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Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
You must forgive me if I seem to dwell too much on her physical aspects but I am an artist, accustomed to studying the physical body.
I must say the figure was well made up.
I must have a powerful representative here, a firm with a national distribution and ten, twenty thousand dollars to advertise my products.
The design is determined emotionally: `` I must reach into myself for the spring that will send me catapulting recklessly into the chaos of event with which the dance confronts me ''.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
Being a teacher of American literature, I remembered Whittier's `` Massachusetts To Virginia '', where he said: `` But that one dark loathsome burden ye must stagger with alone, And reap the bitter harvest which ye yourselves have sown ''.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
Miriam Noel Wright said, `` Here I am at my own home, locked out so I must stand in the road ''!!
Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.
Said: `` There are things I must tell you about this man you are marrying which he does not know himself ''.
To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.
Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.
`` I felt that I must devote myself to the ' outside ' world ''.
I cannot express to you the depth of my conviction that, in our own and free world interest, we must co-operate with others to help these people achieve their legitimate ambitions, as expressed in their different multi-year plans.

I and confess
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
However, I confess my hope that I will be innocent again, not with a pristine, accidental innocence, but rather with an innocence achieved by the slow cutting away of the flesh to reach the bone.
Try as I might to confess my sins and accept salvation, no answer came to me from heaven.
I had to confess that I had missed these frescoes, recently discovered, that he had studied in his eighties.
Without really changing the general subject, I take this opportunity to confess that I am troubled by doubts, not only about pacifism, but also when asked to join in the protest against a law that most of those who consider themselves humane and liberal seem to regard as obviously barbarous ; ;
Arminius referred to Pelagianism as " the grand falsehood " and stated that he " must confess that I detest, from my heart, the consequences that theology.
" Most tellingly, Pirckheimer wrote in a letter to Johann Tscherte in 1530: " I confess that in the beginning I believed in Luther, like our Albert of blessed memory ... but as anyone can see, the situation has become worse.
Sondheim said: " As for the three songs ... going together well, I might as well confess.
: I shudder to confess them.
I confess one Baptism for the remission of sins and I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the coming age, Amen.
He notes thatto suppose that the eye ... could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree ”.
When asked by conductor Karl Reinthaler to add additional sectarian text to his German Requiem, Brahms responded, " As far as the text is concerned, I confess that I would gladly omit even the word German and instead use Human ; also with my best knowledge and will I would dispense with passages like John 3: 16.
The prisoners were coerced to confess that they had spat on the Cross: " Moi Raymond de La Fère, 21 ans, reconnais que ( J ' ai ) craché trois fois sur la Croix, mais de bouche et pas de coeur " ( free translation: " I, Raymond de La Fère, 21 years old, admit that I have spat three times on the Cross, but only from my mouth and not from my heart ").
It flattered my pride to think that I incurred no guilt and, when I did wrong, not to confess it ...

I and prefer
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.
When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )
I have observed that being up on a horse changes the whole character of a man, and when a very small man is up on a saddle, he'd like as not prefer to eat his meals there.
I prefer to speak, however, of Sam Rayburn, the person, rather than Sam Rayburn, the American institution.
I have used a variety of heavy-weight hand-made papers, but prefer an English make, rough surface, in 400-pound weight.
I know Negroes who prefer the South and white Southerners, because `` At least there, you haven't got to play any guessing games ''!!
Personally, I prefer straight hair like yours, but as they say on the Continent, ' What can one do ' ''??
Coloured Cheddar-style cheese has long been sold, but even as early as 1860, the real reason for this was unclear: Joseph Harding stated " to the cheese consumers of London who prefer an adulterated food to that which is pure I have to announce an improvement in the annatto with which they compel the cheesemakers to colour the cheese ".
It's probably why I prefer dressing up as Ziggy to being David.
[...] Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.
I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor.
I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added .</ p >
" I'm proud of my invention, but I'm sad that it is used by terrorists ," he said on a visit to Germany, adding: " I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work — for example a lawn mower.
* " I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work-for example a lawnmower.
He once remarked on its importance to him, saying, " I prefer a round sound with no attitude in it, like a round voice with not too much tremolo and not too much bass.
The people call me Baba and I prefer this title.
Many MHC class I alleles prefer hydrophobic C-terminal residues, and the immunoproteasome complex is more likely to generate hydrophobic C-termini.
Therefore I would prefer to say " a concept is predicated of its own extension ".
I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man ; wine is not so noble a liquor ... Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
:‘ For Motets and musick of piety and devotion, as well as for the honour of our Nation, as the merit of the man, I prefer above all our Phoenix M William Byrd, whom in that kind, I know not whether any may equall, I am sure none excel, even by the judgement of France and Italy, who are very sparing in the commendation of strangers, in regard of that conceipt they hold of themselves.
A given noun can function in more than one class ; for example, wine can be either countable or uncountable ( this is a good wine, I prefer red wine ).

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