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  • But at one point or another one should realize that ones reinterpretative efforts have gone so far that one have to ask if its worth going on calling onself a christian in a meaningful sense.

    Keith Ward, Big Questions in Science and Religion 9: Has Science Made Belief in God Obsolete? James F. McGrath 2009

  • Of making and remaking onself, that is why the opportunity, freedom, and independence matter.

    One Stop Thought Shop 2008

  • The heart of conservatism throughout history has always been to put onself first whilst fleecing the rubes.

    Matthew Yglesias » The “Never Takes Responsibility for Anything” Wing 2010

  • Q6SQ3: What sort of provisions would have to be made in order for the age for entering into a contract by onself to be lowered to 18 yeards old?

    Cheap IP phones do not necessary mean longer talk times 2008

  • Hello, encomendar = to entrust encomendarse = to entrust onself to the will of God or the Virgen or saint named.

    Encomendo? 2008

  • Hello, encomendar = to entrust encomendarse = to entrust onself to the will of God or the Virgen or saint named.

    Encomendo? 2008

  • Hello, encomendar = to entrust encomendarse = to entrust onself to the will of God or the Virgen or saint named.

    Encomendo? 2008

  • Hello, encomendar = to entrust encomendarse = to entrust onself to the will of God or the Virgen or saint named.

    Encomendo? 2008

  • That is, if one imagines onself as a Frenchman in the summer of 1940, one might think easily that Petain was right to save what could be saved - albeit at great cost and damage - to preserve something of the idea of France and avoid the humiliation of seeing the entire country occupied by German forces while also hoping that de Gaulle and his followers would eventually prevail.

    Petain, de Gaulle and Patriotism 2009

  • That is, if one imagines onself as a Frenchman in the summer of 1940, one might think easily that Petain was right to save what could be saved - albeit at great cost and damage - to preserve something of the idea of France and avoid the humiliation of seeing the entire country occupied by German forces while also hoping that de Gaulle and his followers would eventually prevail.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

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