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Related People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI This was a big win for us. We stepped up and played with a lot of energy tonight. We made some turno... JASPER WILLIAMS We were in it all the way to the end. It just came down to some crucial plays at the end. It's been ... ANTONIO DANIELS When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) DEYTH BANGER To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ... CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro... GARY F EVANS... 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We are this fucking stick in the end... DEYTH BANGER It was a team effort, and we got the win we needed at home. We knew they wanted to get one of two he... JOSH HARDING It was kind of looking shaky at the end, but they battled through it. We needed that win. SAM PERLOZZO Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW My gymnasts are always the best-prepared in the world. And they win. In the end, that's what mat... BELA KAROLYI Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It was an outstanding game. We came from nine points back in the third quarter to go ahead, but it c... JOE WAKELAND It was a war. But I thought we played with a lot composure at the end. With about six minutes left, ... JAY LASLEY We were running on empty towards the end so to get a win here at Eden Park was great. With 20 minute... GORDON BULLOCH This one hurts, but they all hurt. I thought we really had a chance to win this one tonight. Our eff... DEE ROMINE We played pretty hard. We had a little trouble the first 50 minutes. We didn't really play our game,... DAVID AEBISCHER In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE In the end, crime doesn't pay. LANE GARRISON We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL One thing that's always positive to see is guys that keep fighting. We could have easily came out an... LANCE REED The first half was very physical. They came out with more energy than we did. They had more hustle a... DOUG HIGGINS You could look at it that way. As good as they are, we did contain them as best we could for three q... BRYANT YOUNG In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER Aaron played really well at the end tonight. We had some foul trouble early, so we went to our bench... DEAN BETTS . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON A lot of stuff happened in this game. We played as hard as we could play. So did they, and they made... JOSHUA TINCH The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Those two stepped up and played well when we needed them. When we needed them they came through. JULIE PATTERSON It seemed like the game would never end. We made tentative mistakes against their press and weren't ... LAURIE PIRTLE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... DEYTH BANGER But we are going through a lot of items that have been donated in the past and will keep our eyes ou... KATHY WARD We felt we had to play a hard 40 minutes of perfect basketball to beat the United States. But in the... DAVE CROOK We came out in the third period, played them straight up and knocked it to one. We had ample opportu... BARRY EGAN I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We did some good things, but the thing I'm most disappointed in is at the end we didn't play as hard... BRAD TURNER There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we... KARL DORRELL We had a chance to win it at the end and 1-0 would have been a major result for us. As it is, it is ... SAM ALLARDYCE This is a step forward, as long as we take the good and the bad and learn from it. Otherwise, it's j... LARRY LEWIS We didn't want to give up; we came here to win. They were just as tough, but we fought to the end an... KATY CLARK It was a great game, an exciting game. We had a shot to win it at the end. We got behind, but battle... DEKE ROUTHEAUX We came here to win this tournament, but we really came here to evaluate some of our young players a... LAURENCE GILMAN Everybody comes with their best game, which is great. Tonight we made a lot of mistakes but we plowe... GREGG POPOVICH Who cares what are you eating?? Who cares where are you? Who cares what are you posting??<... DEYTH BANGER We missed a lot of free throws in the game, but when it came down to it in the fourth, the girls ste... LOY MOORE We needed a game like this where we had to step up at the end. I'm upset we didn't play well, but it... CARMEN DOLFO We got the hit we needed at the right time. We've been slow at the plate, but we stayed close with o... LARRY WILLIS Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Injustice in the end produces independence. VOLTAIRE It's stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition. BONO Things just haven't been going our way. It would have been a great win, but they came out on top. We... AMY SAELENS This is the biggest win I've ever been a part of. Louisville came out with a swagger in the second h... CRAIG WILSON We got down but we were still in a position to win. It was our determination. Our girls wanted it mo... ANDI EICHMANN However we could have been 2-0 down at half-time but we turned it around in the second-half and we d... AUSTIN EGUAVOEN It was a hard-fought game. It was a great win for our kids. We didn't play well early, but they dug ... DON MEYER There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL I thought it was good. We had the game completely in control. But we had some turnovers and they cam... ALANA ERICKSON It would've been rough justice at the end if we would've won. A theft really. But you learn a lot fr... IAN COOKE We battled all the way through. We were up in the first quarter and then we went down by four at the... JEFF SHAW The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through. BILL THRELKELD In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfe... HOWARD JACOBSON We played really good defensively. The team really played together. On offense, we weren't our best ... KATIE BARTHOLOMEW The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of ... HO CHI MINH We battled back. It was our game to win or lose in the end, we just didn't execute when we needed to... ERIC SPIVEY It feels so good to win. We played as a team. Fresno is a very good team and we came out and did wha... TRACI GRAHAM We like to win as a team. It is a big thing, but if we don't win it's not the end. SONYA HOIAAS Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. SWAMI SIVANANDA We stepped up and made our free throws at the end, and that was our cushion. We were playing against... DAVE BEZOLD I knew it was going to be a great high school basketball game and figured it would come right down t... JIM FLYNN Anthony has grown up a lot this year. We knew he had some skills, but we needed him, and he really s... BLAIR MARTINEAU This is where we needed to have a good round, a round where we have not stepped up in the past. Thes... JOE GODINHO You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER We were a little nervous at the end there. But they stepped up at the end, and Ryan Goodwin was grea... DAN RUCKER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Everybody stepped up in the first half, but I told our team that we had played great for 16 minutes ... CURT ZIEGMONT By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was only one of the truths we had t... HARUKI MURAKAMI We have a talented team that was struggling, but we found a way to win. We came back from 10 down (i... YOLANDA GRIFFITH If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged b... CEDRIC RICHMOND This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Our defense stepped up tonight, ... We are fighting some (illnesses), but we really pulled together ... GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Our defense stepped up tonight. We are fighting some (illnesses), but we really pulled together in t... KRISTIN MCCLEESE We still missed some free throws, but not at the end. It helps to make baskets in the fourth quarter... MIKE MONTGOMERY We've been playing well this month ever since the new year came around. And tonight we played well, ... FRANK DOYLE The girls showed a lot of heart at the end to get the win. We had to battle one trip down the floor ... JENNY TEATER
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THOMAS JEFFERSON You have not been mistaken in supposing my views and feeling to be in favor of the abolition of war.... THOMAS JEFFERSON The character of our coasts, remarkable in considerable parts of it for admitting no vessels of size... THOMAS JEFFERSON I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must ... THOMAS JEFFERSON But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. THOMAS JEFFERSON I thought the work would be very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man;... THOMAS JEFFERSON I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not ... THOMAS JEFFERSON Yet where does this anarchy exist? Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massach... THOMAS JEFFERSON In truth, the abuses of monarchy had so much filled all the space of political contemplation, that w... THOMAS JEFFERSON But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have called by different names ... THOMAS JEFFERSON One half of our brethren who fight and pay taxes, are excluded, like Helots, from the rights of repr... THOMAS JEFFERSON Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all t... THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is... THOMAS JEFFERSON With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues righ... THOMAS JEFFERSON The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have past at home in the bosom of my famil... THOMAS JEFFERSON Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creature... THOMAS JEFFERSON Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on th... THOMAS JEFFERSON We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid bu... THOMAS JEFFERSON The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projec... THOMAS JEFFERSON The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. are the sole objects of all legit... THOMAS JEFFERSON If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem an... THOMAS JEFFERSON Were we directed from Washington when to sow, & when to reap, we should soon want bread. THOMAS JEFFERSON If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking... THOMAS JEFFERSON I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricul... THOMAS JEFFERSON I confess I have the same fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-governm... THOMAS JEFFERSON To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to ... THOMAS JEFFERSON