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...assiduously, and in the first instance cold-bloodedly, go through the out-ward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will infallibly come in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead. Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment and your heart must be frigid indeed if it do not gradually thaw...
...Gnostic viewpoint. Composed about the middle of the 2nd century, the Gospel could not have been written by Philip the Apostle, who is recorded in John as one of the first disciples gathered by Jesus and as an onlooker at the miracle of the loaves and fishes. In stead, following a custom of the early Christian era, it was written by some unknown author who sought to give his own writings the ring of authority by purporting to speak in some measure for the Apostle. Unlike the already translated Gospel of Thomas, from the same Nag Hammadi collection, Philip contains...
...tolerant and allow our official action to be thoroughly scrutinized no matter how it hurts. Failure to tolerate the existence of an opposition party...Is the easiest invitation to dictatorship...We should not give the impression that we have extinguished British colonial rule only to enthrone in its stead its Nigerian counterpart...
...Finney. Bright, miserably shy and introverted, Courtenay himself is the living opposite of the boy he plays on film. His father spent his working lifetime painting trawlers. "The only way he could have earned less than he did was not to have worked at all," says Tom. But in stead of filling him with resentment, Courtenay's humble beginnings inspired him. Under Britain's weed-killing series of national examinations, only one in thousands from a background like Courtenay's ever receives more than an elementary education. Courtenay...
...longer have to contend with the studied inconsistencies of Bertha Eastmond, the train conductor's daughter who presided over the contents of the little black and orange book for nearly 40 years until her death in 1960. But the mysterious tribunal that sits in judgment in her stead is still impossible to outguess-even in terms of getting one's listing switched from one of the eleven other regional editions to the New York book. It may take years, or it may never happen. (Neither Serena Russell nor her parents are in the Register...