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I and don't
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
He stopped, embarrassed, and Morgan said, `` I understand that, but I don't savvy why you'd go off and leave your jobs in the first place ''.
I don't know yet, it's crazy ; ;
I don't want to leave it ''.
Now dammit, I don't want to go into any more explanations.
It's bigger than it has to be, though I don't see where it's doing any harm.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
I don't know what goes on around here, and I don't care.
I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.
We've been starving and I don't like to starve ''.
I'm well aware that you've got a pedigree as long as my leg, and that I don't amount to anything.
`` I don't know, Tom.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
`` I don't know, Mr. Brenner '', he said haltingly, beginning to get an inkling of Brenner's plans.
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
I don't know what you're up to, but when Brenner '' --

I and propose
Above all, disabuse yourselves of any thought that I propose to vent moral indignation at your rifling my residence, to whimper over the loss of a few objets d'art, or to shame you into rectitude.
I would propose, first, an abandonment of attempts at a universal lexical list, as intrinsically unachievable, and operationally inadequate in proportion as it is achieved.
I would propose, next, as the prime requirement for constitution of new basic lists, items whose forms show as high an empirical retention rate as possible.
The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
Therefore I propose to the comrades that they devise a way of shifting Stalin from this position and appointing to it another man who in all other respects falls on the other side of the scale from Comrade Stalin, namely, more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and considerate of comrades, less capricious and so forth.
Eisenhower made clear his stance in his first State of the Union message in February 1953, saying " I propose to use whatever authority exists in the office of the President to end segregation in the District of Columbia, including the Federal Government, and any segregation in the Armed Forces ".
We have a right to do, same as what we do with our own ; and the treatment which I propose is not only lawful, but benevolent.
I am sure I understand it so, and do therefore propose it.
When the Whig Party asked Daniel Webster to run for the Vice Presidency on Zachary Taylor's ticket, he replied " I do not propose to be buried until I am really dead and in my coffin.
In legal reforms, King Edward I of England started the use of drawing and quartering as punishment for traitors, King Philip IV of France created the gabelle, an onerous tax on salt, and the Scots Parliament passed laws allowing women to propose marriage to men, but only in leap years.
" My idea for a film is exactly that, and I was going to propose it to someone who would pay to have it made ," he said.
In Joyce's Ulysses, rhododendrons play an important role in Leopold and Molly's early courtship: Molly remembers them in her soliloquy-" the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me ".
So in August 1851, Wagner wrote in " Eine Mittheilung an meine Freunde " ( A Communication to My Friends ), " I propose to produce my myth in three complete dramas ....".
He wrote to a friend, " I have learned to know a Venice in Venice that the others never seem to have perceived, and which, if I bring back with me as I propose, will far more than compensate for all annoyances delays & vexations of spirit.
I propose to be the champion of the world, not the white, or the Canadian, or the American.
" I have a great desire to paint her portrait and have reason to think she would allow it and is waiting for someone to propose this homage to her beauty.
In the text of the patent he refers to it as " This instrument or toy, to which I propose to give the name ' kazoo ' ".
Cosgrave wrote to the Party Leader, Richard Mulcahy, in May, 1947, on the poor attendance in the Dail, and informed his leader that " I cannot any longer conscientiously ask the public to support the party as a party, and in the circumstances I do not propose to speak at meetings outside my constituency.

I and go
I guess you'd better go on in the morning ''.
`` I said go home, Joseph.
I felt strongly attached to the hall, however, and hardly a day passed when I did not go to look at it from a distance.
`` I got no place to go ''.
`` Just as soon as I go to the bank, and '' --
Where I go, she goes -- and the kids with us.
At these words of sympathy and understanding, Harmony said generously, `` I don't mind setting here along with Gran while you go out and join in the games ''.
I saw Johnson's bottle snatched from his hand, saw it go in a swirl of foam just behind the second car.
Shall I go on ''??
Time to go, I supposed.
In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.
`` All I have to do to set the record is to go on down.
`` I don't think you should go down again ''.
You did this you like to hurt to beat people I want to go home ''.
I asked Wisman what would happen if he broke out the go codes and tried to start transmitting one.
The family was Protestant, but for me it was only irksome and I let it go.
`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

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