Thus even 2, 500 years ago, cats had convinced some humans to carry them around, while thumbing their little noses at other humans who dared not raise a hand to them.

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In one of them, robotic dogs waddled across a field striking a little soccer ball with their noses.

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Those holding their noses and averting their gaze from the ludicrous situation that the Corrib Project have become are little more than collaborators in the greatest robbery of the Irish state.

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The idea holds that electrons in the receptors in our noses disappear on one side of a smell molecule and reappear on the other, leaving a little bit of energy behind in the process.

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