These features include big-ticket items like the deductibility of mortgage interest and employer-paid health insurance premiums, plus myriad small but senseless other provisions.

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"Emotions are high, and it's a struggle for us all to make sense of something so senseless, but let us keep this young student, his family, and Mr. Poland's family in our thoughts and prayers, " he said.

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Sir Edmund Hillary's ghost would come down and beat you senseless with a crampon, but you could wear it.

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"Kwame's death was but a part of a poisonous and senseless feud between two rival gangs of youths in south London, " Mr Aylett told the court.

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No one can know for certain if this senseless act could have been prevented, but we all know we have a moral obligation -- a moral obligation -- to do everything in our power to diminish the prospect that something like this could happen again.

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But the notion that it is somehow a kind of senseless, emotional, let's just wake up in the morning and kill our neighbors kind of crisis is very misleading.

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And I hope that over the next several days, next several weeks, and next several months, we all reflect on how we can do something about some of the senseless violence that ends up marring this country, but also reflect on all the wonderful people who make this the greatest country on Earth.

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But today, I was left with a sense of hope that we can prevent these senseless deaths.

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