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I guess maybe you would have to be recruited by the CIA at age 5 to really understand the why's and wherefore's of that.
pat rogers 2010
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I guess maybe you would have to be recruited by the CIA at age 5 to really understand the why's and wherefore's of that.
STRIDER KNIVES 2010
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Lee's 'Modern Reloading' is an excellent source on the "why's and wherefore's" of reloading.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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Lee's 'Modern Reloading' is an excellent source on the "why's and wherefore's" of reloading.
An Expert Gunsmith on Over-Pressure Rounds and Exploding Handguns 2009
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But it had happened, plainly; one look at those blood-injected eyes told me that, and God knows I'd seen enough of human lunacy not to waste speculation on the why's and wherefore's.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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That doesn't mean patients should not try to learn and understand on their own, and physicians also have an obligation even if time is short to try to explain the why's and wherefore's of what they are prescribing/testing/doing.
Third-party Payments and Vioxx, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Rather than getting bogged down in the why's and wherefore's of licensing Olga Gurinova rehabilitates the discourse of freedom and resistance in relation to free and open source software in her essay 'Autocreativity: The Operation of Codes of Freedom in Art and Culture' p 92-117.
Archive 2009-01-01 Ele 2009
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Rather than getting bogged down in the why's and wherefore's of licensing Olga Gurinova rehabilitates the discourse of freedom and resistance in relation to free and open source software in her essay 'Autocreativity: The Operation of Codes of Freedom in Art and Culture' p 92-117.
Open Attitude: To be, or not to be, Open Source Embroidery Ele 2009
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But it had happened, plainly; one look at those blood-injected eyes told me that, and God knows I'd seen enough of human lunacy not to waste speculation on the why's and wherefore's.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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But it had happened, plainly; one look at those blood-injected eyes told me that, and God knows I'd seen enough of human lunacy not to waste speculation on the why's and wherefore's.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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