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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the quest for peace which

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usually gets shelved in favor of the quest for pizza

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You're gonna pass you know that world sam leaves i'm

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retaining a name of an ancient power brings about like

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eight times now Both sides seek beach had failure in

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battle Think possibility my fellow americans Ok And we're done

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as used in the passage Be laboring paragraph six most

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nearly means what And your potential Answer bells wedding sailings

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at draining ridicule be laboring Is that one of flying

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insect he's giving birth Alright so kennedy probably wasn't telling

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america about the birds and the bees on national television

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That's usually the secretary of state's job We're looking at

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you every day Okay then let's take a look at

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the sentence in question and see if we can get

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a handle on what this word means Let both sides

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explore what problems unite us instead of the laboring Those

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problems which divide us got it So it sounds like

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he's saying we should work on finding a common ground

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while at the same time making an effort not to

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Harp on any of the bad stuff which of our

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answer choices goes along with that idea Is it be

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a sailing following us sail something you attack it Enemy

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seems to be talking more about how we should discuss

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our approach or various problems not necessarily how we should

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wrestle in the ground or spray them in the face

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with mace sales a bit violent but we're going to

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bypass them next up see exaggerating Well kennedy isn't suggesting

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that we've exaggerated any of our problems The fact is

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that these are really difficult problems There's no need to

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exaggerate a nuclear war is serious when the downside to

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a situation is getting blown to kingdom come you don't

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really need to embellish let's cross off c option d

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is ridiculing that work We're not sure how exactly you

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ridicule a problem What would you do Make a short

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joke make fun of it for its poor fashions Since

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now ridiculing is generally reserved for people rather than something

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abstract like a problem so we'll get rid of option

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d which probably relies on its mother to get dressed

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in the morning Our answer here is a perpetuating when

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you perpetuate something you keep it going Kennedy is imploring

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us not to focus on the stuff We can't do

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anything about it because it won't do us any good

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to propagate our frustration and discontent Also a good rule

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when it comes to contemplating one's own mortality Bad news

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for you but well we're all gonna die someday That

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potion you bought from the old woman in the woods

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it's only going to make your hair and teeth fall 00:02:34.05 --> [endTime] out Sorry

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