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Russia have 22,000 warheads 5500 for quicke launch
Think Progress » Brzezinski: Air Strike on Iran Could ‘Merit the Impeachment of the President’ 2006
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Jane best wishes to you and yours and to a quicke recovery.
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Thei passe (saieth he) all other men in quicke smelling.
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For why they estieme in these, neither the honour of the quicke, ne the pleasure of the deade: but raither the trouble and paine of bothe.
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They thruste hym through with riedes sharpned for the nones, in euery ioynt all ouer his body, and caused hym quicke to be throwen vpon a heape of Thornes, and so to bee burned.
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Oh shameful opinion, and muche better to be reported by the dead, then to be credited of the quicke, bee it neuer so true.
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Commending the good judgement and understanding in ladies or gentlewomen, that are of a quicke and apprehensive spirit
The Decameron 2004
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“All of them being tall, quicke, and deliver persons.”
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Another most vile custome the foresaide nation doeth retaine: for when any man dieth they burne his dead corps to ashes: and if his wife suruiueth him, her they burne quicke, because (say they) she shall accompany her husband in his tilthe and husbandry, when he is come into a new world.
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The seuenth, that he shall come fro thence like a triumpher, to iudge the quicke and the deade.
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