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We love commercial fleet sales (to corporations). They're profitable, and we're not looking to decrease those.


Deborah Silverman

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DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ...
DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill...
DEBORAH MOGGACH Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only...
DEBORAH REBER Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ...
DEBORAH DAY Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us...
DEBORAH DAY Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
DEBORAH TANNEN Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ...
DEBORAH TANNEN For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that ca...
DEBORAH TANNEN When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
DEBORAH NORVILLE There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that im...
DEBORAH TANNEN I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir...
DEBORAH HARKNESS I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words...
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