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Dire times call for dire measures. We're going to cut in-service days. We're not spending more on teacher housing.


Chris Simon

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PAT SYMONDS Obviously, consumers just ignored all the dire warnings and kept on spending.
DOUG PORTER We're a long way from what anybody would call dire straits,
PETER SCHOOMAKER It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire...
DEBORAH DURHAM The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate pare...
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BURT AARONSON I've always felt that we were at our best in the most dire situations this year.
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DAVID BROWN I think it's quite obvious that our situation is urgent, is dire. The bleeding that's been going on ...
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LYNNE WEBER Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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DIRE STRAITS There is a dire need for helicopters. We could send two more.
JOSEPH RICE Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures
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NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI It was mutual. He understood we're not going to use him unless we're in dire straits. Hopefully, he'...
ADAM RITA find themselves in dire financial straits.
ED WHITFIELD In Germany, conditions for entrepreneurs and the highly qualified are dire.
FRANZ JAEGER It's stressful work in dire living conditions,
BILL KELLY The future of humanity depends on this part of the world. What is going on in the Islamic world has ...
EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.
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ART SPINELLA In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to ga...
BRENT IBATA It is a fairly dire situation.
DAVID BUNCH Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.
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LINDA LEWIS The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last...
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY The budget process is in shambles, devoid of accountability, transparency and enforcement measures. ...
TOM SCHATZ These are kind, loving people who are in dire need.
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MARGUERITE YOURCENAR The town is spending more than what were paying in taxes. People will have to start going to town me...
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SUSAN COLLINS That facility is in dire need of some cosmetic and functional upgrades.
KEN BRENNAN Quanto dura? Il teatro, voglio dire?"
"Tutto il tempo. In eterno.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT I'm glad he called, ... This is an opportunity for our school and community to help those who are in...
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DR SUSAN LIEBERMAN Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. We saw a need that needed to be filled, and we ...
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DONNA VAN VLACK That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
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ZENO The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security...
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ADAM HOCHSCHILD What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow
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SIMON SINEK Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
SIMON SINEK Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.
SIMON SINEK Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery...
SIMON MCBURNEY Memorable occasions should be brief, and so should be the expressions of appreciation.
SIMON KUZNETS