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February 28, 2025

A Word To The Wise – The dangers of dime-store psychology

By Chad Williamson 

In the 1987 cult classic The Princess Bride there is an exchange between two characters that I reference often.

One character repeatedly uses the word “inconceivable,” to which another eventually responds “you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”

In the movie...

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