We try to guard against things like this, ... We always say patient autonomy is paramount, but I have a policy of not doing it if there are family problems.
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With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a... BRENT POHLONSKI What I like about Bain Capital is that we have Republicans, we have Democrats, we have independents;... STEPHEN PAGLIUCA I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovere... RAYMOND JOSEPH TELLER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON These are announcements relating to the unseen which We reveal to you, you did not know them-- (neit... QURAN We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th... DONALD RUMSFELD I told Jack that if he outperformed his contract we would work out a new deal, and both of those thi... WAYNE WEAVER Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou... FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we shou... FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - t... JACK KEVORKIAN We found that we incurred all kinds of other problems with this policy, and we have changed and it i... STEPHANIE AVEIRO Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi. ENOCK MAREGESI Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have always had a policy that if it's illegal to do off eBay, it's illegal to do on eBay, ... We ... HANI DURZY It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN And when Our communications are recited to them, they say: We have heard indeed; if we pleased we co... QURAN Value your parabatai," he said. "For it is a precious bond. All love is precious. It is why we do wh... 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So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER It's huge. We have always been there against them but we haven't ever really had a chance. They are ... ERIC BRENNAN My thing is, I don't get in nobody's business or nothing like that or try to bash anybody fo... WARREN G Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, th... DONALD H. RUMSFELD Aliens have been here for millennium. But they didn't come in spaceships. They came in orange s... ANTHONY T. HINCKS We figured there would be some deterioration, but not like this. It looks like problems across the b... LES FUNTLEYDER I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people ther... MACKENZIE ROSMAN It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It... DISON ARNIBAL We do things a little differently. We like to focus more on our things, ... If we need to do it (hos... ADRIAN FERNANDEZ We've been very, very clear throughout the process that there are certain things we can agree to and... DAVID GROSS I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT There's no way you can guard if you don't compete. I think they feel like they are competing, we hav... LARRY BROWN That's a policy question you're asking me. I don't make the policy. This is not a terrible, oh-my-Go... GREG BERK What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN This is not something we are taking lightly. Given what happened, would we revisit our policy? I wou... BILL DALY There really have been no real issues, while there are always little things, we really haven't had p... DAN WEGNER I honestly don't know, the policy is there, and we certainly try to adhere to it. FRANK MERRIMAN I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world wh... THOMAS FRANK If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him SUNDAY ADELAJA We have been in collaboration with the Air Force attorneys working on this case. It is the policy of... KYLE FISK We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it mi... EVAN SAYET We had to guard against complacency and try to take the chances we created, but in the second half t... GARY NEVILLE It's hard. You can't really hold back. If we have a lot of fouls, we try to guard the easier girl an... BRANDI CHAFFINS We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things ... AUGUST WILSON We have exhausted every possible approach to try to solve the problem, ... 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EDDIE VAN HALEN The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project. JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH This is the thing about pressure. It's like people say, 'We finally understand Fall Out Boy and we f... PETE WENTZ If I have a better idea, I say, 'Can we try one like this?' I try not to step on writers'... WILLIAM SADLER I am very glad the Senate has done this. We need to approach this in a family-centered way if treatm... MARTHA RAINVILLE Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortuna... THIERRY HENRY No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard ag... TESS GERRITSEN There are some problems remaining but what we have to be wary of is creating further problems oursel... MARGARET BECKETT If it's possible to do some charity, I'm always there, ... A lot of people, they are thinking that o... HERMANN MAIER I would say, and we have always said, that this should not be used as the only criteria to pick a ho... JEAN CHENOWETH Of course, on a night like tonight, in this situation, we won't turn away anyone, especially if they... LYNNE SIPIORA We can't deny that there is a new political dynamic, but it is piecemeal, ... We are against this pi... GEORGE ISHAK We started to wake up a bit. We weren't doing things right at the beginning, but we got patient and ... CLAIR COSTELLO
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When I say no, I want you to say no, too. JACK WARNER I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday. JACK WARNER 'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even young... JACK WAGNER I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the &... JACK WAGNER I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theate... JACK WAGNER By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really mak... JACK WAGNER Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. On... JACK WAGNER I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in la... JACK WAGNER We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those ... JACK WAGNER My all-time low is 62 at Bel-Air, but it was in match play, and I had two putts given to me from fou... 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JACK VANCE I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years... JACK VANCE I'd never been published when I was young. JACK VANCE In fact, almost every job you get somebody watching you. JACK VANCE Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it... JACK VANCE So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly use... JACK VANCE Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn... JACK VANCE There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha... JACK VANCE Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write. JACK VANCE But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer s... JACK VANCE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all. 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