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The Male-female Relationship

a: The male-female relationship ~
b: a flower

What: "I have been shown that the male-female relationship is like that of a flower. The male is the stalk that holds the flower high. However, it is the flower and its petals that open and close daily. It is the flower that regulates life, that provides the pollen carried by the bees to create new life in the plant kingdom."

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Writer: RUPUNDA
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Date: Jun 12 2010 7:41 AM


POLITICAL CASTOR OIL?

a: Ron Paul ~
b: the medicine

What: " Ron Paul is like the medicine that we know we need to take to get well, but cannot make ourselves do it, because it tastes so bad. So, we continue to drink the sweet Kool-Aid, even though we know it will damage our health on the long term."

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Writer: Archie Whitehill
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Where:
Date: Aug 25 2011 1:08 PM


Data Data Data

a: Buying stock without a chart ~
b: doing surgery without an X-ray

What: "You might end up getting so used to studying charts, that you would find it crazy to buy a stock without consulting its chart. It would be like a drilling company cracking into the earth without looking at geological data, or a surgeon operating sans X-ray or an MRI scan."

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Writer: VICTOR REKLAITIS
LCC:
Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Apr 11 2012 5:59 PM



a: Diabetes ~
b: Play-Doh

What:

A list of 5 similarities in the link.


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Writer: Christel Marchand Aprigliano
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Where:
Date: Mar 7 2014 4:28 PM



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