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I and leave
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 hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
I don't want to leave it ''.
`` I can't leave him there.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
I leave out of account the question of the best interests of the children, the question of what their best interests really are.
`` And I think you had better leave '', replied Miriam.
' I think you had better leave '!!
Then, after overtures to accept a settlement and go through with a divorce, Miriam gave a ghastly echo of Mrs. Micawber by suddenly stating, `` I will never leave Mr. Wright ''.
`` Well, I might not get that far '', I told them, `` as actually I have no papers to enter Germany and, as a matter of fact, no permit to return to France once I leave ''.
The waspish man stopped me three paces from the bicycle barricade, and asked me in French if I had papers to leave France.
I replied in the affirmative, taking out my recently acquired titre d'identite et de voyage, on which was stamped a permission to leave France.
You have just given me permission to leave France, which I did.
He never let me know that my visit was about to terminate until the actual morning I was to leave for Lymington.
`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

I and statisticians
Marxist Friedrich Engels wrote: " I have learned more Balzac than from all the professional historians, economists and statisticians put together.
A common problem facing statisticians is calculating the sample size required to yield a certain power for a test, given a predetermined Type I error rate α.
Duncan argued that a more liberal procedure was appropriate because in real world practice the global null hypothesis H < sub > 0 </ sub >= " All means are equal " is often false and thus traditional statisticians overprotect a probably false null hypothesis against type I errors.

I and say
I just wanted to hear you say so ''.
If you tell him I made a pass at you he might think you misunderstood something I said or did, so instead of just telling him I made a pass, say I tried to date you and that you agreed so you could prove to him what a louse I really am.
I felt that he looked at me coldly and appraisingly and seemed to be uncertain what his attitude towards me should be, but he did not say one word which might indicate that he had been told of advances to his wife.
I must say the figure was well made up.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
`` I realize that this is hardly the time to say it, Penny '', said Keith.
How he returned in such a ghastly condition, or why, I cannot say.
`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!
I am naive, they say, to make use of such words.
and I have heard many say that they are content to earn a half or a third as much as they could up North because they so much prefer the quieter habits of their home town.
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
I want to say more about Gabriel's so-called fundamental law.
Asked which institution most needs correction, I would say the corporation as it exists in America today.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
For pride's sake, I will not say that the coy and leering vade mecum of those verses insinuated itself into my soul.
At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

I and what
It's not much of a meal, but it's what I eat ''.
`` I made you what you are '', Gavin whispered.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
I meant what I said about that fire.
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.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.
My future lay solely with the hall, yet what did I know about the hall at this point??
I wished to prepare myself but did not even know what sort of clothes I ought to be wearing.
When I asked him what, if anything, I could do about it, he surprised me by referring me to the director of the hall.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.
Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

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