Buck, I applaud you for your strong leadership on that issue.

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But first I want to let you know how much I applaud your efforts on behalf of this country.

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However, I loudly applaud John Franklin Stephens response which you can jump to at the end of this post.

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First of all, I applaud your fitness routine and can assure you that research clearly shows that it is much healthier to be fit and overweight than to be thin and inactive.

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Mr. WINTER: Well, I'm William Winter, a former governor of Mississippi, and I would say to my friends and my fellow Mississippians, my fellow citizens who have suffered so much as a result of Hurricane Katrina that I applaud the courage, the steadfastness with which you have emerged from this tragedy.

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To help those of you with the fortitude to flip-flop and applaud it in others, I present 8 Laws of Healthy Flip-Flopping to help you manage this critical component of leadership flawlessly.

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And so I wanted to make sure that we came to your school today to highlight it and also applaud you for your success.

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