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...similar piece of Harvey hokum that led Keith Olbermann to apostrophize, "Probably time for you to give us your final 'Good day!' " But Harvey was no quitter. He reduced his workload to a few broadcasts a week (his son Paul Jr., a longtime writer for the show, was a frequent guest host), but he would not give up the gig after a bout of pneumonia, or his 90th birthday, or even Lynne's death, in 2007, after 67 years of marriage. "Retiring," he said, "is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice." He was still...
...delighted he took on this Middle East job. It's such an important issue for the world. And Tony has a track record in this because of what he did with the peace process in Northern Ireland. What Tony has is both charm and persistence - he's not a quitter. He goes over there again and again, trying to bring people together and getting them to understand the twin desires - Israel for security, and for the Palestinians, a chance to have a true state of their...
McCain isn't a quitter. He may be fighting an uphill battle, but he knows Obama is beatable despite a national anti-GOP mood. McCain's week wasn't particularly good, but Obama's was dreadful by comparison...
...also that of all feminists. After Clinton's disappointing showing in the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Malcolm even wrote an op-ed declaring that Clinton herself had a "responsibility" to stay in the race. She owed it to all women to prove that she wasn't a quitter. The sentiment echoed Clinton's own comments on the stump, her declaration that "I am not a quitter. I do not give...
...play with my friends. He told me that I would pick up bad habits by playing 5-on-5, so everyday I just did the drill work. It was like boot camp everyday. It made me cry all the time-I just told myself not to be a quitter...