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We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings. Paul O'Neill
beginning despite low maintained percent pleased prices since strong
We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.
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We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts, Larry Ellison
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We are at the very beginning stages today. Glenn Nick
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We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard P. Feynman
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We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes. Bob Peterson
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We struggled at the beginning and I think we just ran out of time at the end.
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We still need to come out with intensity at the beginning of games. We need to carry the second half of games into the first half of the next game.
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We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.
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We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real central donation place. Barbara Morgan
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We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a real central donation place.
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We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to see some requirements put on the development, now. Maybe they will have to make more concessions. William Bass
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There are certainly problems in the scoring system. Still, these are not grounds to rush back to the central entrance exams.
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We're interested in hearing about supply chain and logistics ideas and problems from central Indiana manufacturers. We have resources to offer them in terms of the expertise of our professors and good students for internships and employment.
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Whether you know it or not, or like it or not, you are planning the future growth of Central Florida. Charles Lee
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We would remind people that the Central Police Precinct is headquartered at the GEC. The police presence will be strong.
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We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences. Dannel Malloy
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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park. Diana Ross
changing side
The other side of resurrection is about changing the world. It's not just about yourselves.
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We are pleased to have a chef of such stature share our vision. Dale's Kitchen gives our technology wonderful exposure throughout the foodservice and packaging industries. The Fresh Flow(TM) Tap is changing rules. Greg Abbott
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We struggled formulating a game plan and I thought about changing to something different. But we haven't played that way all year. We needed to do what we do and if we have to we will make adjustments.
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When you talk about changing the rules, that takes time, and it always involves more than just a committee.
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Being a writer can be a very lonely profession, but having a network of people who can sympathize with everything you're going through - from contract issues to the terror of changing your novel from past- to present-tense - is an invaluable asset.
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What he's doing is completely changing my life.
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What has become clear is this really isn't about protecting kids. This is about changing television. A politically active, savvy group of Americans has figured out a way to make TV in their own image.
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What's really different here is that we are changing the rules. We're saying the developer who wins is the one with the most affordability. Shaun Donovan
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Unless the service stations decide to cut their margins in order to continue selling fuel, over $1.40 will shock a lot of people into changing the way they use their car.
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We also took images of what we already owned so he could see them in context with his collection, ... It was a great couple of days. He had really thought about things.
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You don't know who you will see from one room to the next. You may have someone come in and interrupt and take things off-track. There's the element of surprise: You know you will be seeing ghosts, but you don't know in what context you will see them.
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I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers. Ravi Zacharias
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While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet. Walter Martin
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We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.
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As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also. Wynton Marsalis
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On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse. Samantha Power
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed. Carl Honore
creation transcendent
God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.
creation masterpiece
You are a masterpiece of creation. Denis Waitley
creation your-future our-future
Taking control of your own creation, you can ultimately affect your future. Dee Wallace
creation government healthcare held job
We're getting job creation in healthcare and educational services. We've been getting that all along. It's demographically driven, it's funded by the government, and that's held up. Mark Zandi
creation
Without creation, what are we but stalled in life? Dhani Jones
creation dogged number powerful various walt
Like any powerful creation, can be used in a number of ways... in this book, which chronicles various dissolutions and breakages, there is still Walt Whitman, the dogged optimist. Michael Cunningham
creation effects my-own
I cant duplicate my own successes, because part of the creation of that effect is making something happen that you didn't expect Brian Eno
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We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time. Lewis Thomas
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Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters. Jill Soloway
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We're extremely honored to have Sonia Sanchez at this year's festival. For decades now, she has been an original, serious voice who movingly describes the African-American experience.
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The generosity of the super-rich is sometimes proffered as evidence they're contributing as much to the nation's well-being as they did decades ago when they paid a much larger share of their earnings in taxes. Robert Reich
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop. Mahmoud Abbas
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Major money is going to be in motion in the next decade and yet no one really understands exactly where it will land, or even if it will land, or just disappear altogether.
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The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. James Thurber
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Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. Lawrence Eagleburger
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I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community. Thomas Sadoski
decades
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. E. P. Thompson
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There are some economies of scale that can be eked out primarily in people costs. But the real payoff is too far into the future.
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When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. Kenneth Fisher
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Global stocks bottomed in June 1921, but global economies didn't hit bottom for fully two more years.
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What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.
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I am upbeat about the Yuanmeng series, because it helps Lenovo gain more market share and hence lets Lenovo enjoy economies of scale.
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I don't think we're really seeing the impact yet of what's happening in the economies over there.
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Growth in euro-land economies is starting to come through, particularly in the industrial sector. It looks to us as if there will be strong growth in the third and fourth quarter of around 1 percent.
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I think the implications are positive. Worldwide, what you see is, when you have more participation by minorities in commerce, the more vibrant their economies are.
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Up there, we were able to show a very significant impact because the economies are more compressed around the beach, ... The local (Manatee-Sarasota) economy is not as diverse. Chuck D.
economy currency biosphere
Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. David Suzuki
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The perception that the U.S. economy is a runaway freight train is mistaken -- things are slowing.
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The ongoing issues are the strength of the economy and whether or not the pace of the recovery is in fact slowing down. One of the important things this week will be to see the extent of the damage. John Davidson
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We are seeing a very resilient economy and one that seems to be growing in every part of the world. Just about every region is growing and it's very encouraging.
economy fears finds full hard
There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.
economy global wine
We're in a global wine economy now. If you're out of grapes, you're out of grapes.
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When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story. David Rosenberg
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The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational. Helen Sharman
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We have seen China's economy growing at 8-9% over the past few years and in particular within the telecom industry there has been rapid developments in technology and innovation enhancements, Patricia Russo
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We have two play-off games with Estonia in May and there will have to be a big improvement before then. This was not good enough.
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When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.
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We regard the European proposals as an initial and not the final proposal.
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In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. James Monroe
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major step forward toward the integration (of Macedonia) into the European Union. Anna Lindh
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There are Arthurian legends in 14 or 15 medieval European languages. They are the product of no one time or place. On the contrary, in sum they represent a tremendous mine of human understanding, rather as the Bible does.
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When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
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The government has been repairing Poland's image and its relations with the European Union and the world. Donald Tusk
european hope issues plays role union
We hope to see European Union plays a more important role on issues pertaining to Europe and the world as a whole, Hu Jintao
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Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.
globally true work
We are a true globally distributed work force.
global prices reflect taking
We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.
global national remains safe
Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
global hold nature unique ways
As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are. Kate Bush
global great health human
In many ways, human health is the great global connector. Kathleen Sebelius
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Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain. Thomas Friedman
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When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. Michael Ignatieff
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September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this. Donald Fagen
global heavy schedule travel
She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.
growth credit might
There might be some credit in being jolly. Charles Dickens
growth degrees economic
All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree. Alan Greenspan
growth north positive
We want to see more positive growth in North America.
growth marketing mouths
Word-of-mouth marketing is a crucial component of organic growth for startups and one of the primary ways that Weebly has grown to over 15 million customers. David Rusenko
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The PMI is a big upside surprise ... and is at least hinting that services growth stepped up at the end of last year.
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We are pleased with the ongoing growth of radio and outdoor (advertising), the television stations and the network. Mel Karmazin
growth interchange effects
Growth is ignited anytime you put in expressways and interchanges. It's a synergistic effect.
growth hard
Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work. Arthur Rubinstein
growth attention politician
Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education. Derek Bok
influence chekhov huge
Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say. Chad Harbach
influenced music
Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person. Lykke Li
influence problem deny
Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence. Bill Johnson
influence insight nor seek
We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,
influence revolutionary proletariat
My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me. Bela Kun
influenced watch
I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot. Nobu Matsuhisa
influence accomplish ability
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. Brian Tracy
influence heard household
My earliest influences were things I heard in my household. Boz Scaggs
influence failing courses
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. Arthur Henderson
momentum financial possibility
In an economy that already has lost some momentum, one must remain alert to the possibility that greater caution and weakening asset values in financial markets could signal or precipitate an excessive softening in household and business spending.
moments lifetime feels
You start to live when a moment feels like a lifetime Chris Brown
momentum narrative mosaics
Momentum, in literary mosaic, derives not from narrative but from the subtle, progressive buildup of thematic resonances. David Shields
moments
Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now? Byron Katie
moments enough good-enough
I've had quite a few moments I've liked, so it's good enough. Bryan Ferry
moment push
We still need to push back that moment where I'd say I'm happy, ... But I'm very satisfied. Angela Merkel
moments rescue surprising
It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments. Aimee Bender
moments bigs studios
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off. David Hockney
moments excuse distinction
Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself. Antonin Artaud
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We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them. Johann Lamont
policies
I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation. Bobby Seale
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We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.
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We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.
policies
In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back. Steve Stockman
policies respect success
What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration, Jacques Chirac
policies since threat
I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser. Michael McCaul
policies
It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.
policies regular
We've been doing this for a long time, ... We look at our policies on a regular basis.
radical
No question about that, the radicals are in charge. Dixie Lee Ray
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Unlike other Taliban groups, the Haqqanis' approach to mayhem was worldly and sophisticated: they recruited Arabs, Pakistanis, even Europeans, and they were influenced by the latest in radical Islamist thought.
radical equal contempt
I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. Alexander Lebed
radicals traditions
Radicals don't care about the institutions. They are looking for an ideological crusade. Traditions don't matter.
radical terror war
I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam. Dana Rohrabacher
radical rapid signs
As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent. Helena Norberg-Hodge
radical-change advancement persecution
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. Daniel D. Palmer
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RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day. Ambrose Bierce
radicalism logic desperation
Radicalism is but the desperation of logic. Alphonse de Lamartine
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Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.
rapidly until
One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull. Anna Akana
rapidly remedy
We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.
rapidly
I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.
rapidly strong
We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.
rapidly realm relationships starts
The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic. Lynn Coady
rapidly site taking
The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.
rapidly responding states united
The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." () Scott McClellan
rapidly relatively
When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight. Joel Fuhrman
recently
A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me. Janis Ian
recently
My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters. Evanna Lynch
recently stocks
Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.
reform spirit holy
Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!
reform putin predecessors
Putin has reversed all the liberalizing reforms carried out by his predecessor. Alexei Navalny
reform world womens-suffrage
Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. Susan B. Anthony
reforms structural voices
There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.
reform world groups
There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category. Barbara Mikulski
reform essentials obstacles
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform. Alexander Hamilton
reform care lines
The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician. Abraham Verghese
reform tasks generations
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. Albert Camus
reform dialect facts
There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact - in its Orwellian substitution of the euphemisms of social equality for social equality itself - of vastly more help to conservatives and the US status quo than traditional SNOOT prescriptions ever were. David Foster Wallace
stagnation
Anything is better than stagnation. Arthur Conan Doyle
stagnation security
Security breeds stagnation. Andy Warhol
successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Charles Caleb Colton
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
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. Chinua Achebe
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.