In the days before automation, the lighthouse keeper had to stay up all night to keep the lights burning.

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You know, willing to stay up all night.

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He put some in his nose more or less out of curiosity, felt nothing, but was then astounded to find that he wanted to stay up all night writing music, and was still lively the next day.

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"On the first night of Shavuot we usually go to synagogue and stay up all night studying Torah, " says Haddad, now a veteran ophthalmologist in New York.

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But it is odd that traders in such a commodities-rich nation must stay up all night to wait for their counterparts in Illinois to discover the best price of Australian wool or wheat.

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Moms who stay up all night and then wake up early to fit in a run and blow-dry their hair are not better mothers than those who stayed up all night with their baby and are struggling because they're tired, she said.

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From the stay-at-home dad in "Up All Night" to the lovable dads in "Modern Family, " relatively positive portrayals abound.

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In the beginning, the feeling might not have been unpleasant he could stay up all night playing cards or maybe read Morgagni's famous comparisons of the body to a machine, published just a few years before.

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