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average seen votes
We have seen an average of 5,000 votes come in after the first count. Kathryn Reith
average five four missing per points
We have to get a better flow. We average 75 points per game, and we haven't had that for a while. Without Vaughn, we're missing 17 points, five assists, four steals. Ed Young
average chemistry egos fun game good kids messes nice points score somebody step style team
We have no superstars, but a lot of better than average players. Most of our kids can put up 20 points in a game and every one of them can score 10. What is nice about this team is if somebody messes up, we don't go down. We have kids who can step up. It's a fun style to coach. There are no egos on this team. The chemistry is very good and they are really nice kids.
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When every fifth child in New York City lives in a home that doesn't have enough food, it is clear that New York City is facing a hunger crisis. You could fill Yankee Stadium more than seven times with these children. Such numbers should be a wakeup call for government leaders, business executives and average residents alike.
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We want more people to play. We want to make the game fun for the average player. Clearly, the golf consumer likes to watch the ball hit a long way, and when they play themselves, they like to hit it a long way.
average business cattle commodity feeding matter perfect producer
We were a perfect commodity business from 1980-2000. It didn't matter if you were feeding cattle or in the cow-calf business; the average producer didn't make any money.
average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
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We've seen growth in the average daily rate throughout the city, from Westport to downtown, especially with an increase in convention business in St. Charles. With the new stadium opening up and development continuing downtown, we're confident we'll see growth in the new property, too.
law practice leather-pants
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. Carol Moseley Braun
law world-government way
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. Carl Clinton Van Doren
law rivers guy
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.
law demand scientist
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary. Carl Friedrich Gauss
law nails doe
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do. C. S. Lewis
law
We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go. Rob Johnson
law optimism triumph
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. Agnes Repplier
law justice unjust
There is no justice in following unjust laws. Aaron Swartz
law america people
America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse. Aasif Mandvi
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You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request. Brent Weeks
definitions not-sure audience
I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work. Brandi Carlile
definitions would-be world
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. Bruno Latour
definitions protest restraint
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Chinua Achebe
definitions destination
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination. Ben Okri
definitions pragmatism bottom
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. Charles Sanders Peirce
definitions bases behinds
The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis. Bill Gates
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Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. Bill Hybels
definitions standards computing
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. Bill Joy