This is a crisis because it is like a country without a soul, a computer without software, or a ship without navigation.

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Big cracker is not without a soul, however, so they offer you a generous severance package.

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He calls it pragmatism: I call it bureaucracy without a soul and there is an alternative to this.

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It started life without a soul, the collective effort of once-creative artists like Taymor and Bono now resigned to parodying their own best work.

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While it is possible to arrive at the Forty Foot and swim without another soul in sight, the scene is quite different on Christmas Day (25 December).

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And you don't get to funk without talking about soul first.

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He drove as far north as Birmingham without seeing a soul, then drove down to the south coast and followed the road from Brighton to Dover.

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But these are troubling times for print, and in the final analysis I wish Godspeed to anybody who can figure out a way to get paid without selling his soul.

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He lived like this, without really seeing another soul outside his biannual trips into town, for about 35 years, until the boats came.

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The victory was impressive-looking, but it again came without Boston having its heart and soul, defensive anchor Kevin Garnett, who is still recovering from a bad ankle.

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Don't you let a single, solitary soul you know get away without voting in November because the future of America is riding on it.

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But while social and insurance sales might seem to be soul mates, the marketing strategy is not without its limitations.

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"Without a company to run, I was a lost soul, " he says.

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If you are doing something primarily for money and without a real emotional commitment, it will translate into something that lacks a soul and has no connection to you.

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In my life, I have seen young associates (in all corporate jobs) give up their best years, energy, heart and soul to find that at age 40-45, they are treated unfairly and without respect or concern.

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