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This reminded me why I got into education. I had an absolute ball rolling around with the first- and second-graders. It got me back to what we're all about educating.

There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that.

We would have preferred to have had France as part of the overall decision, and of course France strongly believes in the defense of Turkey and is in absolute solidarity with Turkey,

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

We have seen an absolute explosion in the number of hybrids out there since about 2004.

The reflection of what Cisco says is an absolute reflection of the economy. If Cisco is giving this forward look beyond the first quarter, then the suspicion of a possibility for a second half upturn may not be as evident.

Worcester County has great potential for growing grapes. We're still trying to figure the absolute best grapes and we have experiments under way, but you can grow everything on the Eastern Shore and we're very encouraged by whites.

Would we prefer that our people put patches in on the same day they come out? Sure. It's hard to give you an absolute certainty that the patch had been applied across the board. Given today's incident, our security teams are going back to check out the systems.

Would you agree that Darwin's theory is not the absolute truth?

(With this deal) the major labels have stopped whining about absolute control and embraced a new business model. Secure delivery, the majors' magic bullet, is overrated; legitimately making music available is the strongest weapon in the fight against music theft.

We're still going through it. I know it sounds hokey, but it was a crusher, just an absolute crusher.

Watching Reagan, we learned a lesson in how you play the game. You see it in Roberts, too: a genuine friendliness and lightness of touch, combined with absolute determination and commitment to principle.

We're going to go after the Hells Angels, not Ducks Unlimited. This idea that you can somehow create an atmosphere around people who are already respectful of the law and superimpose this blanket (handgun) ban as a solution -- a one size fits all, cookie-cutter approach -- is an absolute abysmal failure. It's publicly misleading and it doesn't drill down into the real problem.

We respect (Belmont). They try to do it the right way like we do. Both programs are on the rise and getting to play each other will be an absolute classic.

When we have eight days off, it feels like an absolute eternity. I'm ready to coach again and I think the guys are ready to play again.

We got with Patrick MacKenzie (director of Emergency Services) and other representatives from the post and asked them what the absolute minimum area they needed to meet their requirements was. We are basing the redesign on those conversations.

The point of copyright law is not to give people absolute control over everything they write. It's to compensate artists and authors for the works that they create.

We believe that the case remains strong for SA equities, in both absolute and relative terms, and continue to recommend an overweight exposure.

We believe that there's going to be a complete landscape of devices in the future that will enable people to access the Internet, send e-mail and do computing. I think it is absolute folly to say that any one of these devices will serve the needs of the entire industry and all markets.

Where the private market can work, that is our absolute preference.

We've also got some great career professionals, an absolute and vital part of the operation - couldn't do it without them. They're the ones that continue the expertise from administration to administration, who have got the experience of having been through all of this before and provide the quality service that needs to be provided.

We know as long as we play hard and play smart defensively and with the goaltending we've got, we're not afraid that if it's a 1-0 or 2-1 game we can't come out on top. Teams playing down the stretch are playing their absolute best, and that's what we have to give them.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones -- maybe only the stones -- understood.

Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

Everything's so huge that getting around anywhere is an absolute nightmare.

Dubai has acknowledged the absolute importance of securing cargo against terrorists.

Elections are only passing events in a far more complex and ongoing process. It is clear from these results that although the ANC will still be the largest party in South Africa, in absolute terms, its supports continues to decline in election after election.

At the moment when you feel like you have reached the point of absolute exhaustion, inspire yourself to take one last step, and that is when you have successfully arrived to the next level.

Between now and 35 could be the absolute best years of his life.

Between now and 35 could be the absolute best years of his life. It would be very easy for that to happen, meaning that he could double or triple what he has done in the past.

Did it cross the mind of anybody at Foggy Bottom (State Department), in negotiating this deal with India, to get an absolute commitment that India would be with us, or if it couldn't get that, at least an absolute commitment that it would abstain on this upcoming issue (at IAEA)?

complete and absolute rejection of this kind of violence.

Currently, the Canadian dollar has been on a tear, an absolute tear. It's been massively outperforming other currencies.

What N.Y.C. does attract, year in and year out, is the very best general talent from around the world. The absolute smartest, neurons-just-fire-faster, can-bend-spoons-with-their-mind talent.

What we are going to do is continue to grow our content spend on original programming, both in absolute numbers and as a percentage of our total spending, because it's been working. It's been helping grow the brand; and more importantly, it's been driving viewing hours relative to how else we would spend the money.

Election administrators have never been through (this) amount of change. It would be an absolute miracle if we don't have hiccups.

Even if your goalie's having a so-so night, you should still win handily with that much of a shot advantage. Tonight, we had a ton of absolute naked opportunities where all you have to do is finish, but we didn't.

To get one message across to everybody took a week. It was an absolute nightmare for the management.

You have turned that young girl, who was a perfect angel just a few days ago, into your accomplice. You are a wicked person. You are causing absolute strife in here and you've inveigled that young girl into your wicked spell.

We do not know how long it will take to defeat the scourge of terrorism or how many Americans will give their lives for the cause. But we do know one thing with absolute certainty: The passengers and crew of Flight 93 won the first battle,

Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Every game is like the absolute biggest, hugest game. It's like the Super Bowl. There are so many teams around the country that are in that same position. You just have to go play. The kids are having fun. This is the best time of the year. This is what you play for.

Everybody who got in line to speak had the absolute right and spoke with a bona fide argument for funding.

At the time those decisions were being made here in Wisconsin, they made absolute economic sense.

The unit at the University Hospital of North Tees has had pounds 10m spent on refurbishment over the last few years and to try and replicate this anywhere else would be absolute madness.

I used to coach soccer here. And during the season, this place is an absolute zoo. It's really ugly trying to park, and this should help with some of that.

It would have made it a bit easier and I didn't have to say anything in the dressing room. He was copping an absolute hiding. But he was wonderful tonight.

It would make Oakdale's season to beat us and knock us out of first place. I believe they're feeling like they can do that. We've been noticing their scores and they're playing people a lot tougher. We're going to get their absolute best.

The worst is still happening. It's an absolute disaster and I don't think one can determine the real cost.

The Wild Band Pocket is situated in as absolute a desert as I ever saw.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute / The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute.

We see this thing as being an absolute rocket.

We're thrilled to have him. It gives us a great chance to contrast what Democrats have done in Virginia with the absolute mess that Washington has become.

As the state's chief fiscal officer, I am committed to making sure tax dollars are spent wisely and in absolute accordance with the law. If during my audit I find that Cassidy & Associates inappropriately used tax dollars, I will immediately suspend all future payments and take the necessary steps to make sure these dollars are returned to the state.

The team would be an absolute financial success to stay in Oklahoma. I can't deny that. If everybody here, the state and everybody, can step up and give us some confidence, than everything's going to work here. ... I want it to work.

These were people's lives. These were people's loved ones who he targeted, tortured, dehumanized and did everything he could in their last minutes of life to make them experience absolute total terror while he played God. And he's just in there in the courtroom describing it like -- as if you and I would be reading it out of a recipe book,

The share of fossil fuels (in China's energy use) may fall but the absolute amounts consumed will grow.

It was absolute silence in that room. Everybody was blown away by his message.

Absolute freedom is absolute responsibility.

(The players) have an absolute ability to stay on task. When they do that, we're very strong. Obviously, we've been strong quite a bit. They're a lot of fun to be around.

When you go into an organization that's been losing and you try to change the culture, it's a difficult job. It requires absolute faith from ownership. You've got to do some things on the field with your personnel that people don't like. But you've got to do it if you're going to turn it around.

We've just decided that transparency is the way to go. President Brodhead thought it very important to think about people on the outside ... people of absolute integrity and genuine leadership.

And we will feel that no question has a point because it is more than untrue. We will feel that the Absolute Truth will no longer have to be said and not even sighed by no divinity or Creating Factor and Unique Accidental one because it lies in the divinity is us that cannot be known, nor referenced to something, but only felt.

Angry people are actually not just more optimistic than fearful people, they're optimistic in an absolute sense, that is they are as optimistic as happy people and that was surprising to us.

The Village at Wolf Creek is in absolute and total compliance with all federal wetlands laws and statutes.

It would be an absolute coup for ABC to steal Letterman, ... Reliable Sources.

It would be an absolute victory for terrorists ... if we stopped doing our job in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world,

The right to free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution. Of course, the state has the right to regulate but an enforcement of an absolute no-permit, no-rally prohibition is unconstitutional,

The roads around the ground are diabolical. I came in a car that was sliding all over the road and there were cars sliding into one another. There seems to have been no gritting undertaken at all, which is an absolute disgrace. You have to be up here to understand just what chaos there is going on outside the ground.

It we get one of these in nine or 10 months, I would be as happy as can be. Consumers have no idea why it takes so long. The process points out the absolute need for a state law to change the system.

You guys in the media use this word 'pressure'. You lose two games and you are under pressure. It's absolute nonsense. Laughable. But that's the territory we're in.

You had absolute harrowing, dire circumstances where it's very easy for me to see how kids were separated, because they were just trying to get out.

We should have an owner, period. There's 10 people waiting in line to spend an absolute disgusting amount of money and to sit around and waver, there's no excuse.

There is nothing like an absolute price level. You cannot decree an absolute price; everything is subject to market forces, and market forces cut both ways.

To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.

Tonight, it wasn't spectacular basketball, but it was an absolute dogfight.

There is no such thing as absolute security; it's a matter of degree. Providing security is managing insecurity, and in today's world national security is an oxymoron. It's a global problem.

Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

unable to accept the absolute freedom that you believe in. ... One day perhaps we will be comfortable with your values, but for the moment we are not comfortable.

Two ate the lichen and died, one didn't eat it and was fine. That was the absolute smoking-gun proof that the lichen killed the elk.

Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution

We wanted to take advantage of an opportunity if it was there. We didn't want to just make the game an absolute helter-skelter, run-up-and- down. But we didn't want to turn opportunities down either. And we had a bunch of them.

Everything goes up a notch, and you have to play at your absolute peak. There's no such thing as taking a play off or getting a bad block because if those things happen, you're going to have some serious consequences because you're going up against the best opponents.

This new-look side is HIS side, they are all HIS signings and as such, HE must take absolute responsibility if things go down the pan,

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

Bonnie and Clyde grew up in absolute poverty. They didn't go to school or have any money; the only way they could figure out how to get ahead was to steal. The banks were foreclosing on everyone's homes. I think a lot of people will be able to relate to that struggle.

Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts and not absolute and general,

Both history and practices of 'the myth of empires' have demonstrated that the pre-emptive strategy will bring the Bush administration an outcome that it is most unwilling to see, that is, absolute insecurity of the 'American Empire' and its demise because of expansion it cannot cope with,

Brent told us he was going to dominate (Saturday), and he obviously brought his game face. He was an absolute stud (Saturday). That's the best game I've ever seen him pitch. After what we went through (Friday) night, that was big.

Even though these numbers on an absolute basis look cheap, we view it as not being as cheap as it looks,

We are going to be more efficient per unit of production, but if you try to cut back on an absolute basis, it means you don't grow the industry.

The most important part of your trade is your skates, ... If you're skates don't feel good then you're in absolute trouble.

After 19 treatments, finding out I was pregnant, I was in absolute shock. I did three tests because I couldn't believe it.

People got a view of absolute greatness. It's absolutely beyond description. I haven't seen players do that in a long time.

The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.

I wanted to give a sense of closure without an absolute finality to it. So it isn't like everyone dies or we blow up the lodge, or it was all a dream.

Expectations are at absolute rock-bottom levels. So this is huge. If they actually achieve it, it does change things.

With the amount of injuries we've had these last two weeks it's been an absolute blessing to have 13 players on the roster.

Fifteen months ago, it was under the absolute control of a dictator, ... With the assumption of power by the Iraqi interim government ... Iraq is now a country where the government will answer to the people, instead of the other way around.

Russia proposed working with Europe and NATO to create an anti-rocket defense system for Europe, ... On one hand, it would avoid all the problems linked to the balance of force; on the other, it would permit in an absolute manner a 100 percent guarantee of the security of every European country.