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  • I said earlier - or if I didn't I meant to-that all of Ledom has, as keystones, two simple things, and that's one of them.

    Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

  • The barrier Hawkins discusses that limits the size the human brain can evolve to-that is, the size of the birth canal-will no longer be a problem.

    Science Phantasy 2009

  • With the collapse of communism, Russia and America no longer represent ideological polar opposites; American officials cannot plausibly claim-as they used to-that Russia threatens our very way of life.

    Why Russia Continues To Torment America 2008

  • With the collapse of communism, Russia and America no longer represent ideological polar opposites; American officials cannot plausibly claim-as they used to-that Russia threatens our very way of life.

    Why Russia Continues To Torment America 2008

  • An afterthought on "Contemporary Black Photographers" A long time ago, when I was working on a review of a Helen Frankenthaler show, a female colleague at NEWSWEEK pointed out to me that it was patronizing to write-as I was about to-that Frankenthaler was one of the "best women abstract painters" in the country.

    Arts Extra: The 'Censorship Drill Again? Yo Mama!' 2007

  • And we're just very grateful for the assistance, and we just hope to-that this at least puts a closure to a chapter of something that's been going on in Cherokee county for a period of time.

    CNN Transcript May 31, 2003 2003

  • There is a second fear shared by many Canadians, the fear that native people cannot manage their own affairs or do not want to-that fear is perhaps not without some foundation and we have contributed to it.

    Aboriginal Right: Let's Face It 1973

  • If Hitler had conquered the world, as he meant to-that is a shuddery thought for every Jew alive today.

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964

  • Mrs. Markleham was so overcome by this generous speech-which, I need not say, she had not at all expected or led up to-that she could only tell the Doctor it was like himself, and go several times through that operation of kissing the sticks of her fan, and then tapping his hand with it.

    David Copperfield 1850

  • I profit so much by it myself, in many ways-at least I ought to-that no one can be more convinced of it than myself; and therefore I speak with great diffidence, my dear Jane, I assure you. '

    David Copperfield 1850

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