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...live a—as opposed to the—good life. We must challenge them to grapple with the various answers to the question of what constitutes a good life, and what constitutes its opposite,that have been handed down to us by our heritage (to use a phrase from the Red Book...
...anonymous, threatening letters (but with no explosive materials) to various financial services companies, one of which was a client. He demanded they manipulate specific stocks to reach a set price, often $6.66, a number with possible Biblical or apocalyptic meaning. In one June, 2006 letter, he ended with the phrase: "IT IS BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL, THAN TO SERVE IN HEAVEN." The Bishop's curious stock-market demands were "delusional" since the companies were not large enough to do the kind of manipulation he demanded, Burton said. Once his demands were not met, his campaign escalated, going from simple...
...what I planned for, but you know that phrase, Life is what happens when you're making other plans. My achieving this position is about a moment in time when a lot of people were feeling hungry for leadership that is more hopeful and more engaged and more purposeful...
...Return to form" is a phrase I'm seeing...
...will say. "You can't sit there and tell me that is the best you can do." If you continue to resist, she will dismiss her entourage, then go at it, mano a mano, until someone relents. Says a close Rice adviser who has witnessed her technique: "The phrase 'hammer it out' comes to mind...