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Related We think this is the largest mobilization on the issue of immigration reform ever. AVRIL SMITH The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat... ANNE ROSS So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER It?s at its largest demand ever in this country. I don?t think it?s going away anytime soon. BRENNAN APPEL This is an excellent opportunity for students to receive additional help in classes they struggle wi... ALSACE TOURE One of the benefits of creating a great work environment is its effect on retaining highly valued wo... ADAM GOODMAN I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve... AARON KATZ Its really exciting just to think about. Were going to have 32 premier programs playing right here, ... ALEX HERNANDEZ I like the movie going experience. I like the big screen, going out. I think for me and a lot of peo... PETER FOX It's at its largest demand ever in this country. I don't think it's going away any time soon. There'... BRENNAN APPEL I think its a tragedy because its hard to find a school that's going to help teen moms. FRED HARRIS This is also going to be an educational experience for the girls. DICK MEILINGER It's going to be a moving postcard. The Tour de France needs to watch over its shoulder because this... LEVI LEIPHEIMER I think he has an excellent chance. He's as strong as I've ever seen him. AL CLAGGETT I think everything you do in life is a learning experience. EMERAUDE TOUBIA My heart goes out to what everyone went through here. The main thing is that this is an opportunity ... MAURICE CARTHON Such events help Merritt Square achieve its goal of being the area's center for entertainment, shopp... BILL HARTLEY either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you... OGDEN NASH I think it's really a neat learning experience. They don't get this kind of opportunity that often. ... GARY HALE I know it has been a frustration for some, but I've also seen how its enabled a lot of people who ha... JENNIFER GRIFFIN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT I realized this year, you can't always be excellent, you can't be perfect. It was an eye-opening yea... ANDREW JOHNSON This is an excellent way to be recognized as a community steward and supporter of the fair experienc... BOB KESSLER We also have an opportunity with the topical committees to ... reach out further to these groups. Th... JENNIFER LINDBOM Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of lea... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE This is a game that I think could really make this team be of age. I think this is a great opportuni... BOBBY CLARK It's an opportunity for students to engage in a professional leadership learning experience. DEBBIE RENO If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT It was a lot bigger turnout than I ever expected. This is the largest video first-day release that I... JOHN REED It's an opportunity to answer any additional questions that are out there. It's also an opportunity ... IRENE ALLAN This is possibly the largest incident of its kind in peacetime Europe. ROY WILSHER It's an opportunity for us to show people another dimension of Africa and its beauty that's never be... KWEVI QUAYE The 'EXTRA' Awards Lounge presented an excellent opportunity for my clients to showcase their produc... JULIE KENNEY said Blount after defeating the Rams. ''I think this is probably the best team ever assembled. They ... CHUCK NOLL I have a strong interest in being part of this community and this is an excellent opportunity. LINDA LEWIS This is an excellent deal which turns us into the largest producer of generic drugs in Romania. MALVINDER SINGH It's a great opportunity to be seen. They can help you, but they can also hurt you if you're not pre... TOM MCCARTNEY This is going to be the largest car show in the Southeast, we think, this year. DAVID RODGERS It's all a learning experience down here, and this will give us an idea of what the real playoffs ar... HAYWARD BROWN I am so happy for this team, for Mike Shank and for Mark Patterson. Everything went almost perfectly... OSWALDO NEGRI I think this is going to be probably the nastiest campaign we've ever seen from both sides because o... JOHN MCCAIN I think he saw his opportunity to do an Armstrong. Chad just took off like no one I've ever seen. BART SCHOUTEN Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that lo... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH This is believed to be the largest ever seizure of this drug in Australia, CHRIS ELLISON This is probably one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. North Adams is working very hard to impro... WAYNE J. WILKINSON This is a defining moment for UK. UK needs to make its mark with this issue. DON WITT I know its going to be an emotional time for me. I know I'm going to be shedding a tear or two. No o... TONI EDWARDS For me to have an opportunity to work with someone like that, it's a fantastic learning experience. KIEFER SUTHERLAND Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Ryan is an excellent candidate and he's going to draw a lot of attention to this race. I think it's ... MAYOR SEBASTIAN GIULIANO I think going Greek was the best decision I have ever made. It has allowed me to develop not only as... CAROLINE ROSS Whenever we have a flash flood warning, a VTC is held so emergency personnel have the opportunity to... MARK MARSHALL It's going to be a great learning experience, no matter what the circumstances are. This is the drea... ALEX SMITH This is a great way for anyone to get involved and help support this event. For anyone who ever want... GREGG MCKARNS English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest lan... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympath... RICHARD LE GALLIENNE You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fres... ELVIS STOJKO And I realized that this is what it's like to be an adult, learning to pick from a lot of bad choice... JENNIFER RYAN The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellen... ST. FRANCIS DE SALES This is going to be an opportunity for the president to lay out his initiatives in more detail. BLAIR JONES For here its monumental, its an even that California has never seen, very few places in the U.S. hav... LUCAS EUSER The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is... ORISON SWETT MARDEN For folks who have a hard time finding time to build cars, this is an excellent opportunity. We will... JOE HINMAN All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity ... XENOPHON I think that it is an excellent opportunity for all the students, and especially for the lower incom... LAURA RABALAIS Its one of the greatest individual performances I've ever seen. PAUL PIERCE Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word. PLATEN It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interd... LEONARD BERNSTEIN I felt a whole lot of stuff. I'm overwhelmed in this experience, ... I'm happy the coaching staff ga... LAVAR ARRINGTON He's an excellent coach, and this won't be his last opportunity. ERIC METZ The death of my friend has made a lasting mark on my life. It was the first funeral I ever attended ... JENNIFER BERRY It's the largest tropical storm we've ever had, ... It's engulfed the entire state. This is going to... TONI JENNINGS I think this should be treated as an emergency matter, BILL WHITE Has anybody ever told you you’re a remarkably cynical person?” “I like to think of it as ... BENEDICT JACKA It would be a real mistake for us to think that India will ever influence the world through its outs... DEEPAK CHOPRA This is the largest non-food appeal since the drought emergency of 2003 in Ethiopia. BJORN LJUNGQVIST It's been a good opportunity to see all of this stuff and see the different departments. In today's ... GARY STRATTON 'Dark Blue' is ultimately a gritty crime drama, at its core. I don't think that is ever ... DYLAN MCDERMOTT I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I think its just a great opportunity for the dogs and their owners to socialize. DARLENE PURUGGANAN We might actually sell out of Magnolia tickets, which has never happened before. We have 570 tickets... PATTY WILLIAMS I think anything that we can do to give back and help out in any way we can ... I think its a great ... RICHIE SAMBORA I think its kind of going to be a pain. It's not going to be worth it for half the people on campus. GEORGE KENNEDY The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with ... JOHN O'DONOHUE I'm honored by the opportunity. There's going to be some new challenges. Obviously the growth. I'll ... JEFF EARLYWINE We also have to provide services to the emergency personnel who are working the search and rescue. I... STEVE KERR Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I really enjoyed the village because I think it was an excellent opportunity to see the culture and ... LEE BEAN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agre... STACY SCHIFF I think we're stuffed, more stuffed than we've ever been. If this is the bunch that's going to help ... CLIVE FIELD This is the most important decision this board has faced since its inception. This is a tremendous o... CHARLIE EDWARDS It stands out so much more now. I think it's gorgeous. It makes me feel like it has been restored to... CHARLENE ORR Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT What they are doing is creating a bureaucratic superstructure. If they think this is going to be nim... IVAN ELAND This is not an issue that can be just set aside and placed on the shelf. This is a true emergency. I... ANNA ESHOO This training provides a great opportunity to gain the experience to help steer you clear of unsafe ... AMANDA SMITH Champs Camp is an opportunity for kids to focus on positive choices while learning what it means to ... CLIFF CARY I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that t... MARK ROTHKO
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MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one. MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day. MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba... MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started. MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places. MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci... MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan... MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp... MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t... MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit... MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't. MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ... MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half. MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries. MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce... MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce. MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu... MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly... MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec... MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes... MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w... MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff... MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated. MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ... MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman. MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ... MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t... MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st... 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MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t... MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ... MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ... MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los... MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou... MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin... MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t... MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit... MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s... MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to... MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor... MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person. MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good... MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres... MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul... MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t... 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MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse... MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ... MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'... MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha... MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances" MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea... MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome. 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