The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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Maybe Honest Abe was right after all about the better angels of our nature.

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To succumb to our worst instincts or to summon the better angels of our nature.

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There are moments in history when there is a demand for the better angels of our nature.

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Steven Pinker, in The Better Angels of Our Nature, recently pointed out that violence has been declining steadily for 500 years.

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This essay is adapted from his new book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, " published by Viking.

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That's the better angels of our nature.

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The Obama administration has spent months ignoring this reality and appealing to the better angels of Russia's nature for help in dealing with Iran.

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