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alone control hour parents power television total
We want to tell American parents that they and they alone have total power to control every hour of television programming that comes into their home. Jack Valenti
alone ancient beggars best develop general luxury main people subjects system trying
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught. Michel Onfray
alone amazing hear players spoke
It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone. Morgan Wootten
alone behind capture family feeling kentucky realized
The powering thing behind the movie was to capture the feeling of being alone and going back to Kentucky and getting walloped by a sense of family I hadn't realized was so much in place, Cameron Crowe
alone broad employer health implement investment plans pleased program received recognized support
We are pleased to have received such broad support from the employer community. No one payer can implement this program alone and not only employers, but health plans have recognized that this is an important investment to make. David Lord
alone men needs slot women
We're in the 9 o'clock slot now. Men and women alone on the island, they have needs. Needs that must be fulfilled. Naveen Andrews
alone answer biologist branches conference data learned origins questions relates science
It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. Neil deGrasse Tyson
alone countries dire health million needs report situation terms
The World Health Organization did a world health report in 2006. In the whole world about 60 countries are in dire situation in terms of having enough doctors. And many of these countries are in Sub-Saharan Africa. You know, that part of the world alone needs one million doctors. Margaret Chan
alone appreciate everybody handle inmates outfit project
We appreciate the help, from the (county jail) inmates and from everybody involved. One outfit alone would not be able to handle a project like this. Tim Chapman
causes funny-women arguing
I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause. Dave Barry
causes journalism profession
Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession. David Talbot
cause disease drama emotions experience face fear great hallmark people shows theater violent
Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy. Michael Moriarty
cause poverty rural
The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.
cause close fuel increase percent seeing spend sure
We are seeing a substantial increase in our fuel prices. It's not like it's going to cause us to close our doors, but we would sure like to have that 15 percent to spend elsewhere.
causes decline earnings estimates future lowering revenue slight
We are lowering our future revenue estimates modestly, which causes a slight decline in our earnings-per-share assumptions. Our fourth-quarter earnings estimate now is $1.45, down a penny, and our 2001 estimate is $4.90, down from $4.95. Kevin McCarthy
cause opens oppose others seek similar strongly
We strongly oppose it, ... It will cause us international difficulties, and it opens up other opportunities for others to try to seek similar relief. Colin Powell
caused companies great hear investors issue negative players signal tech worries
We're in a marketplace where any kind of negative signal worries people. The same way some of the tech companies caused a ripple, I think investors hear Lowe's issue a warning, hear what's going on with one of the great players in the sector, and they get nervous.
caused easy found press problems rhythm second size
We started cold, but we found our rhythm in the second quarter. Their size caused us some problems, but our press got us some easy baskets off turnovers.
concerned enter formal interest though work
Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression. Louise Bourgeois
concern detention human raises rights serious tantamount
The possibility of preventative detention raises serious concern that such detention may be tantamount to derogation of the country's human rights obligations under international law.
concern people positive sign
The positive sign is there's more of a concern for others, as well as self, than people think.
concerns conditions consistent drought forecasts increases moderate parts plains severe southern summer weather yield
The persistence of moderate to severe drought conditions in parts of Illinois, Iowa, and much of the southern Plains increases concerns about yield potential. As usual, forecasts of summer weather conditions are not consistent at this time.
concerned people speaks understood voted yes
The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.
concerned conference high internet level managers people risks stocks taking trade understanding
The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.
concern couple declare economy gearing hot months optimistic phase together
The only concern I do have is I'd like to see a couple more months (of data) put together here before we declare this torrid, hot economy as into another phase of gearing down. I'm not as optimistic yet that we have slowed everything.
concern good playing
The only concern I have is how is he playing right now, and he's playing pretty good. So, I feel good about that. Mike Sherman
concerned consumer couple days economy hurting interest investors oil outlook past rates rebound related seeing start stocks
We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers. Subodh Kumar
focus ego attention
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention. Alan Watts
focus listening theatre
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent. Alan Rickman
focus-and-concentration long calm
As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well. Al Oerter
focus good-things happens
Good things happen when you narrow your focus Al Ries
focus albums guests
Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it. Akon
focus violence murder
The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable. Chris Christie
focus helping strategy
The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming. Chris Albrecht
focus mind calm
Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content. Chin-Ning Chu
focus effort luck
To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off. David Rusenko
ground improved
We've actually improved upon what's on the ground out there today.
ground
There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things. Wyclef Jean
ground illegal imposition oppose strongly
We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is no ground for this.
groundhog-day groundhogs
I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore. Bill Murray
groundhog-day awards scripts
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.
groundhog-day stripes together
Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.
ground hit people prison safety sink slip
We're going to see people in a debtor's prison without walls, ... They'll essentially slip through the safety net, hit the ground and then sink into an underground economy.
ground ought pay
What they put on the ground to live in, they ought to pay for, ... That's what I believe.
ground growing literally money rebuild seed trees work
We're going to have to go in and rebuild it from the ground up because it went to seed before we got it. There are literally trees and shrubs growing up in the greens, and it's going to take a lot of work and money to get it back into shape.
happened known supposed until
I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present. Mariel Hemingway
happened last moderate shows steady
When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.
happened happens paper
It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment. Holly Holm
happened justify last sit three
We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year, Jon Gruden
happened march remember
We remember what happened in March 2004, ... There is no place for that in U.N.-sponsored negotiations.
happened life party spent
What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in? Zell Miller
happened months past reasonably several stocks valued
What has happened over the past several months is valuations have come down a lot to where we think stocks are pretty reasonably valued here.
happened parts shocked situation spread
What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all. We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country. Kapil Sibal
happened parts shocked situation spread
What has happened in Gujarat has shocked us all, ... We don't want the situation to worsen and spread to other parts of the country.
health disease vices
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. Charles Caleb Colton
health men poverty
The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
healthy feet-and-walking trekking
Walk and be Happy, Walk and be Healthy... Charles Dickens
health eye noses
I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.
health law wellness
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws. Charles Simmons
health years dollars
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.
healthy mind allergies
We must pay greater attention to keeping our bodies and minds healthy and able to heal. Yet we are making it difficult for our defences to work. We allow things to be sold that should not be called food. Many have no nutritive value and lead to obesity, salt imbalance, and allergies. David Suzuki
health mind needs
Mind changes, and as a result, the world changes. A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed. Byron Katie
healthy feels great-things
The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now. Camilla Belle
impacts people positions trust
When people in positions of trust mislead us - either recklessly, negligently or intentionally - that impacts the republic. Trey Gowdy
impacts involved people reason
People will come anyway, the reason to get involved is to keep impacts positive. Dan Miller
impacts name team voting
I don't know where Blalock is going to end up in the voting, but I really like him. (Curtis) Stinson made his name a little quicker, but (Blalock) impacts their team more than anybody.
impacts universal
We all have genes. This is a universal issue. It is something that impacts everyone. Judd Gregg
impacts shocked
I won't be shocked if he impacts the outcome.
impacts people recognize seeing
I think people are seeing that we recognize the impacts of those routes.
impacts
We don't take it lightly. It impacts us. Angela Bassett
impacts likely mergers mix negative positive pressures quarter reflecting
The quarter is likely to see a mix of positive and negative surprises, reflecting the impacts of mergers and competitive pressures respectively.
impacts largest obviously
They obviously have one of the largest impacts of any employer,
issues may stones
And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.
issues novel concern
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton
issues interesting psychology
I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology. Alan Greenspan
issues gold persuasion
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.
issues patterns calling
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
issues problem sensitive
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I've never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me. Al Pacino
issue resolved
We want to see this issue resolved by the end of the month.
issues america knows
I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
issues focus management
You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do. David Allen
known nonlinear terms
There are challenges in terms of the measurement of VAR for what are known as nonlinear derivatives, where things like gamma and vega are important dimensions of the risk. John Hull
known throughout true
Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.
known
The dead are often known to eat 27 and 53 David Almond
known phenomena physicists quantum
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. Richard P. Feynman
known loves man opens platform speak spends time
My greatest platform is not with all my degrees, everything else, it's not all my books, everything. It's that I'm known as a man who loves his wife and spends time with his children. That opens more; I speak as a daddy. Josh McDowell
known square
This will not be known as the Times Square of the West, ... Times Square will be known as the l.a. live of the East. Alex Padilla
known
Once a thing is known,it can't be UNknown. Chris Crutcher
known people
If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited. Tom Stoppard
known putting shooting
Shooting my scenes, I hadn't really even known what I was putting in his medicine, Roger Bart
national-security gross negligence
Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony. Bill O'Reilly
national number people playing team whenever
Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?
national operating response
We were already operating under the National Response Plan.
national sang
I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral. Michael W. Smith
national persuaded reform trying unwilling
We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC. LenDale White
national spell
We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.
national people power russian traditions
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside. Vladimir Putin
national people realise
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. Kofi Annan
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
pollution prevent
While they want to prevent pollution but they also want to prevent chaos.
pollution wholesale
There wasn't enough pollution for a wholesale cleanup.
pollution problems several wrestling
They are wrestling with a lot of the same pollution problems that we wrestled with several years ago and that, to some extent, we still are grappling with.
pollution knows bits
We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant. Lawrence M. Krauss
pollution used resources
Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly. R. Buckminster Fuller
purpose hell christ
The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
purpose use language
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind. Chinua Achebe
purpose assumption
We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings. David Kim
purpose kind
On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.
purpose slave
Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves. David Graeber
purpose trends advertising
Infiniti ads are part of an exciting new trend called "Advertising Whose Sole Purpose Is to Irritate You."
purpose growing lost
But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. Mark Cuban
purpose miserable persons
Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.
purpose strange comedy
Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function. Bo Burnham
reach struggle stuff
When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where the most interesting stuff is. Herbie Hancock
reach seek
When they want to seek our vote, they know where to reach us,
reaches
You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
reach time
We are going to take the appropriate time to reach our long-term aspirations.
reaches technology transcends
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
reaches whose
My heart reaches out to those whose loved ones were lost on MH17. Najib Razak
reached
I want to be able to say on my deathbed that I reached a few people. That would be very nice, just to be able to say that. Evelyn Glennie
reaching vision
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. Casey Kasem
reach
Of course, it is me being able to reach my goal, Evander Holyfield
somewhere-else guy doe
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. David Duchovny
somewhere-else suitcases machines
It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. Dido Armstrong
somewhere-under feelings ribs
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me. Charlotte Bronte
somewhere-else get-away
You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else. Charles M. Schwab
somewhere-else effort want
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort. Beth Orton
somewhere-else long mind
As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha Bodhidharma
somewhere-else insults-you redwall
I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!! Brian Jacques
somewhere-else numbers looks
Look somewhere else for someone who can follow you in your researches about numbers. For my part, I confess that they are far beyond me, and I am competent only to admire them. Blaise Pascal
somewhere-else one-thing
It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else. Barbara Kingsolver
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
workers
I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer. A. Scott Berg
workers hardest felt
I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know. Daryl Hall
workers
Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.
workers
Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,
workers
They will do anything for the worker, except become one. Gregory Benford
workers
In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.
workers disgruntled
Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled. Kevin Nealon
workers barack american-workers
Barack Obama is betting on the American worker. Ted Strickland
zero debt pay
The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.
zero writing results
If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.' Akira Kurosawa
zero take-me
Take me, subtract movies, and you get zero.
zero people towers
I consider part of lower Manhattan to be hallowed ground. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives in the World Trade Center towers... and for that reason alone, our nation should make absolutely sure that what gets built on Ground Zero is an inspiring tribute to all who loved the Twin Towers, worked in them, and died there.
zero agriculture atmosphere
Essentially, by 2050 we need all activities outside agriculture to be near zero carbon emitting if we are to stop carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere growing David Miliband
zero taken ecosystems
To achieve true sustainability, we must reduce our "garbage index" - that which we permanently throw away into the environment that will not be naturally recycled for reuse - to near zero. Productive activities must be organized as closed systems. Minerals and other nonbiodegradable resources, once taken from the ground, must become a part of society's permanent capital stock and be recycled in perpetuity. Organic materials may be disposed into the natural ecosystems, but only in ways that assure that they are absorbed back into the natural production system. David Korten
zero children kids
I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids. David Cross
zero cigarette-smoke smoking
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT.
zero law damn
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. David R. Ellis