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I know that the day will come when the civilization of America will be South European; that our every institution will be altered to suit the needs of the South European and Asiatic mind I want to leave an imperishable Anglo-Saxon thumb print on the map; a thumb print that no future changes can obliterate, a thumb print that shall be less transitory than the pyramids because it will be a part of the fundamental needs of a people as long as they hunger or thirst Look at the roster of the Reclamation Service.— Still Jim
One picture it could not obliterate, and that was the scene of Jacqueline and Pierre le Rouge laughing together over the love affair with the silly girl of the yellow hair That was the meaning, then, of those silences that had come between them?— Riders of the Silences
She had wanted to obliterate, as far as was possible, all recollection of the place where she had spent such unhappy months, and where had occurred the tragedy of her husband's death.— What Timmy Did
General Li Yuan-hung knew well that the cool and singular plan which had been pursued to forge a national mandate for a revival of of the empire would take years completely to obliterate, and that the octopus-hold of the Military Party--the army being the one effective organization which had survived the Revolution--could not be loosened in a day,--in fact would have to be tolerated until the nation asserted itself and showed that it could and would be master.— The Fight For The Republic in China
Why did the church itself seek to obliterate--as though they were a breathing menace--all who stood outside its doors?— Cytherea

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