Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Tibetan Buddhist belief, the material world is a school through which all souls pass in order to learn the spiritual lessons of sympathy for human suffering, patience, humility, and love. Death, they feel, is simply a release from the illusion of the material world. They believe in each life the soul within its body acts on the environment for a limited time, until, like a lightbulb, the body burns out, allowing the soul, or electricity to flow on. This soul is born again and again in material form, until it has learned all the lessons of the earth...
...John Paul, activism is essential on human rights. "If a person's right to life is violated at the moment in which he is first conceived in his mother's womb," he has said, "an indirect blow is struck also at the whole of the moral order." He urged the cheering crowd in Washington to "demand that society give all life its protection...
...world could we purchase these parts. It was necessary to invent everything: dynamos, regulators, meters, switches, fuses, fixtures, underground conductors with their necessary connecting boxes, and a host of other detail parts, even down to insulating tape." They did, and on Sept. 4, 1882, Edison gave the order to throw the switch lighting up a small section of downtown Manhattan...
...line about reincarnation and karma, which he ran on his girlfriend Nicole. Quite cold-bloodedly, Gilmore murdered two defenseless men-a motel clerk and a law school student working as a gas station attendant. He also made repeated efforts to persuade Nicole to commit suicide in order to join him in the great beyond...
...liberate India from British colonial rule and was repeatedly jailed as an agitator. After independence in 1947, Narayan was heir apparent to Nehru as Prime Minister, but he abandoned national politics in 1954 to devote the next 20 years to sarvodaya, a movement that called for a new social order free of economic exploitation. Narayan returned to the political forefront in 1974, to lead the opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and help form the Janata Front, which eventually defeated her in the 1977 elections...