Studying moral elevation led me to study feelings of awe more generally, and before I knew it, I was trying to understand a whole class of positive emotions in which people feel as though they have somehow escaped from or "transcended" their normal, everyday, often petty self.

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In a 2000 interview in Santiago, two Moscow-educated researchers studying Soviet archives described to me the U.S.S.R.

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The student went on to tell me that part of her focus was studying the history of television programming.

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Studying from the comfort of my own home allowed me to continue being active in family life and meet my work obligations.

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When I was studying with Horowitz in the late 1940s, he told me that it had taken him five years to get used to that action.

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My years at the SEC and in the mutual fund industry has required me to spend a great deal of time studying loopholes in the Act which, if eliminated, would enhance investor protection but which the industry has long opposed closing.

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Beside me was a guy in post-work-out attire studying with headphones on.

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"I've been studying languages at UEA for the last four years and LLT has given me great teaching and really good facilities, " said student Gemma Cross.

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