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For all his personal failings, Bill Clinton has always clung to the promise of forgiveness and the process of atonement.

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In all fairness, we don’t know what level of atonement Pitt has made over the years.

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“There is and will not be any atonement for abandoning the captives,” he said.

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It does not cost anything, just a public act of atonement for past sins.

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Kalyan is also performing what he called 11 days of atonement rituals to rectify the "great injustice".

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

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