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This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few -- the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war.
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Parliament will be marking the centenaries of various pieces of wartime legislation it itself passed in the selfsame chambers as those it sat in at the time.
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Those very people whom, when absent, they dreaded more than death itself, were invited to reside, as one may say, under the selfsame roof.
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His professional life was dominated by the selfsame attitudes that governed his family lifea certainty that good humor and leisure must be balanced by service and accomplishment.
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In many other translations, only the section dealing with dying on the selfsame day is present.
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Answer: the selfsame absence of people and their technological trappings.
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While melancholic, this kind of universe does not require the selfsame beloved, but wholly accepts his or her or its replacement by a very similar entity!
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By the time the party was winding down, we were reading about the selfsame treasure's personal failings.
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It views dream generation in humans as, like speech in humans, a skillful cognitive act, in fact possibly drawing upon the selfsame cognitive abilities.
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Each contender will have his own interpretation of the facts, which will make little or no difference to the voter, since we've been inundated with the selfsame "facts" for years.
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