We carefully nurture a spirit of detachment toward the wars we pay for.

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The indictment of the vice president's chief of staff for perjury and obstruction of justice is an occasion to consider just how damaging the long public career of Richard Cheney has been to the United States.

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We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

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This programmable machining center will provide local area students with the opportunity to learn modern machining and programming, better preparing them for careers in manufacturing industries.

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Generally speaking, these terms (with foreign governments) have gotten much tougher in the last 20 years. In 1986, the price of oil was $10 to $20 a barrel.

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I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.

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Many people will assume I'm drawing a wildly idealistic portrait of what the church can become. I would argue that all of the changes I'm calling for are not only realistic, they're essential. And I'd also say that in some way or other, each of them is already underway.

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We cloak ourselves in cold indifference to the unnecessary suffering of others - even when we cause it.

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There are so many flaws, ... I don't think they can be fixed.

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We're at the threshold of a whole new way of thinking of what it is to be a Christian.

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He's a great writer, but he's also the first writer-celebrity. His story as an expatriate and as an adventurer competes with his work.

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