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It would really actually help this country if they went bank rupt or something.
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Same old argument how much he sacrificed, well if we stop interfering with the affairs of other countries to bully them into accepting our foreign policy our brave young men and women did not have to go to these countries to sacrifice for the same old politicians who have bank rupt our country.
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With Gere playing an American lawyer caught in a frame-up, it portrays the Chinese as brutal and cor - rupt.
Why Tibet Matters 2008
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Roommate pig triez tew dis rupt hurr fantazy bai whereun sweatr n complainN bout heat billz.
happy bukkit - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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American farm subsidies are as corn-rupt as our energy
Harry Fuller: You and I Need to Get Ourselves Onto A Twelve-step Program...Now 2008
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Bank rupt the country, bring down the military and declare marshall law, total power.
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She paused, and this time Stile had the wit not to inter - rupt her.
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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(The Pouring Out of the Seven Vials, 1642) declared that corruption always starts from the inherently cor - rupt, stable “people,” not from the top, the superiorly endowed rulers.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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They questioned the methods, purposes, and achievements of the scholastic universities, and portrayed the entire intellectual en - deavor of the universities as sterile, futile, and bank - rupt.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968
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A philosopher's feelings often “imbue and cor - rupt his understanding in innumerable and sometimes imperceptible ways.”
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION MICHAEL MORAN 1968
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