Sanctity lies not in any object but in the spirit you bring to it.

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Of course, of course, only on condition that you do not object in any particular way, even a tiny bit, to my broaching this delicate subject?

NEWYORKER: Heirs

Until access has been granted, the ABAddressBookRef object will not contain any contacts, and any attempt to modify contacts fails with akABOperationNotPermittedByUserError error.

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That means that an object under the stack - in the team's experiments, a block of wood about 10cm long - would not "hear" the sound, and any attempts to locate the object using sound waves would not find it.

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In this example, the surface is not simply connected and any smoothed-out object looks like a torus with at least one hole.

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Observations made by Tony Beresford in Australia indicate that the object's position does not match any known piece of space junk.

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