Everyone feels that Penn State is back. We're back on the map.


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This puts us back on the map.
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Everyone feels like family and I am back in the city that I love.
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It would put the state on the map.
GRAY SWOOPE
It feels good just to get back on the field with the guys and get back in the huddle.
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We started off real slow this season, but we wanted to put ourselves back on the map.
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chance to be somewhere that is not specifically geared towards Penn State students.
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No university comes close to the impact -- in every corner of the state -- that Penn State has.
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I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.
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My biggest hope is that now everyone can get back to focusing on Evelyn's homicide case.
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We got them back on their home court and it feels wonderful.
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Someone said they were shot and everyone went to the back of the store.
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Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
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Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
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Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.
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[The] coach is wearing Penn State gear to motivate her team to beat us.
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VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM
When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brother...
ALVIN ANDERSON
I think it's pretty exciting that the celebration is back. Everyone missed it.
MIKE PETHERBRIDGE
When Penn State jumped, that had an impact on the EWL. That's a national-name school leaving the lea...
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We hope to have everyone back on by Tuesday evening.
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It feels good to be back. I got tired of sitting in that training room all day, every day, while all...
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He's going to change things at Penn State University.
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I felt like we should have beat Penn State.
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Everyone was just getting the kinks out, and it was fun to back with the guys. I think everyone feel...
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The secretary doesn't feel this is push back. He feels it's an important clarification.
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The three seniors that were injured were back and ready to go. We talked about the fact that we were...
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It feels sweet. We knew it was going to be a heavyweight fight. We were delivering blows back and fo...
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It feels good. I'm happy to be back.
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We got the monkey off our back. It feels great.
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Everyone back the fuck up! I am not that pretty!
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I'm looking forward to spending five days (at Penn State).
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We needed to get back on the diamond before we head to Dakota State.
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It's like seeing a historical weather map. You're in a space shuttle going back in time.
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It feels really good to be back out there.
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We finally got the monkey off our back. It feels good.
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When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Wash...
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It's great to have Dan back. He's a great player, and we're a better football team with him.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav...
BARBARA O'CONNOR
When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR