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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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It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. William Henry Ashley
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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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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!' Don Rickles
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Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs. Barack Obama
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The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own. Rob Lowe
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That was quite an experience right there, ... We went to New York the year after it happened. It was weird, because there was just like a big ol' gap in between all these buildings and you could tell where the damage had been done. Kathy Sierra
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That was a great swing by Crews. I thought we were going to get right back into the game after that. It seemed building from that, we just weren't energized.
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That was a great start to the game, it really got everyone up from the beginning. We just kept building on our play from that point on.
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We have all of the original plans, about 130 sheets of plans, that we used in designing and building the Texas State Capitol Building.
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We have also made the decision to have only 1 per cent of the fund invested in fixed interest. Instead, we use investments like the RG Casey building in Canberra to deliver a higher annuity style income for rents for long periods. Paul Watson
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We have already seen significant customer interest in this powerful combination, and we look forward to building on our relationship with Palm. Jim Balsillie
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The pellets take the color of the wood that they're eating. They're in a very distinct little pile, like gritty sand.
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The important thing is not what we look like, but the role we play in our best friend’s life. Friends choose certain friends because that’s the kind of company they are looking for at that specific time, not because they’re the correct height, age, or have the right hair color Cecelia Ahern
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance. Carl Maria von Weber
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I feel like when I went back to my original hair color, a little bit of an edgier side came out. Ashley Tisdale
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Lucidity is the first purpose of color in music. Arnold Schoenberg
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It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves. Aron Ralston
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Many parks in Florida have information kiosks with colorful enamel signs showing the special flora and fauna in the park. The gopher tortoise, the scrub jay, the indigo snake. At no park with an indigo snake on its kiosk signs could I find an indigo. Padgett Powell
color sure
We wanted to make sure he wasn't color blind. Mack Brown
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I love corduroys, because they are really comfy and they're cozier than jeans. They come in nice autumn hues - colors that you can have fun with. Rachel Bilson
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How do you know someone is a grandparent? They've got milk stains on every shirt from burping babies. Their pants are worn out at the knees from crawling around giving pony rides. They have 2,842 pictures of the grandkids on their smart phone and not one photo of their spouse. Regina Brett
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It defies the nation's history and commonsense. With their filthy hands and drunken heads they are crawling into the sanctuary of the state.
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I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted. Amanda Tapping
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I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet. Alan Moore
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I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall. Bob Newhart
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Stations were crawling with record promoters. They were everywhere. They invaded a station, and they always had gifts,
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My greatest hope is to have two girls crawling on the floor three to four months from now, and daddy will play with them.
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The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies. Adam Arkin
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crawling on his back trying to flee him. Another woman was shot twice in the legs and then shot in the head with a shotgun. Tom Reilly
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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them. Yolanda Adams
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When I first read the story 'Guts' in workshop - my fellow writers that I've been meeting with for almost 20 years - they laughed; they didn't have any kind of shock reaction. Chuck Palahniuk
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I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.
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Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets. Brian Kernighan
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I was once doing an improv show and it was my turn to jump on stage and I fell on my face. It's a really terrible way to start a show. Brea Grant
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We need to learn to mark up better. We got frustrated that they were getting opportunities and forgot about what we were doing. It worked for us then we fell apart.
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The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians. Olivia Newton-John
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We had officers who had to go to the hospital who fell out from the heat, and we would've lost more if it wasn't for them, Buddy Bell
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We were going to give up a fourth-round pick just to move up one spot, we wanted him so bad. And all of a sudden, he fell right into our laps. Chris Landry
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The outlook is good because Texas fires start quickly and end quickly. Texas is flatter, with not much rugged terrain.
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I wouldnt piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire Bette Davis
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The woman who too easily and ardently yielded her devotion will find that its vitality, like a bright fire, soon consumes itself. Antoine Rivarol
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Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'. Bertrand Russell
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That was unprecedented. Nobody has ever gotten Fire Officer of the Year two times.
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That weapon was fired at least 20 times.
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We could hear Davidson down the hall partying and yelling and screaming. I think he wanted it to light a fire under us. ... The seniors just wanted to make sure this wasn't the last time we all played together, the last time this team was going to be together. And we made that point to each other.
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We just didn't play with the fire this team usually plays with ... I am a little disappointed with that.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story. Malala Yousafzai
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Keeping a lid on taxes is not just good for the taxpayer. It's a powerful way to force government to be more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter. Let me repeat that: more accountable, set priorities and spend smarter - that's what we need to be about. Tim Pawlenty
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman. Ian Anderson
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write. Vikram Seth
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The police had to use less-than-lethal force to take him down.
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The police force is full of corruption, and the law process has collapsed,
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The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say. Ben Carson
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The pay-per-view people were very organized and they forced him to think about things he never would have thought of. He knew he needed professionals to do that.
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Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts.
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If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected. Gore Vidal
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As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville. Bill Vaughan
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We have truly put the magnifying glass to everything we do as a company.
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We were happy to score 64 points. R-B was hot from the outside in the first half and the probably doubled us on the offensive glass prior to halftime.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full. Hamilton Jordan
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The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows. Jack Johnson
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From what I understand, he is a good-sized 9-year-old - he's not a small child. He had already knocked the officer's glasses off, and hit and kicked him.
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Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.
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Have a glass of wine, some pasta, sit a while and chat. Just let the guys know when you're ready to bottle, and they'll set you up.
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He said he needs to be 100% sure. He knows what he has to put in to play the way he plays. I'm an optimist. I think the glass is half full. It's about him and his family. Mike McCarthy
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The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,
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I suspect it's a pattern you will see here.
patterns
It comes down to what the rainfall patterns are,
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Venezuela has historically a pattern of stabilization plans that then fail,
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The truth of a myth...is not in its words but its patterns. David Mitchell
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Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
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Billy Ray Cyrus does not smoke. Michael Bolton doesn't...Paula Abdul doesn't...there does seem to be a pattern. Bill Hicks
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The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Bruce Lee
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My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability. Ashleigh Brilliant
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Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible. William John Wills
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We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons. Jamey Wright
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We have a lot of speed. We just have to put the puzzle pieces together.
pieces
I still have 17 pieces of shrapnel in my neck.
pieces taken
We have taken in some real pieces of junk.
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I don't think any one of these is the solution. It's going to be a combination of them all. This is just a big puzzle and we need to put all the pieces together.
pieces puzzle
Here we put all the pieces of the puzzle together.
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He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team. Charlie Batch
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Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces. Cary Elwes
pushed
We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something. Malik Rose
pushed saw
When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.
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My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion. Ted Ligety
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Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.
pushed
But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,
pushed stop
I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.
pushed
I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat, Stansfield Turner
pushed quickness
I'm not getting pushed around as much, and I still have the quickness I've always had.
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That pushed me to go in -- do something for my country.
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Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,
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If we are not in each other's suites, we are always yelling out the windows into the courtyard at one another.
windows
A lot of times, those windows can be refurbished.
windows
Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world. Damian Marley