How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.


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Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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Well, I asked him who would start the war first.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
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He said that if we were going to have a war, they would never be the first ones to start it.
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Sometimes I still worry that the next day will be the last day of the Earth.
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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I have had to learn about saying no.
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