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  • Or are you claiming it was the gays who were the master-minds behind Sept. 11th?

    Think Progress » Petraeus suggests soldiers would not care about serving with openly gay men and women. 2010

  • I hope they try the master-minds in addition to those who were "just obeying orders"! victim of republican greed

    Justice asks prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogation 2009

  • The second group; the evil master-minds, are those who knowingly and energetically defend the three Barbaric Abrahamic Adam and Eve based religions, only to protect their own social and economic status and power.

    WHO IS DEFENDING RELIGION? 2007

  • Police at the time said the master-minds of bootleg booze scams evaded excise duty of R120 a case by using the cheap industrial or pharmaceutical alcohol.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The gains we make will have lasting effect as we eradicate the socio-economic conditions that allow the criminal master-minds to implement their sinister plans.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • The gains we make will have lasting effect as we eradicate the socio-economic conditions that allow the criminal master-minds to implement their sinister plans.

    ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SOUTH AFRICAN FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS 1998

  • The Government must tell us if our most competent intelligence officers are unable to identify the master-minds behind the carnage.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • The ultimate risk, though, comes when we greedy, lazy, master-minds are able at last to take that final step: to design goal-achieving programs which are programmed to make themselves grow increasingly powerful, by using learning and self-evolution meth - ods which augment and enhance their own capa - bilities.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

  • What little we do know serves but to enhance for us the interest of the man and his philosophy, to make him, in many ways, the most attractive of Greek thinkers; and, basing our estimate on the extent of his influence on the thought of succeeding ages, we recognise in him one of the world's master-minds.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • "Mr. Grego, has it occurred to you or any of your master-minds at Synthetics that difference may be in the Fuzzies 'taste-perception?"

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

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