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  • I had wondered about that gut-feeling I got back in Morocco; indeed, each time I lifted my camera, it felt as though I were lifting a weapon: not a stone or a bow and arrow: but a "soul-snatcher" capable of wounding ... like a rock to a sparrow.

    Morocco 2009

  • I had wondered about that gut-feeling I got back in Morocco; indeed, each time I lifted my camera, it felt as though I were lifting a weapon: not a stone or a bow and arrow: but a "soul-snatcher" capable of wounding ... like a rock to a sparrow.

    Photography 2009

  • I had wondered about that gut-feeling I got back in Morocco; indeed, each time I lifted my camera, it felt as though I were lifting a weapon: not a stone or a bow and arrow: but a "soul-snatcher" capable of wounding ... like a rock to a sparrow.

    Jules 2009

  • Palinism and Fox News conservatism espouse a politics based on gut-feeling not reason.

    Obama's Culture War 2010

  • Palinism and Fox News conservatism espouse a politics based on gut-feeling not reason.

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • Palin, whom long-time readers will recall, does not impress me with her intellectual acumen, epitomizes for me Colbert's "truthiness," which is a conviction that something is true without logic, reason, evidence, or facts, but based on a gut-feeling alone.

    Neologistic Sarah Steve Perry 2010

  • Palinism and Fox News conservatism espouse a politics based on gut-feeling not reason.

    Obama's Culture War 2010

  • Palinism and Fox News conservatism espouse a politics based on gut-feeling not reason.

    Obama's Culture War 2010

  • However, if I say I have a gut-feeling that a black man is not electable in 2008 given our racism problem here, especially in such swing-state democratic bastions like Milwaukee, that's an opinion and it can be taken with as many grains of salt as one wishes.

    Poll: New Hampshire Dem Race Getting Close ��� Hillary Up Only Seven Points 2009

  • I think you should go with the Chertoffian gut-feeling that many of the "progressive" progressiver-than-thous are advancing now - that women (as demonstrated by the women of New Hampshire) are so stupid that they base their vote on emotionalism and sympathy and because they are easily led around by the nose by one of their own kind.

    Hillary Spokesman: She Won Because New Hampshire Voters "Liked What They Saw" 2009

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