mantras

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Napolitano repeated one of her tired old mantras, which is that more money must be spent in public school classrooms.

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  • Bandar knew more than most about the effects of chants and mantras, and was confident that this one would do no more than exercise the jaws of those passengers, unaffected by the lassitude, who could still move theirs The room took up the chant. —  Magazine - Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 112] - Issue 02 - February 2007
  • "One of our mantras is that nothing is as it seems, and it seems that the audience very much got on board with that," says Glenn Kessler, who created the series with his brother Todd and Daniel Zelman. —  Zap2it.com - Zap 2 News & Buzz
  • STRATFOR is the first to pick up on what will soon become a continent-wide theme, and no multiculti mantras or bureaucratic Eurobabble are going to dispel it. —  Vox Popoli
  • I've come up with a couple mantras, for lack of a better description, that keep me going. —  GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines
  • His 'Change', 'Hope' and 'Progress' mantras are actually somewhat self-mocking. —  The Ostroy Report
 

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