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Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things. (Quote by - Story Musgrave)

Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of Mr. George Miley from his dubious retirement(Quote by - John Le Carre)

I didn't want my event to take away from his charity, .. We bought something like $3,000 worth of tickets for his event and I offered to play a few songs with him if he wanted. (Quote by - Jim Messina)

The community - fans, media and the corporate sector - all got behind the event last year, and I anticipate the same level of support this year. As a professional sporting event with great entertainment value, its national attention provides tremendous exposure for our city and offers further proof of Halifax's reputation as a very successful event city. (Quote by - Fred MacGillivray)

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both. (Quote by - Saint Catherine of Siena)

Mention that you are a hammer thrower to someone who is not an athletics enthusiast and you will be met with any reaction from a puzzled frown to raucous laughter. If you have the misfortune to say it to a groundsman, you may face physical violence. (Quote by - Howard Payne)

I don't know what the slippery slope would be. We have allowed for legal gaming companies, including casinos, including state lotteries, to participate as team and track sponsors for a number of years now, and it's worked for us. I believe we're the only major professional sport that has an event in Las Vegas, but we also have an event at other tracks that offer legal gaming as well, including Dover. And it's worked for our sport. (Quote by - Ramsey Poston)

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. (Quote by - Catherine the Great)

It's very important when we measure an event to recognize its impact on time. For example, an event eight hours before a competition may not be major, but if it happens 10 minutes [before] or during a competition, it's critical we do something. (Quote by - Patrick Adiba)

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself. (Quote by - Cathy Lee Crosby)

It's a matter of national security. Not only do we have to contemplate other natural events that could be of a similar scale of Katrina, but we also have to think of other manmade events. (Quote by - Dan Bartlett)

Boys, this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower's mother)

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)

Losses are comparative, imagination only makes them of any moment. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. (Quote by - Vaclav Havel)

On news of a new throwing style - If this new method is accepted I will personally break my javelin in half and use it as a support for my tomato plants. (Quote by - Dana Zatopekova)

I think it's a great event; it's a very worthy cause. I think it's a unique event for Ames and for Special Olympics Iowa. I think they're pretty innovative doing an event like this. (Quote by - Blair Brewer)

Riches, like glory or health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. (Quote by - Victoria Holt)

So for both teams we have a lot better balance than we have had in the past. We have more areas covered and so hopefully compete in every event. Not only have someone in the event but have some decent quality. (Quote by - Aaron Nida)

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. (Quote by - Dr. Kurt Goldstein)

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)

To be happy, drop the words if only and substitute instead the words next time.(Quote by - Smiley Blanton)

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