If we do not have true reconciliation through forgiveness, we will never end war.

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And so part of the bill was to, through loan forgiveness programs and other mechanisms, make it more enticing for young medical students to go into primary care, build up the pool of primary care physicians.

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Religion has the ability to bridge divides through empathy and forgiveness.

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Converting to Catholicism provided some consolation, but not, it seems, through the grace of forgiveness.

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Finally, Zhang Aihua, an industrial park management official from Taizhou in Jiangsu, is under investigation for kneeling on a dinner table and begging forgiveness from outraged residents through a loudspeaker after being caught enjoying a lavish dinner with his colleagues last Friday, The Beijing News says.

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She spoke of the importance of forgiveness and said the world was "going through difficult times".

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"I'm not just asking for forgiveness, " Gibson said in a statement issued through his publicist.

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When I suggest to Mr. Kalanick that Uber, in the fine startup tradition, was using the "don't ask for permission, beg for forgiveness" approach, he interrupts the question halfway through.

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Garry Wills has argued, after all, that Irish Catholic ideas about sin that sin is negotiable currency, to be practiced, done penance for, forgiven allowed John Kennedy some serenity as he screwed his way through the White House typing pool, just as the habits of Protestant Evangelical belief, in forgiveness and temptation and forgiveness, in a never-ending cycle, helped Bill Clinton find a common language with working-class people.

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