The battle over the estate of the Godfather of Soul started not long after James Brown died of heart failure and pneumonia on Christmas Day, 2006, at the age of 73.

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And at a business event on Thursday afternoon, which had had to be relocated because of the weather, Mr Brown joked that "hand on heart, yesterday I didn't think I would be here today" before adding after a pause "we were due to launch this in Southampton".

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With an open heart we are vulnerable, as research professor Brene Brown describes in her popular Tedx talks on vulnerability and courage, with an open heart we connect.

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My heart went out for the Brown family.

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The Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown accused the SNP of not putting the economy at the heart of its budget.

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He might be Gordon Brown's guy now, but Lord Mandelson is clearly still a Blairite at heart.

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Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died of heart failure around 1:45 a.m.

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Because Ron Brown embodied the values and the ideals, that sense of possibility, that is at the heart of the American story.

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Scored by Graham Brown and Geoff Meads and written by playwright Francis Ann Bartram, "Joined at the Heart" will be performed by a cast of 30 at the Junction Theatre in Cambridge, England.

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