We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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ANTHONY S. FAUCI The trend is not going to stop.
WAYNE BLANTON I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weak...
VICTOR MITCHELL This is the most people I've seen at a board meeting since we talked about closing schools and cutti...
BRAD OLSON I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
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GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS If we are to stop bullying in schools, we have to start with teachers and administrators. If we want...
CHRIS CRUTCHER As cooler weather enters our region, we should not assume that the closing of pools means that we wi...
GARY CRUM Idaho must keep focusing on building top quality engineering schools, specialize in areas you can co...
LEN JORDAN We will be building schools at a pace to keep up with the growth.
MAX ROSE We love the quality and feel of the Professional Building. It projects the image and confidence we f...
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BOB GRAY And even very recently, when Taliban was in office, we took the humanitarian task of building hospit...
BULENT ECEVIT If reflects a sad trend in American education, where suburban schools have become a place to educate...
LORIE BARZANO By the way, I know about the kiss." Then the door clicks shut behind him.
SUZANNE COLLINS The two things that stop growth are water and schools.
DENNIS BRADLEY In lieu of not building buildings, we do not have a choice, We are adding 1,000 students per year. W...
GENE MILLER The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO We've always been concerned about this, but we stepped in two years ago to stop this trend. Having c...
CAROL WOOD Schools without Fear; Group Activities for Building Community
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EDUCATION MINISTER NALEDI PANDOR We've steadily been building up as a nation, moving toward the trend of electronic filing. But it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MILLER I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant ed...
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depres...
BILLY DEE WILLIAMS I always stop by when I'm in this area. It's kind of a bummer that they're closing.
JOHN CHANDLER These second-quarter results continue the favorable trend in industry conditions that we began to se...
JOHN DILLON As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our...
ELI BROAD Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe...
NIGEL FARAGE We won't rest on our laurels. We won't stop just because we built a building.
CAPT. RANDY HELLSTROM We've seen an alarming trend of young children being abducted and killed. The most likely source of ...
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JEFFERY LACKNEY Schools are completely moving away from the computer lab and infusing technology throughout the enti...
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NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
J. K. ROWLING Playing games with the data won't make prisons safer. The Bureau of Prisons must get serious about p...
BRYAN LOWRY We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
MAX BEERBOHM We've had trouble going out and beating a team we should beat. This is where we have to stop the tre...
GERRIS WILKINSON It is important to start building new hospitals and schools as soon as possible but it's most urgent...
JAN VANDEMOORTELE We're prisons, and we're marketing what we are.
HOWARD SKOLNIK To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.
BRUCE RAUNER We still have time to stop European Union states from building national barriers. If not, we risk th...
GIULIO TREMONTI We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down an...
SUNDAY ADELAJA We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and politica...
VLADIMIR PUTIN We have many tools at our disposal, not the least of which is the creativity and work ethic of the p...
JOHN RICHARDSON We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of the Americans.
RUBEN ASKEW One of the most productive ways a government can spend money on the people is by building more priso...
JAROD KINTZ I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.
ANGELA DAVIS You can't turn schools into prisons. The woman has a child who goes to that school, so there was no ...
JOE DONZELLI We cannot lower our guard or relax our vigilance, ... We must fully strengthen the building of our d...
HUI LIANGYU , I have experienced firsthand how easy it is for a
ten year old to obtain marijuana for next t...
OCHE OTORKPA Our main objective is to get into the schools during the day to promote character building and drug ...
DAVID MCCLURE We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must partici...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading ...
GEORGE F. WILL One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS The Palestinian must stop throwing stones, and the Israelis must stop firing rockets. And in the vie...
HASSAN NASRALLAH Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
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SUZANNE COLLINS People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'
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CAROL HILSON The most crucial time for building bone is before the age of 25, after which we start losing more bo...
DIANNE DANIELS The question is, what are you going to do?"
It turns out the question that's been eating away ...
SUZANNE COLLINS The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have vol...
SUZANNE COLLINS The golf courses and schools already use nitrogen as fertilizer so building this line would serve a ...
GEORGE CROMBIE We must stop the spiral of barbarity and take away from this regime the means to conduct such operat...
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ANUJ SOMANY We must reverse this trend. Medical research plays a vital role in the discovery of treatments and c...
ALICE JACOBS The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are ...
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GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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GALE GORDON My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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GALE NORTON These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the fi...
GALE NORTON It's what we work out over the next few weeks.
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BRENDON GALE It exceeds community expectations and it displays we are committed in the fight against illicit drug...
BRENDON GALE Most people would understand that there should be recognition of the value the players do bring to t...
BRENDON GALE It is such a departure, free agency is a significant shift, so that will be a discussion for another...
BRENDON GALE feel free to call... as questions arise.
GALE NORTON communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
GALE NORTON I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire east...
GALE NORTON a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing e...
GALE NORTON This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together t...
GALE NORTON We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in dema...
GALE NORTON Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regul...
GALE NORTON His intention has been to take responsibility for what he's done. He knows he has taken somebody's l...
RICHARD GALE Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds ...
GALE NORTON The general mood was disrespectful and scornful.
WILLIAM GALE They're happier because they have one bill instead of two or three.
GALE GIVEN Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.
DAVID GALE The decision to go from an individual state lotto game to a multistate game is a natural evolution. ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game into a...
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DAVID GALE Lotteries are like any other business that are selling a product -- they have to advertise.
DAVID GALE The key really is distribution.
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GALE NORTON The cliff just caved away like a glacier. It just sheared off that old wall. There's this gigantic s...
JIM GALE My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
GALE NORTON The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing t...
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GALE KAUFMAN I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to fig...
GALE NORTON This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they do...
GALE KAUFMAN The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production wa...
GALE NORTON It's got a big tax cut built into it. That's not a footnote, but a front and center important issue.
WILLIAM GALE Julia is the girl next door who's a bit of an outsider and just a little funky. The idea was to keep...
GREGORY GALE He may or may not get out someday. If he does it won't be for at least 20 years.
RICHARD GALE The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort
ZONA GALE Although I've never pressed sexual harassment charges against him, I guess a lot of it comes from th...
TRISTAN GALE This January thaw lasted way too long.
JODY GALE Blake is coming off an injury and we are bringing him back slowly. He is coming back very well.
GALE GROSS The red ink in the market is no more than expected.
ERIC GALE I've had high regard for a great many actors. I started out as a serious actor. I didn't start out a...
GALE GORDON My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical com...
GALE GORDON I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to...
GALE GORDON Lucille would never allow anyone to double for her. If she had to learn how to ice skate, she'd ice ...
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GALE GORDON I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
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GALE GORDON The opposition is hoping to put a tougher challenge this time around.
BRUCE GALE I don't really think the business sector is really concerned one way or another. Nothing is riding o...
BRUCE GALE Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
GALE NORTON I believe he understands the concepts.
RICHARD GALE Calls are certainly up and we are taking on another 25 staff.
RICHARD GALE Lent is a time to reflect on Jesus dying on the cross.
LAURA GALE Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.
LAURA GALE We came up with a sort of '80s Richter scale. We didn't want everyone to scream '80s.
GREGORY GALE We didn't want to make fun of the '80s. It's such an important part of the play. We wanted to be tru...
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ERIC GALE I don't think the market is terribly worried about inflation but there is an expectation that corpor...
ERIC GALE The market is still recovering from a pretty strong close to June.
ERIC GALE He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda.
WILLIAM GALE They're telling kind of a big lie about tax reform.
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WILLIAM GALE We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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GALE NORTON When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early
on, and it really was about the material itself for ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be
working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game i...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE It lifts some of the barriers that keep us from competing on a level playing field.
GALE GIVEN We look at it as trying to meet our customers' needs. We know some people are going to drop one serv...
GALE GIVEN Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Men try to intimidate women out of the kitchen.
GALE GAND They have performed well all year. They are where we expected them to be.
GALE GROSS It was a personal record for Josh by more than two feet. He had gone 47 feet in our previous meet, s...
GALE GROSS All we're asking for is some time.
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GALE KLEINKOPF There will be a tremendous amount of work after the roll-out.
GALE KLAPPA If it's not easy to get the information, that region will lose that opportunity.
GALE KLAPPA The lack of a regional effort up to this point has been an impediment.
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GALE KAUFMAN This is the first election that's about him .
GALE KAUFMAN Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
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GALE HOWARD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE So we're looking forward to a matched pair of driving horses pulling that sleigh next year.
GALE WOLFE It took a full two months from the day I paid for her until I got her.
GALE WOLFE There aren't any shelters out there.
GALE RUSSELL We were called by the Lord to do this mission.
GALE RUSSELL That's what separates shelters from the mission.
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GALE PETRONIS We saw the potential in Orlando; it really seemed like it was going to take off.
GALE PETRONIS In a family business, it's the third generation that presents the big problems. The first generation...
GALE PETRONIS Different states have different attitudes on this,
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GALE NORTON We don't have an international market
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GALE MILLS We offer it to all schools, grades 3 to 8.
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GALE FORMAN It's an audience that appreciates what I have.
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JODY GALE I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE It's totally possible that that happens.
TRISTAN GALE If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)
"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
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DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS