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Japan, in earlier centuries contemptuously styled the Dwarf-nation, and always despised as a mere imitator and brain-picker of Chinese wisdom, now swims definitively into the ken of the Manchu court.
China and the Manchus Herbert Allen Giles 1890
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If you're lucky, the brain-picker in question may by you a cup of coffee in the process, but it's not exactly easy to walk away from these situations with a new client.
FreelanceSwitch FreelanceSwitch.com 2010
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If you're lucky, the brain-picker in question may by you a cup of coffee in the process, but it's not exactly easy to walk away from these situations with a new client.
FreelanceSwitch FreelanceSwitch.com 2010
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One must wonder what a hell-on-earth bomb magnet like Gaza can need with anything above the bottom level of Maslow's pyramid, what a brain-picker can hope to do for the minds of a society justifying destruction of said brains in exemplary honor of martyrdom.
Tablet Magazine 2009
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