They should be selected from the most firm, temperate, prudent, courageous and conciliatory men the country can afford.

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India needs temperate leaders, and most people believe Mr Singh is one.

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On the whole, while it may not feel this way during the heat of a presidential election, most people, liberal and conservative alike, are pretty temperate in the amount of politicking they do on Facebook and Twitter.

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"Much of the world's population in North America, Europe, most of China and large portions of Russia live near temperate forests, so what happens in these forests has global importance, " said Jerry Franklin, a professor of forest resources at the University of Washington whose work was instrumental in maintaining the research plots.

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Astronomers call the most promising of these places "Goldilocks planets, " because they orbit in a temperate zone not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water essential for carbon-based life as we know it.

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