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The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.

Alexander Hamilton

There is concern among the public and interest groups as it relates to concentrations of trace chemicals in fish tissue, especially mercury.

Marion Conover

We've seized a computer. We're going to be looking at that to try to trace back as many affiliates as we can.

John Stone

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Paul De Man

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Plutarch

We try to find new crops to bring to the grower. They have to be sustainable and have traceability - soil to oil. For example, we can trace a soft-gel capsule of oil all the way back to the field it was grown in.

Andrew Hebard

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

John Mahoney

I was learning the importance of names -- having them, making them -- but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Josephine Baker

Zane Trace, every opportunity we gave them, they took advantage of it, ... They're a real scrappy team and they never gave up.

Lori Anderson

It has been suggested that you can trace the route of a modern army by looking at shell casings and used batteries.

Joel Davis

These are expected results. Metal mining always reports trace amounts of metals we move and store.

Carol Raulston

Most every company has a Web presence these days. Primarily they are using it to trace and track freight.

Doug Rockel

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

Guy Hamilton

Yahoo is very concerned about conversion right now. We do everything we can to trace conversion for our merchant. That means experimenting with things like one-page check-out or multi-page check out. The flexibility for customers to make that choice can change conversion. The design world is waking up to conversion.

Jimmy Duval

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

George Eliot

We know that the faster grass grows the more you dilute the uptake of trace elements.

Gillian Butler

We are trying to get information about that person who parked the explosive-laden car outside KFC. We are also trying to trace the owner of the car.

Manzoor Mughal

CBS had no intention of abiding by the terms of its own consent decree after it aired 'Without a Trace,' which had generated outcry from thousands of families. CBS should comply with the consent decree it signed and, if it's true to its word, should ensure that all its employees who were involved in the re-airing of 'Without a Trace' are suspended.

Tim Winter

Trace is a real well-spoken guy and he's got his points laid out. Let's play the game correctly and let's achieve something. That's the message that I got from him. Let's get it on and do our jobs correctly and win more games than this organization has won in the past couple of years.

Jeromy Burnitz

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

Prem Rawal

My crusade since I came here four years ago was to better understand where television is going and what television means to the next generation. Trace it back to its origins. Television wasn't a box in a living room; it was technology to project an image from a distance.

Peter Price

The good news is as we continue to do tests in the postal facilities and at Mrs. Lundgren's home, we're finding that there's no trace of anthrax.

John Rowland

The embassy has confirmed at least trace amounts of anthrax in one of the five mailbags.

Michael Boyle

I think that's the real issue because that's what they wanted [trace data] for and that's exactly what the bill prohibits. It's about bringing suits against gun dealers and trying to shut them down that way.

Richard Gardiner

If you believe in evolution you can trace all of our lower back problems to the time when the first hominid stood erect.

Dr. Hugo A. Keim

The cavities and shock will dissipate, leaving behind very little trace of their existence.

Paul Nulsen

You can trace back almost everything to the war, ... perhaps the most destructive legacy of the war, the ethnic minority wars.

Robert Taylor

I kept them off the board until Trace got in there with the big two-run shot.

Brandon Webb

It was my father's death notice in the paper that the Army genealogist was able to trace us.

Frank Crawford

We optimized the architecture for low-power Class D amplifiers, allowing us to eliminate the large inductor and capacitor from each output trace, which saves four components for each channel. However, if the amplifier is some distance from the speaker, you may still need a small amount of inductance in the form of a ferrite bead.

Genevieve Vansteeg

The U.S. government has no greater capacity to trace a 'mad cow' back to its origins or answer crucial questions about its origins than it did on Dec. 23, 2003.

Carol Tucker Foreman

There should be greater judicial oversight of trap and trace authorities, ... Federal law should make clear that such orders should only be issued after a judicial officer has determined that the proper factual showing has been made.

John Podesta

The results of the initial test were zero. No trace whatsoever.

Fred Wright

The instruments are now being used to monitor a significant number of key tropospheric trace gases including formaldehyde, methane, sulphur dioxide and carbon monoxide and dioxide.

John Burrows

If a crime was committed, and the police are trying to trace the crime gun, they will get all the information they need.

Andrew Arulanandam

This weekend we have checked addresses that could have been connected to him. So far we have had no success with this. We will continue efforts to trace this man.

Finn Abrahamsen

It definitely says we are going in that direction. If you trace it back to the last labor deal, you see that panning out. We're getting closer, but there's still another step to go before we get to total parity, where any given team can win in any given year.

Dan Glass

Often hackers are weaving from one system to another, and it's hard for us to tell where the communication is coming from. We want to see the trap-and-trace law updated so we can trace a communication to the source, so we can serve the court order on the next carrier down the line.

David Green

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Charles Kelly

There was no trace of bitterness in his voice.

Sam Roberts

As Sherlock Holmes would say, this is a one-pipe mystery. In the time it would take to smoke one pipe, you could solve it. You just trace the books back to the source.

Grigori Chkhartishvili

It will be even easier to create anonymous content and not be able to trace it.

Carol Darr

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Walter De La Mare

We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and indulgence. The rest I look upon as a mere crowd, lively or sad, loyal or corrupt, from whom there is nothing to be expected but fleeting emotions, either pleasant or unpleasant, which leave no trace behind them.

Sarah Bernhardt

The Trail of Tears started with about 100 riders and now has 90,000, ... I ride a motorcycle on the Natchez Trace. It's becoming popular.

David Seibert

Had this phone call come in from a land line, we would have been able to trace the call to the exact address where assistance was needed. Cell phones certainly have their advantages. However, it is still important to have access to a land line from your residence in case of an emergency.

Detective Virginia Lopez

Everyone has a brick wall in their genealogy. Not too many people can trace their lineage back all the way.

Judith Johnson

We'll be able to instantly identify that marking on there and be able to trace it back to the original owner.

Sgt. Wes Foster

You could trace the ups and downs in Elvis' life with his recordings.

Murray Walker

I Never thought I'd die aloneI laughed the loudest who'd have known?I trace the cord back to the wallNo wonder it was never plugged in at allI took my time, I hurried upThe choice was mine I didn't think enoughI'm too depressed to go onYou'll be sorry when I'm gone.

Blink 182

Even if there were straw sales, straw man sales being made from dealers, that doesn't prove that the dealer was doing anything wrong. There's no evidence from tracing, because of the problems with tracing, that dealers are selling guns unlawfully. The trace couldn't indicate that and, in fact, doesn't indicate that.

Richard Gardiner

I think the unique thing here is that we were able to trace it.

Chris Donlay

Casual hikers with no experience of Leave No Trace (environmentally conscious outdoor ethics) are more likely to have an impact on one single place. That's the main reason for the ridge runners.

Brian King

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton

Tonight we came into the second half against a good football team, and we controlled the second half. That's a good sign from our kids. Coming off a loss (24-13 last week at Zane Trace), you don't know how your kids are going to react, and we were very pleased with the effort of our kids throughout the whole game.

Scott Bartholomew

We urge you to reject this request because the standard for issuing a pen register or trap-and-trace order must first be strengthened substantially.

Gregory Nojeim

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

Eugene Ionesco

The developer had a series of meetings with the Boone Trace residents, primarily those who live on Beautiful Valley.

Charlie Tygard

The key to this investigation is finding out which no-tell motel that blanket came from. There's trace evidence that he could not possibly have avoided leaving on there.

Vernon Geberth

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence. 'There is no art,' says Shakespeare, foolish man, 'To read the mind's construction in the face.' The physiognomists his portrait scan, And say: 'How little wisdom here we trace! He knew his face disclo.

Ambrose Bierce

I got, from my perspective, a random e-mail, 'Hi ... wanna put out a record?' I had to trace it back.... It was none of my doing.

Ben Cooper

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Shunryu Suzuki

This doesn't mean the trace elements we found were caused by the training exercise, ... We're just saying it could be the chemical found.

Robert Francis

I've grown accustomed to the trace / Of something in the air, / Accustomed to her face.

Alan Jay Lerner

Information bounces off a proxy that we operate. It encrypts all the traffic and scrambles the URLs, so there's no trace left on the user's PC.

Lance Cottrell

Truth... and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

Charles Mackay

In July 1955, Weldon Kees's car was found abandoned in a parking lot near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. There was no trace of Kees -- no body, no suicide note -- and to this day the mystery remains unsolved.

Weldon Kees

The rescue team reached within an hour's walking distance to the site of the base camp but did not proceed to the site Monday. They said the rescue operation failed to find any trace of the climbers or their equipment.

Bikram Neupane

There are dangers to consumers who purchase diet pills that contain drugs of unknown origin and quality. These products are not approved by FDA and if people experience side effects, it is difficult to trace problems and for physicians to treat them.

Dr. Steven Galson

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally end in denial or a frank admission of the incapacity of pure reason to reach the ultimate reality.

Muhammad Iqbal

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

John Berger

If there was a disease outbreak, within seconds we can trace the animal, the property it came from, and every movement the animal has made. It means the region can be isolated, while the rest of the country can keep trading.

Keith Wright

GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.

Ambrose Bierce

They set the chemical restrictions very low so that they can stop your export to that country if any trace of the chemical is found.

David Hunter

No one who knows anything about this seriously believes that there is money they've not been able to trace.

Nick Leeson

Given that low-level trace occurrences appear to be continuing, we felt it important to re-double our efforts to identify the cause of these test results.

Mark Miles

Now that he is in India and in custody, police can trace his network of associates all over the country.

Ujjwal Nikam