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Vous savez, Monsieur, que je ne veux que quelques pieds de sable, une pierre de rivage sans ornement et sans inscription, une simple croix de fer, et une petite grille pour empêcher les animaux de me deterrer.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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The light of day is a great deterrer of wrong-doing.
Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt, 1902-1904 1904
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Krauthammer also asks a question: “If you’re an ally, what are you going to think about America as your defender and America as a deterrer of an attack on you?”
Krauthammer: Obama’s nuclear policy is “either insane or ridiculous” 2010
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