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Letter "I" » in case
«You can't bomb a people just in case»
Author: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
(Politician, President)
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in case, just in, just in case
«Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.»
«The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.»
«Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar»
«The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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agent, drove, free agent, Free agents, in case, mobility, nineteenth, nineteenth century, Pacific, privacy, restaurant, sandwich, secret agent, secret agents, the Pacific
«You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.»
«Some punishment seems preparing for a people who are ungratefully abusing the best constitution and the best King any nation was ever blessed with, intent on nothing but luxury, licentiousness, power, places, pensions, and plunder; while the ministry, divided in their counsels, with little regard for each other, worried by perpetual oppositions, in continual apprehension of changes, intent on securing popularity in case they should lose favor, have for some years past had little time or inclination to attend to our small affairs, whose remoteness makes them appear even smaller.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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in case
«The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.»
Author: John Adams
(President)
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doubted, flea, hang, in case, of necessity, robber, To Kill a, tyrant
«Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.»
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