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Michael On
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I want to be the bridge to the next generation.
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Republicans buy sneakers, too.
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I don't know about flying, but sometimes it feels like I have these little wings on my feet.
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I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball.
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Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.
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That's the way I look at things - if you focus on the worst case scenario and it happens, you've lived it twice. It sounds like Pollyanna-ish tripe but I'm telling you - it works for me.
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I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.
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Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
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The psychological effects are immense. Children understand sameness. And for reasons out of everybody's control, you've yanked that away. You've devastated their world.
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There is a real sense that they're being exposed to the most disciplined and potent bowling attack they've faced in a very long time - and that has shocked them,
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There is a sense that business is a zero-sum game, that if companies are making a lot of money, it must be coming out of someone else's pocket.
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There is no doubt in my mind nor in the minds of anybody in the car, (that) if our security guard had not returned fire, we would all be dead. These were not robbers. This was apparent...from what happened to our colleagues.
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There is no doubt in my mind, that if our security adviser had not returned fire, everyone in our vehicle would have been killed, ... This was not an attempted robbery, they were clearly trying to take us out.
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There is no doubt that 2005 was a challenging year for our company. The organic revenue decline was marginal and we will continue cycling through a number of client losses during the next two to three quarters.