Maybe this is because we are too afraid to let go of the traditional "man-brings-home-the-bacon-and-the-woman-fries-it-in-the-pan" mentality.
If we are too stressed, the electronic ears stop the phone either taking or making calls.
Or perhaps we feel we are too busy with our own lives, to understand those who defend them.
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It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
Americans are skilled at using technology, so why should we believe that we are too poorly educated to succeed in the digital age?
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"Feburary is our peak season and we are too busy to arrange any interview at this moment, " said Angela Wong, the Four Seasons public relations manager.
"We are losing money because we are too small and we have high costs, not because of bad cars or a bad brand, " says Saab Chief Peter Augustsson.
We are too dim-witted to understand that taxpayers often seek out tax preparers because they have rental properties and become subject to the Cost Recovery, Passive Loss and At-Risk Rules.
When asked whether we are adding too much to the deficit or spending too little to improve the economy, by close to a 3-to-2 margin voters said that we are adding too much to the deficit.
"I don't think that we are too far away from him being given the green light for him to go and play cricket in much the same way that he was at the start of the season, " Watkinson said.
The United States has not seen the level of inflation consistent with China, however, if the fed is too slow to lift interest rates and discontinue QE, we may find ourselves in a situation comparable with China in which we are too late and inflation will greatly hinder our ability to recover.
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Mary Miller, a marketing executive, says that while she and her husband talk at home in the evening about making time for each other, "we are often too tired once we finish cleaning up the place, " she says.
If we are perceived as being too strong in negotiations it can hurt us and if we are perceived as being too warm and friendly it can also hurt us.
And the reason we are not too worried about it is because our positions are for three to five years out.
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We are still too often trying to approach each price range on a device-to-device basis.
But with an aging population and rising health care costs, we are spending too fast to sustain the program.
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We are, too, in a way that put our authoritative journalism at the center of a social media experience.
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We have to learn how to be part of the modern world, but we must remember who we are, too.
One of the issues, according to the British Liver Trust, is that we may not realise we are drinking too much.
Mr. Hariharan: SMX is a global exchange, our participants come from across the globe so we are not too worried about China.
But Congress can get a lot done without getting into theological battles over whether we are taxed too much or not enough.
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"Gun violence is a problem nationwide, and sadly in the state of Colorado, we are all too familiar with some of these tragedies, " Fields.
"We are just too tired of getting blackmailed all the time, " Zwelinzima Vavi, the General Secretary of COSATU, told the BBC's World Business Report.
We Americans are too often badgered, scolded, lectured at and over-protected.
Speaking at a CBI dinner on Thursday, he said the "whole argument about whether we are cutting too far and too fast" was "in the past".
With our commitment to get to stories first, before they've become common cocktail chatter and there's no edge left for our readers, we sometimes are too early or too eager.
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