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I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures -- one whose timing is consistent with humans' four-score shelf life, the other in my estimation, a tragic early waste of a remarkably profound talent.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures -- one whose timing is consistent with humans' four-score shelf life, the other in my estimation, a tragic early waste of a remarkably profound talent.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures -- one whose timing is consistent with humans' four-score shelf life, the other in my estimation, a tragic early waste of a remarkably profound talent.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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I would like instead to address some broader cultural issues raised by these two coincidentally paired departures -- one whose timing is consistent with humans' four-score shelf life, the other in my estimation, a tragic early waste of a remarkably profound talent.
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: Obit for Two: A Reflection on Dying, Culture, Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue 2011
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How I've survived four-score years without heart seizure I do not know.
Fiancée 2010
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It's worth noting that a lifetime of four-score and seven is a new problem for our species.
Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010
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It's worth noting that a lifetime of four-score and seven is a new problem for our species.
Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010
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It's worth noting that a lifetime of four-score and seven is a new problem for our species.
Seth Shostak: Living Forever Is Not a Good Idea Seth Shostak 2010
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So at four-score and three, I'm an old hand at campaigning -- for candidates who stand for what I believe the country needs, who can make a difference.
Harris Wofford: Alan Khazei: A Great American Original for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts 2009
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Those who knew her could scarcely comprehend that she had passed four-score years and ten.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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