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If it becomes obvious to our trading partners that their dollar IOU's are debased, and that we have no intention of paying them back in kind, they will cut off our free lunch.— Biotech Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha
It's bad form to call a living writer corrupt and debased, which is why I begged out of a review I'd been assigned of Jonathan Safran Foer's highly touted debut novel,— New York Press
But I should not have described those scenes at all, were it not to afford you a true picture of savage life, not as it is painted by romance writers, but as it really is, debased, and wretched, and hopeless.— The Grateful Indian And other Stories
But I should not have described those scenes at all, were it not to afford you a true picture of savage life, not as it is painted by romance writers, but as it really is, debased, and wretched; and hopeless.— The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son"

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