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Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.


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MATTHEW DESMOND Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. Americ...
MATTHEW DESMOND I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated road...
DESMOND TUTU God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him...
DESMOND TUTU Rural experiences are a key part of the therapy people need as an urban escape. They want to take th...
DESMOND JOLLY Every year we have new ones. Agricultural tourism is growing. The object is to maximize direct sales...
DESMOND JOLLY We do know that with good management, good advertising and outreach -- and of course you have to hav...
DESMOND JOLLY Some people looked really messed up. There were rivers of blood.
DESMOND EDWARDS The first tramcars rattled noisily through the empty streets, dilapidated monsters that just hours l...
DESMOND DOIG I don't think I've ever forced a fumble before. I always played offense my whole life -- a little de...
DESMOND CLARK Going into Thursday's practice I hit a brick wall and felt real bad. I felt like I had to throw up a...
DESMOND CLARK Kyle played good. He played good for his first game.
DESMOND CLARK Rex is more instinctive in terms of being able to make plays on the run. Besides that, I don't think...
DESMOND CLARK When he threw it, I was on the goal line and had to kind of stretch out for the ball, ... I knew I w...
DESMOND CLARK I wasn't able to keep my balance very well,
DESMOND CLARK [Of course, the previous staff claimed the tight end would play a more prominent role in the offense...
DESMOND CLARK I'm shooting for the sky, ... There wasn't a tight end that had 80 catches last year, so I'm trying ...
DESMOND CLARK [Clark figures if he can catch 51 passes as a reserve, which he did in Denver two years ago, there's...
DESMOND CLARK After the last few games, I felt like I should go to all of the defensive players and apologize pers...
DESMOND CLARK Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
DESMOND LLEWELYN There are very strong winds of change blowing through the continent of Latin America and they seem t...
DESMOND LACHMAN There's just a huge amount of money sloshing around looking for a place to go.
DESMOND LACHMAN My expectation is that we will see countries lapsing back to some sort of controls on trade, on capi...
DESMOND LACHMAN The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds
DESMOND MACCARTHY