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Rev. Jim Wallis��� most recent book ��� ���God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It��� ��� struck a chord this year and became an instant best-seller.
Van Jones: Spiritual Activism: The Religious Left Fights Back ��� On All Fronts
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It can have the same truth conditions as a scoped sentence something like, ˜It might have been the case that: for some x, x is the famous humanist most closely associated with the Italian Renaissance and
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It is therefore not a matter of indifference whether ˜Socrates does not exist™ is rendered as ˜(Socrates) does not exist™ or as ˜It is not the case that (Socrates exists)™.
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It is commonly quoted as, It is better to give than to receive.
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
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The next one was beautiful, but not It -- not _It_ -- not the Right
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It always introduces a substantive clause, and is equivalent to _that which_; as, _It is WHAT (that which) he wants_.
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_ It was the _men_, _women_, and children's lot, &c. or, _It was the lot of_ the men, women, and children.
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"It would be more polite to make Andy _It_," said Owl.
Jubjub commented on the word It
"It hasn't been tagged yet." Then how did he get to be it?
November 28, 2009