You know, someone said once upon a time, after you become president of the United States, you don't make any new friends.

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Once upon a time you invented your hourly fee.

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Once upon a time, you got almost everything you wanted with hard work and determination.

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Once upon a time, if you you were affluent, you could show your worth by accumulating stuff.

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If you look hard enough you can find the odd science program tucked away on BBC2 but once upon a time Tomorrow's World was on: the technologies may not have always worked but it showed how science was developing and explained it.

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Once upon a time, the candy industry was pretty straightforward: You made a crunchy, sticky, gooey or creamy sugar-filled product that customers, mainly kids, adored and that put many dentist's children through college.

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Mr. SEDGWICK: Once upon a time, they were the world's largest company, and you had a sense that their headquarters, in a way, was the center of the universe, and everyone had to react to GM.

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