Category: Books
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Social demands interrupt the search for one’s identity. Paradise, once lost, is rarely found again.
Part X. Shape the Future Owning Your Influence From the first moment we are conscious of our own existence, we pick up on how the world works. Because we are born feeble, we endow our parents with the burden of preparing us for life as they already know it to be. They show us not…
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first and foremost – build a good relationship with your needs
“When you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at you, and when you point at yourself, there’s three pointing at them.” THERE’S A FLY IN MY SOUP In every life, we are constantly confronted with situations where a stranger will do something acutely irritating or discomforting: perhaps they’ll turn up…
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Santa Fe down to $8 per ticket, Southern Pacific responded with $6. By that afternoon reports of rates as low as $1 to California
Early in January 1887, Crank went east to New York in search of expansion capital. Scarcely had he arrived in New York City when Crank received an urgent invitation to visit Washington, DC, from Leland Stanford, who was then representing both the state of California and the greater Southern Pacific interests as a United States…
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Science fictional fabulation deals in futurity
The future is unavoidably vague and multifarious; it stubbornly resists our efforts to know it in advance, let alone to guide it or circumscribe it. But science fiction takes up this very vagueness and indeterminacy, by rendering it into the form of a self-consciously fictional narrative. It gives us characters who experience the vagaries of…
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readier to listen, warmer, less prickly
“Friendship begins, and loneliness can end, when we cease trying to impress, have the courage to step outside our safety zones and can dare, for a time, to look a little ridiculous.” (Pg.118) The Fool tarot card is the number 0 of the Major Arcana, which stands for unlimited potential. Therefore it does not have…
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This figure is about freedom, sensuality, and awe, like the number 5
According to numerology, a system ascribing meaning to numbers based on patterns and ancient context, the integer 20, a master number implying high potential, symbolizes new beginnings, abundance, and manifestation. The prime and natural number 23 represents change, progress, and innovation, new beginnings, revolution, and transformation. The digit 23 also denotes adventure with a touch…
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Prepare for pomegranate-smashing!
The pomegranate, a violet, segmented yummy plum, exquisite and worth the wait. Mythical Hades, god of the underworld, used pomegranate seeds, a sign of fertility, birth, and rebirth, to lure Persephone, goddess of spring, for a few months every year. (EZM) Persephone has seen the dead, married their king, eaten three or four or seven…
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Un grupo humillado que busca la restitución de su dignidad tiene mucho más peso emocional que las personas que sólo buscan una ventaja económica
1 La política de la dignidad En algún momento a mediados de la segunda década del siglo XXI, la política mundial cambió drásticamente. El período desde principios de la década de 1970 hasta mediados de la década de 2000 fue testigo de lo que Samuel Huntington denominó la «tercera ola» de democratización, ya que el…
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philosophical monism with democracy and a purely secular moral philosophy based on equality
Throughout the Enlightenment’s history it is this irresolvable duality—rooted in the metaphysical dichotomy of one-substance doctrine (Spinozistic monism) and two-substance dualism, the latter as upheld by John Locke (1632–1704) and Voltaire, as well as other providential Deists and (most) Christians and Jews—that was always the principal and overriding factor shaping its course. (Pg.17) *** Either…
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But while in many places these core democratic values retain only a precarious foothold, they did finally triumph in much of the world after 1945.
That notions concerning “progress,” “improvement of society,” and what one now-forgotten radical-minded novelist of the 1790s termed the “amelioration of the state of mankind” were central to the Enlightenment is scarcely surprising.1 Four out of six of the Enlightenment’s philosophical founding figures—Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle—held that most people’s ideas about the most fundamental questions…
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Leaping out of bed as soon as we wake up may not be the best idea. This sudden action can lead to undue stress.
“Then the Lord Godformed man from thedust of the ground andbreathed the breath oflife into his nostrils, andthe man became a living being . . .”Genesis 2:7 “. . . and then man forgot.”Richie Bostock Introduction:Change your breath,change your life Have you ever asked yourself why you breathe? You may think this question has a pretty obvious answer—we…
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In our brief labor in this world, we can move the rock by, and with the aid of, choice.
We tell stories about choice for many reasons. We want to learn or teach; we want to know others or have them know us; we want to understand how we got from there to here. We take the choices that for some reason or other have lit up like stars across our memory, and we…
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