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His interests ranged across all the arts and he wrote about them with an intense personal involvement and daring originality.

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Touching is a very intense and personal form of communication.

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With only small apologies to those who employ the science and art of predictive analytics, the more impersonal the methodology you use to make use of the individual (or even aggregate) data, the more intense the personal violation will feel.

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My personal favorite, a lemon ganache coated in dark chocolate, is a burst of intense citrus surrounded by velvety chocolate notes.

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