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An English statesman and scholar of the sixteenth century; the author of Utopia, and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. More was beheaded because he refused to recognize Henry VIII as head of the Roman Catholic Church in England.

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More is admired today for having put his principles above personal ambition.

As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
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For more than a century, Americans have been fretting about these sorts of ghosts.
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But if Democrats are faced with the reality of a glut of qualified candidates, Republicans are assembling more of a fantasy team.
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But since those rosy scenarios were first floated, the California political scene has grown more crowded.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Madame Ratignolle, more careful of her complexion, had twined a gauze veil about her head.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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Bernard stood there face to face with Mrs. Vivian, whose eyes seemed to plead with him more than ever.
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He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.
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The vision—it had been an instantaneous flash after all and nothing more—had left his mind completely for the time.
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