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I think college administrators should encourage students to urinate on walls and bushes, because then when students from another college come sniffing around, they'll know this is someone else's territory. 
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Once he adjusts to the college game, he's going to be a very good player. He's already very strong.
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This is their College World Series. That's why you see that celebration. Brian Jeroloman
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This kind of event is a way of not being invasive about teaching about the Bible. A lot of times, humor is more effective for reaching out to college students.
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It's a challenge, but this team doesn't back down from challenges. It's a great college atmosphere. It's a tough place to play, but that's part of what we teach early in the season. The reason we went to Fullerton was to put ourselves in that kind of situation.
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The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided. Charles Hamilton Houston
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Our ultimate goal is to be in the final game of the Women's College World Series. It comes down to us competing and practicing every day with that mentality.
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A psychologist once asked a group of college students to jot down, in thirty seconds, the initials of the people they disliked. Some of the students taking the test could think of only one person. Others listed as many as fourteen. The interesting fact that came out of this bit of research was this: Those who disliked the largest number were themselves the most widely disliked. When we find ourselves continually disliking others, we ought to bring ourselves up short and ask ourselves the question: "What is wrong with me." James Keller
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For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss. Tyler Hamilton
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Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight. Bobby Rahal
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It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life is enough to encompass so much that it's at all possible ever to have any success in one's work here. Franz Kafka
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The United Nations greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization. Ginny Brown-Waite
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In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic. Gregor Mendel
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He's struggled a little bit with the bat. But over the last seven games, he's raised his average over 100 points and that's when it counts - in district. He's really stepped it up in district, and that's what I expected from him.
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He's fallen into one of the most dangerous traps for a statewide Republican candidate, and that is to become the captive of the Republican base, which is far, far to the right of the average voter in California.
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Hotels have lost a major revenue stream because nobody's using hotel phones to make calls. This is the kind of thing that is in the fine print in a hotel manual, but the average business traveler doesn't read. David Downing
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How could you make a university more productive when probably the average faculty member works 80 hours per week? We've been doing more with less for years. When we hear that phrase, that's when you're going to hear the four-letter words up and down the hallways.
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I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old. Bobby Womack
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Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads. Bobby Scott
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In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR. Bobby Sherman
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At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right. Bobby Knight
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If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs. Ali MacGraw
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It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years.
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We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date. Ali Smith
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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps... Alexander Grothendieck
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention. Adlai E. Stevenson