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"ref": "1991, J. L. Granatstein, Robert Bothwell, Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy, page 207",
"text": "Policy was to be bold, not timid; campaign promises were to be carried out, not cynically shelved; and the public service would dance to a new tune, one where the ministers called the tune.",
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"ref": "2005, Louis Adams, Diary of a Shattered Spirit, page 46",
"text": "We must ask God to give us strength to dance to a new tune.",
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"ref": "2008, Ian Nish, The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe: A New Assessment",
"text": "As a result, the Japanese found themselves having to dance to a new tune and it was one they were scarcely familiar with.",
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"ref": "2011, Bob Shaw, The Peace Machine",
"text": "I can make neutrons dance to a new tune, but I shrink from telling a human tick to fasten onto someone else.",
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"ref": "2005, Louis Adams, Diary of a Shattered Spirit, page 46",
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