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  • Thumbnail for Thou shalt not covet
    he exhorts the individual to exercise choice and discipline to shifting one's thoughts away from fleshly desires and passions. Calvin asserts that God's...
    32 KB (4,634 words) - 15:58, 21 June 2024
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    convention reads: Article 1 The Parties to the present Convention agree to punish any person who, to gratify the passions of another: (1) Procures, entices...
    29 KB (3,091 words) - 11:21, 7 May 2024
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    innovative. Bellucci felt gratified to have been the first to portray a role she defined as a "James Bond lady". Spectre was released to mixed reviews from critics...
    239 KB (19,907 words) - 17:41, 29 June 2024
  • Platonic love (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    considered to be connected, and part of the same continuous process of pursuing perfection of one's being, with the purpose of mending one's human nature...
    17 KB (2,204 words) - 19:42, 7 May 2024
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    Clarice Lispector (category Soviet emigrants to Brazil)
    unconscious elaboration, which comes to the surface as a kind of revelation. Moreover, I don't write in order to gratify anybody else. Lispector worked on...
    36 KB (4,713 words) - 13:33, 11 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Open Society and Its Enemies
    and that the goal of Marxism is to reveal the hidden motives of those in power who create social misery to gratify their desire for profit. Popper argues...
    61 KB (8,351 words) - 14:39, 28 June 2024
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    Herod the Great (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    and as one who would be "prepared to commit any crime in order to gratify his unbounded ambition." His extraordinary spending spree is cited as one of the...
    76 KB (8,542 words) - 18:43, 7 July 2024
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    an evil moment for his own reputation he consented to remain in office and to gratify popular passion with a war against Spain. His downfall was not long...
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  • for the child's death is not one which anybody may gratify, should it turn out to be possible to detach the child alive." The most common objection is...
    21 KB (2,690 words) - 08:17, 22 June 2024
  • Heeramandi (category Pages containing links to subscription-only content)
    Sukanya Verma of Rediff.com rated 3/5 stars and observed "Heeramandi, a passion project that took off after years in development and planning, mirrors...
    46 KB (2,115 words) - 16:42, 9 July 2024
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    Aphrodite Pandemos (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    persons responsible for the scandal which prompts some to say it is a shame to gratify one's lover: such are the cases they have in view, for they observe...
    8 KB (1,027 words) - 21:06, 7 March 2024
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    body, with the intent to cause substantial emotional or bodily pain to any individual or with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any...
    221 KB (28,986 words) - 20:34, 27 June 2024
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    Greed (category Articles to be expanded from September 2023)
    his wants, the more headstrong are his passions, and, still worse, the more he has it in his power to gratify them; so that after a long course of prosperity...
    43 KB (5,476 words) - 18:12, 3 July 2024
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    Inferno (Dante) (category Articles that link to Wikisource)
    sin was to tear apart what God had intended to be united; these are the sinners who are "ready to rip up the whole fabric of society to gratify a sectional...
    95 KB (12,614 words) - 14:05, 29 June 2024
  • wholly devoted to Wolsey's interests, and also he saw in this appointment an opportunity to gratify his master-passion, a craving "to see and be acquainted...
    9 KB (1,080 words) - 20:12, 13 June 2024
  • Rouse, Norton said, "I did it as an homage to the things he cared about, and I think he would be very gratified." Edward Norton as Lionel Essrog Bruce Willis...
    54 KB (4,447 words) - 15:22, 22 June 2024
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    that he initially thought the riff was "kind of boneheaded", but was gratified at how the song developed, a process captured in part in a demo on the...
    109 KB (10,812 words) - 14:19, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amelia Stewart, Viscountess Castlereagh
    therefore, and beg not to be mentioned. I only send the letter to gratify the humour" (i.e. to placate Mrs Porter). Porter was hung in front of his own church...
    11 KB (1,312 words) - 04:55, 2 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sexuality in ancient Rome
    and emotional distress. The Epicurean seeks to gratify his desires with the least expenditure of passion and effort. Desires are ranked as those that...
    265 KB (34,851 words) - 23:50, 8 July 2024
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    care to do so, however, for, though charming, she could only speak English, and I liked to have all my senses, including that of hearing, gratified. When...
    16 KB (1,730 words) - 04:37, 23 January 2024
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