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And who are we to tell these people they were ripped off, when theywere the ones who accepted the offer?

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On his 43-acre plot he ripped out all of his old vines and is getting ready to plant new ones.

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Vincenzo wrote a book, startlingly similar in tone and style to the ones his son wrote later, ripping apart ancient Ptolemaic systems of lute tuning, as his son ripped apart Ptolemaic astronomy.

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