To become oneself, with all one's strength. Difficult. A bomb, a speech, a rifle shot -- and the world can look a different place. And then where is this self
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill by the numbers, recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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At Hayes' General Store, west of the cemetery, hangs an old army rifle, used by a discouraged Civil War veteran to end his earthly troubles. T...
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This is my rifle, this is my gun
This is for fighting, this is for fun
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A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.
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A story: A man fires a rifle for many years; And he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armoury; And he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands, love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper; His hands still remember the rifle.
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A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.
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Remember, it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to pull the trigger of a decent sniper rifle.
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The National Rifle Association are the gun nuts of the world.
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Does he lie there forever, where his rifle waits, giant...
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