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Uncas -- I saw the musicianer's blower; and so, after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose death can profit no one, and whose life, if his tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable to our own ends.
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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Uncas -- I saw the musicianer's blower; and so, after all, it is the man they call Gamut, whose death can profit no one, and whose life, if this tongue can do anything but sing, may be made serviceable to our own ends.
The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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As Gamut said above, paraphrasing why should we believe in the prognostication powers of the so called experts when they are in a position to make their prognostications come true, at all costs.
Should the Fed be Audited?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As to the mutability of human behavior, any species that can run the Gamut from Mother Theresa to Catherine the Great, and Ghandi to Charles Manson has a very wide range (if not infinite).
Balkinization 2007
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I learned Katharina's Act V, Scene ii obedience speech from Taming of the Shrew set in Padua, Italy in the Gamut; my final exam yielded my first ever standing ovation.
Dr. Susan Corso: Smith College, my Educational Passport; or, Back to School 2008
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The Gamut, the lobby of the theatre building, was where I studied when I was an undergraduate.
Dr. Susan Corso: Smith College, my Educational Passport; or, Back to School 2008
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Coldness, and Indifferency; one rais'd my Hopes above Ela, the other cast my Despair below Gamut.
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Back in the Gamut, on that grey March afternoon, it must have been the room itself that stirred me to learn as rapidly as I learned when I was a student.
Dr. Susan Corso: Smith College, my Educational Passport; or, Back to School 2008
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I started reading it the night before the exam after a late-night rehearsal, sitting at a café table in the Gamut.
Dr. Susan Corso: Smith College, my Educational Passport; or, Back to School 2008
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As my partner entered the labyrinth of studios to audition, I parked myself in the Gamut, the lobby of the theatre building, and pulled out my current book, Tor Nørretranders 'The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, a dense tome about how human consciousness circuits through the brain.
Dr. Susan Corso: Smith College, my Educational Passport; or, Back to School 2008
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