"I'm afraid that so much of the responsibility of individuals is being transferred to Washington, " says Jack Mueller, a 67-year-old retired state government worker.

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So I'm afraid the outcome in Iraq is no longer principally in our hands.

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So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.

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So I'm afraid, as I head off for my holidays, I'm going to indulge in a little optimism.

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There is no market place for these things, and so I'm afraid that they're going to guess, and they're going to guess badly.

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My mom hates me, you know, for working with NPR, and she's so afraid that some day I'll go in the morning and I'm not going to show up at the end of the day.

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And, I'm afraid, the 27-year-old multi-billionaire wants to own each of our identities so that Facebook can become the dominant company of our big data age.

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