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The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 9 months ago
Did you shorten my life now? I want to retire and enjoy it. How are we going to enjoy it? You burned me, you’ve made me an angry man. – Jim Stewart	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s absurd, they have done every single thing…You want to shorten the season? Like how much more do we have to make this coddling and all this stuff go with the players? – Richard Jefferson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
That means cell entry inhibitors, like the acids from hemp, could be used to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and also to shorten infections by preventing virus particles from infecting human cells. – Richard Van Breemen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It still screams transitory to us, if we're wrong, it could shorten the economic cycle that we're in. – Stephanie Roth	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have a fairly large escrow to be made up, and until we do, the cap is basically flat, the increase in value obviously is going to shorten the timeframe that perhaps many had projected when we did the return to play for last season and extended the collective bargaining agreement. – Gary Bettman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's essential that we shorten the time to recovery, support operations are already underway, and the expanded funding tools approved today will help sustain economies, companies and jobs. – World Bank President David Malpass	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Everybody wants to keep it open. We may get to a point where we shorten the hours, if that's something they need to do, but Americans should know that we are going to do everything that they have access to their money at their banks, to the money in their 401(k)s, and to the money in stocks. – Steven Mnuchin	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It should help FCA and the future combined entity FCA-PSA to shorten its gap in the electric vehicles and in Asia. – Intesa Sanpaolo analyst Monica Bosio	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This change will support kidney donation, reduce waste, and shorten transplant wait times for years to come. – Joe Grogan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
By giving fentanyl at these levels, we were comfortable with the information we had that it was a sufficient amount that the only rational purpose could be to shorten a person's life. – Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I noticed Bill Shorten's frustration yesterday, but you know, that impatience is born of arrogance. – Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The election will be called in April and the election will be held in May. We're not doing this with any haste and we're not doing it with any delay, i noticed Bill Shorten's frustration yesterday, but you know, that impatience is born of arrogance. – Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Under my government, Australia will be stronger. Under Bill Shorten's Labor government, Australia will be weaker. – Scott Morrison	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
When it comes to apparel, there's no secret sauce, to shorten lead times, there's no other way than doing local production. – Felipe Caro	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We want to see how the briefing went today and how much we learned from it, if we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The media was not treating the statements fairly, i mean, they would chop them up and then shorten the statement, and it did n’t sound proper or did n’t sound as good when they did that. It was very unfair. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The media was not treating statements fairly. I mean they would chop them up and shorten the statement, and it didn’t sound proper, or it didn't sound as good when they did that, it was very unfair, now I’m doing it a little bit differently. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Bill Shorten is only interested in the politics of this issue. – Malcolm Turnbull	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
My wife bought me this to help shorten my commute. – Kim Chol Jin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
You can carry luggage, my wife bought me this to help shorten my commute. – Kim Chol Jin	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The results, once they are available, they need to be brought back to the health facility and communicated to the mother and while many efforts have been made to shorten each leg of that continuum, we need to do better. Mothers are still waiting up to two months for those test results and that can be a very long period in an HIV positive infant's life. – Judith Sherman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The point is to effectively shorten the bond for the investor, it doesn’t guarantee they will get their money back when the coupon steps-up, but it makes it very likely they will get their money back at that time and otherwise provides them with a high coupon bond that could likely be sold at a good price. – Bjarni Torfason	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Bereaved families often feel guilty and wonder if they could do more for the patient, if they believed sedation shortened survival, their guilty feeling may become deeper. Our study indicated that continuous deep sedation did not shorten patient life or change patient’s dying process. – Isseki Maeda	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

The Grocery Store Method: I want you to think of it like this: Everytime you adopt a child you shorten the checkout line and your one step closer to world peace, and everytime you have a biological child you lengthen the checkout line and your one step farther from world peace.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
9 months ago

Did you shorten my life now? I want to retire and enjoy it. How are we going to enjoy it? You burned me, you’ve made me an angry man.

– Jim Stewart

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s absurd, they have done every single thing…You want to shorten the season? Like how much more do we have to make this coddling and all this stuff go with the players?

– Richard Jefferson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That means cell entry inhibitors, like the acids from hemp, could be used to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and also to shorten infections by preventing virus particles from infecting human cells.

– Richard Van Breemen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It still screams transitory to us, if we're wrong, it could shorten the economic cycle that we're in.

– Stephanie Roth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have a fairly large escrow to be made up, and until we do, the cap is basically flat, the increase in value obviously is going to shorten the timeframe that perhaps many had projected when we did the return to play for last season and extended the collective bargaining agreement.

– Gary Bettman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's essential that we shorten the time to recovery, support operations are already underway, and the expanded funding tools approved today will help sustain economies, companies and jobs.

– World Bank President David Malpass

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Everybody wants to keep it open. We may get to a point where we shorten the hours, if that's something they need to do, but Americans should know that we are going to do everything that they have access to their money at their banks, to the money in their 401(k)s, and to the money in stocks.

– Steven Mnuchin

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It should help FCA and the future combined entity FCA-PSA to shorten its gap in the electric vehicles and in Asia.

– Intesa Sanpaolo analyst Monica Bosio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This change will support kidney donation, reduce waste, and shorten transplant wait times for years to come.

– Joe Grogan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

By giving fentanyl at these levels, we were comfortable with the information we had that it was a sufficient amount that the only rational purpose could be to shorten a person's life.

– Franklin County prosecutor Ron O'Brien

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I noticed Bill Shorten's frustration yesterday, but you know, that impatience is born of arrogance.

– Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The election will be called in April and the election will be held in May. We're not doing this with any haste and we're not doing it with any delay, i noticed Bill Shorten's frustration yesterday, but you know, that impatience is born of arrogance.

– Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Under my government, Australia will be stronger. Under Bill Shorten's Labor government, Australia will be weaker.

– Scott Morrison

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When it comes to apparel, there's no secret sauce, to shorten lead times, there's no other way than doing local production.

– Felipe Caro

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We want to see how the briefing went today and how much we learned from it, if we learned a good deal from it, it will shorten that whole process considerably.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The media was not treating the statements fairly, i mean, they would chop them up and then shorten the statement, and it did n’t sound proper or did n’t sound as good when they did that. It was very unfair.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The media was not treating statements fairly. I mean they would chop them up and shorten the statement, and it didn’t sound proper, or it didn't sound as good when they did that, it was very unfair, now I’m doing it a little bit differently.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Bill Shorten is only interested in the politics of this issue.

– Malcolm Turnbull

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

My wife bought me this to help shorten my commute.

– Kim Chol Jin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You can carry luggage, my wife bought me this to help shorten my commute.

– Kim Chol Jin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The results, once they are available, they need to be brought back to the health facility and communicated to the mother and while many efforts have been made to shorten each leg of that continuum, we need to do better. Mothers are still waiting up to two months for those test results and that can be a very long period in an HIV positive infant's life.

– Judith Sherman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The point is to effectively shorten the bond for the investor, it doesn’t guarantee they will get their money back when the coupon steps-up, but it makes it very likely they will get their money back at that time and otherwise provides them with a high coupon bond that could likely be sold at a good price.

– Bjarni Torfason

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Bereaved families often feel guilty and wonder if they could do more for the patient, if they believed sedation shortened survival, their guilty feeling may become deeper. Our study indicated that continuous deep sedation did not shorten patient life or change patient’s dying process.

– Isseki Maeda

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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