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This was, in many ways, a continuation of the fretfulness of Thursday, but against an opponent that had only a scintilla of Greece's ability.

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If you’re human and have a scintilla of emotional and social intelligence, then you know that psychological and emotional suffering are serious and lead to real-world personal and social dysfunction.

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Without a scintilla of evidence, he added, “USAID is a criminal organization. Time for it to die.”

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No need to exert him any more, not when there was not a scintilla of a threat of a comeback from Scotland.

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And if he was looking for a scintilla of criticism of the Russian president from Trump, then he did not get that either.

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