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  • No middle fingers, no mock-comic “Fuck yous,” no hyperattention to hygiene, no acknowledgment that such things as germs existed or that Allah was less than supreme.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • No middle fingers, no mock-comic “Fuck yous,” no hyperattention to hygiene, no acknowledgment that such things as germs existed or that Allah was less than supreme.

    Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

  • Some scientists speculate that people who are highly self-conscious should actually be less prone to choke under pressure, because they are used to performing under the type of hyperattention that pressure induces so stressful situations are not unusual for them.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Some scientists speculate that people who are highly self-conscious should actually be less prone to choke under pressure, because they are used to performing under the type of hyperattention that pressure induces so stressful situations are not unusual for them.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Some scientists speculate that people who are highly self-conscious should actually be less prone to choke under pressure, because they are used to performing under the type of hyperattention that pressure induces so stressful situations are not unusual for them.

    Choke Ph.D. Sian Beilock 2010

  • Then I would have to be embarassed that I wasn't paying attention when I was really paying hyperattention.

    "If you're going to de-sex the awards into subdivisions of Best Actor — if you're all actors, and the gender doesn't matter..." Ann Althouse 2008

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