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We're just kind of limping along on the ones that are still working.


Francis Spoonemore

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ANDREW BIRD We have been limping along with older, high-mileage vehicles until this issue was resolved.
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DONALD YACKTMAN We are still working out the policies for that.
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ALLEN CARLSON We feel bad that the Arts Festival doesn't have a presenting sponsor. We are still working on it.
KATIE ROCHE We still thought that we were the only two people in the world who were interested in the right kind...
PHILIP ZALESKI We kind of relaxed a little bit, but we were still getting hands up in some people's faces and they ...
D.J. STRAWBERRY The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines....
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MARCUS GRAHAM Right now we're just going along until somebody makes their mind up. Everything seems to be working ...
HARVEY EWING Many of our overall indicators are percolating along just fine, but the growth continues to elude ma...
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BOB CUNNEEN We were kind of still feeling the effects of the Atlantic meet last week (at conference) so I think ...
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NARGIS FAKHRI The long ones were just devastating. Science stopped.
BARBARA THOMPSON It doesn't matter, the depth of the snow, because the salting just kind of goes along with it.
DANIEL BOON We?re still working on our offense. We struggle sometimes just getting into a flow. We are big and c...
BYRON WESTRICH We are a little bit worried, this is a nasty blow, he was limping on Sunday morning. Things like tha...
RAYMOND DOMENECH We still have a lot of work to do. It was real obvious there were a lot of plays out there that we k...
DAVE WANNSTEDT We got one limping in, ... We got a police car limping in with a flat.
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FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...
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