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It's SO important that we elect Barack Obama our next president – we can't afford another clueless old man who focuses on the microcosm of 'VICTORY' and failes to see the bigger picture ...
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Asian and European investors, looking at this disaster, which both failes to address the credit crisis that has frozen the US economy like a new ice age, and which undermines the already staggering dollar, fled their stock markets and pulled their money from banks, leading to stock market crashes and bank failures around the globe over the weekend.
The Markets Have Just Given a Big Raspberry to Paulson, Bernanke, Bush and Congress 2008
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Never failes to amaze me … … … Good thing were focused more on what some comedian says then the people in charge that can just give lie after lie after lie, which is what most of his routine was about … … Your right though we should definatly be more focused on some comedian doing a routine about the complete joke of a job our goverment is doing … ..
Think Progress » Fox News Slams Colbert: ‘Inappropriate,’ ‘Over the Line,’ ‘Not Very Funny’ 2006
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_Grinuiles_ sailes, Whose courage grew, the more his fortunes failes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Prose, in the knitting up of the memorie, the reason is manifest, the words (besides their delight, which hath a great affinitie to memorie) being so set as one cannot be lost, but the whole woorke failes: which accusing it selfe, calleth the remembrance back to it selfe, and so most strongly confirmeth it.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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When I am wrong'd, and that Law failes to right me,
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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So that when youth failes in us, we feele, nay we perceive no shaking or transchange at all in our selves: which in essence and veritie is a harder death, than that of a languishing and irkesome life, or that of age.
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So wonderfull are these thoughts that my spirit failes in me at the consideration thereof; and I am confounded to think that God, who hath done so much for me should have so little from me.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890
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So wonderfull are these thoughts that my spirit failes in me at the consideration thereof; and I am confounded to think that God, who hath done so much for me should have so little from me.
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Helen Campbell 1878
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A decoction of cat tongue, drank freely seldom failes to give relief.
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