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Writing for the high school newspaper, then stumbling upon Kerouac's rules for spontaneou prose, and now I'm in law school because print journalism doesn't have a place for a voice like mine.
Bookending Michael Alan Nelson 2008
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For the second time in three days, we took a spontaneou [...]
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It is only through the spontaneou and unconscious fealty which an inferior does to a superior soul (a fealty resulting from the responsiveness of spirit to spirit), that the former is slowly and silently transformed into a more or less approximate image of the latter.
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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Similarly, I was not offended by any spontaneou s outbreaks in the real world over the demise of Bin Laden.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Contrary to popular belief, his victory in 2008 did not spring purely and spontaneou Willowset: I too voted for Pres.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Bob Burnett 2011
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The road may be long, slow, tortuous, etc., and you might be able to avoid much suffering along the way by using cultural and religious guidelines to help you avoid the most egregious pitfalls, but if you really are on the road to enlightenm ent, you're going to develop, over time, totally spontaneou sly, a better set of behavioral/emotional patterns in your life.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Mariana Caplan 2011
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Please, don't anybody tell them that tens and hundreds of thousands are marching in cities all across the US today -- spontaneou s demonstrations in solidarity with the workers of WI.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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This is just spontaneou s people looking at the farce that the original trial was and realizing the tremendous injustice that has been done.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Medically it IS an abortion, even if the fetus is dead, but doesn't abort spontaneou sly.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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