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Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS TIM O'BRIEN TIM O'BRIEN James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just business... ROY WILLIAMS MARGARET MITCHELL HERODOTUS DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER Needless to say, James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or emotional. They were just busin... ROY WILLIAMS ARUNDHATI ROY RUTH MORGAN We believe many of them were not killed by the explosion. They might have saved their own lives had ... FRANK LU It means that they might not have carried through with their threat, that perhaps all of these pleas... JACKIE SPINNER HENRY CABOT LODGE TERRY PRATCHETT My mother and grandmother... they were my first muses. The way they dressed and carried themselves w... CHRISTIAN COTA DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER JOHN JAY CHAPMAN CHIEF JOSEPH The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own... FLORENCE ELLINWOOD ALLEN Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my le... JAMES BLAKE RICK RIORDAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES [He had] an accent that carried the longing cadence of the exile. PETER EVANS ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught... BIBLE I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and bind... EUDORA WELTY STEVEN BRUST Jonathan Olsen had an outstanding day on the boys' side, and Dani Warren on the girls' side. They re... DARRELL LANGFORD HENRY FORD During our ordeal, we were repeatedly lied to by the Abu Sayyaf and they are not men of honor. They ... GRACIA BURNHAM Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON They had taken (their aggression) out on us and we were mad. We wanted to come out and get them. We ... JAMONT GORDON BEN HECHT WILMA RUDOLPH HENRY FORD You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes t... HENRY FORD II Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happene... MARC WILLIAMS GRAHAM GREENE "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own ... PETER ABRAHAMS MAGGIE STIEFVATER We didn't know who [the July 7 bombers] were. They didn't come up on any screen. ... They could have... BOB BAER One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation carried by thieves, but we don't know who they ar... HADI SUPENO SUNDAY ADELAJA As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t... CALAMITY JANE C. JOYBELL C. It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by peopl... EUDORA WELTY They have a lot of prize money flashing in front of the guys and they are getting carried away. CHRIS BOWMAN SANTOSH KALWAR JHUMPA LAHIRI Their goal wasn't to stand out because of their differences; it was to fit in because of their talen... MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Call them robbers and cutthroats--were they not amiable enough when they had sufficient to fill thei... EIJI YOSHIKAWA Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ... ANTONELLA GAMBOTTO-BURKE HARRY S TRUMAN ERNEST HELLO ERNEST HELLO HARRY S TRUMAN It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and... RICHARD J. WARD PAUL NEWMAN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, ... GEN DOUGLAS MACARTHUR CRAIG GROESCHEL GUILLAUME MUSSO JOSEPH PARKER CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AYN RAND EDWARD BELLAMY I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried. DAVID STRATHAIRN It was so beautiful, because I knew they weren't just embracing what we had done. They were embracin... CRAIG MARBERRY BETTY SMITH They joined because they wanted to serve their country, and deployment meets their expectations of s... JAMES HOSEK They joined because they wanted to serve their country, and deployment meets their expectations of s... JAMES HOSEK MICHAEL KORDA HENRY MILLER WALE OSCAR WILDE RUDYARD KIPLING KURT VONNEGUT And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed a... BIBLE MALCOLM FORBES MALCOLM S. FORBES DUKE ELLINGTON CRAIG GROESCHEL They were not her children, she had no idea who they were, but they had attached to her, and she had... BIANCA WALKER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH DEBI THOMAS ELBERT HUBBARD They were overpowered, they were not shot, they were killed by knives and other metal objects. Some ... EMEKA UMEH They decided they were going to parade anyway, because they had bought all their costumes. KAREN T. LEATHEM MELINA MARCHETTA Their bodies were found naked, their necks had cuts and without any identification. We suspect that ... DAVID MAGARA We got out-toughed. We knew coming in, we'd have to do the intangibles to win, but they were the tou... DAVE DICKERSON
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