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The ability to raise a child is not the be-all-and-end-all of marriage.
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The ability to raise a child is not the be-all-and-end-all of marriage.
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The ability to raise a child is not the be-all-and-end-all of marriage.
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AN: I'd say he would be wise for him not to take the middle class as the be-all-and-end-all in India.
Christopher Lydon: Real India: Ashis Nandy's post-colonial "intimate enemies" (AUDIO) 2010
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AN: I'd say he would be wise for him not to take the middle class as the be-all-and-end-all in India.
Christopher Lydon: Real India: Ashis Nandy's post-colonial "intimate enemies" (AUDIO) 2010
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Moreover, my experience in dealing with the education community is that there is a broader understanding (in most circles) that the WASL is not the be-all-and-end-all of education.
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However, the church also maintains that scientific truth is not the be-all-and-end-all of human existence.
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And it was Brown's arrogant belief that he had cracked it, found the philosophers '(or economists') stone, that inflation targeting was the be-all-and-end-all, that led us into the economic calamity now unfolding.
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More than a be-all-and-end-all health care bill, what progressives really need right now is progress.
Sheri and Allan Rivlin: 5 Steps to Major Health Care Reform 2009
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He said he doesn't see this Web site as his be-all-and-end-all moment on the Web.
Hollywood Infidel 2008
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