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Hong is no psychologist, but, rather, something of a musician.

It's been 40 years since gay men and women put forward a radical notion – being gay wasn't something to hide or apologise for, but rather something of which to be proud.

The exercise will not be for the advance of science, but rather something of a garbage-disposal operation, to make sure that the probes — which are running out of fuel — do not come to rest in a historically significant place, like on Neil Armstrong's footprints.

He seems to have been something of a Zelig of the modern cinema — not one with Zelig's ailment of chameleon-like adaptation but, rather, something of an anti-Zelig, who endured other ailments but whose character and temperament remained unshakably, obstinately his own.

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History is not a rote memorization of facts, but rather something to be learned to apply to your general knowledge and awareness of your world.

So growing up, I never really thought of poetry as boring and inaccessible, but rather something I did out of choice.

If there is, in the rhythms of that line, something of the Beat aesthetic (like Jack Kerouac and company, Rechy published in journals such as Evergreen Review and Big Table; his novel was released by Grove Press), "City of Night" is not a Beat book, but rather something darker: the testimony of someone who knows that he will never belong.

A finished piece of fine calligraphy is not a symmetrical arrangement of conventional shapes but, rather, something like the coordinated movements of a skillfully composed dance impulse, momentum, momentary poise, and the interplay of active forces combining to form a balanced whole.

He made clear, for instance, that the very large salaries that star athletes are able to make are not capricious acts of society, but rather something that is a predictable outcome of economic forces,” Lazear said.

So as van der Velden points out, WikiLeaks isn't really a "client," but rather something like the subject of a public, and wholly voluntary, research project.

Probably not anything particularly socialist — nationalizing the means of production or the like — but, rather, something more along the lines of striking a protective stance.

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