#nearly

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ↗

— Dave Barry

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to other people at the time and behaved badly, but we didn't seem to have any choice. We were very happy for nearly 50 years and would still be together if it wasn't for the bloody railways. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#badly #behaved #bloody #both #bus

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? ↗

— Boris Becker

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Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl. ↗

— Kristen Bell

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Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions. ↗

— Jo Bonner

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It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school. ↗

— John Bright

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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

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