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My article, Getting Off The Buts is now live on the The Writer's Ezine website.
The Writer's Ezine Article Up... apexdigest 2006
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Session Five - open Your heart; There are no "Buts" or "What Ifs" with Love
FRANK'S STORY / A P.T.S.D. SURVIVOR CONQUERS UNWORTHINESS 2008
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I want to put it to you, Sir -- and these are my "Buts", -- as suggestions, that if the Koreans have become disenchanted with us of the West, and if our soldiers have developed this attitude, that the answer may lie in Education.
Korean Report 1951
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Mr. Raphael's "Ifs and Buts," the fifth volume of his journals, has recently been published by Carcanet Press.
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo Frederic Raphael 2011
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Mr. Raphael's "Ifs and Buts," the fifth volume of his journals, has recently been published by Carcanet Press.
Why They All Came to Versailles Frederic Raphael 2011
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Finally today, since I wanted to make some baked good before heading off to the hospital tomorrow morning (compulsive, I know, but it just makes me feel better), I decided that if HoneyB had a brownie recipe I was making it, no Ifs, Ands, or Buts.
Taste & Create: HoneyB's Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies Laura 2008
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Vitaliy Buts, (Ukr) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 6: 15 118.
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Finally today, since I wanted to make some baked good before heading off to the hospital tomorrow morning (compulsive, I know, but it just makes me feel better), I decided that if HoneyB had a brownie recipe I was making it, no Ifs, Ands, or Buts.
Archive 2008-08-01 Laura 2008
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Another way to put it is beware of explanations with too many Ifs, Buts and Excepts in them.
William Easterly: Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development 2009
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The reason for Occam's Razor is that with enough Ifs, Buts, and Excepts you can fit any theory to any set of facts.
William Easterly: Geography Lessons: Correcting Sachs on African Economic Development 2009
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