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You want to call me a wingnut, that's fine, but that still doesn't negate the fact that you and your ilk are delusional cognitive dissonants who willfully choose to ignore the facts when they don't dovetail with your moronic beliefs and ideology.
Obama echoes the phrase that made me turn against Kerry. Ann Althouse 2008
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The fifth was retained as a consonant, but the fourth was passed over in silence by the French school of writers, or classed with the dissonants.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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If you can work out exactly what's going on in the instrumental sections, the first laden with clever piano dissonants and the second a minimal guitar-driven thing with some mystical percussion and a weird marine-sounding keyboard, bulked up by Greene's jabs, you're a braver man than I.
Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website 2009
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This is Palin’s claim and it is absolutely true whether the congnitive dissonants like it ornot.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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sure ya could, all you have to do is utilize denial and projection as rampant defense mechanisms, and you could live in your own little world, apparently quite comfortably based on the durability of folks like Behe, Dembski, and our own resident dissonants like FL. k.e.
Wherein the DI Forgets to put its Brain in Gear before Engaging its Mouth... - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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This is Palin’s claim and it is absolutely true whether the congnitive dissonants like it ornot.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin 2010
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He wrote shortly after to his publisher: ” “I have the more delight in your marked overestimate of my poem that I have been vexed with a belief that what skill I had in whistling was nearly or quite gone, and that I might henceforth content myself with guttural consonants or dissonants, and not attempt warbling.
Authors and Friends Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 1896
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"I have the more delight in your marked overestimate of my poem that I have been vexed with a belief that what skill I had in whistling was nearly or quite gone, and that I might henceforth content myself with guttural consonants or dissonants, and not attempt warbling.
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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