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    All of the proposals were for marine liability insurance. Which makes sense. Shoreline Cruises Inc. conducts tour boat operations on a landlocked lake. There is not a whole lot of on-ground stuff.

    The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.


    With Rudy, we'll evaluate things at the end of the season. We'll sit down and talk things over with his family. We'll talk to the NBA people and see what they're saying about him. But to say he's leaving or staying, at this point in this season, it doesn't make sense.





    I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- except he purposely shut the eyes of his mind and keep them shut by force.

    Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. Inone important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind,and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a verydifferent animal.

    There is clearly a sense of urgency, the clock continues to tick, the negotiators, I think, have left things perilously late in the light of the date of the summit, which was announced well in advance and Annan is concerned the work might not be done.

    The knowledge of your helplessness in any circumstances is so perfect that it begets a sense of irresponsibility, almost of security and as you drowse upon the pallet of the sleeping car, and feel yourself hurled forward through the obscurity, you are almost thankful that you can do nothing, for it is upon this condition only that you can endure it and some such condition as this, I suppose, accounts for many heroic facts in the world.

    There's a feeling that our players are misinterpreted and a little misunderstood because of various factors. Dress would be one of them. As a league, we know we have good people. We have great guys on our team. . . . I feel like what our team did last year (after the brawl) is a much better indicator of the character and quality of people in our league than anything else people might want to surmise in terms of perception.

    You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.



    There's a sense of urgency in construction. If builders have approval for a project, they're going to try to move ahead as quickly as possible.

    The Rams did a lot of gimmick things we'd never seen all season. They played a box-and-one. They stalled the ball on offense. They pulled out all the stops, and we didn't play with any sense of urgency or enthusiasm, I didn't think, until the second half. Then, I think we did a lot better job.


    Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

    Unfortunately, at current levels, and coupled with the extraordinarily low level of labor demand, the claims numbers are still consistent with flat or falling payrolls and a rising unemployment rate. There's no real relief in sight here yet.

    Fish, tortoises, and birds bring up their young by means of sight, attention and touch so do saintly men afford protection to their associates by the same means.

    I don't want to say it's a sense of relief. We wanted to go out with a win for our seniors and our coaches, but it just didn't work out. It's sad to see all these coaches go. Every guy out here loves these coaches and what they've done for us. But at the same time, the program is going in a new direction.



    Tony and I had a good on and off screen relationship, we are two very different people, but we did share a sense of humor, we now live in different parts of the world but when we find ourselves in the same place it is more or less as if there had been no years in between.




    I consider him to be one of the 21st-century prophets, along with people like Bill Gates, who is at the forefront of bringing real medical relief to the world's poor. We seek to model Jesus in Matthew 115, where he said, 'The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk.' We seek to help those afflicted with crippling diseases, like Rick Warren is doing with his AIDS project. The church must act.

    It's a big disappointment. It's bittersweet. I got to race in the Olympics and that's an incredible achievement for the greatest country in the world. But in the same sense, I don't think I was representing my abilities or my country's abilities to the best.

    For elites, there is this hostility toward lawyers because they see lawyers as sort of attacking them ... but at the same time, for the larger population, there is a kind of disappointment with law. There was a sense that lawyers were going to bring remed

    But I'm talking about responsibility, a sense of responsibility. Developing software to help human beings develop more of a sense of responsibility. Kids need that. Adults need it too. More self worth. More self-respect.


    The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . .

    In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.

    But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

    Growth is likely to be lower in '98 than it was in '97. So, to re-balance monetary policy, you're going to have to lower interest rates. The question is by how much At this point in time, probably a decrease of half a percentage point to three-quarters of a percentage point would make sense.

    America has a serious drug problem, he says, but it's not the manufacture and use of methamphetamines that is the serious problem. He manages a dig at conservative William Bennett, whom he refers to as the former national drug czar and gambler, ... Using drugs is wrong not simply because drugs create medical problems it is wrong because drugs destroy one's moral sense. People addicted to drugs neglect their duties.



    The merger strategically makes sense, given the complimentary product lines that Aspect offers, but I question the valuation that's been placed on Aspect -- 9.3 billion for a company that did less than 100 million in sales last year,


    People in the community who served on our advisory panel about the project told us they wanted the station to have a sense of place, an identity as a destination, and that's what these signs are designed to do.

    Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

    There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

    I'd like to put something together. I want to talk to Red Bull about it and maybe Honda. It's going to be a seven-or eight-event (series) next season with two in Southern California. It makes a lot of sense that this might be something I would pursue.


    We're trying to actually accelerate the transition of our narrowband customers who are inclined to leave for broadband anyway. Keeping them in our house and in our network and in our universe from an advertising perspective makes sense.


    We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with 500,000 people. In a certain sense, it was numbing.



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