Because Sentence Examples

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  • I think he felt included because he was helping as much as we were.

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  • They were angry because their plans had been discovered.

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  • Because you are sorry for him!

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  • Is it because winning the award gives them more confidence?

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  • He was in trouble because his scholars would not study.

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  • I am sorry because they cannot see much.

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  • I don't want you to give it up because of me.

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  • He is delighted because I am here.

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  • First of all, I married Alex because I love him.

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  • I guess because I like cooking.

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  • Don't let him suffer because of me.'

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  • Because I know it will end in nothing....

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  • But they were in great numbers, and the Champion could not shout much because he had to save his breath for fighting.

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  • The statement is not there because you want the log per se but because the logging of the actions is what documents how much you need to pay.

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  • I love you very dearly because you are my friend.

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  • Because it happened so!

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  • But that's because I would be sharing the experience with another human being, and human beings form connections with other human beings.

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  • I say "could" because I doubt they have all those databases loaded yet, but you get the idea.

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  • I love to go to church, because I like to see my friends.

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  • Her words puzzled me very much because I did not then understand anything unless I touched it.

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  • Because human ability is distributed unevenly and technology multiplies ability of the talented, the spread between the rich and poor will rise more and more.

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  • I am sorry for them because they cried much.

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  • The Grand Duke was there because it suited him to be.

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  • During the national war he was inactive because he was not needed.

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  • The country requires a minimum wage because workers paid below the poverty line have an added cost on society.

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  • Thousands of people research diseases because they individually want to cure them.

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  • I trust you because of your actions.

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  • That is what we expect to be able to do, because it is theoretically possible in a hundred different ways.

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  • I just thought it was because he was so good looking.

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  • I was told it would be dangerous because of the enemy.

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  • Was it because he thought she wouldn't?

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  • I hope you think about me and love me because I am a good little child.

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  • The business looks at this new country and decides to move there because, from their standpoint, they can save costs and be more efficient.

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  • It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

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  • And this thought occurred to him just because he himself desired a victim, something on which to vent his rage.

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  • He came because of Sonya.

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  • I refer to history extensively in these pages because I believe historical people are exactly like us, only in different circumstances.

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  • A problem arises because of the strong correlation between standard of living and energy consumption.

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  • We have to work at jobs to create wealth because as we live our lives, we consume wealth.

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  • We still have people in boring, dead-end jobs only because we haven't built a machine to do the work.

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  • And she began to cry again because he had such a noble soul.

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  • Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned it and did not welcome the French with bread and salt, nor bring them the keys of the city.

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  • I remember because you seemed so sincere.

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  • He didn't tell her about the money because it would lead to questions - both about the money and the fact that he had been hiding it from her.

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  • The company should insure its workers because if uninsured workers end up in the ER, the burden falls on society, not the company.

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  • That was because I saw everything with the strange, new sight that had come to me.

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  • I am very glad because I love the warm sunshine and the fragrant flowers.

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  • An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people.

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  • I burned my fingers because it was dark.

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  • This is because technology is cumulative.

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  • It was because she seized the right moment to impart knowledge that made it so pleasant and acceptable to me.

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  • It is because they do not obey the hint which God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

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  • Because it was Cade.

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  • I knew, because I felt the same way.

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  • Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another because his line was not straight, he reached the third company.

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  • I can tell you quite clearly, because I constructed nearly all our entrenchments.

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  • The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.

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  • Everything is, everything exists, only because I love.

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  • I thought you decided you couldn't live with the loneliness on the ranch because I was gone so much.

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  • I'd be lying if I didn't admit we have expenses and we're limited in what we can do because of real life restraints, but we're not in this for a golden purse.

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  • Yes, because you're a Guardian.

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  • I submit that the Internet is not defined in that way because it is a technology without an implicit purpose.

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  • Because this is the only power they know, it is the only power they respect.

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  • I knew the sky was black, because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the atmosphere.

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  • But the officer thrashed him because he had to get on as quickly as possible.

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  • It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.

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  • They could not believe it because they alone knew what their life meant to them, and so they neither understood nor believed that it could be taken from them.

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  • Because now we know.

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  • Then I started worrying about how I was going to take care of the baby and how much it would miss because I didn't have the money to...

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  • I must have fallen back to sleep because when I opened my eyes again, the room was nearly dark.

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  • And yet they do, because fraud is a small part of the overall picture.

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  • Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.

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  • It would be particularly pleasant to him to dishonor my name and ridicule me, just because I have exerted myself on his behalf, befriended him, and helped him.

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  • And then to call him out, reckoning on Fedya not fighting because he owed him money!

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  • It could not exist because it was senseless and unattainable.

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  • Or is it because now I have nothing to lose?

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  • I wanted a wife and children, but I didn't want to risk losing them because of the ranch.

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  • We were all at risk, simply because we could identify him!

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  • The site is helpful in tracking the status of our tips because they keep asking questions until they get answers.

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  • He knows the tipster exists because the tipster has information no one could learn through normal means.

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  • Because now, we are friends.

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  • And because human nature changes either not at all or very slowly, people make the same choices over and over again.

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  • Because television was radio with pictures, the first television shows were simply men in suits standing in front of microphones reading the news.

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  • Because of Moore's Law, computers will get faster and storage will be cheaper.

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  • Everyone wins in trade, because goods are reallocated in a way that increases utility to all parties involved.

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  • It all happened because of military pacts in which an attack on one party was viewed as an attack on all.

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  • Twitter is profound, and it unquestionably furthers peace because it promotes the interests of the many against the interests of the few.

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  • She gave me a kiss and then ran away, because she was a shy little girl.

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  • And I love her, because her character is sensible and very good.

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  • I always wondered if that was why Mom and Dad split up for a while - because Mom was used to a different lifestyle and social circle.

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  • Loving him was no excuse, because even knowing he didn't love her, she still couldn't find the decency to leave.

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  • It was a good thing Cade was with her, because she had no idea how to get back to the house.

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  • Quinn swims every morning and takes along a cake of soap because he's lazy.

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  • Only a sense it was summer because the corn was high.

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  • They were sure he murdered Annie because he lived nearby at the time but they couldn't prove it.

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  • Don't bother to ask questions because you won't get many answers.

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  • You can play dumb because it's the truth.

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  • Lives have been lost because we've either not been believed or someone was too late following up.

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  • I told you because you're here and with Molly knowing, you'd find out anyway.

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  • There isn't a doubt in my mind I'm breathing now because of him.

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  • I'm so fed up with people making fun of me because I'm different, she said, frowning.

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  • The Other didn't notice him, perhaps because of the strange issues affecting magic.

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  • I just signed their death warrants, and you think I'd stoop so low as to point the gun at someone because I'm jealous?

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  • Because if she did, she'd lose what little she had left.

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  • It was possible that Alex was making no progress with her because she actually didn't want what she was asking for.

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  • Because you're single-handedly destroying the universe.

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  • He was often called the Ettrick Shepherd, because he was the keeper of sheep near the Ettrick Water.

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  • And every day, their product gets better because it is being fed more data.

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  • It is certain that I cannot always distinguish my own thoughts from those I read, because what I read becomes the very substance and texture of my mind.

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  • It was thought advisable for me to have my examinations in a room by myself, because the noise of the typewriter might disturb the other girls.

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  • I felt vaguely that they could not be good even if they wished to, because no one seemed willing to help them or to give them a fair chance.

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  • I enjoy having a play described to me while it is being acted on the stage far more than reading it, because then it seems as if I were living in the midst of stirring events.

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  • You are the first and only one to whom I mention this, because I like you.

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  • In 1810 he received letters from his parents, in which they told him of Natasha's engagement to Bolkonski, and that the wedding would be in a year's time because the old prince made difficulties.

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  • The tales passing from mouth to mouth at different ends of the army did not even resemble what Kutuzov had said, but the sense of his words spread everywhere because what he said was not the outcome of cunning calculations, but of a feeling that lay in the commander-in-chief's soul as in that of every Russian.

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  • She gave it up just because it was so powerfully seductive.

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  • He died because it was his time.

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  • No, because men have needs and desires women couldn't understand.

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  • Was he angry because he had come so far for nothing?

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  • To tell the truth, I did it because I was pissed off at him over my losing Annie.

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  • I remember because the tip was different from most; so detailed.

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  • She didn't know the call had gone through because I was waiting for her to stop talking.

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  • It's just physical, because they don't have time to have real relationships.

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  • She once thought the problem was him, because he was of human origin.

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  • He didn't have that position because he was a male, as her friends often thought.

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  • Because he killed the bull?

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  • The man was there because Lori had sent him.

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  • Then again, maybe she only wanted to believe that because to believe otherwise would be insulting.

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  • He was always able to read her, probably because he was the first to tell her she was dying.

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  • Only because I like you.

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  • That the skin around Wynn's eyes relaxed in genuine warmth made Gabe realize she'd survived partially because she really was different.

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  • Because he wanted her to live.

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  • Because she wants to give you some time to figure out that you two can make this work.

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  • We fear it, frankly, because we do not understand it.

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  • People who buy organic food, for instance, are not doing it simply because they have more money.

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  • We will avoid war because it is unprofitable; and while that is not a moral reason, any reason that brings peace is fine by me.

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  • They wage war because it is the only language they speak.

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  • Are you very, very happy because you can make so many people happy?

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  • Think of it now, and let it make every blessing brighter because your dear Father sends it to you.

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  • The books are not heavy, because the leaves with the raised type do not lie close.

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  • I love the beautiful spring, because the budding trees and the blossoming flowers and the tender green leaves fill my heart with joy.

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  • She excels other deaf people because she was taught as if she were normal.

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  • Helen told me that for a long time she had thought of Jack Frost as a king, because of the many treasures which he possessed.

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  • If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

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  • A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong.

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  • If they pay the tax from a mistaken interest in the individual taxed, to save his property, or prevent his going to jail, it is because they have not considered wisely how far they let their private feelings interfere with the public good.

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  • The people only gave him power that he might rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great man.

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  • And she added, turning to Vera, You'll never understand it, because you've never loved anyone.

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  • He may keep me on duty every day, or may place me under arrest, but no one can make me apologize, because if he, as commander of this regiment, thinks it beneath his dignity to give me satisfaction, then...

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  • He was not one of those many diplomats who are esteemed because they have certain negative qualities, avoid doing certain things, and speak French.

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  • Of course you artillery men are very wise, because you can take everything along with you--vodka and snacks.

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  • Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Denisov so delighted in her singing.

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  • But, just because the assistant evidently did not want him to go in, Rostov entered the soldiers' ward.

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  • The Russians did not make that effort because they were not attacking the French.

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  • He told Kutuzov that he had come because Moscow, the capital, was no more and only the army remained.

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  • He was dissatisfied because he knew by experience that if his patient did not die now, he would do so a little later with greater suffering.

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  • The French followed him with astonishment in their eyes chiefly because Pierre, unlike all the other Russians who gazed at the French with fear and curiosity, paid no attention to them.

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  • The old count cried because he felt that before long, he, too, must take the same terrible step.

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  • As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now...

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  • I think she was merely directing the comment at you because she thought you might want to know.

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  • Apparently he found what he was looking for, because a smile touched the corners of his mouth and his eyes warmed.

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  • He's at home with Jonathan and he can't come in because Destiny might catch what he has.

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  • Just because it upsets me doesn't mean I don't want to know - or that you shouldn't tell me.

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  • Probably because he didn't know how to handle the situation - and Alex always wanted to be in control.

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  • Because she hadn't known him long?

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  • Maybe it angered him because she hadn't found him irresistible.

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  • He had only said that because he was trying to discourage her from prying into his business.

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  • Those eyes were dark now, mostly because the pupils were large.

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  • Was it because of an ongoing investigation?

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  • He hadn't been accepted as their roommate because he was pretty.

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  • All her plans were about to blow up – all this because she had allowed herself to be drawn into a relationship.

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  • I know, and I guess I was deliberately a little evasive because I wanted you to learn to trust me.

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  • If he hasn't been with a woman, it's probably because he's had other ways of...

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  • No, he said he did it because he was angry.

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  • But if this is because you're lonely . . .

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  • Because he doesn't want to get married and I'm not going to force him into it by making him feel guilty.

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  • His mother pushed him off on us because he stayed up here in New Hampshire because he stayed here a couple of summers growing and she thought visiting might jar something loose.

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  • I had trouble sleeping on the sofa because I kept thinking about my vision from earlier.

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  • Don't forget the Burton boy is alive because of us.

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  • Here in the spring time south, I have no such fear because I'm not stupid as he apparently was.

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  • Other members of the defense bar would surely look closely if their clients were apprehended because of unverifiable tips and assail the source, if they could locate it.

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  • No on both counts but he's been a person of interest in the past, because of his associates.

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  • Let's hope not because he'll try to take advantage of that and do his deeds where you can't pin-point the abduction exactly.

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  • I volunteered no more information, nor did he want it, doubly so now that he might be suspected of having ties to us because of the frequent inquiries he made.

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  • I can't say for sure because I'm on the outside, trying to look in and trying not to get caught, but they've pulled the curtain closed on me.

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  • He also murdered a deputy sheriff who stopped him because the law knew his license plate from a tip.

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  • This ought to help the credibility issue; there's more to some tips than the police know, but haven't made public because it would enforce credence in a psychic connection for the tip.

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  • She can't because Molly would miss school.

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  • I'm doing it because of what you said; think of all the children he could be saving.

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  • She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.

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  • Was it because all the stupid clones out there who read this trash lack the brains to come close to finding her?

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  • I don't know what I mean except I can't stop dreaming of little children, all hurt and bleeding and I don't want to see them because it hurts too much, but I can't block them out!

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  • She drank herself blotto because her husband is a shithead.

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  • He gets stymied at times because of lack of access to certain information sources.

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  • He didn't spend much time at the hospital because the step father is a prune and he snubbed Julie.

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  • You have to spend the night, because of the head injury.

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  • I went around back because Howie said the key he left with us fit the back door.

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  • I started to open the window to get out of there but I guess he heard me because he kicked down the door and grabbed me and cut me.

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  • She wasn't on my list, probably because the police considered the case closed.

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  • I gave a lot of thought to that question because of all the fingers pointing at me.

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  • Just because I dropped at your feet whenever you called for five years doesn't mean I'll do it now.

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  • I think he blames me because he ruined a sweater when he got shot today.

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  • Maybe it's just because Dusty and Sofi can't cook.

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  • Specifically, a virus or bug passed to a pig is considered a huge threat in the medical community, because pigs can pass their diseases onto humans.

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  • I thought it was strange, since Jimmy's the last person who would veer off course from your orders because you let him blow up whatever he wants and he doesn't wanna lose that.

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  • He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

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  • She'd stayed after she turned eighteen, because he was the only one who understood her strange gift.

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  • It was better than any jewels he could buy her, because it meant something to him!

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  • She felt the truth in his words, perhaps because their souls had touched when they first met the day before.

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  • She'd accepted her father, because there was no one else who understood her.

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  • Know that I do it because I care about you, Yully, and want to keep you safe.

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  • You think I'd sell my soul because of something so stupid?

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  • You let me go the first time because you knew I was your mate.

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  • Yes. I kept my maiden name because of my business—it's less confusing.

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  • You're just as mad at him because you think he hung you out to dry when he didn't answer your call the night Billy was killed.

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  • It wasn't coming out the way she practiced it, maybe because Gabriel was sitting close enough that she wanted to lean against him instead of the bed and place his large hands on the parts of her body hidden by clothes.

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  • Maybe because everything was um, mashed together.

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  • The whole reason he'd avoided her was because of Wynn's warning – pleasure kills – a reminder that Deidre's tumor was connected to her emotions.

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  • They never once suffered because of what choices she made.

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  • Because she bears you less ill will than I do?

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  • She'd told him the truth, because she wanted them to have a relationship built on trust and love.

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  • Because not telling him was hurting her.

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  • I know she was because I told her so.

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  • He had it because he was incredibly good at it.

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  • Because he's too bold – and we're not that far from the house.

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  • And who was she to deprive him because of her beliefs?

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  • Maybe because that was the way she had been raised.

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  • At Carmen's startled gasp, he said he didn't think that was an issue because they brought him back quickly.

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  • Someone must have already been on the way because she passed two more patrol cars and found a third waiting for her at the store.

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  • The doctor said it was unlikely because of the tests, but doctors had been wrong about tests on him before.

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  • Later, as she looked down at his sleeping form, she was silently cursing the doctor because his diagnosis was correct, but for the wrong partner.

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  • Mums was her first choice because of confidentiality issues, but there probably wasn't much romance at her age and after so many years of marriage.

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  • Maybe he seems like another person because he doesn't feel like himself.

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  • Because it's more intriguing for men if something is covered.

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  • Because I was short with you?

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  • Maybe because I was trying so hard and consciously trying to make it happen.

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  • Because she was your mother?

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  • She had no right to push him into a relationship simply because she wanted a father-in-law.

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  • Carmen felt sorry for Lori because of the way Josh had treated her.

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  • It teaches compassion, because sitting on the bus, I know the person beside me is someday going to have to search his soul the same way I did, so I don't mind that he's spilling his coffee on my shoes.

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  • She was scared, probably because he was a second away from killing her.

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  • A status check on their relationship, the one he hadn't told her he couldn't have, because he was trapped into mating with a formerly sadistic psychopath-turned-human he was trying hard not to kill.

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  • I said it's because you slept with her.

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  • All these issues because I didn't open one door?

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  • He wants to kill me, because he's Death and that's what Death does.

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  • Because somehow, this was normal wherever they were from.

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  • Just because she knew there was a shadow society didn't mean everyone she ran into was part of it!

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  • You didn't drink it, because you have an emotional connection to the person who asked you not to.

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  • He wasn't surprised, because he already knew.

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  • She couldn't … couldn't bear the thought of another friend dying because of her!

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  • Logan didn't deserve to be killed by a demon; Wynn didn't deserve to die because Gabriel didn't want anyone else around her.

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  • Now you.ll tell me you know how I feel because you read my mind.

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  • Everything that.s gone wrong has been because of you! he returned.

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  • It'd be kinda nice to just think about fishing and TV and not having to wonder what suit is all over my ass because of some dumb new rule.

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  • Was it because he didn't want children?

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  • It is because there is no warm blood in them, remarked the Wizard.

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  • The Mangaboos were much impressed because they had never before seen any light that did not come directly from their suns.

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  • It repeats itself because it is the record of the choices of people.

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  • But because it can be misused doesn't mean it cannot be used well.

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  • I buy something because I have certain assumptions about how much happiness it will bring me.

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  • The robots I watched making Legos had no human operators because no human can keep up with them.

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  • I think no matter what, energy costs will fall dramatically in the future, probably to near zero, because the economic incentives to unlock that technical puzzle are so overwhelming.

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  • Everything would be better made because the best way to make a thing could be multiplied across all occurrences of the thing.

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  • Simply because only so many jobs can, in theory, be replaced by machines does not imply anything about the ability of the people now doing them.

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  • In fact, let's say his own mother considered donating the portrait he painted of her to Goodwill but decided not to because "the poor have enough problems already."

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  • They don't really worry about whether playing polo or building orphanages or any other chosen pursuit can pay the bills, because they don't need it to pay the bills.

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  • Because of its reliability, agriculture will become more like an exact science.

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  • They should be advocating that genetically modified crops be created not because it would result in better looking strawberries, but because GM crops don't require fertilizer or pesticides.

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  • Public opinion is ever more in the peace camp because the vast majority of the economy doesn't benefit financially in times of war.

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  • Augustine said this could not be the case because he could neither hear Ambrose nor see his lips moving.

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  • Moore's Law works because many thousands of people compete with each other to drive technology forward.

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  • And because it changed for the better, wondrously better, we can proudly claim our part in its forming.

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  • The geometrical diagrams were particularly vexing because I could not see the relation of the different parts to one another, even on the cushion.

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  • I cannot make notes during the lectures, because my hands are busy listening.

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  • When I visit many strange countries my brother and Mildred will stay with grandmother because they will be too small to see a great many people and I think they would cry loud on the great rough ocean.

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  • Helen's instincts are decidedly social; she likes to have people about her and to visit her friends, partly, I think, because they always have things she likes to eat.

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  • Helen shook her head and spelled "Baby teeth--no, baby eat--no," meaning of course, "Baby cannot eat because she has no teeth."

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  • Near the landing there is a beautiful little spring, which Helen calls "squirrel-cup," because I told her the squirrels came there to drink.

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  • She enjoys punching holes in paper with the stiletto, and I supposed it was because she could examine the result of her work; but we watched her one day, and I was much surprised to find that she imagined she was writing a letter.

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  • At the dinner-table she was greatly disturbed because I didn't eat, and suggested that "Cook make tea for teacher."

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  • It was no doubt because of this ignorance that I rushed in where more experienced angels fear to tread.

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  • It's easy enough, however, to say Helen is wonderful, because she really is.

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  • Indeed, she was much displeased because I could not find her name in the book.

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  • I think, too, that they quicken all the child's faculties, because they stimulate the imagination.

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  • When I see that she is eager to tell me something, but is hampered because she does not know the words, I supply them and the necessary idioms, and we get along finely.

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  • It is irksome because the process is so slow, and they cannot read what they have written or correct their mistakes.

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  • This extract from one of Miss Sullivan's letters is added because it contains interesting casual opinions stimulated by observing the methods of others.

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  • She is never fretful or irritable, and I have never seen her impatient with her playmates because they failed to understand her.

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  • When she is riding in the carriage she will not allow the driver to use the whip, because, she says, "poor horses will cry."

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  • They are not very wrong to eat too many grapes because they do not know much.

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  • I do not know where he was going because he was a little strange boy.

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  • I have found it best not to tell her that she cannot understand, because she is almost certain to become excited.

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  • Here goes lumber from the Maine woods, which did not go out to sea in the last freshet, risen four dollars on the thousand because of what did go out or was split up; pine, spruce, cedar--first, second, third, and fourth qualities, so lately all of one quality, to wave over the bear, and moose, and caribou.

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  • I hesitate to say these things, but it is not because of the subject--I care not how obscene my words are--but because I cannot speak of them without betraying my impurity.

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  • At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.

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  • Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half-witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

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  • Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

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  • After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest.

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  • We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

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  • When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote.

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  • Because when once a man starts on military service, he should try to make as successful a career of it as possible.

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  • Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those blasphemous words, he went on, with a somber and scornful smile.

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  • Shinshin, lowering his voice, began to tell the count of some intrigue of Kuragin's in Moscow, and Natasha tried to overhear it just because he had said she was "charmante."

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  • A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally, both in mind and body, as irresistibly attractive to men and women.

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  • A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known.

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  • But all these hints at what happened, both from the French side and the Russian, are advanced only because they fit in with the event.

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  • Napoleon, riding to Valuevo on the twenty-fourth, did not see (as the history books say he did) the position of the Russians from Utitsa to Borodino (he could not have seen that position because it did not exist), nor did he see an advanced post of the Russian army, but while pursuing the Russian rearguard he came upon the left flank of the Russian position--at the Shevardino Redoubt--and unexpectedly for the Russians moved his army across the Kolocha.

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  • These dispositions and orders only seem worse than previous ones because the battle of Borodino was the first Napoleon did not win.

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  • But the mind of man not only refuses to believe this explanation, but plainly says that this method of explanation is fallacious, because in it a weaker phenomenon is taken as the cause of a stronger.

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  • Above all, they were gay because there was a war near Moscow, there would be fighting at the town gates, arms were being given out, everybody was escaping--going away somewhere, and in general something extraordinary was happening, and that is always exciting, especially to the young.

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  • I said it then only because it would have been dreadful for him, but he understood it differently.

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  • He had equipped himself with a mental telescope and looked into remote space, where petty worldliness hiding itself in misty distance had seemed to him great and infinite merely because it was not clearly seen.

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  • Having taken precautions against the general drunkenness to be expected on the morrow because it was a great saint's day, he returned to dinner, and without having time for a private talk with his wife sat down at the long table laid for twenty persons, at which the whole household had assembled.

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  • The children and their governesses were glad of Pierre's return because no one else drew them into the social life of the household as he did.

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  • This is a good place for wine-lovers to dine, because every dish is paired with an appropriate wine.

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  • Because he doesn't want to inherit?

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  • It was hard to say whether Alex was withholding facts so she couldn't contest his decisions or simply because he thought she did not need to know.

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  • Maybe because he went into hiding from his family.

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  • Maybe because she didn't want to think about it then.

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  • I guess because the way she acted while we were there.

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  • Then when she learned about Tessa's son, she was furious because he might inherit - even though I hadn't said anything to father.

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  • He wants you because you would do a good job, and because you are his son.

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  • Maybe it was the emotional high they were feeling because of the babies, but something seemed to have shifted their foundation.

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  • It must have worked, because his trainees were some of the best officers.

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  • Why, because he is the son of a prominent family doctor?

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  • It would have been humiliating if anyone had noticed, but no one seemed to pay much attention – probably because so many others were also drinking.

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  • Only one reason came to mind - because it wasn't dangerous.

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  • I sure hate to think of something awful happening to you because of your curiosity.

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  • Sarah would do whatever Giddon said, because he was her son... and Tammy had no choice.

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  • If Howard had not been able to find anything on Yancey, it was probably because there was nothing to tell.

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  • Because it was unprofessional.

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  • Because you told me to, remember?

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  • Are you angry with me because I didn't want to go up to see your parents?

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  • I feel awful that Dad had to die because I put my education before his health.

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  • If they left the reservation because they were hungry, why would they be out here?

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  • Probably because I know how they think.

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  • She sat down because the code of conduct about standing while guarding took second place to comfort.

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  • Did Darcie think that she had gone because of Bordeaux?

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  • I'm still not sure why they did - maybe because they had recently lost a lot of their own people.

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  • Because I think you just did.

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  • I figured his sister started it because she was jealous of him.

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  • But then, they seemed to remember everything - probably because they kept it revived for entertainment.

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  • Because Cade was so reclusive and entertained controversial ideas, he was a target for that kind of gossip.

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  • But it didn't fit the man she had come to know, and she wasn't about to believe it simply because he hadn't made a pass at her yet.

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  • Wild imagination, listening to too many stories, or maybe because I have the ranch.

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  • He was wasting a day because of her.

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