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  • STRANGER: I mean to say that merchants, husbandmen, providers of food, and also training-masters and physicians, will all contend with the herdsmen of humanity, whom we call Statesmen, declaring that they themselves have the care of rearing or managing mankind, and that they rear not only the common herd, but also the rulers themselves.

    The Statesman 2006

  • Biographies of notable characters in American Statesmen (Houghton),

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • About 1,300 state employees at 95 state agencies commute to work in state-owned cars, according to figures provided to the Austin American-Statesmen by the comptroller's office.

    unknown title 2009

  • During its February earnings call, the computer manufacturer amended that target to $4 billion in cost reduction by the end of fiscal year 2011. confirmed to The Austin American-Statesmen that the company was planning to cut hundreds of jobs in payroll.

    ChannelWeb Complete Feed 2009

  • One headline by the Austin American-Statesmen and CBC News Canada, read: "Antidepressants Lower Kids 'Suicide Risk, New Research Finds"

    Experts Battle Over Safety and Efficacy of SSRIs 2006

  • He'll be the key-note speaker at an annual Republican get - together in Nashville called the Statesmen's Dinner.

    CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2007 2007

  • The Yankee tinman, with a candour that excited the admiration of the whole family, acknowledged that his Statesmen were the greatest rogues

    My First Cruise and Other stories William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Next up for the Statesmen is their first regular-season game next Monday, March 16 at Yorktown High School at 5 p.m.

    Falls Church News-Press Online 2009

  • The last great German to be born in the ranks of the people who had colonized the Ostmark was not officially numbered among socalled Statesmen '; but as mayor of Vienna, this capital and imperial residence,' Dr. Lueger conjured up one amazing achievement after another in, we may say, every field of economic and cultural municipal politics, thereby strengthening the heart of the whole Empire, and indirectly becoming a statesman greater than all the so-called 'diplomats' of the time

    Mein Kampf Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 1925

  • Forget Mitt Romney and whether the change benefits the Republicans or the Democrats for Gods sake and think about the wishes of one of the last outstanding "Statesmen" this country has had the privilege to have among us.

    Kennedy urges immediate Senate replacement if vacancy occurs 2009

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