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A study of people who were formerly non-religious but later reaffiliated found that is was done out of the need for rites of passage for events such as marriage, baptism of children, or death.

Matt has been signed as an affiliate to a hockey team here in the city but has only played a couple of games as of yet.

Ehricke Krafft once observed that we have no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

Rajiv is a very artificial person, he'll pretend he's your friend, but I don't think he really cares about anyone but himself.

Murder and assassination seem to be a tragic but not uncommon part of American politics.

Murder and assassination seem to be a tragic but not uncommon part of politics in our nation.

This oil is quite bland tasting but it's good for frying.

A Chinese proverb notes, "Draw the bow but don't shoot -- it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be hit.

" There's an old song that goes, "I feel no pain, dear mother, now but oh! I am so dry! Oh, take me to a brewery, and leave me there to die.

" He paid a bundle of money for his used it.

An old proverb notes that nothing is certain but death and taxes.

In his famous speech, Martin Luther King declared, "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

" As early as the 1600s, Ben Jonson remarked that smoking is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke.

Penelope and Brad went out together a few times but it never really clicked for them, and they stopped seeing each other after about a month.

Benjamin Rush once stated that dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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