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Our third-quarter financial results demonstrate the ongoing strength of our business, ... Starbucks operations are functioning at a more sophisticated level than ever before. Our consistently strong performance positions us well to achieve our aggressive fiscal 2005 goals -- including an acceleration of store growth as we pursue the Company's expanding global opportunity. Orin Smith
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Our seniors have made it to this game every year, if not farther. This has been a successful group and I'm certainly disappointed for them that we didn't win, because we played so hard, but I could never be disappointed in this group. They've achieved so much this year and have done so much as a group, they'll always be special.
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Our families and staff share a common bond to protect and nurture these vulnerable children. The prospect of this type of crime in our midst is contrary to everything we believe in and strive to achieve every day.
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People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.
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Companies using electronic bill presentment generally achieve overall savings on their billing costs ranging between 20% and 50% after absorbing the costs of the initial implementation period.
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(Cody) dropped one second since Tuesday and he's working hard to achieve his goals. He's getting better, obviously.
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Despite your circumstances in life, you can truly achieve anything in life through hard work and faith.
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Anybody who thinks we can achieve all we set out to achieve in the first three months of our six months presidency is either an optimist or naive, ... judge us at the end of the presidency.
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Any effort to improve relations between the Executive Branch and the members of the Supreme Court must be undertaken with extreme care to ensure that there is no appearance of an effort to affect the deliberations or decisions of the Justices, ... The dignity of the Court must also be maintained, and the Justices should under no circumstances be made to feel that they are being used as part of any political campaign or an effort to achieve any political end. John Roberts
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As always, protectionism doesn't work. The past resistance to change has resulted in the Italian banking system being still affected by fragmentation, with plenty of small-scale players.
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As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart. Paul Haggis
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As a mom, I am going through a very painful experience and my child is going through a very traumatic and painful experience. So I didn't want to say anything that could affect him later in life. Kelly Preston
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Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.
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Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County, Duncan Hunter
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Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious-they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. Richard Hatch
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Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you.
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Probably the most important thing in developing an emergency plan for the agricultural operation is to include the family and employees in the process. By helping to develop the plan, the other family members and employees take more ownership in making the plan work and in helping think of ways to protect the business. After all, everyone is affected if an emergency or disaster causes a disruption in operations, even if it's only for a week or two.
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Privacy is the number one issue facing the Internet, and the need to resolve the problems created by junk mail will affect the future of the online world for many years to come. Marc Rotenberg
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So you combine the performance side of things with the personality and the appearance and the approachability, it's a pretty potent combination.
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This does, sometimes to some people, begin to take on the appearance of a coup. We're talking about a polite, paper-exchanging, voting process in which we rip out the 42nd president of the United States. John Conyers
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There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. Juvenal
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Trust not to outward show. [Lat., Fronti nulla fides.]
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Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. Blaise Pascal
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As if the Corvette Z06 needed help in looking fast, the intricate paintwork of the pace car gives it the appearance of tremendous speed. It is one of the most elaborate and stunning vehicle designs we've created.
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We figured since there was a festival downtown, we'd make an appearance.
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There's some perception in our community that we invest more in our newer schools. Their appearance makes them look dated.
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Do not be misled by appearances for these are apt to be deceptive.
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As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.
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The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing. Tucker Carlson
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People don't know that there is room for negotiation and that it is Town Meeting who decides. I feel it is like Congress, it is the legislative branch of town government.
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Do you open a limited branch? Or will you have a loan officer that goes out to a remote area? ... One thing that this product can do is be a leading indicator of whether you should open a branch in a new area.
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During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen. Chen Shui-bian
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A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch can't be saved
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The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
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To an outstretched hand of peace we will respond with an olive branch but expressions of terror will be met by fire more intense than ever. Ariel Sharon
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Every time there is a robbery at one of our branches we try to figure out what happened and why the numbers go up ... most of us are left scratching our heads. Tom Kelly
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During the electoral campaign I felt the enthusiasm. This is my third campaign, my second running for president, and this was the most enthusiastic. Rene Preval
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The senator welcomes him into the race and we look forward to a campaign where we compare the senator's record to Mr. Lamont's record. Sean Smith
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The suggestion that the mayor is limited to doing only what he proposed during his re-election campaign is absurd.
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The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation. Richard Engel
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These data show that there's a lot of value to branding. A lot of times when you're trying to promote your product, you may not see immediate results, but in the customer's mind, that campaign may be contributing to some of these bookmark conversion rates later on.
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I see myself in this campaign as a kind of goodwill ambassador, Bill Bradley
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The very strong marketing campaign will produce some strong numbers this weekend.
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This is an opportunity for citizens to have an impact on campaign practices next year and beyond. We want to learn what people want to look at and what they regard as true or misleading in what they see.
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There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,
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As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.
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As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.
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The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.
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a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community. Ron Hill
care decision
A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself. Billy Blanks
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As parents and siblings age, they are generally less able to provide quality care due to their own maturity, career demands and many other factors. Few parents ever dream that they will reach their golden years while the role of parent-care giver.
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As investors have gotten their 1099s and have seen large distributions every year, it's evolved that people are really starting to care about it now,
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That played a big role in the game. Coach was making sure that we didn't have turnovers the whole game. He was saying to take care of the ball.
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That was a concession. But we understand that health care is expensive and there has been a dramatic increase in the cost of health care.
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The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.
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The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.
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The tide is very much in our court now. Kevin Keegan
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Teams keying on me just drives me to work even harder, and makes you an overall better player. It excites me to know that people recognize what I do on the court because there are so many great players in Tennessee. It's a great feeling to know that working hard has paid off.
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Sometimes the jumper is someone who failed to show up to court for a traffic violation simply because they forgot about it.
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Sometimes the jumper is just a person who has missed their court date due to a misunderstanding with their attorney.
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Ronnie Earle was abusing his power and getting subpoenas issued by a court that had no jurisdiction.
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Publicly he's saying one thing and in the court he's saying another thing. John Wallace
court firmly grounded labor
The rulings of the labor court will be more firmly grounded in the law.
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As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people. Jon Tester
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Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.
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After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.
decisions
Decisions must be made that are very hard, Karen Hughes
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Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction. Ted Thompson
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An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right. Elbert Hubbard
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I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.
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The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.
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Once we lost scholarships our staff had to make some difficult personnel decisions. As a result, we have lost retention points because student-athletes have transferred when we were not able to renew their aid.
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That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity. Ricky Gervais
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Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. Edward Young
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Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. Bruce Catton
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There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. Rumi
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Even as you wrestle with the ideas of an opponent, you must keep the dignity of the opponent intact. Ravi Zacharias
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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. Theodore Roosevelt
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Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. Terry Pratchett
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I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die. Sherwin B. Nuland
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I don't think it shows much dignity to make excuses after you get your butts kicked. It was like they're everywhere and our feet were stuck in mud. Rick Carlisle
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Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).
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Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.
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These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information. David Brock
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I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. Jane Hirshfield
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that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.
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That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there. John Tortorella
effort looking today
That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.
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We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.
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We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.
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The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence. Kofi Annan
ensure fully serious
These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.
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We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future, Stephen Toulouse
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We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.
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BP will support any legislation that includes notification and compensation of surface owners, provided that there will be some means to ensure that we get a permit.
ensure fair necessary
We think that this is necessary to ensure that we get a fair hearing. Jack Evans
ensure voters york
We want to ensure that we give voters of New York real numbers.
ensure national possible protect responsibility
We want to ensure everything possible is done to protect our responsibility to oversee the National Airspace System.
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We want to ensure every miner has the equipment and training to safely evacuate.
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Network executives never did understand what made our show work, Bill Cosby
executives knew senior
I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,
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I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.
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We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment, Sumner Redstone
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It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.
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For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners. Letitia Baldrige
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Over the last 18 months that this issue has developed, we have been talking with various IBM executives at many levels, and just had not gotten anywhere, ... We're frustrated. Joe Nathan
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Our purpose here today is to help investors keep an eye on how much of their money is being paid to the top executives who work for them. It is about wage clarity, not wage controls. Christopher Cox
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I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me. Angela Ahrendts
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People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile. Roma Downey
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The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too. Nathan Lane
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I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.
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The world has the knowledge, resources, and technology to end extreme poverty, but time is running out. Kemal Dervis
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The work of my firefighters and my officers has been magnificent. They have worked in extreme conditions, with extreme professionalism.
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These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.
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This is an extremely tragic situation, and we don't know all the details. But our thoughts and prayers are with Marie and her family right now.
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Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006. Elliott Abrams
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The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.
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On vaulting, we need to improve our landings. We didn't stick any vaults. Everyone of them took a step.
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an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world.
improvement marginal quarter second
The second quarter should see a marginal improvement.
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School is grade-motivated: You're looking for the A. This is personally motivated: How you can improve yourself. David Johnson
improvement last looking three
The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.
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I've seen a lot of improvement. This year she has a better mastery of her pitches.
improvement
It would be big, being that we're real young and we still have lot of improvement to do.
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It would be better to do this first while we improve the quality of our import statistics and data.
improve quality
This is going to improve the quality of our identification, which we use at every checkpoint in the country.
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As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.
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The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.
members
I was not a member of the SS. Albert Speer
members enjoy
The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy. Amartya Sen
members feds wit
Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head. Daniel Defoe
members profession
In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public. Clay Shirky
members ifs tall
If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC. Rick Nielsen
members states congress
Congress requires states to draw single-member districts. Thomas E. Mann
members cult intervention
Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive. Rick Ross
political time
a little more outreach time with the political community.
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Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them. Barbara Mertz
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin Coolidge
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke. Carla Bley
political examination today
It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences. Alain Badiou
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It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. Al Gore
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Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.
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You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations. Baltasar Gracian
political judiciary interference
The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference. Aung San Suu Kyi
relationship
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. Jim Yong Kim
relationship secret encounters
After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring. Arthur C. Clarke
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The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church. Richard G. Scott
relationship letting-go past
Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing. Brian Weiss
relationship work
I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship. Wang Jianlin
relationship
Everybody's friend is nobody's. Arthur Schopenhauer
relationship pain causes
[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you Eckhart Tolle
relationship girl thinking
I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys. Britney Spears
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My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Eleanor Porter
supreme
We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money. Henry Bonilla