If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
Can't you read? The score demands "con amore," and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same.
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio.
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
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