No country has achieved such broad-based prosperity as has America, or invented as many useful things, or seen as many people achieve personal promise.

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In his long life Harold Stassen did many useful things.

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Along with many other valuable or useful things, they were carried off to Baghdad.

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This made them extremely useful at many things.

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So far, Mr Blair has managed both to do useful things and to refrain from doing too many foolish ones.

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