The effect of praise is so potent that even false flattery sways us more than we think.

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Everybody loves a winner, and imitation, as we know, is the highest form of flattery.

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We can hope that the Bush gush was flattery intended to show the U.S. president to be nonthreatening as his administration presses ahead with a missile defense.

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