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As a Democrat and avide Obama/Dem Unite supporter – Paul is actually a respectful Republican.
Paul set to hold separate rally during Republican convention 2008
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Meanwhile I am off for home, partly walking, partly running, and having reached home I take a bath and give myself a rub; 248 and then I breakfast — a repast which leaves me neither empty nor replete,249 and will suffice to last me through the day. pransus non avide, quantum interpellet inani ventre diem durare.
Oeconomicus 2007
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At the first publishing of this book, (which [123] Probus of Persius satires), editum librum continuo mirari homines, atque avide deripere caeperunt, I may in some sort apply to this my work.
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Ce qui laisse prévoir de sérieuses difficultés à notre ami Lacoude si avide de s'enrichir …
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News are generally welcome to all our ears, avide audimus, aures enim hominum novitate laetantur ([3286] as Pliny observes), we long after rumour to hear and listen to it, [3287] densum humeris bibit aure vulgus.
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Subjick staited ag'in so 's to avide all mistaiks.
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Let them avide bad kumpany and keep out of the Palass; and above all, let them mind their bissnesses on dri land, and never cast their fortunes on any _main_, like their unfortinet
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various
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Une volonté puissante, avide à revendiquer des responsabilités, alors que d'autres reculent sans cesse devant les responsabilités, s'enivre presque toujours d'elle-même.
Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916
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Ye can make ye'ersilf as brave as ye want an 'as cool, ye avide mussin' ye'er clothes, ye flavor with danger to suit th 'taste, an' ye get a good dale more applause an 'get it quicker thin th' other kind iv hayro.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Homines autem carni obnoxii, qui Spiritu Dei carent, hoc etiam bello carent; vitiositati suae obsequuntur; et quo Satan, et prava libido impellit, eo avide sine ulla poenitentia ruunt.
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