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...lived in the countryside, miles from anywhere. There weren't many children around to play with, so I spent a lot of time either reading or kind of making up. I lived on a small farm and much of my childhood was spent working--manual labor--stringing up tomato plants, milking the cows by hand, mucking up the pigs, planting vegetables, raking hay, very ephemeral, process-oriented things. Then I'd sneak off into the attic to read. I don't think I went to an art gallery until I was about sixteen. So I wasn't very aware...
...first. I easily compared prices for all 17 of my History 10b books--just by selecting the course from the list of options. But Sociology 149 wasn't one of the choices. Neither was Foreign Cultures 19. Still unfazed, I typed in each book title, hoping that a manual search would yield me the savings I so desired...
...right-wing black helicopter crowd's, They doubtlessly agree that the government spent "money just to make sure its very own weaponry wouldn't accidentally launch." There was never any concern among those knowledgible that our missiles, nuclear or otherwise, would launch because of Y2K. A missile requires manual, human action in order to be launched...
...spinning the destiny of India," he would say. The thread went to make cloth for his followers, and he hoped his example would convince Indians that homespun could free them from dependence on foreign products. But the real point of the spinning was to teach appreciation for manual labor, restore self-respect lost to colonial subjugation and cultivate inner strength...
...confused with occasional periods of bad behavior or crimes of passion, ASP (also referred to as sociopathy) is defined in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual as a lifelong "pervasive pattern" of rule breaking and violating the rights of others that begins before age 15. ASPs are chronic troublemakers whose symptoms vary greatly in severity: they can be constant money borrowers, black sheep, pathological liars, white-collar criminals or, at the most severe end of the continuum, murderous felons. They are impulsive and grandiose, don't learn from punishment, are poor self-observers, blame others for their problems...