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They enclose where we came from and where we are going and between the parentheses is a living, changing, growing, and forward thinking faith community: a faith community that does not worship Quakerism, a faith community that remembers and understands their heritage.

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  1. noun Either or both of the upright curved lines, ( ), used to mark off explanatory or qualifying remarks in writing or printing or enclose a sum, product, or other expression considered or treated as a collective entity in a mathematical operation.
  2. noun A qualifying or amplifying word, phrase, or sentence inserted within written matter in such a way as to be independent of the surrounding grammatical structure.
  3. noun A comment departing from the theme of discourse; a digression.
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  • Ordinary status is parentheses, and the next stage is brackets, and braces, and angles, though for convenience we usually just use parentheses She broke off again. —  Yon Ill Wind
  • If only it had a few more commas, parentheses, and word-joinments, and maybe a semicolon or two, it could achieve total meaninglessness. —  Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
  • I was surprised by the disappearance of the name "Business Objects" from the Quadrant (even within parentheses, as used for "(Cognos)"), and I was even more mystified by the second-tier placement of SAP (which now stands for the combined SAP-Business Objects portfolio). —  Intelligent Enterprise
  • This is followed by a close-parentheses, where there was no open-parentheses. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • (Note: Numbers in parentheses are the approximate time codes on the audio MP3) —  Indianapolis 500 News Feed
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