"Those involved in a love affair do not pay for each other, " he declares cryptically.

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Shorn of context and often cryptically cut down, written citations like this risk giving both too much information and too little.

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The twist in this episode, based on a story written by Damon Knight, is a cryptically titled book carried by the ET.

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The White House's cryptically worded statement mentions only that the funds should now go to viable firms--effectively leaving out the fuel-efficiency requirement.

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"We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours, " Managing Director Stephen Williams said cryptically.

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To what could he be so cryptically alluding?

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Google's official page for Webmasters cryptically notes that Google is "able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index, " a phrase that puzzles most search marketers.

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