Where once we needed to be ready to act quickly as a tribe to stand united against dangers, now our individual opinions matter more than our tribal loyalties.

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Whether or not one agrees with the relaxation of restrictions, the lesson for passengers remains the same: Under threat from unruly or homicidal passengers, you need to keep your wits about you and be ready to act.

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But he acknowledged that central banks need to be vigilant and ready to act.

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Like a basketball player getting ready for a jump ball, or a sprinter in the starting blocks, every able-bodied passenger needs to be ready to move, and to act definitively, not tentatively.

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Well, I believe we, the Americans of today, are ready to act worthy of ourselves, ready to do what must be done to ensure happiness and liberty for ourselves, our children and our children's children.

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We need to go ahead and act right now on some proposals that are before Congress, ready to be voted on.

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But, as Mr Draghi himself said, at the moment there is no country that has applied to the EFSF or ESM - so even if the ECB were ready to act, "there would be no case for doing so".

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Lord Hoffmann's blunder has cast a harsh light on Britain's highest court, and raised serious doubts about whether the Law Lords will be ready to deal with the wave of controversial cases expected after the Human Rights Act comes into force, probably next year.

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