Or so I hope!

Or so we must hope.

That s at least what I believe.

Or so it seems.

Or so the theory went.

Or it was last year.

Or so we thought.

Or so the US believed.

And the surgeons grabbed hold of it and said, well, I want to hold it like this, or like that.

Or so it should be.

A nobody, unable to speak a foreign language.

Interviewer Were they deliberately walking in step, or anything like that?

To be precise this is how West Germany s economic miracle began.

HONOLULU The eurozone crisis is over, or so we are being told.

It will be as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the creditor, so with the debtor as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest.

And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest as with the servant, so with his master as with the maid, so with her mistress as with the buyer, so with the seller as with the lender, so with the borrower as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

Exhausted, I fell asleep sitting upright, and when I woke up it was already night, or at least that s what I assumed with no sunlight or moonlight by which to measure time.

They had won the Cold War, or so they perceived, through hard force and conviction.

Barack Obama s election was meant to improve everything or so it was hoped.

And our revenues are going to go this, that and the other thing.

So ...

There was a great TED moment, I think it was Sir Ken Robinson, was it?

Freeing up capital flows had an inexorable logic or so it seemed.

Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

So if we don't like stuff, or we're intensely curious about Ernst Haeckel's scientific falsifications, we can pull them out like that.

Or so it seemed after Chinese President Hu Jintao s recent speech at the United Nations.

There could be no alternative to free markets and the neoliberal Washington Consensus or so it appeared.

This is how we've got to know each other.

That's who you are.

As is the one made of dust, such are those who are also made of dust and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

It's just happening.

Poetry does that.

And the material looks something like this.

Here's how the song goes.

Don't talk like that.

This is how we cook rice.

This was how he entered the university.

Thus he succeeded.

That's life.

Why are you acting this way?

It didn't happen that way.

That's how I grew up.

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