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When I was a kid, my Mom liked to make breakfast food f__________ dinner every now and then. And I remember one night in particular w__________ she had made dinner after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my Mom p__________ a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to s__________ if anyone noticed! Yet all dad did was reached for his biscuit, smile at my Mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don’t remember what I told him that night, but I do r__________ watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite!
W__________ I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my Mom a__________ to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I’ll never forget w__________ he said: “Honey, I love burned biscuits.”
Later that night, I went to k__________ Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me i__________ his arms and said, “Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she’s real tired. And besides – a little burned biscuit never hurt anyone!”
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Thomas Edison tried two thousand d__________ materials in search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked s__________, his assistant complained, “All our work is in vain. We have learned nothing, Not sure if we can use an
e__________ properly.”
Edison r__________ very confidently, “Oh, we have come a long way and we have learned a lot. We know t__________ there are two thousand elements which we cannot use to make a good light bulb.”
Moral: We can also learn from our m__________.
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O__________ upon a time, there were two neighbors living next to each other. One of them was a retired teacher and another was an insurance agent who had a lot of interest in t__________. Both of them had planted different plants in their garden. The retired teacher was giving a small amount of water to his plants and didn’t always give a full attention to them, while the other neighbor i__________ in technology, had given a lot of water to his plants and looked after them too well.
The retired teacher’s plants were simple but looked good. The insurance agent’s plants were much fuller and greener. One day, during the night, there was a heavy rain and a wind due to a minor storm. Next morning, both of the neighbors came out to i__________ the damage to their garden. The neighbor w__________ was an insurance agent saw that his plants came off from the roots and were totally destroyed. But, the retired teacher’s plants were not damaged a__________ all and were standing firm.
The insurance agent neighbor was s__________ to see it, he went to the retired teacher and asked, “We both grew the same plants together, I actually looked after my plants better than you did for yours, and even gave them more water. Still, my plants came off from the roots, w__________ yours didn’t. How is that possible?”
The retired teacher smiled and said, “You gave your plants more
a__________ and water, but because of that they didn’t need to work themselves for it. You made it easy for them. While I gave them just an adequate amount of water and let their roots search for more. And, b__________of that, their roots went deeper and that made their position stronger. That is why my plants survived”.
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__________ for her Putltzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only m__________ work. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by Library Journal. Ms. Lee was a__________ the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her c__________ to literature in 2007. Her father was a lawyer w__________ served in the Alabama state legislature from 1926 to 1938. As a child, Lee was a tomboy and e__________ the friendship of her schoolmate, Truman Capote. After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee a__________ Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching his bestselling book, In Cold Blood. Since p__________ of To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee has granted very few requests for i__________or public appearances and has published no other n__________.1. __________
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Notepad++ is a free source code e__________ and Notepad replacement that supports several l__________. Running in the MS Windows e__________, its use is governed by GPL License.
B__________ on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. By optimizing as many routines as possible w__________ losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to r__________ the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less CPU power, the PC can throttle down and reduce power c__________, resulting in a greener environment.
You're e__________ to translate Notepad++ into your n__________ language if there's not already a translation present in the Binary Translations page.
I hope you e__________ Notepad++ as much as I enjoy coding it.
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