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The moment that you have finished reading this book, you will be able to know whether the years just ahead are good or bad for you, and how long this season will last. You will be able thus to act accordingly: if there is a storm on the horizon, you will be able to take shelter in time; if sunny days loom ahead, you will take advantage before the opportunity pass. The seasons of our lives alternate from good to bad ones - and vise versa - according to a certain pattern, which George Kouloukis, a Greek attorney-at-law, explains in this book, based on the way the good and bad seasons have alternated in the lives of lots of famous men and women, whose the biographies he cites in the book. This knowledge radically transforms the way we all live today, and helps us to live a much better life....

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- Chapter 1. The Astonishing Discovery - Chapter 2. Ludwig van Beethoven - Chapter 3. Giuseppe Verdi - Chapter 4. Pablo Picasso - Chapter 5. Napoléon I - Chapter 6. Victor Hugo - Chapter 7. Winston Churchill - Chapter 8. The Complete Picture - Chapter 9. The Advantages - Chapter 10. Mikhail Gorbachev - Chapter 11. Nelson Mandela - Chapter 12. Christopher Columbus - Chapter 13. King Henry VIII of England - Chapter 14. Margaret Thatcher - Chapter 15. Queen Elizabeth I of England - Chapter 16. Aristotle Onassis - Chapter 17. John Glenn - Chapter 18. Elizabeth Taylor - Chapter 19. Maria Callas - Chapter 20. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - Chapter 21. The Dalai Lama of Tibet - Chapter 22. Jimmy Carter - Chapter 23. Sarah Bernhardt - Chapter 24. Auguste Rodin - Chapter 25. Josephine, Napoléon I’s Wife - Chapter 26. The Confirmation - Chapter 27. The Practical Use - END NOTES - Sources...

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Poetry collection featuring poems of empathy

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Introduction 9 Empathy Rising 11 When First, My Love, We Meet 13 Darkness and Light 14 For Debi, My Bride 15 Dave 16 The Black Girl to the Jehovah's Witness 17 Listen 18 Then and Now 19 Chance Reunion 20 Resurrection 21 A Memory 22 Eulogy for us, because 23 Father 24 The Idealist Who Wouldn’t Let Go 25 Youth’s Revenge 27 The Masquerade 28 Baby Grand Piano 29 Faces 31 New Glasses 33 Passing By 35 The Waiter 37 Hopelessly Lost 38 Last Dream 40 To One Who Has Deemed Me an Enemy 43 The Businessman 44 The Janitor 45 Shy Attack 46 The Fisherman Views Creation 48 The Drunkard Views Creation 49 Street Scene 50 Still Life 52 Numbers 53 Words 54 Janet 56 Richard Bradley 57 Weather-Beaten and Truth-Seasoned 58 What to Say to the Next Messiah on Your Doorstep or TV 60 Moses 61 The Murderer’s Confession 63 For Us (With Love) 65 Prayer of the Good Consumer 67 Evergreen 69 The Rape of a Dream 71 Yours to Use If You Choose 73 Flimsy Excuses 74 The Hunters 77 Melrose Minnesota 78 Song of the Last Animal 80 To His Former Psychologist 82 To His Future Psychologist 85 Joe “the grinner” (megalomaniac in...

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The story of how the founder of the Famous Amos Cookie Company lost everything, including his name----and turned adversity into opportunity. This revealing book chronicles Wally's loss of the cookie empire that he had built, to the opening of The Uncle Noname Cookie Company, and his journey towards learning how to turn lemons into lemonade. Wally imparts his belief that crises can turn out to be glorious benefits if we draw on universal wisdom to handle them -- that challenges are simply part of every human being's journey; they are valuable catalysts for our personal growth....

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Wally Amos, who rose from relative poverty to fame and fortune as "Famous Amos" details the components for a successful personal, financial and spiritual life using his ten secret ingredients for inner strength. He discusses his struggle to overcome personal and professional problems to find genuine love and inner peace. This is an inspiring testimony to the power of life, love and inner strength....

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An insightful journey into the power of a positive attitude, Amos asserts that it’s not one’s circumstances that determine happiness, but rather how those circumstances are viewed. This book emphasizes the impact of everyday choices, while stressing the importance of making a conscious decision to live a joy-filled life....

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Insights on How to Live an Inspiring and Joy-Filled Life

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In 1980's a new movement of avant-garde arised in literature, art philosophy and science. This is based on an excessive use of antinomies. antitheses. contradictions, oxymorons, paradoxes in the creative work at both small level and global level of the creative work. The goal is the enlargement of the artistic sphere through non-artistic elements. But especially the against-the-hair, counter-time. counter-sense creation. Also, to experiment....

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o ... el rfunane in istoria literaturii, cum am spus ehiar de la ineeput, prin aeeea di este, vrem - nu vrem, "parintele" ParadoxismuluiOParadoxismul este un fel de avangardism, sau mai bine am ziee un neoavangardismODineolo de feluritele teribilisme si joeuri de artifieii (mai bine zis: spre a fi in tonul pe care si-I vrea), Florentin Smarandaehe este un seriitor mai eurfuld gravOFlorentin Smarandaehe serie ea mai toata lumea, eand are intr-adevar eeva de spusOeand serie non-teatru, teatru "meta-istorie", Florentin Smarandaehe este un autor demn de luat in seama, in eateva punete ehiar extraordinarO Florentin Smarandaehe vede ... Paradoxism peste tot! Este foarte probabil ea pentru el Lumea aeeasta, Universul, Cosmosul, ExistenJa sunt un PARADOX, in frunte eu ehiar aeela care il gandeste. 0...

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THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was still an undergraduate. I lost no time in making his acquaintance, for it was the influence of one of his works that had stimulated me to begin under Professor Benfey the study of Sanskrit at the University of Gbttingen, when I left school nearly two years before. During my undergraduate days and later lowed much to Professor Max Muller's advice and encouragement in regard to my studies, which have ever since followed, as far as Sanskrit is concerned, much the same lines as his. I consequently always took a lively interest in the Sacred Books edited by him as they successively appeared during the course of a quarter of a century, no fewer than thirty-six volumes having a more or less direct bearing on my own work, and fourteen of the translators being personally known to me. Professor Max Mi.iller lived to see all...

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Habeltt sua lata libelli-not only after they have been published, but sometimes even before they are printed. It was in the spring of 1894 that the late Professor Max Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all students of the Sacred Books of tile East, and of the greatest value for the study of the history of religions....

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Tms work in its oripl, German form has already, since its publication fourteen years ago, exercised. on the Continent an influence, quite out of proportion to its slender size. In view of this influence alone it may be affirmed that 1 and Thou will rank &8 one of the epoch-making books 9f our generation. It has hitherto been eomparatively Unknown among English-speaking students of philosophy and theology....

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The primal natm:e of the effort to establish relation is already to be seen in the earliest and most confined stage. Before anything isolated can be perceived, timid glances mOve out into indistinct space, towards something indefinite; and in times when there seems to be no desire for nourishment, hands sketch delicately and dimly in the empty air, apparently aimlessly seeking and reaching out to meet something indefinite. You may, if you wish, call this an animal action, but it is not thereby comprehended....

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Nobody Believes his Own Death.

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1. My death 2. Winning death 3. The 60th Birthday 4. Time of Grand Alpha 5. Opposition forces 6. Consideration on death 7. Me 8. Hunting 9. Farm 10. Zombie 11. Recovery 12 The Earth...

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The book is structured in two parts as follows: - in the first part, the theory of paradoxism through its first six published worldwide manifestos (1983, 1984, 1990, 1998, 2002, and 2010 respectively); - in the second part, the paradoxism collected from the international (English, French, Spanish/Arabic, and Romanian) folklore in images and paradoxist situations. ...

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A) Folkloric Begining. It was in the years 1980’s when the paradoxist movement started. Together with childhood friends (I use their nicknames, since these are more colorfull: Cost, Geonea, Beca, Bigioc, Piciu, Boros, Covrig ăl mijlociu, Cris, Pilă, Chesa, Grasu, Babanu) in the little parks and restaurants of Bălcești – Vâlcea drinking beer and joking. They did not like to read or write!... They all were non-literators {excepting me and Co(n)st(antin) Dincă}. We built a new literary movement without even knowing – in a paradoxical way! We did it by jokes, against-the-grain speech, amusing themselves in that bad time! I had written in Romanian language the volume „Laws of internal composition. Poems with... problems!” (1982) as a preparadoxist volume, published lately. But the First Paradoxist Manifesto in the world of the Paradoxism I published in 1983 in the first edition of my French volume The Sense of the Nonsense (Ed. Artistiques, Fès, Morocco). ...

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To Paradoxismize (Forward): 4 Paradoxism’s Manifestos (1983-2010): 7 • First Paradoxist Manifesto: 8 • Second Paradoxist Manifesto: 11 • Third Paradoxist Manifesto: 15 • Fourth Paradoxist Manifesto: 18 • Fifth Paradoxist Manifesto: 37 • Sixth Paradoxist Manifesto: 51 Worldwide Paradoxist Folklore: 60 All is possible, the impossible too! French Paradoxist Folklore: 86 Les Perles du BAC 2008 [Pearls of 2008 Baccalaureate] Spanish/Arabic Paradoxist Folklore: 127 Ser fuerte... / .. ما†ھي†القوة [To be strong] Romanian Paradoxist Folklore: 141-155 De ce, tată? [Why, father?] ...

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مقدمة التحقيق بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله الذي أظهر من آثار سلطانه وجلال كبريائه ما حيّر مُقل العقول من عجائب قدرته، وردع خطرات هماهم النفوس عن عرفان كنه صفته، والصلاة والسلام على أشرف برّيته خاتم النبيين وسيّد المرسلين حبيبنا وحبيب إله العالمين أبي القاسم محمد وعلى آله الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المنتجبين واللعن الدائم على أعدائهم أجمعين إلى قيام يوم الدين. بما أنّ كتابنا هذا الموسوم بـ(شرح الفصول النصيرية) هو في علم الكلام، فلابدَّ لنا من مقدّمة نوضّح فيها ماهيّة علم الكلام، لكي يسير القاريء العزيز بخطى ثابتة في طوايا هذا الكتاب، وتتكوّن هذه المقدّمة من عدّة محاور: 1ـ سبب التسمية. 2ـ نشوء علم الكلام وتأريخه ومراحل تطوّره. 3ـ موضوع علم الكلام. 4ـ شرعية علم الكلام. 5ـ أبرز المسائل الكلامية. وسنوضّح كلّ محور بشكل إجمالي. 1 ـ سبب التسمية من أشهر أسماء هذا العلم هو (الكلام) واختلف المتكلّمون في وجه التسمية بهذا الاسم، فبعضٌ قالوا: بسبب البحث الذي دار حول الكلام الإلهي، والمعارك الفكرية حوله في عصر المأمون العباسي وما بعده، ولكن هذا الرأي مردود؛ لأنّ إسم الكلام أقدم من ذلك بكثير، كما سنبيّنه قريباً. وقيل: بسبب أنّ المتكلّمين كانوا يبتدئون البحث بقول: (الكلام في كذا). وقيل: بسبب القدرة على المناظرة و التكلّم في الإلهيات...

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فهرس المحتويات كلمة القسم 5 مقدّمة التحقيق 7 ترجمة المؤلف 20 النسخ المعتمدة 29 مقدّمة المؤلف 47 الفصل الأول في التوحيد أصل: تبنى عليه مباحث التوحيد 61 تقسيم: الموجود إلى قسمين 68 أصل: في إثبات واجب الوجود 71 هداية: إلى تحقيق بعض صفات الواجب 72 أصل: في تحقيق أنّ الواجب ليس له جزء 77 أصل: في إثبات وحدانية تعالى 80 تبصرة: لتحقيق بعض الصفات السلبية 84 تبصرة: في أنّه تعالى لا يحلّ في شيء 88 تبصرة: في تحقيق أنّه تعالى لا يتحد بشيء 92 تبصرة: في تحقيق معنى اللذّة والألم 95 تبصرة: في بيان انتفاء الضد والندّ عنه تعالى 99 أصل: في بيان حدوث العالم 101 مقدّمة: في تقسيم المؤثر إلى القادر والموجب 108 نتيجة: الواجب المؤثر في الممكنات قادر 111 إلزام: للحكماء في قولهم بإيجاب الواجب 115 نقض: لقول الحكماء في ترتيب الموجودات 117 أصل: في بيان أنّه تعالى عالم بكلّ المعلومات 131 نقض: لقول الفلاسفة حيث زعموا أنّ الباري لا يعلم الجزئيات 138 فائدة: في تحقيق معنى الحياة 143 فائدة أخرى: في تحقيق معنى إرادته وسمعه وبصره 145 فائدة أخرى: في تحقيق معنى الرؤية 152 هداية: إلى بيان معنى كلامه تعالى وأنّه متكلم 162 لطيفة: تتضمّن بعض المسائل من مباحث أسماء الله تعالى 167 الفصل الثاني في العدل تقسيم: للفعل إلى أقسامه الخمسة 191...

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The book is mostly in a running dialogue form, which is always a prerequisite of a quest-full ‘journey’

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The more i learn, more i become aware of my ignorance Awareness of ignorance is wisdom

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there are ten chapters, however the book is in running dialogue form so segregating it into chapters would be inappropriate!

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The novel was originally written in Arabic in 2010. Translated into English by Tim Reece, and published (in print) by Mira Publishing House cic - UK, 2012 The English version will be added to Gutenberg.org soon....

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From an omniscient viewpoint, the author, pours out the inner thoughts of his characters in torrential monologues. He then exposes the myths upon which most of the religions were based, to build a factual dimension for the novel. In this respect, the author analyse the movement of his characters rather than describing it. The novel provides great deal of understanding for human's emotions and conditions, with some very memorable scenes of lovemaking, manslaughter....

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In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men. According to Mencken's biographer, Fred Hobson: Depending on the position of the reader, he was either a great defender of women's rights or, as a critic labelled him in 1916, 'the greatest misogynist since Schopenhauer','the country's high-priest of woman-haters.' (Summary from wikipedia)...

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Philosophy

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Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact, and that any complete description of human life must find room for the spiritual factor, and for the religious life in which it finds expression....

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Religion, Philosophy

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Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 - June 20, 1912) was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected letters, sketches and stories. (Summary by enko)...

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Short stories, Philosophy