For 18 months, we had worked on something that mattered: a national system of early learning and child care. Then it was gone.
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JO COX I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.
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ROBERT PITTMAN We knew it was time for change. We had personnel on there that had been gone for four years.
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BARBARA ZIMMERMAN The key last year was we didn't get to play at home. I've said it before and I'll say it until the d...
FRANK CHEEK We've had a good week of practice. We've worked on a couple of things that we need to continue to wo...
CHAD WINTZ The key was how little effort it was to actually learn something and be able to apply that learning ...
BRIAN PLATTER The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.
CHARLES DE GAULLE For a while, it was this sleepy little happening on campus, but within the last 18 months, we've see...
MARY STUART It evolved that any child we could take out of institutionalized care, while waiting for adoption, c...
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JOE POKRAKA I was on his staff in the early '80s when he was a congressman and he worked even then with members ...
DOUG COLE Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.
RON CHERNOW We thought this was a good opportunity for us to look at if there was a national child-care program,...
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RALF SCHUMACHER I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Iri...
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LIZANNE MULLIGAN Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked ...
AUSTIN PECK We have worked hard over the last six months, so we had to put it on the line. We went out there and...
KRISSY WENDELL It was an unforeseen weather event that we believe would've been very difficult to plan for. No one ...
MARK STUTZ The branding campaign Glasgow: Scotland With Style was launched 18 months ago and tonight we have be...
ALEX MOSSON I, too, had set out to be remembered. I had wanted to create something permanent in my life- some pr...
SUSAN ORLEAN We had a system that worked and we worked it, ... We'd go into a place and create a riot. When you c...
ANDY ANDERSON It didn't take long. I saw early on that he was a guy who was going to be able to play for us, with ...
DAVID ARMSTRONG Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, ...
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KAREN SPRINGER Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
JACK KEANE We wanted to frustrate them. It worked for 40 minutes but then we let in a silly goal. But if we had...
DAVID TUTTLE To me it's a failure every time we keep a child in foster care for that child's entire life. You kno...
HILLARY CLINTON The day has gone by without a hitch. We're very excited it went so smoothly. We had tested and retes...
JENNIFER HUDSON The system has always worked out good in the past. Parents of the younger students appreciate the ca...
LINDA ANDREASSI It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once though...
SARAH DESSEN I've always gone since I was a child. I thought it was something everybody did. We're all so close.
HEATHER GRISHAM We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency ... Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial...
MIKE HOLMGREN Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered ...
JOHN WELCH And yet the point of view from which his ideas on art had sprung was a simple one: for him, literary...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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DEBORAH BURGER People who are just 18 years old and breathing and aren't experienced and educated ... that's what w...
EVELYN KEATING These guys haven't had a break for 18 months or more. It is definitely hard work, but they do get pa...
JEFF THOMSON I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the ...
SHAWN MICHAELS Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was ...
ARUNDHATI ROY I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 ...
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MAX HARKRIDER My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor...
PETE TOWNSHEND We don't recommend that a parent use a restraint system for a child that has outgrown that system.
ERIC BOLTON I was very pleased and very lucky that the system worked, ... I had lost faith in that.
ROBERT BLAKE Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON If this plan is approved, it will make Illinois the national leader (in early learning) hands-down.
DON OWENS There's only been two times in our 28 years that we haven't worked together: when I was pregnant and...
SARAH PATTERSON It was different for a lot of people in the Navy. A lot of people were comfortable living in Califor...
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GREG CLARKE That was 18 months of inactivity there, ... It was very exciting to get back out there and compete. ...
BRAD MAY That was 18 months of inactivity there, ... It was very exciting to get back out there and compete. ...
BRAD MAY I knew that I have the ability to do it, but was just a case of giving myself 18 months' preparation...
BRUCE SCOTT This was something we worked to get. It was important for us.
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JASON BOHN It was found dead Oct. 7 in Dryden, Ontario. It shows that the birds were moving north.
DAVE GROSSHUESCH There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate....
CHRISTOPHER MELONI He was tired. I could feel he was tiring out. I had worked hard. It had to count for something.
DAVE PISARCIK We've got people waiting 18 months for surgery on their hips, ... And we have a demand for that type...
IRIS EVANS You could tell immediately that care and passion had gone into writing it.
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT We felt we wanted the community to come in and have ownership and it worked for us, ... We wanted to...
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JOHN DRYDEN Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
JOHN DRYDEN Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.
JOHN DRYDEN Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
JOHN DRYDEN All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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JOHN DRYDEN He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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JOHN DRYDEN We lov'd, and we lov'd as long as we could
Til our love was lov'd out in us both;
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JOHN DRYDEN Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over vi...
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JOHN DRYDEN For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
JOHN DRYDEN Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on
your way down.
JOHN DRYDEN Ever a glutton, at another's cost,
But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
JOHN DRYDEN Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
JOHN DRYDEN She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
JOHN DRYDEN Not to ask is not be denied.
JOHN DRYDEN He's a sure card.
JOHN DRYDEN The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsha...
JOHN DRYDEN Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
JOHN DRYDEN Thespis, the first professor of our art,
At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.
JOHN DRYDEN A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.
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In being mad, which none but madmen know!
JOHN DRYDEN Keen appetite
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Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Who think too little, and who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN And kind as kings upon their coronation day.
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JOHN DRYDEN Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lie...
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He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
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And their own web from their own entrails spin;
And w...
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To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.
JOHN DRYDEN Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.
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Of earth restored to the long labouring ark;
The reli...
JOHN DRYDEN And after hearing what our Church can say,
If still our reason runs another way,
That private ...
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail,
Our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
JOHN DRYDEN Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
JOHN DRYDEN Who climbs the grammar-tree, distinctly knows
Where noun, and verb, and participle grows.
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When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
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Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Free from corruption, or entire, or clear,
Are ...
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Replied, and bore the burden of the song:
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The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
JOHN DRYDEN Whatever he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 'twas natural to please.
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The bliss of men below, and gods above!
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JOHN DRYDEN Lord of human kind.
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His preac...
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JOHN DRYDEN A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
JOHN DRYDEN When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
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JOHN DRYDEN Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
...
JOHN DRYDEN A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
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JOHN DRYDEN Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day.
JOHN DRYDEN She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,
Can draw you to her with a single hair.
JOHN DRYDEN Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.
JOHN DRYDEN And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.
JOHN DRYDEN He raised a mortal to the skies;
She drew an angel down.
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JOHN DRYDEN None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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JOHN DRYDEN They think too little who talk too much.
JOHN DRYDEN Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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He, who can call to-day his own:
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Who think too little and who talk too much.
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JOHN DRYDEN Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.
JOHN DRYDEN War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.
JOHN DRYDEN Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
JOHN DRYDEN Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is love's reward.
JOHN DRYDEN Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
JOHN DRYDEN When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
JOHN DRYDEN Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
JOHN DRYDEN But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.
JOHN DRYDEN And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
JOHN DRYDEN Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway.
JOHN DRYDEN The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun,
Is Nature's eye.
JOHN DRYDEN Behold him setting in his western skies,
The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise.
JOHN DRYDEN Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
JOHN DRYDEN The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.
JOHN DRYDEN There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and
stupidity. And I am unsure about the un...
JOHN DRYDEN When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted...
JOHN DRYDEN Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
Surpa...
JOHN DRYDEN The winds that never moderation knew,
Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
Or out of bre...
JOHN DRYDEN Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.
JOHN DRYDEN