If there is an upshot to our sins, it might be the old saying: Only the good die young.

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In recent years, a hint of off-putting harshness has crept into Winslet's work (in "Revolutionary Road" and "Mildred Pierce, " she did too much gloomy suffering for our sins), but in "Titanic" she plays Rose as a spiky princess, trapped by privilege, who allows herself to melt like a girl and, in doing so, melts her own prison and finds herself as a woman.

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And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength.

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