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We're isolating ourselves in the world ... And I think that the leadership of the Pentagon has done that in many ways to us, ... This issue of a secretary of defense not personally signing these letters is just astounding.

Yes, I receive fan mail. One of my favorite things to do is sit down and read the letters people write. It's really amazing the time people take to write these letters, tell their stories, draw pictures, etc.

The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

During Designing Women I went and did Love Letters a few times, but that was it. Aside from that, I hadn't done a play since drama school.

Early on, I received hundreds of letters every week from readers. Later, however, as groups began to organize, readers began writing to one another.

Currently, letters and minutes of meetings relating to an issue may be dispersed over several PCs and servers.

Cowboys weren't allowed to kiss girls in pictures, so one time I gave Dale a little peck on the forehead and we got a ton of letters to leave that mushy stuff out, ... So I had to kiss Trigger instead.

War is always seductive, ... 'Full Metal Jacket' didn't make me want to join the Marines. I already had fallen in love with the idea of combat. I think whether somebody feels that about our movie is subjective. It depends on the viewer. I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I can't wait' and I got letters from people who said 'I was thinking about joining up and I read your book and now I'm going to go to college.'

I've called these letters pages out of our national autobiography.

I should never have made that statement. The reason I made that statement at that time was because the Sox weren't doing particularly well, the Bulls were on top of the world, people were sending me letters saying, 'You're not paying attention to the White Sox; you're spending too much time on the Bulls.' So I figured one way to put it to rest it is to make a stupid statement like that, and so I did, and now it's been haunting me.

Commissioner Albert Hawkins has ordered that the coverage of these (enrollment fee) children be restored immediately. Letters to these families will go out as soon as possible, and they will be given sufficient time to pay the fee.

I start the very first day of school. We practice our letters for at least 10 minutes.

I've been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you. Each one a line or two: "I'm fine, baby. How are you?" I would send them, but I know that it's just not enough. My words are cold and flat, and you deserve more than that.

The worst time of my life was the next two weeks that we won the championship and thousands of hate letters started coming in. And it really didn't dawn on me what this was all about until that time.

The good part for me is that the bounce back off it has been exceptional. The e-mails, the letters of support have been sensational.

We've been raising money to pay off the marquee and we've been raising money to pay off the buildings. Right now, we've sent letters out to people asking for $1,000 donations to pay off the buildings. While trying to pay off the building, we've also been raising money to renovate the marquee. ... I'm hoping people will respond to the letters that we sent and at least send some money.

These letters are like touchstones in history to me. I really want to put them out.

These letters never have any term of expiration, so the band remain bound by the deal memo until a contract is signed, no matter how long that takes.

There are probably some letters on the fax machine right now. We lose 21 seniors next year, so we are trying to load up for that time.

We want you to remember that the letters in Troy stand for something, ... T is for tradition that you are all now part of. R is for the life-long Relationships that we hope you'll make here. O is for the Opportunity that you all now have. And Y is for You because we want your time here to be about you.

We wear wrist bands with the letters TBA. It stands for trust, belief and accountability. Those are the three words that really describe our program. The guys are buying into that now.

The search for Rita was complicated by the task of determining the letters she embroidered in her last name. We had lots of possibilities.

The wording is very similar to letters that have been sent to other prominent people across the country.

I've received so many letters and telephone calls, it's hard to keep up. I appreciated it so much. But I'm fine.

You had time to write letters to the City Council, to the state of North Dakota, to the government of Canada (seeking support) but you didn't have time to walk across campus to the biology department? That's unforgivable, unacceptable.

You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.

We say that every year and we prove it every year when we bring guys up from our Minor League system and they help us win. This year, we sort of did it with capital letters and neon lights and flood lights on the letters because we had so many of them here. That's a direct tribute to scouting and player development.

We almost always have some music students in the house; it's used a great deal. It was really fun to get letters from all ages saying they really appreciate the piano.

We all have to take responsibility for the direction we are going. In our schools we are focusing on numbers and letters but we need, from the earliest times, to get across the concept that we are connected to nature and that we are trying to find a space to sustain ourselves.

Even though the wheel is smaller than it appears on TV, it is only five or six foot in diameter, it is very heavy. I can't spin it very well so he turned the wheel and I guessed the letters and puzzles.

We went to see the movie together, ... They got these good looking actors and actress to play him and his wife, so he was really happy. Afterwards he said: 'I get letters and e-mails from all over the world and now they've made a movie of my life story. I have to pinch myself. You can't buy things like that'.

We did a lot of door-to-door contact in Lake Ida, and we had some folks that did neighborhood letters for me in there. It was a key precinct.

After I returned to school, we received a large manila envelope filled with letters written back to several of our students. I hope it is the beginning of an ongoing pen-pal relationship.

But then I resist efforts by North American publishers to change my language, because if ever they do, I get letters from readers saying: it's set in England, we don't want it to sound American.

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

Companies are getting letters informing them of what allegations are likely to be made and what evidence is going to appear in the October report. They are being given an opportunity to respond to it.

That's not going to change just because Secretary Rumsfeld might move on, any more than tomorrow we might decide we're going to throw away our computers and start writing letters again.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

They sort of showered us with letters trying to explain this or that.

Public security bureaus across the country received more than 200,000 letters and visits from citizens who had grievances to air during the four months, and 180,000 of them have been dealt with.

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

Probably four out of five letters I get are about it. Fans want to know how I'm going to do or whatever.

Sometimes these kids just picked up a stick and scratched letters on the ground. Their parents couldn't afford pens and pencils.

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Our family has gotten a lot of letters and cards from people who have lost children in a variety of ways. The biggest thing is, it's not as rare as we would think. People have been in that situation and a lot of people have gotten through it. As much as you never want to be in it or want anybody else to be in it, people do make it through.

Our employees increasingly are telling us -- via e-mail, telephone calls and letters -- that they want to understand our offer. They want to know what UPS put on the table. So we're going to tell them.

Teachers don't want to have a letter sent home saying that they are not highly qualified, ... We likely will have a few of those letters that will have to go out. Hopefully in that letter, somehow we can explain to parents that we still feel like the teacher we have in that classroom is a very good teacher, who will do an excellent job.

First, none of our interpretative letters has anything to do with real estate brokerage.

There was a certain amount of romantic sentiment that comes through some of the letters

There's only so much we can do. We can send letters to these people and we can make them pick the stuff up, but if you have a neighborhood association ... that goes much farther than what we can do.

This is about unity in capital letters -- U-N-I-T-Y," ()

This is going to be like the 'Bridges of Madison Avenue', a very brief affair I'll write about in sappy letters to my grandchildren.

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

I literally get three or four e-mails, phone calls, letters every day from people who want to write for the series,

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

If my house caught fire I would save myself and anyone in there and I would try and save all the diaries and letters that I have collected as everything else is replaceable. And I would sit on the lawn watching my house burn cherry red and record it in my diary.

I'm really impressed by the community response and letters about how impressed people are about the project. It's truly inspirational.

Immigration really disrupted the social fabric back in Germany when the younger people left. We only know about this because someone saved these letters back in the 1800s and without them we have no clue as to what happened and what people had to deal with back then.

If you look at other strips from the 1950s, he stuck out like a sore thumb. I'm sure he probably got some of the same complaint letters that I get now,

I've written immense love letters that are supposed to be opened over days at a time.

I've had neighbors and friends who have helped me, and I wrote letters to the editor to thank them, and those are published online, ... But that was a while back.

I hope that you have explained to the citizens of Meridian that nobody is slipping anything on them or hiding anything, because if you read your phone bill it's right there before you. So it's not put in small letters so small you have to use a microscope in order to see it.

I'm getting cards and letters every day now,

I'm getting cover letters together as I'm looking for openings.

I keep getting these extraordinary letters from American sports stars saying: 'I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

As shareholders, we have a lot of questions. But Goldman has not provided substantive responses, either to our letters or at the shareholder meeting.

At any given time, ... I probably have eight to 10 similar cases I'm working on, either writing letters or legally. We have three we're working on right now other than Mr. Reese.

Studies show that not all children are ready with the basic skills like recognizing numbers and letters . . . when they reach kindergarten, which puts them at a huge disadvantage. This is intended to bridge the gap.

The Newberry seemed the perfect place for Mike's papers, ... I'm sure he would be honored and humbled to know his columns and papers are in such good company with the works of his respected colleagues and those he admired. Now everything he saved, from his funny hand-written responses to readers to the get well letters he received, will be accessible to anyone who wants to see a more personal side of Mike.

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Once I did interviews with her family and got all of the medical information that I needed, I started to write letters to the Suffolk County Rotary. Luckily, within a few months, they picked her.

Donna came from a McDonald's happy meal logo. We were rearranging the letters and totally joking.

The NPC Standing Committee also paid great attention to letters and visits and put the complaints widely aired by ordinary people as its supervision priorities.

It's tragic, because the father will not meet with his family. This is a good family, you know. We have letters four months ago, how they used to write to each other, send money to Cuba to help him and now after Castro loco got involved, look what happened.

It's unbelievable how it's all worked out, most of all with these four letters on my chest.

It's sad, but Manson has become somewhat of a folk hero to young people. He gets four fan letters a day.

The fans have been great. I get 20, 30, 40 letters every day, 10 e-mails. Every time I go somewhere, people are real supportive.

It tells us story and there's a lot more we want to add to the collection like letters from the president.

They came up with the font off of just enlarging MS Word, and laid out the letters and spaced them, and we had to make it fit and it just worked pretty good.

I rarely litigate. It usually takes 2 or 3 letters at most.

I really feel this time around nobody is going to get fired. We have prepared this so well with the letters for employees to give to their employers.

I get a lot of letters and fan mail from Scotland,

Calls started coming in, letters started coming in. This was their band and they were dog wrong for letting us leave.

I love seeing my book on shelves and getting letters from people who liked the book. I love telling stories and having other people tell stories to me.

Chain letters like this are too easily forwarded to friends, family and colleagues without people using their common sense. Stories like this become urban legends, constantly being repeated without anyone bothering to check the facts. Hoaxes and chain letters like this are not harmless - they waste time and bandwidth, and can be a genuine headache for support departments. Users need to be more skeptical, and ask themselves whether everything they are told by email can be believed.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.

I don?t know how many (personal) letters she wrote.

George Orwell, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and almost any writer you could name received rejection letters, ... Margaret Mitchell got rejection letters from 38 different publishers before anyone finally deigned to publish her novel, 'Gone With The Wind.' How many talented writers are there who gave up without ever making it into print because of misguided rejection?

The warning is clearly nonsense and no such virus exists. However, hoaxes and chain letters like this are not harmless - they waste time and bandwidth, and can be a genuine headache for support departments. Users need to think ask themselves whether everything they are told can be believed.

These teens are not much younger than some of the soldiers their letters are going to. But their words show some great insights as well as the typical teenage gossip and humor.

They have report cards, and letters they wrote to each other when they were little. Various ladies in the Unser family have done a good job of organizing the family tree. The amount of stuff they have -- boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs and family stuff from when the brothers were just little boys, all of the houses, buildings and passenger cars they owned -- it's just astonishing.

They've sent us several letters requesting another meeting, and we've got to get it settled sometime, so we thought we'd go ahead and talk with them again and see where we're at.

Its amazing to see and hear the various opinions of the people arrived in Nova Scotia. Some hold the land as good, as the account given by Charles Dixon in his letters to England, others think them pretty good but nothing compared to C. Dixon's account - But a great many, especially the poorest sort, for which I'm greatly concerned, for I cannot see how they are to earn their bread or by what means they must be supported.

It looked out of date, like it was from the '50s. (Without students on the committee) they might have gone with the script. It seems like everybody likes the block letters now.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

I recognise my old self in a lot of the letters I get from single women who are unrealistic about what they want.

The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.