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We've seen some really strong job gains. . .so this is just a bounce-back to reflect that.


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JULIE BROUGH We just have to bounce back from this and come out a lot stronger next game.
BOB WILSON This is a big bounce-back win for us.
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JUSTIN PURDY A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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ALEXIS HERMAN We need to bounce back and not panic. (SPU) beat us tonight, but I don't think every night they'd be...
JODDIE GLEASON We've got to bounce back. This game does not end our season.
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MARK MACDONALD Last year was the bounce-back year and this year is the consolidation year.
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BILL BARRETT Eric Love is so good in the air, ... He's such an easy target (on corners). And when he gets up ther...
DANIEL LEWIS We have seen some big really winners on huge down days. Today was no different. With one-day gains f...
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CHARLIE HUGHES Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth;
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MIKE HOLMGREN We didn't get the job done in the first half. We controlled most of the game, but that doesn't mean ...
JENNIFER ROCKWOOD Eric gave us a good game tonight. He did a good job.
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CRAIG GROESCHEL Companies are as optimistic as they have been for the last five quarters over which we've seen job g...
JEFFREY JOERRES This loss is difficult. But our team will bounce back, they have hearts the size of this gym.
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GARY F EVANS... It's a rude interruption of that string of nine straight monthly job gains.
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ENDA KENNY We haven't seen a labor market this strong since prior to January 2001. This is a significant gain.
PHIL GARDNER People preach things all the time that they don't really mean or believe. Staying firm within yourse...
MICHAEL ANTHONY JIMENEZ I've rarely seen an issue in which such strong opinion that is so one-sided,
JONATHAN ADELSTEIN I dont really think its all that settled yet, ... Weve got a good group of guys, though. Im sure eve...
AARON KATZ We have given the parties some time to reflect. We will come back on Friday,
TONY BLAIR I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and ju...
AARON PAUL The post player was just standing there so I told her to bounce it off her back. We work on that a l...
DENNIS MELCHER It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous wi...
CARDINAL NEWMAN I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just rem...
TONI MORRISON If you look back from where we came from and the ordeal we came through, this is a blessing. The atm...
JOHN CANNON A bounce here, a bounce there, and we win. This was a tough one to lose. The kids played their heart...
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ERIC HOFFER We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every...
ERIC HOFFER Competing with an other is exhilarating, challenging, and healthy. That is what Games are for. When...
ERIC PARSLOW A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-...
ERIC HOFFER Absence of communication between necessarily linked parties ensures eventual conflict.
ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil ...
ERIC HOFFER Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.
ERIC HOFFER Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH A decision without the pressure of consequence is hardly a decision at all.
ERIC LANGMUIR. When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie...
ERIC PARSLOW