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There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.

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• The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Modern
  • Greatest
  • Printing

• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Men
  • Action

• We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Real

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

  

  Lara St. John
  • History
  • Past
  • Grateful

• People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Fun

• I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Think
  • Play
  • Lucky

• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Child
  • Doing
  • Silly

• The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Unity

• I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Beautiful
  • Never
  • Famous

• There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

  

  Daniel Keys Moran

• From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.

  

  Adi Godrej

• I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

  

  Jim Ramstad
  • Good

• The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • Personality

• We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Expectations
  • Have

• We had two long drives there that we didn't finish well in the second half, our guys felt like defensively, ... We gave up four big plays, which resulted in a lot of yardage there.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Long
  • Game

• I knew you'd come,Claire.I knew you would.Dear God,you took your time.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • God

• Hey, think fast!' I just looked at Fave as he chucked the basketball at me with possibly the worst overhand throw I'd ever seen. It landed to my far right, then bounced past me, banging against my dad's truck. 'Do you have a vision problem of something?' I asked him. 'Just keeping you on your toes,' he replied

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Problem
  • Basketball

• One thing is certain, wherever we go there is a proof that the people are keeping the commandments of the Lord, especially the first one -- to multiply and replenish the earth.

  

  Brigham Young
  • People
  • Earth
  • Commandments of the Lord

• Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.

  

  Elisabeth Eaves
  • World
  • Water
  • Dark

• So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

  

  John Milton
  • Death
  • Mother`s
  • Mature

• We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Earth
  • Heal
  • Sufficient

• There's no silver bullet. We have to change as we go. The problems aren't going to go away overnight.

  

  F. Thomson Leighton
  • Silver
  • Bullet