Joseph Wood
Joseph Wood
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It's without a doubt the worst visual spot in town. We don't always get complaints from those areas. You've got folks whose property is in the same condition as the people across the street.
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Overall, there has been a groundswell of improvements in the nine years I've been here. We've seen property snatched up by investors, improved and then sold.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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I had intended to serve one more term as mayor pro-tem, then retire from public service and move out to my farm in the county, ... But over the weekend I decided it would be better for Gray for me to spend this last four years as mayor. If I stayed as mayor pro-tem, it would be like I was condoning the way Mayor Briley is doing things, and I don't.
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In the late '90s, lots of other people had entered the business and it got crowded. As the new team came on board, we asked how do we compete differently in this marketplace?
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I welcome anyone who is interested in running. Let the people choose, and may the best person win,
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People who are making us do additional work are liable for the cost. Rather than burdening the entire population with the work caused by a few, it makes a few accountable for the cost.
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
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I thought it had gotten better, but in the last few weeks there have been more incidents,
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without cities we cannot be civilized. Without nature, without wilderness even, we are compelled to renounce an important part of our heritage.