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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. To some degree read more
Seems like it's something different every time, ... Denver had tall guys getting right in the gap. To some degree it was the right spot at the right time. On a wet field, a longer field goal is tough to get the ball up, but you can't fault [Novak]. Sometimes, it's just a gotcha.
We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the read more
We bank on getting those big runs. When we get rolling like that, it takes the wind out of the other team's sails.
Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.
Whole Foods has become, obviously, a Wall Street darling in the recent past and for good reason.
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that read more
The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.
The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at read more
The developer has met all the requests and conditions that we've asked. All the issues that you brought up at our meeting, he's basically addressed those, and in my opinion gone above and beyond as far as putting out extra work and expending money out of his pocket to try to help accommodate people who are in a low-lying area.
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used read more
The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989â€â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense read more
It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989â€â€Âit's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .