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  • Books and Ballantine paperbacks in the United States helped it to become immensely popular with a new generation in the 1960s. The book has remained so ever...
    38 KB (3,525 words) - 16:16, 2 November 2024
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    existence, as there would be no need to make such a great effort to free oneself from a mere "less than ideal state". Since enlightenment is the goal of...
    81 KB (9,676 words) - 03:54, 5 November 2024
  • on it. "Do not do unto others what one would not like others to do unto oneself". 3. Do not act without examining the situation carefully; one ought to...
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    to commit sin, a pardon of future sin, nor a guarantee of salvation for oneself or for another. Ordinarily, forgiveness of mortal sins is obtained through...
    67 KB (8,356 words) - 10:14, 28 October 2024
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    Taymiyya. These ideas would be popularised by Rida and his disciples, immensely influencing numerous Salafi organisations in the Arab world. Some of the...
    209 KB (24,930 words) - 06:17, 6 November 2024
  • Jean Genet's The Maids (1947). Late singer and actress Judy Garland was immensely popular among gay men due to her camp sensibilities, and is considered...
    56 KB (5,671 words) - 00:59, 28 October 2024
  •  'conduct of noble people') and finally Ātma tuṣṭi (lit. 'what is pleasing to oneself'). Hindu scriptures were composed, memorised and transmitted verbally,...
    304 KB (31,606 words) - 21:31, 5 November 2024
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    surprise, anger. In a typical example, expressing feelings of happiness to oneself from Night 203, Prince Qamar Al-Zaman, standing outside the castle, wants...
    107 KB (13,203 words) - 17:59, 4 November 2024
  • experiences, marking others as different or exceptional while perceiving oneself as normal. Some scholars say that the term uses the concept of "whiteness"...
    132 KB (15,294 words) - 00:43, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lesbian
    lesbian-feminists asserted, a sexual component was unnecessary in declaring oneself a lesbian if the primary and closest relationships were with women. When...
    182 KB (22,693 words) - 09:47, 2 November 2024
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    prime minister). Within this bureaucracy the Zoroastrian priesthood was immensely powerful. The head of the Magi priestly class, the mowbedan mowbed, along...
    170 KB (20,488 words) - 22:05, 3 November 2024
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    archery or sword duels with no subterfuge or trickery, and conducting oneself like a legendary character or renowned hero (tales of daring were popular...
    126 KB (15,110 words) - 23:00, 28 October 2024
  • all one's heart, mind, soul and strength and to love one's neighbour as oneself. One popular expression of Methodist doctrine is in the hymns of Charles...
    209 KB (23,403 words) - 17:46, 2 November 2024
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    divinity to any other thing but God. This includes the self by elevating oneself above others and associating attributes of God with a created being. According...
    118 KB (14,524 words) - 19:25, 5 November 2024
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    This transformed Celeste into a game about remembering to take care of oneself, and recognizing that sometimes self-improvement is necessary to avoid...
    106 KB (8,727 words) - 15:25, 26 October 2024
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    in Sanskrit as parasmaipada (word for another) and atmanepada (word for oneself). The paradigm for the tense-aspect system in Sanskrit is the three-way...
    307 KB (32,177 words) - 14:26, 2 November 2024
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    or even with oneself. The discourse or conversation should be "upbuilding", which means one would build up the other person, or oneself, rather than tear...
    213 KB (28,463 words) - 20:16, 4 November 2024
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    1966 he was sent for a long secondment in Jos, Nigeria, which he enjoyed immensely, though he was put off by the casual racism of some of the ex-pat...
    159 KB (16,239 words) - 15:19, 4 November 2024
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    – A character interpretation that the Scooby-Doo character Shaggy is immensely more powerful than he presents himself. The meme is usually presented...
    262 KB (25,643 words) - 19:16, 5 November 2024
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    positive experience of meeting or entering "the Light" is reported as an immensely intense feeling of a state of love, peace and joy beyond human comprehension...
    82 KB (10,588 words) - 06:07, 4 November 2024
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