It is our burden and privilege to preserve it, to renew its spirit so that its noble past is prologue to its glorious future.

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The company says it is a price is paying for transiting from lower-margin mass businesses, while it heads to a glorious future of high-value unified data center architectures and swift, insightful data management.

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Thanks to mentoring from former Miami Heat center Manute Bol, Deng honed the skills that helped him shine for the England national team -- his family received political asylum in London -- which prompted a move to the United States and the first steps to a glorious future.

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She said she had "happily accepted this glorious task for the future of our Motherland!"

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The story was also called Gene Machine and predicted all sorts of glorious things for the future of gene scanning.

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The answer is by spending most of its time looking backwards into its glorious history rather than forwards into a future that required a major shift in business strategy.

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