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"ref": "2012, J. Troy, Christian Approaches to International Affairs",
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"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2014, Nicholas Romanov, Kurt Brungardt, The Running Revolution",
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},
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Ruth Snowden, Understanding Jung",
"text": "His analytical method gradually strips away built-up defensive layers of the personality until we are able to see our true selves.",
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},
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"text": "This slowed entry into the bowel reduces built-up gas and runny poos which leads to a happier, more contented baby.",
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},
{
"ref": "2014, Kelly Carrero, Paradox",
"text": "All the built-up passion that I'd put to rest when I fell asleep last night came back with full force.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, J. Troy, Christian Approaches to International Affairs",
"text": "World society, as Williams puts it, 'is something of which we need to be suspicious because of the risks that its pursuit may create for the painfully built-up and relatively fragile structures of order that exist among states.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Murtaza Haider, Getting Started with Data Science: Making Sense of Data with Analytics",
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},
{
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