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We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.
We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.
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We collected `` lucky stones '' -- all the creamy translucent pebbles, worn smooth and round, that we could find in the driveway.
" We clicked on comedy, and we were lucky we found each other, because we both had so much respect for it.
" We came back into the game and scored two lucky goals, so in the end we were the winners but we were very, very lucky ", stated Franz Beckenbauer.
He also stated: " I think everybody in the band, especially myself, imagined that the reason we were doing so well was because of themselves … We were pretty young and very lucky, and things had happened very quickly for us and I don't think we were really mature to handle the situation.
" It wasn't on our behest that this went exclusive ... We bid and we were very fortunate and lucky and delighted to be the winning licensee.
We were not so lucky ourselves as to see these tar geysers, much though we wished it ; as it was some distance out of the way we were to take, the Governor did not want us to go past them.
We thought it would be funny to put a huge stadium crowd in the background at a time when we were lucky to be playing to a few hundred.
We ’ re lucky to have two languages ; one that we share with half the world and one which belongs just to us.
" We see masses of familiar faces every time we play-we were always pretty familiar with our audiences anyway and we're very lucky that so many of them are so loyal to us.
Lou Parsons, a senior Miller adviser, later acknowledged, " We wouldn't have won it against Dennis [...] Our winning strategy was always to be against Larry ... and in the end we were lucky.
" We see masses of familiar faces every time we play-we were always pretty familiar with our audiences anyway and we're very lucky that so many of them are so loyal to us.
Producer Barry Rosen said, " We were very lucky that and Stan Kirsch | Kirsch were so human-grounded, so we could really play off of them and the way they looked at things that went through.
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