We mention what we do, where we live, where we went to school.

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And we can do it right where we live and work.

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No longer do we live in a world where getting something personalized for the holidays means a monogrammed handkerchief.

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We live in Nashville, where people do things like this and no one is frightened or surprised.

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Governor TIM PAWLENTY (Republican, Minnesota): It takes a lot of faith to live in a world where tragedy, accidents, illness and injustice do their worse to the people we love.

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"What we have to do is get out of the ballrooms, out of Stormont and into the communities where people live, where they do not have that lasting hope of optimism, " she said.

BBC: Northern Ireland

What I was trying to do, and I hope I'm still trying to do, is to talk about the truth, the reality of the America we live in today, where we have a few people--and I might add, including myself--who are doing very, very well, and then most of the country who's struggling every single day.

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