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Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it. Richard Holbrooke
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Ultimately, I am responsible for their actions and I take full responsibility. But I want to stress that these are good kids who come from good families, who made a serious mistake in judgment. Sylvester Croom
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The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations. Meg Garlinghouse
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The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.
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The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.
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We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors, Raul Gonzalez
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We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.
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We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.
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We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.
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On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. Ernest Thompson Seton
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Fort Smith, being the place of my longest stay, was the scene of my largest medical practice.
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At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.
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Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for- because unless we stand for something we shall fall for anything. Peter Marshall
american-leader best fighting listen men since
I have done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some will not listen and since the fighting began, I have not been able to keep them at home. Black Kettle
american-leader character command man time
A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
american-leader courage
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
american-leader life strewn
The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
american-leader feels
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor. Nick Harkaway
appalling city hunger including large numbers precisely programs
Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.
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It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smoke knowing full well these machine measurements do not reflect how people smoke and therefore how much carbon monoxide and other toxins they are inhaling. We need a major overhaul of the system for measuring toxins in tobacco smoke.
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Unless this whole intolerable system is changed radically and rapidly, disaster must follow and appalling bloodshed and civil war become inevitable. Bram Fischer
appalling build good regret waste
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield
appalling imposing people sake
People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief. Karen Maitland
appalling conditions peasant poor quite though
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
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A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree. Arthur Smith
appalling justified people religion scriptures
Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices. Zac Goldsmith
bad-ass why-not famous-last-words
Why not? After all, it belongs to him. Charlie Chaplin
bad-day men dc-comics
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day." The Joker - The Killing Joke Alan Moore
bad-day self abuse
If I was having a bad day, eating was like self-medicating. But if you abuse food, you still have to use that substance that you abuse every day. You have to learn to use it responsibly. Al Roker
bad-day giving lazy
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have. Chris Cleave
bad-ass thinking done
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose. Chris Bangle
bad ball breakdown dropped protection seemed throw
We lacked rhythm. We dropped the ball or we made a bad throw or we had a protection breakdown seemed it was something different every time.
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We know he has ability, but he's inexperienced. So I thought losing Colon was a bad break for them and a good one for us. Mike trusted him right down to the seventh inning, and unfortunately, we couldn't cash in on some of the opportunities we had. Joe Torre
bad companies knows mark question visibility
We know companies are going to tell us they have no visibility ? they don't know when it's going to get better. Everyone knows its bad so it's in the market. The big question mark is still going to be the economy. Liz Miller
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When I was a kid, you came to the Florida games and it wasn't a matter of if they were going to win. It was a matter of how badly they were going to win. The talent we have on this team and the coaches we have, there's no reason that shouldn't be the expectations here." ()
generations stills popping
You know I've got a generator that's still popping. Chita Rivera
generation shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
generation pass shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
generation shall till unto verily
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
generations social program
Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations. Diane Watson
generations my-generation
My generation is under-entertained. Dave Chappelle
generations theme endure
I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation. David Guterson
generations next problem
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away. Cesare Pavese
generations ethics tendencies
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology. David Riesman
good-mood sometimes mood
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can. Charles de Lint
goods
Money and goods are certainly the best of references. Charles Dickens
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
hateful pleasure form
pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection. Ambrose Bierce
hateful
The hateful thing about most hotels nowadays is that they only have duvets. I hate duvets. Quentin Blake
hateful reminder
It's a reminder of a big, hateful lie.
hateful rest thyself
What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
hateful language racism
It's disgusting. Racism and its hateful language have no place in this community.
hateful miserable mortals
All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve. Homer
hateful middle-finger enough
I wasn't born with enough middle fingers Marilyn Manson
hateful obligation
Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. Thomas Hobbes
hateful spirit miserable
I have nothing to make me miserable," she said, getting calmer; "but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything." "Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?" asked Dolly, smiling. "The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome. Leo Tolstoy
merely movies problem putting taking thinking
The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.
merely please stars struck
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them. John Webster
merely number violated whatsoever witnesses
Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.
merely
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. Oscar Wilde
merely remark subject
Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. Charles Hodge
merely politics
Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.
merely proper
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims. bell hooks
merely ownership raise raises reform
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
merely written
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself. Patrick O'Brian
people waiting thank-god
I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it. Charlie Daniels
people understand-me audience
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.
people special architecture
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
people helping i-can
I am for people. I can't help it.
people dictator
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
people wicked-world wonderful
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
people rich assured
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich Charles Wagner
people want chance
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. Charles W. Pickering
people slavery congress
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal. Charles Sumner
repentance pardon
God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth. Anselm of Canterbury
repent thine thou whom
Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
repent
One can repent even of having repented. Bernard Berenson
repent
It is better to prepare and prevent than it is to repair and repent. Ezra Taft Benson
repentance evidence
Let us beware of repentance without evidence. J. C. Ryle
repentance moaning knows
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. J. I. Packer
repent asks
God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent. Mark Driscoll
repentance conclusion hasty
Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance. Publilius Syrus
repentance hasty
Repentance follows hasty counsels.
silence argument weak
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
silence defense opponents
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
silence assertion
We can refute assertions, but who can refute silence?
silence stopping looks
To be silent is not to lose your tongue. On the contrary, it is only through silence that one can discover something new to talk about. One who talked incessantly, without stopping to look and listen, would repeat himself ad nauseam. Alan Watts
silence answers critics
Silence is often the most eloquent answer to our critics. Aiden Wilson Tozer
silence building crescendo
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music. Chogyam Trungpa
silence tragedy might
If you are involved with the intensity of crescendo situations, with the intensity of tragedy, you might begin to see the humor of these situations as well. As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
silence
No one nor anything can silence me. Dmitri Mendeleev
silence needs stories
But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you. Diane Setterfield
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.
words-of-wisdom speech earnest
A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
words-of-wisdom crowds noise
Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.
words-of-wisdom surprise me-alone
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
words-of-wisdom littles captains
Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.
words-you-say
The words you say never live up to the words in your head. Chris Cornell