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We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come. Michael Bean
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We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise. Steve Ballmer
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We've seen better economic data out of the U.K. and that has helped the pound.
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The fact is we have very few facts. The purpose of the Internet Policy Institute is to gather the kind of data that's going to be essential to develop the Internet.
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The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.
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There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on which investors should determine their long-run strategies.
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We're just trying to develop a database and establish a baseline. Fred Davis
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The outcome of the study is not as clear-cut as we might have hoped for. It will take some time for experts to review the data to determine which of the two treatments is preferable.
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Vendors are moving away from centralized, agent-based technologies to real-time data collection.
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Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue. Agnes Repplier
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Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Charles Caleb Colton
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One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before. Charles Stanley
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Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ? Charles Spurgeon
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Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. William Shakespeare
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What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard. Barbara Hambly
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Terrible is the temptation to be good. Bertolt Brecht
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Temptation to behave is terrible.
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The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed. Bob Parsons
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Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government. Ayad Allawi
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Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced. Matt Mullenweg
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We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.
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There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat. Kim Clijsters
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I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical. Tori Amos
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting. David Knopfler
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The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium. Chad Harbach
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We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.