Blunt's sophomore album, "All the Lost Souls, " was released on Tuesday and he joked that he was eager to take on 50 and Kanye.

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Despite that deep history, the church has lost its monopoly on souls amid the rise of evangelical churches.

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Starting, before anyone was ready, the gruesome work of retrieving lost souls, rebuilding belief, and learning to live in a changed world.

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It is said that 80, 000 Irish souls were lost in the Atlantic, victims of long hunger, of fever and of destitution.

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Basically, it seems to me, the Valley of the Dawn operates as a refuge for lost souls and who on earth am I to mock that?

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So many poor souls lost instantly to the unforeseen.

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"We've come back to remember the valor of those we lost, those who innocently went to work that day and the brave souls who went in after them, " former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said.

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In any case, at least 1853 people were killed, almost three hundred more souls than were lost when the Titanic sank in 1912.

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It forestalls impatient souls, upset at the prospect of missed connections and lost hotel bookings, being kept fretfully awake when they would be far better off dozing away such temporal qualms.

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The result is that they're both a little childlike and they recognize they're two lost souls.

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