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  • We have been texting all night and here in Lincoln, Nebraska where I have been for the "holidays," that most ubiquitous symbol of American life-I find this new knowledge surreal.

    Parvez Sharma: The Martyrdom of Benazir Bhutto 2008

  • She knew she would have to wait, but, she said, "I know one day if I play the rules of life-the game of life-I will be able to have those things I've always pined for."

    Princess Of The World 2008

  • I don't think it's a stretch to say that 99% of Americans have been gluttonous at some point in their life-I admit I was just yesterday, in fact.

    What's the Connection?: 95% of Americans Have First Sex Before Marriage Debra W. Haffner 2006

  • I may be making the biggest mistake of my life-I have no idea.

    Hush, Hush, Sweet Trendette 2004

  • "But it gripes me that maybe the hardest, noblest thing I will ever do in my life-I won't remember."

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • "But it gripes me that maybe the hardest, noblest thing I will ever do in my life-I won't remember."

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • But then work became my life-I was technically living but without a life.

    Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995

  • I will dower the Republic and the Great God with the best segment of one man's life-I will offer up his suffering, his distress, his pain.

    Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

  • I have only to refer to the name of one Irishman whom I had the pleasure of living beside in the last years of his life-I mean the late Lord Dufferin.

    The Irishman as an Empire Builder 1911

  • God forbid as I, that ha 'known, and had'n experience o' these men aw my life-I, that ha 'ett'n an' droonken wi ''em, an' seet'n wi ''em, and toil'n wi' 'em, and lov'n 'em, should fail fur to stan by 'em wi 'the truth, let 'em ha' doon to me what they may! '

    Hard Times 1876

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