I haven't seen or heard anything yet from the developer, but I think it's way too dense. I wonder if it will fit in with the character of Martin County.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. KING SOLOMON It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... FREDERICK THE GREAT Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... KATE MIDDLETON There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. MARIE ANTOINETTE I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all. MARIE ANTOINETTE I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It... QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman. KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister. KATE MIDDLETON It would be doing me great injustice to think that I have any feeling of indifference to my country;... MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. FREDERICK THE GREAT Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road... HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. QUEEN CHRISTINA There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. PRINCE CHARLES We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes. QUEEN RANIA OF JORDAN I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. 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It seems like what they're playing is tit for tat. And that's not a good game to play. ... Their arg... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI I think Martin County protects its communities very well, and we keep the growth at the airport at a... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI When we start talking about so many homes, we start talking about the need for schools, the need for... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI It's a shame millions of dollars of taxpayers' money was spent to sit there and rot. The state reall... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI We all want to solve traffic problems but nobody wants to pay for it. We need to bite the bullet and... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI Our comprehensive plan already allows truck stops, motels and hotels at the interchange entrance to ... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI They can encourage residents to not go to the Treasure Coast mall all they want. That whole attitude... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL DITERLIZZI We are very happy to welcome the Georgetown field hockey program as a full-time member of the BIG EA... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL TRANGHESE As our BIG EAST Conference football programs continue to grow and improve themselves, so too does th... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL TRANGHESE I really feel like people do this work because they can't find anything else to do to make ends meet... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE I don't think we're at that point right now. COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE There are some real needs of our citizens and it's not always alcohol and drugs, it's basic necessit... COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PAGE When you're in elementary school, you get these amazing assignments, like to come up with your o... TONY DITERLIZZI The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world t... TONY DITERLIZZI I would love having Winnie-the-Pooh stay here at the house. We could talk of food and what we were e... TONY DITERLIZZI When you hear the words 'magic' and 'story', they will probably evoke thoughts of yo... TONY DITERLIZZI I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of ... TONY DITERLIZZI I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired m... TONY DITERLIZZI Illustrations can be a big window: a looking glass into the author's imagination. TONY DITERLIZZI I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to... TONY DITERLIZZI If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments... TONY DITERLIZZI Tiny-perhaps." Rovender kept his eyes fixed on the rings. "Insignificant-never, Eva Nine. No living ... TONY DITERLIZZI 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice in Wonderland' inspired me. I wanted to take those the... TONY DITERLIZZI I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to m... TONY DITERLIZZI In 2008, my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Sophia, suffered a grand mal seizure. It came from now... TONY DITERLIZZI I obsess over things... especially my book projects. It can be very time consuming. TONY DITERLIZZI Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures... TONY DITERLIZZI We have to go ahead with this proactive step to get the full funding for these critical road project... COMMISSIONER LEE WEBERMAN I'm very uncomfortable. We need to get it resolved as quickly as possible. COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the genera... COMMISSIONER LEON KERRY I think given the tenor of the times and the feelings of some people that it was necessary to put th... COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN From the actual and empirical pieces of evidence [presented here at the Senate committee probe] ther... 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COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE We didn't want this to set a precedent. COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE My fear is, what's out there? COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER I'm willing to have additional conversations until we're convinced we can't resolve the differences. COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER They do more than pay our bills. They are providing a valuable service. COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER I'm willing to stay the course and let them show me why we should continue with them. COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER Put that into context with $50, it's not an overwhelming amount. COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN Experience tells me that as long as you allow comments to dribble in, you are going to have problems... COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT There are holes (in the regulations) the size of the Black Canyon. COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT It's not an organized process; it's a free for all. COMMISSIONER ALLAN BELT I want to be sure you're not going to be losing on this deal. COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA East Harris County is truly a great place to live, work and raise a family. A lot of what I do is ab... COMMISSIONER SYLVIA GARCIA Some of the workers had expressed an interest in having the ability to organize, and I felt that the... COMMISSIONER SAM HART One thing that has precipitated all of this is our failure to make the appropriate changes to the co... COMMISSIONER SAM HART We're not going to do any hunting, though. COMMISSIONER SAM HART When you're dealing with an outstanding customer ... you should make every effort to serve that cust... COMMISSIONER ROY CHANEY Yes I believe it is his. COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA There are also several other avenues we're looking at for this kind of find. COMMISSIONER NORMAN WIMER It's been a difficult time for the community through this process, and I'm glad to have a good resul... COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON That's management's responsibility. It shouldn't take this to get a management change. 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And I embarass easily. MICHAEL JACKSON What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, esca... MICHAEL LEUNIG There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I'm a big supporter of the Second Amendment. But I think I have a First Amendment right not to b... MICHAEL NUTTER In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, st... MICHAEL HANEKE Horror fans need horror, okay? They don't need little worms squirming around going down your thr... MICHAEL ROOKER The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle... MICHAEL LEUNIG A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit. MICHAEL KORS You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong. MICHAEL MOORE If you copy then it is not self-expression. MICHAEL SCHENKER I'm not sure why I like cats so much. I mean, they're really cute obviously. They are both w... MICHAEL SHOWALTER Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents. MICHAEL ASTON Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and mo... MICHAEL MORPURGO Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in o... MICHAEL MORPURGO War continues to divide people, to change them forever, and I write about it both because I want peo... MICHAEL MORPURGO The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong t... MICHAEL MORPURGO I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for tr... MICHAEL MORPURGO We all know that the great memories of our childhood are the little triumphs - it doesn't really... MICHAEL MORPURGO By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to... MICHAEL MORPURGO To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable. MICHAEL MORPURGO Write because you love it and not because it is something that you think you should do. Always write... MICHAEL MORPURGO One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeedi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Only the best books are special. Why? Because they open our eyes, touch us, excite us, extend us. MICHAEL MORPURGO The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk t... MICHAEL MORPURGO Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers. MICHAEL MORPURGO