Today, however, no sentient being thinks this National Intelligence Estimate's principal finding was accurate.

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But no sentient being is fooled anymore than readers would believe that Kim is almost two Nate Robinsons.

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To which I would say, as would every other sentient being on the planet, yes, of course, all quite delightful ideas.

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As every sentient being on the planet is already aware, retailers have been offering holiday sales and discounts for more than 2 months now.

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In the United States, the three national networks, once watched by almost every sentient being in the land, now split fewer than half the audience between them each night.

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We all would question the arrogance of arbitrarily presuming to assign true worth to any sentient being: indeed, who are we to question value in a Creation that we had no hand in, to put it mildly.

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But if we find this proposal shocking, our reaction shows that we do not really believe that the absence of an advanced ability to reason is sufficient to justify turning a sentient being into a piece of meat.

BBC: EATING

Any sentient being would have drawn the connection between those breasts and the ones in the Onion News video, and realized that Tribune could not help but make an example of the next executive to exercise poor impulse control in a public way.

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