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Phrases

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  • Sunk cost - An investment already incurred that can't be recovered.
  • Natural selection - An explanation of stupid actions that you do not subscribe to but cannot stop others in taking part in.
  • Don't ask a question you're not prepared to answer.
  • Trust, but verify.
  • We do not negotiate with terrorists.
  • We are all put on this world for a different purpose.
  • I believe in the right to privacy.
  • I truly believe we all have more in common than not.
  • I think everyone has or should be given the opportunity to positively contribute to human society.
  • I think everyone should be given a chance at rehabilitation, but some cannot be saved.
  • I seek no quarrel.
  • I [sincerely] wish you the best.
    • I with you nothing but the best.
  • Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
  • You reap what you sow.
  • But I went ahead and did it just the same. - 1984 (George Orwell)
  • Quisling - The surname of Vidkun Quisling, whose name is synonymous with “traitor” due to his Nazi collaboration.
  • Forlorn hope - A hopeless venture or military operation
    • Lost cause.
    • Futile cause.
  • Hollow victory.
    • Also called a pyrrhic victory.

Reactions

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Reacting to something indifferently:

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  • You don’t say.

An indifferent reaction that is ironic in nature

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  • Yes it's breathtaking.
    • Or simply: Breathtaking

Reaction to someone you know being annoying or doing:

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  • You know that’s just like him.

Reacting to someone doing something predictable or denying something:

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Reacting to a bad event (not always said out loud)

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  • Well…
  • And yet the world continues to spin.

Reaction to something in approval or with some sense or appreciation or understanding

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  • Hey, nothing wrong with that.
    • Nothing wrong with that.

Affirmations

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  • This we know - Can also be used as a reaction to information that has been pre-established, or an introduction of information that is known while it is being introduced to others.

Deniability

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  • Don’t know anything about that.

Insults

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In English

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Spanish (just for fun)

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  • Pendejo - Asshole*
    • Cállate pendejo - Shut up, asshole
  • Pobre cito - Poor thing