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“I don't think we should go around life and being miserable all the time and feel the pain of paying. It's a question of what categories we want to spend more on and what categories we want feel that we are spending too much on and we want to cut down.”

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...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.

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