Mr. Dell's notes, sent late the night he received the machine, included his thoughts on the Styrofoam used to package the computer.

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Stress, anxiety and negative thoughts make it hard to get a good night's sleep, resulting in fatigue and lethargy.

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Unjustly or otherwise, its fictional mayhem will always be tinged, or tainted, with thoughts of the genuine suffering that was borne that night.

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Thoughts go out to Spurs fans that were attacked in Rome last night.

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Last night's Cumbria nuclear waste storage programme provoked a big response so here are some thoughts on your feedback.

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But the Ultimate Fighting Championship president may have second thoughts about mixing it up with members of the hacker collective Anonymous on Thursday night on Twitter, where he was on the receiving end of a brutal punch.

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At night they lay on hard beds without pillows and, behind their closed eyelids, their unsettled thoughts ran in opposite directions.

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For untold millennia, the sun's nightly retreat has stood for the end of life, but our thoughts needn't turn somber as the day's last rays give way to night.

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