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We're simply supporting an initiative that has a better chance of winning.


Eric Schippers

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DR JIM ROBERTSON It's still a very fluid situation. We are watching the legislative process very closely.
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JEAN GLAVANY I've really only been supporting them since they started winning.
DAVID GOMEZ Without initiative, leaders are simply workers in leadership positions.
BO BENNETT This initiative is quite simply historic, and even revolutionary,
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MARY MOLNAR It reinforces the strength of the handicap system. Any well-sailed, well-founded boat has a realisti...
GEOFF LAVIS If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Waking up to a better, smarter, stronger, faster me this morning, who plans on winning by attrition....
TROY J. GAINEY This is an extraordinary initiative. This is a really serious initiative.
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CRAIG OREN It's over. I'd like to say he has a one-in-10 chance of winning but it really is one-in-a-100 now, a...
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DON LOWE This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.
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JULIA QUINN Eric is getting better every day. He's trying so hard to recover and get better.
BETH EDMUNDSON Winning solves a lot of problems. We hadn't beaten Middleton since they moved into the Big Eight so ...
BOB LANDSEE Again this year, we're one of five teams that have a good chance (of winning it all) and we're happy...
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JAMES C. DOBSON We've got a chance to play for a conference championship and a chance to play for a winning season.
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RON JOHNSON I know that the Bucks have established a winning tradition. I wanted to come here because the team i...
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JIM WRIGHT It has sustained us. A lot of them care about Eric. I think it has held us up. They have given us so...
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GITESH PANDYA Winning the first and fourth quarters usually gives you a pretty good chance to come out on top.
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JEFF MILLER I think we have a great chance (of winning the tournament) if we continue to work hard, don't get co...
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DAVID ADKISON I don't know if we have a chance of winning the appeal, but its worth trying.
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BRIAN TOAL Eric swam really well and is looking forward to swimming much better at states.
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ERIC BUTTERWORTH Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like ...
ERIC HOFFER