Her campaign is going to be a conversation about a set of beliefs more extreme than those of any American politician of her stature, including Sarah Palin, to whom she is inevitably compared.

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Mr Young complained that the Forest Service had begun to manage its lands according to the tenets of a movement called Deep Ecology, which espouses a set of beliefs drawn from various philosophies and eastern religions.

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Wherever it goes, the faith retains a Middle Western flavour, with its mixture of social conservatism, philanthropy, worldly shrewdness and devotion to a core set of beliefs.

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To belong, you must subscribe to a particular set of beliefs.

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In a CNBC debate last week, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich presented a set of contradictory beliefs that unfortunately reflect the conventional wisdom of modern economists.

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Perhaps this is because they generally assume that "religion, " however defined, is a positive force for good and that any set of religious beliefs, however unusual, should be considered acceptable in a tolerant society.

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But the fact that Gore sees Al Jazeera as a good match for his brand of American liberalism speaks volumes about the nature of that set of beliefs.

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When a fellow American is in this kind of trouble, we set aside our allegedly deeply held political beliefs and we do what we must to help people in such deep distress.

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