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He delights that it’s become “sort of a buzzword” and celebrates its power to motivate humanistic concern, but warns that our brains can be “a petty organ,” reserving the greatest sympathy for those most similar.

Many of Jefferson and Jackson’s voters, however, became agents of what historians call the “market revolution,” carving out commercial farms from the landscape or becoming petty traders.

Our America is not ruled by a petty, vindictive despot wannabe with an outrageous history of criminal and socially abhorrent behavior who imagines he is king.

Her death was regarded as "unusual" for the city at the time, according to former South Wales Police detective Jeff Norman, who recalled working on mainly petty crimes prior to this big case.

The prosecution had said Ahmad "may have made a most minor contact" with Franco's girlfriend as he brushed past them, to which Franco "appeared to take some petty exception".