Like most people of my generation, I regard this as a relic of a less enlightened age. |
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To all but a few enlightened purists, ska equals white people playing reggae embarrassingly fast. |
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It is certainly not, as is often assumed, an enlightened approach to running a multi-ethnic society. |
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But some enlightened beings, called bodhisattvas, defer their nirvana, returning to human form to help others free themselves from the cycle. |
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He had been a bright pupil, supported by his mother and encouraged by the more enlightened teachers in his grammar school. |
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According to Tibetan Buddhism, the universe is populated by a vast array of enlightened and unenlightened beings. |
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If we are to succeed in our attempt to transform our unenlightened manifestation into an enlightened one, we need the lineage. |
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The enlightened throughout the world will concur in the opinion that this proud and most honourable badge was most unfitly bestowed. |
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The American masses are perceived as apathetic sluggards, whose votes would be better exercised by enlightened foreign observers. |
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High-minded citizens petitioned Congress to vote in a new era of enlightened laws to cultivate the social graces. |
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There is still a recognizable contrast with the European experience on the continent, with absolutism and enlightened despotism. |
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He would govern in the interests of the people as an enlightened but absolute ruler. |
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But it is difficult, in this so-called enlightened age, to understand why we remain so uptight about it. |
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Without being free of thought, without the thinking having dissolved, vanished, disappeared, there is no way to be liberated or enlightened. |
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We become free-floating netizens in a more enlightened, almost angelic, realm. |
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The more subtle level of Vajrayana practice says, inside you, your most subtle level of consciousness is the enlightened nature of mind. |
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It restored my confidence and my optimism, and I felt embraced by these many wonderful enlightened spirits. |
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We have become enlightened the future has dawned we can all now live in the vego utopia without being vego. |
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Priests have to remain very pure and need a wife who is as spiritually enlightened as they are. |
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They argued that discussion led to verity and gave enlightened public opinion the force of law. |
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Thankfully there are many more enlightened towns and villages in the area that welcome visitors however they may travel. |
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Such an enlightened approach and education has enormously helped and moulded the careers of the priests. |
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This offered a platform for a large number of intellectuals and thinkers urging enlightened progress. |
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But its recovery is near completion and the enlightened and adventurous regeneration is attracting record numbers of visitors. |
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Officially Calvinist, it practiced an enlightened religious toleration that also aided its prosperity. |
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The first chapter describes enlightened attempts to civilise two boys who seem to have been ineducable. |
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Now that John's been enlightened, he's wondering if he's haloed people who weren't pre-perps. |
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Not just right-wing reactionaries, either, but people of enlightened education and humane outlook. |
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Instead I regularly travel to one or another of the more politically enlightened towns mentioned earlier to spend my pension. |
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Here, then, Alberti is speaking to would-be patrons and laying the groundwork for enlightened and responsible artistic commissions. |
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But the guy continued hectoring me to watch more episodes so that I might become enlightened and see the error of my ways. |
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Australian media organizations do not seem to have been characterized by enlightened personnel practices. |
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The viewers are also enlightened about the checklists used by scientists to determine whether a site is landslide-prone or not. |
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Because in our culture we overvalue the intellect, we imagine that to become enlightened demands extraordinary intelligence. |
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America is such an enlightened and benign hegemon, they argue, that most states will pant for US leadership. |
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The provision of perinatal and paediatric pathology services is a sign of an enlightened society. |
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Economic historians of the cliometric persuasion, however, will be frustrated as often as they are enlightened. |
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These enlightened and evolved people believe in altruism, idealism, and activism. |
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Thoughtful jazz lovers of all degrees of musical literacy ought to be delighted and enlightened by Gioia's yeomanly effort. |
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These displays soon became celebrated as exemplars of enlightened princely patronage and magnificence. |
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The film's artistic power lies in its appeal for enlightened, loving and spiritually satisfying relationships between human beings. |
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Only spiritually enlightened Hindus can stand between this faith and its degradation. |
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Replacing the zealotry of religious intolerance with a secular version is hardly an enlightened alternative. |
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Our effort to excavate the anachronic underhistory of the work of art is therefore by its nature a challenge to enlightened historical models. |
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An enlightened consumer not only protects his interest, but also acts as a responsible and responsive customer, and an asset to the society. |
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Upon arriving, Patrick is enlightened to the whole situation as well as to the fact that the family is cursed. |
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That's what you might do if you were an enlightened, forward-looking, liberal government. |
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Gnostics read their revelations in private, or discuss them in small conventicles with those who are similarly enlightened. |
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Her current incarnation, that of spiritually enlightened mother and wife, is just the latest of many. |
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Most teachers are hardly fully enlightened Buddhas, but are people who need to cultivate themselves further. |
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Having written about left-handedness in the past, I knew that in less enlightened times left-handed infants were often forced to use their right. |
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Handy does not predict, as people did in the 1970s, an enlightened age of leisure. |
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Many scholars have made a Utopia from an egalitarian society in which coteries of artists wined and dined their rich and enlightened patrons. |
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The Hinayana approach stresses the ideal of the arhat, the enlightened one who has attained nirvana. |
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And the two sides would also come together over a new doctrine of enlightened interventionism in Africa. |
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What the ignorant see as evil, the enlightened see as the actions of low-minded and immature individuals. |
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Kamen designed the space not simply to be an enlightened employer but to lure his workforce there. |
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His enlightened mind refused to condemn the Talmud without a most searching enquiry. |
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The way to inspire your kids is with the inspiration of enlightened self-interest. |
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The impression is not at all of gentle and graceful housing as one might expect of a development in this enlightened age. |
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With his reputation as an enlightened, well-informed senior High Court judge, Lord Bonomy is unafraid to take on the government of the day. |
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He was smoking some exceptionally strong marijuana, and appeared to be quite enlightened at times. |
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As I say, the move is entirely legal and might even be described as enlightened and rational. |
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Now, so it is in the interest, the enlightened self-interest of the developed world to help the developing world to get over their problem. |
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It has come to spread strange new tastes from an advanced enlightened civilization. |
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If you're not enlightened, Savemart is this big second-hand barn of a store nestled in the industrial sprawl of northern Te Rapa. |
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But what possessed Kinnock, Hattersley, and our more enlightened baronesses? |
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Representative provincial estates would give the Third Estate the political voice all enlightened Frenchmen believed it deserved. |
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Jefferson is usually identified with the enlightened secularists who sought to protect a secular vision of life from the tyranny of the churches. |
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Due to his patronage of the arts and his interest in literature, he was known as an enlightened ruler. |
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It's not just a matter of solidarity with those who have less than we have but also a matter of enlightened self-interest. |
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This book suggests that if you can achieve forgiveness, the side effect of forgiveness is a form of enlightened self-interest. |
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So I think they will act in enlightened self-interest and keep up our coalition as we try to attack this enemy. |
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For the sake of enlightened economic self-interest they must, however, work more closely together. |
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If Bradford is serious about being seen as a modern city with enlightened views, a good animal welfare programme is crucial. |
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Two months' extra interest is the norm, but a few enlightened lenders don't charge any early settlement penalty. |
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The ban continued right into the early seventies before giving away to more enlightened thinking. |
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So was John an enlightened despot, beneficently overseeing a realm of unparalleled tolerance and bonhomie? |
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I later became friendly with a remarkable and very enlightened woman who taught me lots about life. |
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This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing. |
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The story would now be the empowerment of traditional owners looking after their country with the support of an enlightened government. |
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That's difficult for me to understand, however enlightened I may be with sun, moon, stearine, train oil, and tallow. |
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As enlightened artists of all types will attest, it's harder to draw simply, to play slowly, to move cleanly, than to mire things in complexity. |
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We are thick and ignorant just as we are fair and enlightened and a relative proportion of us are bigots and racists. |
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Some believed enlightened leaders could simply educate the working class to understand the need for socialism. |
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In truth, my heart misgives me, for I believe this incident has enlightened our enemy, and I think that he expected to be so enlightened. |
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Blinding hatred and contempt seem to be common reactions among the enlightened elites. |
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Tommy Lyons was a gentleman to his fingertips who enlightened many a cause and gathering. |
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This title was given to Siddhartha Gautama, who became enlightened and then taught others how to attain the state of enlightenment. |
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In the Hindu Upanishads, the soul's flight in the sky appears as one of the six siddhis or supernormal powers attained by the enlightened. |
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After seeing his political record, one feels enlightened to learn that Gonza is well liked by many people and, in his own opinion, has many good friends. |
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As a result, countless millions of Americans and American businesses benefited from a more enlightened approach to antitrust law. |
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The saddhu or enlightened Hindu masters are taken care of, even deified, so that they may continue to apprehend the Absolute and astonish us mere mortals with their insights. |
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He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse. |
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You see, whenever a Buddha, a fully enlightened soul, sets his foot on the indra-keela of a city with a firm purpose in mind, miracles occur, it is said. |
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I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation. |
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Perhaps your article will provoke more reminiscences from those who remember him still, and perhaps this will prompt an enlightened curator or two to try to do more for him. |
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They are up to speed in this enlightened world in praising the dramatisation of the sub culture with the abundance of obscenity and foul language. |
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A precocious talent, he was nurtured by enlightened teachers in London and then discovered California. |
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And the solution involves a re-education of males, including those of us who consider ourselves progressive and enlightened. |
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They had expected that reform, if it came at all, would occur gradually and piecemeal, and would be the work of enlightened authoritarians rather than elected representatives. |
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Finally, he examines the decreasing influence of strict Reformed theology due to rising scholasticism, sectarianism and natural theology based on enlightened philosophy. |
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The Jesuits may even have been enlightened enough to make available newly invented optical instruments, on sale in Paris as early as 1609, to Descartes and his schoolfellows. |
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That rationale might not strike a chord with every football fan but then enlightened self-interest goes with the territory of football club ownership. |
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His enlightened philosophy was either improve business or scram. |
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And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence. |
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In other words, live well and become enlightened in the bardo? |
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I was shocked by the mean-spiritedness of his article, especially given the fact that it was written for a presumably educated and enlightened audience. |
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The lessons had been learnt and, through enlightened policies, respect for national sovereignty and the mediation of the United Nations, peace would prevail. |
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Later, descendants of these selfsame clerics would carry their precious cargo to European monasteries where the Italian, the German and the Frenchman waited to be enlightened. |
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But such enlightened suggestions are always smothered by the conservatism of Canada's eastern Arctic communities, where attachment to the syllabic system is deep. |
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We currently seem to believe that the more flamboyant the send-off, as our nearest and dearest exit stage left, the more virtuous or enlightened a breed we are. |
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It is wholly fortunate that when I went to a more enlightened senior school, they taught us about menstruation a couple of months before I had my first ever period. |
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It is a lesson which some of our less enlightened citizens would do well to learn before they put pen to paper decrying the wholesale evil effects of immigration. |
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When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him. |
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This special tone, a kind of enlightened tristesse, is the sign of a person who senses the existence of wisdom and ultimate good but is too humble to assert it. |
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Marie's voice rose shrewishly, riding the high waves of the baby's incessant outcry against the restrictions upon appetite imposed by enlightened motherhood. |
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The more we train in devotion to all enlightened masters, Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the more our progress in recognizing mind essence will be enhanced. |
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This is the unfailing, unmistaken speech of the perfectly enlightened Buddha, which can enable us to attain complete enlightenment in one lifetime. |
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Actually, enlightened Zen monks are often worldly, engaged, and sexually voracious. |
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These buildings look north across Prince's Street Gardens to the contrasting world of the Georgian New Town, the embodiment of enlightened neoclassicism. |
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The role of priest and artist is often interchangeable, as the netherworld they inhabit, between spirit and material, is enlightened by dream and imagination. |
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In mahayana Buddhism, a bodhisattva is an enlightened being who forgoes nirvana and vows to take rebirth again and again in order to save all sentient beings from suffering. |
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What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest? |
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What is needed is a genuinely long-term approach that gives Pakistan the time and guidance necessary to emerge as an enlightened continental bureaucratic state. |
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Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract. |
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They are up to speed in this enlightened world in praising the dramatisation of the sub-culture with the abundance of obscenity and foul language. |
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If enlightened despotism was a passing fancy, it must also be admitted that not all the philosophes agreed with the virtues of political liberalism either. |
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I am also full of admiration for his enlightened essay which sheds some interesting facts on the Breughel reproduction printed on the front of the inlay card. |
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It is important for parents to cultivate an enlightened and tender congeniality about such matters, otherwise they risk transferring unhealthy attitudes to their children. |
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This will require a significant shift in human consciousness from the selfish to the selfless, from the competitor to the cooperator, from the ignorant to the enlightened. |
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Both show her surrounded by evidence of her cultivation and enlightened tastes in literature, her refined aesthetic sensibilities, and her talent in music. |
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Are we witnessing the dawning of an age of enlightened town planning? |
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This is attitude is generally welcomed as a form of enlightened tolerance. |
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A literate, enlightened people will not allow goondas to rule them. |
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In front of the town there are high and mighty cliffs which were enlightened with strong lights, put up by my uncle, an electrician working for the town. |
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He is the enlightener of the generation, thus he is enlightened. |
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Their language contrasted with that of the eighteenth-century reformers who had entrusted the mission of modernity and progress to enlightened rulers. |
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She notes that in the business community expressions of enlightened self-interest about the need for a healthy vibrant city are beginning to emerge. |
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It's in our interest, also, it's in our enlightened self-interest. |
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Those kinds of beliefs are not held by enlightened, intelligent people. |
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For spiritualism, an enlightened individual is more than enough. |
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This was euphemized as being a service to the press, a manifestation of an informationally advanced and enlightened world, or, the next generation in war reporting. |
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A more enlightened spirituality is ever changing and open to new ideas. |
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We might have bypassed the ignorant masses in favor of an enlightened few. |
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Thinking all water coolers come with dispensers, I was left enlightened on a variety of options at a local Sharaf DG store. |
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Edward himself, now thoroughly enlightened on her character, had no scruple in believing her capable of the utmost meanness of wanton ill-nature. |
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There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. |
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What Eagleton needs here is political theory, not historical salvation through the hypostatization of Marx's enlightened opinions. |
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It was his research and published works that enlightened much of this information on Caribbean Methodism. |
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Crown Attorney, who enlightened us on the early courts, the trials and tribulations of our ancestors in establishing the new Upper Canada. |
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Of course, the Council on Foreign Relations brain trust that essentially runs our CIA would prefer blind soldiers to an enlightened public. |
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But now their country has an enlightened policy about paid leave. |
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By overcoming ignorance or misunderstanding one is enlightened and liberated. |
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He was a dictator, to be sure, but also an enlightened reformer. |
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Fully enlightened beings may be avatars, incarnations of various deities. |
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Historian Margaret Jacob stresses the importance of the Masons in indirectly inspiring enlightened political thought. |
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The Russian enlightenment centered on the individual instead of societal enlightenment and encouraged the living of an enlightened life. |
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Like other enlightened despots, Catherine the Great played a key role in fostering the arts, sciences, and education. |
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Denmark became the model of enlightened despotism, partially influenced by the ideas of the French Revolution. |
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Firstly we will take Massingham's views on giantlore and then compare these with Forbes's, who was a similarly enlightened antiquary. |
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The enlightened ruler restricts his desires and refrains from displays of personal ability or input in policy. |
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Some practices are considered as essential for the attainment of an enlightened life but are looked upon as dreadly or extremely secret. |
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Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant. |
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Fazio Novello della Gherardesca, an enlightened aristocrat, improved relations with Florence, the Pope and Genoa. |
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The capitol, the metropole, was the source of ostensibly enlightened policies imposed throughout the distant colonies. |
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This is a beautiful world of enlightened aristos, the kind of people who know not only wine but Italian art and, to a great extent, themselves. |
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As Emperor, he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of Flavian renaissance. |
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I seemed suddenly to see everything in a brilliant light. All was scintillating. I seemed to be enlightened and understood everything with which people were involved. |
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Fortunately for this unique character, he served at the court of the enlightened, fun-loving and charismatic King Charles II, who loved bawdiness. |
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National political and military successes from 1812 through 1855 calmed the critics and validated efforts to produce a more enlightened and stable society. |
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The enlightened Macedonian rulers scorned the rulers of Western Europe as illiterate barbarians and maintained a nominal claim to rule over the West. |
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The path teaches that the way of the enlightened ones stopped their craving, clinging and karmic accumulations, and thus ended their endless cycles of rebirth and suffering. |
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He is recognized by Buddhists as an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood, and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. |
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But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. |
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Ruling princes often endorsed and fostered these figures and even attempted to apply their ideas of government in what was known as enlightened absolutism. |
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While it enlightened the Italians to many new territories yet unknown to them, it was obsolete within months due to subsequent mapping voyages by the Portuguese. |
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This elucidatory passage to a large extent forecloses the debate as to whether Ike's repudiation of his inheritance was enlightened and forward-looking or simply reactionary. |
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But the Goswami seems to have got her drift and instead of bristling at her snub, he realized that here was an enlightened bhakta who had grasped the essence of the Lord. |
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Moods run from adventurous psychosis through enlightened bliss as writing styles run through ancient prose to the most erudite modern internal rhyme. |
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