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"text": "But for the fly he might have made me think He had been at his poetry , comparing Nailhead with fly and fly with huckleberry : How like a fly , how very like a fly . But the real fly he missed would never do ; The missed fly made me dangerously skeptic.[…]",
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"ref": "2011 June 23, United States House Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, Insourcing Gone Awry: Outsourcing Small Business Jobs, page 53",
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"text": "The Buddha's perfect body is particularly important in these tropes, and it serves to persuade skeptics of his claims to ultimate authority.",
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"text": "Skeptics of this alliance were proven right because this partnership lasted only for a few years. Once Albania broke off diplomatic relations […]",
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