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So you are in essense consuming productive capital.
Taxes and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Obama is in essense saying, I helped give you yours so you should thank me.
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When you tax that capital, you are in essense transfering a portion of that capital to the government.
Taxes and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I reject completely the special creationist worldview that organisms are in essense artifact-like and that God assembled different living things as an engineer might assemble human artifacts.
An Historic Tidbit 2007
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Allowing the name of CIA undercover operative working on preventing Iran from aquiring nuclear weapons to be LEAKED to the media and in essense disrupting any progress that was made to neutralize the Iran threat.
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So, in essense, like his hero, W. he is not going to hear from anybody except those who affirm their loyalty first.
Think Progress » O’Reilly Resorts To McCarthyism, Plans To Publish Online Enemies List 2005
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This robot is in essense an amazingly advanced turing machine at heart – ones and zeros processed through AND and OR gates, etc.
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Therefore, you'll have a higher retention rate and in essense, feel smarter when your dumbass friends start trying to school you when Jeopardy comes on.
intertribal: People of the Book intertribal 2010
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I won't bore you with the details, but in essense I try to demonstrate that using specific parametres (cf.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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I won't bore you with the details, but in essense I try to demonstrate that using specific parametres (cf.
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