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One way Congress, if they really want to make a substantial difference in creating certainty during uncertain times is to make the tax cuts we passed term innocent.
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The movie carries a sense that only the oblivious can remain innocent.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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The movie carries a sense that only the oblivious can remain innocent.
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By taking away gun rights you don't stop the amount of guns someone with a twisted mind gets you stop the people who want them for protection, recreation, or hunting in other words the innocent.
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The chief inheritor of that universalist tradition in our times was, of course, Jean Piaget — though his version of it could hardly be called innocent.
State of the Child Bruner, Jerome S. 1983
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In the first place, Letitia, I want to convey to you the information that your husband's relationship and mine has so far been what you would call innocent.
The Naturewoman Upton Sinclair 1923
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It would be perfectly delightful if our daughters might remain innocent.
In Times Like These 1915
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This served to convince me of my folly and of the vanity of those pleasures which are called innocent.
Autobiography of Madame Guyon Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte, 1648-1717 1880
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I know that in her worst sin against my love -- for I went on loving her to the last -- your mother remained what the world calls innocent.
The Lovels of Arden 1875
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This served to convince me of my folly and of the vanity of those pleasures which are called innocent.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon 1682
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