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Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who coined the oft-cited description of Berlin as "poor but sexy," said in November that he wants the city to "get richer and stay sexy."
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Mayor Klaus Wowereit, who coined the oft-cited description of Berlin as "poor but sexy," said in November that he wants the city to "get richer and stay sexy."
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"The concern is, countries do not want to be Puerto Rico," former Mets GM Minaya told the News in November, referring to the oft-cited example of the U.S. territory that became subject to the amateur draft in 1990.
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Rumsfeld also called former secretary of state Colin Powell "an honorable man," saying he believed every word he said during his now oft-cited address to the United Nations in 2003.
Donald Rumsfeld: I wouldn't visit bin Laden in Gitmo, 'he's not my type'
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I could site dozens of studies, easily accessible on Google, that call into question the reliability of these tests but I'd rather just quote from the oft-cited "Campbell's Law": "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: Diane Ravitch and Mr. Tilson's 'Status Quo'
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In a persuasive, oft-cited study, dieters who fell off the "diet" wagon, but still thought kindly of themselves didn't indulge in emotional eating.
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In a persuasive, oft-cited study, dieters who fell off the "diet" wagon, but still thought kindly of themselves didn't indulge in emotional eating.
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Instead, Lahaye sticks to the oft-cited passage from the Gospel of Matthew that is interpreted to mean the apocalypse will not be predicted:
'Left Behind' Author Tim Lahaye Says May, 21 2011 Judgment Day Won't Happen
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The oft-cited prohibitions in Leviticus and Deuteronomy are actually pretty peripheral to Christianity, so what's going on here?
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The oft-cited prohibitions in Leviticus and Deuteronomy are actually pretty peripheral to Christianity, so what's going on here?
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