This will require a lot of rethinking of lazy verities.
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But a debut that favored the folk-angelic also showed a fondness for verities like the "Hearts Made of Stone" piano triplets that open it, and now come five simple songs where verities prevail.
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For all your touted small-town verities, you're not doing your job.
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That is something not all purveyors of ancient verities manage to be.
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Her narrator makes a banquet out of her objections to bourgeois verities.
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Many of the old verities are tumbling down, like scales falling from our eyes.
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No presidential nominee has shown such contempt for his party's verities as Mr Trump has.
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Context can prod numbers to defy grade-school verities: 2 plus 2 equals 4, and that's that.
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This envelope jotting is not an attempt to wrestle with eternal verities, but it inevitably touches on them anyway.
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A fast-talking, vivid character, Bliss is obsessed with horse racing and fond of translating its verities to politics.
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Meanwhile they are being studied by reform-minded Republicans, grappling with the rejection of conservative verities that Mr Trump represents.
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Petty's urge to continually refine his craft is matched only by his stubborn faith in the good old rock verities.
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"Now as then, all the old verities seem shaken, and there's a sense you can't trust authority," Mr. Freedland said.
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Her memoir and three novels — produced in the span of less than a decade — feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian verities.
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Polls are volatile things: but it's likely this reflects tougher verities than seasonal fluctuation on the part of the French electorate.
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They require ''Maker hours'' — long, unspoiled afternoons to muse, contemplate the verities, build digital things and play stress-relieving games of Carcassonne.
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Today, not quite a decade after Helms's death, it is harder to stifle debate by citing the Scriptures or other eternal verities.
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Anchored in the verities of French haute cuisine, however, he found the menu difficult to comprehend and, in some way, not right.
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The equation guys who run most major league teams bow to holy verities: No starting pitcher should throw more than 22.86 pitches.
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Directed by Bryan Singer, "X-Men: Apocalypse," the ninth film in the X-Men franchise, indeed hews hard to all the genre verities.
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His central message is a thoroughgoing critique of modern liberal culture, which he views as suicidal in its eagerness to upend age-old verities.
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While the inefficiencies of our system are complex, the good old economic verities still rule: focus on the biggest costs, increase supply, and decrease demand.
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From Andy Hardy movies to Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Hollywood's version of homey American verities was by and large a facsimile of Rockwell's.
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Every so often, insurgent coalitions bring an agenda-setting president to power who sweeps away the verities of the old regime, fundamentally restructuring our politics.
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Mr Obama's health-care reform is socialist; climate science is a liberal fraud; Democrats are not just wrong but anti-American: such are mainstream Republican verities.
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Then again, maybe deferring technological obsolescence is ultimately irrelevant for expressing Faulkner's "old verities and truths of the heart" — and the debased ones of other organs.
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"The photos resonate today because all the verities are being disassembled, as are the support systems, and there's violence and a resurgence of racism," he said.
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Much credit should flow to the N.B.A. As Commissioner Adam Silver noted the other day, the league is admirably willing to innovate and upend its verities.
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He then set off for Mexico and India, in search of verities he hoped would be more durable and more eternal than those presented by his upbringing.
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These brutal human consequences of politics felt foreign to someone raised on the verities of the American 210s, the minor dramas and major victories of the Clinton presidency.
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It might also be seen as a belated realisation, by a bruised but still-ambitious Republican, that the party of Trump will not return to conservative verities soon.
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It's this leap of faith that Christmas music addresses, intent on defeating heretics with an excess of emotion, strategically deployed kindness, a righteous defense of the eternal verities.
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Still was a conservative, from my point of view, preserving and conserving the things that made America unique... But those conservative verities are primarily about freedom from the government.
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As the middle class continues to thin out and wealth concentrates among a tiny sliver of Americans, the party's powerhouses are questioning economic verities that have stood for decades.
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The president is not afraid to challenge stagnant diplomatic verities, and he should do so again here by recognizing that Vietnam's dismal human rights record hinders long-term U.S. national interests.
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The data, both in the eurozone and the United States, is not supportive of the old verities embodied in the Phillips curve, which holds that as unemployment falls, inflation will rise.
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What I keep thinking is that maybe, for the first time in my life, these eternal verities that I've always talked about are actually being asked to stand up and walk.
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Unlike the Civil War, Vietnam is still within many currents lifetimes, and many of those people are invested in the old verities about Johnson and Westmoreland and Tet and the rest.
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Unlearning old-school verities of time, space, memory, identity while I shiver in the icy wind of the only certainty granted by a long, precipitously up and down life—its absolute extinction.
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I have come at it myself over the years from one direction and another, essaying, arguing, trying to isolate just where the transformations impinge on what we still regard as the familiar human verities.
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But after the Civil War, when many of the traditional verities seem to have broken down, a certain lassitude crept into the American ethic, allowing the professional con artist to stride upon the stage.
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Just as the cultural twentieth century began late, with the modernist convulsions of 22001-20163 (Picasso, Matisse, Stein, Pound, Schoenberg, Stravinsky), so it ended early, its verities collapsing under the pressure of political and economic tumult.
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" A more recent cover story warns "American bosses" about Elizabeth Warren 's plans to tackle inequality, and revives Friedmanite verities about how "creative destruction" and "the dynamic power of markets" can best help "middle-class Americans.
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Fadiman was very much a mind of his time, a chummy patriarchal arbiter of the sacred canon; his mission was to help contemporaries wrestle with the eternal verities and, when necessary, to put presumptuous upstarts in their place.
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Mr. Spielberg's more famous adaptation, "Munich," starred Eric Bana as Avner (the cast also included Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush) and was nominated for five Academy Awards, setting off another debate about the translation of historical verities to the page and the screen.
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Like all small sects, reform conservatism had its share of internal divisions, but the basic idea was to claim a middle ground between left-wing pessimism about the post-1970s American economy and right-wing faith in the eternal verities of Reaganomics.
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There's another, slyer function of good historical fiction, though, and that is to defamiliarize the present: to remind us that some aspects of our own civilization which we might treat as eternal verities have prevailed, or are likely to prevail, for a relatively short time.
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But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, Mr. McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of longstanding Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief.
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This cycle is rendered all the more dangerous by the fact that the right is an alliance of three groups that seek different things — libertarians who want to shrink government, moralists who want to restore ancient verities and nationalists who want to assert America's power globally.
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Teammates and coaching staffs offer built-in support networks; the rhetoric of mental resilience and tough-love "life-lessons" rolled out by coaches may come across as cliché, but sports—competition and teamwork and focus and all the other old verities—really can foster that sort of mental strength.
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It mattered, too, that all present, awash in the perpetual 1926-ness of boxing, had been reminded that the eternal verities still applied: Styles still make fights; speed is still power, and ring generalship can still be both; and a good big man still beats a good little man, except when he doesn't.
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Black Midi: Schlagenheim (Rough Trade) In an age when banal pop product is slow, restrained, and even, this experimental English guitar band stand up for the rock verities not by straining for expressionist solemnity but by getting silly: joyfully pointless tempo changes, a shifting array of jittery guitar effects, countless moments of unexplained absurdity for their own sake.
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And yet, in recent months, and especially in the wake of his blowout win in the New Hampshire primary, there is a sense that the old verities are falling apart and that the avuncular, bespectacled Vermonter could win over a sizable chunk of the union members and minority voters who were supposed to vote in lock step for Hillary Clinton.
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It's the old class warfare dressed up with the idea that the financially successful have done something wrong, that they must pay for understanding the rules and adhering to them, must pay for staying in school, laboring over many years while delaying gratification, obeying the law and accepting time-honored verities that are no longer cool in the new postmodern progressive age.
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When he sticks to the blues he can conjure a suitably grand, lonesome tone, and he's neither as moony nor as preachy as faithful historical accuracy would mandate, but he suffers from preservationist's disease, failing to realize that different music can mean different things in different contexts and that what made the music he loves great wasn't a commitment to verities but a specific relationship with its own time.
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"Six String Orchestra" is a song written, composed, and performed by Harry Chapin and released on his 1974 album Verities & Balderdash.
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A sure touch, and a deft hand, he articulated a source of justice residing in the everlasting verities of English common law.
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This is to counterpoint between the complexity of Deep Thought and its task of exploring the eternal verities, with simplicity of the pudding.
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Rachel Fitch was born in Rensselaer, New York, on November 24, 1898. Her sister was Charlotte Fitch Dunshee (1901-1973), who published poems like Through the Ages, Whither Goest Thou and These Comic Verities.
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Another sequence of courses uses for education of the Baháʼí teachings is called Fundamental Verities. This sequence was developed in the United States, and is not as common as the more widely used Ruhi sequence.
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Let 'em babble. You can't change the eternal verities that > way." > "Can it be, that the women are angry because some man finally found the > strength to resist temptation? In most instances of romantic sculpture, we > have the man succumbing to the temptress.
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Leng, p. 131. Author Gary Tillery writes of Material Worlds lyrical content: "The album expresses his impressions of the mundane and the spiritual worlds and the importance of ignoring the lures of the everyday world and remaining focused on the eternal verities."Tillery, p. 111.
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"What Made America Famous?" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song was included on his 1974 album, Verities & Balderdash. It has also been included on numerous posthumous compilation albums. The song inspired Chapin to write the award nominated Broadway musical, The Night That Made America Famous.
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"Six String Orchestra," like the entire album Verities & Balderdash, was produced by Paul Leka, and performed by Chapin, on the album, as if it were part of a live concert. From time to time, audience laughter can be heard on the song, and Chapin deliberately plays his acoustic guitar poorly, and as if it were out of tune.
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His favorite music includes The Beatles, and his favorite albums include Harry Chapin's Verities and Balderdash and the soundtracks to Amadeus and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. His favorite movies include the James Bond films,David, Peter (September 11, 2012). "Peter David, Agent 008". peterdavid.net. Originally published in "But I Digress...", Comics Buyer's Guide #1257 (December 19, 1997).
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Frank Lester, The Eternal Verities, 1962, Sedona, Az, pp. 31-35 According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, desire-stuff may be described as a type of force-matter, in incessant motion, responsive to the slightest feeling. The desire world is also said to be the abode of the dead for some time subsequent to death. It is also the home of the archangels.
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Other notable songs from the album, but not released as singles, are "Mr. Tanner", "Mail Order Annie", and "They Call Her Easy". The song, "Mr. Tanner", was loosely based on a pair of New York Times concert reviews of baritone Martin Tubridy – once in 1971 and once in 1972. In 1974, Chapin released his most successful album, Verities and Balderdash.
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Verities and Balderdash peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200. The album's follow-up single, "I Wanna Learn a Love Song", charted at number 7 on Billboard Adult Contemporary. The song is a true story about how he met his wife, Sandra Chapin. "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" is a song that was included on the album but not released as a single.
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The second part deals with the seven tattvas (fundamental principles or verities): jīva (soul), ajīva (non soul), āsrava (karmic inflow), bandha (bondage of karmas), saṃvara (stoppage of karmas), nirjarā (shedding of karmas) and mokṣa (emancipation or liberation). Together with puṇya (merit or beneficial karma) and pāpa (demerit or harmful karma) they form nine padārtha. Some call all nine as navatattava or nine tattvas.
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"30,000 Pounds Of Bananas," sometimes spelled "Thirty Thousand Pounds Of Bananas," is a folk rock song by Harry Chapin from his 1974 album, Verities & Balderdash. The song became more popular in its live extended recording from Chapin's 1976 concert album, Greatest Stories Live that started the phrase "Harry, it sucks." The song is based on an actual truck accident that occurred in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1965.
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Haqā'iq al-Furqān (Urdu: حقائق الفرقان, haqā'iq-ul-furqān, lit. "Inner Verities of the Discriminant") is a 4 volume exegesis of the Quran compiled from the discouces and sermons of al-Hājj Mawlānā Hāfiz Hakīm Noor-ud-Din, the first Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. It is in Urdu. He was known for his lectures that he would give on tafsir (Quranic exegesis), and studied the classical Islamic sciences.
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His 1867 poem, "Dover Beach," depicted a nightmarish world from which the old religious verities have receded. It is sometimes held up as an early, if not the first, example of the modern sensibility. In a famous preface to a selection of the poems of William Wordsworth, Arnold identified, a little ironically, as a "Wordsworthian." The influence of Wordsworth, both in ideas and in diction, is unmistakable in Arnold's best poetry.
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The feuds between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy were ruining France. The king's brother Louis I, Duke of Orléans, had been murdered by followers of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy. This had been publicly justified by a theologian, Jean Petit (c. 1360-1411). Gerson had Petit's "eight verities" — apologias for the murder — condemned by the University of Paris, the archbishop, and the grand inquisitor, and the book was publicly burned before Notre Dame.
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"Cat's in the Cradle" is a 1974 folk rock song by Harry Chapin from the album Verities & Balderdash. The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in December 1974. As Chapin's only number-one song, it became the best known of his work and a staple for folk rock music. Chapin's recording of the song was nominated for the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011.
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" # The political, social, economic and religious world had changed over the past decades. "The question that should ever concern us is not whether we have a great and true message but whether we are presenting that message in its true greatness." He spoke against theological conferences where every man sets forth that which is right in his own eyes, and where the distinguishing symbol of the meeting is a question mark. "We have great verities to preach.
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Over the years, in conjunction with these institutes as well as independent of them, a number of courses—referred to, for example, as weekend institutes, five-day institutes, and nine-day institutes— were developed for the purpose of promulgating the fundamental verities of the religion and how to serve it. Since its founding the program of courses developed first in Colombia has been adopted for work around the world and across age groups and studied in a variety of applications.
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It is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty how fallible a particular witness is likely to be, or how persuasively he will lie. All persons, judges and jurymen alike, form different impressions of the dramas unfolded before them; an inflexion or a cough may awaken subconscious predilections, varied idiosyncrasies and prejudices. Eternal verities are not to be erected on such a basis. Frank alleged that all those who write on legal certainty, not excepting the 'rule skeptics', over look these difficulty.
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Allworthy was an artist who deeply contemplated on the nature of his art. Profoundly influenced by the great past masters Velázquez and Rembrandt, and more immediately by his teacher Max Meldrum, Allworthy tried to develop further the latter's theory of vision and painting. He contended visual sensations are interpreted with the aid of one's past experience of other pictures or nature. Beauty, ugliness, order, confusion are visual properties, indisputable verities that are the same for all viewers allowing of no dispute.
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The concept fills an important place in the controversy between the Jesuit Edward Knott, and the Laudian Christopher Potter. At this time, the term fundamentals was understood to signify those doctrines necessary, as explicit belief, to salvation. PotterIn his Want of Charity justly charged on all such Romanists as dare affirm that Protestancy destroyeth Salvation (1633), p. 211. says: :"By Fundamental doctrines we mean such Catholique verities as are to be distinctly believed by every Christian that shall be saved".
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He also went through some financial distress during the war, due to the irregular and partial payment of his salary. Both his prosperity and his popularity rebounded after the conclusion of the war. Emmons considered himself an intellectual theologian, rather than an orator, and sought to influence his parishioners with reasoned arguments rather than stirring speeches. However, he was noted to have "a kind of haughty confidence in his own creed ... as though all his tenets were the accredited verities of heaven", which "caused him to think disparagingly of all other creeds".
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The institute or training institute served the needs of the thousands who began entering the religion in areas where large-scale expansion was taking place. Such places needed a physical facility to which group after group of newly enrolled believers would be invited to attend courses that helped them deepen their knowledge of the principles of the Faith. Over the years, both in conjunction with and independent of these institutes, various courses —e.g., weekend institutes, five-day institutes, and nine-day institutes — were developed for the purpose of promulgating the fundamental verities of the religion.
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"Madison Avenue believes", he said, "that if you tell the public something absurd, but do it enough times, the public will ultimately register it in its stock of accepted verities." From 1947–1962, Bush was on the board of directors for American Telephone and Telegraph. He retired as president of the Carnegie Institution and returned to Massachusetts in 1955, but remained a director of Metals and Controls Corporation from 1952–1959, and of Merck & Co. 1949–1962. Bush became chairman of the board at Merck following the death of George W. Merck, serving until 1962.
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"In the Pale Moonlight" was included in a list of the top ten moments of the franchise prior to 2009's Star Trek. He said "As Sisko gives up his principles slowly, one by one, in order to make his plan work, you expect Trek's simple moral verities to prevail. It is dumbfounding, and chilling, when they don't." However, Mark Jones and Lance Parkin said in Beyond the Final Frontier: An Unauthorised Review of Star Trek that the episode was "good" but "not half as shocking and dangerous as some fans would have you believe".
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He was essentially a trimmer, not a reformer, and he hated Hus with all his heart. The council of Constance, which raised Gerson's prestige to its height, in the end became his downfall. The council, overawed by the duke of Burgundy, would not affirm the censure of Jean Petit. The justification of murder was declared a mere opinion, not a doctrine, and only one of Petit's "verities" was condemned; and even this censure was annulled by the new pope, Martin V. Gerson dared not return to France for fear of Burgundy, who had taken power.
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Likewise if teaching plays in the physical life the part he assigns to it, the same is true of every doctrine which asserts the original independence of reason and which Ubaghs calls rationalism. But this so-called triumph was purchased at the cost of many errors. It is, to say the least, strange that on the one hand Traditionalist Ontologism is based on a distrust of reason, and on the other hand it endows reason with unjustifiable prerogatives. Surely it is an incredible audacity to set man face to face with the Divine essence and to attribute to his weak mind the immediate perception of the eternal and immutable verities.
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Salam was an Ahmadi Muslim, who saw his religion as a fundamental part of his scientific work. He once wrote that "the Holy Quran enjoins us to reflect on the verities of Allah's created laws of nature; however, that our generation has been privileged to glimpse a part of His design is a bounty and a grace for which I render thanks with a humble heart." During his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Physics, Salam quoted verses from the Quran and stated: In 1974, the Pakistan parliament made the Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan that declared Ahmadi to be . In protest, Salam left Pakistan for London.
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Last accessed: February 8, 2011. A sympathetic New York Times review by Lawrence Van Gelder posited that "[I]n films like The Grass Harp and today's arrival, Shadrach, a generation raised in prosperity turns to a difficult past, suffuses it with a romantic glow and gazes with something like envy on its simple ways while tapping its people for insights into life's eternal verities, like death. On more than one level, the slight, sweet, sentimental Shadrach is a labor of love by Susanna Styron, the film's director and co-writer, from an autobiographical tale by her father, William Styron, published in Esquire in 1978."Van Gelder, Lawrence.
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Although best known as a historian, Kemalpaşazâde was also a great scholar and a talented poet. He wrote numerous scholarly commentaries on the Quran, treatises on jurisprudence and Muslim theology and philosophy, and during his stay in Egypt he translated the works of the Egyptian historian Abu al-Mahasin ibn Taghribirdi from Arabic. He also wrote in Arabic, a philological work entitled Daqaʿiq al-Haqaʿiq ("The Subtleties of Verities"). His best poetical works include the Nigaristan ("The Picture Gallery"), written in Persian and modeled upon the Būstān and the Golestān of Saadi; a poem, Yusuf ü Züleyha, in rhymed couplets retelling the story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife; and Divān ("Collected Poems"), consisting mainly of lyrics.
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Much effort in his last 30 years went into trying to commune with angels, so as to learn the universal language of creation and achieve a pre-apocalyptic unity of mankind. A student of the Renaissance Neo- Platonism of Marsilio Ficino, he drew no distinctions between his mathematical research and his investigations of Hermetic magic, angel summoning and divination: all his activities were part of his quest for a transcendent understanding of divine forms underlying the visible world: Dee's "pure verities". Dee amassed one of England's biggest libraries. His scholarly status also took him into Elizabethan politics as an adviser and tutor to Elizabeth I and through relations with her ministers Francis Walsingham and William Cecil.
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Lyrically, the album is "burdened by a social conscience", bring a sombre irony to the album name. Heralding in the new direction, opening song "Reselecterization" features an instrumental flourish that is "explicitly derived" from hip hop music, but after that, the album "soon settles down into a ska groove that," according to Rick Anderson of AllMusic, "is far from the old school on its shiny surfaces but still deeply rooted in Jamaican verities." "California Screaming" is about, "among other things," the police assault of Rodney King, while "Copasetic", an anti-war song, and "Mother Knows Best", are said to veil their subjects in "obscure detail." The latter song features church bells, whistles and synthesised orchestral strings.
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Phil Freeman wrote of this "doubling effect", stating "Miles's two solos fit together perfectly, creating a feel similar to that of New Orleans jazz, with two trumpets weaving intricate, complementary lines around each other".Freeman (2005), p. 93. In Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis, Chambers writes of Davis's segment and the complex production of "Go Ahead John", "In spite of the gimmickry, the blues segment manages to state some old verities in a new context, and state them powerfully. Most jazz listeners can hope that someday Go Ahead John will be unscrambled and re- presented to them as, among other things, an unhurried blues by Davis accompanied only by Holland".
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According to the Ahmadi Muslims, love of the creatures of God is essential for all Muslims. Ahmadi Muslims express that the Qur'an was sent as a gift to mankind, and its teachings are filled with love, tolerance and respect. The founder of the Ahmadiyya sect in Islam, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad said: > The task for which God has appointed me is that I should remove the malaise > that afflicts the relationship between God and His creatures and restore the > relationship of love and sincerity between them. Through the proclamation of > truth and by putting an end to religious conflicts, I should bring about > peace and manifest the Divine verities that have become hidden from the eyes > of the world.
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"Ascent of Church Education" permanent exhibit Detail of the Nauvoo, IL, exhibit Over the course of eight years, C. Terry Warner, directed the planning and execution of the initial exhibition. The exhibition was planned to reside in the Joseph F. Smith building, and architects planned to have the gallery space on the east side of the building. BYU professor John Rosenberg described the gallery space as "an anchor that knots the work carried out in the square to the eternal verities of the gospel." Warner led a large team of BYU students and recent graduates who drew from various primary sources in their research for the exhibition about the founders of BYU and CES.
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All scientific knowledge is subject to later refinement, or even rejection, in the face of additional evidence. Scientific theories that have an overwhelming preponderance of favorable evidence are often treated as de facto verities in general parlance, such as the theories of general relativity and natural selection to explain respectively the mechanisms of gravity and evolution. Religion does not have a method per se partly because religions emerge through time from diverse cultures and it is an attempt to find meaning in the world, and to explain humanity's place in it and relationship to it and to any posited entities. In terms of Christian theology and ultimate truths, people rely on reason, experience, scripture, and tradition to test and gauge what they experience and what they should believe.
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The work was completed by Thayer's German colleague Hermann Deiters and, after Deiters's death, by Hugo Riemann, who created the posthumously published volumes No. 4 (1907) and No. 5 (1908) from Thayer's notes, covering the years 1817 to Beethoven's death in 1827. Thayer's work on Beethoven set a benchmark for modern standards of accuracy, research and analysis in biography. In 1865 Thayer wrote: > I fight for no theories and cherish no prejudices; my sole point of view is > the truth. Henry Krehbiel, who created the first English edition of the biography in 1921, wrote of Thayer in 1917: > His industry, zeal, keen power of analysis, candor and fair-mindedness won > the confidence of all with whom he came into contact except the literary > charlatans whose romances he was bent on destroying in the interest of the > verities of history.
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According to him all sects without exception are members of Body of Christ. For this nothing is necessary but "to belong to a general confederation, to confess Jesus Christ as Son of God, as Saviour of the world, and as Messias; and to receive the Old and New Testaments as the rule and Law of Christians", (Système, p. 53). Yet among the various portions of the Church we must, he tells us, distinguish four classes: # Sects that have retained all the truths taught in the Scriptures # Sects that, while retaining the more important truths, have mingled with them superstitions and errors # Sects that have retained the fundamental truths, but have added doctrines incompatible with them # Sects that have set the fundamental verities aside altogether This last class are dead members of the mystical body (ibid., p. 52).
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After stating the elementary and primary principles of the knowledge of God, the acquisition of which is the highest duty of man, and explaining how the human soul builds up its conception of things, Joseph treats, in the manner of the Arabic Aristotelians, of matter and form, of substance and accident, and of the composition of the various parts of the world. He concludes the first division with the central idea from which the book is evolved, namely, the comparison between the outer world (macrocosm) and man (microcosm), already hinted at by Plato ("Timæus," 47b), and greatly developed by the Arabian encyclopedists known as "the Brethren of Sincerity," by whom Joseph was greatly influenced. Conceptions of the higher verities are to be attained by man through the study of himself, who sums up in his own being the outer world. Joseph therefore devotes the second division of his work to the study of physical and psychological man.
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He hoped that the Institute could help business leaders recapture what he called "eternal verities": the values that guided them intellectually, ethically, and spiritually as they led their companies. Inspired by philosopher Mortimer Adler's Great Books seminar at the University of Chicago, Paepcke worked with Anderson to create the Aspen Institute Executive Seminar. In 1951, the Institute sponsored a national photography conference attended by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, and other notables. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Institute added organizations, programs, and conferences, including the Aspen Center for Physics, the Aspen Strategy Group, Communications and Society Program and other programs that concentrated on education, communications, justice, Asian thought, science, technology, the environment, and international affairs. In 1979, through a donation by Corning Glass industrialist and philanthropist Arthur A. Houghton Jr. the Institute acquired a 1,000-acre (4 km) campus on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, known today as the Wye River Conference Centers.
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The truths which this disposition of nature obliges us to accept can be neither proved nor disproved; they are practically followed even by those who reject them speculatively. But Buffier did not claim for these truths of common sense the absolute certainty which characterizes the knowledge we have of our own existence or the logical deductions we make from our thoughts; they possess merely the highest probability, and the man who rejects them is to be considered a fool, though he is not guilty of a contradiction. Buffier's aversion to scholastic refinements gives to his writings an appearance of shallowness and want of metaphysical insight, and unquestionably he failed entirely even to indicate the nature of that universality and necessity which he ascribed to his eternal verities; he was, however, one of the earliest to recognize the psychological as distinguished from the metaphysical side of Descartes's principle, and to use it, with no inconsiderable skill, as the basis of an analysis of the human mind, similar to that enjoined by Locke. In this he has anticipated Thomas Reid and the Scottish school.
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All things exist in places either in a positive (sadrupa) or in a negative (asadrūpa) relation, and it is only in the former case that they come into contact with the senses, while in the latter case the perception of the negative existence can only be had by a separate mode of movement of the mind, a separate pramāṇa – anupalabdhi. Indirect knowledge of non-existence can be attained by other means but direct knowledge of non-existence of perceptible objects and their attributes is available only through this kind of pramāṇa which is not inference. There are four verities of Anupalabdhi which have been identified, they are – a) kāraṇa-anupalabdhi or 'non-perception of the causal condition', b) vyāpaka-anupalabdhi or 'non-perception of the pervader', c) svabhāva- anupalabdhi or 'non-perception of presence of itself', and d) viruddha- anupalabdhi or 'non-perception of the opposed'. The lack of perceptible (yogya) adjuncts (upādhi) is known through non-perception of what is perceptible (yogya-anupalabdhi) and the lack of imperceptible adjuncts is known by showing that which is thought to be an adjunct.
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