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This belief has long been consigned to the dust-bin of history, rejected by philosophers and scientists alike, though the "no excuses" gang doesn't seem to have gotten the message.
David Kirp: Is Michelle Rhee a 16th Century Throwback? David Kirp 2011
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Perhaps this has been due to a reluctance by some of the authors to tackle such a deeply controversial subject, while others may have felt that it was not germane to the story they were telling, and still others may have felt that religion would eventually end up in the dust-bin of history as a failed concept, or antithetical to the basic rules of science that science fiction has as its base.
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This belief has long been consigned to the dust-bin of history, rejected by philosophers and scientists alike, though the "no excuses" gang doesn't seem to have gotten the message.
David Kirp: Is Michelle Rhee a 16th Century Throwback? David Kirp 2011
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Perhaps this has been due to a reluctance by some of the authors to tackle such a deeply controversial subject, while others may have felt that it was not germane to the story they were telling, and still others may have felt that religion would eventually end up in the dust-bin of history as a failed concept, or antithetical to the basic rules of science that science fiction has as its base.
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It's like they passed by all the good cult movies and staked out a claim on a piss-poor imitation that should have been forgotten in the dust-bin of Tarantino imitators.
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(The story goes that Norton's daughter, Sally, rescued the first draft of Kipling's patriotic ode "Recessional" from the dust-bin and persuaded him to send the poem to The Times of London, whereupon it was published on the same page as Queen Victoria's proclamation on her Diamond Jubilee.)
Who Was Kipling? 2007
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Now that communism lies in the dust-bin of history, the web and the blogosphere are re-telling its shocking record of mass murder, slave labor, and famine.
May Day Mourning, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The only credible law of genocide we have is the UN Genocide Convention -- Bush tossed it into the dust-bin of history.
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Then, and only then, they can be swept into the dust-bin of history; and Americans can finally turn the page on this horrid period in American history and move forward to rebuild our nation on the solid foundation of Constitutional Law. '
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We need to roll back more than 11 years of crypto-Marxist Labour law and phoney cultural pipe-dream policies - we have to consign the whole bang shoot to the dust-bin of history.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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