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  • "Surely, our intelligence has made us what we are-the most successful animals on the planet!"

    Tin 2010

  • We want to focus on the development of understanding both through promoting skepticism as well as acceptance of things for what they are-the former being a matter of epistemology and the latter of values.

    Spirituality 2009

  • I love this picture, what I see when I look at it, that no matter who they are the First Family and where they are-the White House, they are a family first!

    White House releases portrait of first family 2009

  • And that they are-the latest arrivals on Flight 8506 from Havana.

    The Plane People Of Miami 2008

  • I hope the New York science library will store a couple of rows of its computers upstairs where the inaccessible science journals are, and make way for the science journals on street level, where the people are-the people who actually want to read journals.

    A Tangled Info Web 2008

  • What is not clear is who these climate scientists are-the survey was accessed voluntarily and the geographic distribution changed markedly between their initial 1996 and final 2003 survey.

    Think Progress » WSJ Hit Piece on Gore Movie Relies on Grievously Flawed Study 2006

  • Come on, you know who "they" are-the fat-cat owners, who have stood blithely by as the imbalance in team revenues grows and reveals itself directly in the game's competitive imbalance.

    Starr Gazing: The Fat Cats Of Summer 2007

  • For example, rice production, which is apparently so simple, but our geographic position .... [rephrases] We are between two parallels-I do not remember now what they are-the 24th.

    Castro Speaks to Academy of Sciences 1992

  • Never saw the stars like this, but I don't even know what they are-the names, I mean.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

  • "Surely, our intelligence has made us what we are-the most successful animals on the planet!"

    The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

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