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When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Women
Something
Insists
Likelihood
Repeatedly
Increases
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