| He despised quacks and charlatans because he admired the power of thought and reason so profoundly. |
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| In the bad old days, some companies were little more than legalised charlatans. |
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| But you have to wonder whether confidence men and charlatans don't have some beef with this man for diminishing their reputation. |
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| One can't discount the importance of protecting the public from charlatans and fly-by-night operations. |
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| There are an astounding number of plain frauds and charlatans in charge of the propaganda of the other side. |
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| Still, where there is greed and desperation, charlatans and conners will prosper. |
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| Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible. |
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| All sorts of politicians and performers and charlatans make walk-on appearances. |
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| Normally, we portray our politicians as desiccated calculating machines, charlatans or megalomaniacs. |
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| There had always been mountebanks and charlatans operating in the public squares, but they now dominated the marketplace. |
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| I too think I understand them, and I think they are quacks, hacks, and lying charlatans motivated solely by greed. |
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| This is confirmed by the long history of charlatans and quacks who appear highly plausible to the public, but not to experienced doctors. |
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| Please, please keep up the good work exposing the ever-increasing hoards of quacks and charlatans out there. |
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| I saw myself protecting poetry against the pretenders, the charlatans, the fakers. |
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| But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters. |
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| The quacks and charlatans, after all, may not be worth much in terms of delivering on their promises. |
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| Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells? |
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| Cranks and charlatans abound when we are all experts in our own field, and consequently nobody is a real expert at all. |
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| In the eyes of the Star Tribune, he is one of the know-nothings and charlatans waging war on law and reason and science and medicine. |
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| The place seemed to be full of time-servers and charlatans of one sort and another, and I just didn't get on with it. |
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| The team does not feel the average person today is as ignorant toward shams and charlatans as they might have been just ten years ago. |
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| This is what you get when you loan your hard-won credibility to hacks and charlatans. |
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| Personally, I wouldn't vote for either of the two charlatans currently vying for control of Pax Americana. |
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| They are here today, gone tomorrow, with just enough ill-gotten cash to entice other charlatans into engaging the same schemes. |
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| These people are cheats, fraudsters, charlatans and hoaxers. |
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| The world of management theory has more than its fair share of charlatans, but C. K. Prahalad was the genuine article. |
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| Hedges, most assuredly, is not joining the ranks of those charlatans and demagogues with this slim, powerful volume. |
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| This account of seemingly genuine claimants, reckless pretenders, daffy charlatans and patently mad pretenders to the French crown is the stuff of high farce. |
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| At the opposite pole to divine magic is the type that is playful and deceitful, thanks to which charlatans skillfully produce effects that stupefy ignorant people. |
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| Not run-down train services like those in the UK, no private schools run by charlatans, and so on. |
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| They are being led by hypocrites at best, charlatans and con men at worse. |
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| Wiesel suggested that instead of bailing out banks the government should bail out all the nonprofits ruined by the charlatans. |
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| But in the real world these groups share a common starting point with the post-Marxist charlatans. |
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| Science is always under siege by charlatans, and theories of gravity are among the most attractive to con artists and self-deceiving megalomaniacs. |
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| Its history is littered with crooks, con men and charlatans. |
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| It's true to say that there always have been and always will be phonies and charlatans claiming psychic powers either for profit or for notoriety. |
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| How long must the majority of the Scottish people continue to elect such deceitful scoundrels and charlatans who masquerade as champions of the working class in our country? |
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| Discernment is nonetheless needed on the path to religious faith in order to avoid the public being led astray by spiritual charlatans. |
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| Charities-registered ones naturally-will be in a separate category and protected, because there are sometimes charlatans in that field as well. |
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| For the most part, our lives are run and our views are formed by chancers, cheats and charlatans. |
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| He came as a redeemer and then — tied up in W.'s Gordian knots, dragged down by an economy leeched by wars and Wall Street charlatans — didn't redeem. |
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| The charlatans, like the fake apothecaries, often counted on the naivety of their entourage and misused it whereas they had neither diploma, nor often, experience. |
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| Mediocrities and charlatans need only parrot appropriate politically correct slogans about rising oceans and parched farm lands to receive grants and to have their egos massaged by gullible mass media. |
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| More often the physician complains that the metaphysicians are charlatans. |
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| Such is the genius of our free-market system, which galvanizes both artists and charlatans. |
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| The triumph of capitalist counterrevolution in the Soviet Union and East Europe in the early 1990s has nurtured a new generation of ideological quacks and charlatans. |
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| The people is made of dwarfs, gamblers and charlatans who, as if following the artist's order, come into the scene, bow, ask for applause and for a little offering. |
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| We hope the bill will finally lay to rest the fact that there have been charlatans, people who have preyed on some of our most vulnerable families in terms of promising them the world and delivering literally nothing. |
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| Gardner turned to defending reason and science from an onslaught of fads, fallacies, charlatans and poseurs. |
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| As a Religious Studies Major atYale in the early 70s, I was aware of the existence of many frauds and charlatans who used Eastern traditions to bilk rootless Westerners. |
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| Fourth, the recriminalization of abortion will not solve the problems I mentioned, since before abortion was legalized, many women risked their lives with self-induced abortion or turned to charlatans. |
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| On the other hand, we don't have that Pinocchio test, as I said, that would allow us to say these are the sincere but deluded, these are true ones, or these are the out-and-out charlatans who are faking. |
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| In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps, Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards. |
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| Back in 1989, when The Charlatans had their first hit with The Only One I Know, they were widely dismissed as baggy chancers. |
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| Although past their commercial peak, The Charlatans almost always put on a good show with a great mix of classic singalong songs and funky beats. |
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| In touring with the likes of Oasis and The Charlatans, The Music have rapidly acquired a fierce live reputation. |
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| Charlatans sell bogus patent medicines by Internet and infomercial. |
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| In the week running up to V Festival both Frank Ocean and Dappy were removed from the line up due to undisclosed reasons, they were replaced by The Charlatans and Wiley. |
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