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When emotion supersedes reason … gullibility must follow.

Barbara Mertz

Most men are reasonably useful in a crisis. The difficulty lies in convincing them that the situation has reached a critical point
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Crisis Lying Men
Nothing looks as self-satisfied as a contented cat.
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Cat Looks Self
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas – an idea a page.
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Book Idea Needs
Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are – bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
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Disease Loving People Someone
I had refused Emerson’s well-meant offers of assistance, knowing his efforts would be confined to moving the furniture to the wrong places and demanding how much longer the process would take.
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Effort Knowing Moving
there is nothing like a garden to rest the soul.
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Garden Gardening Soul
There are too many people in the world as it is, but the supply of ancient manuscripts is severely limited.
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Ancient People World
Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.
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Believe Children Stupid
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
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Half History Race
Reputations are shaped not by facts but by prejudices.
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Facts Prejudice Reputation
stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.
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Librarian Stereo Typical
I knew the answer, and–of course–so did Ramses. He has superb breath control and always gets in ahead of me.
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Answers Courses Superb
There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.
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Ambition Cutting Dream
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.
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Arms Drug Government
When men start talking about ‘honor’, there is sure to be trouble ahead.
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Men Political Talking
His masculinity was only too apparent
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Apparent Masculinity Only

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