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It seems to me very clear that the authors of these resolutions have accomplished nothing except to exhibit their own blind prejudices.
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Sumner critiques the resolutions from Ohio, suggesting they reveal more about the authors' biases than any substantive achievement.
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According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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