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JOHN OWENS I wonder what Jesus would do if He had to reload Windows 95 for the eighth time today ? MIRABOUR GILBRIDE. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a publ... ELLERY QUEEN The Pentagon is a series of wedges. So you have - the outer wedge has windows on the outside, and th... JACK KEANE I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power. OLIVER STONE If God were living on earth, people would break His windows YIDDISH PROVERB I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What ... MINDY GROSSMAN The changes we are making will provide a feature-complete Windows Vista to our customers sooner. AMITABH SRIVASTAVA The home next door may be making methamphetamine. They make it in cars and vans. JIM TALENT That guy is a star there. We were walking down the street and people were leaning out of their windo... CAMERON TATUM By this time I had fallen in love with him as we both came from the same type of humble back ground.... EVITA PERóN We want to hit a 50 percent run rate for Windows Vista premium in the first 24 months. That's a subs... DAVE BLOCK The Windows Live mission is to harness the power of the Web in a way that lets people easily find th... CHRISTOPHER PAYNE Luckily nothing happened to me, but I saw a macabre scene, as people tried to break windows in order... FRANCISZEK KOWAL He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and th... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You want to put an end to terrorism? Start by shooting down the bastards who burn up buses and break... PRABHUDOSS SAMUEL Even then, he was a great fielder. You could tell he had power. He's a real good guy. GARRETT JONES When you're running Windows on a Mac, you're as vulnerable as any Windows user. An interesting quest... LARRY SELTZER Windows 95 had its 20th anniversary last year, so we got our hands on an old system and showed it to... BENNY FINE Are we going to build a house without doors and windows, or are we going to put doors and windows in... BRYAN ANDERSON It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my da... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and extend that monopoly... JANET RENO If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mank... JOHN STUART MILL When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies . . . we had begun by m... JOSEPH STALIN If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that o... JOHN STUART MILL He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at lea... DAN CHAON We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviou... HARRY WADSWORTH We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviou... HARRY WADSWORTH The doors and windows were crushing in on themselves. BILL LACOMBE The windows (on Main Street, U.S.A.) were Walt's way to subtly recognize the people that had helped ... DAVE SMITH This is the last hurrah for the current architecture. The next version of Microsoft's consumer opera... CHRIS LE TOCQ Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch. PHILIP SCHILLER I know that Lumumba would not have wanted people to be sad. He would not want you to be upset and an... KURTIS BLOW When you live in a glass house, buying curtains for the windows doesn't help. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did no... LIZZIE ANDREW BORDEN If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man... JOHN STUART MILL In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the ... BILL GATES We were all so proud of what he was doing, and he was proud, too. If he was going to be away from hi... KARLA HOLWERDA There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... JOSEPH HELLER We will design and license Windows and our Internet-based services as separate products, so customer... RAY OZZIE And when they were installed, the old bus station was next door. We had to light them with special l... LEE WEEMS we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, an... ALAN PATON He said the waters coming into the basement its going down the stairwells and all the windows have b... MARY BAKER The thing about Shakespeare is, whatever his politics were, the one thing he wasn't was an anarchist... DAVID HARE Steve had a great night. He killed penalties, he helped with the power play. He did everything. DAVE BOITZ This (business) has created credit for people who never had it before -- and that creates buying pow... BUD WARD Truth, justice, knowledge – windows, windows... such a need for Sun! MARIANA FULGER Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congres... WILLIAM PATERSON He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had p... CHRISTINE FEEHAN If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha... JOHN STUART MILL My dad would go to auctions and buy old windows. Then I would come home loaded with them. JEANIE COOPER There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, lett... ORISON SWETT MARDEN There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows a... SIR BEVIS OF HAMPTOUN The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the ... JULIAN ASSANGE It is in the wild and the damage is significant. It removes files off Windows and Windows system dir... APRIL GOOSTREE We had reached the end of the road, ... Our feelings for one another were unchanged but they had inc... PETER TOWNSEND If the ruling is upheld, Microsoft would have to withdraw its current version of Windows from South ... DION WIGGINS Everything we do today, we do by flipping an on- and off-switch, ... Back then, people had to start ... EDWARD KING She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN It's too early to say whether this will start a trend that will break down some of these windows. MATT BOND He wasn't very good and he had on African pants, so the kids were making fun of him and killing him.... CHRIS CHANEY He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with pow... DAVID HALBERSTAM We want this to be a privately held, locally owned company that keeps all of its investment expertis... JAMES GALLAGHER The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Kevin had a great spring. He started off slow, having a nagging injury, but he is starting to swing ... BUCK SHOWALTER He tore off her pajamas. She wasn't out with a fresh face of makeup with her hair done or a short dr... ANONYMOUS1234 It was just a very slow start. They were making them, and we were missing them. We got to find a way... MARQUIS DANIELS He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from... JENNIFER WESTER Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some... SALMAN RUSHDIE The people there were just awesome. It's like a 5,000-person town and we had 2,500 people come out f... CASSIE CAMPBELL If developers don't make the transition to Apple and Intel, they'll probably be making the transitio... GORDON HAFF Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks ... BRENDAN IRIBE One thing we know how to do at Ford is to make great vehicles that help people. So far, we've identi... BILL FORD Well, I didn't get the increase, and (Mr. Carroll) came to me afterward and told me that by requesti... JANE BURKE Too much power. Too much. Even the Blood weren’t meant to wield this much power. Even Witch had ne... ANNE BISHOP I call myself a Mac person. But I'm also a realist. In my full-time job, I've tried several times to... COLIN NEDERKOORN Many companies tout their windows as 'hurricane resistant,' but not all windows meet prescribed stan... BOB MACEDA But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, h... ALAN PATON There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power. RALPH WALDO EMERSON If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to n... MARSHA BLACKBURN Nearly two decades later, others would raise this question, would talk about books as mirrors and wi... CELESTE NG They just had too much power for us. Inside, and obviously, the shooters that they have were phenome... CURT ZIEGMONT In between powering down today and preparing for Tuesday's landing attempt, they'll be taking care o... NICHOLAS PATRICK If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something... GERALD STANLEY LEE A man's success in business today turns upon his power of getting people to believe he has something... GERALD STANLEY Windows Vista is going to be a significant release for all Windows customers, including enterprises,... AL GILLEN Why would John bother using windows or doors like a normal person? Why would he bother to say hello?... MEG CABOT In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the ... DIEGO RIVERA He had that kind of power and athletic ability, as a kid. He was a shortstop, but we had Gary DiSarc... BOB JR He had that kind of power and athletic ability, as a kid. He was a shortstop, but we had Gary DiSarc... BOB FONTAINE JR
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COLSON WHITEHEAD Tonight the song you always despised strides from the jukebox full-bodied and you hear the lyrics fo... COLSON WHITEHEAD People spare a minute or two relishing other people's setbacks before their own inadequacies distrac... COLSON WHITEHEAD Did you know that smiling politely burns up the same amount of calories as speaking your mind. COLSON WHITEHEAD Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend. COLSON WHITEHEAD Three cheers for your rich interior life, may it serve you well come rent day. COLSON WHITEHEAD Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel not so terrible about my various emotional... COLSON WHITEHEAD Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. COLSON WHITEHEAD Sleep the sleep of the successful because somehow you made it through the day without anyone finding... COLSON WHITEHEAD Improbable as it may be, the day still has a few indignities left. The day waters down indignity wit... 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