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uosɯɐS
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I do not know of any powerful group that is interested in making public spending appear to be smaller than it is.
— Mar 23, 2019 02:55PM
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uosɯɐS
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And take the figures that show the suicide rate to be at its maximum in June. Do suicides produce June brides - or do June weddings precipitate suicides of the jilted? A somewhat more convincing (though equally unproved) explanation is that the fellow who licks his depression all through the winter with the thought that things will look rosier in the
spring gives up when June comes and he still feels terrible.
— Mar 23, 2019 02:54PM
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spring gives up when June comes and he still feels terrible.
uosɯɐS
is on page 74 of 142
If you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference.
— Mar 23, 2019 02:51PM
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Russell
is on page 76 of 142
Very interesting... I’ve seen these tricks so far but couldn’t have explained them as clearly.
— Mar 22, 2019 08:07AM
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uosɯɐS
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It is dangerous to mention any subject having high emotional content without hastily saying whether you are for or agin it.
— Mar 20, 2019 06:57AM
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