Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kerr

Kenya is a multi-party democracy and a modern world which has a benefit of hundred years of experience and debate from around the world on the subject of free speech and the accumulated wisdom that a free press is the essence of democratic governance, which makes government action during the standard raid so mystifying.

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Tom Daschle

It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Jim Talent

I think Iran needs to know that that option is there, and then we can hope that, you know, Security Council action or negotiations of some kind will work. So yeah, I think it?s essential that it be an option.

Winston Churchill

It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?

Art Larson

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Ken McBride

He wanted to cover more ground and make more cases. He was a man of action.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

Mike Trgovac

He keeps growing every year. There are certain times when Pep is going to have growing processes. It seems like early in the year he seems to get frustrated because everybody is bringing people to him.

Drew Stanton

He's gonna come up and hit you every time. You can never relax. It's good because he's bringing that tough mentality that we need over there on the defensive side of the ball. We've just got to be ready for it on offense.

David Castelveter

We supported the TSA initiative and still do. We certainly respect the flight attendants' perspective on cabin safety, but it's not scissors that are bringing down airplanes today.

David Thomas

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.

Eve Ensler

We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if we are going to stop this from happening again.

Dave Popielarz

I was asked, 'Are you worried about bringing it home?' No, I've got $500 in the thing. If it turns into a smoking heap, I don't care. I know a guy who crashed this Subaru; they put it on top of two trash cans and left it there. You go home, pick up the Thrifty Nickel, find a four-cylinder junker and offer them $300 for the thing. Weld up the trunk and go racing.

Justin Gatlin

It is possible. I have the competitive spirit. I am working on my starts and bringing sound races.

Timothy Ghriskey

I think we've had a pretty significant correction in the stock market since the highs in early March, and we've reached a level that seems to be bringing in buyers.

Bob Mancini

Kitchener may be the class of our conference. Erie always has a good team. They do a good job of reloading. We'll be playing in two very tough buildings this weekend.

Daniel Kurtzer

I would suggest that we need to focus on killing terrorists instead of building democracies.

Matt Duffy

I talked to a of people and they said your freshman year is a building year.

Bruce Wisan

He wants to come back and start building and I am thrilled with that.

Jerrold Post

He recounted to me that when he first saw the pictures of the bombed-out shells of the building he was really horrified.

Jaquelin T. Robertson

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Dick Smith

There is no damage to the buildings. The rooms took an hour to clear and the smell still lingered in the building throughout the afternoon.

Judith Anderson

The purpose of it is to be a community building event.

Jacques Herzog

The people surround the pitch, under the sky or under the floodlights and that it's it. It's really like an instrument of perception. You cannot only design a building to make it beautiful. It has to really work well with the huge crowd that is using it.

Gennaro Angiulo

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.

Tim Wilson

He knew everything about his furniture business or his development business from the ground up.

Steve Black

He jumps into the decision-making process. If you just want to run your business on your own and report results, you won't like working for Jamie.

Richard Boucher

has eroded Russia's reputation as a place to do business and eroded confidence in Russia's legal and judicial institutions.

Mark Richt

Guys like D. J. make this business worthwhile.

Ross Perot, Jr.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

Amanda Lindhout

Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.

Lyssa Jenkens

Growth will continue in education and health, which have been the only steady gainers in this century. But it is now moving into business and professional services, which holds many of the highest-skilled jobs in the economy.

Greg Brenneman

There's nothing magic about working with franchisees. What you have to do is help them improve their business.

Italian Proverb

Keep company with good men, and you'll increase their number

Patrick Burke

There is a fear of the unknown, ... I was the general manager for the chain, and it's one thing to manage someone else's company and another thing to be on your own.

Jeff Immelt

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Peter Adderton

We're positioning ourselves not so much as a wireless company but as a mobile media company, ... We really see ourselves as going after the high-tech consumer, someone who wants a lot of multimedia on their handsets.

Paul Walsh

We're positioning ourselves as a company with double-digit revenue growth and 20-percent operating margins.

Bill Curry

We feel it's what any company would do, that it's part of their business. In the event that there's a sale in the future, the customer records go with the company, as part of the company. We're being forthright in disclosing it, and we're getting criticism for being candid.

Brian Redican

We've gone through a period where everything has gone right for company profits, but over the past 12 months some cracks have started to develop.

Bob Wood

We've fought this company for three months and this is definitely not a loss. We did get some improvement in our medical insurance and medical insurance is what this strike was all about.

Tom Ryan

We are gaining a premium company and valuable real estate that provides an immediate critical mass of stores that would have taken years to develop organically. These are successful stores.

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Peter Evans

He could not live without adversaries, no more than a tree can live without soil; like mangrove trees, which make their own soil, he could create enemies from within himself.

Amy Maier

He didn't create that list; it was the Department of Homeland Security. He had no say in the process. He was never consulted.

Gilbert Arenas

He (Davis) bailed me out a little bit. Because then I'd have had to try and create and finish over a big man, which I probably would have done.

Eva Saint

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.

Sugata Mitra

My wish for humanity is to invent a way to communicate between us and whatever comes next. And in the end that we the creator of the sentient sapient and the created we have a symbiotic relationship.

Peter Schultz

There are slow geochemical processes that can create spherical shapes and filamentous forms. The 'eye of the beholder' may guide us where to look...but that is not proof,

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Salman Rushdie

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

Robert M. Pirsig

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

Roland Barthes

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.

Rebecca Solnit

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

Sam Abell

I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture.

Wade Davis

Change is no threat to culture.

W. Somerset Maugham

The end of culture is right living

Ronald Cohen

have great reaction time, and give their customers a lot of personal attention.

Al Bloom

Her toys are very popular with our customers so we're excited to have them.

James Collins

heroic levels of customer service, dependability, reliability, and giving people a lot of freedom to try different things that might work.

Kevin Rollins

It has been a very exciting time here in India, running customer support and internal software development centers.

Greg Frazier

We have to be flexible and responsive. We own and manage inventory at customer sites at 175 locations around the world. The customer only takes ownership when it pulls the item to its manufacturing line.

Jason Brown

Receiving certification assures our customer that our organic products are free from harmful additives and preservatives. From farm to desk, our products are guaranteed to be of the highest quality without compromise.

Bill White

Our meters don't start running until we pick the customer up,

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.

Phil Hester

If you look inside a standard low-end server or storage product, 80 percent of the design, realistically, will be the same as in similar products. The other 20 percent is configured for a specific customer set.

Mike Piazza

kind of fun, especially in New York. I've seen it on smaller levels in other cities, but it's fun to get into the rivalry thing and experience it.

James Kirkman

just very humbled, and appreciative, and amazed; it was a very happy experience.

Karen McCaffrey

Just this experience of getting to this point for next year will help us. The more situations we're in, the less we'll panic. With youth you'll get that. As soon as our skills improve, I think our panic will improve and we have a whole year to work on that now.

Rachel Dretzin

I think it fuels her. The fact that she can see the work she's done make an impactmost journalists don't experience that.

Mike McGlynn

I think it is good that we got some experience because all of it helps. I don't know if I'll ever take a snap in a game, but it is good to be ready and the more positions on the line you play, the better it helps you.

Brian Viloria

This was a great experience for me. Last year I only got in seven rounds total, so this is a fight that I can look at and really take away a lot of things from.

Jenny Pfeiffer

This was a great experience and we would have liked the season to keep going. Next year will be different.

Carol Brady

What we found was that many of the mothers that experience those poor outcomes are unhealthy and uninsured before they ever get pregnant.

Buck Showalter

Going in, that may be the thought. But we want to see, with the experience he had last year, how he's grown from that.

Dwight Freeney

I was like, 'What, we signed a free agent?' ... It's big. I think the owner (Jim Irsay) really sees the opportunity to move forward here and make that push.

Joey Porter

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

Bill Stoneman

John has been an integral part in the success of our pitching staff. We look forward to another impressive season from him.

Jessica Wilk

JMU is a big in-state rivalry, and we're looking forward to getting back at it and getting on the right side of the win column.

Annika Sorenstam

I think it's very tricky, ... There are so many different bounces you can get on the fairways, on the greens and everywhere, really. It's not playing long, but it's really tricky. The greens are a little roughed up, so I'm looking forward to a morning tee time.

Johnny Damon

I was watching the Olympics and the ice skating and I saw the pride they had for their countries. That was great. That's what I'm looking forward to.

Sally Davis

He's a very smart person, and in a phrase I'd say he gets it. He's looking very much forward to being aboard the space station.

Kermit Hall

We look forward to a very long and thriving relationship with Ordway,

Peter Rice

We look forward to sharing this perfect gem with the world. It's in the tradition of movies that have worked well for Searchlight, from 'The Full Monty,' 'Waking Ned,' and 'Sideways' to 'Garden State'.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalisation of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Brian Henderson

I think it's a realistic goal for us, too.

Mike Thibault

I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We've been through it now two years in a row. This is our goal when we started out and now we're here to go about it.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Jeff Corey

We've got to shoot, shoot, shoot. You never know what kind of goal you're going to get. It can be a pretty goal; it can be an ugly goal, but sometimes it's those ugly goals that win the game.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Vic Palladino

We studied other middle schools and we went very slow. We set ourselves a 10-year goal to make a really good middle school.

Joe Thornton

We thought we played real good 5-on-5, and if we can pop another goal on the power play we'll be fine.

Courtney LaVere

I was looking for Mel (D'Amico) with the high passes so she could score.

Doug Elliott

It already seemed highly likely. It now seems a near certainty.

Jackson Wheeler

He was a big-time recruit out of high school, so a lot of people liked what they saw in him.

Stan Butler

He'll be a high NHL pick. He'll be a first round pick.

Trish Routte

He is very likely a witness to the crime. There's a high probability that he saw something.

Graham Elliot

I tried to start my own religion in high school. I was very eccentric. I've always loved attention.

Fadel Gheit

The only thing keeping prices artificially high is the potential for supply disruption, ... Fundamentally, prices should be at $20-to-$25.

Noelle Reed

Had I had that in high school, I would be dangerous.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen's got that very rare characteristic, high ears. This relates to being unusually quick at learning and understanding things.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Jacques Villeneuve

He should give up motorbikes and join us.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Ellery Hanley

I'm pleased for the joint venture because I was obviously a part of the organisation,

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

Tom Nutten

It was dislocated and the whole joint was torn to pieces. But I kept playing on it.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Joel Silver

(The) four-volume set is the largest project of its kind done up until its time.

Jan Stuart

It's patently obvious that the Saudis, as the world's largest producer, could lead prices lower by offering lower prices,

Martin Winterkorn

The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Richard Preston

A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.

Joe Becker

We sheltered about 3.5 million people. The largest night was about 150,000.

Lauren Smith

This was a big day for our girls, and it was the largest competitive squad that we've had ever.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Ryan Routzon

Everyone has to step up. Lucas can't be leading us all the time.

Rashad Anderson

It?s very tough on a lot of teams to have your opponent?s leading scorer come out of the game, then have the second-leading scorer come off the bench.

Rush Limbaugh

It just embarrasses me that Republicans are leading the effort, and it's just pure election-year politics.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

Theodor Mommsen

Under the Julian and Claudian emperors, the Parthians seem to have been the leading power at the mouth of the Indus.

Michael Dell

and we are a leading seller of servers, storage systems and other technology products and services.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Howard Skolnik

We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.

Doug Duncan

We're prepared to say the market has peaked in terms of the numbers of units sold.

Michael Dell

We're number-one in the U.S. in the server market and now we're going after the world,

Courtney Smith

I think we'll probably see an up session in the market over the next several days.

Howard Ward

I think what we're seeing in the market is the reflection of a lot of uncertainty right now,

Jack Baker

I think it's very positive that the market was down more than 100 points and has come back, but this is essentially a vacation week,

Robert M. Pirsig

Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

Yuri Milner

There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.

Sam Altman

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Dee Brown

I just threw it up and prayed for it to go in. It was just big momentum for us before halftime.

David Stahl

If Merck can win on those, then they can really say they've got some momentum on their side.

Sebastian Coe

The international people tell us that we are taken seriously and that there is a momentum.

Henri Richard

A lot of momentum we are seeing is simply because we are offering choice.

Ryan Miller

The game's not won in 10 minutes, but momentum can be earned. It took us a while for us to get back to where we wanted to be.

Al Goldman

This is long overdue profit taking in the momentum stocks.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Lynn Margulis

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Barbara Ryan

You've got to give product away in Africa, ... There's a natural arbitrage where the prices get pressure around the world.

Epictetus

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

Jacques Chirac

I want to stress how much this situation is unworthy of the natural requirements that we owe to people here in France, whatever their origin or nationality,

Tom Sneddon

It's natural ... why don't you do the same?

Henry Grunwald

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.

John Burnside

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Tony Espinoza

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

Ron Chernow

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Tyler Oakley

It feels like an amazing opportunity to positively impact the world. That's what I hope to do.

Travis Tritt

I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had.

Rick Derringer

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

Rex Stout

The constant petty behests of life permit few opportunities for major satisfactions, and when one is offered it should be seized.

Regis Philbin

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Mike Flynn

Okogbaa is going to get her share of kills, but we have to stop every one around her,

Karl Malone

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

Tricia Neuman

That's a smaller share than many had feared.

Karrine Steffans

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

Ralph Charell

Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.

Philip Schiller

This is to do a whole different set of things. There's been no software that does what Aperture does.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Steve Jobs

When we started off we didn't know how to spell software.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Ralph Johnson

Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.

Fred Brooks

Plan to throw one (implementation) away; you will, anyhow.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Jeff Smith

He wants to get tennis going in the valley, especially with juniors.

Katie Gearlds

If we want to win the Big Ten title we have to win and that's pretty much what it comes down to. If we lose, we get second.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Josh Brown

I'm going to do something. There's a little tension between us.

Marat Safin

I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.

Marat Safin

Everything is possible in this life...

Wayne Quinlan

You think you know somebody, but you find out if you travel with them for ten days.

Macaulay Culkin

It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.