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Capitalism is a Predatory system which, by definition, MUST Perpetuate itself.
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Perpetuate Bush & Co. politics for another 100 years.
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Perpetuate old dried up notions of supreme global power, secure what little foreign oil supplies we need to ride out the hate against us period and the increpid feeble Federalists will prevail.
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*Perpetuate the memory of those whose lives were sacrificed in our wars.
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Bud Brown snitched you for Conspiracy to Kidnap, Conspiracy to Defraud and Conspiracy to Perpetuate a Public Hoax, and believe me, he did you a big favor.
Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994
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Let the last surge of his breath Perpetuate wine, the attar of flowers;
Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985
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_Perpetuate_, to preserve from extinction; to continue the memory of a person or event.
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Perpetuate that vigorous pulse, and that youthful blood which
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Perpetuate this gay festal abandonment of the mind; let the human being, through the whole of his earthly course, be filled with the sole single consciousness that _this_ is the beautiful world; and will he, can he, live as a stranger and a pilgrim in it?
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"This is one of those projects that touch's what we call our legislative mandate: Preserve Protect and Perpetuate as well as provide outdoor recreation activities," Anderson said.
The Seattle Times 2011
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