Contrary to what some would have you believe, many Republicans support clean energy and do so with an equal if not greater sense of urgency than their Democratic counterparts.

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If they do not, the damage will be far greater than that inflicted by mere hurricanes.

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Even if the costs from drilling are much greater than was recognized pre-spill, that does not make Cap-and-Trade a good policy.

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But they do want to talk to each other with a greater emotional complexity than previous generations of men - "even if it's not like Oprah".

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Furthermore, the errors critics find in the original soundtrack a sloppy entrance here, a flubbed horn there are not greater than moments of sloppiness on many celebrated recordings from the 1950s: technical standards (if not musical ones) are simply higher now.

NPR: 'Hitchcock's Music' Scores Big on Suspense

Maybe a better analogy than soccer is baseball that ying and yang of launching the ball and the equal if not greater pleasure of having it land in the center of your mitt with a satisfying pop.

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