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Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
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Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
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The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.
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The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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I never worried about teams who spend what they want to spend. It never bothered me. At the moment we have a lot of Middle Eastern owners, we have American owners of course, Russian owners. It never bothered me one bit. All I was concerned about was that we at United maintained our level of expectation, be competitive, be at the top part of the Premier League.
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.
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How'd you get in here?" She raised her eyebrows. “You pick pockets.†Kat watched his hand fly to his back pocket. “I can pick locks. Looking for this?†she asked, holding up his wallet. “Oops. Maybe I can pick pockets too.
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My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
