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The Olympics are perfect for this. Anything potentially that good is probably inevitable.


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CHARLES SIMS We've been playing so well. This is the perfect season! We couldn't ask for anything better.
ANNIE STALZER I have no regrets about anything I've ever done. This is the perfect place for me.
HERB MAGEE This is the greatest Olympics ever for us.
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NICK KNIGHT Potentially evil. Potentially good, too, I suppose. Just this huge powerful potentiality waiting to ...
NEIL GAIMAN As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
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CRAIG WAIBEL This is only going to give us potentially a really, really good run.
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KEITH SCHWER The committee felt Michelle will probably have a better chance for a medal at the Olympics.
BOB HOREN There is nobody in this world who knows everything about anything! Be a student for Life.
HARRISH SAIRAMAN anything else?
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DOUG RUSSELL This is the first piece of potentially good news that I've heard in a very long time coming out of S...
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STEVE THOMPSON It wasn't one of my best programs, but it's pretty good for being my first Olympics. This experience...
KIMMIE MEISSNER The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.
GBOLA AMUSA It seems almost inevitable that there is some fall off from broadcast to cable, but whether it's any...
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MALCOLM ANDREWS Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
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ADI KISHORE The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It's probably going to be my last Olympics, that's why it's a little more special. The national team...
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DAVID LITCHLITER This year she has qualified for the Olympics.
DR. EDVIN MANNIKO Usually, the Olympics beat anything thrown against it combined.
ANDY DONCHIN Usually, the Olympics beat anything thrown against it — combined.
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YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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DUANE MOFFAT It was a good game between two good teams. (Matt) Miller threw really well for his first start.
DERRICK LANDRUS There has never been anywhere in the court documents, or anywhere else, the allegation that he spied...
ANTHONY WEINER Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
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LESLIE FIEDLER I didn't see anything in that audit that indicated someone potentially profiting from a mistake.
LEE SWIFT Giving the Olympics their greatest exposure is a continuing goal for us and we're pleased that CBS h...
HARVEY SCHILLER It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are ine...
NORMA SHEARER I had a feeling she probably made friends with people pretty easily, and that could be a good thing ...
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IRINA SLUTSKAYA I know that Shannon (Miller) has mentioned that it's a good draw. It makes sense. We're the ones who...
PAUL FLANAGAN It's like an old Jonathan Winters movie - 'The Russians aren't coming! The Russians aren't coming.' ...
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DAVID FOSTER WALLACE We like a good show, and once the flame is lit we'll all realize the Olympics are finally here.
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JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I have been waiting for you for so long.”
I pointed to the car. “We are searching for Trach...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It?s always been two countries that can win the gold. I think Canada is too much ahead in this Olymp...
MATS NASLUND Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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YUKIHIRO MATSUMOTO The year after the Olympics is always an interesting year. The Australians are getting better and be...
NATALIE COUGHLIN This feels real good. That I can step up and contribute and get Goldy and Pig (Miller) another ring ...
ELVIN MIMS Jonathan and I are highly aligned.
SCOTT MCNEALY If you're stupid,
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ANTHONY T. HINCKS A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. All that matters is the ending, its the most important part of the story, and this one is very good....
JOHNNY DEPP This is the kind of performance we expect out of Jonathan on a regular basis.
GENE PINGATORE He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... This was inevitable and worse could come. We must be prepared for that.
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GILBERT GOTTFRIED This is the perfect story for the many open lands in this town. The family knows the land best, and ...
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Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of t...
JONATHAN RABAN I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT