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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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We appreciate the length of service and time that Carla had provided to the Art Center, and we also support the actions that were taken (to fire Kelly). Chuck D.
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We want people to observe how we protect the old as we build the new. It's critical that people have the opportunity to observe the smaller actions that make a big difference.
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We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.
against bodies offense progress test
We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season. Tom Jones
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There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy. Louis Stokes
against both brazil match sides
The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game. Michel Patini
against extremism prejudice pretend tackle
The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist. Maajid Nawaz
against concerned good helena quick
The one thing you're always concerned with against Helena is transition. They're quick at it, they're good at it, so you have to be good at it.
against champion fight key stand team
The other team is always going to make a run. The key to being a heavyweight champion is to fight back and stand up against the punches.
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The other side of the coin is that we had a terrific win against Adelaide, and every player deserve to continue on. So it is pretty tight.
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The positive thing to note is that they actually had improving results as the year went on. But they were going against a very easy comparison -- they were down 3% in last year's fourth quarter.
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The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself. Louis MacNeice
behalf continue efforts next phase pleased pursue ruling victims
We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.
behalf believe carefully coal ensure miners nominee review senate
We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.
behalf continue front lobby
We're going to have to go out and lobby on behalf of our sport to get the support. We'll continue to do those things that have to be done to get it back in front of the session. Don Porter
behalf career forward job meetings people plenty position side yelling
By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other. Richard Holbrooke
behalf companies larger needs offer
Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. Lawrence Eagleburger
behalf best civil debate engage lawsuit
Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.
behalf legitimacy negotiate problem
The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?
behalf cruise good hiring luxury minister needs persuaded prime proper security services travel yachts
The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury yachts on behalf of the security services to travel with the Prime Minister while he is on a luxury cruise is a good use of taxpayers' money, Chris Grayling
business soul prosperity
Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity. Charles Dickens
business fighting men
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers. Charles Caleb Colton
business men morality
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
business clever men
The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you
business law brain
Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?" Charles Stross
business past derivatives
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future. Alan Greenspan
business colleagues depends
...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.
business years risk
What we have found over the years in the marketplace is that derivatives have been an extraordinarily useful vehicle to transfer risk from those who shouldn't be taking it to those who are willing to and are capable of doing so.
business greatness views
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class two people
There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece. Dave Barry
class people behaviour
Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes. Cesare Pavese
class black why-not
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? Carter G. Woodson
class white benefits
I regard affirmative action as pernicious-a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Camille Paglia
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
courageous cry ifs
If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now. Bill Hybels
courageous engaged full group hear historic living step time workers
When I hear of a group of courageous workers engaged in a historic struggle, it is important to me to show that I am with them. I am with you in every step of this struggle. No American should be working full time and still living in poverty. John Edwards
courageous remember reporter worthy
She is worthy of respect, being such a courageous reporter and remember who did what to whom. David Cook
courageous cowardly
We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous. Aristotle
courageous dismissed
So he did the right thing, the courageous thing and dismissed the case.
courageous home pulled ran screamed
She screamed and pulled away and ran to her home. This was a very courageous little girl.
courageous life
I try to go with the flow, and I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. I feel courageous enough to go outside myself and try something new, like everything in life. Steve Nash
courageous fought good mccarthy others
But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.
courageous grateful leadership provide stepping
I am grateful to Glenda for stepping up to provide strong, courageous leadership for our state, Jeb Bush
heads pounding trying wall
We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.
heads knew labels record singer time
I am a singer first and foremost. I was lucky enough to have a manager, when I was 15, who knew the heads of a lot of record labels at the time. Hayley Orrantia
heads telescopes
We have to get our heads and telescopes around that. Michael Turner
heads learn
We're going to play through it. I know it. It's just, we got to keep our heads up. It's frustrating. I'm frustrated. But we're going to learn from our mistakes. Charles Rhodes
heads questions raise source
When we first got these findings we were scratching our heads because it does raise questions about what the source (of the leak) really is.
heads hook
We let them off the hook and let them keep their heads in the game, Phil Garner
heads left people since watching work
It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked. Jared Leto
heads looked obstacle teams
Most teams would go, 'Oh, man!' and have their heads down. We just looked at it like it's just another obstacle we have to overcome. Allan Ray
heads held leave win
This win was for Mexico. Now we can leave with our heads held high. Jorge Cantu
held people supported war
The people who supported the war must be held accountable. Jonathan Tasini
held higher responsibility social standard
We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions, Jackie Robinson
held moving work
We have never held out or said that we are doing everything perfectly, and we have accomplished everything. We have said that there's more work to be done, but that we are moving forward.
held low market regard stocks
Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds. Kenneth Fisher
held liked points taken
We would've liked to have taken those points and held on to them a little. Bill Kennedy
held meetings room sam since team time
We're in the room where Sam (Torrance) held all the team meetings in 2002, it's the first time I've been in here since then. Paul McGinley
held
I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, 'Someone unwrap it! Here it is!' That drive can't be held down. Katy Perry
held kids sure
We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.
held publish
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going. J. K. Rowling
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"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."
jobs character air
"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..."
jobs reading years
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!
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. Alan Watts
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
jobs two together
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. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
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.
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
knowing acting firsts
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief. Charles Spurgeon
knowing satisfaction greedy
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. Alan Alda
knowing-god knows deserve
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved. Aiden Wilson Tozer
knowing would-be frightened
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
knowing trying shapes
I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.
knowing quests enough
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. David Sanborn
knowing asking want
What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it. Bruce Wilkinson
knowing people capacity
Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive. Bryan Stevenson
middle outside prevent shots struggled
We struggled to clog up the middle and prevent shots from outside the 18.
middle sentences
Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?. Kurt Vonnegut
middle-east dove making-peace
It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East. Madeleine Albright
middle principal school work
When I was a middle school principal it disgusts me, some of the things I had to work through at that young age.
middle nowhere rural singing songs whether
I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town. Rodney Atkins
middle ends get-involved
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end. Diane Sawyer
middle knows capable
Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it. Anthony Rapp
middle-east east middle
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East. Bashar al-Assad
middle points treat
We treat it no differently than a rainout in the middle of the season. We never make up a points race.
ourselves redeem second steady
We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.
ourselves point stuck
We stuck together. We didn't get down on ourselves or point fingers.
ourselves people pick
We still see ourselves as the underdogs. We always have. If people want to pick us, they can. Ben Roethlisberger
ourselves slow
We started off real slow this season, but we wanted to put ourselves back on the map.
ourselves roll
We're not going to roll over. It's unfortunate that we've put ourselves in this situation. But we're not going to give it to them. We're going to go out there and fight, fight, fight.
ourselves sat
We were being embarrassed. We were being intimidated, we just sat and told ourselves that we can outplay them. Steve Sullivan
ourselves throw
We're going to throw ourselves right in there, headfirst, and see what we're made of right from the beginning.
ourselves
We're going to find out a lot about ourselves this weekend.
ourselves peace vain
When we can't find peace in ourselves it is vain to look for it elsewhere.
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
return three stage
There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being. Chad Harbach
return london range
My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society. Catherine Helen Spence
return should rough
One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return. Caitlin Thomas
return taught important-macbeth
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. William Shakespeare
return
I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God. David Brainerd
return
It is only the dead who do not return. Alexandre Dumas
return psycho
I have to return some videotapes Bret Easton Ellis
return thoughts-of-you
God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.
return desperation failing
When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation. Dean Koontz
solidarity solitary
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. Jose Bergamin
solidarity stand
Everything was pretty slow, which is fine. We want to stand in solidarity on the issue.
solidarity available
We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God. Pope Francis
solidarity
You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself. Martin Schulz
stood tee turn
We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right. Annika Sorenstam
stood waited watched
We stood around a lot and watched and waited for someone else to do the scoring.
stood took
This time, I took it easier. I stood up before it so as not to crash again. Hermann Maier
stood-up household
I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted. Aminatta Forna
stood
He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.
stood united worked
When I first immigrated to the United States, there were not many jobs that stood out. So I worked at a gas station, cleaning.
stood window
We all stood at the window and cried,
stood
I was the one commissioner that stood up on that matter.
stood
They stood under it as if it were a shelter.
themselves tried turned
I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young. Robert Redford
themselves truth
Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse. Aaron Swartz
themselves ultimately whom
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
themselves
Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed. Stephen Covey
themselves training work
But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.
themselves
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich Schiller
themselves turning
We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents. Bill Cosby
themselves
Something I always admire, especially in female comedians, is that they're willing to make themselves look terrible. Jorma Taccone
themselves
Speculators are tripping over themselves to get out.
together tools use
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
together ships speed
God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port
together world letters
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
together buffets throwing
Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet. Al Madrigal
together too-much sides
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem. Chogyam Trungpa
together pieces narrative
When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of. Chiwetel Ejiofor
together energy making-changes
We are one energy. Together we can make a change. David Guetta
together states anthropology
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. David Graeber
together grandson
And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it. Cab Calloway
ultimately upheld
And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts. Lloyd Cutler
ultimately
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. Helen Thomas
ultimately
A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end. Bhagat Singh
ultimately
The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands. Nick Clooney
ultimately
There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make. David Twohy
ultimately
As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.
ultimately words
Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.
ultimately
It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.