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I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.

I felt for him, just because he's one of my players and he's going through a tough situation. I didn't judge him, saying, 'He's a bad guy. Let's get rid of him.' No I didn't.

If China was to completely get rid of its currency peg, and the yuan became completely convertible, it would fall under pressure. It would become another Thai baht.

If both sides get rid of unfavorable people and they wind up with people in the middle, then the verdict will be based on the evidence. If it's done incorrectly, cases can be won or lost during jury selection.

I feel like I'm making progress. And that's all you can ask for. ... I feel like right now, the last two or three days I've hopefully gotten rid of some bad habits and consistently repeated my delivery. If I can do that, my pitches are going to be down and I'm going to be successful.

I feel like it would be a shame to get rid of doubles, but I guess it's on the doubles players' responsibilities to find a way to make it lucrative.

I did more than anyone else in persuading the U.S. to get rid of Saddam.

I did it years ago and regretted it. Fifteen minutes later, it was like, 'Oh, man, I just got rid of a hat.' But then, in your mind, you start rationalizing it. It was worth it. You start to think, 'Now what are they going to do with these things?' You hope they give them to kids or to the less fortunate, somebody who can't spend 18 bucks on a cap. You'd like to think it's put to good use.

I can tell you this much, no school board member ever told me I had to get rid of any coaches. That's being honest with you. Nobody said you should get rid of anybody. I evaluated the situation and made some personnel changes.

get rid of our dependence on oil and move toward clean, renewable domestic energy policies.

Getting rid of the incompetence at the top. We're never going to address the school finance problems, health care issues, in any meaningful way if we don't change the leadership.

Getting rid of that plaque is a fundamental step in stopping this disease.

Getting rid of him would be the best thing politically that could happen to us in the November election.

Getting rid of GMAC wouldn't get GM itself back to profitability but what it would do is buy them some time and that's critical in this business. They need some time to get some decent product to the marketplace.

Free-to-play isn't a business model. Free-to-play is a marketing strategy. It's a way to get people over the hump of trying out your game. It gets rid of the friction that happens when you charge an upfront fee.

From that point on, I spent four or five days a week talking to Ken Herock trying to somehow massage it and get this so first of all we don't lose him and secondly this can be an eventuality. They wanted to get rid of him and I just didn't want that thing to get cold.

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

If a company sprays for ants, they're really doing the wrong thing. The only way to get rid of them long term is by baiting them.

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

I don't think you'll see very many bars immediately going out and start cracking big bottles. They've got an inventory of little bottles they've got to get rid of first, and the only way they can get rid of them is to sell them.

For most Americans, spring is a great time to clean and freshen up their home. They are getting rid of a winter's worth of dust, dirt and grime. Of course, people also appreciate that there are significant physical and emotional benefits to keeping a clean house all year long.

Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?

If it does, I'll just get rid of every one of them. If it gets in the United States, I'm through with birds. I'm scared to death of that flu.

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.

If it's (a certain book) not being used, that's a pretty good indicator. Fiction generally has a shorter shelf life than nonfiction, though if, for instance, we have the last copy of 'Tom Sawyer' I don't care if it hasn't been checked our for five years, we're not getting rid of it.

If it meant we couldn't function as a court, I'd have no hesitancy (refusing the cuts). If, for example, I was told to get rid of two more in our respective offices, I don't think we could function.

He's got way too much invested in that company. He can't get rid of the options, so he shouldn't buy anymore (company stock).

He was a little nervous to start with. Once he got rolling, he got rid of those semifinal jitters a little bit.

He was very knowledgeable about their habits and what it would take to get rid of them.

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

He has all the tools to be good. He's got a strong arm, he's a tall kid and he can get rid of the ball. He sees the game pretty well.

He had a cramp and just couldn't get rid of it. He was in the dugout later in the game, so that was a good sign.

He gets rid of the ball quickly, ... He's a real good pocket passer. He can feel people around him.

Whatever it is Christ said doesn't get a fair shake. There's not much written, it was done 150 years later, and it was used to create an empire. So can we get rid of all that and just see what the guy said?

What makes me laugh is how people are saying he let his team down, ... How many times does a coach get rid of a player right before the season, and that player is left with nothing? Players want to know, How come you got rid of guys who could have helped us, over and over? That's letting your team down.

The purpose of the group is to showcase the ability of people with disabilities and get rid of stereotypes.

The people have already rid themselves of the fear they had several years ago. I call on my compatriots to begin constructive work in order to revive and renew Russia in the name of national unity.

We've finally gotten rid of the deficit, and they're hell-bent on bringing it back,

We talk about footwork more than anything -- getting your feet in position to throw. He gets rid of the ball really quick and I think that's one of the reasons why, because his feet are always in a good position.

We swap around instruments from time to time and try other variations. The real trick to making a good record is finding out the things that aren't good and getting rid of them.

What will happen when the CFO looks at his premium and realizes that it will go down 50 percent if he gets rid of all his insecure Windows operating systems and replaces them with a secure version of Linux? The choice of which operating system to use will no longer be 100 percent technical, ... Microsoft, and other companies with shoddy security, will start losing sales because companies don't want to pay the insurance premiums.

Hatred has weight and volume too. It felt so heavy when heart is full of it. Forgiving is the way of getting rid of it. Then you may feel even lighter than air.

Here's them trying to get rid of him.

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

He's got great presence on the field, in the huddle, at the line. Even when there's pressure around him in the pocket, even with six or seven people (rushing) and he's got to get rid of it, Brandon always looks like he's in control. That's the sign of a good quarterback.

He should be fine for the game. We need to get rid of the soreness and he should be all right.

His quickness with getting rid of the football, his quickness with decision making. The normal things that a young quarterback needs to work on.

We must gradually arrange things to get rid of foreign (aid) injections,

We must create an understanding everywhere that when we say we need to rid the game of steroids, we mean it,

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

We made some mental errors tonight that we need to get rid of. We are just real happy right now to be 5-0.

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.

He was our main man. Coming into the season, he knew and all the guys knew. Everyone around knew it also. I got rid of nine seniors last year. Coming in, he was the guy.

He wanted to get something done before the season started so he can just focus on the season and get rid of any trade rumors. They've been working on it all spring and he's happy that it got done. It was fair to both parties.

He didn't win all of those games by being a bad coach, ... Nebraska got rid of a good football coach, there's no doubt about it.

He couldn't get her out of his life. She wouldn't leave. She wanted everything, and he didn't know how to get rid of her because of her threats.

He completely changed his fundamentals of punting. He was always a three-step punter, and in the spring changed to being a two-step punter. Which has done a couple of things, number one, he's easier to protect because he gets rid of the ball faster and number two, it's given him a much better rhythm and (the late) coach (Mike) Drake actually worked with him a lot last spring to get that taken care of for us. It's paid off huge because he's had a great year.

He is saying what everybody has been saying but the real crux is whether he will get rid of non-performers. But it's unlikely because Mugabe runs an elaborate patronage system that continues to reward non-performers. He needs people who can stand up to him and with the resolve to push real political and economic reforms.

He is very pleasant and congenial, but he's tougher than he appears in public. If he had to move someone aside or get rid of someone, he'd do it, even if there were sentimental obstacles and personal relationships. He tends to do what's best for the corporation.

He is very closely associated with Bush in the public mind, and George Bush, rightly or wrongly, is fantastically unpopular in Britain. And so to get rid of him would be like getting rid of the millstone round his neck.

There are so many obstacles to go through. They can't just wake up one morning and say, 'We want to get rid of this league and it's done.' There's a lot of red tape to work out and procedures and rules that they have to adhere to.

Know the state of your inner being; meet with the Guru and get rid of your skepticism.

I wouldn't rush to get rid of either line because of the costs associated with the move. But if GM's share continues to drop and gets down near 21 percent, I see them taking steps to phase out Buick.

Jake has tremendous feet and hands. He gets rid of the ball and he's very accurate, which is key. You never throw anybody out throwing the ball to center field. He never tries to outdo what his capabilities are. He trusts his ability that he can throw guys out." ()

Keeping pesticides out of streams is the ultimate goal. Farmers who have some of the old stuff -- because they bought a farm and it's not labeled -- this gave them an avenue to get rid of it.

Just when I wanted to get rid of her, now I don?t want the season to end.

I thought, you know, this doesn't look right, ... And I got involved in NOW. I saw them talking about this very law, which was called the Head and Master law, and the next seven years getting rid of it.

It hurt us earlier in the season. Later this season guys started getting rid of the (selfish) attitude and started fighting for each other.

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

I think the nation will be happy, will be relieved, because Suharto is the problem. So by getting rid of him, I think the nation ... will feel, you know, gratified, satisfied, happy. From then on, we can talk about economic reforms, political reforms.

I think the hooking and the holding and the clutching and the grabbing is the main thing that they had to get rid of.

I think the Fed will get rid of the reference about what to do in the future. I think they will make the statement as plain vanilla as possible, and they won't try to send a strong signal one way or the other.

I think the (ATP) are just trying to get rid of doubles and they're doing it slowly,

I thought that it was a great idea to get rid of CAPS. I didn't see how it improved my intellectual awareness.

I think we ran into a Carolina team that was determined today. Not a lot went right for us. We feel bad about not getting rid of that 40-year problem.

I think we were lucky on that one and found it pretty quickly. If you had a large infestation, you probably couldn't get rid of it.

I think we've already voted at the U.N., in the Security Council, to get rid of nuclear weapons. Let's get rid of them. Let's get rid of ours and then Iran will stop, I believe. And so everybody else will, because if everybody doesn't have them, then we're safe, at least safe from a nuclear attack.

It gets rid of legibility problems, and that means a decrease in errors.

I think this is ridiculous. I think (certain district officials) just want to get rid of me. . . . It's horrifying that this can happen. I've never, never, never been accused of anything like this. Never.

It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.

It is now possible to abolish work and replace it, insofar as it serves useful purposes, with a multitude of new kinds of free activities. To abolish work requires going at it from two directions, quantitative and qualitative. On the one hand, on the quantitative side, we have to cut down massively on the amount of work being done. At present most work is useless or worse and we should simply get rid of it. On the other hand -- and I think this the crux of the matter and the revolutionary new departure -- we have to take what useful work remains and transform it into a pleasing variety of game-like and craft-like pastimes, indistinguishable from other pleasurable pastimes, except that they happen to yield useful end-products.

I think that's part of acting - to still get nervous and control that fear. I don't know how to get rid of that.

It is important not to have the unrealistic expectation that we will find a magic key to help get rid of all suffering. It takes determination, patience, and more than one week.

I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a framework holding the universe together that is benign and intelligent. We're not going to get rid of that; it's just too scary to be that molecule flying around briefly in a vacuum.

Just getting rid of that stench from last year, taking advantage of this fresh start, that's what this game is. To win in a game that's truly meaningful, that's great.

Just getting rid of that (2-14) stench from last year, taking advantage of this fresh start, that's what this game is. To win in a game that's truly meaningful, that's great.

Just answer the darn question and get rid of it.

Just because we're rid of Saddam and the evil Batthists doesn't mean the occupation is a good thing. Our salvation from Saddam was only with the grace of God.

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

I think diplomatic negotiations will go on behind the scenes. GM needs to get rid of this sword of Damocles and court is a risk -- it could go either way.

I say to my friends in Hebron that they should have done everything to get rid of those youths who are eradicating any possibility of having people listen to their very justified complaints.

People are more concerned with getting rid of them.

our people are getting rid of the traitors one by one.

Our focus right now is in getting rid of this regime in Baghdad.

Our fans have got rid of that reputation and all the fans coming to Germany will be here to have a good time and enjoy the football.

On the surface level they've got rid of a lot of the street element, but there's still the same old people in charge.

Right now the effect would be we're in a 'sold-out' market, according to the marketing people. All the cement we could produce, right now, is going to customers. Last year, they said the same thing, but we ended up with more than we could get rid of, and we had to send some cement and clinker to our Leeds, Ala., plant, and would anticipate the same scenario for this year, if we don't sell of our cement to our local customers.

Rivera turned us loose today, ... He called a bunch of blitzes -- they worked. We got a bunch of pressure, and when he did get rid of the ball we tackled the guys. We flew around and had a good time.

(Robbins) got a little nervous. That?s what burned him this time. He tried to get rid of it,

picking up Kuchma's baton and wanting to get rid of me in the same way.