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There is no one else who can do it and there is also the face issue -- if China switches leaders after just two years it will be an admission that their first choice was wrong. Joseph Cheng
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It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions. Nelson Peltz
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We believe today's statement of objections is unjustified. The Commission has issued this statement regarding technical documentation we submitted last week, even though by its own admission it ... has not even read or reviewed these new documents. Brad Smith
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We're basically removing all of the procedural barriers--such as late fees--and speeding the admission and enrollment process for qualified students so they can enroll for fall semester. Whatever students need to make this happen, we're going to take care of it. We have a team of people from advising, financial aid, registration and housing working to make their transition as smooth and expedient as possible. Ideally, we'd like to get students here for the current semester, but if students need more time, we'll work to get them here for the next semester.
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We settled to bring this matter to closure, more as a convenience than as an admission of wrongdoing.
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We set the admission goal for new students at 340. Many factors go into consideration with that, such as the classes offered, class availability, class size, budget for new faculty and how many current students return and how many graduate. The number shouldn't be less than 340 but not higher than 355.
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What we did is we worked with those media outlets and we created what we hope is a suitable substitution for people with some carnival passes, gate admission and we developed at the last second two dollars in fair bucks. Ryan Cabrera
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The price of admission at the door is $25, so make sure you get your tickets early and save yourself some money. Amy Taylor
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I don't understand why the stock reacted so favorably to them saying they were renting out space in their stores. Frankly that is an admission that your business in trouble.
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I don't like Amazon (wearing my author hat, not my customer hat). Charles Stross
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We want to send an Amazon securities employee out to his home to collect whatever materials he has. This is an important issue for us. Patti Smith
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Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way. Edan Lepucki
amazon love shop
Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.
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Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature. Nick Harkaway
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We believe that free shipping programs, including Amazon Prime, had a much greater negative impact to Amazon's gross margins than we'd originally anticipated.
amazon argue ask business internet investors low margins question
The profitability of the business hasn't been any better than it has been. It is still low margins and price-competitive. The question investors should ask is if Amazon is a retailer or an Internet stock. I would argue that it is a retailer.
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I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books. John Grisham
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. Candice Millard
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We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.
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Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves. Nancy Giles
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Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site. Mark Ferguson
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I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas. Lukas Haas
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I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.
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'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life. Louis Sachar
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The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.
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The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery. Michelle Wie
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The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be. Tom Coughlin
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.' Mark Frauenfelder
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The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
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There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.
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We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.
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We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
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I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
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When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
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Where one burns books, one will soon burn people.
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What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
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Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books;But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. William Shakespeare
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Many professors don't realize they can just buy the book. We need to create a reminder system for faculty.
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Several times I concluded that there was too much detail; always I returned to continue and enjoy the book. John Galbraith
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She told us she was in suspense (while writing the book) too, as if she was reading it.
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When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library. Iris Chang
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We're looking at books, movies and TV shows that have strong characters from the past that we can take and build upon.
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If someone is interested in working with me, I would much rather them email me and we sit down or get on the phone, than them look at a client list and decide if I'm worth it or not. It should be based on work, and based on how we get along. As opposed to like, "Oh, he's worked with this, this, and this. Let's go. That's fine."
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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey. Chris Bohjalian
phones differences profound
I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out. David Sedaris
phones people too-late
Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners. David Mitchell
phones way messages
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible. David Crystal
phones agency car
You should definitely have a travel agent. Why go through all the hassle of dealing with airlines, hotels, and rental-car agencies yourself, only to see the arrangements get all screwed up, when with just a single phone call you can have a trained professional screw them up for you? Dave Barry
phones medicine doctors
I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.
phones people online
The future of mobile is the future of online. It is how people access online content now. David Murphy
phones mind email
Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear. Byron Katie
selling-more goal priorities
Selling more of what you sell has nothing to do with what you sell. It has everything to do with your prospect's wants, needs, fears, goals, values and priorities. Don Cooper
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Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living. Dennis Miller
selling assets process
I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers
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There is no new requirement to sell any water
sell series
We've been able to sell more series than we had planned, but they take capital.
selling soon supplies
We're getting supplies of all of these, and we're selling out as soon as we get them,
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If I don't buy it, I can't sell it. Ben Feldman
sells
No one ever expects poetry to sell. Alan Lightman
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I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. Aimee Mann