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While the monthly December data was not itself a negative surprise, the aggregate 2005 total was a rude reminder.


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DEYTH BANGER 2005 was a good year punctuated by a difficult December.
ANDY BRYANT The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always me...
AUSTAN GOOLSBEE Total client assets were a record $1.246 trillion as of month-end January, up 17% percent from Janua...
CHARLES SCHWAB CORP The family didn't know about the money, it was a total surprise.
LEE BAERLOCHER somewhat of a surprise, but not a total surprise.
FRANK DUNHAM My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was...
TINA ST. JOHN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
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SUE MILLER And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
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No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL The total for the year is only 19.46 inches. Of this amount, only .13 of an inch fell in December on...
STUART CHILTON It's not a surprise that the business was sold and it's not a surprise they didn't receive much for ...
DAVID HARTLEY This was an exceptional December, so 2005 ended better than we thought it would.
ANFAVEA PRESIDENT ROGELIO GOLFARB It's a rude interruption of that string of nine straight monthly job gains.
HOWARD ROTH Unless we get a negative surprise on a piece of economic data that's really out of the ordinary, the...
KEN TOWER It was a total surprise. I had a place to live in Louisville and everything. It was a shock. I just ...
CHRIS DENORFIA not a total surprise, it is very significant.
KIRBY DALEY It was a total surprise to us. There was no reason to suspect that we'd find West Nile here.
DUANE GUBLER Aggregate jams up, and you've got to wiggle it once in a while. Our mud was a little bit stiff.
ED KELLISON 2005 was a great year, punctuated by a difficult December. We believe we lost up to a point of marke...
ANDY BRYANT Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me a...
GEORGE MICHAEL While this is the largest monthly decline in nearly five years, the fall is entirely attributable to...
CAROLYN KWAN The operation was launched on 2 December 2005 and targeted drunk drivers. We managed to arrest more ...
WAYNE MINNAAR No county has a 2005 deviation greater than its 1988 deviation, a year that was the worst for many c...
GARY SCHNITKEY Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they...
ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE We had great practices this past week and this was a total surprise to me and my entire staff.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
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CHRIS VACCARO The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS While musicals still dominate on Broadway, 2005 was a very strong year for plays, too.
HOWARD SHERMAN We had problems aggregating data. From an executive viewpoint, I have to look at what I am spending ...
JEFF LOEWER Today, you proved to us that this data in all cases was very useful. You also showed us that in some...
CHARLES CLARK If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS ...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certa...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY And they say
She's in the class A Team
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ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Jealousy Is a strange but dark emotion eating at your very inner self if we let it, it will eventual...
GARY F EVANS... The index was well behaved last year. And one monthly jump does not necessarily signal a shift in tr...
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NORMAN PEARLSTINE All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The decision was very much a surprise. The department was told we were not supposed to be on the age...
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Let fall the deep snow,
Let the stars fall, lad
we'll answer ...
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MICHAEL PATERNITI Going to Cambodia to cover the genocide trials, I did read a lot about the Khmer Rouge; I read a lot...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.
MICHAEL LANDES Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge ...
MICHAEL PATERNITI I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were...
MICHAEL BERGIN Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of ge...
MICHAEL POLLAN Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. ...
MICHAEL GREGER I worked on 'Blue Peter' and 'Tonight' and lots of TV plays, filmed people like Rudo...
MICHAEL BOND I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Pressed by the Obama administration and consumers, Kraft, Nestle, Pepsi, Campbell and General Mills,...
MICHAEL MOSS I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
MICHAEL GOVE I don't miss being a reporter as a job, but I do miss the everyday interaction with the front li...
MICHAEL CONNELLY I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a sy...
MICHAEL PHELPS Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic ...
MICHAEL MOORE Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel exclude...
MICHAEL MEDVED One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if...
MICHAEL KORDA Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionall...
MICHAEL DIRDA The big turn in the late '90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. ...
MICHAEL WEATHERLY All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the re...
MICHAEL LEUNIG Milk contains growth hormones designed by Mother Nature to put a few hundred pounds on a baby calf w...
MICHAEL GREGER Xavier Gens is probably the busiest filmmaker that I know.
MICHAEL EKLUND I always tell my employees, the busier it gets, the slower you should cook. When you run around like...
MICHAEL SYMON Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now ...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF In early 2005, I really studied the prospectuses of these mortgage pools that were tranched out into...
MICHAEL BURRY Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with ...
MICHAEL JOHNSON The relentless invisible storm of radio signals and electronic particles, the hustle and bustle, and...
MICHAEL LEUNIG I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's w...
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