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To atone is to be at one-to stop drawing a circle that includes our tribe and excludes the other, and start drawing a larger circle that takes everyone in. selise January 1st, 2009 at 7: 39 am this will happen unless someone else strikes at israel.— Firedoglake
Supposedly this temple tour is to atone -- or make merit -- for past sins.— Dealbreaker
But to atone, and earn our award, we've written over six thousand posts that had at least a bit of linguistics.— Language Log
Publicly, PC-racism has become an entire hall of mirrors, everyone pointing publicly at racism that has become increasingly imaginary, and whites too often believing each other guilty merely because decent people are supposed to believe that and atone, atone, atone.— Armed and Dangerous

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