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Too bad I didn't wait for your response before I added the sentences.

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment. This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

I knocked on the door, but nobody answered.

He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.

Tom smiled at Mary, and she smiled back.