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Description: no question about it. And yet, it's been a double-edged sword. A few years ago, one of the most popular surgeries in the world for knee pain was tested in a placebo-controlled trial. Some of the patients got "sham surgery." That means the surgeons make an incision, they bang around like they're doing something,

Charles Spurgeon

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

British Clergyman

Joseph Conrad

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Polish Novelist

David Brock

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.

American Author

Eric Lefkofsky

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

American Businessman

William Makepeace Thackeray

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

English Novelist

Kay Kay Menon

Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.

Indian Actor

Tom Waits

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

American Musician

Lisa Madigan

For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham.

American Public Servant

Marion Barry

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

American Politician

Nostradamus

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

French Celebrity

Used when someone intentionally creates a fake setup to mislead.

Deception Intent

Clarify how to recognize a sham by questioning authenticity.

Spotting the Fake

Implies a critical or mocking attitude towards genuineness.

Cynical Tone

Highlights a person's actions or emotions that are not genuine.

Expressing Insincerity

Suggests doubt about the truthfulness of something presented as real.

Questioning Reality

Describes situations set up to appear authentic but are actually fake.

Pretended Scenarios

When a person fakes a characteristic or condition they don't have.

Acting a Role

People might sham an illness or condition to evade responsibilities.

Avoiding Duty

 no question about it. And yet, it's been a double-edged sword. A few years ago, one of the most popular surgeries in the world for knee pain was tested in a placebo-controlled trial. Some of the patients got "sham surgery." That means the surgeons make an incision, they bang around like they're doing something,

Why specializing early...

 obviously they're just wild animals and as you've just seen even though they're so massive there can be you know scaredy cats and I think sham I feel likes a lot of the time when people end up getting injured is because they're just they're so frightened of us as humans and they're protective over their areas

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 course weak WikiLeaks and david sham who created one of the earliest attempts at a digital currency called digit cash which ultimately failed a similar model to bitcoin probably the first online summary of a decentralized cryptocurrency model that this crowd-sourced was discussed on their

Unpacking the nuts and...

 But of course, we know the placebos exert their own influence, too. Thanks to the placebo effect, patients have experienced relief from a range of ailments, including heart problems, asthma, and severe pain, even though all they'd received was a fake drug or sham surgery.

The power of the placebo...

 and they were skeptical of his so-called powers and thought he was corrupting the royal family. By the end of World War I, they were convinced the only way to maintain order was to eliminate this sham of a holy man. With this conviction,

The mysterious life and...

 He executed his own wife? That…wasn’t King Henry’s initiative. She was accused of treason in a power struggle with the King’s minister, Thomas Cromwell. The trial was a sham and she wouldn’t have been convicted without Henry’s approval.

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 No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly -- the good and the bad -- my own follies and weakness that even this counterfeit Venus with her sham heat, and her bosom probably plumped

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 innovation which is innovation for end-users visible innovation instead innovation if you remember some of you may have read the famous economist sham Peter he said innovation is normal T in how

India's invisible...

 the staff and nearby sham wari game reserve is instantly worried about the cab elephant babies need milk for at

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 adults camera and comfort Oh sham peace oh and try again here we go yeah oh dear

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