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Well Obama supporters over here makes me proude of my choice of Hillary as my candidate, what irrational hollow and nasty guy .. certainly Obama inspire you the wrong way!!!
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Time to time in this planet something AMAZING HAPPEN . at this moment is not even about Obama anymore and he say him self is about us, history is on the making and be proude and show to the rest of this planet history will be made!
The Race for Florida 2008
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My sister is married to a black man with 2 children and they are proude of there uncle dave
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But now adaies they make them large, deepe, glistering, and of the finest cloth or stuffes to bee gotten, reducing those habites to so proude and pontificall a forme, that they walke
The Decameron 2004
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For thei ben not proude ne coveytous ne envyous ne wrathefulle ne glotouns ne leccherous; ne thei don to no man other wise than thei wolde that other men diden to hem: and in this poynt, thei fullefillen the 10 commandementes of God: and thei zive no charge of aveer ne of ricchesse: and thei lye not, ne thei swere not, for non occasioun; but thei seyn symply, ze and nay.
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Thei are men of a proude nature, busie medlers, and sedicious, craftie, deceiptfull, malaparte, and vnshamefaced: for thei holde opinion that it becometh the man as well to be Sterne, as the woman to be milde.
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And there with alle thei ben so proude, that thei knowen not how to ben clothed; now long, now schort, now streyt, now large, now swerded, now daggered, and in alle manere gyses.
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Thus are thei alway sure of the victory, whiche thei knytte vp with moste proude crueltie.
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The Iauars and inhabitants of Bantam, are proude and obstinate, with a very stately pace, they hold the law of Mahomet, which they haue not had aboue 35. yeares, for as yet there are many heathens among them that neuer were made Mores: it is a very lying and theeuish kind of people, not in any sort to bee trusted.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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When this would not serue, hee being sore grieued in his minde so cowardly to be spoyled of that which he so aduenturously had trauailed for, went to the King to complaine: But when no reason nor complaint would serue by reason of the proude
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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