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  • Monopolies act to stifle equality of opportunity and prevent the infusion of fresh blood into the life-stream of our economy.

    Think Progress » Will: What conservatives truly want are activist judges. 2010

  • Ms. Bearman is one of several executives who tweet on behalf of luxury fashion brands, masking their marketing in a Carrie-Bradshaw-esque life-stream.

    The Importance of Tweeting Oscar 2010

  • One common way to define FF would be as a life-stream aggregator.

    Why does FriendFeed work ? Pedro Beltrao 2008

  • One common way to define FF would be as a life-stream aggregator.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Pedro Beltrao 2008

  • Earth – Current, and that same life-stream fructified the soil, and gave life and blood to the plants and to the trees, and to every bush and natural thing.

    The Night Land 2007

  • That joy might have been clutched, but the life-stream has swept us by it — the swift life-stream rushing to the nearing sea.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Be it ours to button up our pockets and our hearts; and to make merry — it is enough to swim down this life-stream for ourselves; if Poverty is clutching hold of our heels, or Friendship would catch an arm, kick them both off.

    Mens Wives 2006

  • These incidents give a queer zest to the voyage down the life-stream in

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • In shooting by night, animals are more frequently wounded than killed; the flowing life-stream increases the thirst, so that in desperation they come slowly up to drink in spite of the danger, “I must drink, though I die.”

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • One long, wild shriek, -- one quick, convulsive bound in the air, -- and Sam fell lifeless to the floor, the dark life-stream pouring from his side.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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