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Particularly interesting are the books mentioned at the end of her column - The Republican War on Science which I've read some of, Undermining Science, and A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives.
Archive 2008-12-01 WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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Particularly interesting are the books mentioned at the end of her column - The Republican War on Science which I've read some of, Undermining Science, and A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives.
Back to Reality WENDEE HOLTCAMP 2008
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So I Googled it and got this article from more than a year ago, “AFTERdark Deceives Students to Preach Gospel”.
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Deceives thee with the thought that thou canst gaze
Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan
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But to give a False Reason for any Thing, let my Reader never learn of him, no more than to give a Brass Half-Crown for a good one: Not only because it is not true, but because it Deceives the Person to whom it is given; which I take to be an Immorality.
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Let the monitor within, who never Deceives, alone pronounce my Funeral Oration; while some friendly hand Deposites my poor remains close by the ashes of my beloved Daughter Elizabeth, with whom I trust to share a happy Eternity.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I Charles Lee 1908
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-- Deceives you; mocks you; makes you intolerably miserable.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story Joseph Barker 1840
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Shire; and, if Fame Deceives us not, in a Village of Fourteen Houses in the North, are found so many of this Damned Brood.
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But to give a False Reason for any Thing, let my Reader never learn of him, no more than to give a Brass Half-Crown for a good one: Not only because it is not true, but because it Deceives the Person to whom it is given; which I take to be an Immorality.
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Headed 'The Valencian Community Deceives Passengers', with the opening sentence stating that Ryanair has confirmed that regional Tourism boss, Angelica Such, has deceived passengers by stating that the airline will be operating again in Valencia from next Spring.
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