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Winners don't quit try again this time with God. — Maryam Elisha
Who is Maryam Elisha? A Nigerian fashion model, apparently, and one for whom punctuation is not all that. One of her fashion model titles was even Miss Environment. I can overlook all of that, though. The idea here is well worth contemplating. Try again, this time with God.
It's a new month, time for a new beginning. Try that thing in your life again, and this time, include God in it.
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It looks like a mere twenty-six openings left this month. Get 'em while they're free. They really are easy to do.
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I like the quote. Also I could forgive her a lot of things. She is pretty easy on the eyes.
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Because the post was so well written, I feel pretty sure that the unfamiliar syntax in the second sentence is “the New Talk”, as Professor Higgins described Eliza Doolittle’s unexpected locution (“‘Done her in’? ‘Done her in’?!)
So I am going to start using it. For me, keeping up with changes to English is “all that”.
Note: if it was just an editorial slip, you can either fix it and I will stop using it, or, accept that this is just the sort of accidental discovery by which our beloved living language grows, and “leave” it “lay”, as the kids say now.
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Go for it. That locution has been out there for at least a few decades.
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Perhaps used most exuberantly, in another context, by Rabbie Burns.
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