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adage

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The personal is political the political is personal that adage only applies to a part of his work.
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There's an old, old adage that refs don't make those calls in the last seconds.
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A middle path between secularism and religion: spiritual but not religious and this popular book explains what this adage means.
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A more recent discussion of the adage and its converse sees cases that have received special attention as the recipient of more care.
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The two families live next door to each other and ascribe to the adage that good fences make good neighbors.
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There is an old adage that ignorance is bliss, and such is the case for this woman.
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So when the destination is directly into the wind the best strategy is given by the racing adage tack on a header.
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Finally, the case demonstrated an old adage: bringing a libel suit is generally a poor way to burnish a reputation.
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When it is explained, the humour and shock of the mild expletive help make the adage memorable.
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A paradigm of this theory can be expressed in the adage the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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