These events remind us that as families, and communities, and as a nation, we are at our best when we recognize the strength of our feelings both in terms of our anger as well as the feelings of sadness.

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The human condition, the human mind, the human heart, is responding constantly to elements of joy, to elements of sadness, to elements of - well, everything that's going on.

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