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Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sport; but the grand sport is a tiger and buffalo fight, reserved for rare occasions, however, on account of its expense. Cock-fighting is a source of gigantic gambling and desperate feuds. Isabella Bird
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity. Zac Goldsmith
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In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage. Virginia Postrel
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Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages. Ellen Key
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Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.
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The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year compared to last are a result of accounting decisions as to how much of the longer-term losses to reflect last year, this year and presumably next year. We still have an average loss of $7 billion to $8 billion a year for the last four years.
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The Patriot Act does not require that nuns' bank accounts be frozen. The Patriot Act has a lot of problems, but that's not one of them.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. Yael Grobglas
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. Yanis Varoufakis
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Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away. Tina Brown
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive. Ice T
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.' Idris Elba
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I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you. Isobelle Carmody
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for. Gavyn Davies
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You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK? Donald Trump
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' Zadie Smith
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The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.
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I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression. Timothy Noah
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water. Zubin Mehta
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I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. Elizabeth Warren
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Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
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My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.' Twyla Tharp
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Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown? Yotam Ottolenghi
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It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself. Yani Tseng
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We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school. Thucydides
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
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I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. Thomas Friedman
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows. Idina Menzel
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I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'
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Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something. Gabriel Mann
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My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for the racehorses, and I saw how it used to bother my mother. I've never gambled a dime. Never, in all those years in Vegas. Don Rickles
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Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory. Brittany Howard
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That was the difference tonight. We had some opportunities, some chances to score, but it just didn't go in for us. The bottom line is we're going to score goals. We just have to work hard and keep moving forward and not let this bother us. Craig Conroy
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We have trivialized this park, residents make too little use of it, and tourists don't know where it is, ... Neither the city or the federal government has bothered to make maximum use of it. The problem is that it had no plan and it's in a state of great deterioration.
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We came out lethargic in the first half. Audra (Major's) back was bothering her like it did before Christmas, and the guards really had to step it up. Joseph Garcia
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I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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We had our chances. I think his hamstring was bothering him. There was a play when he didn't run to cover first base. There may be something there. David Eckstein
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We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most. Bruce Bowen
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer. Vince Gilligan
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We haven't invested in the Mining Company, but I want to be friends with Scott because he knows a lot of people. Fred Wilson
invested
You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show. Zach Galligan
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I wish I would have invested in land with Stilwell.
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If an investor pulled out of the space because of this, they don't understand what they are invested in.
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We've got too much invested to let somebody come in and take over. Willie Smith
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We've been here a long time. We've invested a lot of money, and we'd like to stay here, but we need to make a profit.
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I think they understand there is a lot of tradition here, and there's a lot of players that are upset. I've had phone calls. That just speaks volumes to what they've invested in this program. Still, they are like family. When we lose, they lose. Pat Summitt
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I think we have somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 invested in 50 nests.
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Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.
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We need to recognize that many people feel they are living in a
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Where you find obesity, you'll find poverty. It's a reflection of the South's struggle to raise its standard of living.
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I'm sitting in my living room wondering why I have so many clocks.
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The one thing worse than not living for ever would be living for ever Christopher Ricks
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Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.
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We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.
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We do this as a service to our clients, ... We're not in the exorbitant mark-up business. We're living on margins of 25 percent. David Lord
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Here's a picture of the singlewide trailer we were living in. Robert Taylor
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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. Antoine Rivarol
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Nothing can match the treasure of common memories ... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.
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There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories.
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When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared. Beck
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Chauncey seethed at the outrageous insult. "And your father?" he demanded, extending the sword. He didn't yet know all his vassals, but he was learning. He would brand the family name of this boy to memory. Becca Fitzpatrick
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This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. William Shakespeare
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Memory, the warder of the brain.
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Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake. Cecelia Ahern
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This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better. Carrie Underwood
night doors sky
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs. Carl Sagan
night warm
My business doesn't keep me warm at night. Bethenny Frankel
night belts seats
Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve Bette Davis
night light fans
And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie. Berenice Marlohe
night thinking imagination
I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them. Ashley Tisdale
night way politician
The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work. Arsenio Hall
night scared ifs
I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that. Arsene Wenger
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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.
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When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience. Bertrand Russell
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We could go back over the past two years and pick out threat reports of pretty much the same substance, Tom Ridge
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Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
past fishing advice
Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
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Remembrance of things past.
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We'll get past this. But it's just the beginning. Avery Johnson
past years people
The economy is a ponzi scheme. People are working harder than they ever have for less wages, but we have so many bobbles because manufacturing has come up so quickly over the past hundred years that people have the illusion of wealth. Alex Jones
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What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country. Yahya Jammeh
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs. Yossi Vardi
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Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself. Yancy Butler
people
I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.' Ian Mckellen
people
People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve. Irwin Rose
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Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.
people
When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else. Imani Hakim
presenting thoughtful
We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.
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I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.
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Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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We try to present users with what other users have found.
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If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.
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I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher. Chief Bender
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We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.
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When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible. Alexa Von Tobel
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As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge. Ewen Bremner
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Lester Germer was my first supervisor at Bell Labs. He was the Germer of the Davisson and Germer Experiment that is sometimes referred to in introductory texts on physics.
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You are going to have to talk to the referee because I don't know why I got thrown out, Clint Mathis
referred taxpayer
The taxpayer group in every state is always - always referred to as nuts. Grover Norquist
referring work
I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.
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It's good to be comfortable with who you are and what you do. Chad Channing
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If you look in 'The Science of Getting Rich,' you see no reference whatsoever to the 'law of attraction.' Esther Hicks
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The referee has done us, he had a terrible time of it, Harry Redknapp
references
Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns. Brooke Shields
reference
Let lying dogs sleep is something I always say in reference to the Smiths.
remember side time
You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything. Wislawa Szymborska
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Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.
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These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. Bill Vaughan
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till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore. Tilda Swinton
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I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.
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Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.
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I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.
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I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.
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I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.
shared
We shared some stories, got to know each other.
shared
Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)? Arlen Specter
shared stories time
They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there. Alice Stewart
shared
We don't think it was being shared for profit.
shared
I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl. Jennette McCurdy