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On September 9th 2009, ana wrote: paparazzi y periodista dejarlo ya que viva tranquilo su vida lo esteis matando dejarlo respirar sino a consecuencia que ese chaval se ruina su vida por culpa vuestra
Robert Pattinson Shirtless Photos (“The Twilight Saga: New Moon”) 2009
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En mi caso particular me vine a España porque estaba totalmente arruinado económicamente; de tener una bodega, un bar y una despensa, en pocos años terminamos en ruina, cada vez se vendia menos, la venta callejera que vendia mas barato sin pagar impuestos, el pago de alquiler, personal y las ventas cayeron a pique, y los servicios públicos cada vez mas caros …
Global Voices in English » Global Recession: The world is talking. Are we listening? 2009
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Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The title of this book, which purports to be written in defense of Agrippa by a Cistercian monk, is Dialogus de vanitate scientiarum et ruina Christianae religionis/Dialogue on the Vanity of the Sciences and the Ruin of the Christian Religion; and in addition to defending Agrippa, it denounces the evils of the age and predicts apocalyptic disasters.
Loss of Faith 2009
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Poliaenus to take heed of such enticements, [5004] for it was the sweet sound and motion of his mistress's spangles and bracelets, the smell of her ointments, that captivated him first, Illa fuit mentis prima ruina meae.
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Numquid minutissima sunt grana arenae? sed si arena amplius in navem mittatur, mergit illam; quam minutae guttae, pluviae? et tamen implent flumina, domus ejiciunt, timenda ergo ruina multiuidinis, si non magnitudinis.
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Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina, * (* He rejoices to have made his way by ruin - Lucan.)
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Lixo, ruina, estrago" vai fora d'aqui, nao tens direito estar em minha casa! "
Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986
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Historia de ortu, progressu et ruina hæreseon hujus sæculi, ii.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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