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  • rise to distinctly Iranian styles of negotiation. For example, a worker negotiating a salary might begin with a eulogy of the employer, followed by a lengthy...
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    benefiting oneself but exclusively benefiting others" and "hard struggle". Serve the People (simplified Chinese: 为人民服务; traditional Chinese: 爲人民服務) is a speech...
    7 KB (913 words) - 02:20, 3 June 2024
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    the guest to do a bad Larry King impression, reveal something about oneself (in the persona of Larry King) and then go to the phones and say a funny-sounding...
    28 KB (1,611 words) - 03:09, 5 June 2024
  • Histories: Wicked Words, p. 56 "The Free Dictionary: Take a Dirt Nap". The Free Dictionary. "take the easy way out". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2022-02-01...
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    Bruce Lee (category American emigrants to Hong Kong)
    funeral, Coburn gave a eulogy. Regarding McQueen, Lee made no secret that he wanted everything McQueen had and would stop at nothing to get it. Inosanto and...
    168 KB (17,040 words) - 01:23, 1 June 2024
  • Press, 1/17/2023 "Wanda Sykes Kicks Off ‘Daily Show’ Stint by Panning a Eulogy From Trump," from The New York Times, 1/24/2023 (accessed 12/11/2023) The...
    65 KB (1,423 words) - 18:34, 26 March 2024
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    explores themes of innocence, imprisonment, non-existence, and truth. In a eulogy to Albert Camus, existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre described the...
    22 KB (3,382 words) - 18:46, 15 February 2024
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    permitted meat ("kosher"); failure by a shochet to show his knife to the rabbi for examination; purposely bringing oneself to erection; engaging in business...
    16 KB (1,991 words) - 23:14, 14 May 2024
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    James Baldwin (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    because Black Americans had faced a "depthless alienation from oneself and one's people" that was mostly unknown to Parisian Africans. He also wrote "The...
    144 KB (18,176 words) - 01:45, 6 June 2024
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    Fear and Trembling (category Works published under a pseudonym)
    Either/Or. It begins with a paraphrase repeated four times, on the story of Abraham's journey to Mount Moriah to offer Isaac. The eulogy on Abraham continues...
    69 KB (10,648 words) - 02:58, 28 May 2024
  • refute someone else because it is better to be delivered from harm oneself than to deliver someone else from harm. Gorgias, whose profession is persuasion...
    21 KB (3,158 words) - 18:17, 8 May 2024
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    of finding a purpose greater than oneself. Nevertheless, McCain emerged as a leader of the Republican opposition to the Obama economic stimulus package...
    301 KB (28,501 words) - 10:15, 8 June 2024
  • Hinduism (category Articles prone to spam from June 2020)
    practices include a belief in god-without-attributes (nirguna Brahman), and god within oneself. Hindu festivals (Sanskrit: Utsava; literally: "to lift higher")...
    300 KB (31,203 words) - 17:48, 5 June 2024
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    can hope to achieve". Oratory was considered a great art in ancient Rome and an important tool for disseminating knowledge and promoting oneself in elections...
    98 KB (11,411 words) - 03:09, 4 June 2024
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    bakku, bakkous) is an oral art performance that is used to boast about oneself in order to instill a sense of fear or reverence in the audience or rivals...
    18 KB (1,985 words) - 12:37, 17 May 2024
  • aw shit! are used to express displeasure or embarrassment (sometimes facetiously) with oneself when one makes a mistake, especially a stupid or avoidable...
    37 KB (4,966 words) - 20:54, 26 May 2024
  • Retrieved 13 February 2024. Reynolds, Simon (26 September 1987). "The Smiths: A Eulogy". Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop. Catapult...
    60 KB (6,514 words) - 06:00, 18 May 2024
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    Ramakrishna (category Articles prone to spam from April 2012)
    sinful. He considered thinking of oneself as weak and sinful to be the greatest sin. In 1874, Ramakrishna experienced a strange vision at the parlour of...
    123 KB (15,616 words) - 07:18, 6 June 2024
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    also referred to as the mediopassive, or more formally in Sanskrit as parasmaipada (word for another) and atmanepada (word for oneself). The paradigm...
    307 KB (32,143 words) - 11:52, 7 June 2024
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    Menachem Mendel Schneerson (category Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States)
    Hebrew alphabet, and while there to put oneself aside and ensure that the other calls out to God." When he spoke to Forward journalist Asher Penn that year...
    103 KB (11,151 words) - 02:01, 8 June 2024
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