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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about... STEVE BUYER Twelve minutes. We got into the locker room at 7:58, and we talked about until ten minutes after 8. ... KEITH DAMBROT It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive ... RUPERT SHELDRAKE We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voic... RAY LAMONTAGNE We have stopped pouring cement and we are not doing any more until we get proper concrete. LEO TADDEO A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there unti... PHIL GINGREY If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There's a fine line between going in there and being emotional and allowing it to have an adverse ef... BILL COWHER I have deliberately kept singing because I have to at my age. If I stopped for even a year my voice ... ROGER DALTREY When we got here this morning we pulled out the paper and knew what had to happen and it all fell in... CALVIN CARDILLO We've lost our leader, and we have another leader. We have to move on. DENG DONGRIN I said I wouldn't complain about it until I lost and I haven't lost yet. We haven't won a world titl... GAIL EMMS We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR It wasn't until the 1980s when we lost several really good buildings to another building boom that w... ROBERT MCGREGOR If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future WINSTON CHURCHILL But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and loo... PHUMZILE MLAMBO-NGCUKA The Legislature passed a law that says local governments cannot prohibit a methadone clinic. We coul... MARC BOLDT But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice ... GEOFFREY RUSH Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA You listen to anybody who suppresses you. 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DEREK STINGLEY We had our chances too, because we got to the foul line, but didn't convert. That makes it pretty to... JOEL ALLEN Voice your opinion. It could make all the difference SOTONYE ANGA That's encouraging, ... but no solace. The bottom line is we lost this game and we should have won. TIKI BARBER It would have given us confidence if we had won. But we lost, so that's the main thing. We can't wor... BOBBY DIXON To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN If someone is not happy with one thing we either tweak it until they're happy with it. We all know w... BRANDON THOMAS We aren't saying much about it [the super-switch], except that it will scale to 100Tbps, ... and it ... LAWRENCE ROBERTS We will remain lost, wandering souls until we can look each other in the eye and smile MARTY RUBIN I just got word that we received one, hand delivered. I don't have any details where it's from or wh... DAN RODRIGUEZ Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved o... NEIL LEBLANC After Afghanistan we could expect that we learned some lessons. But we repeated all the stupidity po... ALEXANDER KONOVALOV The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We all have to get our hope from somewhere, and if getting lost between the pages of a deep book giv... EMMA HART The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the d... WILLIAM BEVERIDGE I think the defensive line is going to be the most depleted area. We lost two excellent players, and... KYLE WHITTINGHAM A soul is the collection of feelings, emotions and experience one has in them to carry to judgement.... SYNECA DE JORMUNGAND Subtle! Subtlety is bourgeois. Brecht us that when he popped drama’s cherry. He fucked drama until... DAVID BURR GERRARD We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was stupid the way we played. I would have rather lost (Thursday) the way we played (Friday). It ... LAIME CONTRERAS We won't be able to have this fire contained until we can plow a line around it. We've got all kinds... BILL STEWART We are saying quite clearly, and we are the voice of the majority, that we don't want this war. ALEX MOSSON For my voice, I have lost it with halloing and singing of anthems. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the train is completed that will be the lure. So what do we do until then? We can't let it drop... CANDY DUNCAN We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th... JULIE OTSUKA When we lost the Blue Angel (marathon), we lost a marquee event. I think we all agreed that we neede... JAY YANOVICH Self-doubt is the little voice in your head saying " You Can Do It!" and the big voice saying " I Wi... SEAN O'DONNELL In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from ... PATSY CLINE It so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS We had a second chance and I don't wanna say we blew it, but we lost it. Now we got a chance to get ... CEDRIC HUMES I lost an election by one vote in a city commission election. I know how important every vote is. A ... CAROL ROBERTS Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH We forgot about Buddha. We forgot about God. We developed a coldness inside us that still has not th... JULIE OTSUKA We go until we finish - usually between 10:30 to 12. It just depends on how many animals we have and... CURTIS BARFIELD The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity o... DEYTH BANGER Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who i... RICHARD PAUL EVANS Rita hit on a Saturday and interrupted our pickup that day, and we lost power at our facility until ... ANDY KING
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Clean forspent, forspent,
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Beside his mother's knee. ALGERNON SIDNEY He told me once
The saddest thing that can befall the soul,
Is when it loses faith in God and ... ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much. ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country. ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ALGERNON SIDNEY If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... t... PHILIP SIDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ... ALGERNON SIDNEY I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. SIDNEY POITIER Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. SIDNEY HOOK My autobiography was simply the story of my life. SIDNEY POITIER Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived. SIDNEY SHELDON My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place -... SIDNEY SHELDON Anyone who assumes that this country is standing still is not a good American, or rather, he is an a... SIDNEY BUCHMAN The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. ALGERNON SIDNEY If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the s... SIDNEY LANIER Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old... SIDNEY SHELDON Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for t... SIDNEY HOOK To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. SIDNEY POITIER I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha... SIDNEY POITIER Out of the hills of Habersham,
Down the valleys of Hall,
I hurry amain to reach the plain;
... SIDNEY LANIER I think as a Canadian hockey player, you go through it in your mind so many times, being able to sta... SIDNEY CROSBY Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me... SIDNEY SHELDON