We hope to involve all eleven schools from the Big Ten eventually.
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BOB FRANZ We wanted to show we could swim with the big schools.
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JULIE HANSEN Eventually we hope to bring it back as a hotel again.
NANCY ALLMAN Not at all. He's a Big Ten veteran.
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GREGG GREENO Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.
DANIEL GREENBERG Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan...
MARGARET MITCHELL We hope to be adding to the menu and changing things around on it eventually.
GEORGENE RIDEOUT A study was conducted last year to find possible fees that would assist with reaching our goal of ma...
JAN MILLS We have seen some big really winners on huge down days. Today was no different. With one-day gains f...
WILLIAM MCKINLEY It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentia...
KINGMAN BREWSTER From America's schools, religion has been relentlessly purged. No prayers, no Bibles, no Christi...
PAT BUCHANAN We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL At first, we'll be centered toward children ages 9 to 18, and some college kids. We hope some high s...
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LUCIANO SPALLETTI Well, he hasn't been beat yet. He's good in that aspect. Ten for 10. Eleven for 11 would sound a lot...
GREG GILCHRIST We were going up against Big 10 schools and we like competing. I think we finished in between Ohio S...
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JAMES SUROWIECKI We need to involve everybody. We will need to use all of our resources.
MERLE WILLIAMS However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN We want to compete for the Big Ten championship. With the team we have, I think we will.
CEM DINC We've made that a big emphasis (getting the ball to Butler). We've played really well since he came ...
MIKE CONNER Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!
REDD FOXX Many of the other Big Ten schools are engaged in similar preparedness projects, most notably the Uni...
JAMES WESTMAN We hope this case will eventually force the U.S. government to tighten its rules over mad cow testin...
HIROKO MIZUHARA Eventually we'd love to partner up with some schools. The whole point behind this is that we want to...
EVAN STEINBERG This is a big turnaround from last year. We didn't even come this close last year to being in the to...
DION HARRIS I hope we're ready to play right from the start. I've heard they're big. It's a big game.
MARK MAZZON I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.
BARRY WILLIAMS Our team can move the football. We've done it against some very good teams in our conference. We als...
KARL DORRELL Elizabeth transcends all those rules,
HELEN THOMPSON I want to go the whole way to Omaha. I really think we have a good shot at winning the Big Ten. If w...
ALAN STIDFOLE We hope that eventually some fatigue will set in that will effect their shots.
LONN REISMAN While the overall picture remains unfortunate, there are bright pockets of hope. In schools where th...
ELIZA BYARD We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are consc...
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PHILIPPE COUSTEAU, JR. From Queen Elizabeth, who had her own box, to the street cleaners.
LYNNE BURROUGHS I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I...
DR. SEUSS Last year was a big transition for us when we combined the two schools. We won't see any real big ch...
GEORGE STARKOVICH I think we had a great response to the concert. Not just from the students but from labels, producer...
HUSSAIN ISMAIL We're not proposing any shifting of funding from public schools to private schools.
BETSY DEVOS We are seeing anything from soft tissue injuries to major injuries that can involve paralysis from t...
KATHY HARPER There are no real surprises on the schedule. Every year the Big Ten is one of the most competitive c...
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GARY LEE PHILLIPS We have yet to have the superintendent involve us in the process or involve anybody with the process...
CARY STIDHAM We told our team that Penn State, pound for pound, is the toughest team the in Big Ten. That team yo...
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JON STEWART Stop following me, are you following me? That'll get you twelve years at Leavenworth, or eleven year...
W. C. FIELDS I have no big plans. I think I might have to make some, and they might have to involve some champagn...
GERALDINE BROOKS We are all hoping on hope to rescue us from life's miseries.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The next step is to involve the legislators from around the area.
KATHLEEN FARRELL An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI This coming road trip, we have three Big East games. We hope to come back with three wins, but we ne...
BECKY EMMERS After all what's the lesson from all that?
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DEYTH BANGER Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act;
When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... We hope that those responsible for these murders and those of other journalists will eventually be b...
ANN COOPER Through dedication and hard work, these schools have implemented great ideas for instituting student...
BRENDA MUSILLI There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I e...
DAVID BEN-GURION I think the Big Ten tournament is very important. We don't ever want to be one-and-done.
MATT PAINTER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can...
LEWIS N. ROE Just knowing we had the support of a Big Ten Coach, made us feel good.
ESTHER LEE All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speak...
BRENDAN MYERS I am extremely encouraged by our performance this weekend. We had consistent play top to bottom and ...
CLINT WALLMAN We knew that if we shut down [junior Elizabeth] Bell and Givens and keep their big players off the b...
MIKE WEBB We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY This weekend is like a Big Ten weekend. Both teams are solid. It should prepare us for Big Ten play.
DEAN DUERST We hope (participants) will gain a basic knowledge of the disorder, learn their rights as parents an...
DAN TORRES We cannot hope to effectively counter extremism if we just focus on schools, universities and prison...
MAAJID NAWAZ I feel very positive that if Butler County chooses to adopt a city, that will enable us to have a di...
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LEON PANETTA Last year she was third-team all-Big Ten and I think that's way too low,
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CEO BONNIE COPELAND We worked with the schools to manage it from a safety standpoint.
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DAN DECARLO In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless...
G.K. CHESTERTON All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
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ELIZABETH KIM You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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YANCY BUTLER A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER Don't we all just really try to fake it well?
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YANCY BUTLER I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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YANCY BUTLER My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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YANCY BUTLER My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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OCTAVIA BUTLER People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
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SAMUEL BUTLER The money men make lives after them.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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SAMUEL BUTLER You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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SAMUEL BUTLER There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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SAMUEL BUTLER If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
SAMUEL BUTLER The public do not know enough to be experts, but know enough to decide between them.
SAMUEL BUTLER In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
SAMUEL BUTLER It is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.
SAMUEL BUTLER All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
SAMUEL BUTLER From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
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SAMUEL BUTLER The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Opinions have vested interests just as men have.
SAMUEL BUTLER The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
SAMUEL BUTLER The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he no...
SAMUEL BUTLER A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
SAMUEL BUTLER Neither have they hearts to stay, nor wit enough to run away.
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SAMUEL BUTLER A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is a...
SAMUEL BUTLER God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
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SAMUEL BUTLER Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as h...
SAMUEL BUTLER Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men t...
SAMUEL BUTLER For every why he had a wherefore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
SAMUEL BUTLER People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it ...
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SAMUEL BUTLER Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.
SAMUEL BUTLER An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when intr...
SAMUEL BUTLER Men are seldom more commonplace than on supreme occasions.
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of in...
MARILYN BUTLER Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the othe...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has s...
SAMUEL BUTLER Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he...
SAMUEL BUTLER It is immoral to get drunk because the headache comes after the drinking, but if the headache came f...
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
SAMUEL BUTLER The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
SAMUEL BUTLER We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER