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We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Dale Carnegie

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Ram Dass

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

If our talks break down, then we will proceed to court.

Raylene Ireland

It's all well and good to say, 'We're going to run these things side by side, ' but that's a pretty costly way to proceed.

Jamie Selway

We do have a couple issues to work out with the city before we proceed. We don't anticipate that's going to be a problem.

Ruth Comer

It was issue-oriented, there were no polemics and this is the way we should proceed because then we can really try to discuss the various problems, the difficulties, the controversies and try to find common ground.

Albert Rohan

We have a schedule of IPO preparations. One of its key elements is meeting investors. I have already held dozens of one-on-one meetings and more large ones. So, we are working with investors and preparing to consolidate our subsidiaries. We are on schedule, and I assume we will proceed with the IPO according to the plan.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

It's basically a grand march in the auditorium. The guys line up on one side and the girls line up on the other side and when they are announced as a couple, they proceed through an arch and down the steps.

Jennifer Wright

Obviously, it's a big win for us and means we can proceed with our rule. It's the first time any country has regulated mercury emissions from power plants.

Jeff Holmstead

The key here is that all three agencies have the recovery of the lynx as a priority. We're working cooperatively on the issue, and that's the best way to proceed.

Jim Sanders

I think he has to be looking at the tapes of the (Indianapolis) game and wondering if he should really proceed with the wager.

Dan Hopkins

You have to comply with that requirement in order to keep your stay. If they say they can't post the bond, then I think the project should proceed.

Julie Weis

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.

Richard Harris

We have a lot of reason to hope that these were transient problems and we can proceed normally.

Susan Helms

This is a very serious matter. It has to be thought out. We have to proceed very aggressively, though deliberatively.

Bill Luther

This is certainly the right direction to proceed.

Peter Cunningham

Unfortunately, we still can't proceed. The work has been hard and in conditions that are truly difficult.

Oscar Pimentel

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

Spiro T. Agnew

The end game is peace in Bosnia. This is a bump in the road ... in my mind, we'll get over this bump in the road, and we'll proceed.

Admiral Leighton Smith

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Teilhard De Chardin

We'll see what the demand is as we proceed.

Daniel Lavista

Upon completion, the developer will proceed to renovate the building's interior and exterior.

Paul Mann

We're unsure yet. We're still trying to figure it out, how to proceed.

Amber Moon

We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of function for patients, unless we proceed across all of these fronts.

Ira Black

If the weather is favorable, we will proceed.

Tommy Gibbons

There just wasn't anything there to give us a reasonable expectation of securing a guilty verdict in court, which is what is required for us to proceed.

Ron Ishoy

[The Bill Monroe Foundation, also known as the Rosine Project,] has no authority to use the name, image or likeness of Bill Monroe, ... The defendant may proceed with its Bluegrass Festival and with Bluegrass in Schools without using the name of Bill Monroe.

Tom Gray

When a community agrees to proceed with a resolution, it provides the school district with structure.

Robert Daiber

It all depends on how fast prosecutors proceed. [The DOJ] chooses the order of their witnesses.

Barry Flynn

My hope is that we will proceed with caution to make sure we can afford it.

Roger Bedford

The negotiations, the discussions in the minds of the Marine commanders, continue to proceed, even though we did not see a tremendous number of weapons turned in today.

Mark Kimmitt

We haven't had anything to proceed on yet.

Brad Kullman

That's as far as we agreed for now. We have yet to see how to proceed.

Niki Pilic

We will now proceed to implement our plans for network expansion to other centres and we look forward to offering our wireless broadband service to even more Australians in 2006.

David Spence

The court allowed us to proceed, within the constraints of present law.

Mike Edmondson

If this case does proceed, we will defend Jefferson County and First Energy's assets vigorously through the courts.

Ralph Dinicola

There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

Don Rittner

I agree that special interest sections between Portugal and Indonesia can proceed without me being released.

Xanana Gusmao

We need to proceed very delicately. Sixty days is not a long time to make crucial decisions like the decisions being made here today.

Martin Eggleston

It is time we proceed even further with this reformist endeavor ... we have to continue our combat against the underworld and money politics.

Lien Chan

The (Sunni) bloc should now convene a general conference to decide how to proceed. Boycotting the referendum and parliamentary elections (in December) would be a lose-lose proposition. Our hope will be in the next parliament that will hopefully be more balanced than this one.

Sadoun Zubaydi

My feeling is that right now everyone needs to proceed with caution.

Phil Mccabe

The prosecution [that] tried the case will be meeting with their supervisors to determine how to proceed. They will be evaluating the case, and the intention at this point is to retry.

Lori Sitler

We welcome this opportunity to have initial discussions with the committee, following their vote to proceed with an inquiry, and we are interested in hearing from the committee about its plans and procedures for going forward.

Jim Kennedy

We will need to get a certain minimum actors to proceed.

Cathy Mirelez

The RCMP has the full support of the government to proceed forcefully.

Bernard Lord

It makes it that much more difficult for this to proceed.

Roger Turner

If abuses take place as preparations for the Games proceed, it won't be just the Chinese authorities who will look bad -- the IOC and the corporate sponsors will be complicit.

Sidney Jones

We will study the opinion and make a decision on how to proceed.

Jeffrey Gamso

With the agency's go-ahead, we can proceed with this intriguing mission that will explore two asteroids from deep in the heart of the asteroid belt.

Charles Elachi

I don't think any of us really put a lot of faith in (the construction grant). We'll proceed with the minimum plan as the funding for that is within our control.

Sean Matheson

We're happy on the anniversary of the recall that we're now ready to proceed with the case.

Ricardo Garcia

Congress should review and decide on whether or not this deal should proceed.

Francine Busby

I wanted to proceed according to a scientific approach, and we have been extremely cautious.

Peter Butler

We were prepared to proceed.

Debbie Buchanan

On the one hand, Japan realizes relations between the two countries should not proceed in their current state; on the other, some Japanese choose not to give up their incorrect view of history.

Liu Jiangyong

The Knight Foundation is very anxious for this partnership to proceed, but we're concerned about our investment.

Linda Fitzgerald

They jumped on it because it was raining. Because of the rain, they were able to proceed without [watering].

Richard Wells

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

Jonathan Pulik

A decision will have to be made among state and county education officials about how to proceed with the rest of the school year.

Randy Coleman

He is now incompetent. His condition has worsened to the point where we cannot proceed without him regaining his competence.

Joseph Abood

We don't know what's in it, but we know the result. The judge is asking that we proceed with the sentencing.

Ashraf Nubani

Would eliminate our ability to proceed.

Art Linkletter

Clearly our intention is to proceed. At this point I have no intention to recommend to the secretary-general that we back off.

Jamsheed Marker

New Jersey stands ready to proceed with a seven-state agreement. This is going to go forward.

Bradley Campbell

They recently receive approval to proceed.

Paul Mann

When the police finish their investigation and present those facts to the student conduct board, it will determine at that time whether to proceed with a formal hearing on the allegations.

Tom Evelyn

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

George Clemenceau

We didn't get enough information from the investigating agency to proceed with the case. We didn't have good enough information to go before a jury and prove guilt.

Chere Avery

Since we have no answer yet, we'll proceed as if he'll be allowed to come back. Till we hear otherwise.

Scott Stricklin

We will continue to move swiftly on three fronts as we proceed with our divestiture program ? building stronger businesses in paper packaging and forest products; focusing our portfolio on these core businesses; and exercising both operating and financial discipline.

Wes Smith

We talked for a couple of months and they decided not to proceed with their charges.

Michael Wasylin

Today we filed a formal letter, a five-page letter with the Office of Professional Responsibility...complaining about the consistent flow of leaks which we believe are from the office of the independent counsel, and which we believe are creating an unfair environment for this matter to proceed against Miss Lewinsky.

Bill Ginsburg

We'll determine how to best proceed in light of Mr. Mollohan's response.

Jo Maney

These appointments are important in terms of progressing sale preparations so the government can be in a position, if it so decides in early 2006, to proceed with a possible sale later in the year.

Nick Minchin

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

I'm disappointed, and we're going to proceed to the Supreme Court. It's not the final blow. We're not down, yet.

Michael Satris

It doesn't mean necessarily that we are going to strike, ... but it certainly gives us more flexibility in terms of how we proceed.

Thomas Dewar

The case has already been reversed once, so we want to make sure we proceed correctly and appropriately before making any final decisions. That is why we are taking so much care over this.

Alan Curry

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Leonard Nimoy

It's very disappointing, but we're hopeful it will proceed.

Seth Kaplan

There's no basis to proceed, ... It should have never been an issue.

Ward Churchill

IFC has a vision, and we want this also to be the community's vision. So this is an opportunity to see how many people are willing to proceed with us and accomplish our goals in the future.

Chris Moran

Firms are much more careful about appearing to be assisting the client. They don't want to appear unseemly. They want to proceed as if all were all were out in the public domain.

Roy L. Smith

It's planned the project will proceed in four segments.

Don Richards

They're good to go, ... They've given us the green light to proceed.

George Diller

The ACLU intends to proceed with the legal challenge to this law and is considering its options for doing so.

Doug Honig

There certainly are a number of Hammond residents who would consider joining a lawsuit with Calumet City. With the possibility of a legal challenge, the city might wish to proceed with caution.

Rick Bryant

All these things would vanish if there is a rezoning, ... It would eliminate our ability to proceed.

Art Linkletter

If there is a positive test available, this is the only way the IAAF can proceed.

Istvan Gyulai

Whether or not to proceed down that path, that decision will be made by the representatives of the pilots and it's just another piece of an overall strategy we will use to convince management to negotiate toward a consensual agreement.

John Culp

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination.

Dick Morris

We're disappointed in the jury's verdict. We, in conjunction with our former contractors, are evaluating how best to proceed.

Mike Waldron

There is evidence of a false claim. It's not proof. But there's evidence. Based on our investigation so far, we believe there's enough to proceed.

Joann Carrin

It is the intention of the Crown to proceed against the defendants on all counts.

Dr. Michael Bernstein

You've got a core group. They hate him. They're very frustrated that they weren't able to get their man elected. They feel that the 2000 election was stolen. And then they proceed to tell you everything else the man has done wrong.

Steve Kijak

We accept the judge's ruling and will proceed to defend the case in state court.

Gail Rymer

We had a very specific idea how we wanted to proceed there.

Bernd Pischetsrieder

We want the hearing date to proceed and let the nomination rise or fail on its own.

C. Delores Tucker

We're waiting for emotions to subside, and we hope that the opposition will go back to their seats so we can proceed with the debate and hopefully with the voting.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

We intend to proceed ahead with AOL as our partner in these areas, and we will also look at other things in which both companies can work together on.

Dennis Honan

Then when we finish, we'll have a better idea of when they'll start on the work, because they need to have this meeting in order to issue a notice to proceed to the contractor.

David P. Gardner

I will then proceed to exercise the invitation granted to me by the president of Nigeria.

Charles Taylor

I think our biggest concern is that we wanted to start in April and we're probably looking at a notice to proceed for mid-May.

Doug Taylor

The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

How would continuity of government proceed without them?

Ron Dolin

He has spoken about several opportunities and I am not sure what he will proceed with.

David Sykes

It's a policy of the office to proceed on a domestic violence case regardless of the victim's wishes.

Michael Edmondson

The board believes that it is in the best interest of shareholders to proceed with the merger agreement at the revised terms. Our enthusiasm for this agreement and its potential continues.

James Cornelius

As soon as we have any confirmation that we have the money, we'll proceed. We're anxious to do this.

Russell Rasco

This assumes that everything will proceed forward in a 'timely' way with the French material becoming available for my use very soon and all those who have their parts to play doing so promptly when requested.

Michael Burgess

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Noah Webster

Users say their movement to Microsoft's latest operating systems will proceed on their schedule, not on Microsoft's schedule.

Al Gillen

We don't want to pre-judge how the next administration will proceed. We've been consulting with them all along.

Jake Siewert

We have taken the decision to break our diplomatic relations with Sudan today and to proceed to close our frontiers.

Chadian President Idriss Deby

An awful lot of information that potentially could be used in the municipal court hearing was coming out in a Board of Adjustment meeting. The best option for my client was to proceed in municipal court.

Francis P. Linnus

They're telling me I'm not going to the Olympics because they did an investigation based on those complaints. We want to know what those complaints are. That's what we're asking for. We're entitled to those before we can proceed.

Tim Nardiello

If a state project is under way, it's sure best to let it proceed.

Stan Williams

You have proposed a compromise which is basically acceptable, and will, I believe, both accommodate our concerns and allow the committee to proceed with its legitimate legislative purposes.

David Kendall

If this deal isn't approved by the U.S., it wouldn't proceed.

Angus Blair

If the college doesn't take our recommendations, the board may proceed to a censure.

Kathy Lawrence

If we have a safety issue for our kids, then I think we have to proceed.

Jeff Benson

There's no basis to proceed.

Ward Churchill

It's important to have the rules right. China is a hugely important current and future market. We want them to proceed with the case.

Brian Duggan

There are a number of options available to us. One option that we can consider is to proceed without a tax ruling.

Stephen Macphail

If this does proceed, this is a validation of a lot of people's hard work who were involved in the creation of the Port Authority and saving the Air Force base. It would essentially bring jobs to the old airport authority.

Rick Platt

If he regains competence, then the state can proceed with their case.

Joseph Abood

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

Linnaeus

We will be making a decision and proceed appropriately.

Margery Bronster

We will proceed. That's all we can do. I'm stunned. Just stunned.

Marcus Topel

If evidence against him exists in Venezuela, extradition must proceed, ... He should be extradited to Venezuela to face justice.

Jose Miguel Insulza

We can only speculate that this is a classic case of 'buyer's remorse,' because there is clearly no basis for Tyson's claim that it was fraudulently induced and does not have to proceed with this transaction.

Robert Peterson

[Gilmore, however, vows to proceed.] The fact of the matter is, I'm going to move, ... This is a commission that has broad representation on it ... all points of view are going to be heard.

James Gilmore

To proceed otherwise would result in confusion, duplication and a huge waste of estate resources.

Luc Despins

I don't think that we have anything in place about interim. What we have is silent on the issue of interim. We have to bridge the gap. Two times in the last eight months, we've been hit with vacancies. There should be a framework as to how we should proceed.

Joseph Powers

The market has its doubts that the new German government is going to be able to proceed with the necessary economic reforms, ... People aren't going to be buying the euro on the basis of this result, because we need to see some evidence that the new government will deliver.

Marios Maratheftis

He lied so the plot could proceed unimpeded.

Rob Spencer

We believe now that we can get the assurances that these people will not be tortured or mistreated and on that basis we will be able to proceed with the deportations.

Hazel Blears

If we do not proceed in the reform, Japan has no future.

Takenori Kanzaki

Once we have identified the top 20 players we will then proceed to Europe in August for a two-week camp at either the Manchester United Academy in England or Real Madrid in Spain.

Tony Mmoh

We are waiting for county officials to determine how to proceed (with the bottled water program). We still plan to help cover costs.

Neal Miller

The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest court of the land. We do not ignore what they tell us. The court now has the matter under advisement and will determine how to proceed.

Craig Waters

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

Rick Jandreau

I can't speak for everyone but I would think we'd proceed as if Brett Favre is coming back.

Bill Wenzel

Carter's approach is to try to decide what was best for the nation, ... He was trained as an engineer _ his approach was to study a problem and reach his own conclusions and proceed. It's Carter being Carter.

Merle Black

The decision to proceed with the charges was made solely by the SFO.

David M. Jones

We have the option to proceed with the citation or dismiss it.

Frank Mateljan

This overall process could be accomplished within the next 12 months. Some of the tasks can be accomplished in-house and the entire process can proceed together.

Collin Coles

He just decided to withdraw his guilty plea and proceed with a jury on the guilt phase of the case.

James Depasquale

We do not have an agreement with them ... We have not given any commitment. Right now we have not even decided whether or not to proceed with the due diligence.

Fani Zulu

Why should the rest of the people of Northern Ireland be held hostage by the IRA? Why should we not be allowed to proceed with the democratic process?

Peter Robinson

Maybe they have come to the conclusion that they cannot proceed and they want to reinforce the central front.

Yemane Gebremeskel

At the same time, we need to proceed with some caution, because there's a fair bit of uncertainty about the economy's behavior right now.

Robert Parry

The company has always said that every case presents a different set of facts. We will make a reasonable decision in how to proceed in defending each case.

Kent Jarrell

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

Protagoras

Closing a post office is never a simple matter, so we try to make the transition as smooth and convenient as possible for customers. Customers will be allowed to proceed with whichever option they choose.

Enola Rice

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

Emma Willard

The University of California is arguably the flagship state university system in the country and a bellwether for opinion in how to proceed.

Eric Reeves

Now that it is clear that, in the current regulatory environment, a merger with another major music company cannot be pursued at acceptable cost and risk, we will proceed as an independent, music-focused group.

Eric Nicoli

She retains the rights that a parent has, and she can proceed like any other parent in trying to determine through the family law courts what her parental rights are.

Eric George