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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Dale Carnegie

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

Russell Baker

This meeting instills the personal responsibility into everyone so we don't rely solely on government. Too many times we want to blame somebody else instead of taking responsibility ourselves. It's our job to take care of our families and neighbors.

George Jenkins

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Lewis Mumford

It was simply a strategic business decision as to where to invest our money. There was a lengthy evaluation process and we gathered information in order to make a strategic business decision. We put a lot of time and effort to consider bidding on the naming rights, but in the end we decided to bid solely on the pouring rights.

Amy Polacko

The attorney general's decision to certify this question for the ballot was based solely on the constitution and does not reflect any policy views he may have on the issue. He certified this petition after carefully considering the arguments made by its opponents.

David Guarino

Staples no longer charges these shipping damage fees and hasn't done so since May 2002. The issue is solely about whether Staples must be registered to sell the shipping damage coverage as regulated by the state insurance code.

Owen Davis

It's the abuse of the results, like judging a teacher solely on their test scores.

Patricia Brown

Getting picked to finish fourth or fifth in the ACC was like a slap in the face to us. That was based solely on teams having more talent than us, but that doesn't mean they're better than us. You can't look at what people had in the preseason anymore, though -- you have to evaluate teams on what they're doing right now.

Daniel Ewing

It appears to be a totally random attack based solely on his race.

Sgt. Dave Haywood

While the president's focus is on defending America it seems New York's junior senator remains dedicated to her political aspirations. For someone that claims to be solely concerned with serving her constituents, Sen. Clinton spends an inordinate amount of time and energy attacking Republicans.

Camille Anderson

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

Michael Scott

You see, the Confederate flag flying above the statehouse flies in a vacuum, ... The Klan can misuse it as a racist tool, as it has, and others can misuse it solely as a symbol for racism, as they have.

David Beasley

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

Cyrano De Bergerac

Why not enhance their training with continuing education, and get every coach to take a class solely on steroids and what to look for.

Chip Salvestrini

We have great industry partners. Those organizations can provide us with experience, insight [and] technical knowledge. We need some of that talent on the government side. There are decision-making meetings that have to include government employees, and we can't solely rely on people outside the government to guide us every step of the way.

David Fisher

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

Harlan Stone

These guys have a very interesting opportunity, not solely because of the price, but because open source provides an enormous advantage to the customer in terms of licensing costs and customization.

William Hurley

We are concerned over how the increase in power rates will affect wildlife. We are at this point, solely dependent upon how much water the farmers are using. It remains to be seen how this will play out, but we think less water will be coming through the hill, so that is a concern of ours.

Ron Cole

Anyone who says this was about the technology has missed the point of the case and the judgment. If you set up a business deliberately to harvest and facilitate infringing activity it doesn't matter what technology you use. This is solely about the misuse of technology.

Michael Speck

It is not the issue I want my own work solely remembered for.

Leon Kass

These people are prisoners of conscience, imprisoned solely on account of their non-violent opinions and activities.

Kolawole Olaniyan

The genocidal aggression of the remarks made by Iran's president has alarmed many in Europe who would want to rely solely on diplomacy. Preemption might come to be seen as necessary, real and important to have in their back pockets.

John O'sullivan

There was an organized plan on the part of the armed forces ... to target these individuals as terrorist suspects solely because of their connection to the university.

Carlos Rivera

This is basically a large timber sale project being devised in such a way as to approve it with less oversight. What we're seeing is part of a pattern of abuse, and it's almost solely on the Panhandle.

Jonathan Oppenheimer

When you solely use a celebrity brand you're dealing with the person, and their personality, so your destiny is not totally in your control.

Michael Greenberg

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Maya Lin

It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its grandeur and power.

Jean Baptiste Colbert

Las Palmas may have a better use than being solely a Marriott hotel. There is a lot of residential opportunity there.

Laurence Geller

If it was left solely to the devices of the government, that wouldn't have happened.

Michael Freeman

Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

Lenny Goldberg

I think if our police officers put their energies in the borough solely, and we have one officer per patrol car, we'd have sufficient police services for the borough. I don't see other communities having two police officers riding around in the same patrol car.

Charles Eckstine

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people.... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Ken Blanchard

We are doing what we are able to do. The St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Conference exist solely on donations and we will continue, through the giving spirit of this community, to be able to offer charitable help to those in need.

Pat Niksich

We cannot be solely dependent on the casino for our revenue.

Jessie Davis

We're not focused solely on fundraising. We like to get involved in projects that give something back to the community.

Tom Redmond

Our funding is solely from grants and private donations. Local costs include recruitment, training volunteers and supporting direct advocacy for abused and neglected children.

Brie Bickley

We cannot limit ourselves solely to the 'secret prisons' issue.

Dick Marty

In 1995, Lotus Notes was an alternative to the Internet, used solely within enterprises. Since the Lotus Notes business model was to give away Notes client software, while charging for the server software, it was reasonable to assume that Mr. Barksdale had adopted this strategy as well.

Daniel Rosen

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

A. J. Ayer

Now Jay will be able to focus solely on the industrial side. It'll be good to have someone full time to do research and make recruiting trips. This will be a huge benefit to IDB and he's a great person for that. It's a perfect fit.

Kelley Smith

I think everyone recognizes that this office was asked for a legal opinion. We view this solely as an issue of separation of powers.

Tucker Martin

I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it.

Donald Miller

If a consumer chooses to rely on the 'free' advice of a salesperson, then they should expect to be sold. However, while the mortgage practitioner is providing these advisory services the sales hat is removed. At that point they are acting solely on behalf of the homeowner as a true fiduciary mortgage advisor.

Leon Morris

The good news is we are planning on opening a mail processing center in June dedicated solely to mail processing, so we're looking forward to that.

Greg Cook

We need the federal government because of a couple of issues, ... We believe that there may be issues that are within their jurisdiction solely. They bring added resources and expertise because of their prosecution in prior cases.

Bernard Parks

This is potentially a really good thing for me. Allowing me to focus solely on my soccer for a while is really fantastic.

Craig Waibel

I am calling an early special conference to resolve the leadership question in a democratic fashion so that our annual Party Conference in July will be able to focus solely on mapping the way forwards towards an IFP victory in the 2009 general election.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Filings are up solely because of the bankruptcy reform act.

Terry Miller

Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.

Alan Coren

I think the most important point of this preliminary study is that obese individuals may have a lower threshold for pain [possibly due to chronic inflammation associated with obesity], which is not evident if we rely solely on self-report of pain.

Charles Emery

Americans of all faiths should be free to travel without fear of being singled out based solely on their religious practices or associations.

Arsalan Iftikhar

We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies and unprofessional classroom behavior.

Andrew Jones

Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling : from observi.

Albert Bandura

Bowman's actions were a frightening abuse of power. It's hard to say what was more shameful: that Chief Bowman assumed Claude Green was HIV positive solely because he was gay, or that Bowman was so ignorant about HIV that he felt you couldn't safely perform CPR on an HIV positive person.

Rose Saxe

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

Neve Campbell

Came forward because his conscience told him it was the right thing to do. He was solely a witness telling the truth.

Mark Powers

Administrative leave is solely for the purpose where an investigation in necessary or where someone has pending criminal charges. With the investigation over, the administrative leave had to terminate.

Todd Jaeger

If they're being taken solely for the purpose of drawing their men out of hiding, it can even appear to look like hostage taking.

Jumana Musa

Also, the fund has become more diversified, where it was once almost solely pharmas and biotechnology.

Christopher Davis

Large market daily newspapers are well-served with the existing Sunday magazines, but weekly and small market dailies require fundamentally different approaches for editorial content, production and distribution. We are focusing our efforts solely on these markets.

Dick Porter

Our business is no longer solely reliant on whether the markets are going up or down.

Neal Shear

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

David Packard

We don't experience pain in a vacuum. Pain is not solely the result of signals coming from an injured body region, but instead emerges from the interaction between these signals and cognitive information unique to every individual.

Robert Coghill

If this budget goes through as it stands now, it would hold hospitals and nursing solely responsible for everything that has gone wrong in the system, and I would suggest that might not be fair.

Larry Hughes

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

John Von Neumann

We shifted more funds to the communities in which we operate, versus solely in Pittsburgh, or New York, for that matter.

Kevin Lowery

We can't afford to rely solely on being better conditioned than our opponents. There are other facets of wrestling that we need to improve on - we often find ourselves in bad positions on the mat and that got in some trouble tonight.

Joe Horvath

What I am most concerned about is that there are some people seeking employment who don't always present themselves with the qualities they have. Forty-five percent of employees are hired based on their appearance. The ability to communicate effectively is 35 percent, with the rest being hired solely on their abilities.

Frank Merrill

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Our understanding is that he was going to make the full pension payment, which would be a breath of fresh air. The problems of the pension fund are solely problems of their own making.

Jim Marketti

Behold an industry that once bestrode the envious pinnacle of world leadership, now so paralyzed with fear that the screen is now inhabited solely by three-dimensional spooks and men from Mars.

Anne Revere

We have no chance of reaching third place anymore, which is why we are concentrating solely on Seville.

Fabian Ernst

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast.

Hugh Wirth

Has been repeatedly targeted by this administration and its proxies with the worst kind of character assassination, solely because they disagree with his social and economic policies.

Jose Serrano

I don't want to be remembered solely for that. I was eager to see what was going to be the next thing that transcended the Oh Face Guy.

Greg Pitts

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Clark Moustakas

Now there is an admin who is solely responsible for the OS, and nothing above it. There is a separate admin responsible for JDM and nothing in the outside world. This consolidates costs, and allows for more productivity.

Chad Robinson

What it means is you cannot evaluate the performance of the products solely on the basis of megahertz when you're talking about two different architectures.

Mark Bode

Our actions in addressing transportation should not be measured solely on the basis of how much additional money we an appropriate and run through a funding formula. Rather, we should be judged on how well existing and additional resources will be used - and for what actual results - to address our pressing transportation challenges.

Joe May

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

Thomas Love Peacock

What we don't want is to have someone dedicated to solely doing a deal in China or India or wherever, and then they're all by themselves.

Promod Haque

Right now there is no information that points to a specific date when tires will no longer be able to perform solely due to age.

Dan Zielinski

When Sirius asked me if I wanted to program a channel committed solely to Elvis, it was a no-brainer. Everybody has an Elvis connection. I don't care who you are or where you're from, you know who Elvis is. This is no gimmick; we're not going away.

Scott Lindy

(Palm Pictures founder) Chris Blackwell said to me 6 or 7 years ago that DVD doesn't have to be a tombstone for creative content. He said (DVD) is such a great format that people will make content solely for DVD, and not just cheap franchise movies, but things that will extend the audio and visual arts.

Richard Brown

It's really about schools and education. It really is about being America's safest city. I think that race is always bubbling somewhere and sometimes it does surface, but I don't think that the majority of the voters are going to pick a mayor or a candidate based solely on race.

Carl Stokes

We're extremely excited to have been awarded 'Front Runner' status by Microsoft. As a company focused solely on the needs of SQL Server users, helping our customers deploy and manage the new features and capabilities of SQL Server 2005 is at the top of our agenda.

Rick Pleczko

There's not enough data to suggest there's a problem with PAH in Lake Tahoe except with some of the marinas, ... We didn't see anything that compelled us to recommend management of boating at Tahoe solely because of PAH.

Glenn Miller

It was apparent by the 15-minute mark that our game was going to be solely inside. The inside game we handled. Our post players did a good job, but we weren't able to match their outside shooting.

Darcie Vincent

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individua.

Mikhail Bakunin

Nokia had got very cheap at 14 euros. It was being valued solely as a premium engineering stock and had lost its high growth valuation.

Jason James

It's unfortunate that public officials feel that the public is a hindrance is getting their work done. It sounds like they're doing it solely to circumvent the Sunshine Law. The public has a constitutional right of access to open government.

Adria Harper

I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.

Jerry Goldsmith

I don't think we ever envisioned transportation being solely a budgetary item.

Sen. Charles Hawkins

Rather than being driven solely by commercial interests outside of public purview.

Daniel Perry

These detainees are being held solely for their political beliefs. If the Ethiopian government wants them on trial, it should at least be a fair trial. This will be a test of the independence of the Ethiopian judiciary.

Curt Goering

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

David M. Jones

Relying solely on real estate-based savings may be dangerous because this type of saving can be illiquid and selling a home can be an inconvenient and expensive transaction.

Benjamin Tal

I'm at a point in my life where for the first time, running is purely and solely my own choice. I've been running for a team for over one-third of my life and now I'm just running for myself.

Sarah Bard

While the attorney general does not personally support the proposal, we are confident that letting this question proceed was the right decision. The attorney general's decision to certify this question for the ballot was based solely on the constitution. This proposal isn't a reversal of a judicial decision but an effort to change the constitution going forward.

David Guarino

I have to admit that I enjoyed the time off the road devoted solely to the recording process and quality family time. Now that the new album is out and I've performed for television studio audiences, I realize how much I've missed the live show! I'm so excited to reintroduce these ?Timeless' classics to country music fans as well as perform hits from my past albums.

Martina Mcbride

The Legislature's attention should rest solely with the student, and I believe that focus has been lost in recent years.

Dave Kraft

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

Never rule out a school based solely on sticker base. That's our mantra. Work with the school to come up with a package you like.

Jim Barrett

He is the leading voice on border security and illegal immigration. We feel that we need to address this issue not only on a national perspective, but also on a state perspective. The state cannot wait solely on the federal government for reaction.

Josh Robinson

I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Leon Blum

It is solely for the reason that this government has legalized the murder of children that I have no allegiance to nor do I recognize the legitimacy of this particular government in Washington.

Eric Rudolph

No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

Ed Whitacre