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In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging read more
In peace, competition had become difficult, until the British ship owner cried for war; yet he already felt, without acknowledging it even to himself, that in war he was likely to enjoy little profit or pleasure on the day when the long, low, black hull of the Yankee privateer, with her tapering, bending spars, her long-range guns, and her sharp-faced captain, should appear on the western horizon, and suddenly, at the sight of heavy-lumbering British merchantman, should fling out her white wings of canvas, and fly down on her prey.
We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them read more
We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.
They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept read more
They have to be unselfish. That's one concept I want them to get, but it can be a hard concept for young players to grasp.
Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and read more
Blue Order was very much chugging forward. The driving force of this whole effort was a content access effort and now we have very much achieved the goal of making all content captured available to anybody in our facility on a PC.
We're coming into this town full force and we're going to take care of this problem like we did the read more
We're coming into this town full force and we're going to take care of this problem like we did the drug and the graffiti problem.
I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.
I was old and fat when I started, ... This makes you young ---- and not fat.
I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul read more
I thought Brian played a good game, but it was same old thing: He just can't stay out of foul trouble. When he came out of the game, we stopped attacking the basket.
[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, read more
[Sotero kept quiet, worrying that her family would be targeted. But she found comfort in numbers at last week's rally, organized by Tucson's Border Action Network. In August 2004, BAN hosted a community forum where anger simply erupted.] People had been afraid to speak out, ... They fear repercussions; they fear being targeted, because (the Border Patrol) is so dominant and so imposing in their communities, where they're told they don't have any rights.
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I read more
My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.