Frail and weedlike, a single vine spiraling up a structure can be ugly and tempting to rip down.

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When Yegge realized what he had done, he decided to take it down, though he did not ask others to take it down, notes Rip Rowan in his resharing of the post.

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" Women like naturalist Ella Higginson fired back, charging that men were so obsessed with profit that they wanted to "tear down our forests, rip open our mountain sides, blow out our stumps with giant powder, (and) dam up our water ways.

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They rip the Band-Aid off and get down to the important stuff.

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In "Jesus or a Gun, " for example, Scallions sings: But now everything's trying to drag me down, but I'll rip the sky from the ground, but tell me now, who's my saving one, Jesus or a gun.

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Rocks cascade down from the ceiling, and chains rip across the stage as Kratos fights Hades, god of the Underworld.

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Of course, I never broke down and confessed that it was actually a rip-off purchased while I was in Hong Kong.

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