An Excess of Phobias and ManiasSenior Scribe Publications, 2003 - 202 pages |
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... considered to be categories of nonce words and contrived euphemisms . • Nonce words are coined [ invented ] and occur or are used only for what is considered to be a " present or particular occasion " . Phobias for Every Season and ...
... considered to be categories of nonce words and contrived euphemisms . • Nonce words are coined [ invented ] and occur or are used only for what is considered to be a " present or particular occasion " . Phobias for Every Season and ...
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... considered " safe " enough . • He worked on the fourth floor of a downtown office building where he generally avoided windows . • If he looked out , it was straight across at the windows of a neigh- boring building . He didn't dare look ...
... considered " safe " enough . • He worked on the fourth floor of a downtown office building where he generally avoided windows . • If he looked out , it was straight across at the windows of a neigh- boring building . He didn't dare look ...
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... considered the most common phobia known . The agoraphobic syndrome is a complex phobic disorder that often occurs in adults . The major features are a variable combination of characteristic fears and the avoidance of public places ...
... considered the most common phobia known . The agoraphobic syndrome is a complex phobic disorder that often occurs in adults . The major features are a variable combination of characteristic fears and the avoidance of public places ...
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... considered to have an obsessive - compulsive disorder . Because personal hygiene is a means to control infectious diseases , the absence of dirt is not merely an esthetic adornment . Cleanliness is doubtless an acquired taste . -Jay ...
... considered to have an obsessive - compulsive disorder . Because personal hygiene is a means to control infectious diseases , the absence of dirt is not merely an esthetic adornment . Cleanliness is doubtless an acquired taste . -Jay ...
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... considered a phobia ; however , normal pre- cautions would be considered sensible and wise . ants : formiphobia , myrmecophobia There are about 10,000 species of ants in the world ; they are among the major predators in most terrestrial ...
... considered a phobia ; however , normal pre- cautions would be considered sensible and wise . ants : formiphobia , myrmecophobia There are about 10,000 species of ants in the world ; they are among the major predators in most terrestrial ...
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Page 21 - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Page 144 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Page 136 - My apprehensions come in crowds ; I dread the rustling of the grass ; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass ; I question things, and do not find One that will answer to my mind ; And all the world appears unkind.
Page 127 - The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 59 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Page 168 - When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Page 171 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 182 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.