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When my grandmother talks about the way things were,
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It is on this point that Bourdieu and Kant seem irreconcilably at odds: whereas Kant conceives of the plurality of subjects on an equal footing, as it were,
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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Interestingly enough, the new Conservative Minister of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, has himself made disparaging remarks dismissing them in 2000 saying they were,
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Sailor in the perplexing night, where countries burn and vanish, never were,
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Interestingly enough, the new Conservative Minister of Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Jason Kenney, has himself made disparaging remarks dismissing them in 2000 saying they were,
The Legal Intersection Between Sexuality and Race : Law is Cool 2008
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I believe he goes by Buckeye Terrorist Fistjab Nation, and his exact words were,
Obama Wins Ohio, Networks Say -- And Quite Likely, The Presidency 2009
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More radical modifications of the correspondence theory push the recursive strategy even further, entirely discarding definitions like (1) or (2), and hence the need for atomic truthmakers, by going, as it were,
The Correspondence Theory of Truth David, Marian 2009
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Mother in the Country; who, good People, were sorely griev'd; and sent to me, desiring I would abandon the way I was in, and resolve to live vertuously and modestly for the future, and their House should be open for my Reception, and their Arms for my Pardon: But, alas, these Offers were,
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On seeing me, and hearing me mention Mr. Park, he began to weep; and his first words were,
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 2008
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After various attempts to speak, the first words he uttered were,
The Monastery 2008
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