I've come to the conclusion that wanting to stop mid-workout has little to do with my body and everything to do with my mind.

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Between the mid-1940s and the mid-1960s he produced the dozen realist novels that are widely considered the main body of his work.

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But though their heart lay in the outback, the rest of their body was, at least from the mid-19th century, firmly in the city or, more exactly, in the suburbs, which is where most live today.

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When I found her this morning, she was mid-molt, her old skin split across her back and her new body wiggling slowly out of it.

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These involve the near-simultaneous alteration of many body parts and it is rare for the fossil record to catch such palaeolycanthropes in mid-shape-shift, as it were.

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