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Indications were we'd find 5,000 items, but in reality, it's been very close to 25,000 so far.


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DON DELILLO Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
DON MARQUIS Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
DON MARQUIS It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
DON WALK There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
DON HEROLD Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s...
DON WALK Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SHULA An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS