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John Galsworthy
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Thomas Jefferson
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David Leonhardt
April 1st, 2010
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Nicholas R. Goebel
March 28th, 2010
Here in the United States, our political leaders tend to put off solving problems until they are crises and even then they usually create half ass solutions.
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