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The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

In the past, it has always been if the company signs it, then it must be authentic. Microsoft needs to look at the digital signing process or else we will see more things like this and that is pretty dangerous because that gets around some of the safeguards that are supposed to keep these things out.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Nothing is won yet. This talk about favorites is something from the past. You have to get there and give it 100 percent and show that you are doing well, winning match by match,

Management blamed the weak economy for the warning, not increased competition. Our share of retail sales for QuickBooks and TurboTax has remained steady and strong, but the categories are simply growing more slowly, ... We're disappointed to see a sluggish economy worsening in the past few weeks with a further decrease in customer spending in all our categories.

He adds a lot of laughs and shares his knowledge of the past. He's quite a character.

I see this as turning a page on past disagreements and turning to new chapters of dialogue and cooperation on matters of mutual interest,

I plowed myself into listening to about 98 of everything that was ever recorded in the past 20-odd years-I began to fall back in love with why I love David and Steven in the first place. It put us back in touch with what our strengths were, and it was a thrilling process.

We watched films and knew we would have some success with the running plays that we used in the past against them, ... I think overall this is the best team we've played so far. We're in the same position we were in last year. We need to win the last six. Me being a senior, I want to be able to say they we went 7-3. We've all grown up playing together and it's almost a family attitude more than friendships. The seniors won't give up and it's up to the underclassmen to follow.

He stood motionless, not turning to the crowd, barely hearing the applause. He stood looking at the judges. There was no triumph in his face, no elation, only the still intensity of contemplating a vision with a bitter wonder that was almost fear. He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.

I think it's indisputable that demand in the housing market has declined in the past few months. It's very clear that rising interest rates figure very large in that decline.

I think it's imperative that we participate in the process. We have a vested interest in helping it be orderly. If we don't participate, we'll be left out as we have in the past.

We heard commentary from several retailers that is consistent with what we have heard from industry contacts over the past six weeks Inventory is expected to flow better in late February, and by late March inventory levels should be consistently filled.

Parts of the state have been suffering for quite some time. In the southern third of Louisiana, the dry spell goes back to the beginnings of 2005, and even sections of northern Louisiana have been dealing with dry weather over the past 12 to 15 months.

He's trying to recapture the glories of the past, and he is doing it through basketball. He was once a superstar. He fell away, and now he's trying to make a comeback. He's trying to get what he couldn't get in the courts and couldn't get at the ballot box.

This in turn has led to a number of Atlantic Ocean and global oceanic circulation changes that have brought on more major storms during the past four years. The pattern is very similar to what was occurring in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Tennessee has been hardened by all those losses in the past, and now Bruce has brought in hope.

What has happened over the past seven years of peace process is that ... the unionist community has walked further and further away and presented the agreement as a betrayal of their rights and freedoms.

Many people believe the strip clubs are the last vestiges of mob influence. Some of them have a mob past, and some of them don't.

I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

It is one of the most powerful instruments to bring about a united nation, and it also says, let us forget the past. Let us think of the present and future,

We have worked hard over the past three years in developing a wide array of products -- all credit types, all documentation types, all amortization types and all combinations of first and second mortgages.

Shares of Cheung Kong (Holdings) was up 4.56 percent at HK74.50. Cheung Kong is playing catch up with Hutchison, ... It's been a laggard over the past few weeks so investors are trying to narrow the gap with Hutchison.

You can't do anything about those shots that you missed but improve and try not to make those shots again, ... You deal with the present. That past is the past. I think you learn from it you don't live in it. You take those positive experiences and relate them to what we're trying to do now.

Cree has focused significant sales efforts during the past several years toward the large and dramatically growing LED community in Asia. Cree Asia- Pacific is now investing in a new headquarters facility and expert personnel to deepen Cree's commitment to its Asian customers.

One of our scouts said he was the best amateur goalie he had seen in the past 10 years.

Eric Weddle is stepping up. He's stepped up his work habits. Eric is so gifted and so talented. In the past he's had little lulls in practice where he zones out a little bit,

In Ontario, job losses in manufacturing have accelerated in recent months alongside announced layoffs in the key auto sector. However, Ontario's economy is well diversified and strength in the service sector, which accounts for more than 70 of overall employment and economic activity, should support vehicle sales of about 590,000 units in 2006 - in line with the average of the past two years.

Over the past year, we have been engaged in career development with an eye toward advancement opportunities for our employees. The new assignments for Otto and Scott are designed to broaden both their understanding of the corporation and their experience in the finance and accounting arenas. We are committed to providing advancement opportunities for our employees and will continue to focus on helping accelerate career development and expanding the knowledge base of our staff.

Two non-governmental organization vehicles were reported stolen in the past four days and other partners have also been victims of robbery.

Honestly, it's a new year and we're focused on the now and not the past and you can't dwell on something like that. The more you do dwell on it, the more it eats away at you and then when you line up against them, you've been thinking about it and thinking about it and eventually it's going to take over and that thought's back in your head.

I'm told that the 17th Street Canal pump will go on today, but I've been told a lot of things over the past week that didn't work out.

In the past several years consumers ... have been very diligent in managing some of their debt in terms of refinancing to lower rates, but we'll have to ... keep our eye on this situation as the conditions change,

It's going just as well as it was last year, and the years past,

The Surgeon General further stated that the rate of overweight children in America doubled in the past 20 years and tripled among its adolescents.

There is a trust there that Callahan will bring Nebraska back to its stature of old. In the past10 years, only two Nebraska recruiting classes have been in the top 10 in my book, but this is shaping up to be one of the better looking groups out there.

I don't pay attention to that stuff. We've turned the page on all of the things from the past.

Think often of how swiftly all things pass away and are no more the works of Nature and the works of man. The substance of the Universe, matter, is like unto a river that flows on forever. All things are not only in a constant state of change, but they are the cause of constant and infinite change in other things. Upon a narrow ledge thou standouts Behind thee, the bottomless abyss of the Past In front of thee, the Future that will swallow up all things that are now. Over what things, then, in this present life wilt thou, O foolish man, be disquieted or exalted making thyself wretched seeing that they can vex thee only for a time a brief, brief time.

Sometimes the ball bounces your way. In years past, it hasn't. This year, it has.

We were in (a second-place) game last year, but we lost to a tough Post Falls Christian team. We haven't been able to get over the hump the past couple years. Now we have, and it feels wonderful.

It's not really true to (the Bears) character and nature in the past to do that (during an exhibition game), ... But I thought our staff did an outstanding job with adapting in the game. That's probably why we had more success in the second and third quarters than we did in the beginning of the game.

Of the hundreds of those we've tested over the past few years probably 85 percent were dowsers,

John had a lot of people ditch him in the past or would befriend him and not stay in contact. I didn't want to do that.

We know foreign governments want our technology. We know they will go to all lengths to get it, ... It is incumbent upon us to have the best security practices, constantly to review them, learn the lessons from the past and make sure that it doesn't happen again.

While there have been some promising developments in the mediation over the past few days, the states have not joined today in the settlement agreement reached between the Department of Justice and Microsoft.

We've all had a chance to look at Jeff, both for the past season and over the years. We know what kind of competitor he is. Jeff's somebody we knew we had to evaluate, and we have gotten all of our work done on him.

On being put out of the World Cup That was the past, this is the future.