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They simply don't realize-or can't believe-that the dust on their windowsill might be quietly stealing part of their child's potential.

Lead And Your Kids 2008

They can't understand-and often seem unwilling even to believe-that people like Humanists might be living the kind of well-ordered lives, as hard-working and law-abiding citizens responsible and dedicated to their families, that they themselves strive to live.

Moral Exo-Skeletons and Endo-Skeletons: A Key Divide in the American Body Politic 2006

They assume-or at least want the reader to believe-that Israel is an aggressor nation out to colonize its neighbors.

Carter and Baker: The Final Opportunity to Infuse Anti-Israel Idealism into a New Political Era 2006

What would you find easier to believe-that some guy who's six sheets to the wind got a little too aggressive with a girl he happened across ... or this Halloween/Scream decor in the middle of the forest you're telling me about?

Salem Falls Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2001

All of them believed what Antrax had allowed Kael Elessedil to believe-that the books really were a compilation of magic's uses.

Antrax Brooks, Terry 2001

As they disappeared into the softly obscuring white flakes, there was hardly a soul who did not believe-or want to believe-that Ayla and Jondalar had come to rid them of Attaroa and free their men.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

They must have guessed, once or twice-guessed and refused to believe-that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

"Investment in human capital" - that most unfelicitous phrase-was a concept that I for one argued against rather forcefully, because I believed-and still believe-that education is more than an economic process, more than a means to an end, and more than mere occupational training, but that it is a prerequisite of a civilized society and a process whose intrinsic worth has been demonstrated many times over.

Universities: Who Needs Them? 1974

The trustees of that date decided-correctly, we now believe-that any minority during that period of semantic disorientation and mass hysteria was a probable target for persecution, discriminatory legislation, and even of mob violence.

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

It is not reasonable to believe-and no court will believe-that I voluntarily gave up my accustomed life for six years of indenture at a much lower income. '

The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967