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FEW PLACES IN history can have been more deadly and desirable at the same time as London in the sixteenth century. Conditions that made life challenging elsewhere were particularly rife in London, where newly arrived sailors and other travellers continually refreshed the city’s stock of infectious maladies.
the wigs of lawyers could hardly acquire their modern significance until other people stopped wearing wigs.
The Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger
Diversion – A moving target is hard to hit. When we try to pin manipulators down or try to keep a discussion focused on a single issue or behavior we don’t like, they’re expert at knowing how to change the subject, dodge the issue or in some way throw us a curve.
In Sheep's Clothing
George K. Simon Ph.D.
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