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God in Heaven, I can't refuse you now.
`` I don't mind washing dishes now and then '', he said pleasantly.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
`` Hell, that's all right, buddy '', the Indian ( I now guessed ) said.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
I said, `` O.K., so now only Blake knows.
If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;
`` And now '', said Tilghman with deadly calm, `` I'll repeat what I said.
I been riding train for a ways now ''.
I followed them in the jeep and now they did not care.
His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!
`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
Both I and my feelings come up out of a chain of events that fan out into the past into sources that are ultimately very unlike the entity which I now am.
The Commission seems to represent the viewpoint of what I would call the unconscious liberal, but not unconscious enough, to invoke the now taboo symbolism of socialism.
If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;
Yet this passion for passion, now that I look back on it with passion spent, seems somewhat overblown and operatic, though as a diva Miss Millay perfectly controlled her notes.
I can see us now.
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.

now and think
I think you are being unfair to take these things up now.
This means an added burden to innumerable postmen, who already are complaining of heavy loads and low pay, and it presumably means an increased postal deficit, but, our correspondent writes, think of the additional junk mail each citizen will now be privileged to receive on a regular basis.
We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.
But now I think I hate it very much ''.
It was easier to think now, Watson decided.
Where Americans used to think of a single vacation each summer, they now think about how many vacations they can have.
Mickey paused with him, waiting, no longer impatient, trying now to think it out, do a little planning.
`` I feel good physically '', Hansen added, `` but I think I'll move better carrying a little less weight than I'm carrying now ''.
`` I think I can do a better job with the glove, now that I know the hitters around the league a little better '', he said.
Do you not think these men might choose the black flag here and now ''??
But now -- well, it would be a blessing, I think.
What most troubles me now is the instability of the balance, the extreme peril of the current situation, the appalling waste of the arms race ... Each of us has a responsibility to think about this in global terms, with tolerance, trust, and candor, free from ideological dogmatism, parochial interests, or national egotism.
Upon seeing it Taggart asks, " now what will that asshole think of next?
The concept of zero ( which was also called " cipher "), which we all now think of as natural, was alien to medieval Europe, so confusing and ambiguous to common Europeans that in arguments people would say " talk clearly and not so far fetched as a cipher ".
One would think to listen to him that the Government had no responsibility for the state of world affairs ... The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace.
On top of this there are many non-European clowning traditions ( including clown-like figures in Japanese Kabuki theatre ), North American native shaman traditions to consider which may or may not have influenced what we now think of as a clown in the Western world.
On July 5, 2009, Colin Powell told CNN said that the policy was " correct for the time " but that " sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed.
I fell in love, that is the only expression I can think of, at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.
He was mad enough before but I shudder to think what he'll be like now.

now and we
There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
Brassnose yelled: `` Come on, Sommers, Max step on it, we got a chance now.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
We get some clue from a few remembrances of childhood and from the circumstance that we are probably not much more afraid of people now than man ever was.
But now we can keep it out no longer, because we have come into a time when `` it invades our experience at every moment.
Have not our physical abilities already deteriorated because of the more sedentary lives we are now living??
And though we can look back now and see their errors, we can look back also to the ultimate error.
But however we come, finally, to explain and account for the present, the truth we are trying to expose, right now, is that the makers of constitutions and the designers of institutions find it difficult if not impossible to anticipate the behavior of the host of all their enterprises.
But, just as we drew on Europe for assistance in our earlier years, so now do these new and emerging nations that do have this faith and determination deserve help.
It is my studied conviction that no nation will ever risk general war against us unless we should become so foolish as to neglect the defense forces we now so powerfully support.
`` On each side of the Hoogli, where we are now sailing, are the Hindoo cottages, as thick together as the houses in our seaports.
For this purpose we now draw upon data from sociological and psychological studies of students in American colleges and universities, and particularly from the Cornell Values Studies.
In the interim between now and next year, we trust the House and Senate will put their minds to studying Georgia's very real economic, fiscal and social problems and come up with answers without all the political heroics.
If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.
As I see it, if war starts and we survive the initial attack enough to be able to fight back, the nuclear weapons we now have -- at least the bombs -- can inflict all the demage that is necessary.
Speaking recently in Miami, Governor Rockefeller said that `` to assure the sufficiency of our own weapons in the face of the recent Soviet tests, we are now clearly compelled to conduct our own nuclear tests ''.
The possibility, as he asserted, that the Russians may get ahead of us or come closer to us because of their tests does not supply the needed ethical premise -- unless, of course, we have unwittingly become so brutalized that nuclear superiority is now taken as a moral demand.

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