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Related This has been one of our best selling software systems since we launched it last February. In 2006 w... WILLIAM MCKINLEY Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's go... ROBBIE WILLIAMS Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact wit... ERIN MCKEAN I believe that the mayor of the most diverse city anywhere in the world has to be a uniter, has to b... ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpa... ELI BROAD Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors. BARRY RITHOLTZ We can afford to offer it to more people since it is relatively complication-free. This has become t... DR. NICOLA BASSO We are pleased to work with QUALCOMM, the recognized leader in CDMA and 3G cellular technologies. Ou... CRAIG BARRATT Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-styl... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON Canada is virtually a junior partner of the US. It is at America's suggestion that Canada has loosen... BHARAT KARNAD For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter. TEDDY SEARS Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life. SAVI SHARMA And, oh, how blessed is it thus to meet! To feel that vanished years have not estranged us,distance ... GRACE AGUILAR If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall S... GARY WEISS This investigation and the public scrutiny that has gone with it could have become a serious distrac... JAMES SUTHERLAND Nortel's converged solutions are designed to provide Banner Bank tenants access to the latest commun... ALEX PIERSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON There has never been a failure of a currency board anywhere in the world. These are tough systems, a... STEVE HANKE Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I&... R. L. STINE The movement now amongst voice recognition companies is that you can use your voice anytime, anywher... AOIFE MCEVOY To become a better you, admit that you were not born for the floor. Refuse to embrace mediocrity any... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR For books I want to keep reading, it's definitely the voice. It must be a voice I've never h... AMY TAN The railroads once were a dominant power in American life, for good and for ill. There's somethi... BRIAN FLOCA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS People need stories. Stories of love, hope, survival, wisdom and sometimes pain. Maybe you don’t t... SAVI SHARMA Joe really loosened us up. We were a bit tight. Joe has been carrying us on his back for the last tw... DAN HINOTE America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whet... PETER WELCH It's your glove, your baseball glove. It's got a soul, a memory all its own, and a future th... MIKE BARNICLE 'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that. BECKY G Pittsburgh has just a great sense of tradition in finding its heroes and holding on to its heroes, w... GREG JOSEPH When you decide to attack, keep calm and dash in quickly, forestalling the enemy...attack with a fee... MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be ev... TASHA SMITH Part of the problem is that we have become so dependent upon this system that is killing and exploit... DERRICK JENSEN The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only — a mighty voice that drowns ... L.M. MONTGOMERY We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a di... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One of the things that's been crazy for us has been the speed at which news can break on Digg, b... KEVIN ROSE I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I ke... TAYLOR SPREITLER The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to 'go to the k... COLIN ANGLE I think most character people that you talk to, it's like, whatever they offer us, we are thrill... BETH GRANT To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far t... KAPIL SIBAL This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his... DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance ... JESSICA ENNIS The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for ve... OCTAVIAN PALER It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that i... TREY PARKER Having worked on 'Halo: Nightfall' and gotten a taste for what 'Halo' has to offer, ... MIKE COLTER I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ... ZE FRANK It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has be... HANNAH ARENDT Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Googl... WALT MOSSBERG I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, a... NOLAN BUSHNELL When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI [At the first hole, Woods loosened the grip on his driver, turned and asked the gallery to] hold the... KENNETH FERRIE Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH The 'Shawshank Redemption' has nothing to do with China, but that hasn't kept social med... REBECCA MACKINNON The thing about being creative is that it has its weight on other aspects of you, both mentally and ... JUSTIN MURTEY No other species anywhere in the world had invented boredom. Perhaps it was boredom, not intelligenc... TERRY PRATCHETT I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime. ERIC LINDROS How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a... FRANK DEFORD This has not been a distraction to him. He looks at challenges that are facing this country in the g... ERIC RUFF For OMG to achieve its long-range growth agenda, it is vitally important that we have the systems an... JOE SCAMINACE On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I... VICKI DELANY We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but n... DONALD TRUMP Thanks to my fans for support on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. ALEXANDRE PATO Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice... KATHARINE MCPHEE My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part... EVAN BAYH Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more ... MARTIN O'MALLEY As for Twitter, I've found that you have to learn how to make it add value rather than subtract ... HOWARD RHEINGOLD Twitter is a form of free speech, and I'm all for that. But if Cee Lo Green, a maverick of sorts... CEELO GREEN But to the hero, when his sword
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a proph... FITZ-GREENE HALLECK For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that the... JOHN DEWEY A lot of the strength of an RPG world lies in its foundation: its systems, lore, and when appropriat... CHRIS AVELLONE Diversity is Nature’s stronghold, yet that very diversity has become a curse for an entire species... ABHIJIT NASKAR I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my come... T. J. MILLER I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own sti... K'NAAN Since weight gain in adolescence has been associated with a number of health problems in adulthood, ... ELISSA JELALIAN I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading... CHANG-RAE LEE After 'Star Trek,' I was the commander on 'Stargate Atlantis,' the final season, and... ROBERT PICARDO 'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p... ELVIS MITCHELL I've learned a lot about my voice, and about things I can do with it. Maybe that's why my so... CHELY WRIGHT I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And... AARON SORKIN The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le... GARY F EVANS... Every year, there's some band that plays guitar-oriented pop music that has a single, but for th... ADAM SCHLESINGER Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other internation... JOHN CONYERS This is the third consecutive quarter that disk storage systems revenue growth has outpaced that of ... BRAD NISBET Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whit... DENNIS PRAGER Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has ... BRIAN WESBURY Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become... MALCOLM MCLAREN If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo... CRAIG GROESCHEL Due to the multiple inquiries and investigations, some of which are focused on me personally, I beli... KENNETH LAY I'm hesitant anytime someone puts a contract in front of me that has two-year options. SAMUEL WITWER When it first emerged, Twitter was widely derided as a frivolous distraction that was mostly good fo... STEVEN JOHNSON It was really incidental. It wasn't even a distraction for either team. Maybe the fans and everyone ... AL SKINNER
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