Although a lot of science went into this landing process, superstition on landing night can't hurt.
This is obvious to anyone looking at the numbers who is not blinded by Keynesian superstition.
For ardent believers, arms control is a superstition, impervious to evidence of its futility.
Issues such as fear, ignorance, superstition and cultural biases drive action in ways that defy logic.
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"Whatever your golden superstition is, it's going to fail eventually in baseball, " Teixeira said.
He spoke out against alcohol, capital punishment, censorship, child labor, religious superstition and distinctions of class.
Enlightenment thinkers went further, pushing concepts of good and evil into the realm of superstition.
There could also be the element of superstition involved, and Americans are superstitious lot.
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But when Stefan Kuntz equalised 15 minutes later, the sense of despondent superstition returned.
It reveals emotional scenes of back-biting, superstition, heated arguments, physical violence - and match-fixing.
For example, there is a superstition that if a gecko cries out four times, someone will die.
American democracy was contrasted with papal demagoguery, American piety with papal superstition, American modernity with papal obsolescence.
Clark insists that superstition is false, though she admits that there is still a subtle stigma attached to knitting.
Teixeira finds most players he knows have eschewed superstition in favor of routine.
Like everyone in the village, he had faith in the rituals of superstition.
Ultimately that belief falls into the same category as a superstition, like the evil eye or the tooth fairy.
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Street signs with words like "Lucky" or "Prosperity" had to be smashed, because they smacked of superstition and greed.
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Can it avoid the death-trap theory that prosperity causes inflation, a superstition still widespread in our own Federal Reserve Bank?
It seemed proof that a regime fond of numerology and superstition ruled neither by divine right nor by popular acquiescence, but by force.
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Lodging in a Lagos slum in 1967, he conveys the misery, terror and superstition on which the packed inhabitants survived.
Georgia is a proudly Christian country, and the significance of wine in religious worship is reinforced by superstition and custom.
In particular, the smoke of incinerated straw men obscures any serious discussion of religion (superstition practised by hypocrites, in his view).
They think it is a "barbarous relic, " as John Maynard Keynes described the gold standard, and a superstition rather than an investment.
Even in their enthusiasm there is a mixture of superstition and pessimism.
Superstition, shoddy police work, cultural and actual mistranslation were among those forces.
Until around the Fourteenth Century the Church scolded people who believed in witches and rejected the whole idea as a silly peasant superstition.
And when a player changes his routine and finds success, a new superstition is created as he tries to bottle and reproduce that moment.
Unhappily, the combination of superstition and anthropomorphism skews an otherwise skilful and engaging piece of reporting that raises intriguing questions about man and nature.
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That certainly did not impress Bruce, although the Black Cats manager had to be told what had happened because of a long-standing superstition not to watch penalties.
Religious vacations may sound unusual, particularly for a communist country, but some form of faith or superstition weaves its way through every element of Chinese life.
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