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Also, as development expert Rajesh Tandon reminds us, civil society is not intrinsically virtuous.
Although Gogol writes that "we have not taken a virtuous man as our hero, " he has made Chichikov, though vile and petty in so many ways, oddly sympathetic.
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For Liberty, this time patience might not be so virtuous.
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Hamilton's assumption of state debt was contentious: virtuous states did not think they should pay for lax ones.
However, a new era will depend on politicians not simply condemning the press or promising to be virtuous in future.
Work hours and marriage rates would increase, not because there were new government programs encourage these virtuous behaviors, but because government programs would no longer be discouraging them.
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Now in order for this belief system to operate effectively, it has to continually position the journalist and his or her observations not as right where others are wrong, or virtuous where others are corrupt, or visionary where others are short-sghted, but as practical, hardheaded, unsentimental, and shrewd where others are didactic, ideological, and dreamy.
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If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?
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This virtuous circle extends to hospitals that United does not own.
But the virtuous nature of Swiss public finances means there are not many domestic government bonds available to buy back.
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