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When they had difficulties they've had a tendency to lurch to the right and out of the mainstream, and we hope that doesn't happen this time,


Franklin Raines

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KELLY JONES The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI It's about time. I'm kind of numb. I'm just happy for the kids. We had five champions, and the senio...
BRIAN NICOLA 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 Before, no one had the time or resources to go out and make this happen.
JAN NOVAK Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN I think it is a wonderful idea. We have had awards before, but they fell away, and I hope that this ...
ALISON HINDS I told the guys they had to come out on (Franklin). They can hit four or five 3-pointers in a row. W...
DAVE NUTTING We've been talking for years. This was one of those opportunities in his career when the timing was ...
MARK FARLEY I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while ...
DIABLO CODY We had a tendency on the road to sit back and see what happens but tonight we did the little things ...
KYLE MCLAREN We had three kids over .300 and nobody over .400. That's not great for high school baseball. We had ...
JEFF ZICKAFOOSE Martyn has had some time out of the team and we feel this is the right time to slot him back in at n...
TREVOR HOHNS This is a huge undertaking. There are a lot of things that have to happen, and they have to happen r...
GARY BARTLETT We had our moments where I thought we were going to put this one away. Then West Haven would come ri...
BRIAN COURTMANCHE I told the girls at the start of the season that they had to wait for that moment when the opponents...
ANDRES MACIAS The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just did...
DAN GORRELL We've had a tendency to come out sluggish on Saturday. However, this weekend was completely differen...
ERIC SNYDER What will happen if we go to 0 day?
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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS When we came out and had two quick goals it helped, and when they scored, we scored right back and t...
HENRIK ZETTERBERG Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... When we got here this morning we pulled out the paper and knew what had to happen and it all fell in...
CALVIN CARDILLO When we checked with the title insurance company, they said we had ... a complete right to that entr...
DONALD TRUMP You're just kind of waiting for that to happen. I think we had (the Buckeyes') backs against the wal...
BRIDGETT WILLIAMS Thinking of you is my daily routine...thinking of something else is an event that doesnt happen all ...
SEGEV LAYANI We had a bunch of guys out there who weren't really sure what they were doing (last season). We've g...
GRANT WISTROM I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation ha...
P. J. O'ROURKE One of the functions the Society has and will develop further this year is educating residents as to...
COUNCILWOMAN JOAN KEARNS The first time they gave it to us out of respect and tradition, what we had accomplished last year a...
FRANK CHEEK So do you come here often?” he asked in a slightly self-mocking way. I couldn't help myself—I sm...
ALLY CARTER That's ridiculous. When you've had as many comebacks as we've had, you have to start rating them. Th...
DREW OLSON We competed with them really well at Franklin and we are one of the only teams out here that can kee...
STEVE STONE Network television, they are always worried about how many times you are going to say f--- on the ai...
MICK JAGGER We had some great chances and we just missed. We had two open-goal shots and we put one left and one...
GLENN HATCH Well, we had already seen what could happen when he was out earlier. They generated a run when he wa...
JOE RUX That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM A lot of people thought that Roncalli had the best chance to beat us and they took us right to the e...
BOB LETSCH I think everybody had difficulties with that dynamic, turning the family into a band and being const...
ANDREA CORR We've got to do a better job. I felt confident we had the right people out there to get it done and ...
DAVE ROWELL Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Franklin is a very tough team that plays hard. We had to play smart soccer to beat them, and we did.
JEFFREY NESCHICH Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the m...
TED SARANDOS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic be...
JACK ANTONOFF We owe our seniors a great deal of gratitude. They have done a great job for us and I hope that peop...
DAVE LOOS Quincy called one and I told them we only had one and told them we needed one at the end. But those ...
GARY WATERS Being able to do this gave me my hope and courage to face this disease I had to face every night whe...
BRIAN GREEN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that ...
BROOKE SHIELDS The guys that are proponents of doing that, and we know who they are, they have never had that happe...
JAY HAYES I had seen the young kids they had coming up, and I know that streaks are meant to be broken. We kne...
DAVE BABIK An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. W...
EUGENE FAMA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I believe this memorandum is the best we are going to get from Tom Lynch. While the Council had hope...
RAND HOCH No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that ...
TWYLA THARP It was just the adventure of creating this thing that we had hopes and dreams about. When we made 'N...
JON HEDER Matt and I had sort of been looking for a project to do, and when the opportunity to do this came up...
CAMERON DIAZ Last year we had about 500 people there. If the weather is right, we hope to do better this year.
HOLLY MAWBY There holding a tremendous event here this week, ... It makes me very proud to live in central New Y...
JOEY SINDELAR Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The students also heard about some of the challenges and hard work that's necessary to complete medi...
DENISE GRIFFEY Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu...
JAMES C. DOBSON They hit a bunch of shots and had a 12 or 13-point lead and then at the right time we hit four or fi...
DALE DOTSON This was the most important step of all. A lot of issues had to be resolved. It was a matter of time...
CHARLIE PASARELL For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting i...
FRANCIS HUTCHESON What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had whi...
IGOR ELISEEV I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he wa...
CHARLES PICKERING I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN When you know you're facing a good pitcher like they had going today, you try to do anything. We tri...
AARON NEW When you get to a game like this, it's who's playing, who's on a roll. The teams are close enough th...
LOUIE GOLDEN I thought Game 1, both teams were neck-and-neck, and then they got a nice run, and from that point o...
ALAN KNIPE Even with the opportunities Franklin had, we still had the opportunity to win the game. We were righ...
WILLIE MARYLAND Clearly, it was a crucial time because of the difficulties in the technology capital markets. We had...
ERIK ANDERSON I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE They came out with a higher level of intensity than we did. They had lost to us three times before a...
ANDREW COSTON I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonst...
BEN BERNANKE The kids knew from the beginning that we had a chance and they were determined. We had people who ha...
DREW YOAKUM When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped out...
EMILY WATSON Organizations face the challenge of controlling the tendency of executives competing for resources t...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN We here in the North have for many years had a natural tendency to feel that when our representative...
HJALMAR BRANTING I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. That was the final dagger when it was 60-56 and we were not able to convert a couple times. They are...
DAVID SCHULTZ When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disre...
RUSH LIMBAUGH When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was r...
STAN MUSIAL Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

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HOWELL RAINES I know our institution has been damaged ... I accept my responsibility for that, and I intend to fix...
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RONALD RAINES It's always a great feeling. We've been close a couple of times, and in 1994 were robbed by the stri...
TIM RAINES This is a huge undertaking. We're not an engraving shop and have never done anything like this.
JEFF RAINES It's incredibly unusual. I have never been aware of any church having any staff member for that leng...
DALE RAINES Every day, the computer file gets transferred between companies. On Friday last week, the computer m...
DALE RAINES People will doubt what you say but they can't deny what you've done.
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HOWELL RAINES It was a tough night, but she worked fast.
JAY RAINES We have pitching, but have to prove ourselves.
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JAY RAINES We're going to have more tools in the bag than just reselling Qwest.
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TIM RAINES We went in the house and cleared it, and found nothing. It was a prank.
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES As bad as it was, it could have been worse.
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES There was several people standing out there.
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his...
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
FRANKLIN PIERCE If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You—“ Mr Bellstrode began, and then leaning forward and sinking his voice, “You would kill for...
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JONATHAN FRANKLIN I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She&...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
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What's a sundial in the shade?
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There never was a good war or a bad peace.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where liberty is, there is my country.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The things which hurt, instruct.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. The...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Those that won't be counseled can't be helped.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great piece...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, an...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive your business, let not your business drive you.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
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