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01. Studies of [so-called] primitive tribes in South America have found they generally have a very sophisticated social system.

02. The government's [so-called] budget increase is actually a decrease if you factor in the rise in the cost of living.

03. These [so-called] environmentally-friendly products still come in the same old indestructible plastic packaging.

04. The [so-called] hole in our ozone is actually just an area which is thinner than normal.

05. Many pharmaceutical companies are now showing an interest in marketing [so-called] natural remedies.

06. [So-called] supernatural phenomena, such as clairvoyance and ESP have never been proven to exist.

07. The company just hired this [so-called] expert but he obviously doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

08. [So-called] freedom of speech somehow isn't so free when the opinions being expressed are regarded as objectionable by those in power.

09. The [so-called] compromise they are suggesting gives them practically everything they want, and leaves us with almost nothing of what we want.

10. His wife is taking some silly course in this [so-called] institute where they claim to teach people to read minds.

11. Robert Graves once suggested that civilization has gotten further and further from the [so-called] 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

12. James Robinson once stated that most of our [so-called] reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

13. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg once remarked that perhaps in time the [so-called] Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

14. Max Lerner once said that the [so-called] lessons of history are, for the most part, the rationalizations of the victors because history is written by the survivors.

15. [So-called] magic mushrooms have been used for centuries, primarily in the context of religious rituals and ceremonies.