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    It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger.

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    Profit sharing, we put in place as soon as I arrived. That was important to me.

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    All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

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    By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

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    We finished 9-12 last season and I told them if I am going to continue this, I need everyone's commitment this summer.

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    Security is different in different cultures as you go around the world. In some countries, a good security system may be a dog behind a fence.

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    Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

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    It's a cliche in the army, but people always say you'll fight as you train, so we're taking our training very seriously and working very hard so we will fight as we train.

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    Prior to the law, the president and vice president could decide if the department were to exist or not at any time.

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