"All the contingency plans come back to the same thing: to be responsible as a government is to foresee even what you hope to avoid, " Belgian Finance Minister Steven Vanackere said.

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But victory, and an elegant withdrawal, may eventually come to mean the same thing.

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Every single time that we do a show, every time the ratings come out, I say the same thing to everybody: Play your game, keep it going, and try not to waver from that game plan.

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Come to think of it, the same thing happened in 2000 when a flood of investors borrowed on their tech stock paper profits, only to see their portfolios melt when the tech bubble burst.

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And I hope we can work together to do the same thing on middle-class tax relief in the weeks to come.

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All of these institutions are trying to achieve the same thing - delivery of a cultural experience to people who may never be able to come through their doors.

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How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

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It is a rare thing in Washington for people with such different viewpoints to come together and support the same bill, and on behalf of our nation, I thank them for it, including your two outstanding new senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall.

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