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We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country. Mathew Staver
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We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready. Ivica Dacic
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There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones. Joost Hiltermann
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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. Benazir Bhutto
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He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us. Nia Long
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Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years. Newt Gingrich
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When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week. John Boehner
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We're going back to the table with the understanding that the top agenda item that we're going to be dealing with is going to be the whole issue of contracting out.
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Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests.
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In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. Alan Watts
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I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. Alan Rickman
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The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly! Alan Grayson
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If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.
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Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality. Alan Greenspan
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I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them. Alan Ball
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I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows. Al Sharpton
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There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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America is laughing her way to Hell. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Bob has been a visionary in the industry for many years and was the force behind our industry-leading graphics technology platform. We wish him success in his future endeavors.
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The worst thing that can happen is that the effect that they create behind you is bigger than the performance you're putting out. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
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With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything! Michael Musto
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The power in you is not only the name of our organization. It's also the driving philosophy behind what we do.
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The power behind this rally seems to be unstoppable, notwithstanding the concerns about a slowing economy because of the rate rise. We don't see any signs of that.
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The positive rationale behind a deal would be the potential to cut more costs.
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The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.
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We are proud to have had the opportunity to bring television viewers one of the most acclaimed series in television history. From the venerable, moving performances by the first-rate cast to the sterling creative team behind the camera, this series has left an indelible imprint on the landscape of television drama.
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We usually worked just a couple of miles behind the front lines. I guess a lot of our job was transferring gasoline from 55-gallon drums to 5-gallon cans,
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There are businesses in our state that make billions and pay no taxes at all.
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When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses. John Battelle
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We're spending billions of dollars on a country that doesn't want us there. Sandra Taylor
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Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.
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The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy. Rex Stout
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Pension funds, endowments, and private investors trust Mitt Romney's former company Bain Capital enough to hand it billions of dollars in assets.
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Let's be direct here. These books were cooked by Lay and the other top executives who put hundreds of millions of dollars in their pockets, while the employees of Enron were victimized and hundreds of thousands of other investors lost billions of dollars.
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Enterprise Systems, I mean. And not just a little bit, either. Orders of magnitude wrong. Billions and billions of dollars worth of wrong. Hang-our-heads-in-shame wrong. It's time to stop the madness. Tim Bray
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We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say that it will be a place familiar to billions of people. Seth Shostak
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Unfortunately, it's another example of mismanagement on the part of Citizens, ... I would hope that in a bipartisan way we can get to the bottom of what it takes to fix Citizens.
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I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.
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They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.
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Most of us are together, on a bipartisan basis, that a preliminary report would do no good, ... It probably would not do Starr any good either. John Conyers
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We hope to go to the floor early next month with that legislation. We think we will get a strong bipartisan vote in the House for regulatory relief. Michael Oxley
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The problem with the Carter-Baker Commission is exactly the problem with the National Association of Secretaries of State, ... We're both bipartisan and there's nothing bipartisan about scheming for presidential primaries.
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There is bipartisan support for immigration reform in South Florida, including Gov. Jeb Bush, including the legislature, including our mayor in Miami. We in South Florida don't have to turn people's minds around.
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Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. Earl Blumenauer
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Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it provides an ideal means for developing strategies that can garner the broad support necessary to achieve real solutions to the challenges confronting our nation. Olympia Snowe
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We want to show people that we're the team that everyone should be gunning for (in the Capital Hockey Conference). We want to keep distance between us and everyone else because we want to win the league. ... That's why the lapses are very concerning.
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We are a unique community because of the university. We should capitalize on the opportunities with the university.
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There are certainly plenty of opportunities to put $500 million worth of capital in the hedge fund space. I think by and large Yale is looked upon as a preferred investor, and therefore I think a lot of managers would be open to having discussions with them.
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We still wanted to get an inside game, we thought that was our strength tonight. But they made plays and Tory Jackson found the open man's hands. ... They had the momentum, they had that run and we just couldn't capitalize on anything.
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Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.
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Watching those people on television made it hard to feel sorry for myself, ... That was misery - capital M. Matt Ridley
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When we got a good offense going, we would lose it on defense. We couldn't capitalize when we would get a steal and run it down the floor. We're a Jekyll-and-Hyde team. Scott Parker
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We're going to have to see economic data that suggests capital spending is on the rise and corporate confidence is rising before we can move up significantly. We need to see concrete results.
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We're going to have to play three complete periods (today). We'll see a better team (today), a team that will capitalize on your mistakes and jump all over you.
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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales. David Mixner
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In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars. Cal Thomas
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like. Carl Icahn
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The possibility exists that they would get upset with us at some pint and sell dollars. And if they sold all those dollars right away, the value of the dollar would plummet, interest rates would spike and the U.S. would go into a recession.
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You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about. Nick Woodman
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Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry. Earl Weaver
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Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having. Elizabeth Arden
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He [Thomas Edison] considered [money] as a raw material, like metal, to be used rather than amassed, and so he kept plowing his funds into new projects. Several times he was all but bankrupt. But he refused to let dollar signs govern his actions. Charles Edison
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I never cared about money. I'm not destined to be a rich woman. I'm destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I've made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it. Cher
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There might be some credit in being jolly. Charles Dickens
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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.
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We want to see more positive growth in North America.
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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. Charles Lee
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
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"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
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"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
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I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
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One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right.
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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
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The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either. James J. Gibson
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We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.
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We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end. Tom Reilly
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Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.
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When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
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For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. Natalie Massenet
means speed start
We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.
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Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. Sathya Baba
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We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down. Jimmy Smith
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We were already up big, so I'm thinking that's why he did it, to get his teammates to stand up and rally off of that. It didn't work. Rasheed Wallace
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Victor: You guys have some kind of rallying cry? You know, "Avengers assemble?" "It's clobberin' time?" "Hulk smash?" Nico: "Try not to die. Brian K. Vaughan
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The rally will go on and we won't stop unless we win.
rally recent
This recent rally may have legs, but we're still on a downtrend.
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But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.
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We wouldn't have seen such a strong rally if we hadn't seen most of it in Nortel. Kate Warne
rally sector tech
We would characterize today's rally in the tech sector as an oversold bounce.
rally team
I think this team will rally around something like this. I really do. Jim Haslett
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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin? Betty Buckley
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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
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Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.