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Jiang implies that pride is involved in graft because the thief privately decides the stolen thing is more properly his than the owner's.
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Desert
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "ahead yeah well also when you steal you decide that this thing that you steal is more deserving for you than the owner like..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "ahead yeah well also when you steal you decide that this thing that you steal is more deserving for you than the owner like..."
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According to Jiang's reading, the sacrifice of Jesus rekindles a lost inner spark, gives people spiritual power, and turns them from being lost in the desert toward the light.
diagnosis
Jiang says a Saudi pipeline built through the desert would be easy to destroy because exposed desert infrastructure is hard to hide and pipelines carry concentrated energy.
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"ahead yeah well also when you steal you decide that this thing that you steal is more deserving for you than the owner like..."
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"and the owner doesn't really but why why do you deserve it well maybe pride okay yes anyone else"
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"Okay. So, you and I are just trying to disagree about therapists, okay? All right? Therapists don't actually... It doesn't matter, okay? All right...."
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"...Before, we were on the wrong path. We were in a desert, and we were lost. And now we see the light, and we're..."
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"...might as well just blow it up, okay, guys? It's a desert, okay? You have to build things in a desert. It's pretty easy..."
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"...uncertain of our way, we halted on a plateau lonier than desert paths. The distance from its edge, which forms the void, into the..."
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"...can do, right? Temptation. Just as Satan tempted Jesus in the desert, Satan will now tempt... Dante in hell, okay? So that's obvious. What......"
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"...the scales that when the length of dark defeats the day desert night's hand so that above the shore that i had reached the..."
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"...and snatched me from deep danger that had menaced do not desert me when i'm so undone and if they will not let us..."
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"always saintly suffered both the desert and martyrdom and then two years of hell serves to divide below him sit assigned to this partition..."
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"...the Jews. And the Jews have been wandering around in the desert. And at this end of 40 years, God comes to you and..."
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"...humanity. Right? And whereas Moses, Moses, again, he traveled in the desert for 40 years, and God says to him, well, sorry, you can't..."
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