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Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

- Donald Rumsfeld

That issue has gone under the bridge, under the next bridge, over the next dam and is gone.

- Nick Saban

I don`t think I`m a better wrestler than Ric Flair. No way in hell. There`s no one in the business who can match the excitement, entertainment, and passion he brought in the ring. Rob Van Dam is very close though.

- Paul Levesque

On an earthen dam, if you don`t do maintenance and you have vegetation growth, tree roots penetrate into the soil and then it weakens the soil or creates cracks or gaps where water can seep in.

- Michael Wong

History is more or less bunk. It`s tradition. We don`t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker`s dam is the history we made today.

- Henry Ford

There are no plans to rebuild the dam. The Maclay family believes it does have a perfectly valid right Š which they may or may not choose to exercise.

- David Blair

He`s very and athletic, and he has good bone. He`s perfect mix of A.P. Indy and Storm Cat (the sire of his dam).

- Frank Taylor

(Or in Chattanooga, Tenn., where people fret that a nearby nuclear-power plant and the hydroelectric dam in the middle of town are being left vulnerable.) The terrorists are still here, ... I really do worry about our troops` being sent overseas and depleting our homeland security.

- Thomas Murphy

Water flows through the ground naturally. At every dam site around the world, seepage occurs. The water tends to move through gravel or clay and sand.

- Jacob Davis

Last night I slept with my windows open, just listening for the screams to know the dam had broken.

- Susan Jones

My hand does the work and I don`t have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It`s like a dam in the brain that bursts.

- Edna O'Brien

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

- Alena Nardinger

We can`t put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.

- Alice Raine

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and dam it up.

- Alix Popham

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps` use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.

- Andre Heard

While I remain troubled by the Corps` inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

- Andre Heard

We`re focusing on evacuation and what would cause us to evacuate major portions of our population. One of the largest impacts on Davidson County would be the hopefully unlikely but catastrophic failure of the Wolf Creek Dam.

- Andy Pomeroy

In certain cases dam removal is the best alternative from an economic standpoint as well,

- Ann Hartman

We are hoping this study will in some small way help people feel more comfortable with the idea of removing a dam, and that more people will see it for what it is,

- Ann Hartman

Maybe I`ll get a big long plank of wood and use plastic bags to cover it with and use it as a dam in front of my garage door. Hopefully that will work.

- Anne Mills

Look at what he utterly obliterated: Danielle van Dam. We need go no further than that,

- Anthony Storr

has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.

- Baroness Trumpington

Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass. And when the dam bursts, all you can do is swim. The world of pretend is a cage, not a cocoon. We can only lie to ourselves for so long. We are tired, we are scared, denying it doesn`t change the truth. Sooner or later we have to put aside our denial and face the world. Head on, guns blazing. De Nile. It`s not just a river in Egypt, it`s a freakin` ocean. So how do you keep from drowning in it?

- Meredith Grey