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    DateFriday, February 25, 2011 at 12:30PM

    Tropes make up rhetoric’s most powerful language in part because people often fail to notice them. A recent Stanford study shows how metaphors prod people into unconscious decisions. 

    Thanks to figarist Mike Darling for bring this to Figaro’s attention.

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