According to Carol, the bone must first be left out "on a bare rock in the rain and the sun till every sign of corruption is burned and washed away from it, then it will be a good charm (31)." ... She has not yet discovered what is important and meaningful in life so instead of choosing wisely which decisions she will make, she asks Val, "what on earth could you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your hands, until your fingers are broken? (31)" She specifically is redundant by saying "on this earth," implying that there is another way of life after the passing f...

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This prompted the creation of an ultimate goal: to overcome all limitations of the earth by realizing the divinity within. ... Your reincarnation, as anything on earth, will be based on the balance sheet of your karma. Hinduism defines a set of human milestones, or good karma, that if achieved could eventually lead to life's purpose, through moksha. ... The reward for sticking to one's duties is good karma, as it is an aim of the dharma. ... This is extended further by the fact that there is little association between classes - having a good karma is seen to have its true rewards...

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Paul chose to live because he thought that he personally had unfinished work on Earth. It could be seen from this argument that without the unfinished work on Earth, he would not feel such a strong attachment to continued life on Earth. ... There is no good reason this instance should be an exception to the rule. 5. ... Hume also states that a good God would not prevent us from ending our miseries through suicide if life became so very unbearable. ... In theory this may look good, but in actual practice some people simply have the ability to face challenge and suffering far better than oth...

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Epicureans believe the highest good in life is pleasure: a peace of mind, or freedom from anxiety. ... Being an ethical person is to have good morals and know what is wrong from right. ... The soul of the deceased lives through the living, and stays here on earth with the ones they spend their past life with. ... If a person associates themselves with good people, with good intentions they tend to act as rational as those people around them. Stoicism states that the Earth is made of a fiery spirit, consisting of rationality, nature, fate, and god. ...

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If God is good and all happiness is good then why not believe in God. ... Now there is but one supreme good, namely God.... He also believed that since God created us all and God is good, then every being that God created is good. ... Saint Augustine says "By contrast, the citizens of the City of God form a mystical and unanimous society of saints in heaven and believers on Earth". ... Having a deeper connection to God is being good, since God is good. ...

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And Amadiro's faction is hostile to Earth, so there's a lot at stake. ... Baley later finds that another robot, Giskard, has committed the crime in an attempt to study humans from Earth to test their suitability to further explore the universe rather than robots or the Aurorains. ... Elijah Baley - Plains clothes Investigator from Earth. ... These traits can be both good and vicious. ...

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Not only do these two beings help me live my life they are the reason that I am on the Earth today. ... This guy has not only become a good friend of mine, but my best friend and I think I have learned more from him that I could begin to teach. ... I believe very strongly that everyone should have someone to admire if not someone to call his or her hero for the simple fact that everyone is on this Earth to become a better person. ...

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There is meaning in our days on earth and it is to seek and live for the meaning that is after life. ... God is in heaven and you are on earth, so let your words be few... "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: if on falls down his friend can help him up. ... For God will bring every deed into judgment; including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. ...

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His idea of the human condition is still somewhat the same as the existential which can be seen rather clearly this excerpt from his poem The Earth God: " To raise man from secret darkness Yet keep his roots clinging to the earth To give him thirst for life, and make death his cupbearer; To endow him with love that waxeth with pain, And exalts with desire, and increases with longing, And fadeth away with the first embrace To girdle his nights with dreams of higher days and his nights And yet confine his days and his nights"[7] In this passage Gibran shows what he feel the predic...

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A good example of this "perfection- is the New Leaf potato. ... This is also an evolutionary advance for humans because it helps us move forward to perfect this advancement or build upon it, since that is a large part of why us humans were put on this earth. ... Even though Darwin had said that we pretty much had the luck of the draw in being the most superior beings on this earth, it is our potential that brought us closer to all of our advancements. ...

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This painting can be seen as a metaphor of abandoning one's own body and reaching the astral sphere; it is a metamorphosis - since every human being is dual - from the physical body into the astral body, from the human body into the liberated body of a vampire, from the good, bright side into the evil, dark one. Going further, those two persons may represent one physical body with two hidden natures which constantly fight against each other, good against evil and vice versa, darkness against light. ... As without the good, there would not be the evil, just like without the light there wou...

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A disciple first must surrender and separate, and then sober in self-assessment, serve in love, and respond to evil with good (xx, xxi). ... God requires each of his children to serve others as Christ served us when He came to earth. ... The end of Romans focuses on overcoming evil with good. ... At the core of true spirituality is a Christian's complete and utter dependence on God's divine power in grace in order that he might perform His good work in us, which He built in us before time began. ...

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Scripture clearly teaches that God has given men and women equally valuable but differing roles in which to operate to accomplish His work here on earth. To disregard the pattern He has set forth in Scripture is to disregard the Designer of life Himself and to assume that we somehow know better than he how to accomplish His work here on earth. ... Conceivably, this may have been acceptable in church, but since church was also household, "the practice was too easily understood to be subversive of the good order of the household and of the authority of the paterfamilias (Dunn 235)." ...

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Ged wonders "what was the good of having power if you were too wise to use it - (p18). ... Here is where Ged starts to learn that his power should be used for good and for the sake of others and not for himself. ... But until that time, and elsewhere than that place, there would never be any rest or peace for Ged, day or night, on earth or sea. ...

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In the end we all know our fate "no matter how good we have been (or conversely, how rotten) we all end up taking the eternal dirt nap. ... A life well lived begins with being honest and truthful to yourself about what you are on this earth to do. ... No one person is all good or all bad. ...

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The questions, -Is God silent- and "Is God hidden- are explained in that Jesus came to the Earth, clothed in human flesh. ... It makes us realize that when comforting, it may not be the best thing to tell those who are hurting that good will result from the pain being experienced in the present. ... If I were always expecting something good all the time, I would be setting myself up for some major disappointment. ...

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As the only species on earth to exhibit such hubris, we see ourselves as true individuals, and work towards standards of perfection in health, inner peace, and material possession. ... While existentialism focuses on discovering man's individual purpose, materialism has a more direct proposition: physical well-being and worldly possessions constitute the greatest good and highest value in life. ... Rather its strategy is to pursue criteria which will capture what is most fundamentally valued "the most valuable among values "and to show that the results of applying these criter...

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Thus helping her to make life on her own a lot less of a struggle and showing us that she has good survival skills. ... A relatively short novel, but long in meaning, leaving me to ponder many questions, one in particular I kept on asking myself was," What if I was the only person on earth!" ...

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The human species sometimes is so totally engrossed in the idea of themselves having infinite possibilities and choices that they forget that having a distinct persona is a good thing, not a bad. Without life experiences to guide one through the course of their days on earth, what else would they have? ...

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Thus helping her to make life on her own a lot less of a struggle and showing us that she has good survival skills. ... A relatively short novel, but long in meaning, leaving me to ponder many questions, one in particular I kept on asking myself was," What if I was the only person on earth!" ...

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It's a heartbreaking and poignant poem and the idea that even though we share this earth, we are essentially alone here, is also communicated in the closing lines. ... Each farmer only looks after what is on his side of the wall and the old neighbour tells the poet that "good fences make good neighbours". ... He challenges his neighbour, saying "why do they make good neighbours?...

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As being said, Cain and Grendel share this idea of a hostile behavior because of the feeling of being an outsider, in other words not being good enough. ... The fight with Grendel displays more of Beowulf's strength saying, "The captain of evil discovered himself in a handgrip harder than anything he had ever encountered in any man on the face of the earth. ...

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The learnings, I would teach the younger generation, are "universal- for each and every person on the Earth: these are respect, dignity and purposefulness of their life. ... The children from the Toni's story are quite a good illustration for what I'm trying to say. ...

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Having a spare clone might seem like a good idea for this particular purpose, but then again this opens up a branch of disputes about what to do with the clone once the organs have been removed. ... All others were to be killed in an effort to wipe out their existence on earth. ...

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