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Abstinence is the
practice of self-enforced
restraint from
indulging in
bodily activities that are
widely experienced as
giving pleasure. Most frequently...
- of
resistances ... The
feeling of
power has so far
mounted highest in
abstinent priests and hermits" (quoted by
Walter Kaufman in his classic, Nietzsche:...
- as an
option to
experience ****
while still, in
their minds,
remaining abstinent".
Upton et al. stated, "It is
possible that
individuals who
engage in...
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their followers.
Practitioners abandon sensual pleasures and lead an
abstinent lifestyle, in the
pursuit of redemption, salvation, and/or spirituality...
- part of the body that
would cause you not to live
abstinently. For it is
better to live
abstinently without this part than
ruinously with it. (quoted...
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human po****tions, as
exercise reduces withdrawal symptoms and
relapse in
abstinent smokers (Daniel et al., 2006;
Prochaska et al., 2008), and one drug recovery...
-
period of intoxication, but was not
evident in
studies where subjects were
abstinent for more than 25 days. Few high
quality studies have been
performed on...
- However, when she
tries to
seduce Leonard despite knowing he has to be
abstinent for a few days, her
visiting father, Wyatt,
points out to
Penny that her...
- "
Shortly before this,
Spears had
announced publicly she
would remain abstinent until marriage. An
early criticism of
Spears dismissed her as "the product...
- the
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, many
teens who
intend to be
abstinent fail to do so, and when
these teenagers do have ****, many do not use safe...
