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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just... normal people.

Karen Carpenter

A way to gain and maintain favor with particular analysts.

Arthur Levitt

For a government to maintain any credibility, it has to have the ability to pay people's salaries, turn on the lights, be able to have desks, telephones ... etc.

Joseph Biden

We have tried to keep up a good standard, but it's been hard. We've really had difficulty maintaining what I feel is an adequate level of group time. What we have is minimally adequate.

Adam Deming

But we're trying to preserve the antiquity of the machine and maintain its originality, so we're doing it the old-fashioned way.

Pete Burno

Mike and his staff do a great job maintaining the equipment.

John Elam

We are firmly committed to maintaining commercial-free all the music channels XM itself creates.

Nathaniel Brown

Which is to maintain the status quo by keeping Theresa Schiavo alive until the federal courts have a new and adequate opportunity to consider the constitutional issues.

Charles Wilson

The long end of the curve is very cheap. We are maintaining our long duration position in Treasuries.

Akira Takei

It is important for us to maintain and develop the numbers of Coventry-born players in our squad.

Mike Umaga

My first priority will be to maintain continuing with the policy and policy strategies under the Greenspan era.

Ben S. Bernanke

I would hope that before July, the board will either feel a sufficient level of comfort to maintain the lease or decide to go in a different direction. The lease will be an action item on the March 23 agenda, and it's very possible that a decision could be made then.

Daymon Doss

We will maintain dignity throughout this process.

Aaron Ellis

Good start tonight. We got in a little foul trouble, but our girls off the bench did a good job of maintaining things.

Lynn Frederick

I still maintain that music is the best way of getting the self-expression job done.

Nick Hornby

Both should maintain high level contacts, enrich economic and trade cooperation and consolidate collaboration on common interests.

Wang Jiarui

Very committed to maintaining its facilities in Ohio, but the ultimate decision in this case will be a significant factor in our future investment decisions.

Paul Wolff

We felt the key for us was to maintain an up-tempo game. Make it uncomfortable for (MCI).

Rob Schmidt

We're trying to maintain a balance.

Mary Cleave

Maintaining personal security is important for everyone.

Shira Goodman

To maintain public confidence in its operating system, Jobs & Co. should consider hiring a security czar.

Arik Hesseldahl

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Voltaire

The biggest thing for me is to try to maintain the same approach.

Matt Murton

We expect to maintain profit at last year's level if we get subsidies and government bonds.

Sarthak Behuria

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.

Max Lerner

To not maintain the center, it just continues to hurt our business. Some of our customers think we're not going to be there anymore, some think we're not there anymore, based on how the center is maintained.

Dave Leonard

They want to maintain a moving target.

Doug Wilson

We're expecting to cool off a little bit, but we're hoping we can maintain our hitting. We know the runs aren't going to come, but we hope to keep hitting it hard and put it in play a bunch. We're very realistic, but it's good to have this confidence built up now.

Todd Blomberg

We accept interest rates may rise in order to maintain the low-inflation stability which is essential for business.

Ruth Lea

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Vic Rimmer

Staying current is critical for maintaining a website's relevance, and the WMT makes doing that easy.

Clarence Briggs

It's not about increasing yield, it's about maintaining yield. Look at it as a house. The foundation has to be solid.

Palle Pedersen

We can't get a lead and maintain it. We aren't to that point.

Jason Tarleton

It's unusual for a project of this scope not to maintain communication and contact.

Mark Farris

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Marilyn vos Savant

We've selected these buildings because of the age, the architecture and the past owners. Our goal is to maintain the integrity of this historic district.

Karen Mateyka

We have to find a way to get some points. Hopefully, our defense will be able to maintain their level of play from last week.

Jeff Roper

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

Luis Miguel

We want to maintain the current ratio.

Spencer Scharff

The prominent always go to great lengths to maintain their incognito and are extremely disappointed when it succeeds.

Victor De Kowa

The object of the game is to maintain healthy or low levels of cholesterol in your heart.

John Blanchette

It's going to be a difficult year for NREL. We're going to do everything we can to maintain our mission goals, but the fact that we have to let go some of our top people here clearly will have an impact on our ability to fulfill some of the goals that we've set.

Bob Noun

We believe the change will allow us to maintain the solid presence of the US navy and contribute to keeping Japan's security.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

Kazakhstan is one of the few countries with ample capacity to expand oil production. This makes them very important to maintain global energy balances.

Ricardo Hausmann

We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our jobs and serve our students better.

Michele Patenaude

Whether one agreed with him or not, for anyone who values the independence of the Fed, it is important that the chair of the Fed maintain some distance from fiscal policy debates.

Gilbert Metcalf

Maintaining the current efficient production rate of 15 per year will allow Boeing ( BA ) to continue these same economics.

Dave Bowman

It shows that we have an interest in them and that helps them to maintain interest in us, which makes for a good mesh.

John Wardell

The first half was a very fast-paced game. There were a lot of possessions and we came out of the blocks shooting really well, but it's hard to get out early like that and maintain that kind of energy.

Ted Woodward

Our costs are going up, and we're having a difficult time addressing all the expenses we need to maintain a high quality of education.

Chester Gardner

(Willingham) would have to demonstrate to me (and the athletic director) that we would maintain an objective performance assessment and evaluation for pay increases.

Mark Emmert

This is not a company that's on the ropes, but I think it's struggling to maintain the growth targets it has set for itself.

Cindy Shaw

We have a permanent improvement levy coming up. Our community has been good about maintaining it, ... We've just put in a new bus garage and we're in the process of moving everything to it.

Bob Ward

The challenge that we face is maintaining the quality of Florida's teaching force while increasing the quantity. This is a huge challenge.

Cheri Yecke

Blake can't really speak to us, but he understands us when we talk to him. We maintain (hope) by keeping God, family and friends in our life.

Sherry Scarberry

We pay our way but there are other expenses that they need to maintain this place, and the water bill is terrific.

George Dacy

If you're there early in the morning or late at night you can work your class schedule around work. You just have to maintain at least a C average.

Tara Stewart

One should strive to maintain good health by taking balanced diet and exercising regularly.

Atharva Veda

That also has put pressure on analysts to report favorably on a company in order to maintain access to inside information.

Arthur Levitt

One of the key things events like this do is bring together community leaders. We're all working toward a common goal. ... The key is to maintain that momentum.

Melanie Davis

BOI needs an acquisition to maintain its growth.

David Liston

I'm worried about how well they can handle hyper-growth, ... It's very hard to maintain discipline when you're growing that fast.

Mark Mahaney

If we aren't able to improve the highway and transit systems and if we aren't able to get some more rental housing, there will be a real constraint on our ability to grow and to even maintain what we have.

Becky Morgan

You can do anything inside, but on the outside you must maintain the integrity of the structure.

Bill Kelly

In San Diego, it's very difficult to maintain every level of intimacy.

Leslie Fausset

We should maintain the election date and elect a new prime minister.

Reuven Rivlin

Miss Locklear is maintaining a small lead.

Dennis Ward

Everyone seems to support the maintaining of a fee, ... We would like it to stay that way.

John Donahue

The two have set a high standard that the department intends to maintain. The investigation continues vigorously.

Bert Brandenburg

There is need to maintain a congenial atmosphere for the political negotiations to continue.

Thuingaleng Muivah

This legislation would be extraordinarily helpful in maintaining our system and would be helpful for other agencies to develop these systems themselves.

James Hartman

We have some tremendous senior leadership that has really taken hold. It's helping us maintain a standard.

Sue Leckey

If people like their water and they drink water, then they should be concerned. Maintaining the water quality not only protects people, it also protects the environment.

Maran Hilgendorf

It took them, basically, two days to complete the one-day route. How long they could maintain that kind of schedule, ... I don't know.

Michael Miller

We have nothing to add. We seriously talk to hundreds of companies every year and we maintain confidentiality in any negotiations we have until there is a deal.

Lara Wade

We are trying to maintain a higher level of water in the canal.

David King

We're never going to be able to raise as much as Jim Talent. But we're committed to maintaining a competitive fundraising operation.

Adrianne Marsh

We'll be working on keeping confidence high. We'll also continue working hard at practice and maintaining team chemistry. This is a total team effort.

Stephanie Young

It is very unlikely that it would maintain that kind of case mortality rate if it made the jump.

Stanley Lemon

The high cost of maintaining term deposits has informed the movement to current and savings accounts.

James Macharia

I could maintain this level for at least a couple of months.

James Whitmore

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Gaston Bachelard

The challenge is to maintain high-touch in a high-tech environment.

Hudson Riehle

With all of that, they should at least maintain a 3.0. I'm all for anything to make these kids realize the importance of an education.

Rich Miano

The nurses would have to hold (the babies) next to them, in order for them to maintain their temperature.

Cheryl Ory

It's not life insurance; it's wage replacement. It's trying to make the injured worker - or their family, in the case of deceased worker - maintain their lifestyle, their level of income.

Andy Wessels

This is very important. Israel is a democratic nation and we must maintain those civil liberties. They apply even to terrorists when they are caught. And Israeli courts strictly enforce those civil liberties.

Ron Habler

The key objective to successful business travel is to maintain control.

Steve Prentice

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

Jerry Summers

I maintain the belief that it is not that easy or productive or value-creating going for a mega-merger.

Franz Humer

Lakes with low populations use secondary sites. That is how they maintain their small populations.

Rick Ott

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There's a huge amount of work around in infrastructure transport and mining, so you can see them maintaining that order book around A$16 billion.

Brent Mitchell

It is challenging to earn profits with today's high fuel costs while maintaining low-cost fares. We are always looking to be creative with our service.

Brandon Hamm

We will continue to monitor the marketplace and make appropriate modifications to our benefits programs that maintain our competitiveness.

Paul Thomas

There's no reason why we shouldn't [maintain leads]. We've got a good defensive team and we have to make the right decisions at the right time and right now we're not doing that.

Daniel Sedin

Kathy's hearing loss caused severe limitations that made her unable to maintain employment. It cut her off from people and she needed to be able to communicate with people for her job.

Patsy Vegter

It's just part of an ongoing effort to maintain a high level of corporate governance.

Dave Jackson

They will receive the vouchers to maintain affordable living there or elsewhere.

Adam Glantz

We just go by the book and conduct thorough inspections, and it is our duty to maintain that regulatory framework. It is up to private-sector companies what decisions they make.

Heizo Takenaka

We want to maintain above community standards.

Terry Saeger

Our survival as a research company depends on our success, and that's just to maintain what we do.

Scott Aker

We maintain our inspections as we always do. We haven't seen anything that would make us do anything differently at the Viper Mine.

Mike Woods

We had a decent stretch of offense and defense. But we didn't maintain it.

Michael Uhl

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

William Empson

I believe it's absolutely crucial for us to maintain a strong voice in the national government.

Dennis Anderson

The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential functionality that consumers find in the larger products and to introduce new and relevant functionality.

Beth Zimmerman

The fact that orders were up, and they're maintaining guidance is another example that it's not the end of the world.

Gregg Schoenleber

It's important we maintain strong ties with Kankakee at all levels.

Michael Costigan

It's tough to lose a game like this. We played great, but our inexperience got the best of us at the end. We just didn't maintain our intensity. We need to work on that in the future.

Carlos Hernandez

We were able to survive after we had a pretty good run on them in the first half. We were able to maintain and make our free throws down the stretch.

Bryce Swafford

We have to maintain a level of smoothness. Sometimes there are accidents on stage, and sometimes we will perform with the audiences. The key is to make everything look easy.

George Stavropoulos

Will the military maintain its form or will it implode? It could very well disintegrate and if it goes, we've got a very serious problem. The next few days are critical.

Martin Navias

No matter what we do, we have to maintain good sportsmanship and play as a team.

Teresa Acklin

It's our hope that we'll be able to evaluate the northbound lane and determine whether that's going to be safe enough to maintain or if that has to come down too.

John Rowland

We try really hard to maintain the focus of this day on the kids.

Allen Hughes

In 50 years there will be more people, less farmland and it will be more important to maintain (Conaway) in agriculture.

Jeff Sutton

I wanted to run faster. I went out fast, but it was hard to maintain it by myself. So I just ran to win today.

Abdi Abdirahman

His interests are to maintain the Senate, and he's concerned about the statewide ticket.

John Mcardle

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile, ... Never take the lead - but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping

We would like to maintain this beautiful music.

Carol Palmer

Apple rarely gives developers any advance warning. It's one way they help maintain their drum-tight security. So the first we heard of Boot Camp was the day Apple announced it.

Colin Smith

I don't think you will see a significant increase because most people in the countryside just want to maintain the balance of foxes.

David Knowles

At this stage, and clearly with the AGL merger looming, it's prudent for us just to maintain that guidance.

Bob Browning

The Billerica operation will maintain its autonomy and operate as a subsidiary.

Robert Lapenta

She's as composed and graceful and confident as I've seen in any 17 year old. But it's hard to come off that big a win and keep the momentum going. It's so much easier to get there than to maintain that level of success.

Anne Worcester

It may just simply not be cost-effective to maintain the physical trading floor.

Bill Cline

Hot selling consumer electronic items can help maintain sustainable growth for component suppliers.

Michael On

It helps maintain or increase lean body mass.

Osama Hamdy

Maintaining good control of glucose and hypertension [high blood pressure] limits morbidity and mortality.

Stuart Weiss

The commission only has the power to offer advice on maintaining historic properties.

Karen Mateyka

Despite our belief that the complaint ... was without merit, we elected to settle this case so that we can put it behind us and maintain our focus on serving our customers.

Catherine Miller

The greatest asset a technology company has is not its technology, but its employees -- who invent, nurture, and inspire success. This award highlights our success in creating and maintaining a fantastic workplace for our greatest asset.

Scott Weiss

We'd like to maintain it, but we're not going to. We're going to keep it decent, but like I said, we're not going to paint it and have them throw us out in six months or three days.

Ray Owens

If they were to do this and maintain some semblance of the existing slopes and not do mass grading, then they couldn't get this density.

Russ Thomas

It's very hard. It's such a long season ... it's very hard to maintain the consistency and play well.

Toni Kukoc

I think if they maintain their focus and practice regularly they have a good shot at going to the finals.

Mark Silverstein

Maintaining our standard; that's our challenge day-in and day-out.

Tim Rice

The foreign cars just always seem to maintain themselves better.

Jan Trefethen

By holding at this power level, we are ensuring we maintain ample margins to ensure plant reliability.

Jay Thayer

You kind of get to the point where you're putting...it's like trying to keep up that old car and maintain that old car.

Jay Carter

We're working-class people trying to maintain what we have.

Jim Boyle

We will maintain our dynamic growth in 2006 too.

Alessandro Banchi

Most important, maintain a healthy weight; being too thin or too heavy can lessen your odds of conceiving.

D. Milton Stokes

We will continue to do well what we have been doing well, maintaining a stable economy.

Michelle Bachelet

The events of September 11 were not helpful for the global economy and it will be harder to maintain our earnings growth of the last two years.

Philip Bowman

We just want to be able to live like the rest of the people. We want to be able to live and maintain our lives too.

Cynthia Murray

We are focused on finishing in the top six and I am sure Aberavon will want to maintain a top-four place, especially with cash incentives at stake.

Gren Cole

We want a model in place to maintain the pace of J2EE innovation.

Scott Dietzen

The biggest problem is maintaining the pregnancy.

Mark Westhusin

The current falloff in the industry is not a fair way to judge what is likely to happen with the addition of rooms. But, there will have to be an even greater increase in arrivals in order to maintain reasonable occupancy in these hotels.

Paul Pennicook

I told my guys to maintain their composure. What I wasn't counting on was bad passes, missed shots, balls bouncing off of our legs, things like that.

Bill Sambrookes

Culturally based beliefs about health and appropriate strategies for maintaining health may provide better explanations for ethnic difference in home remedy use.

Joseph G. Grzywacz

We're looking for Kate to create and maintain the offense and to distribute the ball.

Craig Cusson

It is impossible to maintain civilization with 12-year-olds having babies, with 15-year-olds killing each other, with 17-year-olds dying of AIDS and with 18-year-olds getting diplomas they can't read.

Newt Gingrich

I feel pretty good on passing. We worked more on individual defense and maintaining position of the ball in the circle. On the corners, we've gotten more efficient.

Char Morett

They are highly dependent on the interest of the American audience. They have to maintain interest in the American viewer and one way is to have the games return here regularly.

Dan Doctoroff

I think that's a sign we're growing up. We wanted to maintain a double-digit lead.

Jonathon Modica

I think that most people realize maintaining any historic structure is expensive.

Mova Verde

It's much better for Australia to have the current state of Indonesia to succeed ... we are very concerned about maintaining good relations with Indonesia.

John Moore

It was up-and-down, a pretty good tempo and we were able to open up a pretty good lead and maintain it.

Geoff Broyles

I was hoping we would do a little better job of maintaining the ball. It was a little more discouraging in the sense that I thought we would be able to do some things instead of defending.

Tony Bauman

It surprised me. All the championships they won, if there's a time to get out, it's a good time to go. To me, it's not easy to win championships like he did. It gets harder every year. To maintain what they had was tough.

Wendell Say

The rhythm is much easier to maintain and the efficiency goes up dramatically when they are used as a pair. There's no point in leaving half your body out of the equation.

Rich Orr

Hopefully I will be able to maintain or at least level their taxes and look at a way that we can reduce taxes, My goal is to prevent future tax increases we need to hold the line on taxes.

Barbara Perez

Efforts to maintain cleanliness of the household in terms of dust on the floors and in bedding can help reduce these complaints, ... Laundering bedding regularly with hot water and soap is a good idea.

Peter Thorne

Business confidence is very low, and thus they're maintaining as cautious an approach as possible to their activity, whether that's hiring, building inventory or anything else.

Brian Fabbri

We are trying to maintain the station with what we have.

Warren Pattison

If it gets to the point where the equipment doesn't work anymore you gotta buy a whole new system down the line, where these guys are maintaining the equipment day in, and day out.

Paul Wilkins

Maintaining the male line is the condition to preserving that Y chromosome.

Hakubun Shimomura

Extra police and rangers have been deployed all around the city to maintain law and order.

Niaz Siddiqui

The future is bright for our clients, however, it is a day-to-day challenge to maintain funding levels for our nonprofit incubator.

Wayne Hicks

The governor would maintain his position if the bill comes to him.

Kate Philips

We ask everyone to maintain a safe distance from downed electric lines they may encounter and to report downed lines immediately.

Ron Plank

We've added a few more products, but we're maintaining the tradition.

Steve Long

I would maintain we are not in the transportation business, but if we didn't do it no one would do it.

Tom Morrison

Asia, in general, is the growth market. But China is a test case to maintain the growth ... and personally I expect a lot from China.

Klaus Zumwinkel

We wanted to maintain the integrity of the older home, preserving the charm and feel.

Tony Johnson

It doesn't happen so frequently that we have rules. It's just common sense. With witnesses from the candidates, they were able to gather up and put (the ballot box) back together so that they could continue and maintain the integrity of the election.

Dana Doiron

They've been a tremendous conservation asset in terms of introducing Yellowstone genes into the Jackson herd, which helps maintain genetic diversity.

Steve Cain

Finally, we are ensuring that we adequately maintain what the taxpayers have had to pay for.

Allen Fossbender

We are going to try and maintain what we are doing but add a sports bar and some dinner items.

Todd Pickett

The difficulty is how to maintain quality at a distance.

Anne Kelly

We're ensuring we meet the guidelines already in the law to maintain public confidence in our efforts to build schools.

Susan Harrison

They came to the Northwest, in part, because of the low power costs. This makes it difficult to maintain employment and maintain their contributions to the communities they are in.

Michael Early

People will be coming at us quickly. So it's going to be up to us to look at derivatives of this product quick, and continue to maintain our lead.

Theodor Cunningham

His is a very unusual case. It is far more typical for an acquiring company to maintain the leadership.

Dan Dalton

We're absolutely thrilled and we really appreciate the community's support in this initiative. At this point, we'll be able to maintain what we were receiving before.

Michelle Irwin

I'm obligated to operate and maintain the canal. Maintaining it and bringing it up to some high standard are two different issues.

Jim Esget

I've got news for them, ... We're not simply going to maintain, we're going to exceed what we've done. Our best days are ahead of us.

Capt. Shawn Morrissey

No one should doubt my resolve to maintain discipline in this service.

Bill Blair

Besides the long hours, it became too hard to maintain a large-enough staff.

Nancy Allman

After we beat JMU (82-70) we got content and haven't played well since. We have to learn that with winning comes learning how to maintain it.

Debbie Taylor

It's a great accomplishment after all the time they spend in practice to go home and maintain academically.

Al Gaccione

We talk about maintaining young professionals and keeping students in the community and getting students integrated in the community, this is one way we can do that.

Maggie Brooks

We've been able to maintain that rate and hopefully, who knows, maybe in the future, if we keep growing at this pace, we could potentially see to lower that rate in the future.

Greg Stewart