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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.


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I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
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The southern Chinese are a mixture of the Han, or northern Chinese, and the local tribes, some of which allowed women a great deal of freedom - much to the horror of the Chinese who were good Confucians. As a result, the folklore from southern China has strong females; and I found that the folktales mirrored my own experience.
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After a long period of division, I will unite Israel.


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I've just swum the length of the Thames. I feel quite tired.


David Walliams
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Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.


Rick Pitino
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Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune.
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For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.
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I think to love somebody every day for a long period of time is the most romantic thing you can do.


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There are actors in this town who made important careers for a long, long period just by taking the parts that Cary Grant turned down.
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
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They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
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While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.
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What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.


Jean-Francois Lyotard
As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.
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There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.
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I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.
Alexander Hanson
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State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey.
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