By nature, public speeches are meant to be uplifting, as they tend to reflect on a long period of history and focus on positive solutions.

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But my specific question is, what should we tell our constituents who know that Republicans have offered positive solutions to the challenges that Americans face and yet continue to hear out of the administration that we've offered nothing?

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In spite of the fact that we've offered, as demonstrated today, positive solutions to all of the challenges we face, including energy and the economy and health care, specifically in the area of health care -- this bill, H.

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Since misfortune and distress are a normal part of the human condition, a philosophy that offers no positive, private solutions to deal with them will just have a harder time making the case against government intervention stick.

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The search for antimatter, that staple of science fiction, was the consequence of an equation about electrons which has two sets of solutions, one positive and one negative.

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Its solutions are making a positive change in the world.

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Joe Manimbo, market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions, said the numbers were "surprisingly positive".

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Quintero has since become a member of Music Intelligence Solutions' advisory board, so he is bound to have a positive take on the service.

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Over the past 12 months, we successfully demonstrated the value of our intellectual property, continued to attract the interest of operators around the globe to TiVo's advanced television solutions and TiVo's total subscription number moved to a strong positive trajectory.

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