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Quotes by Alan King

Alan King

“Marriage is natures way of keeping us from fighting with strangers”

“If you want to read about love and marriage, youve got to buy two separate books.”

“As lifes pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now thats better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.”

“You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet”

“Banks have a new image. Now you have a friend, your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”

“I dont think its any secret. We cant continue to do business as were currently doing it.”

“However, even under the best of circumstances, four-year graduation rates for the next few years will be substantially lower than those in the three provinces.”

“The sense of the group was excitement,”

“We need to communicate and make it clear,”

“Once they make their commitment, they have to stay with that commitment, ... They have to live with that decision.”

“We could see a small increase as a result of that.”

“Our growth this year is what we expected,”

“Those enrollment figures reinforce the fact that we need to open the new high school as soon as possible,”

“Its interesting to see Salisbury High School at over 1,000 students, ... Its good to see Salisbury at that level.”

“Were glad that our bond package provides for growth, ... We certainly are going to need to build east elementary, and the enrollment figures reinforce that.”

“Infrastructures that are too small for the number of students are not emphasized as much when you have block scheduling, because students only have to change classes about three times, as opposed to six,”

“I think he has a hell of a chance on rain softened ground and he probably represents our best chance for a Festival victory.”

“I was worried about the ground, and while I thought it was quicker than ideal, there was no jar.”

“It was nice to see Chocolate outriding the Flat jockey.”

“The way Blue Gene works its magic is the multiplicity of networks built into the back end. With 65,000 processors, an intelligent network was needed to work around system failures, so there was a lot of effort directed toward making this a reliable system as well as a fast and efficient one.”