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... person , would be impos- sible ( " Oops , there's the doorbell ! " ) . The phone is also good for making de- mands and accusations , since it's hard for most of us to behave badly to someone else while making eye contact . ( It's ...
... person , would be impos- sible ( " Oops , there's the doorbell ! " ) . The phone is also good for making de- mands and accusations , since it's hard for most of us to behave badly to someone else while making eye contact . ( It's ...
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... persons . One day God decided to become a person , too . God came as a purple per- son — probably that was the only way God could get people to listen . Nobody thought that green people could say anything worth listening to . The purple- ...
... persons . One day God decided to become a person , too . God came as a purple per- son — probably that was the only way God could get people to listen . Nobody thought that green people could say anything worth listening to . The purple- ...
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... person means human being , it makes peo- ple consider purpleness superior . And when God is called a purple person , it makes purple persons seem more godly than green persons . People aren't aware they think this way — and would even ...
... person means human being , it makes peo- ple consider purpleness superior . And when God is called a purple person , it makes purple persons seem more godly than green persons . People aren't aware they think this way — and would even ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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