I've worked hard in life so I can buy what I want.

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What had drawn me to my wandering life, and why was it so hard to relinquish?

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They've both gone through so much of the hard life that musicians go through on the road and in their careers.

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The rugged Olympus TG-320 is designed to take the hard knocks of everyday life, so you know that the memories it captures will be protected.

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"It is hard but Ronan was so full of life, I was happy he could save somebody else, " my mum said.

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As many pundits had occasion to observe in 2010, the 50th anniversary of the pill, it is hard to think of anything else that has changed life so quickly and dramatically for so many.

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Judee Sill has written songs that are so perfect and so full of emotional life that, once heard, it's hard to imagine having lived without them.

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The danger is that the new plans will mostly restrict the choices of youngsters who would prefer to work and pick up an education in the university of life, and are perfectly capable of doing so, while leaving the needier hard core untouched.

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"This was a particularly callous murder where Grenfell put greater value on his acquisition of a car than the life of an innocent man simply protecting his own property that he had worked so hard for, " he said.

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Gabby is someone who has obviously made a very careful study of what makes her happy, and worked hard to bring those elements into the forefront of her life, so I was curious to hear what she had to say on the subject of happiness.

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