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STEFAN MOLYNEUX Tush!
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GISELE BUNDCHEN We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields ...
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CHARLOTTE COOPER We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
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BOB BERTINI If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.
ANNE BRONTë There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF We use it to heat our building, because natural gas is so expensive.
ERIC APFELBACH With a strike, we have the right to replace them and we?re not going to risk losing any games or ris...
JOE MCEACHARN We all have three sides. We show one when we're with our friends and another when around our family....
KAYLA RAE "To live the life of our choice" may be the dream of many but the real selection and actualisation o...
ANUJ SOMANY We are looking at all our alternatives right now. We have always been very vigorous in our defense o...
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BILL HARVEY I do feel if we underestimate the viewer, it's at our own peril.
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BOB WATTS We saw it as a unique opportunity to use our knowledge to make this run smoothly.
ALISON SMITH I think to the extent Republicans depart from the historic commitment, we do so at our peril.
MIKE PENCE Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder...
YUVAL NOAH HARARI For better or for worse, at this time science is still the most trustworthy mirror of reality, and w...
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The b...
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CATHY LYONS The majority of our players are playing in England and Scotland, and it's difficult to just come tog...
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem wh...
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KIM DAMERON Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
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THICH NHAT HANH We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time...
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JANE GOODALL ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters" from other tongues and cultures.
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ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts...
CRAIG OLSON Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris.
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TYLER AMBROZIAK A new refinery is important now for the short term because we'd like to have cheaper gasoline for ou...
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