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...amples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of existence and fulfillment....

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...Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Translation: Chaim Ratz Editor: C... ...M CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved P... ....................................................56 A Communal Society Among Animals ........................................... 57 Interdependenc... ...once during their lives is approximately 42% of the overall population. 4 In Europe, consumption of cocaine has reached an unsettling record high o... ...here the will to exist is greater than in the vegetative. For the most part, animals live in groups, packs. They are very mobile and must constantl... ...hundred years ago: infinite options for recre- ation, travel, rest, sports—the list is endless, yet we no lon- ger believe in a better future. The for... ...st how opposite we are to Nature’s force. Hence, we are be- coming willing to listen to explanations of why we were created in this way. Moreover, w... ...s, we will suffer tremendous- ly, the majority of the world population will be extinct through horrendous wars, and the few survivors will still hav... ...Even countries that were previously sympathetic toward Israel, such as North European countries, have changed for the worse. Surveys held in the Eu...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...u command (and whose fleet alone makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that yo... ...ous, all the world over; and that there is scarcely a capital city in this Europe but has its pomp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-... ...airo abide climbing hills, and is not at all used to gunpowder. Some men’s animals are so spirited that the very appearance of a stone-wall sets them ... ...hat musi- cal-box—how pleased he wound it up after dinner—how hap- pily he listened to the little clinking tunes as they galloped, ding- dong, after e... ...escribed in the “Clouds;” in which resting-place, no doubt, the abominable animals kept perforce clear of him. A French man-of-war, lying in the silve... ...A—FIRST GLIMPSES OF THE EAST I AM GLAD THAT THE TURKISH PART of Athens was extinct, so that I should not be baulked of the pleasure of entering an Eas... ...t, and grinning quite as eagerly as the black minstrel. As he sang and we listened, figures of women bear- ing pitchers went passing over the Roman b...

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...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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... Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Mme. Vauquer’s magpie’s eye had discovered and read certain entries in the list of shareholders in the funds, and, after a rough calculation, was disp... ...nd the kitchen, and asked for M. Goriot’s room. Mme. Vauquer and the cook, listening, overheard several words affectionately spoken dur- ing the visit... ...e “heavenly angel” and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism. But for Rastignac, Mme. Anast... ...e very far re- mote from his thoughts. “I thought that the Marcillacs were extinct,” the Comte de Restaud said, addressing Eugene. “Yes, they are exti... ...d good- natured of great cities. If the proud aristocracies of the rest of Europe refuse admittance among their ranks to a disrepu- table millionaire,... ...find more than one proof of the material nature of our sentiments in other animals. What physiognomist is as quick to discern character as a dog is to... ...ver, and the fun grew fast and furious. Imitations of the cries of various animals mingled with the loud laughter; the Museum official having taken it...

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...s all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed. Perhaps it is proof of the stunted condition in which pure Science,... ...her silent and smoked; while the visitor had liberty either to say what he listed, receiving for answer an occasional grunt; or to look round for a sp... ... as of some silent, high-encircled mountain-pool, perhaps the crater of an extinct volcano; into whose black deeps you fear to gaze: those eyes, those... ...nd more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Ages in Europe, and down to the end of the Seventeenth Century; the true era of ext... ... no less superlative; whereby if on the one hand he degrade man below most animals, except those jacketed Gouda Cows, he, on the other, exalts him bey... ... to be awake and work; and for the duller a felicity, if, like hibernating animals, safe-lodged in some Salamanca University or Sybaris City, or other... ...dden dream, mistake God’s fair living world for a pallid, vacant Hades and extinct Pandemonium. But through such Purgatory pain,” continues he, “it is...

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...ssics Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...shin’-rod. ‘Pon my sainted Sam, but we look the complete Bug-hunters! Now, listen to your Uncle Stalky! We’re goin’ along the cliffs after butterflies... ...e sea snored and gurgled; the birds, scattered for the moment by these new animals, returned to their businesses, and the boys read on in the rich, wa... ...onsider themselves superior to ordinary de- lights. Self-sufficient little animals! There’s something in McTurk’s Hibernian sneer that would make me a... ...ed leisurely over the combes till they reached the line of notice-boards. “Listen a shake. Foxy’s up wind comin’ down hill like beans. When you hear h... ...is all right as long we aren’t ourselves hurt. I sometimes wonder if it is extinct—bullying.” “Fags bully each other horrid; but the upper forms are s... ... first-class carriages. Just imagine Stalky let loose on the south side of Europe with a sufficiency of Sikhs and a reasonable prospect of loot. Consi...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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