It's not often that we get this many handwritten documents - the immediacy that we have, something where King would jot a note to himself or write an outline for a sermon or a speech, write a draft of a speech as important as the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

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This "decentralized electron distribution, " or Internet, allows a homemaker selling goods, a pastor preaching a sermon or a doctor diagnosing an illness to connect where they are needed.

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But Shapiro says autobiography--a term that wasn't part of the language until the 19th century--was barely used in any kind of work in Shakespeare's time save for the odd sermon or other religious writing.

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This is not a sermon or a sales pitch, but a story about a place as inspiring as it is disturbing, where greed has raped a people of their material resources and dignity but where brilliantly applied generosity has created hope and enterprise of which Fortune 500 companies would be envious.

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