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1 - In the solar system, for instance, it is hard to imagine life existing on Mercury or Neptune since liquids boil on the former and freeze hard on the latter.

2 - Almost all immigrants cling to some of the things that remind them of their former homes.

3 - After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the opening of formerly closed borders, traders from Georgia and Armenia, crossed over the borders to Turkey to make a living.

4 - Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

5 - It was J. W. Beyen, a former Dutch foreign minister, who, as early as 1943-44, drafted the first plan for a common market in Europe.