbook and figuring out how many times you write a check, go the ATM Are you somebody that keeps no minimum in your account?

Janet Eissenstat

I would stress that the $US805 million ($1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

It was less than 15 students that were there. The revocation took place because they just didn't have the students. Sixty-five was the minimum, and there was no way they were going to get to 65 students.

Jack Moyer

It will be a minimum 14 days until power in Hattiesburg's most critical areas is restored.

Johnny Dupree

We have drawn lessons from the previous elections and we are cautiously optimistic that glitches will be reduced to a minimum.

Bongani Finca

I'll say it will hurt minimum wage workers the most.

James Collins

Better than the minimum qualifications outlined in the charter. Not only do I want the best-qualified chief, I want the best.

Mayor David Iwuc

Our organization is opposed to any increase in the minimum wage. The marketplace should set the minimum wage and we feel ... that it will cause job losses in the state.

Gregg Thompson

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

Jamie Fellner

As soon as the mall opens in the morning, we try to keep the noise to a minimum.

Karen Hildebrand

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Ronald Blythe

Prescribing minimum employment terms and conditions will inevitably lead to rigidities and inconvenience for many households.

Hawazi Daipi

The first thing they recommended is replacing four-inch (mains) with a minimum of six inch.

Steve Kelley

Our overall corporate objective continues to be a minimum 15% top- and bottom-line growth.

John Heinmiller

You have 1,500 kids, you have a hazardous material which is minimum in exposure and distribution, but we have a high volume of students. We have a responsibility to protect these citizens.

Jim Washko

I thought that Elyse Barnes, the little freshman kid, did a great job on her. She stayed in front of her and kept her drives to a minimum.

Jim Denker

I think it's experience. Most of our (key) guys have played three years in the league minimum, which is huge.

Bob Mancini

I think (wages) will level off, but it will never be a minimum-wage market again.

Glen Helton

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

Anita Baker

This is a big step in uniting everybody. We're at our bare minimum to make this economically feasible.

Joey Eichner

The primary components are having some type of water, a minimum of one gallon of water per person per day.

John Cummings

The message that this sends is very sad, because all it basically says is minimum is all that's required and minimum is OK. Lutz has never said we want the very least; we want the very most.

Denise Layne

If your license has been revoked, the Secretary of State requires the use of an ignition interlock device for a minimum of 365 days.

Michael Diamond

But we foresee no congestion at any of the key U.S. container ports going out at least six months. We're going to see the same kind of success we saw in 2005, with congestion at a minimum.

Paul Bingham

The minimum demand is a free election to a constituent assembly.

Baburam Bhattarai

Road accessibility will remain a major challenge, and it is expected that there will be a continued need for a minimum of five or six helicopters until at least September.

Jamie Mcgoldrick

It's very difficult to find either big benefits or big costs associated with raising the minimum wage.

Jeff Collins

The CFCM must tackle the problem of training imams, but the state must also help us with a minimum of financing to create a training institute.

Dalil Boubakeur

We have been trying to do a minimum increase of 3 percent. This demonstrates to the state that we are showing some commitment to continue to add local funding.

Frank Coleman

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Sushil Koirala

We are still managing to issue passports but the number is a minimum.

Nkosana Sibuyi

I introduced a bill to create the minimum wage in Iowa when I was a freshman legislator. I set it at a buck an hour, and they called me a socialist for trying.

Mike Blouin

The state just wants to do the bare minimum, and that is wrong.

Robert Poulin

It gives me as an advocate the chance to say, this is the minimum you should be doing.

Stella Adams

Our average DNA case is a minimum of a month or more.

Annette Davis

If you pay more than the minimum payment each month, pay it off earlier and you'll cut down the amount to interest on that card.

James Williams

Our members, six to one, oppose establishing a state minimum wage. There are members who believe the market should determine the wages. And the market does a good job of it.

Michelle Bolton

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years.

Albert Wynn

He went down there to work because there's no work up here except for minimum wage. He was trying to better himself. I heard he was doing good and got an apartment with a friend. He was on his way.

Tim Watkins

We have offered $2 million to start out with, and then every year going forward, a percentage of our gross with a minimum of $500,000.

Larry Ceisler

At a lot of Vanguard funds the minimum investment is $3,000. That's a big chunk of money.

Eric Tyson

We will try to use the minimum necessary force. I will say this: We will treat [protesters] differently than we treat those families which have been here for 20 or 30 years.

Eival Giladi

We're careful about not announcing anything until we're reasonably certain it will come here. Our intention is to always take the minimum amount of risk to deliver what our subscribers are looking for.

Eileen Lacario

The 20-year minimum, it actually goes back, it's a Jessie James statute, back in the stage coach days when they used to rob stage coaches for the mail.

Ed Moffitt

I think we're talking a minimum of 20 years and maybe 30 since something like this happened.

Ed Perkins