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Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. -- Matt Taibbi
I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. -- Dinah Sheridan
An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. -- Tom Coburn
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off. -- Sean Astin
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
Bride and groom are not just two contracting parties but two loving and beloved companions, joined in establishing a home that will be nothing less than a source of immortality. -- Meir Soloveichik
I am contracting continually a debt of gratitude which time will never see canceled. There is a treasury from which it will be repaid, but I do not dispense its stores. -- Dorothea Dix
I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge. -- Sal Albanese
Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I think we should be looking at the defense and seeing where we can actually be more efficient because I think that, you know, sometimes during the contracting process, we lose some efficiencies in that regard. -- Ben Quayle
It's not just the light weights that give a long toned look with the Tracy Anderson Method, it's using the body in different rotations while contracting and releasing the muscle, causing it to stretch and lengthen. -- Tracy Anderson
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to an arbitration court, treaties which not only specify the composition of the court, but also its procedure. -- Ludwig Quidde
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting. -- Thomas Frank
It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful. -- Karen Mills
We had the boy's name picked out, but we didn't have a girl's. When he turned out to be a boy, we were so relieved. Literally, in the middle of contracting and pushing, and with my wife being drugged - out and half - lucid, we were still coming up with names. -- Paul Reiser
A shower would minimise the risk of contracting the disease. -- Jacob Zuma
For many artists the universe is expanding; for some it is contracting. -- Robert Smithson
Our souls possess the unknown power of extending as well as contracting space. -- Honore de Balzac
Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well~? -- Alan Brennert
Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further. -- Barack Obama
Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind. -- B. Alan Wallace
To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth. -- Connie Zweig
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me? -- Peter De Vries
No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities. -- John Tillotson
The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933. -- Milton Friedman
I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off -- Sean Astin
The core corporation is ... increasingly a faÃ§ade, behind which teems an array of decentralized groups and subgroups continuously contracting with similarly diffuse working units all over the world. -- Robert Reich
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation. -- Samuel Johnson
Marriage is a fight to the death. Before contracting it, the two parties concerned implore the benediction of Heaven because to promise to love each other forever is the rashest of enterprises. -- Honore de Balzac
I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle. -- Ronnie Coleman
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing. -- Nathaniel Branden

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