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Parental affection moves those who have given birth to children to provide for their sustenation and education.
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His experiments convinced him that "mechanical sustenation of heavy bodies in the air, combined with very great speeds, is not only possible, but within the reach of mechanical means we actually possess."
The Age of Invention : a chronicle of mechanical conquest Holland Thompson 1906
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And what if God withdraw his patience and sustenation, and let you drop into hell while you are quarrelling with his word? —
A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live 1615-1691 1795
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