Another factor which politicians will have to keep in mind is the ageing society.

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Though these are caricatures, everyone has some such picture of the family and society in mind when they talk about family decline and the loss of innocence.

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Only a kind of religious faith in the ability of the human mind to represent the fabric of society mathematically could have led to such confidence in these models.

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It is important that American society keeps this in mind given the costs of economically repairing the nation.

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This is different from what O'Neill had in mind, which aimed mostly to benefit society at large.

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But a read of them does give a glimpse into Keyes' mind, apparently describing how it felt to take a life and the disdain in which he held much of American society.

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