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The notion that the Austrians were the only bad apples - anyone who says or writes that, that's embarrassing. And I think given all the stuff that was taken from the Austrians, I think most reasonable, prudent men and women will know if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, it's a doping duck.

That's probably the prudent thing to do, to analyze and see the results of the impact of Hobbs on the existing racetracks in the state. We need to look at the purses and the amount of horses available.

Ecuador's fundamental economic policy has not changed with the (economic) minister. There will be differences in some areas, but the government ratified its commitment to maintain a very prudent fiscal policy.

Economists have said that if you have to remove dams, take out the lower Snake River dams because they provide fewer benefits to the region than Columbia River dams. . .You can have a very vibrant agricultural economy in eastern Washington where grain moves without the Salmon River Waterway, if we make prudent investments in upgrading truck and railroad infrastructure.

It's called the chicken that came home to roost. This is an example of when a board does not exercise prudent judgment. You can only defer so long.

They decided it wasn't prudent for them to go forward with it this year.

I want to see that the threat is fully neutralized. There are many loose ends, to be prudent about national interest, we have to properly evaluate.

It's really our responsibility to do this audit. It's prudent to do this.

I'm not saying that a disorderly correction to global imbalances is certain to happen. Nor am I saying that the global economy is inevitably headed for a deflationary shortfall in demand. What I am saying is that, as prudent policymakers, we must not rely on good fortune to help us muddle through. We need to get going on these policy issues now, before it is too late to take remedial action.

In light of the gravity of the charges outlined in the guilty verdict against Mr. Traficant, I think the prudent course of action would be an immediate resignation,

In a nuclear environment, this is obviously not a prudent course.

In the course of their work today, crews noticed some equipment that needed to be replaced. We felt it was prudent to do the work as soon as possible.

Investors are still looking for the economy to begin to pick up toward the end of this year with positive earnings comparisons occurring starting in the first or second-quarter of next year (2002). Trying to trade the market on the basis of whether the Fed is going to cut by 50 or 25 basis points, in a long-term portfolio, is not a prudent approach to investing.

In view of the widespread commentary surrounding Viagra, we believe it is prudent and responsible to restate the appropriate use of this breakthrough medicine as well as to caution against inappropriate use.

In Washington, we have worked closely with the other regulatory agencies to encourage financial institutions to consider all reasonable and prudent steps to ease burdens on customers who have been so deeply affected by Katrina,

If you were to say the Prudent Speculator has beat all mutual funds in the past 25 years, it sounds better than saying he beat other newsletters, though it's roughly the same thing,

In a complicated Washington environment, it seemed prudent to hire an expert.

It has not been proven that monk parakeets cause a significant health or safety hazard, and there are feasible and prudent alternatives to the capture and destruction of them.

I tend to clam up with a tape recorder in front of me-I hesitate for prudent reasons, so I don't say as much.

But I don't think a prudent business or household manager can dismiss these energy prices today. We'll have to see what impact this all has on spending, employment plans and the rest.

I didn't think that was a prudent thing for the organization or for our fans.

But we are extremely prudent over the reforms, because compared with other state banks, Agricultural Bank has a heavier burden in terms of asset quality, the number of employees is big and services cover the countryside.

But we also have to be prudent going forward in terms of what long-term spending commitments we can make,

General Motors believes it has adequate cash and liquidity to run the business and we have prudent capital planning strategies in place.

The essential feature of statistics is a prudent and systematic ignoring of details.

Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.

Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them.

I don't think that would be very prudent on our part.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

Chance generally favors the prudent.

Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Nature is a gentle guide, but not more sweet and gentle than prudent and just.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Proper respect to others is the most prudent rule of directing the measure of reverence due to ourselves.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

The uncertain current status of the shuttle return to flight as well as uncertainties in the early stages of development of the robotic mission lead us to believe that the key technical decision points are at least a year in the future. Keeping both options open would be a prudent direction for the agency to take.

The trustees are obligated by statute to follow the prudent investor rule, so it has to be prudent.

The easiest course of action would have been to satisfy everybody, use Col. New as the scapegoat and it would have been done with, ... But it would have been the wrong thing to do ... because Col. New had done everything we could ask a prudent commander to do in order to deal with the situation in that unit.

The medical protocols employed by our teams have traditionally been left t o the best practices of team physicians. However, in light of recent events that have occurred not just in the NBA but in other sports as well, we think it is prudent to follow up with our teams to find out what the norms are across the league.

The market has been up so sharply, it would be a prudent time to put money in the bank and then reposition,

The market is factoring in a higher probability of a pause now but it's absolutely too soon to tell, ... By September 20, it may appear to be prudent to pause but the Fed will make the decision then depending on the severity of the economic damage.

Love, the fairest among the undying gods, who loosens the limbs of all gods and men, conquers resolve and prudent counsel within the breast.

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.

Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do is prudent

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

Love is active and sincere, courageous, patient, faithful, prudent and manly.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

A prudent man should neglect no circumstances.

He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.

A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

I'm a very circumspect and prudent person, and I eliminate danger as far as it can be done.

A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see - but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

A prudent man should always follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have been outstanding. If his own prowess fails to compare with theirs, at least it has an air of greatness about it.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been treated or recognized at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to a prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.

A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and must protect himself from those that will not lose it for him, if this is possible; but if he cannot, he need not concern himself unduly if he ignores these less serious vices.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

It is neither safe nor prudent to do anything against conscience.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois