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Preoccupation with sex is a symptom of our failure to accept and fully appreciate our sexuality.
Thomas Moore: Not Enough Sex Thomas Moore 2010
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Preoccupation with sex is a symptom of our failure to accept and fully appreciate our sexuality.
Thomas Moore: Not Enough Sex Thomas Moore 2010
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Preoccupation with his physical self is seen as fussy, preening, and unmanly.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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Preoccupation with Adam's Curse death seems to have been a pretty consistent theme in apocryphal Jewish writings heavily influenced by Greek thought.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus James F. McGrath 2010
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Preoccupation with his physical self is seen as fussy, preening, and unmanly.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi captures this brilliantly in Flow: Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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** Jones, N. & Rogers, P. (2003) Preoccupation, food, and failure: An investigation of cognitive performance deficits in dieters.
Dr. Susan Albers: 'Summer Reading to Prevent the 'Freshman 15' 2010
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** Jones, N. & Rogers, P. (2003) Preoccupation, food, and failure: An investigation of cognitive performance deficits in dieters.
Dr. Susan Albers: 'Summer Reading to Prevent the 'Freshman 15' 2010
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi captures this brilliantly in Flow: Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi captures this brilliantly in Flow: Preoccupation with the self consumes psychic energy because in everyday life we often feel threatened.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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