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It would appear that, in the first decade of the 21st Century, the dream of escaping to the country became a reality for tens of thousands of urban white Britons.
BBC: Why have the white British left London?
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By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners
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His life is a 21st century incarnation of the American dream.
NPR: Transcript: Bill Clinton's Prime-Time Speech
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Because if the euro goes, the single market may go with it, and likely the half-century-old dream of a unified and uniformly prosperous continent.
FORBES: To Save the Euro, Establish Dual Currencies
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In the 17th century our British overlords didn't dream the colonies would become hotbeds of individual land-ownership.
FORBES: The Latest Inflation Numbers
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He needs a governor able to balance the dream of recreating a mythical 19th century banking system with the practical demands of delivering growth in a 21st century economy.
WSJ: Wanted: BOE Chief to Tackle 'Jihadists'
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Year after year, century after century, Jews carried on their traditions, and their dream of a homeland, in the face of impossible odds.
NPR: Transcript: Obama's Speech at AIPAC
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Gas chambers for mass exterminations, machinegunning and torching of kulak villages, slaughter of whole populations, all in the various names of ideology, racial hatred, or political purification, and all on a grand scale, add a dimension to the moral history of the century which previous mass murderers whether kings, priests, or leaders of rebellions could only dream about.
ECONOMIST: 20th-century history (2): ...then the ethics | The
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The trick for Mr. Camp to realize his dream of creating a pro-growth, comprehensible, 21st-century tax code is not just to get Democrats to agree to lower tax rates, which will be hard enough.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Dave Camp: Is Tax Reform Politically Possible?