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  • I bet it is not close enough for you guys, the race is over even though I bet that you'll try your best to confuse the naives.

    Delegate update 2008

  • DOBBS: Taking your point, there are bad actors in both areas, those who have been irresponsible the difference it would seem to me, if you will, homeowners are not being given the principle amount of almost $1 trillion in bailout money and the fools and naives on Wall Street and the buddies of Hank Paulson are getting hundreds of billions of dollars.

    CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008 2008

  • He noted that the water-colours on the walls of the room she sat in had mainly the quality of being naives, and reflected that naivete in art is like a zero in a number: its importance depends on the figure it is united with.

    The Lesson of the Master Henry James 1879

  • American languages: -- "Les Quichuas et les Aymaras civilisés ont une langue étendue, pleine de figures élégantes, de comparaisons naives, de poésie, surtout lorsqu'il s'agit d'amour; et il ne faut pas croire qu'isolés au sein des forêts sauvages ou jetés au milieu des plaines sans bornes, les peuples chasseurs, agriculteurs et guerriers, soient privés de formes élégantes, de figures riches et variées."

    Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • On the whole a really good album even if some passages could sound a little bit naives and derivative.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010

  • On the whole a really good album even if some passages could sound a little bit naives and derivative.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010

  • Reifizierungen virtueller Metaphysik am Substrat der postidentischen Citizenship dings: Die digital naives, die mit ihren albernen laptops johlend das Café in Beschlag nehmen sind sehr wichtig.

    ? ... Dings 2010

  • In today's Ypulse Essentials: MTV, OurStage spotlight new artists, digital natives or digital naives and more:

    Ypulse meredith 2010

  • On the whole a really good album even if some passages could sound a little bit naives and derivative.

    Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2010

  • Irish filmmakers Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan use their all-access backstage pass to the birth of Air America Radio, which debuted on March 31, 2004, to demonstrate how the good intentions and passionate if fuzzy politics of a band of media naives was nearly done in by a miasma of financial skullduggery and technical incompetence.

    unknown title 2009

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