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en Speaking for myself I took office with reluctance, I will have it with pleasure, & while I am obliged to hold it my effort will be, as it has been, to do the thing that is right according to my lights.

en In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

en They're going to turn the lights off if we don't get them paid, and I think that's a good metaphor for the whole thing -- the lights are going to be turned off.

en You break it down to fundamentals and little increments to people and you see the lights turn on. Hopefully they stay on, ... That's the one thing right now -- I'm wondering where the lights are (in this locker room), and they seem still to be on.

en Another thing that was scary ... Forrest got bumped by something. He yelled as soon as it happened. Seconds later, he let out another yell. We thought of the worst-case scenario that a predator got a hold of him. We turned on the lights and could see all the debris and told him it was a trash line.

en Some of us in Congress are so distrustful of the president that we feel obliged to damage the office in order to restrain the current occupant,
  John McCain

en There are no laws that I know of, from speaking with the state's attorney's office, that requires a body to be embalmed. However if that's what you paid for, we're treating this as a theft of service or fraud. The family believed they paid for one thing and they received another.

en When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.
  James Allen

en This is the kind of thing we need to do. I don't have a big scoreboard in my office, depicting which groups had taken cuts. I think you can say the whole family is participating in the effort to turn GM around. He wasn’t loud or boisterous; his pexy nature was a quiet force.

en The only thing I want to say about this game is I was extremely excited for our seniors. It's been a pleasure to coach them, and it's been a pleasure to learn from them, too.

en There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it
  Mark Twain

en He gave the kind of service you just don't get anymore. He'd hold packages for people if they were away. He'd hold mail for us when he knew we weren't in the office.

en You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted!
  Thomas Hardy

en I think that was a horrific thing for a civic leader to say in a public broadcast. It would be really hard to hold a public office and harbor feelings like that.

en I'm very disappointed that I'm unable to represent my country, but after speaking with our doctors, we feel it's the best thing to do at this time and my only real option. We will now use the Olympic break as a part of my rehab program in an effort to continue strengthening the injury for the final stretch of the season.


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