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Ai wuz finkz dat mebbe teh kitteh wuz innf invec infe contaminated wif human lazinesss.
cant reach - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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She has frequent urinary tract infe ctions, diarrhea, and vaginitis.
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The firearms of the Abyssinians were certainly infe rior to the Sniders and Enfields, but Henty is not quite fair to the Sikh Pioneers who enjoyed no advantage of weaponry against the enemy spear and swordsmen, were outnumbered, and still won a decisive victory with their bayonets, as Flashman, a veteran of the Sikh War, notes with satisfaction.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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They had been regarded as beings of an infe - rior order; and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Legacy Michener, James 1987
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Conversely, only this subjective synthesis, this coordination of the content of the infe - rior sciences in the light and from the point of view of positive sociology, the highest of the individual sciences, could avail to solve the pressing problems of the day.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
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He maintained, moreover, that infe - rior as the ancients were in the sciences, they knew more about them, particularly geometry and astron - omy, than they knew about the true principles of reason and humanity, “unique source of the true use of belles-lettres in prose and poetry.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas A. OWEN ALDRIDGE 1968
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The representation of transitory, accidental phenomena continued in the popular arts and folklore, with infe - rior status.
IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968
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[Fol.xxxix. v] and to extoll the same, in makyng a comparison, with other giftes of nature, or with other giftes of fortune, more infe - riour or base.
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Now, as among the very ones who make the savings there are to be found poor and infe rior persons for whom the savings bank is but a respite from debauchery and misery, we may conclude that, out of all the individuals living by their labor, nearly three-fourths either are imprudent, lazy, and depraved, since they do not deposit in the savings banks, or are too poor to lay up anything.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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One new way to treat individuals with cancer that is being developed is the use of viruses that infe ...
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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