If you lose on purpose to your elders and are unable to skillfully conceal your purposefulness, you risk looking patronizing.

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It also requires a purposefulness: staying aware and staying on course.

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That said, I believe that the really decisive developments in such policy are a product of much more calculation and purposefulness than meets the untutored eye.

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We will seek to get over each one of those hurdles as they come, and keep the direct talks moving along with the sense of purposefulness that we witnessed here and have witnessed in subsequent talks.

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