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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

The metabolism of the oil industry picks up pretty smartly when oil gets above $40 a barrel. It's fair to say there are a lot of bottlenecks in the oil and gas industry, so in many ways it's ripe for investment.

James Gelly

While this demographic is the first to feel the impact of an economic slowdown, it's the last to benefit when the economy picks up. There's generally a 12- to 18-month lag until this group sees a recovery.

Jeffery Dabbs

Anthony is our motor. He runs the show and when he picks it up, everything rolls.

Ron Lievense

Kevin threw three picks early, but he stayed the course, ... He's our No. 1 man and he kept the rest of the guys pushing. He didn't let anything get to him.

John Doherty

This is a person who has a long history in Wisconsin including as a former legislator and as a member of the governor's administration. The governor always picks the people who are best for the jobs.

Melanie Fonder

Our bullpen has been unbelievable. It's a big difference from where we were. I'm able to come out after five innings and the pen picks me up with four innings.

Roy Halladay

We love to see the ball in the air. We love opportunities to get picks ... so we're kind of fired up.

Austin Smith

We were getting in so much foul trouble trying to execute our traps. I am so excited about our half-court game. We executed beautifully with our back picks and lob passes.

Debra Pegram

The idea of a focus fund is to devote assets to your highest-conviction stock picks. It makes stock picking critical. A couple of blowups can really damage returns.

Kerry O'boyle

I've been a great cover corner for a couple years and I don't have many picks, so you can't always just look at that number.

Will Peterson

[Since Oprah Winfrey said last month that she would no longer make monthly book picks, new clubs have been formed by USA Today, the] Today ... Live With Regis & Kelly.

Kelly Ripa

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

Don Rickles

If you do fall through the ice, a PFD will help you stay buoyant while grabbing the ice picks to get a grip to pull yourself up on the ice.

Jake Hohl

Those two have been bad picks. The Saints' early-round picks just haven't lived up to expectations under this staff.

Mike Detillier

You'll definitely see some changes in the lineup. We had some good draft picks.

Mac Maude

We were coming off Christmas break and I knew we'd be rusty. Our defense could have been better. That's what hurt us. Usually at the end of the game is when our defense picks up, but we were having to play catch-up.

Charlotte Jones

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

He's a crafty, keen player. Crafty in the way he goes about it on the ice and keen on the way he picks up things and reads plays.

Dave Tippett

When you are picking at 53, it is hard because there are 52 picks in front of you and a lot of teams are picking twice. You will have a better feel what is going to be at 53 once you get through the first round because we put down everyone's needs so once they draft in the first round you can focus in on what is going to happen in the second.

Vinny Cerrato

As SSA picks up more and more distressed companies, it will quickly become SSA versus Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

Josh Greenbaum

It's more active than what Tony Soprano is doing. Here you have your picks.

Koleman Strumpf

When someone picks up the phone and calls 9-1-1, they want someone to come and save them, and they want someone who has the ability to do it.

Paul Drinkwater

Still, every week we see something else kick in for Wayne. He picks up something new every game, and he's obviously a great athlete.

Jim Crawley

Sacred Heart really picks up the defense when they can smell the defeat. They are a good ball team with a lot of big-game experience that we are lacking right now. When they have a chance to finish you off, they do it.

Tom Ramon

He's a great football player and whoever picks him up is going to be pleasantly surprised.

Andre Dobson

Hawthorn want two first-round picks and that's what we are offering.

Dean Laidley

She's one of the more underrated players in our league. Whether it's setting picks or passing the ball, she does things you look for as a coach.

Vin Laczkoski

If you're running low on energy, she has extra for you. She's the person who picks everyone up. She's the kind of person everyone wants to be around. That's why so many people are here today.

Bill Hamilton

He actually reads and writes it better than he speaks it which suggests to me it won't be long before he picks up the language.

Kenny Jackett

Just sitting on a room and taking a test like that, you don't know what to expect. It picks your brain apart.

Devin Aromashodu

It picks up ambient noises in the cockpit, switch movements, it picks up any noise, really. We can even analyze the frequency of the engines and determine how fast they were rotating by listening to the cockpit voice recorder.

Bob Benzon

Not only do our top picks have to perform well at our test track, they have to get average or better reliability, according to our annual car reliability survey.

Rik Paul

The depreciation will now slow down but at the same time the parallel market will become more active. When controls are put in place, the activity on the black market picks up. This is exactly what will happen.

Tony Hawkins

She picks up the book bag and a BB pistol falls out. He grabs it.

Paul Puryear

That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.

Prince Charles

He's had the case since July, and he picks this week to make this decision? The whole thing doesn't add up. Anyone who doesn't smell a rat doesn't have a nose.

Paul Finebaum

We really like LSI Logic as one of the semiconductor picks. They have a broad exposure to consumer electronics, to digital cameras, to networking, to a lot of real important growth themes in the economy.

Drew Cupps

Investors will continue to monitor what happens in the economy because once the economy picks up, earnings will improve.

Peter Cardillo

I think that anytime you make shots, it picks up your adrenaline, it picks up your passion. I think we kind of fed off of our 3-point shooting early.

Paul Biancardi

That's a good thing about our team. Everybody picks it up when somebody lets down a little.

Troy Young

We'd move the ball and then have a breakdown like a big play and then a fumble. We had a couple of picks a couple at the end when we had to throw. But really only one before that on a tipped pass, but it was fumbles and penalties that killed us.

Tim Pufall

He'll sit in his room and try to lift his legs. He picks his pant leg up.

Rick Mcgee

There are guys who may have bigger numbers, and guys who may be bigger and faster, but Bruce has all of that. He may be one of the safest picks in the draft this year.

Ralph Cindrich

COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.

Ambrose Bierce

Each number is choreographed by a student, who picks out the costumes, too. Sometimes, they even make them.

Lindsay Filoseta

They're just a great team down low. If you shut one down, the other one picks up the pace.

Perry Davis

When (Life Flight) picks up a patient, they have nothing to do with money. When they're called, they pick the person up.

Janet Frank

The parallel people often use is the California gold rush. People got rich selling picks and shovels.

Charles Wagner

He's like a sponge. He picks up everything. He's an observer. He watches, but he likes to do things himself and he's able to pick things up quite quickly.

Floyd Bannister

If that goes in, it's a completely different game ? the intensity of the boys picks up. I felt in the first half if we would have put one of the chances we had, it would have been a totally different game. Unfortunately, we didn't.

Jorge Ortiz

He still picks up a lot of my birds because he gets his limit so quick. That little man right there can shoot. He loves it.

John Lack

The D-line starts every play. We concentrate on them. If they get pressure, we can get picks, just like we did against Duke.

Roland Minor

It just picks up the pace of the game. We wanted them to play the way we want to play.

Brianna Frigerio

I lost all hope because no teams that I worked out for had picks after that.

Louis Williams

The market is beginning to focus on the huge U.S. trade imbalance and there is a view that as growth picks up in Japan and interest rates go up, a lot of the money coming from Japan to the U.S. will not come as rapidly into the U.S. securities markets, ... Before Hours .

Robert Hormats

Then it's a present for someone who picks it up.

Ben Rosario

When one guy is off, we have another guy who picks us up.

Matt Parker

If I asked him to run through a wall, he would run through a wall. He does what it takes to win. He picks up the other players, and he is just an all-around great guy on and off the field, which makes him that much better.

Mike Rowan

We kind of approach it like a triangle, like we know who our top picks are, but down from there, we've got to be flexible.

Dave Bliss

We knew going into the draft we weren't going to get all of them to come in. If we can get 50 percent of the draft picks to training camp, we will be doing extremely well.

Jim Coyne

In addition, the type and dollar amount of the incentives that the state, county and municipality collectively can bring to the table is often the determining factor as to whether a company picks your community.

Chris Norton

The SEAA affords customers the ability to get transferred instantly when calling in. They know as soon as the system picks up they can say a name or department and get connected.

Jack Carroll

When it's far-reaching and international like this, it's hard to track down. The money gets wired to someone who comes in a door and picks it up. Did they give a real name? I doubt it.

Barbara Petito

Money in this country justifies anything. If one picks up a 13-year-old for sex, it's illegal, but if one pays compensation to the family, it's okay.

Franciscan Father Jude

Clearly there are a lot of industries in tech that are just begging to be consolidated. So the question is not whether the pace of M&A picks up in 2005 but whether it will represent a breaking of the dam.

Arnie Berman

Mike's got good hands. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. He also makes picks.

Clay Jordan

I will never get involved with what the coach does -- the coach is the guy who picks the team.

Fernando Martin

He hits with power to the gaps. We're hoping he picks up right where he left off.

Sean Economou

If one's not having a good game, someone else picks up. I don't know what it is. They have found this chemistry between them, and hopefully we can keep it going.

Joanne Boyle

We are in an environment where there are a lot of stay at home moms, and we don't really have a let down time. We are busy in the mornings with the 5 and 6 a.m. crowds, then it picks up again after moms drop their kids off for school. The only time we are not busy is between 2 and 4 p.m., but then it picks up again with the after work crowd.

Gayle Westapher

We don't know exactly what the program will be, but Chuck's always been known for his ability to pick great songs. Whatever he picks will make a great show.

Amanda Matthews

She's more of a batting coach than most of the coaches are. She picks out every little thing. She's just so intelligent.

Paul Marick

That kid (Benson) can shoot the damn lights out. And they run him off so many picks, it makes you work even harder to try to stop him.

Tom Mcloughlin

I believe our baby is a miracle. He was so long when he was born the medical staff didn't know where she was carrying him. He's great. He moves around a lot, picks up his head and he knows his name. When you call it he looks up. I got plenty of pictures and I ain't done yet.

Roy Vasquez

Monster-in-Law, I'm not going to say anything bad about that girl. Everybody picks on her. And she doesn't deserve it.

Wanda Sykes

We're particularly sensitive to (the anti-Detroit allegation) this year. For the first time since 1997, all 10 top picks are Japanese nameplates. We don't have, and never have had, a predisposition for certain makes and models of cars.

Jim Guest

A lot of guys have success off him early in the count. If he gets two strikes on you, he picks at the plate, and a batter really doesn't have a chance.

Cody Ransom

We are looking forward to further developing the list structure through the AFL National Draft and are encouraged by the prospect of having five picks inside the top 22.

Chris Pelchen

You stop a player like that if you don't have (to stop) all the other players around her. She picks her moments, she lets the game come to her and she's just very seasoned.

Sue Semrau

I told them to set picks for each other. I told Chris Thompson to get it inside to Ryan Grayson or Cortez. Cortez got the rebound and put it back up.

Billy Mitchell

There is still a chance for loan growth to slow further, but the Chinese government is slowly loosening. If loan growth picks up, it will be good for banks.

Henry Chan

If the water is below the pickup tube, then it picks up the phase-separated layer of ethanol, water and gasoline, and the engine will run very poorly, if at all, on that mixture.

Don Anglin

The DVD burner, plasma screen TVs, digital cameras are the hot picks.

Diane Swonk

I always expect a good performance from her. She is the type of player who is harder on herself than anyone else can be. If she's not doing as well as she feels she should be doing, she picks it up a notch.

Tiffani Walker

These sorts of funds have set themselves up to outperform by virtue of the fact that individual picks can really make a difference.

Paul Herbert

He's gotten a lot better at reading his keys inside. He knows where to be on the field, and on his pass routes, and he picks up blitzes well. He's turned himself into a good football player.

Chris Moore

He's the front-runner right now. You tell Jason something and he picks it right up. He commands the respect from the guys.

Robert Massey

The advantage of a mutual fund for small-cap investing is they can do the research an individual might not be able to do and get into a company before the broader market picks up on it.

Peter Diteresa

He picks on me all the time because he sees something in me that I can be better at. Little things, paying attention to detail.

Tamba Hali

We weren't fighting through the picks.

David Volpe

Obviously no one picks us to win, so it'd be good to prove some people wrong.

Cory Mountain

It's a lot easier to stick if you're one of those first three picks, because they're going to give them a lot more time to develop than they will that free-agent guy they only paid a couple thousand dollars, ... You gotta come in and do something to make them look at you and say, 'Well, maybe there's something in that guy that we can use.'

James Harrison

When you try to show or go underneath (picks), Nash will kill you. He'll pick you apart. If you switch, you force him to beat a bigger guy.

Gene Littles

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

David Lewis

Companies don't want to give out information about where their employees are surfing. Microsoft was not pleased when Amazon.com showed the top book picks by its employees.

Jonathan Penn

It's easier to be with three of your best friends and we keep each other entertained. One cries and the other three picks her up.

Melinda Shiraki

I think it will be a lasting legacy, in a sense, because he has so many picks.

Dan Gelber

Her personality kind of sucks, ... The one thing that she has is her cuteness, and she picks up on that energy from him. So she kind of turns it around and uses it against him, and plays with him, and manipulates. It's like a game.

Mena Suvari

That really pumped us up. When our offense clicks, our defense picks up and the rest of our game picks up.

Will Johnson

It looks like I'm going to be right for the first round if Wayne picks me in the side.

Brett Seymour

I was getting good looks and I was making them. My guy was sagging off me. I didn't think I was going to come out like that. My team was setting me good picks.

Nick Delguidice

We got into the passing lanes and made some nice picks. We shot the ball well going into halftime.

Bruce Heckmann

Dick's Picks 35: 8/7 & 24/'71.

Grateful Dead

Whoever he picks, I won't dispute it.

Thomas Roberts

By the second day you know which dog is your favorite. They say the dog picks you and I really think that's true.

Dani Anderson

I'd say if we win 16 games and get zero picks, the coaches won't be upset with us.

Will Peterson

Phil is obviously a good coach. You don't win that many games without being a damn good coach, ... Remember one thing: He's been very fortunate. He picks his spots. That's all I can say.

Red Auerbach

He's a kid who sees the game, knows the game and he really picks up on things really quickly. You can't say enough about him. He's well beyond 20 years old.

Glen Murray

The sheriff essentially becomes a politician, and a politician picks people close to them who will support them.

Frank Adamson

Marcus is a very good two guard. We have him coming off picks. We have him flying down court. We're putting him in better position to score for us.

Dave Orlandini

Something in-between is probably where we are. While the economy remains weak, inflation will gradually grind down. When the economy picks up, it's unlikely then that inflation will grind down further.

Stan Shipley

At first, we didn't cover Mad Money 's picks, but our customers kept talking about the show's impact. We need to stay on top of volatility, and if there's one thing Cramer creates, it's volatility.

Damon Southward

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

Estella Warren

He has the best game awareness I've ever seen in a high school football player. Eric really picks up everything from knowing what down it is to how far he needs to go to get the first down. He's our field general.

Eric Meek

Good day traders don't have big swings or big losing days. A really good day trader is very conservative and picks his spots closely.

Edward Franco

It will be months before demand really picks up.

Ed Sullivan