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Acceptance of nonsense as a harmless aberration can be dangerous to us. We live in a society that is enlarging the boundaries of knowledge at an unprecedented rate, and we cannot keep up with much more than a small portion of what is made available to us. To mix our data input with childish notions of magic and fantasy is to cripple our perception of the world around us. We must reach for the truth, not for the ghosts of dead absurdities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Stamp Out Absurd Beliefs | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

While the Elis took 21 shots on goal, 19 of them were harmless...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elis Pose No Challenge For Laxwomen, 7-2 | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

Landry--a seasoned pool organizer--says that NCAA tournament pools, unlike other forms of betting, are fair and relatively harmless...

Author: By Sunah N. Kim, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: The Big Money | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...every item in the bags is as harmless as a lunch sack--or as soft as the Charmin that Harvey sees so often. "Those clipboards, they're dangerous," Goodridge says, warily eying the sharp edge of a metal clip...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Checking You Out | 4/4/1992 | See Source »

...done. The bombs, made whole again, would float up into the bomb bays of the planes that had dropped them, and the planes would fly backward, back home, where the bombs would be disassembled and all their metals and explosive powders redeposited in the earth so they would be harmless and all the death would be repealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Childhood's End | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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