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Boobie33 (Anthony Dixon) @20westbrook (Brian Westbrook) has been a mentor to me - he told me that practicing without a helmet builds character. #selfpreservation
Scott Swanay: NFL Week 14 - Tweet Dreams Scott Swanay 2010
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Boobie33 (Anthony Dixon) @20westbrook (Brian Westbrook) has been a mentor to me - he told me that practicing without a helmet builds character. #selfpreservation
Scott Swanay: NFL Week 14 - Tweet Dreams Scott Swanay 2010
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Boobie33 (Anthony Dixon) @20westbrook (Brian Westbrook) has been a mentor to me - he told me that practicing without a helmet builds character. #selfpreservation
Scott Swanay: NFL Week 14 - Tweet Dreams Scott Swanay 2010
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Boobie33 (Anthony Dixon) @20westbrook (Brian Westbrook) has been a mentor to me - he told me that practicing without a helmet builds character. #selfpreservation
Scott Swanay: NFL Week 14 - Tweet Dreams Scott Swanay 2010
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Sure a nation may initially make wrong policy choices but to stay that course out of arrogance and selfpreservation instincts is disastrous.
Think Progress » Three Marines were killed today in Anbar province, 2006
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Yet ... for his own selfpreservation, for now, he needed the majer.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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She knew that now, and every instinct for selfpreservation warned her to flee before
Falcon's Prey Jordan, Penny 1997
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Every selfpreservation instinct he possessed told him to turn around and go home.
Too Many Bosses Freed, Jan 1995
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Common sense, caution and the instinct 'for selfpreservation which her life had instilled in her -- all of them warned her that she must stop what was happening to her before it was too late, but their urgent voices, even when they called out to her in unison, were not loud enough to drown out the siren song of her own desire.
A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991
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Common sense, caution and the instinct 'for selfpreservation which her life had instilled in her -- all of them warned her that she must stop what was happening to her before it was too late, but their urgent voices, even when they called out to her in unison, were not loud enough to drown out the siren song of her own desire.
A Time to Dream Jordan, Penny 1991
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