The ongoing refugee crisis and its extension into the heart of Europe shows that you cannot just shut out what you don't want to see and hear.

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When you make the decision to avoid pain or risk, you shut out learning and possibility.

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"Once you shut the visor and go out on the racetrack, you just do everything as before without thinking of the accident, " he continued.

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You can go through the channels that exist, but if your case is dismissed, you'll find yourself pretty much shut out and forced, either to go to a lawyer and file a suit of some kind, against the district, or basically forced to take your children out of the system.

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Democrats have totally shut out the Republicans' ideas, and their plan will fail because you can't have half the US population totally in disagreement.

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Any Slingbox model will get the job done, and other than that, you basically just have to be able to keep your mouth shut, fill out some forms, and enjoy plenty of placeshifted teevee.

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Worse, Jobs chose to shut out millions of Web downloads on YouTube and elsewhere and confined Apple TV to handling only the content you could get through Apple's own iTunes.

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