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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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We've got a very busy agenda at the U.N., it's going to be very difficult to get the job done. Let's get behind him, let him do his work I certainly want to see him succeed but I'm going to watch him carefully. Christopher Dodd
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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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My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work. Sue Monk Kidd
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know. Tawni O'Dell
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The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America. Charlie Daniels
america people house
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. Charles W. Pickering
america people gone
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
america sick dumb
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.
america labor-force competition
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
america black stories
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
behind-the-scenes owners staff
I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best. Charles Wang
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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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We knew they were their two best players, and we couldn't let them get behind us, but they did. As soon as they got the ball, the raced up the floor.
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We know he's the one guy who's a little bit behind where he would normally be. No excuses. He had good stuff tonight, but he's not exactly perfect right now with his location and as good as we've seen him. Ron Gardenhire
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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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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 problem with the classical theory is that you could use any combination of particles to make the black hole -- protons, electrons, stars, planets, whatever -- and it would make no difference. There must be billions of ways to make a black hole, yet with the classical model the final state of the system is always the same.
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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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Let these people get their education. Don't criminalize them. They pay taxes, and they contribute billions to the economy.
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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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Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships. Erik Paulsen
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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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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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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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The only way something gets through is on a bipartisan vote. Cecilia Munoz
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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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I think they may be playing it for all it's worth. If he's trying to get back on a bipartisan track, what better way than to pick a fight with the president?
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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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Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.
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Venture capital is always wanting to go up market. Clayton Christensen
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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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No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the basis for the rise of the Western capitalist economy and the building of private fortunes-and it was based on the sin of usury. Barbara Tuchman
capitalize last won
We've won 22 of our last 24. You play 82 games, and you don't like to say you didn't have it, but we didn't have it tonight. We didn't capitalize on our opportunities down the stretch. Flip Saunders
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We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with. Douglas Leone
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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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We know for a fact that there's a lot of medical expense dollars leaving Brookings County. A lot of them were already Sioux Valley patients, quite honestly, and they were driving to Sioux Falls.
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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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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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Watch the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves. Benjamin Franklin
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I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy. Ben Bernanke
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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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Walgreen remains on a steady growth path, relatively unabated by industry or competitive threats.
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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 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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In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.
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Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
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If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not. Charles Dudley Warner
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There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very easy to burn away your time instead -- answering e-mails, surfing the Internet, or hanging out with friends. You really must have the discipline to sit down and write every day. Most of what I am writing is living in the back of my head or in my subconscious. I find if I write every day, my subconscious will do the job for me. Charles de Lint
jobs cutting editing
We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.
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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.
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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.
means share slowing
When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.
means prepared trying
A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you're prepared to take the risk of trying them out. Brian Eno
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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 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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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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The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought. Eleanor Roosevelt
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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
rally stop unless
The rally will go on and we won't stop unless we win.
rally team
I think this team will rally around something like this. I really do. Jim Haslett
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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Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners. Robert Kiyosaki
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There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt
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In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
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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.
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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.