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GIL COURTEMANCHE ARISTOTLE I put all my time into Indian rights, and I think this is something I know something about, and I th... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE AARON KOBLIN I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS LAURENCE FISHBURNE HERBERT CROLY PAUL WATSON MICK EBELING I'll remain an individual, and as long as I get excited about something, I'll do it. ROBERT STIGWOOD I think of us as a people who inoculate ourselves against a plague of insanity with a powerful anti-... SPIDER ROBINSON When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is someth... IRVIN MAYFIELD This split ruling at least suggests that we need to look at these cases on an individual basis, as w... CHUCK HARRELL I think we actually could pull it all off, at least get $1,000 if we tried. 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BRIAN SCHMIDT I think they are both at risk and it creates a [political] diversion at the very least. DOUG SCHOEN MAX STIRNER CEELO GREEN MEIR SOLOVEICHIK STEVEN MILLHAUSER We have so many people that came out and worked hard, I think it's in their best interest that we at... MAYA COLE I respectfully ask legal authorities to launch an investigation as soon as possible. I am desperate ... HWANG WOO SUK I'd always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology. BOB PAISLEY (One difference between old-style autocrats, such as Caesar, Louis XIV, or Napoleon, and their total... CATIE MARRON 'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basic... PIPPA MIDDLETON JERRY COSTELLO DOROTHY L. SAYERS I think every woman wants to claim it as hers. At least in church, it was that way. DELRENA PATRICK MARGARET ATWOOD JODI LYNN ANDERSON OLIVIA MUNN MICHAEL MOORE SETH BERKLEY We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted. AHMED BEST WERNER HERZOG This is unconstitutional and done with an ill political motive...we don't accept it. We reject such ... ABDUL JALIL It is all political and high political involvement is in this. This was all well planned out and the... BERNICE SMITH ALBERT EINSTEIN JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD STARHAWK I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes. NATASHA HENSTRIDGE As far as accessories are concerned, I think it is always best to be as minimalist as possible. ALICE TEMPERLEY FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD JANE AUSTEN I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary politi... BRUCE DAVISON CHERIE BLAIR CRISS JAMI Why do people seem to argue and fight when we can share something as powerful and as beautiful as an... RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON EVGENY MOROZOV ARLEN SPECTER Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts. BILL VIOLA JAMILA WOODS I like to think of it as something that people can dip in and out of. ALAN TITCHMARSH STEVEN PINKER I think that's possible, but I don't think that's his main motive. His motive is profit. But we cert... BARRY COTTRELL ANTHONY T. HINCKS WILHELM WUNDT A.E. SAMAAN
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PACKER College basketball has gotten to the point where there are so many teams that think they can win tom... BILLY PACKER Can you imagine the difference in (power teams) now that allows a team like George Mason to do this?... BILLY PACKER Nobody is going to be bothered by that, at least the person who's hired won't be. If somebody is bot... BILLY PACKER They proved what they can do. So my opinion is useless. If every team had lost, does that mean those... BILLY PACKER Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often kee... J.I. PACKER We cannot rest until all demographics are equitably represented in AP. It's clear that many minority... TREVOR PACKER When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succee... WILL PACKER It's exciting to see that educators are actually helping a bigger segment of a bigger population lea... 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PACKER He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest ... J.I. PACKER There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. J.I. PACKER In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of lov... J.I. PACKER The most excellent study for expanding the soul, is the science of Christ, and Him crucified, and th... J.I. PACKER The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at t... J.I. PACKER I feel confident that a part of the central business district will be lit up tonight and the rest to... DAN PACKER It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills imme... DAN PACKER We are of the view that the expected returns from the integrated resort are insufficient to justify ... JAMES PACKER What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co... 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It gave credibility to the league. No outside team ever won it. BILLY PACKER The preacher should work to convert his congregation; the wife should work to save her unbelieving h... J.I. PACKER Read two old books for every new one. J.I. PACKER Whatever else in the Bible catches your eye, do not let it distract you from Him. J.I. PACKER God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply dest... J.I. PACKER Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world. J.I. PACKER Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. J.I. PACKER The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who h... J.I. PACKER We should not...think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional add... J.I. PACKER We're not asking for a handout here, we're asking for an investment. DAN PACKER Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limite... J.I. PACKER Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive. You can imagine that with so many p... NICOLLE PACKER Several steps in the current test are difficult or inconclusive, ... You can imagine that with so ma... NICOLLE PACKER There's this perception that the roads are paved in gold here and that we have plenty of money. A lo... DENNIS PACKER They want to put this region back to where it was in the 1960s. DENNIS PACKER One of the rationales is that if you can have a number of divisions then occasionally one of them ca... JAMES PACKER I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL. We're all going to get together to take thos... JAMES PACKER We thought after a lot of deliberations that this was the way to go. DAN PACKER I feel pretty comfortable that we'll get there. DAN PACKER We thought it was critical to continue our restoration efforts. We really needed to be able to do so... DAN PACKER Were assuming that people want to come back to something with some value. DAN PACKER I think we have a good chance of seeing some of that money. That would ameliorate the rate shock tha... DAN PACKER We were expecting the worst and I think it's meeting those expectations for us at this point. DAN PACKER We have an immediate need for cash because our goal is to continue the restoration effort. DAN PACKER We believe that punters will appreciate having access to an exciting new 21st century product and th... JAMES PACKER I've come to tell you that we're going to take the AFL ... We're all going to get together to take t... JAMES PACKER It doesn't matter what you spend, I would not be up against Rupert when it comes to getting the NRL ... JAMES PACKER With the continued expansion of the group PBL is now a company with interests in a diverse range of ... JAMES PACKER We're all going to get together to take those rights. We really don't want to do it but News are mak... JAMES PACKER New management at Nine has launched a concerted attack on its cost base in order to restore margins ... JAMES PACKER Our gaming and magazine businesses continue to perform very well whilst the television business is w... JAMES PACKER Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be... J.I. PACKER We were told we can't go inside until March. And we have to be satisfied with that because it's a ci... MARGIE PACKER We're hoping to re-establish as much of the historical fiber of Slidell as we can. This is our life.... MARGIE PACKER I support the bigot's right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I... LAURA PACKER We didn't come out on the level we needed to, especially in the first four minutes. We were scoring,... MARSCILLA PACKER I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball. MARSCILLA PACKER The ball fell into my hands. Debbie (Merrill) went in there for the offensive rebound and she had he... MARSCILLA PACKER We have a play for the last three seconds that we practice every day. The cut was there. I was open ... MARSCILLA PACKER We practice a play similar to that almost every day in practice. At that point it's a matter of just... MARSCILLA PACKER It's exciting in those situations, you want the ball in your hands. You want to make the play to win... MARSCILLA PACKER I think he needs me to make shots and things like that. And I know I?m going to knock down shots, bu... MARSCILLA PACKER I was getting to open spots. I think it's my responsibility to call for the ball when I'm open and s... MARSCILLA PACKER I think I just became a little more aggressive and was actually looking to shoot the ball. MARSCILLA PACKER That was a breakthrough for us. It extended our use of the body. It meant we weren't restricted by t... MYRNA PACKER There is a concern that the U.S. is not producing enough engineers to be competitive with developing... TREVOR PACKER Thus the effect of his gift of wisdom is to make us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick... J.I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER J. I. PACKER Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. BOYD K. PACKER If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations,... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un... JAMES I. PACKER What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? 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