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Reading is dreaming with open eyes
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YoYo
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Simi. Return to me. (Acheron)
'Return to me, Simi.’ Don’t go frying the goddess. Don’t go frying Thanatos. I am not a yo-yo, akri. I am a Simi. I hate it when you get me all excited about going to kill something and then tell me no. I don’t like that. It boring. You don’t ever let me have any fun anymore. (Simi)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Dance with the Devil (Dark-Hunter, #3))
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But there was more, as there always is when the love goes. She was haunted, naturally. Otherwise what is the point, why leave your rickety house, and why this yo-yo world giving us things and yanking them back?
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Daniel Handler (Adverbs)
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A POCKET-SIZED GIRL
He keeps me in his pocket
for a rainy day;
he swears I'm not an object
as he yo-yo's me away.
A friend is what we'll call it,
but my friend, he does not know,
each time it rains I love him—
so to his pocket, I must go.
He thinks he's being clever,
but I am not a fool;
his love ain't worth a penny,
so to my heart I must be cruel.
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Coco J. Ginger
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Outside has everything. Whenever I think of a thing now like skis or fireworks or islands or elevators or yo-yos, I have to remember they're real, they're actually happening in Outside all together. It makes my head tired. And people too, firefighters teachers burglars babies saints soccer players and all sorts, they're all really in Outside. I'm not there, though, me and Ma, we're the only ones not there. Are we still real?
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Emma Donoghue (Room)
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To YoYo Ma: "You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this.
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Steve Jobs
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Growing up, my parents never gave me as much as I wanted for my birthday. For example, one year I wanted a yo-yo, and they ended up giving me some wound up string. Gee, thanks, mom.
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Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
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one of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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...each of the painful "problems" in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and other growth lessons.
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Doreen Virtue (The Yo-Yo Diet Syndrome: How to Heal and Stabilize Your Appetite and Weight)
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Yolanda, nicknamed Yo in Spanish, misunderstood Joe in English, doubled and pronounced like the toy, Yoyo - or when forced to select from a rack of personalized keychains, Joey.
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Julia Alvarez
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...a thing among things, its self's soul so much vapor aloft, falling as rain and then rising, the sun up and down like a yoyo.
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David Foster Wallace (Oblivion)
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Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something then you're more willing to take risks.
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Yo-Yo Ma
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Take a look at the scaly witches round your local shopping center, many of them with children. Grim enough with their clothes on. Imagine them naked! Snatches that yo-yo between their knees, breasts so flaccid you could tie them in a knot. One would have to be literally galvanized on Spanish Fly even to consider it. Yet it gets done somehow. Look at the kids. — The teenager may be more spontaneous, doglike, etc., but it’s generally only another name on the list, only another notch on the cock.
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Martin Amis (The Rachel Papers)
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Steam coming off the planet, clouds of fleecy steam as boy and girl populations clash in religious riots, hot and whistling like a graveyard sodomist our little planet embraces its fragile yo-yo destiny, tuned in the secular mind like a dying engine. But some do not hear it this way, some flying successful moon-shot eyes do not see it this way. They do not hear the individual noises shhh,hiss, they hear the sound of the sounds together, they behold the interstices flashing up and down the cone of the flowering whirlwind.
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Leonard Cohen (Beautiful Losers)
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Dos caminos se bifurcaban en un bosque y yo...Yo tomé el menos transitado,y eso hizo toda la diferencia.
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Robert Frost
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Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
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YoYo
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Reading is dreaming with open.
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YoYo
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I'm like this yo-yo with a three-thousand-mile string." - Tai
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Jennifer Baker (Cher Negotiates New York (Clueless, #2))
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Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with seven mystic drawers, a chair covered in material as velvety blue-black as Batman's cape, an aquarium holding tiny fish so pale you could see their hearts beat, the aforementioned dresser covered with decals from Revell model airplane kits, a bed with a quilt sewn by a relative of Jefferson Davis's, a closet, and the shelves, oh, yes, the shelves. The troves of treasure. On those shelves are stacks of me: hundreds of comic books- Justice League, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, the Spirit, Blackhawk, Sgt. Rock and Easy Company, Aquaman, and the Fantastic Four... The shelves go on for miles and miles. My collection of marbles gleams in a mason jar. My dried cicada waits to sing again in the summer. My Duncan yo-yo that whistles except the string is broken and Dad's got to fix it.
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Robert McCammon (Boy's Life)
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With a gentle push, and a mild arc, the old cowhide globe hits home.”
Yo-yoing”
Leapin’ leaner”
Hippity-hop”
Good if it goes!”
Frozen rope”
Belt-high dribble”
It’s in the ol’ refrigerator.”
Looking down the barrel”
You gotta love it, baby!
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Hot Rod Hundley
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Yoyo said to me recently, 'Love and pain, that's what families are, and they fit together like this'--he slotted the tips of our fingers together--'like cogs.' Then he smiled and put a hand on my swollen belly. 'And what makes these cogs turn is hope, of course.
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Mal Peet (Tamar)
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Our seats were in the balcony. Nosebleeds. But you don't go to Yo-Yo Ma for the view, and the sound was incredible. That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. . Listening to him, I'm always reminded of why I started playing cell in the first place --- that there is something so human and expressive about it.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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Like some crazed masochistic yo-yo
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Melina Marchetta (On the Jellicoe Road)
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I felt like a yo-yo, up one minute and then down the next. Bouncing between highs and lows so fast I couldn't see straight.
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Jamie Canosa (Pieces of My Heart (Pieces, #2))
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one of the symptoms of those going completely yoyo was that they broke out in chronic cats. Usually cats who’d mastered every detail of feline existence except the whereabouts of the dirt box.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end of their strings and come back to me" from the poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing
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Jay Woodman (Following Father)
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Amazing,' Dave Jensen kept saying. 'A new wrinkle. I never seen it before.'
Mitchell Sanders took out his yo-yo. 'Well, that's Nam.' he said. 'Garden of Evil. Over here, man, every sin's real fresh and original.
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Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried)
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There are many things a boy considers beautiful: the shine of a bike’s paint, the luster of a dog’s pelt, the singing of a yo-yo as it loops the loop, the yellow harvest moon, the green grass of a meadow, and free hours at hand. The face of a girl, no matter how well-constructed, is usually not in that realm of appreciation.
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Robert McCammon (Boy's Life)
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If you look from the side at a planet swinging around in its orbit, split the sun with a mirror and imagine a string, it all looks like a yo-yo. The point furthest from the sun is called aphelion. The point furthest from the yo-yo hand is called, by analogy, apocheir.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
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My parents’ attempts to stop my habit were through guilt and force. They grounded me several times. Carl made cracks when he felt that I was eating too much and snide comments on my weight yo-yoing. They sent me to psychiatrists who tried to quick fix me by Paxil, Zoloft, and Effexor prescriptions. All were antidepressants with weight gain for side effects, which might as well have been rat poison for a bulimic.
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Maggie Georgiana Young (Just Another Number)
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...what cheered me most was to watch the girl quietly playing with her yoyo in the shadow of the emergency stairs, unseen by anyone but me. She was burdened with a great misfortune that she could not perceive as misfortune. She did not know how much luckier she was than the rest of mankind aware of unhappiness.
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Kōbō Abe (The Face of Another)
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Early on I learned, without anyone actually telling me, that in this world it is not enough just to be. You have to be something.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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The yo-yo is between our love and hate for our own missing parts. We are waiting for ourselves
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Shefali Tsabary (A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free)
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the yo-yo of life may go up and down, but isn’t it my own fingers that control the string?’ 13 Bisto spent the next few days resting.
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Judy Leigh (The Old Girls' Network)
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We're not born creative or destructive. Each one of us has the ability to create or destroy, to leave the world better than we found it, or worse.
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Yo-Yo Ma (Beginner's Mind: Words + Music)
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Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler.
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Giannina Braschi (Yo-Yo Boing! (Discoveries))
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We can’t be ambassadors because we don’t have a country. Puerto Rico is not a country with any power in the world, I won’t be considered a great poet. Spain created great poets with its empire and made them known around the world through its empire. Great poetry has always stemmed from the economic prosperity of a people. That is why we have Quevedo and Gongora.
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Giannina Braschi (Yo-Yo Boing! (Discoveries))
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Yo-Yo Ma
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was Mrs. Gammage all over again, she thought. The old woman was a regular in Biers for the company and was quite gaga, and one of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather (Discworld, #20))
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She’d never seen the ocean before. It was so vast compared to the rivers she’d seen. The sand resembled brown sugar. The seagulls leaped up and down as if they were at the ends of yo-yos. The waves made the sound of someone biting into an apple. When they crashed, they were a hundred thousand chorus girls raising up their dresses at once. And then the water receded again like the train of a jilted bride walking off into the distance.
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Heather O'Neill (The Lonely Hearts Hotel)
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If they bring you down, put you down, keep you down in a can of sardines – my question is the following – why did you let them pack you into a can of sardines – if you are not a sardine – and your boss and other sardines who are sardines don’t realize that you are not a sardine? You’ve been so conditioned to act like a sardine – you think your canned existence is your sole existence – and you can’t tell yourself apart from the other sardines that oppress you because you’re all stuck together in one big clump […]. If you let them pack you into a sardine can, it’s because you are a sardine – just like all the rest – made of salt and oil, scales and tails, slimy and thick.
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Giannina Braschi (Yo-Yo Boing! (Discoveries))
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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there’s got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you’re at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. —Yo-Yo Ma
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Amy Poeppel (Musical Chairs)
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Boyfriend/Girlfriend-Centered This may be the easiest trap of all to fall into. I mean, who hasn’t been centered on a boyfriend or girlfriend at one point? Let’s pretend Brady centers his life on his girlfriend, Tasha. Now, watch the instability it creates in Brady. TASHA’S ACTIONS BRADY’S REACTIONS Makes a rude comment: “My day is ruined.” Flirts with Brady’s best friend: “I’ve been betrayed. I hate my friend.” “I think we should date other people”: “My life is over. You don’t love me anymore.” The ironic thing is that the more you center your life on someone, the more unattractive you become to that person. How’s that? Well, first of all, if you’re centered on someone, you’re no longer hard to get. Second, it’s irritating when someone builds their entire emotional life around you. Since their security comes from you and not from within themselves, they always need to have those sickening “where do we stand” talks. if who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I? ANONYMOUS When I began dating my wife, one of the things that attracted me most was that she didn’t center her life on me. I’ll never forget the time she turned me down (with a smile and no apology) for a very important date. I loved it! She was her own person and had her own inner strength. Her moods were independent of mine. You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together. Although their relationship has deteriorated, their emotional lives and identities are so intertwined that they can never fully let go of each other. Believe me, you’ll be a better boyfriend or girlfriend if you’re not centered on your partner. Independence is more attractive than dependence. Besides, centering your life on another doesn’t show that you love them, only that you’re dependent on them. Have as many girlfriends or boyfriends as you’d like, just don’t get obsessed with or centered on them, because, although there are exceptions, these relationships are usually about as stable as a yo-yo.
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Sean Covey (The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens)
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Don’t count calories, don’t hate carbs, don’t go to the Stone Age. Simply eat real food, healthy food, and find ways to love every bit of food and the health that results. It will become a lifelong habit and you can leave the yo-yoing behind.
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Thomas M. Campbell II (The Campbell Plan: The Simple Way to Lose Weight and Reverse Illness, Using The China Study's Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet)
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Don’t get me wrong. A thinker thought, maybe it was Ortega y Gasset, that a country is in decadence when the parts no longer want to be part of the totality. It happened in the Soviet Union, it happened in Spain, it will happen in the States.
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Giannina Braschi (Yo-Yo Boing! (Discoveries))
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Come out of hiding and i'll give you a prize." His voice was so damn taunting I wanted to punch his teeth out.
"Found one in my Cracker Jack box this morning." I shrugged. "Bad ass little yo-yo that doesn't talk shit. So, sorry, but I think i'll pass.
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Rachel Van Dyken (Bang Bang (Eagle Elite, #4.6))
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Causality was no longer the hidden demiurge that ruled the universe: down was up, the last was the first, the end was the beginning. Heraclitus had been resurrected from his dung heap, and what he had to show us was the simplest of truths: reality was a yo-yo, change was the only constant.
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Paul Auster (Moon Palace)
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Now, I’m not a fan of fad diets. They simply don’t work long term because they’re either too restrictive or they don’t emphasize a lifestyle that can be maintained. The truth is that the people who follow fad diets do so in a “yo-yo” fashion. They lose weight and then put it back on. Sometimes they’ll even gain more weight. In my opinion, fad diets are usually one step forward, two steps back. Really, the only way to maintain an optimal weight is to focus on lifestyle modification. Weight loss is a simple equation, but is hard to do in the real world. The “magical” formula is to expend more energy than you take in.
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S.J. Scott (10,000 Steps Blueprint - the daily walking habit for healthy weight loss and lifelong fitness)
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In boom times companies have high profits. They increase production to satisfy demand for goods. This leads to excess supply. Companies cut prices to compete for customers. leading to lower profits, lay-offs, and economic depression. Eventually lower prices lead to an increase in demand and profits go back up. The economy is a yo-yo.
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Niall Kishtainy (The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained)
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You wore my watch then claimed it as your own, twisting its chain slowly, hovered over the blaze of my torment. You would yell endless regrets across the dance Hall of echoes. So many echoes from a source that swayed smiling…id throw u over & over but you were the yoyo that’s loop strapped itself to the bones of my finger, layers so deep it would take more than a cut to untie your deceit.
Lips bitter but your touch soothing & sweet. My heart would palpitate the moment your presence crept through the walls of my flesh; you held tight the gasps of breath keeping my chest strained with the pressures of your high demands. Not a single thing was enough, you needed me fragmented…
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L V HALL
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Abel stared at Jane’s gran blankly, obviously confused by her comment until Jane managed to tear her gaze away from his body and gesture. Looking down, seeing that he’d lost his towel and understanding what Gran was ogling, Edie’s brother promptly dropped his arms so that the cat hid his nakedness. Tinkle promptly leaped, snapping at the cat, so Abel instinctively raised the poor creature back out of the dog’s reach. Again and again he lifted then dropped the cat in a desperate effort to hide himself and yet protect the beast from the barking Tinkle. For Jane it was like watching a rather bizarre peekaboo yo-yo act. Up and down and up and down went the cat, and now you see it, now you don’t went Abel’s family jewels. Jane was completely enthralled.
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Lynsay Sands (The Loving Daylights)
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If you’re a fly, you keep flying and being a nuisance. If you lived in Linares at that time, you could never stop going out to the fields or ranches to tend to your crops or animals. You might close the store for a few days because of the initial shock, but you would open it again because, even if your relatives were sick or dead, your needs and the needs of others—those who sold to you and those who bought from you—persisted. If you lived at that time, you could not avoid having to go out to buy food, and not a day could pass without washing diapers or underpants, even if you sent your mother to the cemetery two hours earlier. In the midst of this crisis, you had tooth decay, infected toenails, and stomach upsets—slight or severe—that you put up with for a while before having to seek help from a doctor, if you could find one. Others went out to sell goat milk, or whistles, yo-yos, and spinning tops in the square, in the hope that there were still children alive to buy them.
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Sofía Segovia (The Murmur of Bees)
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Week after week, counselors encounter one outstanding failure among Christians: a lack of what the Bible calls “endurance.” Perhaps endurance is the key to godliness through discipline. No one learns to ice skate, to use a yo-yo, to button shirts, or to drive an automobile unless he persists long enough to do so. He learns by enduring in spite of failures, through the embarrassments, until the desired behavior becomes a part of him. He trains himself by practice to do what he wants to learn to do. God says the same is true about godliness.
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Jay E. Adams (The Christian Counselor's Manual: The Practice of Nouthetic Counseling (Jay Adams Library))
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One morning Profane woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep and decided on a whim to spend the day like a yo-yo, shuttling on the subway back and forth underneath 42nd Street, from Times Square to Grand Central and vice versa. He made his way to the washroom of Our Home, tripping over two empty mattresses on route. Cut himself shaving, had trouble extracting the blade and gashed a finger. He took a shower to get rid of the blood. The handles wouldn't turn. When he finally found a shower that worked, the water came out hot and cold in random patterns. He danced around, yowling and shivering, slipped on a bar of soap and nearly broke his neck. Drying off, he ripped a frayed towel in half, rendering it useless. He put on his skivvy shirt backwards, took ten minutes getting his fly zipped and another fifteen repairing a shoelace which had broken as he was tying it. All the rests of his morning songs were silent cuss words. It wasn't that he was tired or even notably uncoordinated. Only something that, being a schlemihl, he'd known for years: inanimate objects and he could not live in peace.
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Thomas Pynchon (V.)
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Now I’ll be spending the next who-knows-how-many days waiting for Guy to call/text/IM/Facebook/e-mail me. Then, if he ever does, I’ll devote who-knows-how-many hours to reading into every word and deliberating about how to respond so I come off as available but not clingy. We may call/text/IM/Facebook/e-mail back and forth for who-knows-how-much longer until we start hanging out, if we ever do. Meanwhile I’ll keep scrutinizing his behavior for signs as to whether he wants me romantically or as just a friend, and my mood will yo-yo accordingly until he finally makes a move, if he ever does.
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Daria Snadowsky (Anatomy of a Single Girl (Anatomy #2))
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But the manner of giving voice to thoughts and feelings becomes particularly significant in the case of negative feelings or doubts about a relationship. The difference was highlighted for me when a fifty-year-old divorced man told me about his experiences in forming new relationships with women. On this matter, he was clear: "I do not value my fleeting thoughts, and I do not value the fleeting thoughts of others." He felt that the relationship he was currently in had been endangered, even permanently weakened, by the woman's practice of tossing out her passing thoughts, because, early in their courtship, many of her thoughts were fears about the relationship. Not surprisingly, since they did not yet know each other well, she worried about whether she could trust him, whether their relationship would destroy her independence, whether this relationship was really right for her. He felt she should have kept these fears and doubts to herself and waited to see how things turned out.
As it happens, things turned out well. The woman decided that the relationship was right for her, she could trust him, and she did not have to give up her independence. But he felt, at the time that he told me of this, that he had still not recovered from the wear and tear of coping with her earlier doubts. As he put it, he was still dizzy from having been bounced around like a yo-yo tied to the string of her stream of consciousness.
In contrast, the man admitted, he himself goes to the other extreme: he never expresses his fears or misgivings about their relationship at all. If he's unhappy but doesn't say anything about it, his unhappiness expresses itself in a kind of distancing coldness. This response is just what women fear most, and just the reason they prefer to express dissatisfactions and doubts - as an antidote to the isolation and distance that would result from keeping them to themselves.
The different perspectives on expressing or concealing dissatisfactions and doubts may reflect a difference in men's and women's awareness of the power of their words to affect others. In repeatedly telling him what she feared about their relationship, she spoke as though she assumed he was invulnerable and could not be hurt by what she said; perhaps she was underestimating the power of her words to affect him. For his part, when he refrains from expressing negative thoughts or feelings, he seems to be overestimating the power of his words to hurt her, when, ironically, she is more likely to be hurt by his silence than his words.
Such impasses will perhaps never be settled to the complete satisfaction of both parties, but understanding the differing views can help detoxify the situation, and both can make adjustments.
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Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation)
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Even if there is no connection between diversity and international influence, some people would argue that immigration brings cultural enrichment. This may seem to be an attractive argument, but the culture of Americans remains almost completely untouched by millions of Hispanic and Asian immigrants. They may have heard of Cinco de Mayo or Chinese New Year, but unless they have lived abroad or have studied foreign affairs, the white inhabitants of Los Angeles are likely to have only the most superficial knowledge of Mexico or China despite the presence of many foreigners.
Nor is it immigrants who introduce us to Cervantes, Puccini, Alexander Dumas, or Octavio Paz. Real high culture crosses borders by itself, not in the back pockets of tomato pickers, refugees, or even the most accomplished immigrants. What has Yo-Yo Ma taught Americans about China? What have we learned from Seiji Ozawa or Ichiro about Japan? Immigration and the transmission of culture are hardly the same thing. Nearly every good-sized American city has an opera company, but that does not require Italian immigrants.
Miami is now nearly 70 percent Hispanic, but what, in the way of authentic culture enrichment, has this brought the city? Are the art galleries, concerts, museums, and literature of Los Angeles improved by diversity? Has the culture of Detroit benefited from a majority-black population? If immigration and diversity bring cultural enrichment, why do whites move out of those very parts of the country that are being “enriched”?
It is true that Latin American immigration has inspired more American school children to study Spanish, but fewer now study French, German, or Latin. If anything, Hispanic immigration reduces what little linguistic diversity is to be found among native-born Americans. [...] [M]any people study Spanish, not because they love Hispanic culture or Spanish literature but for fear they may not be able to work in America unless they speak the language of Mexico.
Another argument in favor of diversity is that it is good for people—especially young people —to come into contact with people unlike themselves because they will come to understand and appreciate each other. Stereotyped and uncomplimentary views about other races or cultures are supposed to crumble upon contact. This, of course, is just another version of the “contact theory” that was supposed to justify school integration. Do ex-cons and the graduates—and numerous dropouts—of Los Angeles high schools come away with a deep appreciation of people of other races? More than half a century ago, George Orwell noted that:
'During the war of 1914-18 the English working class were in contact with foreigners to an extent that is rarely possible. The sole result was that they brought back a hatred of all Europeans, except the Germans, whose courage they admired.
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Jared Taylor (White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century)
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Wife's Letter (excerpt)
It was not the mask that died among the boots, but you. The girl with the yoyo was not the only one to know about your masked play. From the very first instant, when, elated with pride, you talked about the distortion of the magnetic field, I too saw through you completely. Please don’t insult me any more by asking how I did it. Of course, I was flustered, confused, and frightened to death. Under any circumstances, it was an unimaginably drastic way of acting, so different from your ordinary self. It was hallucinatory, seeing you so full of self-confidence. Even you knew very well that I had seen through you. You knew and yet demanded that we go on with the play in silence.
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But you went from one misunderstanding to the next, didn’t you? You write that I rejected you, but that’s not true. Didn’t you reject yourself all by yourself?.. In a happy frame of mind, I reflected that love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there?
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Is what you think to be the mask in reality your real face, or is what you think to be your real face really a mask? Yes, you do understand. Anyone who is seduced is seduced realizing this.
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At first you were apparently trying to get your own self back by means of the mask, but before you knew it you had come to think of it only as your magician’s cloak for escaping from yourself. So it was not a mask, but somewhat the same as another real face, wasn’t it? You finally revealed your true colors. It was not the mask, but you yourself. It is meaningful to put a mask on, precisely because one makes others realize it is a mask. Even with cosmetics, which you abominate so, we never try to conceal the fact that it is make-up. After all, it was not that the mask was bad, but that you were too unaware of how to treat it. Even though you put the mask on, you could not do a thing while you were wearing it. Good or bad, you could not do a thing. All you could manage was to wander through the streets and write long, never-ending confessions, like a snake with its tail in its mouth. It was all the same to you whether you burned your face or didn’t, whether you put on a mask or didn’t. You were incapable of calling the mask back. Since the mask will not come back, there is no reason for me to return either.
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While you spoke of the face as being some kind of roadway between fellow human beings, you were like a snail that thinks only of its own doorway. You were showing off. Even though you had forced me into a compound where I had already been, you set up a fuss as if I had scaled a prison wall, as if I had absconded with money. And so, when you began to focus on my face you were flustered and confused, and without a word you at once nailed up the door of the mask. Indeed, as you said, perhaps death filled the world. I wonder if scattering the seeds of death is not the deed of men who think only of themselves, as you do.
You don’t need me. What you really need is a mirror. Because any stranger is for you simply a mirror in which to reflect yourself.
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Kōbō Abe (The Face of Another)
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*Wife's Letter* Pt1
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It was not the mask that died among the boots, but you. The girl with the yoyo was not the only one to know about your masked play. From the very first instant, when, elated with pride, you talked about the distortion of the magnetic field, I too saw through you completely. Please don’t insult me any more by asking how I did it. Of course, I was flustered, confused, and frightened to death. Under any circumstances, it was an unimaginably drastic way of acting, so different from your ordinary self. It was hallucinatory, seeing you so full of self-confidence. Even you knew very well that I had seen through you. You knew and yet demanded that we go on with the play in silence. I considered it a dreadful thing at first, but I soon changed my mind, thinking that perhaps you were acting out of sympathy for me. Then, though the things you did seemed a little embarrassing, they began to present the appearance of a delicate and suave invitation to a dance. And as I watched you become amazingly serious and go on pretending to be deceived, my heart began to fill with a feeling of gratitude, and so I followed after you meekly.
But you went from one misunderstanding to the next, didn’t you? You write that I rejected you, but that’s not true. Didn’t you reject yourself all by yourself? I felt that I could understand your wanting to. In view of the accident and all, I had more than half resigned myself to sharing your suffering. For that very reason, your mask seemed quite good to me. In a happy frame of mind, I reflected that love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there? Do you understand what I mean?
I think you do. After all, don’t even you have your doubts? Is what you think to be the mask in reality your real face, or is what you think to be your real face really a mask? Yes, you do understand. Anyone who is seduced is seduced realizing this.
But the mask did not return. At first you were apparently trying to get your own self back by means of the mask, but before you knew it you had come to think of it only as your magician’s cloak for escaping from yourself. So it was not a mask, but somewhat the same as another real face, wasn’t it? You finally revealed your true colors. It was not the mask, but you yourself. It is meaningful to put a mask on, precisely because one makes others realize it is a mask. Even with cosmetics, which you abominate so, we never try to conceal the fact that it is make-up. After all, it was not that the mask was bad, but that you were too unaware of how to treat it. Even though you put the mask on, you could not do a thing while you were wearing it. Good or bad, you could not do a thing. All you could manage was to wander through the streets and write long, never-ending confessions, like a snake with its tail in its mouth. It was all the same to you whether you burned your face or didn’t, whether you put on a mask or didn’t. You were incapable of calling the mask back. Since the mask will not come back, there is no reason for me to return either.
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Kōbō Abe (The Face of Another)
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Do you know what thing is best about serials?? you will feel happy throughout...only if you are on the dark (evil) side.
Try now..!!
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Nikhil Deshpande
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Do you know, why stupidity always find in a stupid way?
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Nikhil Deshpande
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The One Meal a Day Diet, also called the OMAD Diet is a method of losing weight that is based on intermittent fasting, meal frequency, and meal timing. It’s an easy and fast way to get thin and stay thin forever (no more yo-yo weight battles). It’s possible to eat whatever you want and still lose weight.
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Diana Polska (One Meal a Day Diet: Intermittent Fasting and High Intensity Interval Training For Weight Loss)
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After Jimena left, Serena sat in a chair and set her cello on the end pin between her knees. She loved the way she had to hug the cello when she played. She dreamed of meeting her idols some day in a master class or onstage, someone like Yo-Yo Ma or Han-Na Chang. She picked up her bow and began to play. The music flowed around her, sad and filled with longing.
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Lynne Ewing (Into the Cold Fire (Daughters of the Moon, #2))
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Life is untidy. My writing is messy. Life yo-yos up and down. My writing undulates. I do not fly straight. Akin to a broken arrow, I yaw in the wind. I write the way that I lived, without submission to silly rules and without undue modesty.
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Kilroy J. Oldster (Dead Toad Scrolls)
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Cultural Diplomacy—and an Accolade Among Piazzolla’s tasks during his first summer at the Chalet El Casco was the composition of “Le Grand Tango,” a ten-minute piece for cello and piano commissioned by Efraín Paesky, Director of the OAS Division of Arts, and dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich, to whom Piazzolla sent the score. Rostropovich had not heard of Piazzolla at the time and did not look seriously at the music for several years.7 Written in ternary form, the work bears all Piazzolla’s hallmarks: tight construction, strong accents, harmonic tensions, rhythmic complexity and melodic inspiration, all apparent from the fierce cello scrapes at the beginning. Piazzolla uses intervals not frequently visited on the cello fingerboard. Its largely tender mood, notably on display in the cello’s snaking melodic line in the reflective middle section, becomes more profoundly complex in its emotional range toward the end. With its intricate juxtapositions of driving rhythms and heart-rending tags of tune, it is just about the most exciting music Piazzolla ever wrote, a masterpiece. Piazzolla was eager for Rostropovich to play it, but the chance did not come for eight years. Rostropovich, having looked at the music, and “astounded by the great talent of Astor,” decided he would include it in a concert. He made some changes in the cello part and wanted Piazzolla to hear them before he played the piece. Accordingly, in April 1990, he rehearsed it with Argentine pianist Susana Mendelievich in a room at the Teatro Colón, and Piazzolla gently coached the maestro in tango style—”Yes, tan-go, tan-go, tan-go.” The two men took an instant liking to one another.8 It was, says Mendelievich, “as if Rostropovich had played tangos all his life.” “Le Grand Tango” had its world premiere in New Orleans on April 24, 1990. Sarah Wolfensohn was the pianist. Three days later, they both played this piece again at the Gusman Cultural Center in Miami. [NOTE C] Rostropovich performed “Le Grand Tango” at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, in July 1994; the pianist was Lambert Orkis. More recently, cellist Yo-Yo Ma has described “Le Grand Tango” as one of his “favorite pieces of music,” praising its “inextricable rhythmic sense...total freedom, passion, ecstasy.
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Maria Susana Azzi (Le Grand Tango: The Life and Music of Astor Piazzolla (2017 Updated and Expanded Edition))
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We were pretending, and everybody knew you didn't get hurt pretending.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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War became less about machine-gun chatter and spectacular explosions and more about people.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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Good Boy: Just because he doesn't get into trouble doesn't mean he doesn't appreciate trouble.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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I resolved that if I was ever in a war, I would be a dumb nonspy.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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FORTUNE COOKIE THE BLACK WIDOW SPIDER MYSTERY THE RADIO MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE RUNAWAY GHOST THE FINDERS KEEPERS MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE HAUNTED BOXCAR THE CLUE IN THE CORN MAZE THE GHOST OF THE CHATTERING BONES THE SWORD OF THE SILVER KNIGHT THE GAME STORE MYSTERY THE MYSTERY OF THE ORPHAN TRAIN THE VANISHING PASSENGER THE GIANT YO-YO MYSTERY THE CREATURE IN OGOPOGO LAKE THE ROCK ’N’ ROLL MYSTERY THE SECRET OF THE MASK THE SEATTLE PUZZLE THE GHOST IN THE FIRST ROW THE BOX THAT WATCH FOUND A HORSE NAMED DRAGON THE GREAT DETECTIVE RACE T
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Gertrude Chandler Warner (Houseboat Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries))
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Segovia, Yusef Lateef, Yo-Yo Ma. But no singers. Music without words let him fill his head with images of his own making or no images at all.
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Joe Ide (IQ)
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So many careers came and went through me:
salamander finder, crawfish annoyer, flat-stone creek skipper, cedar chest smeller, railroad car counter, tin can stomper, milkweed blower, mulberry picker, snowball smoother, paper bag popper, steel rail walker, box turtle toucher, dark-sky watcher, best part saver. They didn’t last long, these careers of mine, but flashed into and out of existence like mayflies. But while they employed me, I gave them an honest minute’s work and was paid in the satisfactions of curiosity met and a job well done.
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Jerry Spinelli (Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid)
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I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch.
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Deyth Banger (All As None and More (Deeper Level Drop #Collection))
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I had been on the doctor yo-yo for many years regarding fatigue and strange illnesses, but this was sickness on steroids! It was far worse than anything I had seen before. I knew what Dementia was and I knew the end result was not pretty. I had seen my elderly grandfather die from it, but he developed it at a far older age. From being diagnosed to death only took a few years. I started to contemplate that I may not make it to fifty years of age.
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Steven Magee (Magee’s Disease)
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The medical profession is a money making con, they will keep you sick on a variety of expensive prescriptions and on a yo-yo into their offices to bill your medical insurance.
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Steven Magee
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Your WEEWEE is not a TOY Many times little boys play with their private parts. That's the time to remind them it's not a TOY. It's not a YO-YO, or a TOY CAR! And even ask JOKINGLY if you should cut it so they can play with it. And they would gladly BEG YOU NOT TO CUT IT. They will learn via play and association what you WOULD HAVE TOLD them about MASTURBATING had they been OLDER. Soon, they would come to detest PLAYING with it. And maybe even be programmed so over the years. There is always a way to teach a child a BIG thing in a small way. Find it, it can make ALL the difference.
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Asuni LadyZeal
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Yodel-adle-eedle-idle. Yodel-adle-eedle-idle-oo! Yo-yo yodel-laydee-hoo yodel-laydee-hoo, yo-yo yodel-yodel-laydee, yo-yo yodel-yodel-laydee-hoo. Yodel-leh-hee yodel-leh-hee yodel-leh-hoo. Yodel leh-hee yodel-lee-eee-ooo. Yodel-leh-hee yodel-leh-hee yodel-leh-hoo. Yada-yada yada-yada yad-eee-ooo, yippee odelay dee ahdelay ayaayayayay ohohohoh ladelayhee tee rodeo hee hee.
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Dan Gutman (Mrs. Lizzy Is Dizzy! (My Weird School Daze #9))
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Yodel-adle-eedle-idle. Yodel-adle-eedle-idle. Yodel-adle-eedle-idle-oo! Yo-yo yodel-laydee-hoo yodel-laydee-hoo, yodel-laydee-hoo, yodel-laydee-hoo.
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Dan Gutman (Mrs. Lizzy Is Dizzy! (My Weird School Daze #9))
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Get on your shoes and take off the floor.
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Dan Gutman (My Weirder-est School #7: Ms. Jo-Jo Is a Yo-Yo!)
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Finally, a goal-oriented mind-set can create a “yo-yo” effect. Many runners work hard for months, but as soon as they cross the finish line, they stop training. The race is no longer there to motivate them. When all of your hard work is focused on a particular goal, what is left to push you forward after you achieve it? This is why many people find themselves reverting to their old habits after accomplishing a goal.
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James Clear (Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones)
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I hate him, and I want him. And I just feel like a yo-yo in his presence.
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Kia Carrington-Russell (Virtuous Vows (Lethal Vows, #2))
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Vera switched the station to classical, even though she didn’t know Yo-Yo Ma from Yo Gabba Gabba.
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L.J. Shen (My Dark Desire (Dark Prince Road, #2))
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There were honeys from across the city - Westport, Hollander Ridge, Gwynn Oak, Northwood. They were everything from redbone to yo-yo darkskin. The dimes among them carried Benetton bags, were dolled up like Lily Powers - finger waves, a head of dyed blond, and eyes like enchanted daggers. I saw we were outnumbered, as brothers who try the civilized way always are.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood)
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In a University of Pennsylvania study, rats yo-yoed up, down, back up, back down, and then back up.34 The second time the rats tried to lose weight by eating less, they lost weight 100 percent more slowly and regained the weight 300 percent faster than the first time they ate less.
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Jonathan Bailor (The Calorie Myth: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better)
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I am I, I am he. We are, but I am I, first I am I, I will defend being I until I am unable to fight any longer. I am I, Atalia. Ego. Yo. A professional degree, an Argentine, a scarlet fingernail, pretty sometimes, big dark eyes, I. Atalia Donosi, I. Yo. Yo-yo, windlass and hawser. Funny.
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Julio Cortázar (Hopscotch)
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Revelation in Revision
The literary critic should excavate a poet's poem pentimento,
forensically parsing through the words painted over in regret,
an image of a crow flying on a different line,
an adverb ruefully deleted in favor of lambent demonstration,
a synecdoche transposing a crows foot for a crow
which in turn becomes a metaphor for an aging ballerina,
another ardent adjective added to articulate the admirable alliteration
and then the waffling back and forth removing an adding the overkill,
like Yo-Yo Ma yo-yoing his cello during a performance of Naqoyqatsi.
There's revelation in the inquest of revisions and regrets,
for behind the poet's final version
is his more divine process of creation.
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Beryl Dov
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It was Mrs. Gammage all over again, she thought. The old woman was a regular in Biers for the company and was quite gaga, and one of the symptoms of those going completely yo-yo was that they broke out in chronic cats. Usually cats who’d mastered every detail of feline existence except the whereabouts of the dirt box.
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Terry Pratchett (Hogfather)
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YoYo Mats is the story of a simple idea transformed into revolutionary design. Our best yoga mats are conceived at the nexus of function, convenience, and sustainability—developed to cater to the demands of your fitness and yoga practice and to harmonize with your lifestyle.
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YoYo Mats
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토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
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토토축구배당 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토야구배팅 토토야구배당
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축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
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축구배팅노하우 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 축구스페셜배팅 축구승무패배당
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토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
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토토분석 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토배당률 토토검증업체
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-Haklısın, biz tükenmeyiz.
-Düşünmeyelim diye.
-Özrümüz var.
-İşitmeyelim diye.
-Nedenlerimiz var.
-Bütün ölü sesleri.
-Kanat çırpar gibi bir gürültü çıkarır.
-Yapraklar gibi.
-Kum gibi.
-Yapraklar gibi.
-Bir ağızdan konuşur hepsi.
-Her biri kendi kendine.
-Fısıldarlar daha çok.
-Hışırdarlar.
-Mırıldanırlar.
-Hışırdarlar.
-Ne derler?
-Hayatlarından bahsederler.
-Yaşamış olmak onlara yetmez.
-Bir de bahsetmeleri gerekir.
-Ölmüş olmak onlara yetmez.
-Yeterli gelmez.
-Tüy sesi çıkarırlar.
-Yapraklar gibi.
-Kül gibi.
-Yapraklar gibi.
-Bir şey söyle!
-Arıyorum.
-Ne olursa olsun bir şey söyle!
-Şimdi n'apıyoruz?
-Godot'yu bekliyoruz.
-Ha!
-Berbat bir şey!
-Bir şarkı söyle!
-Yo.yo! Belki yeni baştan başlayabiliriz.
-Kolay olmalı.
-Başlamaktır zor olan.
-Her noktadan yola çıkılabilir.
-Evet ama karar vermek gerekir.
-Doğru.
-Yardım et!
-Gayret ediyorum.
-İnsan ararken bir şeyler işitir.
-Doğru.
-Bu da bulmayı engeller.
-Doğru.
-Düşünmeyi engeller.
-Yine de düşünür insan
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Samuel Beckett
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The kids found the new high tensile Duncan Yo-Yo string was strong enough to use as a garrotte.
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Fred Barnett (Second Chances — I Re-wrote My Life and Improved It! So Can You!)
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How much do you love to those who are loved once ?
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Nikhil
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Lucas was starting to feel like a yo-yo, and Iowa City was the finger.
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John Sandford (Extreme Prey (Lucas Davenport, #26))
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토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
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토토검증방 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 토토검증사이트 토토검증
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프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
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프로토베팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외배당분석 프로토배팅사이트
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해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
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해외스포츠배팅 ❣❇✉✎ [《YOyO88.COm]↔[코드:ddR77》]❣❇✉✎ ✄kisses ✄ 해외스포츠토토 해외배팅사이트추천
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Corporations go through cycles of growth and retrenching, what I call corporate yo-yo dieting. Companies that expand continually are companies that grow fat. Then they’re forced to diet, or downsize in “corp” speak, until they can grow again and reengineer (a new body in ninety days!), merge and acquire other companies (weightlifting and muscle training) until the cycle starts anew, and they’re forced to reduce again (lose twenty pounds in six weeks!).
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Ricardo Semler (The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works)