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goes back

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On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. Carroll Quigley

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. David Gest

The simplest way of understanding justice is giving people what they deserve. This idea goes back to Aristotle. The real difficulty begins with figuring out who deserves what and why. Michael J. Sandel

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family. J. Edgar Hoover

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar. Jerry Della Femina

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response. Lawrence Summers

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