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" I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over. "

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" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "

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" Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are. "

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

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