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We writers of series fiction tend to idealize ourselves in our characters, giving them attributes we wish we possessed and ever more interesting lives. Marcia Muller
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What little success I may have won in life I attribute to the loyalty I had for a dear old friend who was my first steel master, whom you perhaps have never heard of: Captain Bill Jones. Charles M. Schwab
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed. Henry David Thoreau
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If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We've tried to raise the bar in our ability to analyze marketing investment and understand the attributes of leaders. Michael Gerard
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It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. Bertrand Russell
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I definitely consider myself a songwriter first because that's my best attribute. Chad Kroeger
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Political ignorance helps explain Americans' perpetual disappointment with politicians generally, and presidents especially, to whom voters unrealistically attribute abilities to control events. George Will
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My doctor found a spot on my lung. He told me it looked like adenocarcinoma, a cancer he attributes to smoking. He didn't need to biopsy it. Ken Kercheval
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We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore, Julie Gerberding
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We're going to see dramatic growth. The launch of third-generation mobile services in China is going to require new services.
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We believe you can achieve much more through persuasion and by encouraging China to open up to the outside world than by turning your back on China, Tony Blair
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We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet creates and people's desire for free expression. Brad Smith
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We're keen supporters of permanent normal trade relations for China, ... Trade relations with China is as important to us as it is to the Chinese.
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Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.
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United States' transfer of technology to the People's Republic of China has been the target of serious PRC efforts over the last two decades, Christopher Cox
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With the introduction of the only non-stop service to Shanghai, Air Canada continues to expand its services to meet the needs of travelers and freight forwarders in the fast growing China market.
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We're going to double our business in China in the next two years. Steve Clarke
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We're making light of all the serious, politically correct stuff that society has created. Basically, Earl redeems himself (after) the mistakes he has made in judging people. Jaime Pressly
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We're going to put together a corrected list that will run in the newspaper.
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What we're seeing is this kind off continuing correction in tech stocks that began a few weeks ago. The money is leaving tech and going to what we call value stocks.
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What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.
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When we finally get all the numbers posted and even in the next day or two when any mistakes are corrected and adjustments are made, I think it'll wind up being double that.
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We wrestled well enough to win the tournament, but we were rusty at times. We have to clean some things up and correct some errors. We didn't wrestle as well as we should have in certain matches, but we'll fix that. Kevin Smith
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Years ago it was a really good way of making a living, and we're finally trying to correct that as an industry to get the cost back up (for wages).
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it. Madeleine Stowe
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With no intention of causing her death, I carelessly corrected my stepdaughter's actions. I took it upon myself to defend the safety of my other five beautiful children.
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Unless international tensions ease to the point where the cost of crude oil drops significantly, there's nothing to suggest that consumer fuel prices will be falling anytime in the near future.
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U.S. refineries prefer a lighter grade of crude than OPEC can add right now. The big problem is the refining issue. Now with another storm threatening the Gulf, and the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning. We really don't need another storm near the producing areas at all.
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U.S. refineries prefer a lighter grade of crude than OPEC can add right now, ... The big problem is the refining issue. Now with another storm threatening the Gulf, and the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning. We really don't need another storm near the producing areas at all.
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We're being bounced around as robust crude supplies take the cream off a market driven up by geo-political concerns.
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We're basically consolidating what has been a favorable week. We've had some strong economic data and a pretty good decline on crude for the week.
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The possibility of a warmer than expected summer, along with a spike in crude oil prices and a freak heat wave in Texas that led to a surge in demand for natural gas all helped boost natural gas futures prices to well above $8 this week. Prices look to stay there in the near term, despite the record inventories.
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes. Max Weber
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There is no question that the tone has turned more positive. We haven't broken out yet, but the markets are poised. Now all we need is for the news to hit the ball out of the park, and it needs to be perfect. Crude is still high and the yield curve is still flat, but the market's focus is on other things right now.
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There is no problem with crude supply. Prices do not depend exclusively on OPEC,
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We've always had the vision for developing Cross Bayou. It's a beautiful vision, but it's just a vision. It's going to take a whole lot of money, a whole lot of planning and a whole lot of work to get there. Frank Williams
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When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
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Tom's has a strong heritage and solid reputation in the snack food business, and we believe that this opportunity will make our company stronger. The transaction developed quickly, and we are still developing our plans. In the near term we intend to continue business as usual while we develop a plan to effectively meet the needs of our customers and consumers. We are confident that the combination of increased sales and operating synergies will create value for Lance, Inc. stockholders.
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To move Doha to a successful and ambitious conclusion, we must all make contributions that includes services, manufacturing, agriculture and other areas of the round. We need contributions from developed countries like the United States, but also developing countries. Every country must do its part. Rob Portman
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We're going to see at best, stagnation in the market, ... Most of the growth will come from the developing countries. Carlos Ghosn
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What we're seeing is a great deal of customization on country and industry levels. When Microsoft was developing its CRM, it made sure that it was built on a Web services architecture so that it can be easily adapted to specific local needs and requirements. We don't ship an out-of-the-box, property-management application, for instance, but those in real estate using the software can easily add apartment information without adding programming code.
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What we're really developing is the shuttle's successor, ... The CEV is designed to go to low-Earth orbit. Michael Griffin
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What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later, Robert Zubrin
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When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.
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We remain solidly on track to deliver our 2006 financial goals of double-digit earnings per share growth and mid to upper single-digit revenue growth. We continue to make progress on our medium-term goal of 9.5 percent operating margins.
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We remain prepared to deliver double-digit earnings growth in 2001, but most importantly we're excited about how well GE is positioned for the future,
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We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.
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We remain focused on building on the momentum in all of our businesses to produce strong quarterly results, and I am confident that we will meet our growth targets for this fiscal year.
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We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.
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We remain confident that our continued strategic focus on profitable branded growth will positively impact fiscal 2007 and beyond.
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We remain confident that digital music will return the industry to growth in due course.
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We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002.
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We remain confident in our long-term guidance of compound annual growth rate for sales and EPS of low 20s for the 2001-2005 period and sales between $8 billion and $9 billion in 2005,
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We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.
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What they're going to be aiming for is to leave open the question of whether they hike on March 28. Jan Hatzius
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What they like is that the Fed came close to saying that the rate hikes are over.
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What has changed in recent weeks is long-term interest rates across the globe are starting to feel the heat from Fed tightening and now from rate hikes from all kinds of quarters, including Japan and Europe which they really hadn't had to deal with before.
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What's on peoples' minds is the possibility of a slowdown of the U.S. economy given the accumulation of rate hikes in the past year and a half and on higher oil prices,
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Unless the statement offers fresh indications that the US Fed will continue its rate hikes going forward, the current rebound will come to an end sooner rather than later.
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Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is expected to be sustained, as the market is now betting on continued interest rate hikes in the US.
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Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.
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U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike is having less impact on the currency.
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When I was a kid, Henryetta was 'town' to me. I helped build the Indian Nation Turnpike and spent many hours laboring in this area. I think Henryetta is a great place to be and I plan to stay here until I retire.
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When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century. Joe Posnanski
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We're going to showcase the arrival of the global Indian entrepreneur. Nandan Nilekani
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What he gave to this franchise, this city and this state, for 18 years, puts him among the elite athletes to have played professional sports. No. 31 in the rafters adds another legacy to the great tradition of Indiana basketball.
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We found that American Indians and Alaska Natives, African Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be victims of fraud than non-Hispanic whites.
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We had 100 kids in each age group and, when the coaches spoke, the players' eyes never left us. These kids were practicing eight hours a day doing all the drills we used to do in the U.S. And it has paid results. Lithuania is a nation the size of Indiana with probably fewer people and they got back-to-back silver medals in the Olympics. That experience got us motivated to teach fundamentals.
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We both went to school at Indiana University and we were big basketball fans. Living in Dallas, there was no way to listen to our favorite Hoosiers. Mark Cuban
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What's striking about this image is it shows the Pakistanis have all their eggs in one basket. These Pakistani missiles are vulnerable to an Indian first strike. Tim Brown
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Unless draconian laws which give authority to Indian forces to catch and kill people without any reason are withdrawn ... peace in the region will remain a distant dream.
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We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.
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We remain in talks about what should be decided there, and what the role of the United Nations should be.
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We're going to Dunedin to win the Tri-nations, not to defend it. We do not want to wait another week to see what will happen in the match between the All Blacks and the Wallabies. It is probably the worst thing in the world to wait and see if you are going to win the trophy. We must make sure we retain the title ourselves. John Smit
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United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it
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United Nations should be brought into full play. Jiang Zemin
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United Nations security had a general concern about the secretary general's visit to this region. But in the end, the chief of staff advised the secretary general to make the trip anyway.
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United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor. Adam Phillips
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Unfortunately, many First Nations communities still lack the basic infrastructure to connect to the Internet,
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with North Korea reneging on a key issue of the new disarmament agreement, U.S. negotiators are trying to keep the six-party talks going because nuclear brinksmanship makes all nations nervous.
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We've asked the OPEC nations to keep an open mind about increased oil production, and we continue to believe an increase is good for both producing and consuming nations.
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To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing. Barbara Boxer
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We're stalled. When you see oil prices back up to their high, you've seen gold hovering around $600 US, people are making some really good money and I think there's a lot of people who are just taking the opportunity to crystallize some gains which is keeping the market at bay a little bit right now.
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We're sort of in an oil price bubble.
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We're going to see continued volatility in the near term -- the oil market is sending conflicting signals. E. O. Wilson
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What we're seeing today is a combination of lower oil prices and concern about the strength of the economy in the second quarter. Kate Warne
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What we're seeing this morning is in response to OPEC's comments and also some old-fashioned year-end book squaring. Oil prices rose sharply and then fell. The market is doing some to-and-fro action, where traders saw the fluctuations and thought about pulling back instead of buying at the higher prices.
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What we're saying is, look, there's an easy way to pay for it: the oil companies. They've got record cash flows, record profits. Impose a new tax on them, use the revenues to dedicate to these programs.
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What they're saying is, not only will we cut off our oil but we're going to interfere with other people's oil as well.
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We've asked again but with the price they're asking, it's silly money as they don't want to sell him. Paul Jewell
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We've always thought it would go a long way if Canada would volunteer price information so our producers would know if they are being beaten on price or on other factors, like quality.
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When we were buying, many others were also buying, and to a great extent in fact and at prices that we never would have wanted to pay.
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When it comes right down to the crunch, it's very possible that we're still going to have to import people at whatever price it will take, to bring them here to help us finish things off.
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To my constituents, today's hearing is about shared sacrifices in tough times versus oil company greed, ... Working people struggle with high gas prices and your sacrifices appear to be nothing.
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Tom Petty kept his price very low compared to his contemporaries. Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire did, too, when they paired up for a tour, and it was very successful.
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We're making sure that the price changes we're taking are on optional services, not on broad-based services.
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We remain positive based on economic activity and E&P spending; we're also positive on 2007 but see some risk to E&P spending given the potential squeeze on returns (with) a possible moderation in commodity prices in '07. Visibility remains too good to worry too early, however.
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We're staring record energy prices in the face every day, it seems.