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  • | Reply | Permalink viccissitudes, yes obama should have steered clear of Wes Clark's comments but it should have been done in a way that forced Mccain to respect Clark's military record as well ... a call to honor both men would have been great ..

    Clark Stands By Comments About McCain 2009

  • Making fun is certainly fun but you will find yourself accused of arrogance if you cant laugh at yourself for your viccissitudes and inconsistencies.

    Ron Numbers interview and article - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Mr. Lockett, the Post master from Trenton, came out about dark and asked to stay all night, of course he was promptly answered in the affirmative; glad to see some one to whom I could be polite, I lavished all my attentions on this honest little man, who has steadfastly kept his sandy whiskers and shrewdly twinkling eyes in his post office at Trenton through the viccissitudes of that fallen city.

    Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

  • Plus, it has even become "blasphemous" and "inhumane" to question the notion that government can solve the viccissitudes of human existence without becoming inhumane in the process.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Plus, it has even become "blasphemous" and "inhumane" to question the notion that government can solve the viccissitudes of human existence without becoming inhumane in the process.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

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