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We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. Richard Kelly
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We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance. J. Taylor
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We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role. Takashi Sensui
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We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set. Rahul Dravid
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Whether or not he's going to sit there and outline his entire (State of the State) proposal, he's not going to do that. Achieving consensus is the point of the Legislature. They're here to conduct the business of the people.
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We feel all the ingredients are in place for (rapid) economic growth. We are confident of India achieving growth of 8-9 per cent in (the year to March 2007).
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We're just focused on achieving our goals, and that's to continue to get better for the playoffs. Jerry Stackhouse
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Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.
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Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.
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We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.
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Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country. Jim Gibbons
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator. Eula Biss
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Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.
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Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.
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Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.
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The policemen followed them in a white van and one of them fired at the activists from close distance, but they managed to escape unhurt.
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The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.
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We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.
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We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season. Tom Jones
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There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy. Louis Stokes
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The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game. Michel Patini
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist. Maajid Nawaz
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The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.
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The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.
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The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.
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The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.
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We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.
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If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too. Chet Atkins
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If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance. Cale Yarborough
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It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me. Luke Perry
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Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow. Louis Sachar
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The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win. Mike Shanahan
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The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience. Chad Hurley
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The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.
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The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.
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We have no credible emission policy at the federal level.
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We're making a credible posture and a presence. There's no shortage of volunteers -- it's amazing, the volunteer spirit of our people. John Newman
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Major problems remain in ensuring credible elections. If they're not resolved, the next government's legitimacy will be in question.
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Should we receive information about a specific and credible threat, that information would be shared with all potentially affected.
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She has not yet been able to establish that she can mount any kind of credible candidacy for any public office. Charlie King
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She retires sound and could have had a very credible season this year at the track, but she really didn't have much left to prove.
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We've seen what happens when the federal government hasn't done much of anything in advance. If you want to be prepared for the maximum credible catastrophic event, you should be thinking seven days, not just the minimum of three days.
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There will never be another 'American Idol,' which produced so many credible superstars over the years. It was a phenomenon in pop culture. It changed music. Nick Fradiani
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I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and credible elections. My commitment to free elections and one man, one vote remains unwavering. Goodluck Jonathan
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I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it. Charles Dickens
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All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.
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He would make a lovely corpse.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
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If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. Charles Caleb Colton
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I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
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It angers me and scares me, ... I remember Vietnam. I remember how the protests started out back then. I'm here to do whatever I can.
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We will intensify the protests until we get rid of the autocratic monarchy.
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To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant. John Henry Newman
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I protest against any absolute conclusion. George Eliot
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The strike is to protest the blasphemous cartoons.
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The shutter down strike was to protest the blasphemous cartoons.
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We will be there to protest the government's provocations.
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What was positioned as a safe protest vote has now become a kind of kamikaze vote, Wes Boyd
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The truest protest is beauty. Phil Ochs
social-media
That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual. David Cross
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Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them Bruno Latour
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I swear, I wanna be your underwear. Bryan Adams
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One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. Dian Fossey
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it. Ed Koch
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If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis. Bill Nighy
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The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not. Charlie Daniels
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We approach closer and closer to socialism.
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I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it. Ben Rattray