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  • For example, in Lemon Tree, the Defense Minister does contemptible things-the film implies he cheats on his wife, but you also show that he has an impossible job dealing with conflicting factions in his own government.

    Dan Lybarger: Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis Dan Lybarger 2011

  • My girlfriend lives in West Hartford so I do enjoy going to both locations … but only for a few things-the produce and meats are out of this world … but so are the prices.

    As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving feast… « Dating Jesus 2009

  • For example, in Lemon Tree, the Defense Minister does contemptible things-the film implies he cheats on his wife, but you also show that he has an impossible job dealing with conflicting factions in his own government.

    Dan Lybarger: Home in Exile: An Interview With Eran Riklis Dan Lybarger 2011

  • I have no doubt that the neurobiological mechanics of the brain are critical to being able to experience life, but those two things-the brain and the experience that manifests thru it-exist in different realms.

    Timothy B. Stokes - Neurobiology doesn’t reduce human experience into mechanistic meaninglessness William Harryman 2009

  • And on the Nigerian question I think it's a combination of things-the fact that there's so many of us for a start, plus the oil "wealth" and possibly it's hardwired in our DNA as well

    First Tanzania musings, hailing the CAs and a young reader uknaija 2007

  • Knowing nothing of the disappearing gold nor Jocasta's mysterious visitor, though, Phaedre wouldn't be aware of the increased vigilance, save in the indirect way in which slaves always knew things-the instinct that had doubtless roused her to look out the window.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • That, too, is why all the other things-the things, I mean, which are reciprocally transformed in virtue of their

    On the Generation and Corruption Aristotle 2002

  • ‘Nature’ means (1) the genesis of growing things-the meaning which would be suggested if one were to pronounce the

    Metaphysics Aristotle 2002

  • For there must be three things-the moved, the movent, and the instrument of motion.

    Physics Aristotle 2002

  • And the round dome with the five pointy things-the Temple of Paladine.

    Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995

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