"I've seen too many movies about journalism and I believed them all, " one of the fictionalized characters is made to say.

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"I believed them and the employees believed them, " she said.

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Howard may have a loyal base but I never believed too many of them would bolt as subscribers because by now they have discovered the plethora of music and sports programming options that SIRI offers, not to mention the Catholic Channel.

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Jacob was born first then Ethan - they survived the birth and I really believed everything would be ok I couldn't imagine them not being around our whole future had been planned with our boys - football on cold Sunday mornings, holidays in Broadstairs paddling in the rock pools and eating ice cream at Morellies - I hadn't planned for them not being there.

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Still, I never believed these dystopian predictions, mostly because I believed technological tools like RSS would triumph over them. (For my more detailed rebuttal to the dystopians, see this article).

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"We are not going to find them in my view -- just as I never believed the inspectors would -- by running around seeing if they can open a door and surprise somebody and find something, " Rumsfeld said, adding that the focus was on "finding the people" who could help in that effort.

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They invested in the chair because they believed in me, so now all I have to do is prove them right.

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And of course Louise was always trying to make out that she could see them too, but she was such an awful liar that I never believed a word of it.

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You can't ever repeat the past, and the books I once believed to be so important and wise now seemed ordinary in the extreme, and I couldn't concentrate on them.

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