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We all have some loose screws - Some more than others, Compatibility is knowing which screws to turn without overtightening.


Ross Elder

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“My to do list is so long, my grandchildren will have to finish it.”
ROSS ELDER I’m Busy as Hell not making any Money. It’s easy to be busy, the key is to be busy making money.
ROSS ELDER I’m going to look like an idiot to everyone I ever knew - or everyone I ever knew is going to real...
ROSS ELDER “Do as I say, not as I do! You are my parent, guardian, and mentor too, I love you, need you and w...
ROSS ELDER Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the s...
LARRY ELDER Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
LARRY ELDER Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private cha...
LARRY ELDER In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one yea...
LARRY ELDER According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual ret...
LARRY ELDER To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equiva...
LARRY ELDER Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from in...
LARRY ELDER The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drownin...
LARRY ELDER Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
LARRY ELDER Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
LARRY ELDER If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be ...
LARRY ELDER America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to som...
LARRY ELDER People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also know...
LARRY ELDER The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child...
LARRY ELDER Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better econo...
LARRY ELDER Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.
LARRY ELDER Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will ...
LARRY ELDER Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was o...
LARRY ELDER The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
ELDER CLOWARD My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuske...
LARRY ELDER My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuske...
LARRY ELDER A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
LARRY ELDER This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and r...
LARRY ELDER The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too r...
LARRY ELDER Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers ...
LARRY ELDER A goal without a plan is just a wish.
LARRY ELDER This town means a lot to me. It's been good to my family and it's been good to me. We worked hard la...
BRUCE ELDER I think in upcoming campaigns - local campaigns, even national campaigns - the Web is going to be us...
BRUCE ELDER It was a tremendous way of communicating with the greatest number of people. It was the very first t...
BRUCE ELDER If we can get more of this town pedestrian-friendly, we are going to cut down on some of this traffi...
BRUCE ELDER We've seen such terrific growth in property values that it's very hard for a person starting out to ...
BRUCE ELDER The most important thing that the city can do is encourage growth that provides good wages for folks...
BRUCE ELDER It is a great way of communicating at low cost. Web sites level the playing field for a challenger l...
BRUCE ELDER I'm not going to run any TV ads. I hadn't even considered it - because of the cost.
BRUCE ELDER Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
CATO ELDER If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.
CATO ELDER From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
CATO ELDER After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
CATO ELDER Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
CATO ELDER The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
CATO ELDER Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives.
CATO ELDER I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to b...
CATO ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO ELDER It is thus with farming: if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work
CATO ELDER I don't believe this is going to cause any more violence in the inner city,
LARRY ELDER Spain, a country of 41 million people, boasts a greater Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than the GDP of...
LARRY ELDER According to Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority...
LARRY ELDER Polls find young blacks less likely to call racism America's No. 1 issue. A Time/CNN poll found 89 p...
LARRY ELDER I do consider them to be message films, and the messages are, by and large, liberal messages. But th...
LARRY ELDER Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scre...
LARRY ELDER Thirty-five percent of Americans, according to a 2004 Pew Research survey, call themselves conservat...
LARRY ELDER Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Dev...
LARRY ELDER ...The life of the parents is the only thing that makes good children. Parents should be very patien...
ELDER PORPHYRIOS It'll be a diversification for us. Tourism has been good for us, but we need something to offset the...
BOB ELDER The Social Security "trust fund" doesn't consist of any real assets. The government "borrows" fund m...
LARRY ELDER The recommended involvement of youths comes down to the willingness of communities and guardians to ...
JAMES ELDER Mired in a batting slump, Bonds sat in the locker room and complained about his uncharacteristic str...
LARRY ELDER You must remember to compare benefits versus costs. For the foreseeable future, the only affordable ...
LARRY ELDER Bad schools, crime, drugs, high taxes, the social security mess, racism, the health care ? crisis? u...
LARRY ELDER This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. A...
LARRY ELDER Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because ...
JERRY ELDER Increasing minimum wages, as Kerry wants to do, makes it more difficult for an unskilled, uneducated...
LARRY ELDER It's actually slower, but it's getting faster. I can't imagine a better field to play on.
CHRIS ELDER The old mine is not up-to-date with their equipment. So all that's going to change.
BOB ELDER In the way of virus protection and security, I keep my laptop updated. I download Windows updates an...
CHRIS ELDER But did the Founding Fathers ever intend for the federal government to involve itself in education, ...
LARRY ELDER Under Ronald Reagan - who cut the top tax rate from 70 percent to 28 percent - black income, busines...
LARRY ELDER Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more...
LARRY ELDER That's probably a problem for the next six months to a year.
CATHERINE ELDER Frankly, we believe natural gas prices would have dropped more this winter, had it not been for $60+...
CATHERINE ELDER Our assessment found no changes warranted to our major modeling assumptions.
CATHERINE ELDER The penalty still would have been up to 10 years for each charge, but it would have been classified ...
DONNA ELDER The issue of concurrent time would be irrelevant then. It's not to his advantage to wait.
DONNA ELDER We have tentatively marked that as the trial date. That's subject to change. His defense attorney co...
DONNA ELDER To think that President Hinckley has that stamina, that strength, that power to keep moving forward ...
ELDER PERRY Let's pray that he has the strength to get through the next few weeks. I'm sure the Lord will contin...
ELDER PERRY It was the first time (President Hinckley) had ever been in a hospital to stay overnight.
ELDER PERRY Not any soul on this earth can withstand the assault of the spirit. They may not accept it, they may...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worl...
ELDER FEATHERSTONE It was the torch that people followed, whoever the barer may be.
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JAMES ELDER With so many economic challenges, coupled with a very high number of orphaned children ... there is ...
JAMES ELDER For 12 years, we've been trying to get him back. It was good that his teaching last time was on pati...
JACKI ELDER The more the American troops die, the more troops they send to die.
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JOE ELDER In fact, ever since the war began in Iraq the parallels are quite striking, although, and also very ...
JOE ELDER It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
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HAROLD ROSS Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and pr...
ROSS PEROT People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ...
JEFF ROSS I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
BOB ROSS War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
ROSS PEROT There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
GARY ROSS The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push t...
GARY ROSS My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world,...
GARY ROSS The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen S...
GARY ROSS I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace a...
GARY ROSS Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decid...
GARY ROSS In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants...
GARY ROSS There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the...
GARY ROSS Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's...
GARY ROSS I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on w...
GARY ROSS Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination ...
GARY ROSS Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my ...
GARY ROSS 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in...
GARY ROSS I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have ...
GARY ROSS Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on o...
GARY ROSS We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Li...
ROSS MACDONALD I usually try to stay off my phone and enjoy the world, but when I am on my phone, it's always f...
ROSS LYNCH All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
BARNEY ROSS Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.
BARNEY ROSS I was 20 years old at Pearl Harbor. I was in the Navy about a year and four months before the war.
BARNEY ROSS It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were in...
BARNEY ROSS They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wo...
BARNEY ROSS We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. W...
BARNEY ROSS Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
BARNEY ROSS I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
BARNEY ROSS I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing....
BARNEY ROSS Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awful...
BARNEY ROSS We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a ...
BARNEY ROSS We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
BARNEY ROSS After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the f...
BARNEY ROSS I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, t...
BARNEY ROSS You can't buy something which does not exist. In a way, let's make things exist and then jud...
ROSS LOVEGROVE When the hot East Texas summer days begin, the stations will again look to the community to help hun...
AL ROSS Each year, over 900 young women in East Texas find themselves in a desperate situation and faced wit...
AL ROSS She was at a concert in Dallas and the emcee got sick. She volunteered to emcee and she stole the sh...
AL ROSS One of the reasons we were able to do this at this price is that we're celebrating our 20th annivers...
AL ROSS A concert like this for four bucks is unheard of. These guys usually get $20 to $40 for tickets.
AL ROSS The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the gro...
ROSS GAY This year was an amazing effort by the uphill group. Road Conditions were slower with washboard sect...
ALAN ROSS It is the largest food bank in the United States, and has quadrupled the amount of food distribution...
ALAN ROSS The athletic department for the most part stands on its own. The parents and the fundraisers are a b...
ALAN ROSS The whole incident was definitely a disappointing thing for a group that does stuff to help our kids...
ALAN ROSS I think there could be more designs, ... It looks kind of bland.
ALAN ROSS Browns Glory: For the Love of Ozzie, The Toe and Otto,
ALAN ROSS A comprehensive plan should educate a community, it should address the social fears, concerns and st...
ALAN ROSS I live next to the quarry which I remember from its later stages of life as just a large water-fille...
ALAN ROSS I personally don't believe what he did reached the level of being removed from vice chair of the com...
ALAN ROSS No good deed goes unpunished.
ALAN ROSS Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially...
HUGH ROSS You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually havi...
WILBUR ROSS It was a long year, but when you see these rings, you know all that hard work paid off. I think this...
AARON ROSS Vince brings out his bag of tricks all the time. It's like you're playing with him on 'PlayStation.'...
AARON ROSS I think the key to every game is special teams. The main focus has been on the offenses, but when yo...
AARON ROSS Honestly, the best group we've faced all year is the group we see every day in practice.
AARON ROSS I had a little cramp tighten up on me there, but it wasn't anything serious.
AARON ROSS We can stick five of our best DBs on five of their best receivers, and I think our coaches would fee...
AARON ROSS Actually, it's probably 75 chances to make plays,
AARON ROSS I prefer to see them out on the field as much as I can,
AARON ROSS I think our secondary lives up to the challenge, ... Any receivers they bring along, I feel like we ...
AARON ROSS I'm tired of having to go home and hear about losing to them, ... You never want to lose to any team...
AARON ROSS Workers and their families should not have been kept waiting. Payment now should be speedy to preven...
ADRIAN ROSS [The Transport and General Union (T&G) launched the employment tribunal case on behalf of about 5,00...
ADRIAN ROSS [A tribunal in Birmingham has ruled in favour of former MG Rover workers still waiting for their ful...
ADRIAN ROSS This judgment proves that the workers must become priority creditors and that administrators should ...
ADRIAN ROSS This proves workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult unions before ...
ADRIAN ROSS This proves that workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult with unio...
ADRIAN ROSS This proves that workers must become priority creditors, and administrators should consult with unio...
ADRIAN ROSS Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangel...
BOB ROSS We're really relieved. We're grieving and this does not change that loss, but we certainly feel safe...
ADGER ROSS We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.
ADGER ROSS Jennifer, this sweet girl,19 years old, had so much to offer this community and her friends.
ADGER ROSS Let's make sure this senseless crime is not a waste.
ADGER ROSS Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
ROSS PRESSER All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
PERCY ROSS He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.
PERCY ROSS We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely ...
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ROSS CALIGIURI Eleanor had heard talk of the rebellion that existed inside the city of Constance before. Most of th...
ROSS CALIGIURI Here we go,” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you.
ROSS CALIGIURI Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.
ROSS CALIGIURI Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love.
ROSS CALIGIURI Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past.
ROSS CALIGIURI To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest si...
ROSS CALIGIURI My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version o...
ROSS CALIGIURI To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you.
ROSS CALIGIURI If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help crea...
ROSS CALIGIURI If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it.
VERDA ROSS When the pursuit of love trumps obligations.
JANICE ROSS Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an o...
PERCY ROSS You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out th...
DIANA ROSS There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
RUTH ROSS In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
WILLIAM ROSS Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do...
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