Hearing the blundering repetitions of someone learning something from scratch was unbearable to me.

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Treblinka became real, the shift from myth to reality took place in a blinding flash, the encounter between a name and a place wiped out everything I had learned, forced me to start again from scratch.

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The voters you need to worry about are independents like me, who are working three jobs to scratch out 35 grand a year.

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Let me dig, ' and fell on her knees and began to scratch like a dog does when he has suddenly remembered where it was that he buried his bone.

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What makes me optimistic about the future is that we have not even begun to scratch the surface of all that can be accomplished by actually applying information technology pervasively.

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Now the challenge for me is to remodel that brand, which can be harder than building from scratch.

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