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I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD. WILL PACKER This functionality is backed up by Windows Live features like centralized storage and it can be mana... ALAN PACKER We're trying to?move away from this idea of control, blocking and locking down the Internet. We're m... ALAN PACKER With version 1, we've focused on consumers and families but there is definitely a need for classroom... ALAN PACKER We've built a new product called Family Safety Settings. We're calling it Family Safety, rather than... ALAN PACKER These products are designed to be complimentary. We developed them together. ALAN PACKER Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate. DAVID PACKER KERRY PACKER To summarize, then, it appears that Christian holiness is a number of things together. It has both o... J.I. PACKER Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is ... J.I. PACKER College basketball has gotten to the point where there are so many teams that think they can win tom... BILLY PACKER Can you imagine the difference in (power teams) now that allows a team like George Mason to do this?... BILLY PACKER Nobody is going to be bothered by that, at least the person who's hired won't be. If somebody is bot... BILLY PACKER They proved what they can do. So my opinion is useless. If every team had lost, does that mean those... BILLY PACKER Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often kee... J.I. PACKER We cannot rest until all demographics are equitably represented in AP. It's clear that many minority... TREVOR PACKER When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succee... WILL PACKER It's exciting to see that educators are actually helping a bigger segment of a bigger population lea... TREVOR PACKER I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a stron... WILL PACKER How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the... ANN PACKER He could be flint-hard, but he could also be soft. JAMES PACKER I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a wr... ANN PACKER I'm happy to see book clubs on TV. Talking about books has always been an important and invigora... ANN PACKER If you have wind, rain or flood damage to your home or business, we are not going to energize transf... DAN PACKER Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merel... J.I. PACKER I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the firs... J.I. PACKER Optimism hopes for the best without any guarantee of its arriving and is often no more than whistlin... J.I. PACKER He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest ... J.I. PACKER There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. J.I. PACKER In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of lov... J.I. PACKER The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and th... J.I. PACKER The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at t... J.I. PACKER I feel confident that a part of the central business district will be lit up tonight and the rest to... DAN PACKER It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills imme... DAN PACKER We are of the view that the expected returns from the integrated resort are insufficient to justify ... JAMES PACKER What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co... J.I. PACKER We use the video to expand our movement instead of obscure it. It's still our bodies. And it's still... MYRNA PACKER One reason New York leads the nation is due to the tremendously strong programs in place on Long Isl... TREVOR PACKER I'd expect if they face each other it would be quite a basketball game. BILLY PACKER He showed me some things, in terms of his ability to handle the ball. He came up big-time, like the ... BILLY PACKER They went in a little down spell in 2000. So if history goes back to 2000, this is a scenario that d... BILLY PACKER Let me take you back to 1979. BILLY PACKER You've got to be kidding. BILLY PACKER If he misses, Kentucky can get that rebound and get a shot. BILLY PACKER Almost all coaches realize at the college level that it's an important part of the game. If you're n... BILLY PACKER The colleges are so close to each other, and the alumni all work with each other so closely. So if o... BILLY PACKER It was a hell of a tournament. It gave credibility to the league. No outside team ever won it. BILLY PACKER The preacher should work to convert his congregation; the wife should work to save her unbelieving h... J.I. PACKER Read two old books for every new one. J.I. PACKER Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. J.I. PACKER God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply dest... J.I. PACKER Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world. J.I. PACKER Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. J.I. PACKER The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who h... J.I. PACKER We should not...think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional add... J.I. PACKER We're not asking for a handout here, we're asking for an investment. DAN PACKER Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limite... J.I. PACKER Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive. You can imagine that with so many p... NICOLLE PACKER Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive, ... You can imagine that with so ma... NICOLLE PACKER There's this perception that the roads are paved in gold here and that we have plenty of money. A lo... DENNIS PACKER They want to put this region back to where it was in the 1960s. DENNIS PACKER One of the rationales is that if you can have a number of divisions then occasionally one of them ca... JAMES PACKER I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL. We're all going to get together to take thos... JAMES PACKER We thought after a lot of deliberations that this was the way to go. DAN PACKER I feel pretty comfortable that we'll get there. DAN PACKER We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do so... DAN PACKER Were assuming that people want to come back to something with some value. DAN PACKER I think we have a good chance of seeing some of that money. That would ameliorate the rate shock tha... DAN PACKER We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point. DAN PACKER We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort. DAN PACKER We believe that punters will appreciate having access to an exciting new 21st century product and th... JAMES PACKER I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL ... We're all going to get together to take t... JAMES PACKER It doesn't matter what you spend, I would not be up against Rupert when it comes to getting the NRL ... JAMES PACKER With the continued expansion of the group PBL is now a company with interests in a diverse range of ... JAMES PACKER We're all going to get together to take those rights. We really don't want to do it but News are mak... JAMES PACKER New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins ... JAMES PACKER Our gaming and magazine businesses continue to perform very well whilst the television business is w... JAMES PACKER Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be... J.I. PACKER We were told we can't go inside until March. And we have to be satisfied with that because it's a ci... MARGIE PACKER We're hoping to re-establish as much of the historical fiber of Slidell as we can. This is our life.... MARGIE PACKER I support the bigot's right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I... LAURA PACKER We didn't come out on the level we needed to, especially in the first four minutes. We were scoring,... MARSCILLA PACKER I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball. MARSCILLA PACKER The ball fell into my hands. Debbie (Merrill) went in there for the offensive rebound and she had he... MARSCILLA PACKER We have a play for the last three seconds that we practice every day. The cut was there. I was open ... MARSCILLA PACKER We practice a play similar to that almost every day in practice. At that point it's a matter of just... MARSCILLA PACKER It's exciting in those situations, you want the ball in your hands. You want to make the play to win... MARSCILLA PACKER I think he needs me to make shots and things like that. And I know I?m going to knock down shots, bu... MARSCILLA PACKER I was getting to open spots. I think it's my responsibility to call for the ball when I'm open and s... MARSCILLA PACKER I think I just became a little more aggressive and was actually looking to shoot the ball. MARSCILLA PACKER That was a breakthrough for us. It extended our use of the body. It meant we weren't restricted by t... MYRNA PACKER There is a concern that the U.S. is not producing enough engineers to be competitive with developing... TREVOR PACKER Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick... J.I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. BOYD K. PACKER If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations,... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un... JAMES I. PACKER What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individu... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 When evangelicals call the Bible "ine... JAMES I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the comm... BOYD K. PACKER Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th... BOYD K. PACKER The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evi... BOYD K. PACKER It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. GEORGE GEORGE TAKEI GEORGE SAND GEORGE SAND GEORGE WASHINGTON GEORGE BURNS GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA GEORGE SANTAYANA
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What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that tr... 
It is a lie. 
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We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly... 
A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much a... 
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n... 
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. 
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'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the w... 
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... 
I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend. 
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's ... 
A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't. 
A world without heroes is just an empty world! A world without heroes is just a world without great ... 
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, s... 
History contains heroes, but no one is a hero entirely, and no one is a hero for very long. 
There is no true orator who is not a hero. 
Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. ... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
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I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the ... 
I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's f... 
But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. Tha... 
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyon... 
People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '... 
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. 
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. I... 
Who is a hero? He who conquers his urges 
I think it's a common misconception in the civilian community that the military community is fil... 
Let your heroes be known. Give praise and honor to those to whom it is rightly due. Spend more time ... 
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surr... 
I look forward to that debate, when John Kerry, a war hero with a chest full of medals, is standing ... 
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he's a fool and a traitor. The evide... 
Undoubtedly there is a difference between people with money having access to the arts that people fr... 
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in... 
These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any rol... 
Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People wh... 
My understanding, from what I've learned so far about Commissioner Gordon, is that he's the ... 
Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ... 
Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I'... 
Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards,... 
A hero is someone right who doesn't change. 
The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and t... 
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or sh... 
I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Oth... 
When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know y... 
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people f... 
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is... 
Some people want to believe they can be an instant hero in eveyday life. A real hero is someone that... 
A hero is a man who does what he can. 
Al Qaeda asks its recruits to establish their bona fides as a condition of membership, even requirin... 
The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income in... 
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not ... 
I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter ligh... 
I'm amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet. 
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctr... 
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite... 
My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br... 
Every historian discloses a new horizon. 
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. 
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y... 
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. 
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. 
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...