Edward Pearson Pressey quote: "New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times."

The important point of this report [Montague, Massachusetts; July 7, 1774] may be summed up in six r...
EDWARD PEARSON PRESSEY

I fought a killer and didn’t even smudge my makeup.
ROSE PRESSEY

I’d find someone else. No distractions. Men get in the way of ambition. Plus, they laugh at you wh...
ROSE PRESSEY

After the wink, his head moved down and his eyes made a beeline to my chest. Ugh. The old man felt m...
ROSE PRESSEY

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I us...
SALLY PEARSON

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.
SALLY PEARSON

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to ...
SALLY PEARSON

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ...
SALLY PEARSON

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but rec...
SALLY PEARSON

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it...
SALLY PEARSON

Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your norm...
SALLY PEARSON

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've ...
SALLY PEARSON

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou...
SALLY PEARSON

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's n...
SALLY PEARSON

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
SALLY PEARSON

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
SALLY PEARSON

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
SALLY PEARSON

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
SALLY PEARSON

Statistics is the grammar of science.
KARL PEARSON

The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal trut...
KARL PEARSON

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
MARYON PEARSON

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessin...
JOHN PEARSON

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes acc...
HESKETH PEARSON

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes a...
HESKETH PEARSON

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely a...
KARL PEARSON

Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right....
RIDLEY PEARSON

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
HESKETH PEARSON

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes ac...
HESKETH PEARSON

Always trust computer games.
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RIDLEY PEARSON

Women now influence the majority of consumer purchases. It is women's votes that will secure vic...
ALLISON PEARSON

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SALLY PEARSON

I feel lucky that I found my talent, not unlucky that I was born with a disability. When I'm on ...
LEE PEARSON

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I can't miss an episode of 'The Apprentice'. It is car-crash T.V. Sometimes I find mysel...
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They'll be recruiting everywhere. They're a big company. They've got resources.
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NCA is a progressive organization, and I don't know if the state went to them or if they came to the...
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BRIAN PEARSON

When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually g...
LEE PEARSON

We came out lacking intensity and made some fielding errors early, but we bounced right back and too...
BRENT PEARSON

This was a big win for us; Aycock has been an Eastern powerhouse for years, so we are very excited a...
BRENT PEARSON

This was a disappointing way to open our season. We didn't play to our potential and (Roanoke Rapids...
BRENT PEARSON

Both pitchers were on top of their game tonight; we knew they were good and we had to keep it low sc...
BRENT PEARSON

My husband is old-fashioned and kind, he does the greatest Sinatra impression, and I'd never hav...
ALLISON PEARSON

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But I know that the despair that these young people ? and older people, too ? face is so huge, and t...
CAROL PEARSON

"The Lesson": Yes, my fretting, Frowning child, I could cross The room to you More easily. But IÃƒ...
CAROL PEARSON

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
CAROL PEARSON

Jez had gone from an evil twin to a sweet, even angelic, girl, all in less than a minute.
RIDLEY PEARSON

Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
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But they didn't get a sponsor, and the best quote they could get from anybody was Papa John's $5.50 ...
DAN PEARSON

Everyone seems to be pointing the finger at Mick.
SELWYN PEARSON

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STEVE PEARSON

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's ju...
LEE PEARSON

I don't just love riding; I love horses. I was in the field at my yard watching them gallop arou...
LEE PEARSON

My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably love...
LEE PEARSON

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the title...
HESKETH PEARSON

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
HESKETH PEARSON

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggl...
ALLISON PEARSON

You always want more, but I'm happy. I'm satisfied with what we got.
AL PEARSON

I thought our kids really held their poise out there tonight. Our kids worked hard all week. The onl...
JEFF PEARSON

We believe it's hard to change people's habits and that the most practical solution is to improve th...
JEFF PEARSON

Our goal here is to help people prepare, not to panic. Through preparation people can gain peace of ...
CHRISTINA PEARSON

The story of the current account deficit allowed traders and analysts to justify any currency prices...
STEVE PEARSON

Understanding climate change and its consequences is critical to protect lives and assets upon which...
IAN PEARSON

Downtown Healdsburg is a very dynamic place right now. There's just so much going on there that we w...
BEN PEARSON

This is an embarrassing episode. He will have plenty of time to reflect on his error of judgement.
BEN PEARSON

It seems very clear that they need to cover themselves for the fact they haven't ratified Kyoto. The...
BEN PEARSON

I think most Americans, whether they support Cindy's message or not, think it's about time we had a ...
ANDREW PEARSON

He understands he'll have to complete the programs and work through the system or he'll be there for...
ANDREW PEARSON

If they were going to beat us, it was going to be from 22 feet.
BERNIE PEARSON

We can now be called one of the best. These kids earned this one.
BERNIE PEARSON

I told them to be aggressive to the basket. We're shooting 29 percent from three, so we wanted to ge...
BERNIE PEARSON

That's a sign of toughness through there. We didn't make a field goal, but we hit our free throws.
BERNIE PEARSON

He's getting better all the time. He's left-handed, so that's already an advantage. He's a good shot...
BERNIE PEARSON

He's obviously a project. He's willing to work, but the payoff may not come until sometime in colleg...
BERNIE PEARSON

We made poor decisions down the stretch. We shot too early, we took guarded shots.... I told my coac...
BERNIE PEARSON

Telling everybody, 'Oh, my boyfriend and I went to …' is a no-no. It's ridiculous. You skipped wor...
RAE PEARSON

My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Smee, you are a supreme idjit."
"Aye, Cap'n.
RIDLEY PEARSON

That's the best we've played in three years.
DREW PEARSON

On the road, where our kids have played pretty well for 48 minutes . . . if I had to do it over agai...
DREW PEARSON

Defensively, our philosophy is we can't get beat deep by a long pass, ... and then we've got to wrap...
DREW PEARSON

He's getting better, ... He's 5-10 and 150 pounds. He's gained about 20 pounds since last year, whic...
DREW PEARSON

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, ...
RIDLEY PEARSON

Now, we've got a good group of juniors and seniors, and they seem to be committed to doing the right...
DREW PEARSON

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,
DREW PEARSON

Plus, it's a physical conference, so we are pretty much ready for the playoffs by the time the seaso...
DREW PEARSON

It helps because we see a lot of different defenses and a lot of different offenses,
DREW PEARSON

I think with the lack of success in the last two years, it's very important for us to win a regular-...
DREW PEARSON

The upshot of all this is that the next move in rates is still likely to be up, but not until the da...
TONY PEARSON

Preparing the world for a pandemic flu outbreak is a top priority, and we're looking at various opti...
CHRISTINA PEARSON

I'd never done anything as high profile or professional as 'Skins', so 'Skins' i...
APRIL PEARSON

And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I...
JOANNA PEARSON

Davey was one of the few people who knew Howard Hughes and had a relationship with him at one time.
WAYNE PEARSON

Davey was personally close to Howard Hughes. Hughes would have Davey running errands and doing thing...
WAYNE PEARSON

We're still trying to determine what the exact risk might be. We're looking at a number of different...
CHRISTINE PEARSON

Condensed Knowledge
WILL PEARSON

Twenty years hence a curve or a symbol will be called as Pearson's, and nothing more remembered of t...
KARL PEARSON

It's going to boil down to who lets him run track. He asked me once if anybody has ever won the Heis...
RON PEARSON

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances ...
HESKETH PEARSON

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.
MARYON PEARSON

We've got to have this conversation now and we've got to ask those hard questions and I think Cindy ...
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The last of the sniper teams dispatched by Robert Kennedy in 1963 to assassinate Fidel Castro were c...
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The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear ...
MARYON PEARSON

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON

The starting point of

I had to step it up.
CALEB PEARSON

It's indescribable how awesome it is. I am so happy.
CALEB PEARSON

Unless you can't talk, all of your fingers are broken or you're in a coma somewhere, you should be a...
RAE PEARSON

It's good training for a writer, ... entertaining people, telling them about your life, listening as...
WILL PEARSON

Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by...
RIDLEY PEARSON

The market has got itself into a far-too-dovish spot given the tone of the Fed-speak. There is poten...
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No matter what, you want to be courteous. Of course, most employers want to discourage abusing sick ...
RAE PEARSON

Now we are watching the agony, we are watching the suffering, we can see the extreme destruction, .....
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One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself...
RIDLEY PEARSON

So planning something big."
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Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck.
Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney...
RIDLEY PEARSON

We're really happy the way things are going.
KARL PEARSON

Thorough customers are our best customers. Thorough customers have a true understanding of their pai...
KARL PEARSON

Flu is pretty unpredictable, both year to year and as we're in a flu season.
CHRISTINE PEARSON

Davey fascinated Ronald and Nancy Reagan with his relationship with Hughes. Some of the things Hughe...
WAYNE PEARSON

These two exciting new cameras, while meeting very different customer needs, are both innovators in ...
BILL PEARSON

Customers will be amazed at all that the DVC3500 can do, especially at its low price. For teens or c...
BILL PEARSON

It's hard. It takes a lot to see someone take over your store.
BILL PEARSON

Don't worry,
BILL PEARSON

at least a year ago.
BILL PEARSON

It's shocking that this has come about just as Air Canada is showing such massive profits,
BILL PEARSON

He told me they'd lost some time due to the weather recently, but that we're still on pace to finish...
BILL PEARSON

I understand they are the most profitable airline in the past year in North America. And they're cut...
BILL PEARSON

We've finally cracked the old-fashioned notions that only men can be professionals. Women now make u...
CINDY PEARSON

People think dealers are making $10,000 a car but these guys are actually battling. The opportunitie...
WAYNE PEARSON

There's so much in there. ... I'm thrilled to see the final product.
WILL PEARSON

Climate change in India represents an additional stress on a country that is already facing tremendo...
IAN PEARSON

Our goal from the beginning has been to blur the line between education and entertainment, ... why n...
WILL PEARSON

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated ma...
RON PEARSON

Mental Floss is what it is. It's about people learning information they always thought they should k...
WILL PEARSON

By not just deeming her as the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we pay homage to her. The history ...
WILLIE PEARSON

It's a progressive education school. We don't use textbooks we use literature. We encourage children...
MICHELE PEARSON

Visiting the tour center has been especially rewarding for me and my staff. The visit provided pract...
DAVID PEARSON

It was a sexual assault, but we can't get into specifics.
JEFF PEARSON

I'm just playing my game, getting the ball from Sibley, just doing my job. Blake and Jon's ability t...
CALEB PEARSON

I've thought about adopting, but I'm a bit paranoid that because I'm gay and disabled I&...
LEE PEARSON

Changes in certain crops can affect imports and exports.
IAN PEARSON

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to...
FORREST PEARSON

The impact of the weaker ISM survey has knocked the dollar lower. The backdrop for the dollar is tha...
STEVE PEARSON

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it ...
LEE PEARSON

I joke that the Olympics is the warm-up to the Paralympics.
LEE PEARSON

Flight controls can move very rapidly and generate very large forces that must be passed through the...
DOUG PEARSON

Dig a little bit deeper.
DIANE PEARSON

Every time a new intern comes in, it takes away from staff time to bring them up to speed on various...
DIANE PEARSON

Good things take time and I'm just absolutely thrilled to bits to have an outstanding young man like...
SELWYN PEARSON

Coretta Scott King was clearly more than the widow of Dr. Martin Luther King. She was an icon in her...
WILLIE PEARSON

No, I am just writing this because, sometimes, you’re still all I have to write about. Sometimes y...
MORIAH PEARSON

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o...
RIDLEY PEARSON

If you try singling me out to my mother, she'll be down your throat. She has three sons, and she...
LEE PEARSON

With our saturation coverage these days, this is much more of a problem than it ever has been,
DANIEL PEARSON

And it's different than the tsunami in Asia, where the disaster was half a world away. This time it'...
DANIEL PEARSON

Everyone is overwhelmed by this,
DANIEL PEARSON

When you have so many all at once, even the professionals start feeling a sense of helplessness,
DANIEL PEARSON

We don't know which stores will be affected.
CYNTHIA PEARSON

We had to fight to get this study. But it's always worth doing the trial.
CYNTHIA PEARSON

When something bad happens to you, I don't think you need to get too vivid in what happened, ... You...
MIKE PEARSON

I think that would be foolish. He's one of a kind.
MIKE PEARSON

I've been a very blessed guy. I've been given a lot of opportunities in my life. A lot of people hav...
MIKE PEARSON

We've been working on putting this in place for two years.
MIKE PEARSON

The ability of the military to easily upgrade its deployed fleet of LHGXA antennas with this new cap...
DAN PEARSON

It looks like downtown Baghdad here.
DAN PEARSON

My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light ...
ALLISON PEARSON

You can't play the Super Bowl at home. We'd love for all 68,000 fans to come to Detroit. But logisti...
DAVE PEARSON

We love the 12th man. We know there are people who are disappointed. It's a tough situation.
DAVE PEARSON

That's too bad. It is unfortunate -- and an unfortunate part of this business.
DAVE PEARSON

These mansions are part of our heritage. They tell you something about the financiers and the indust...
RICHARD PEARSON

That was really a setback.
DAVID PEARSON

We had never seen one before, Ben is the one who makes the decisions.
DAVID PEARSON

It was probably a lot harder doing it on our own.
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We're looking to bring all of these properties up to higher levels.
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The qualifying went from two laps to three laps and then to four laps, stuff like that, hoping I'd m...
DAVID PEARSON

From what I've seen, Newman is a talented race car driver and knows how to go fast, ... He's like me...
DAVID PEARSON

We just worked hard at it, ... They had the car set up on the edge. If something had happened and I ...
DAVID PEARSON

Some have gotten very angry, however, ... That's the reality.
DAVID PEARSON

If you have a well-written question, then you have fewer judgment calls.
CHUCK PEARSON

I had a donkey called Sally that I used to call my BMX bike. As a child, I wasn't a very good ho...
LEE PEARSON

One kid at the table tossed it back. It was absolutely nowhere near Terrence Johnson.
FORREST PEARSON

Once I was by myself they totally flooded me. They started pushing me and stuff.
FORREST PEARSON

I just told him, 'I don't want to fight and I'm going home. I told him to have a nice weekend, maybe...
FORREST PEARSON

We walked out practically side-by-side. I thought everything was cool.
FORREST PEARSON

We shouldn't have oil in the Hackensack if the permit was doing its job.
GARY PEARSON

We told them, 'You need to get this pumped out now,' and they were not willing to do that 'now.
GARY PEARSON

It really frees you up from having to have someone there to help.
GARY PEARSON

and be independent and let them go and not worry about having to deal with me.
GARY PEARSON

It's one of the best things that's come out for a person in a long time as far as giving them indepe...
GARY PEARSON

It's going to be a challenge, ... We're going to make do. It's nowhere near the challenge that the f...
GARY PEARSON

We just tried to throw a little bit of everything at them. For a half, we hung in there.
HAL PEARSON

It's hard to find a weak link so you can help out (on defense).
HAL PEARSON

They didn't back down, they went at it.
HAL PEARSON

New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new only to a few stupid Englishmen a hundred and fifty years behind the times.

Edward Pearson Pressey

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