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Her house, or temple (the word for both was the same in ancient Mesopotamia)

Forget the damned investigation. I am beginning to think that if the matter were put to the test, I would finish a poor second to your interest in conducting investigations.

I am crushed by your poor opinion But will endeavor to carry on.

Though Buddhism is a religion like any other, it began with at least two specific characteristics that were quite unusual, to wit, its foundational agnosticism and its commitment to public communication and discussion.

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

I'll bet their wives let their cats go out hunting at night like premonitions of future sons.

It's that drunk bitch in the Thirty-second Street bar.

DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

He said the words so sternly that they seemed to make a gloom in the cottage, but Joan's cheerful laugh cleared it away.

Worry retards reaction and makes clear-cut decisions impossible.

Nous avons maintenant l'occasion de donner à l'URSS sa guerre du Vietnam." De fait, Moscou a dû mener en Afghanistan, pendant presque dix ans, une guerre exténuante, qui a entraîné la démoralisation et finalement l'éclatement de l'empire soviétique. »

Perhaps writing only arouses the passions in order to allay them, as beaters flush out the game in order to expose it to the hunter's arrows.

The Elements is arguably the most influential mathematical text in history.

Some in the West suggest that Isam needs a separation of mosque and state. However, in the case of Iran at least what is needed is a separation lof religion and business.

T]here's a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

shagging" - a quasi-comical activity, like belching or farting, except it was more taboo and more necessary than these.

With nonlocal connection, we are forced to conceptualize a domain of reality outside space-time because a nonlocal connection cannot happen in space-time.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Zachary winched a few more letters onto his last name and declared himself king of the Z aficionados.

Rejoy has several meanings, the first two of which are somewhat noble, and more than somewhat boring. The third meaning, however, is probably the most applicable one for most people, as so many of us cannot seem to enjoy things unless we possess them. Which explains the existence of shopping malls. Remord

Or we reference Winston Churchill, who was famously reported to have written "This is the kind of tedious/arrant nonsense up with which I will not put," in response to an overweening staffer having removed a preposition from some of his writing. (However, as with many quotes that are purported to have originated with the former prime minister of Great Britain, the author was someone other than Churchill).*

Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression