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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.

Mr. Burwell wanted to go on with his life. He believes that the government now realizes the small part that he played in El Paso's reporting practices.

Most women have small waists the world throughout, But their desires are a thousand miles about

McClatchy is a dolphin swallowing a small whale.

May the friendships you make be those which endure and all of your grey clouds be small ones for sure. And trusting in Him to Whom we all pray, may a song fill your heart every step of the way.

Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

Measures of consumer perceptions should be watched carefully for large and drastic moves, but the analyst who relies on small moves for an indication of consumer purchasing behavior is likely to get burned.

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour

Meaningful reforms, more aggressive investigation of workers' compensation fraud and compliance efforts have led to dramatic savings for Florida's businesses. We will continue to aggressively investigate cases of suspected fraud to continue to improve the system for our small businesses and our workers.

My immediate goals are to do well at the U.S. Championships and compete well in Europe this summer. I am aiming for consistency and small improvements for this year. There are no major championships this year (i.e. Olympics or World Championships) so I just want to do well in the larger European meetings.

My love of movies started when I was 7 years old, living in a small town, going to the movies all the time, and finding the people in the movies more interesting than the people in my small town. Also, at that time, it wasn't that easy to find out about movies.

My focus is still on the Loop. But I see this as a way I can contribute in a small way to the revitalization of downtown.

No detail was too small for him to chase and to check, ... He was dedicated and brave and brilliant, and he had a deep strain of wisdom and conscience.

One should not allow a minority or small minority to withhold their consent unreasonably. They should have the courage to vote and take decisions. But they tend to want to get consensus at all costs, and therefore you have 191 vetoes,

One seemingly small mistake - that most people don't think of as anything - can have ramifications far beyond what seems legal to most people. But it is legal.

One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites.

One small step for Pedro, one giant step for the Mets.

One small company we spoke to ended up getting their legitimate mail blocked by anti-spam software, because they had been used as a spam relay, and that was very, very painful.

One should not have to diet, but rather take small steps to lose weight gradually and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

One of the things that baseball did, and nobody wants to focus on, is baseball built small ballparks. They made it easy to hit home runs. Look at Houston; their left field is a joke. Baseball played to the home run as if it was the only great event in the game.

One of the things most people don't understand is that even at this level... it is only a small portion of what pays for all of the services that come out of the county ? more than $67 million.

One of the things I suggested was that for every year, for example, that a family stayed together with children under 18, there might be some sort of small tax benefit,

One of our strengths is excellent team speed. That has to be our game; play small and not let anybody get too far in front.

One can be a vegan and eating a health-promoting, high-nutrient diet, but one can also eat a small amount of animal products while following a Nutritarian diet and still live a long, healthy life.

One in four Torrington taxpayers will see their taxes go up if the Congress does not act. This bill will help small businesses and manufacturers grow.

O'Neill can significantly move the yen in either direction with one small sentence,

One of the best things about running the camp is to be able to have small teams. There's a lot of one-on-one coaching and everyone gets to know each other. ... That's one of the cool things about the camp.

One night she slipped a note in my hotel mailbox. It was a small essay of encouragement and praise from out of the blue.

One of my wife's favorite things in the whole world was holding small children. Now she gets to do it in perpetuity.

One of my trackers made the sound of a duiker, a small antelope, as if it were in pain.

Obviously, we had a very small margin for error against a team of Illinois' caliber. They showed us how good they are.

Occasionally, they get grants or small amounts of federal money. They have to depend on their state aid by the number of students they educate. They have an even tighter financial arrangement than a traditional school system does.

Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, ''Into how little space a human being can be crushed?'' I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies.

Of course, I've done small company things, too, but most of them have been nonprofit organizations, such as the Internet Society, and I'm on the board of a number of small companies.

No one had a great shooting night, but if your offense isn't going right, you just got to get it back on defense. You've got to make those hustle plays, those steals and get on the floor. Sometimes the basket just seems really small and nothing goes in, but you just have to keep fighting.

One without health cannot achieve any small thing.

Only a very, very small number of our two million accounts were impacted, but we took the precaution of canceling additional card accounts to be safe.

Only a very small portion of this body was visible. Only just a very small part of the foot.

Only a small whiff of the smell is left and hopefully that should be the end of any problems we have with that particular stockpile.

only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.

Only a small minority of U.S. adult travelers is actually planning to cut back on travel this summer.

One thing we have to do is beat them. (Princeton) won't beat themselves, and I don't think we'll beat ourselves. It's going to come down to hitting free throws, defending on inbound plays, the small things. I think it's going to be a great game.

One thing that hurt us tonight was our transition defense. They were playing a small lineup and we didn't recognize that they were coming down and looking for the 3-point line. If you're not ready to get back in transition, it's going to be a long night. We saw the best of Phoenix tonight.

One thing we will be focusing on in 2006 is improving our services to small businesses. We're setting up feedback groups to help small businesses and we plan to launch more programs specific to them.

My country Serbia looks very close to Hiroshima. Very soon all Serbia will look like Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Why, why this collective punishment against one small and innocent nation?

My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't that close and don't know each other that well and overcrowd them into a small room for an extended period of time so they can make each other miserable.

My dad's last words to me were, 'Don't let the small stuff bother you.' I still do the same things I always did. I never used to worry about money. It really hasn't made any difference. It's an incredible thrill to find gold and emeralds. It's too much fun to quit.

My dad was a real man's man, and so were my brothers, in a small town where hockey is king. It's a masculine culture. It made me really attentive to what it meant to be a guy.

(Municipal Auditorium) is a different setting from what we are used to playing in, since we play mostly in small gyms. I just want the guys to get accustomed to playing in a different environment.

Music is a good shorthand way to delineate character. If you want to tell the reader a lot about a character in a small space, just tell them what their musical taste is. You'll get their age, their background, whether they're gregarious or a loner.

Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.

More flexibility could help create employment in several sectors, especially for small companies for which it is difficult to grow.

Montevideo is a beautiful city with a very European style. It's a small city, but with a lot of cultural movement and a lot of personality. At the same time, it's a very chill city.

Montana is transitioning from a natural resource economy to a human-resource-based economy. Economic production is now more decentralized than 30 years ago. This has flattened the economic playing field so that businesses can do things in small towns that used to have to be done in big cities.

More often than not, it's a small scam. Seats aren't where they're supposed to be, or they're not as close (to the playing field) as what they told you. They can plead (ignorance) pretty easily.

Money plays an important role in football, but it is not the dominating factor. When Chelsea play a Carling Cup game in a small city, and it could result in a draw - the excitement, the spirit, the atmosphere - that's the real beauty of football in England.

My goal was to go down there and rescue a small family or two,

My goal is to help small districts in the short term, ... Once the cap hits 15 percent it would be permanent but I'm realistic about the legislative process and how it works. If it comes down to whether or not it will pass I'll have to talk to everyone involved in my district and see if a compromise can't be reached.

My hands and feet were tied. I had a blindfold on the whole time. They would turn on a small light like a refrigerator light bulb, about that bright. After I ate the food they would turn it off and lock the door again.

My husband has been living on a ranch in a small town in Central Texas for the last seven years, and I'm ready to go live in the same city as my husband.

My hope is to grow the program. I know it might start small but I hope it grows to something special that will impact a lot of lives.

My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery store out of their home during the Depression.

My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives.

My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a comprehensible book - it was five suitcases and two trunks of scattered notes - died with him. A loss of knowledge. I made a film in small part reparation.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

Maybe it was the home tutoring, or the late start to formal schooling, or an overly cautious and protective upbringing, but in any case, I never became a talkative person. As an adult, I am not always comfortable in social gatherings with small talk. I must have inherited my father's gentle nature.

Maybe its because my father was so successful in a totally different field, but I found working in a small environment just a great joy.

No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my savings, and my parents loaned me money. I was able to pay them back fairly quickly.

No prime agricultural land will be provided for setting up industries. As the demand (of Salim Group) is 5,000 acres some small plots of agricultural land could come in that. The farmers, whose land is acquired would be properly compensated.

No people on earth can make you feel so small as the English

Now we know that these small particles are really dangerous, so we need to adapt to that new knowledge.

Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core.

Now the small events come to us and we just find a place to get them in...its always nice to find repeat customers which has been very strong.

Now you can have a small taste of beer or wine and a bit of food to go with it without the emotional commitment of dining in a regular restaurant.

Now, people will say, 'Well, that's a very small number,' but when you understand that they're organized in cellular structure, that they have a brutal and determined cadre, that they know how to operate covertly, they have access to a lot of money and a lot of ammunition, you'll understand how dangerous they are,

Now our students can get their classroom experience with us, and then do work at Hopkins. They can spend time in one of the richest research environments in the world, but still have that very small class size here.

Next they decided to put me in total isolation. The first two years, they keep me in a small room, filled with light 24 hours and camera inside.

Never heard of him, but I heard of him this year. It's kind of funny. It's so small -- to hear about somebody coming from Coatesville, I would have heard of him. It's a great thing.

Obviously, this is a tough loss. Our margin for error is real small and we're going to have to run the table.

Obviously, I think he's going to be out a couple of weeks, but it could be longer. It's a small fracture. It all depends on how it heals and how much pain he can take.

Obviously, the economy is improving and business owners are optimistic. Small business owners are saying that they will be hiring people, expanding facilities, even investing additional funding in their business.

Obviously I've tried my best within a small cabinet to try to represent all these different balances while at the same time obviously taking into account the skills and experience of individuals.

Obtaining adequate financing is the lifeblood of every small business. Considering the concerns of small business owners about the economy, it's a comfort to see that so many of them feel confident about their capital options." ()

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

Never forget benefits done you, regardless how small

Right now, it takes a large company employing hundreds of really smart people to support Internet services. Our goal with this center is to develop technology that eliminates the need for such a large organization, opening up innovation opportunities for small groups or even individual entrepreneurs. We can help do this by applying statistical machine learning - the same technology used successfully in the recent autonomous vehicle grand challenge - to the development of computer systems.

Right now, e-commerce is a little stripling. But if you could pick up a small part of every transaction a company would be doing well.

Revenue share for portable devices would be very small compared to this business.

Returning a small number of high-cost products can greatly increase inventory value.

Rick and I are, in a small part, a part of that vision.

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.

People will either like you for your money or they'll resent you for having it.. So you're stuck with a small group who are as rich as you are, and that doesn't give you much choice.

People want a change because they want to see their government on the side of average Americans. Whether it's small business or gas prices, people think the government has betrayed their values.

People won't remember the small little losing streak that we had. They wouldn't think that the game we had against Virginia Tech was a fluke. I think it would put an exclamation point on the whole season and be a good way to start the new one.

People will pay a lot for violin lessons, but a small investment with Epicenter can make kids faster and stronger, ... Stronger and faster might mean a college scholarship.

Policymakers need to understand how dependent the U.S. economy is on innovative risk-takers that make up the small to medium manufacturing sector. The U.S. Congress and the Administration must promote public policies that allow and encourage small and midsize manufacturers to thrive in that role. The innovation we see in abundance in small and midsize businesses comes with great risk. This report identifies specific tools and resources that can help manufacturers manage risk without compromising their commitment to innovation in today's highly competitive global marketplace.

Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America's No. 1 issue. A Time/CNN poll found 89 percent of black teens consider racism in their own lives to be "a small problem" or "not a problem at all." Twice as many black teens as white believe that "failure to take advantage of available opportunities" is a bigger problem for blacks than discrimination.

Portability is a killer application with music and to a degree with movies, but the majority of movie and TV viewing is not on a small two-inch screen.

Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.