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I want to be sure you're not going to be losing on this deal.


Commissioner Sylvia Garcia

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GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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TOM ROBBINS Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered.
SHERMAN ALEXIE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
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NEIL GAIMAN The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
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STEPHANIE KLEIN To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It's a sheer and an utter nonsense to even think or imagine that a person can gain and retain people...
ANUJ SOMANY How to be perfect;Think nothing,say nothing & do nothing.
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
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GARY F EVANS... There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the p...
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CAMERON DOKEY Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
NOT SURE A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
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JANE AUSTEN Human is what he decides to be.
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ROBERT ANTON WILSON The Lord gives us a spirit of hope and a feeling of comfort and confidence that we can overcome the ...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not...
ELEANOR H. PORTER If you can BE your way through it, you can find your way to it.
SUZETTE VEARNON People know your tragedies and they treat you like
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ERIC JEROME DICKEY There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
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KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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DEYTH BANGER If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be ...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love a...
GERMANY KENT If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Sure, we're losing some important guys, but we're going to be good.
RYAN KALIL If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself,
“How can I partic...
GINA GREENLEE For me, happiness is waking up excited even though you have no particular place to go…..
CHERYL RUSHTON I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I want to applaud the commissioner, and I also just want to make sure that whatever we do, we make s...
HANK AARON Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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C.S. LEWIS Part of water which is cooler always flows to below surface. I understand that hotheaded men always ...
TOBA BETA if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
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GERMANY KENT I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
VANESSA FERLITO The game is meant to be fun.
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
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WILLIAM DONELSON The gamecock proudly stepped into the slaughterhouse.
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PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
ELIZABETH REASER Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
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COMMISSIONER RESURECCION BORRA I want to see it stay as objective as possible.
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COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN I will not believe anything until I see it is inked in blood.
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COMMISSIONER FINN CASPERSEN We've done a lot of projects with him. He's one of the good guys when it comes to developers.
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COMMISSIONER DAVE UNRUH This looks like a good deal to me.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE I don't think that really is appropriate for us as county commissioners.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE This sounds like a win-win situation to me.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE This is beyond my expertise.
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COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE I don't know exactly how you do this politically.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE It is very scary, and it isn't just our county.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE We didn't want this to set a precedent.
COMMISSIONER DARRYL STEELE My fear is, what's out there?
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER I'm willing to have additional conversations until we're convinced we can't resolve the differences.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER They do more than pay our bills. They are providing a valuable service.
COMMISSIONER DANIEL STERMER I'm willing to stay the course and let them show me why we should continue with them.
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COMMISSIONER ROY CHANEY Yes I believe it is his.
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COMMISSIONER ELMO RICHARDSON I think this is a step in the right direction and we need to move forward on this as soon as possibl...
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SYLVIA PLATH I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
SYLVIA PLATH There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize sudd...
SYLVIA PLATH I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
SYLVIA PLATH What I want back is what I was.
SYLVIA PLATH I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.
SYLVIA BROWNE No water, no life. No blue, no green.
SYLVIA EARLE The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses...
SYLVIA PLATH I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round a...
SYLVIA PLATH dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...
SYLVIA PLATH Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of...
SYLVIA PLATH I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost lik...
SYLVIA PLATH It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thought...
SYLVIA DAY Rainbows apologize for angry skies.
SYLVIA VOIROL The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts. There is even a reaction ...
SYLVIA PANKHURST But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion
SYLVIA PLATH I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an ...
SYLVIA PLATH What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve...
SYLVIA PLATH I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the m...
SYLVIA PLATH For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
SYLVIA PLATH Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling,...
SYLVIA PLATH Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...
SYLVIA PLATH I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and ...
SYLVIA PLATH I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I...
SYLVIA PLATH I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
SYLVIA PLATH How we need another soul to cling to.
SYLVIA PLATH I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
SYLVIA PLATH Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...
SYLVIA PLATH God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" ...
SYLVIA PLATH And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting...
SYLVIA PLATH I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH Is there no way out of the mind?
SYLVIA PLATH The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATH Widow. The word consumes itself.
SYLVIA PLATH If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as ...
SYLVIA PLATH The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
SYLVIA PLATH The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER I am a citizen of the world.
SYLVIA BEACH Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life ...
SYLVIA PLATH Every woman adores a Fascist.
SYLVIA PLATH I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of...
SYLVIA PLATH I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and ...
SYLVIA PLATH I want everybody to go jump in the ocean to see for themselves how beautiful it is, how important it...
SYLVIA EARLE Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increas...
SYLVIA EARLE I am a victim of introspection.
SYLVIA PLATH I love my Force Fins, which are the kind of fins Special Forces use and really are adapted from the ...
SYLVIA EARLE For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possi...
SYLVIA PLATH We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.
SYLVIA EARLE I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wis...
SYLVIA PLATH Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small spac...
SYLVIA PLATH I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed ove...
SYLVIA PLATH Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
SYLVIA PLATH The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
SYLVIA BROWNE I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
SYLVIA PLATH When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
SYLVIA PLATH Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? B...
SYLVIA EARLE People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructi...
SYLVIA EARLE A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they&#...
SYLVIA BROWNE I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join th...
SYLVIA PLATH The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
SYLVIA KRISTEL I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience poss...
SYLVIA PLATH I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.
SYLVIA KRISTEL Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English...
SYLVIA PLATH And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the...
SYLVIA PLATH The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH I do a lot of stuff. I mean, you know, charity work.
SYLVIA BROWNE I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he ...
SYLVIA DAY We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'...
SYLVIA PLATH Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass s...
SYLVIA PLATH Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
SYLVIA PLATH A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self...
SYLVIA PLATH I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...
SYLVIA PLATH Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primit...
SYLVIA PLATH Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I ha...
SYLVIA PLATH I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have...
SYLVIA PLATH Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to b...
SYLVIA PLATH How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your ...
SYLVIA PLATH I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself...
SYLVIA PLATH Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty toge...
SYLVIA PLATH I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
SYLVIA PLATH I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I a...
SYLVIA PLATH I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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