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Farm policy, for example, cannot be extended to Eastern Europe in its present form; partly because it would be far too expensive for the Community budget, but mainly because such a sudden increase in farm price levels would inflict damaging distortions on the economies of candidate countries.

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Yet, not only is there at least some good news to be told about fewer such conflicts now than two decades ago, but what is perhaps more important is that we also have come to a much better understanding of what can be done to further reduce the number of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the suffering that they inflict.

So they dance a strange dance and inflict their singing on everyone.

That's another cause that I've been concerned about all my life, the immense amount of suffering that humans inflict on literally tens of billions of animals every year.

And ghosting is, basically, you disappear from this massa of texts on the spot, and you don't have to deal with the pain that you inflict on another, because you're making it invisible even to yourself.

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