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«Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us European earth-dwellers, the adventure played out in the heart of the New World signifies in the first place that it was not our world and that we bear responsibility for the crime of its destruction.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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belonging, class A, Continent, dweller, dwellers, European, European civilization, European country, for each one, in the first place, New class, New World, One of Us, played out, signifies
«Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.»
Author: Gene Brown
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in the first place
«If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.»
«Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.»
Author: Otto Friedrich
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America and Americans
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All American, Americans, eager, First world, got, in the first place, new, New American, New World, place, the first, The New, The New American, travel, travel by, travel to
«I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place»
Author: Sitting Bull
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desired, Great Spirit, Great White, in the first place, red man, white man
«It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away.»
«How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.»
Author: Will Durst
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Sex
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come to, dirtier, dirtiest, dirty, in the first place, must have, Republican, Same sex, sex, Sex and the
«Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.»
Author: William Gaddis
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bunch, cutting, dividend, dividends, in the first place, launch, of a sudden, owning, Presidents, Public place, public works, stock, trimmed, trimming, trimmings, trims
«A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.»
Author: Luigi Pirandello
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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in the first place, put in, sack, sacked, stand up
«In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Wisdom
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boarding school, boards, idiots, in the first place, school board
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