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Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.
Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010
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Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.
Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010
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Experts say we have an itchy security trigger because the species had to be hyper-alert to survive back in our sketchier days on the African savanna.
Joe Robinson: Risk vs. Fear: Safe Is Sorry Joe Robinson 2010
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I was already hyper-alert and too wired to do yoga, but meditation might help.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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I shuffled through the melee on the streets, hunched over, dirty burka dragging through the rubble, my head covered, but my eyes hyper-alert.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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I shuffled through the melee on the streets, hunched over, dirty burka dragging through the rubble, my head covered, but my eyes hyper-alert.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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We are hyper-alert to offenses we might give others, and refuse the capacity to take any ourselves.
Language and that “controversial” Arizona immigration law 2010
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I was already hyper-alert and too wired to do yoga, but meditation might help.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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Suddenly, it seemed, he had become hyper-alert to nearly everything he said and did.
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Older richer men either already have a family Sunil or are hyper-alert for 'gold-diggers'.
Telly Ho juliette 2009
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