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We want to strengthen the link between India and Saudi Arabia with regards to energy, and the ability to provide energy to India over a long term. King Abdullah
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We want to send the message that our focus is on ability rather than disability. It is our turn to step to the Olympic stage. John Furlong
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We want to send a very clear and unequivocal message that after attacks like this it's not business as usual. We expect them to follow through on their promises -- that these armed gangs be disarmed. Our entire ability to move forward is based on that promise. Mark Regev
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The power of a focus group lies in its ability to leverage multiple channels of communication and thought. When you buckle down and really explore the many facets of a possible innovation to the organization, you are more able to make well thought-out decisions. Craig Cochran
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The potential for damage is much larger than we've seen in the past, ... The markets are a little spooked about our refining capacity and our ability to pump for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Theodore Roosevelt
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The possibilities of that tie-in are endless if one contemplates the possibility of software and tools delivered over the Internet and paid for by online adverts. This also gives Microsoft the ability to control its own destiny and eliminate the service that Yahoo is providing selling the ads. Jonathan Spira
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The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures. Doug Aitken
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The point of new venturing is to stimulate a range of ideas that build corporate resilience -- the ability to keep enriching core businesses by incorporating new modes (whether products, distribution channels, or markets) while discovering potential new directions that might not only be internal ventures but also an acquisition or an alliance. Rosabeth Kanter
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The point about it is that if you're pointed toward some kind of goodness, some kind of light, something positive, you find your way through these trials and tribulations, ... I've basically dedicated my whole lyrical life to people's ability to cope with the struggle because I do believe there is a struggle. And I don't mean it in a negative sense. I just mean it in a realistic sense. Nothing is greater than staying right on the positive, but sometimes life can have a way of just pulling you back and dragging you a bit. Gavin Rossdale
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If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. Charles Caleb Colton
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In agony unknown He bleeds away His life; in terrible throes He exhausts His soul. "Eloi! Eloi! lama sabachthani?" And then see! they pierce His side, and forthwith runneth out blood and water! This is the shedding of blood, the terrible pouring out of blood, without which, for you and the whole human race, there is no remission. Charles Spurgeon
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Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel's side. Charles Spurgeon
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Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting. Alan Ball
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There is no place to hide but in the blood of the Lamb. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Chief Seattle
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I sucked blood from one of my best friends Darren Shan
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Our nation's blood supply is safer than it's ever been, and it's getting safer as we speak David Satcher
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I thought of how many places there are in the world that belong in this way to someone, who has it in his blood beyond anyone else's understanding. Cesare Pavese
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. Charles Caleb Colton
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For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore
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Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
certain head movies
I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies. Lucas Till
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I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view. Lisa Cholodenko
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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. Michael Specter
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I certainly know that this relationship could not have continued the way it did, when I was at the Pentagon and the president was obviously at the White House, without Betty. Monica Lewinsky
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Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward. Scott Long
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We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson. Pete Nichols
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We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively, Karen Davis
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I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic genres, whether it was folk tales or popular novels. Kenneth Branagh
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She's written every word and she's directing the video. It will chronicle the last year and a half of her life. Leslie Sloane
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me. Nalo Hopkinson
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In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres. Elizabeth Blackburn
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I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. Chris Toumazou
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We're encouraging people to hang in there. In Missouri, the flu season doesn't peak until January or February, and it takes about two weeks for the vaccine to take full effect, so there really is plenty of time for most people. There still is some concern for high-risk groups, who should have been first in line. Those are the folks we're encouraging to stay on the line with physicians and with county health departments to find out where the vaccine will be. But for the rest of us who are healthy and don't have a chronic illness or health problems, there really is plenty of time. We just need to be patient. Brian Quinn
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. C. Everett Koop
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I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it. Yochai Benkler
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The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are. Ed Bolen
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When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate. John Felmy
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We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit. Toshizo Tanaka
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We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool. Doug Jackson
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We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. Andy Burnham
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Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market. Mark Dooley
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We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere. Shannon LaRocque
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We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom. Tim Ehrgott
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What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor. Richard Lee
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A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs. Chinua Achebe
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We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready. Ellen Anderson
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We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time. Cheryl Mendelson
disease saying scaring
What's scaring us now is the disease they are saying is coming, David Steiner
disease bears sickness
A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion. Benjamin Franklin
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There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. Avicenna
disease terrorism symptoms
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease. Arundhati Roy
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We've never done anything on this scale before. This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world. James Hill
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We've never done anything on this scale before, ... This is a tremendous opportunity for us to treat one of the most disabling disfiguring diseases in the world. James Hill
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We felt it was very important to let people know there are more manatees now than there were 25 years ago. So we're not in any emergency situation; we are in a situation where we have to manage the species carefully. Ted Forsgren
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We explain that our No. 1 priority is to open up main thoroughfares for emergency vehicles. Wade Sanders
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The plane did not crash. It did not fall. The plane made an emergency landing. Jorge Belevan
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There are times where it seems like we don't have enough people to do what needs to be done, and sometimes it seems that CERT performs that. There are several different roles for them to play in an emergency situation, and we're always looking to expand that and involve these people as much as we can throughout the year. David Donnelly
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We're playing it by ear. We have a massive emergency in south Louisiana. Rick Perry
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Seniors, the disabled, the mentally ill, people on life-saving transplant rejection drugs - the least medically secure have been the most affected. At least now with a state emergency declared no one will walk out of the pharmacy without the medications they need. O. J. Simpson
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We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped. Jan Egeland
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We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes. Louis R. Chenevert
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When there is severe weather, like a tornado, you don't want to be tying up the emergency phone lines. Todd Sherman
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The higher you go, the fewer women there are. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The higher up I went, the less happy I was. Dave Chappelle
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I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity. Louis Gossett, Jr.
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The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable. Shinzo Abe
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The potential profits are so high there's a win-at-any-cost mentality. James Browning
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The perception is that it's too high end, too futuristic, but I think we will see prices and use models to support it. Mark Thompson
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The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina. John Connaughton
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We are always trying to look for unique ideas, and we wanted something new for New York. We thought that hey, it's an island, let's do something on the water...New Yorkers have pretty high expectations. John Remington
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We've always been on a high state of alert. The perpetrators of the previous bombings are still very much at large and the risk is still very much with us, Marty Natalegawa
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When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital. Billy Eckstine
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The procedure will be performed under local anesthetic. It will take place next weekend. It will involve a short hospital stay. The vice president will return to work shortly thereafter. Steve Schmidt
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Many birthing hospitals are not knowledgeable about cleft palate. Debbie Oliver
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She was taken to a local hospital in Broward and is being treated. Teri Barbera
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She's been in and out of the hospital several times. Julie Scherf
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there. Victor LaValle
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MRSA is in every hospital in the United States, just lurking there. Lisa McGiffert
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one of the worst hospital scenes I have seen in my 20 years of doing humanitarian relief. Richard Ragan
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One of Beckham's sons is in hospital and that was the reason he stayed in Madrid. Sven Eriksson
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Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person. Charles Dickens
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In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water. Charles Caleb Colton
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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal. Charles Caleb Colton
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The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit. Charles Caleb Colton
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If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed. Charles Caleb Colton
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. Charles Caleb Colton
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You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope. Charles Dickens
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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. Charles Dickens
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The law is an ass, an idiot. Charles Dickens
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The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton
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The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Charles Simmons
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In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe. Alan Moore
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The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better. Alan Greenspan
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Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States. Alan Greenspan
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The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy. Alan Greenspan
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I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. Alain Prost
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In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable. Chris Christie
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We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us. Steve Rodriguez
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So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. John Bunyan
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We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test. Jim Calhoun
passed wide
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. George Pataki
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My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot. T.I.
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I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name. Keith Coogan
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We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical. Craig Patrick
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I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away. Chris Clarke
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Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him. Jermaine Jackson
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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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. Charles Dickens
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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. Charles Dickens
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
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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. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
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There's always the pressure to make the movie good. Chris Carter
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Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure. Chris Bosh
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We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run. Ben Broussard
pressure putting
We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball. Greg Hill
pressure
Where there is pressure there is change, universally. Richard Hastings
pressure journalism kind
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on. David Remnick
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To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do one thing and take my time to do the other one. Benicio Del Toro
pressure
Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves. Derek Hough
pressure firsts
Twitter's a lot of work! That's the first thing I would say. There's so much pressure to be funny. Ari Graynor
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We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures. Shoichi Nakagawa
pricing steal
The pricing was unbelievable, just when you think there is no such thing as a steal in New York. Keith Lichtman
pricing
The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational. David Larcher
pricing run terms value
When we said value pricing, we said we'd still be competitive in terms of pricing and still run tactical programs. Paul Ballew
pricing promoters providing rather trying
Promoters are providing more value. Rather than discounting, they're trying to get the pricing right. Ray Waddell
pricing properties realistic sitting
A lot of sellers are still pricing to the higher-end and their properties are still sitting there, and they're not considering realistic offers. David Kerr
pricing rule
We don't rule out any pricing or promotional initiatives. James Murdoch
pricing
It's all about convenience and pricing and Wal-Mart understands that better than everyone else -- that's why they are the No. 1 retailer in the world. Stephany Sofos
pricing small type
In a small vehicle, pricing is a pretty dicey type of thing. David Cole
pricing run volume
The more volume you run over a network, the better your pricing will be. David Robertson
primary
My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting. Eric Fischl
primary word
The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun. David Gerke
primary work
The paving work will be done by Nielsen Construction as a sub-contractor and not by the primary contractors. Phil Palmer
primary
It can't be someone's primary residence. That's very much intact. Bonnie MacPherson
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The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000. Richard Giannini
primary source
They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup. Phil Wold
primary school secondary since trained
I've been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry. John Boyega
primary shape
the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up. Peter Mills
primary
Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern. James Wallace
regardless whatever
Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives. Tim Tebow
regardless
Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do. Alex Newell
regardless whether
No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students. Debbie Smith
regardless
I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was. Luke Hudson
regardless supposed
Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics. Edward Witten
regardless running top whether
I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom. Ichiro Ozawa
regardless
Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African. Donald Johanson
regardless
Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path. Jeffrey Fieler
regardless
That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation. Ben Wallace
required time
Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity. Asia Argento
required situation structural
We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes. Marilyn Moon
required research statement
When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you, Ronald Hill
required
We are required to do it. We have to do it. Bruce Douglas
required
To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition. Evan Osnos
required vacuum
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one. Fred G. Gosman
required
I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me. Beck
required
It required us to put on more workers. Leo Kipfstuhl
required terms
In this industry, it's required of us to be best-of-breed in terms of operational efficiency. William Amelio
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." Charles Dickens
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. Charles Dickens
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! Alan Green
wind outsiders balloons
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. Chris Bauer
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
wind sea voice
There is nothing as relaxing as being out on the open sea, listening to the waves and the wind and the sails and voices downstairs yelling "HOW DO YOU FLUSH THESE TOILETS?" Dave Barry