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Mr. Tyler acquired Texas by voluntary compact, and Mr. Polk California and New Mexico by successful war. Robert Toombs
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When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever.
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Like all other arts, the science of deduction and analysis is one which can only be acquired by long and patient study, nor is life long enough to allow any mortal to attain the highest possible perfection in it. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems. Let him, on meeting a fellow-mortal, learn at a glance to distinguish the history of man, and the trade or profession to which he belongs. Puerile as such an exercise may seem, it sharpens the faculties of observation, and teaches one where to look and what to look for. Arthur Conan
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Let us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding. Sathya Baba
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Minerva House was ''a finishing establishment for young ladies,'' where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. Charles Dickens
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Minerva House... was ""a finishing establishment for young ladies,"" where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.
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Mr. Monroe acquired Florida from Spain, extending the same guarantee to the inhabitants which Mr. Jefferson had to those of Louisiana.
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Mr Podsnap settled that whatever he put behind him he put out of existence . . . Mr Podsnap had even acquired a peculiar flourish of his right arm in often clearing the world of its most difficult problems, by sweeping them behind him.
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Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job as parents is essentially to pass on the enthusiasm we had for the things we loved. That's how we'll get them to fall in love with reading in the first place and, hopefully, to stay in love with it. Michael Morpurgo
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Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. Robert Wilson
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So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.
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Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.
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We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.
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Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts. Mike Easley
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something Aaron Karo
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New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.
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On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest, John Roberts
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Sears is now giving evidence that its new marketing strategy and new slogan work very effectively.
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So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.
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So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings. Jack Straw
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Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease. P. J. O'Rourke
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My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases.
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No one was there to say anything for him. If we're just to take him at his word when all the evidence points to the contrary, that's not very much to go on. Michael McGrath
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Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald. John Sherman Cooper
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I feel we have sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.
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Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum. Nicholas Kristof
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All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
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We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.
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The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s. Barton Gellman
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We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.
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We are going to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. He'll just have to wonder what the United States has in store for him.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace. Brent Scowcroft
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the opaque nature of that Saddam Hussein regime. Mohamed ElBaradei
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Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing. John Hewson
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Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.
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Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein, Ayad Allawi
saddam weapons
One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power, Joe Biden
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Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,
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They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed. Joseph Cirincione