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To lull

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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements. Camille Paglia

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations. Martin Short

Good free verse is not at all easy to write, for there is no repetitive beat to lull the reader's critical faculty, much pattern and discipline is to be found in it, though the pattern of sounds and choice of exact words, gives it its beauty. Marjorie Boulton

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. Og Mandino

I tell you this not to lull you into complacency, but to spur you into action - because there's still so much more work to do, so many more miles to travel. And America needs you to gladly, happily take up that work. Barack Obama

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that. Charles Palliser

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