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| commercials that show photos and videos of starving children and ask for donations |
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| going to a primary souce for research rather than getting you rinfor from Wikipedia |
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| you convince your parents that letting you borrow the car to go to work will take off stress from their schedule and give you driving practice as well |
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| if we ban Hummers, then eventually all cars will be banned; therefore we shouldn't ban Hummers |
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| even though it's the first day, i can tell this class is going to be a boring class |
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| Barack Obama is a good communicator because he speaks effectively |
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| if you were a true American, you'd support the rights of people to buy whatever car they want |
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| Green Peace's strategies are ineffective because they are all dirty, dope-smoking, hippies |
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| the level of mercury in seafood my be unsafe, but what will the fishermen do to suppport their families? |
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| the Volkswagen Beetle is an evil car because it was created by Hitler's army |
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| Post hoc ergo propter hoc |
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| I drank bottled water and now I'm sick. (what about the burrito last night? Or the flu bug? Or a chemical spill on campus?) |
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| we can either stop using cars or destroy the earth |
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| Is justice then to be considered merely a word? |
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| you may abuse a tragedy, thought you cannot write one; just as you may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table |
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| He ran up to the bookshelves, grabbed a chair standing nearby, stepped painfully on his tiptoes, and pulled the fifty-pound volume on top of him, crushing his ribs and impressing him with the power of knowledge. This wealthy car collector owns three pastel Cadillacs, two gold Rolls Royces, ad ten assorted Mercedes |
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| There are a million reasons why more research is needed on solar energy |
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| There are a million reasons why more research is needed on solar energy |
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| "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly belive how it altered her person for the worse", the geologist "knew a little about rocks" |
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| The teacher says, "we are having a demonstration of your learning today, class." (a.k.a. having an exam) |
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| Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal outlays a plan to rid Ireland of poverty and hunger by eating the poor children |
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| Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest follow the antics of several silly but loveable high society folks in a romantic romp, pointing out their shallowness and deceptive parctices |
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| In the film The Sixth Sense, whe found out that Bruce Willis's character has been dead the whole time |
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| Romeo visits Juliet in her tomb, and beliving she is dead (we know she isn't), drinks poison and dies |
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| your friend is eating his second large pizza, and you say, "wow... have you finished your snack yet?" |
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