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Now, as the world responds vigorously, vitally, to the aftermath, we will switch into action mode and do what can-and must-be done.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Watching the World Become Water Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Now, as the world responds vigorously, vitally, to the aftermath, we will switch into action mode and do what can-and must-be done.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Watching the World Become Water Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Now, as the world responds vigorously, vitally, to the aftermath, we will switch into action mode and do what can-and must-be done.
Deborah Schoeberlein: Watching the World Become Water Deborah Schoeberlein 2011
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Nothing mattered-except that there might-no, must-be gryphons, the two gryphons who had twice escaped his wrath.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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Nothing mattered-except that there might-no, must-be gryphons, the two gryphons who had twice escaped his wrath.
Winds Of Fury Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Surely that same formula can-and must-be applied to the issue of accessibility.
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Therefore, in allotting expenses, set this down as a _must-be_: "Our house must have fresh air, -- everywhere, at all times, winter and summer."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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Many allowances must-be made before we judge them by our own categories.
The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894
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If I may not be permitted to allude to the natural depravity of the human heart, at least I may-I must-be permitted, so far to refer to misplaced confidence. '
David Copperfield 1850
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For if all morality be founded on the pain or pleasure, which arises from the prospect of any loss or advantage, that may result from our own characters, or from those of others, all the effects of morality must-be derived from the same pain or pleasure, and among the rest, the passions of pride and humility.
A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743
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