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We are pleased with the progress toward achieving our earnings growth objective. We are reaffirming our 2006 earnings guidance of $1.25 to $1.35 per share. Richard Kelly
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We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance. J. Taylor
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We acknowledge that achieving success in Japan will not come easily or quickly for Xbox. But we are confident that because Xbox 360 is the most powerful video game and entertainment system, delivering the best content for Japanese gamers, enabled by the online capability of Xbox Live, we will earn more of their business moving forward. I am excited and honored to take on this role. Takashi Sensui
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We want to put the players under pressure. (But) not in terms of results that come naturally, but in terms of achieving different goals they have been set. Rahul Dravid
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Whether or not he's going to sit there and outline his entire (State of the State) proposal, he's not going to do that. Achieving consensus is the point of the Legislature. They're here to conduct the business of the people.
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We feel all the ingredients are in place for (rapid) economic growth. We are confident of India achieving growth of 8-9 per cent in (the year to March 2007).
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We're just focused on achieving our goals, and that's to continue to get better for the playoffs. Jerry Stackhouse
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Major shifts in transportation priorities are essential to achieving energy independence and maintaining national security, ... A serious commitment to rail and transit has been a missing element in the U.S. strategy to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil.
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Lexus won by a wide margin, achieving a rating of 88 versus 83 for Porsche and 82 for Acura. Lexus customers rated it the most worthy of a price premium by a five-point margin. Lexus also posted the highest ratings in the critical Customer Retention and Customer Referral indices.
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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.
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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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The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win. Mike Shanahan
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The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.
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We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals. Jose Gonzalez
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There are chances of a peaceful solution to the Iranian problem.
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We stopped talking, stopped moving and that really hurt us in games three, four and five. We had chances but we didn't take advantage. I think we got too comfortable (after game two) and kind of let up a little bit.
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We're in a tough state right now. We have some real adversity. Every mistake is in our net. We can't score on the chances we get. We can't kill penalties. Ken Hitchcock
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Where I thought my chances before were 10 percent or less, I would say they're less than one-half to one percent.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars. Dan Hill
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We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.
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Science is an excellent piece of furniture to have in the second story, providing that you have common sense on the ground floor. Alan Chadwick
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There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense. Alan Cooper
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People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. Chinua Achebe
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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. David Deutsch
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Its pretty rare for companies to have a snooping policy, although it is getting more common. David R. Ellis
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The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished. Catherine the Great
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Unstructured information is common to just about every industry. This story has legs to support investors for quite a long time.
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Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There are common lessons for us to learn from our own UK study and from the study just released by the AAUW. First, these forms of victimization happen to far too many students: female and male, from all walks of life, and from all races and ethnicities. The second discomforting similarity is that most students who have these experiences do not tell.
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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. Alan Watts
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One of my degrees was a science degree in biology. Elizabeth Moon
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The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it. Bill Nighy
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Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian Chetan Bhagat
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Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead, Alan Greenspan
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We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.
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The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly Desiderius Erasmus
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I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. David Alan Grier
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The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. K. Eric Drexler
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The other schools that are interested are Division III, but I know I can play at the Division II level.
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The possibility that the school may move up to Division I-AA is pretty exciting.
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While Kohl's is expected to steal market share from Mervyn's, it should be limited to 1 to 2 percent of total division shares.
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What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.
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We wrapped up our division at the All-Star break, Derek Jeter
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We're pleased to see improvements in all segments, ... The company's stations group had record operating results with each of the divisions - radio, outdoor and television - contributing to the results. Mel Karmazin
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We're fighting for the division title and this is a good step toward that, but we still have a little work left to do.
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We're just not good enough within the division overall.
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With the new system, we see teams in our division eight times and those rivalries, if they weren't in place, will be resurrected.
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The reduction in the speed lessens the potential for serious rear-end crashes.
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It really lessens your worries about taxing them.
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It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
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A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
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My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
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Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
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Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule