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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Paul Getty
I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
Kathy Griffin
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
Charles Eastman
I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
Jim McDermott
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
Paul Getty 
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I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
Kathy Griffin
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Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
Charles Eastman
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
Zach Wamp
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As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond
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We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
Neil Sheehan
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Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.
Derek Jacobi
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In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy; for at this early period We can not expect to have a Navy to cope with the British.
William Whipple
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During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.
Edward Burnett Tylor
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