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"I said I'd come in here to die for this belt and I'm alive right now and that's just a bonus. And I said I'd come here to take a life if I had to. Luckily we didn't have to do either of those things. Here I am, still champion, baby."

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“You don’t have to steal. Especially take a life over it?”

Israel also dropped leaflets over parts of Gaza with a biblical warning to Hamas leaders that it would take “a life for a life, an eye for an eye.”

Thomas said she is glad that Jones was sentenced to life: “You take a life, you get yours taken too. I understand his family is hurting. … we’re hurting too.”

If you are applying for a life insurance policy, you’ll need to take a life insurance medical exam so that the company issuing your policy can determine if you are eligible and determine the appropriate annual premium to charge.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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