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I got inspiration from the stuff I did in Oslo concerning ETA + CIA, but it's a higher degree motif: it's a perverted variation of Johimbo or Per un pugno di dollari.
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La vita è come una rapina in banca: un pugno di banditi arraffa tutto, e noi, i fessi, stiamo a guardare.
No Fat Clips!!! : The Fashion – Solo Impala (Take the Money and Run) 2008
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The Audition: il nuovo pugno nel volto della violenza domestica?
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Minores etiam arundines nascuntur ad fluuii ripam, habentes in terra radices longitudinis trecentorum cubitorum aut plurium, Ad quarum nodos radicum, inueniuntur gemmæ preciosæ, de quibus expertum est, siquis vnam habuerit in pugno suo, ferrum corpori suo non nocebit: vnde si quis ibi pugnans, petat aduersarium, ac inimicum hac gemma munitum aggreditur eum cum fustibus non ferratis.
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Minores etiam arundines nascuntur ad fluuii ripam, habentes in terra radices longitudinis trecentorum cubitorum aut plurium, Ad quarum nodos radicum, inueniuntur gemm� precios�, de quibus expertum est, siquis vnam habuerit in pugno suo, ferrum corpori suo non nocebit: vnde si quis ibi pugnans, petat aduersarium, ac inimicum hac gemma munitum aggreditur eum cum fustibus non ferratis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Tu tendi la potenza della morte come un arco tra il Vodice e l'Hermada; varchi l'Isonzo indomito ove guada la tua Vittoria col tuo pugno forte.
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Pessumest, facimus nequiter, ferire malam male discit manus; alia forma esse oportet quem tu pugno legeris.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Vince was a little surprised at himself, and rather disposed to think that he was weak; for somehow all the hot blood had gone out of his arms and fists, which were now perfectly cool, and felt no longer any desire to fly about as if charged with pugno-electricity, which required discharging by being brought into contact with Mike's chest or head.
Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days George Manville Fenn 1870
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By those of H. 1. "si quis cum falso denario inventus fueritfiat justitia mea, saltem de dextro pugno et de testiculis."
Autobiography 1821
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'Si quis cum falso deuario inventus fueril -- fiat justitia mea, saltern de dextro pugno et de testiculis.'
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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