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  • Great idea. andrea clements said: On August 7, 2009

    Hooping.org | Blog | Little Lost Hoop 2009

  • | Reply | Permalink this faked attack is so karl rove. when bill clements was running for governor of texas in the 1980s rove faked a listening bug found in his (rove's) office right before a debate. this took all the attention away from the debate and allowed clements to regain the governorship and added to rove's ill gotten gains. whenever anything dirty and fake surfaces in politics, think rove.

    McCain Communications Director Gave Reporters Incendiary Version Of "Carved B" Story Before Facts Were Known 2009

  • He will lecture on the exhibit May 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. Details at clements. umich.edu

    Museums, Libraries and More 2009

  • That comes to pass when one of these clements assumes undue proportions or moves from its proper place.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • That comes to pass when one of these clements assumes undue proportions or moves from its proper place.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • SOCRATES: The letters, which are the clements; and the syllables, which are the combinations; — he reasoned, did he not, from the letters of the alphabet?

    Theaetetus 2007

  • And such being the necessary order of things, we wish for that life in which there are many great and intense elements of pleasure and pain, and in which the pleasures are in excess, and do not wish for that in which the opposites exceed; nor, again, do we wish for that in which the clements of either are small and few and feeble, and the pains exceed.

    Laws 2006

  • Grub-street school didst thou suck in the clements of thy erudition.

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • Again, even on their own presuppositions it does not seem as if the clements would be infinite in number.

    On the Heavens 2002

  • Yet we ought to, if the elements of which all things consist, as complex sounds consist of the clements proper to sound, are the same.

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

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