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More and more, researchers acknowledge that high blood pressure and other ailments that strike Black Americans disproportionately can, in great measure, be traced to the inequities of Black life in America.

Perhaps the most memorable renderings are those invoked by Thomas Paine in “Common Sense”: “The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind,” and later: “The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.”

The moral to the story is obvious — Selfishness has a cause, and that cause, in great measure, can almost always be traced back to what we teach our progeny.

Both “Philoctetes” and “Women of Trachis” concern, in great measure, questions of suffering, and the infliction and mitigation of pain.

"Not a single American died in that brutal battle thanks in great measure to Ron's heroic actions."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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