Like Bridge Over Troubled Water and Stand By Me, it's in a genre you might call "secular sacred" - as at home in choral versions on Songs of Praise as it is in the record collections of atheists.

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Know me by my light and stand with me in darkness.

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"You can go with John McCain's plans to do nothing, or you can stand side-by-side with me and Hillary Clinton and finally, once and for all, provide the health care that every American needs, " he said.

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So, I take it that everything you call Mr. Gore for his stand on the environment -by association you are calling me.

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Today, while the "deeper and longer" recession proponents stand by in their crash helmets, the "worst is over" adherents, including me, can't conjure up more than a shallow recovery.

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These ideals, when voiced by generations of citizens, are what made it possible for me to stand here today. (Applause.) These ideals are what made it possible for the people in this room to live freely and openly when for most of history that would have been inconceivable.

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