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KAREN SUNDE The townspeople have been very generous in supporting our fund-raising effort.
SCOTT ANDREWS [We've been] sending goods and resources, and raising money to assist our brothers and sisters who'v...
WALLACE DAVIS Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wa...
KAREN WHITE A large number of houses have been unroofed.
MIKE KEATING We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering...
CHARLES VEST would have been more sensitive to it than any other person in that coffee [since] I had worked in th...
KARL JACKSON Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor ...
NANCY HOLMES One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
PICABO STREET We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising.
CAMILLE ANDERSON Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
JACK DEMPSEY It's really a way to disguise your fund-raising.
DANIEL BOROCHOFF The program is growing. We're gonna have to do a lot of fund-raising.
JIM JOHNSON That's a huge head start, truly, in the fund-raising process.
SHARON ALEXANDER In the short term, there is uncertainty regarding share placements. Since August 31, fund-raising ac...
LOUIS WONG Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain.
SHARON OSBOURNE One hundred percent of our fund-raising is given back to Burlington.
KRIS FISCHER It's definitely enrichment, but we try to tie it to what the teachers are doing. It's something that...
HEIDI GIBSON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
JACK KEMP I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.
AZITA GHANIZADA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL It's allowed me to really learn a lot about fund-raising throughout the metropolitan area,
KATE ALLEN In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
ALVIN AILEY The congressman would be thrilled to have the president come down for a fund-raising event.
GAIL GITCHO She knows the fund-raising paradigms. From students to support groups to private donations.
DAN WOOD Karen- OK, rule number one. Unless you're served in a frosted glass, never come within four feet of ...
WILL & GRACE The market mood has been boosted by hopes that most of the corporate houses will unveil better than ...
DEEPAK SHAH Private equity firms are flush with capital. They've been raising record amounts of capital to inves...
CHRIS HAYMONS Providence has endowed some people to make it real big in life,so as to assist government in it's we...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-...
ROBERT INDIANA Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
JEFFREY DEITCH This is a fund-raising project for the Decatur Public Schools Foundation and also to beautify the fr...
JUDY TAYLOR Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We hope in this final fund-raising effort to raise between $15,000 and $20,000 for equipment.
ANDREW BROOKS We have a far greater number of historic houses than 20th century houses.
ED JACKSON We're very hopeful that they can see their way clear to give us some leniency and latitude. Fund-rai...
ELLIS WILLIFORD If God give you strength and courage, don't use it to intimidate people or overpower them, rather us...
ANTHONY LICCIONE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The Second Injury Fund seems to be advantageous to a very small number of people.
JOE JONES We are planning on that committee to host a number of activities in that space downtown and to facil...
ROBERT BRYAN Within a year, 245 Lewisville residents were taking part in YMCA activities and, by that time, Lewis...
BRYAN ECK I put the 'fun' in fund-raising and the 'rah' in Israel.
STEWART RAHR Thanks to the corporate cowardice of Bank of America and other companies, the morally illegitimate r...
JOHN CARLISLE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER Hedge funds have used listing as a method of fund raising, with varied level of success. It certainl...
KIRBY DALEY I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.
MICHELLE OBAMA Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able...
GIRMA WOLDEGIORGIS People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow...
ARISTOTLE The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER This was the start of the fund-raising wave that began at the back end of 2004.
ALAN PARDEE The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads.
WES BOYD will now allow Reno to claim she is doing a vigorous investigation of campaign financing, when in re...
LARRY KLAYMAN The purpose of the visit is to brief India about what Norway had been doing. We will assist both Ind...
ERIK SOLHEIM Rep. Nancy Johnson has always been a champion of legislation to protect the Arctic Refuge as a wilde...
LISA RENSTROM As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE It hasn't grown in the number of houses, but it's grown in seasonal use.
DICK WRIGHT Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE The NRSC has never heard of them and we're not affiliated with their fund-raising efforts.
DAN ALLEN Theyve got the experience and know what it takes to build a temporary city.
TOM CLARK A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
ALEISTER CROWLEY Other than the fund-raising aspect of the golf scramble, we have a great time in fellowship during t...
SKIP DAUGHERTY It's the exact opposite of a U.S. presidential race, where you want to get out of the box early and ...
COURTNEY SMITH I told him that I would take care of the fund-raising and get the project going.
CHARLES BRAUN I'm totally uncomfortable asking my students to fund-raise for my pay, we already fund-raise just fo...
JANET HANSEN The return to profit, plus lower contributions to the employees' pension fund thanks to a new law, w...
DIMITRIS HARALAMBOPOULOS It is up to us to assist countries in making sure that they have the right drug policy and we believ...
IAIN SIMPSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I've been called back to assist with recovery efforts and to assist my family,
JAMES RILEY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The pending complaint on DeLay was on the Texas case (over political fund raising),
NORMAN ORNSTEIN We are planning an aggressive fund-raising campaign so we can reduce the impact of the construction ...
DEBORAH ABRAHAM Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead...
LAURA ARRILLAGA-ANDREESSEN I feel that the first five years of the foundation have been extremely successful. In the coming yea...
DAVID STEWART I am pleased that it looks like there may be a way for our state to assist a number of evacuees,
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE My mother has been my mentor in my life. The number one attribute was discipline. To be on time to s...
RAM SHRIRAM It's been a circus, (but) we got so much stuff going on in the spring, I can understand it. Karen (H...
DANNY MITCHELL The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annu...
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KAREN DUFFY I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's...
KAREN DUFFY My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some...
KAREN DUFFY The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual ch...
KAREN DUFFY It really is a blessing when two people who are so full of dignity and kindness and really live to m...
KAREN DUFFY In a way, I have simplified my life by setting priorities.
KAREN DUFFY When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things ...
KAREN BLIXEN If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER