When I was an undergrad at Duke, I was amazed by the star power of the basketball players.

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During my years in the Reagan White House, I was always amazed when Ted Kennedy and Sen.

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And quite frankly, I was just shocked and amazed when I saw those ads.

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When I saw The Five on March 6, I was amazed at Bob Beckel's rejection of our group and message.

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For instance, I noticed quotes in the national media last week from two junior members about the desirability of defense sequestration, and frankly was amazed at what I found when I researched their districts.

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When I first moved to Asia in the 1990s, I was amazed by how much social life revolved around luxury hotels.

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When I first started getting into the IM enhancement market I was amazed to find a plethora of services offering centralized logging, none of which actually provided any value to the people whose messages were being logged!

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When I tried the system and received my own scores, I was amazed at the accuracy of the findings.

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When I went to graduate school, I studied American culture studies, and I was amazed at the ideals that were just made up by someone, and they'd just taken on these huge lives of their own and become things that we obsess about, and really, when you go back to the root of it, it doesn't mean anything.

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