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  • Even so, no one wanted it, for which selfrespecting Soviet citizen would buy something that was so blatantly moldy when most of us already had to clean our other purchases of fungi that were, we hoped, unintentional?

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • Even so, no one wanted it, for which selfrespecting Soviet citizen would buy something that was so blatantly moldy when most of us already had to clean our other purchases of fungi that were, we hoped, unintentional?

    Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

  • "To such a suggestion the one selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to add, ought not to be allowed to be made." by john riggs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 465 comments [31 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Monday, Mar 17, 2008 at 12: 56: 32 PM

    Is The Word "WHORE" Offensive? Is it a dirty word? 2008

  • To such a suggestion the one selfrespecting answer is to affirm that there are certain statements which ought not to be, and one should like to hope to be able to add, ought not to be allowed to be made.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Oh, his thousand and one nights would seem innocuous enough today, and he would have been as depressed by the brave show of pornography as any selfrespecting rake, but in those times of nuance and pastel shades it was infinitely depressing to me to see my mother enter into the gales of laughter which greeted remarks of his, quafified gratefully as outrageous by his guests, in a pure spirit of sportsmanship.

    An Autobiography Peter, Ustinov 1977

  • Thus, our foreign affairs, involving issues of peace or war, are not in the hands of our people, but in the hands of the people of the United Kingdom, and in this respect we have one democratic people exercising irresponsible power over several other democratic peoples, a condition that the latter, as selfrespecting competent peoples, cannot permit to continue.

    Imperial Organization 1916

  • Whatever views we may have held on questions of tariff and kindred matters-and none of you would think a parson competent to deal with them-I say whatever we may think of tariff matters and others of kindred character, we can well afford a reciprocity of effort to enthrone a selfrespecting civilization on this great continent.

    Our National Outlook 1904

  • I have known, I am inclined to say that if we can enable an invert to be healthy, selfrestrained and selfrespecting, we have often done better than to convert him into the mere feeble simulacrum of a normal man.

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899

  • As any selfrespecting Avenged Sevenfold fan knows Nightmare the bands fifth album and first since the untimely death of drummer Jimmy The Rev Sullivan last December arrived online.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2010

  • You see television anchors, even newscasters in regional languages, sporting it all the time; and no selfrespecting corporate honcho will be tie-less †"not even in the most humid, stifling weather our metropolises are famous for.

    The Times of India 2010

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