As soon as distilled spirits were discovered and their effect on one's consciousness known, they became an important part of the tradition.
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And you can't avoid them. You see them at the checkout line in the grocery store, you see them as you're filling up gas in your car. So, even if you have no prior interest, you're still finding out that Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston broke up. It is completely unavoidable.Robert Thompson
Cool is certainly a charter member for the slang hall of fame. Cool just sits back and keeps getting used generation after generation and lets the whole history of the language roll off its back.
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The opportunities exceed the ability of most people, even rabid fans, to consume. Because of that, are people going to quit watching I don't think so. They can't watch all of them, but they'll watch the ones they're most interested in.
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It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
Wendell Willkie