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Father of four children loves of my life, a songwriter, got a doctorate at Berkeley and another one at UMass, Boston, a poet, a painter a drug addict, and a peripheral visionary who learns something new on a daily basis, from the Malibu Home for the Recently All Right to having dinner with Sheikh Nion in Abu Dhabi...and now...an author?
Book Excerpt: Steven Tyler's Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? 2011
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My 30-0 with a Nion Monarch scpe will shot 2 'grop out to 400 yds most days and I can; t seebeyon that distace at all.
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My 30-0 with a Nion Monarch scpe will shot 2 'grop out to 400 yds most days and I can; t seebeyon that distace at all.
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To avoid spies, I set out for the congress with the Tula delegate, Dr. Ulyanov, who was Lenin's younger brother, not from Geneva but from the adjoining quiet little station of Nion where the express-train stopped for only half a minute.
My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930
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I frequently went to see my father at Nion, a small city in the Vaudois country, where he was now settled.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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He had married again at Nion, and though his second wife was too old to expect children, she had relations; my father was united to another family, surrounded by other objects, and a variety of cares prevented my returning to his remembrance.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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I did not return to Nion, but to Lausanne, wishing to gratify myself with a view of that beautiful lake which is seen there in its utmost extent.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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I gave him my reasons for it, and to repair my fault, without exposing myself to meet my mother-in-law, I took a chaise and we went together to Nion and stopped at a public house.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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It was necessary to pass through Nion: could I do this without seeing my good father?
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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I had passed through Nion without going to see my father: not that this was a matter of indifference to me, but because I was unwilling to appear before my mother-in-law, after the disaster which had befallen me, certain of being condemned by her without being heard.
The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896
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