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    quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors”. If you’ve ever taken a tour of my temporary home here at university‚ you’d find quotes scattered across my study area‚ laminated on walls and mirrors. From Maya Angelou’s words of wisdom to C.S. Lewis’s brave words of: “I was made for another world”‚ I’ve collected words which have surely allowed me to put words with faces‚ find healing‚ gain a new perspective of life‚ of the people in passing‚ and the experiences which connect us

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    Wisdom” and “Immune To Reality” In Robert Thurman’s essay the “Wisdom‚ he talks about ways in trying to find oneself by looking deep down inside. He also goes into detail to explain what selflessness really mean. Selflessness is a kind of a way of emptying your body of all the negative things and emotions deep down inside. Coming to realize that everything is not about you is one way of experiencing selflessness. Realizing that even though you are in your own body‚ you are still apart of this

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    my words of wisdom

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    1. The facts are that this is a non- profit organization that needs to find some grants for some foundations to hire an administrative assistant to help with volunteer director to reduce the work load. Three foundations had accepted the proposal which gave them more money than what was expected. Two of the foundations asked that the money be handled in the way proposed to make sure that the money that will be spent is only spent for the reason intended. They were concerned that the money would not

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    Small Groups

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    In the essays‚ “Committees‚ Juries‚ and Teams: The Columbia Disaster and How Small Groups Can Be Made to Work‚” and “The Hive” shows the ways to properly run a small group and how to get the correct and best results. The two essays also say what to avoid when working in a small group; for example how to avoid group polarization and why that is detrimental to small groups. The essay by James Surowiecki also explains to avoid a type of dictator in the small group‚ someone who is the main mouthpiece

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    Wisdom Sits in Places

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    Although places are the backdrops for the activities of a culture‚ and place-names serve as reference points for these locations‚ both are socially constructed and this construction takes place in large part through language. Basso brings attention to the dialectic interplay between the construction of place and the definition of community for the Western Apache. While a relationship with the landscape exists to reinforce the cultural ideology of the Western Apache‚ such would not be possible without

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    “There has not been “an incident in Byzantine history with which the church of St. Sophia is not associated.”1 The Church of the Divine Wisdom has a long and storied history‚ much of it drenched in the blood of those who died fighting over it. On May 28‚ 1453‚ Constantine XI entered Hagia Sophia to pray while the crowning jewel of his empire‚ Constantinople‚ was being raided and burned by Mehmed II‚ a Muslim invader with an extensive army at his back. The emperor prayed at the church before climbing

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    A man like Socrates who is seeking for the truth about knowledge and wisdom came across many obstacles as one would. In Plato’s Apology‚ Socrates remembers the time his friend‚ Chairephon asked an oracle at the Oracle at Delphi is anyone was wiser than Socrates‚ as to the oracle replied to Chairephon telling him that no one was wiser. Socrates heard this reply and thought “Whatever does the god mean? What is his riddle? I am very conscious that I am not wise at all; what then does he mean by saying

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    Socrates pursues wisdom in many ways. I would specifically like to elaborate on his search for someone wiser than him in Athens‚ as my example. Socrates questions Politicians first in his pursuit. He wanted to see if these people were wiser than him‚ which is why he questions these people In the first place Socrates questions a politician‚ however he comes up short. He understood that these politicians did not know much of anything; “he thinks he knows something when he does not‚ whereas when I

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    thoughts along different lines and not examining the same thing” Rene’ Descartes pg. (1) “Discourse on Method” by Rene’ Descartes Wisdom‚ according to Rene’ Descartes‚ can be reached when an individual abandons all other influence and challenges the course of their own personal knowledge by seeking supreme understanding. He believed that everybody is capable of wisdom‚ but to gain it a person must challenge their very own mind. In the book‚ “Discourse on Method”‚ Descartes describes his method for

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