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Book Devices Good Opening Sentences Real Truth Common

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getting to the real truth of some common meme
People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. [self help book]

shocking quote
“‘One of my favorite ideas is, never to keep an unnecessary soldier,’ Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1792.” [military book]

vivid picture
“Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescent tubes, the American market doesn’t present itself as having very much to do with Nature.” [food book]

paradox
“It seems like it could be nature’s joke that just when boys’ sweat glands begin to work overtime, boys often develop what looks like an allergy to bathing. [parenting]

weird fact
“Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms?”

shock/taboo
“Miss Mandible wants to make love to me but she hesitates because I am officially a child.”

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