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Since late in August, my son has been subjected to a system of indoctrination that has essentially squashed his inner desire to learn -- the Ruinous Culture.
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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Since late in August, my son has been subjected to a system of indoctrination that has essentially squashed his inner desire to learn -- the Ruinous Culture.
Timothy D. Slekar: The Bartleby Project: 'I Prefer Not to Take Your Standardized Test' Timothy D. Slekar 2011
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Since late in August, my son has been subjected to a system of indoctrination that has essentially squashed his inner desire to learn -- the Ruinous Culture.
March Madness: 'My name is Luke and I refuse to take your test' 2011
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Ruinous farming and river-pumping have turned what was once green cropland into an arid, sand-covered “dreamscape of steppes and deserts.”
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New York cleared the “Ruinous, and almost impassible” Post Road, widened it to fit coaches, and replaced the Spuyten Duyvil ferry with a drawbridge, calling the new structure Kings Bridge, a name still attached to the area today.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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New York cleared the “Ruinous, and almost impassible” Post Road, widened it to fit coaches, and replaced the Spuyten Duyvil ferry with a drawbridge, calling the new structure Kings Bridge, a name still attached to the area today.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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New York cleared the “Ruinous, and almost impassible” Post Road, widened it to fit coaches, and replaced the Spuyten Duyvil ferry with a drawbridge, calling the new structure Kings Bridge, a name still attached to the area today.
The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010
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Ruinous inflation and ruinous deflation are both ruinous, but your country and your personal life will be much, much more difficult with deflation, and the reason for that is the nature of cardinal numbers, the closer you get to zero the closer you are to an absolute standstill.
Granularity 2009
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VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'NYSE Embraces a Ruinous Idea'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Sadly, another venerable American institution has lost its way: the New York Stock Exchange.
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I guess the Ruinous Powers really do have a sense of irony, after all =
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