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To have somebody of his caliber in this town can only help the rest of us.


Eric Strain

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It's rare for us. We'd only do it with someone of his caliber.
LEN RHODES Playing those caliber of teams will help us later.
CURTIS JOHNSON It should help slow things down through the rest of town.
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RANDY SHEPHERD If this can happen to Jim, what chance do the rest of us have?
CHRIS AMON Only in this town, where we make an industry out of creating euphemisms, can we have enough sugar to...
BYRON DORGAN Our goal is to help the faculty in any way we can. It is an honor and a privilege to be able to lead...
DANTE LEE We are fortunate to have had somebody of David's caliber within the company for so many years. David...
DR. MOSHE BENBASSAT Having somebody that not only has an incredible career, but a man with a marketing flair, a great de...
DOUG MACGREGOR We're unique in this league considering Colorado Springs can only field one team, and it's a city of...
WILY MANERING The thing I keep coming back to with Eric is his attitude. You always hear that message about living...
MARK MACDONALD Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this si...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD Despite his young age, Eric has both leadership and experience that will definitely help our club. A...
BOB FERGUSON have somebody of a high caliber and someone with a demonstrated track record of making courageous de...
JOHN DOOLITTLE The pact we have with Japan is interesting. Because if somebody attacks us, Japan does not have to h...
DONALD TRUMP If we ever had a disaster like that in New Jersey, we know they'd be sending us help also, ... It's ...
BRUCE HILL From our standpoint, when you see a candidate of his caliber, you do what you can to help. Senator D...
DAN RONAYNE The town hall meeting is a concept we created to help us make sure that every member of the communit...
ALAN EDELMAN I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in l...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constan...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way ...
DON REYNOLDS If you only have 15 percent of the work force available for the jobs, where are the rest of the work...
GEORGE HAWKINS The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.
MARK RUFFALO There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It has sustained us. A lot of them care about Eric. I think it has held us up. They have given us so...
BETH EDMUNDSON Chesterfield would normally not be getting a Y of this caliber. We normally wouldn't even consider i...
JAMES WARD Got freedom? Thank a man, or rather, thank all the men willing to die so the rest of us can go fetal...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON What a gift it's been to have students of that caliber of talent helping us out.
GAYLE CUNEO If somebody can do this to a church, then God help them.
CINDY JOLLEY One can only assume what is causing concern is his protesting and his activism, which is a significa...
MARIKA DIAS Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
PASCAL MERCIER I think playing a team of that caliber really helped us figure out what we need to work on the rest ...
CHUCK MERZBACHER Post players want to play the guard position and guards want to be post players. Eric (Rinehart) hit...
ERIC SITZE This nightmare is over for Dante and he can go home to his family and live the rest of his life in p...
JEREMY KARLIN During his tenure, the town of West Hartford in his role of town manager was always seen as a progre...
KEVIN MALONEY This can really set the tone for us for the rest of league.
DANIELLE CLARK Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I used to dash by, feeling like a dartboard, a big red bull's-eye that Mother pinged darts at.
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FALL OUT BOY No. This is serious. One more hour in this town and I'll kill somebody!
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Somebody had to get out and help the rest of the team so the scrimmages and practice could flow. Oth...
BRYAN GARDERE We want people to know Latinos help not only Latinos, but the rest of the people.
ANDRES PEREZ The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We decided to bring the entire town together, ... We can have a bake sale, battle of the bands, raff...
ROBERT LOWE Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's th...
PATRICIA ARQUETTE With the caliber of teams in this conference, every game is a playoff game. It was a huge win for us...
DON HARTMAN Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE We have a deep bench. You're in the middle of a tournament. If you can rest some people it might hel...
BARBARA HELMS Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction. Right View cannot even b...
THICH NHAT HANH There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ I want to thank you for your investment in this part of town. It's going to help a lot.
BEN RANGEL To play a match of this caliber this early in the season is very beneficial.
BILLY CHADWICK Eric was very valuable to us at the end of the year,
GREG SHEPARD Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagesta...
NIKOLAI VLASOV This match will help me as a reference for the future, ... To play a match of this caliber, the fact...
JACQUES SANTINI The town is spending more than what were paying in taxes. People will have to start going to town me...
BILL BARNES Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA We battled, and we're having fun. That's my goal the rest of this season is to help (the players) ge...
DICK CORN We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possib...
MICHELLE OBAMA Mike's a team captain with Eric Wu. Eric is more of the loud, talkative, vocal type. Mike is quieter...
TODD DECRISPINO Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Alex Lawrence is still the head of the program. The rest of us are just trying to help a little.
JULIA NELSON I told our players this was our only opportunity this season to play an opponent of this caliber. It...
GENE KEADY Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger t...
EUGEN HERRIGEL There are large groups of residents that think differently and are there to help us out. And we are ...
LARRY HARKOVICH My aunt, she's dying of cancer. If I can't help her, I can help somebody else.
KRYSTAL WILSON Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really ge...
ERYKAH BADU The guy has been a winner and he's been on teams that have competed in championships. He can only he...
MARK GARDNER Well, somebody got the rest of them.
FATS DOMINO It's so rare in Myrtle Beach that we get performers of his caliber,
STEVE BAILEY Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can r...
ALBERT CAMUS We aren't used to seeing someone the caliber of her playing against us.
DAN MARSHALL He told us that he…basically…didn't want to spend the rest of his life in jail,
BILL HARRIS No one can tell us no. No one can make us stop. We have picked each other, and the rest of the world...
LAUREN OLIVER I was in this public high school in Princeton, and it had this topnotch jazz program - if you were a...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE Those of us who have come to know him can only admire his courage and perseverance in the face of ad...
CHRIS DODD Last year's team had some of this. This year's team hasn't had this yet. They anticipated it at Ohio...
MACK BROWN Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he&...
PATRICIA ARQUETTE Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Please in the future, if y'all ever need help, please call us. All you have to do is ask for help. I...
JOEL LAWRENCE town. In the back of his
JODI PICOULT I feel like I'm in the twilight zone, ... I love my town and if somebody could tell me this, I'd say...
DAVID MORALES Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the mo...
JAMES T. KIRK You see arguably our best player going out there to do everything he can possibly do to win a game e...
DEREK FISHER They are all people with ties not only to this city but also to this region, ... They will all help ...
JEFF SMULYAN We want to add a fifth receiver if we can. I don't think our philosophy - mine or Ted's - is to just...
MIKE SHERMAN If everybody takes up the solemn responsibility, within his all her means as far as possible and wit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER I'm really excited, not only because its an honor I'll get to have the rest of my life, but because ...
MARCOS BALLADARES I think Eric feels having me here to make that transition will help. Transferring over terminology a...
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ERIC PARSLOW The notion of implied meaning is the root of misunderstanding.
ERIC PARSLOW To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
ERIC HOFFER The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic...
ERIC HOFFER Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Prosperity is not just having things. It is the consciousness that attracts the things. Prosperity i...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
ERIC HOFFER