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  2. Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention

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    Obey orders in all your actions. (一切行动听指挥) Do not take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses. (不拿群众一针一线) Turn in everything captured. (一切缴获要归公) The Eight Points for Attention: Speak politely. (说话和气) Pay fairly for what you buy. (买卖公平) Return everything you borrow ...

  3. Languages of science - Wikipedia

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    The gradual disuse of Latin opened an uneasy transition period as more and more works were only accessible in local languages. Many national European languages held the potential to become a language of science within a specific research field: some scholars "took measures to learn Swedish so they could follow the work of [the Swedish chemist] Bergman and his compatriots."

  4. Obedience - Wikipedia

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    Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". [1] Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, [2] and from conformity, which is ...

  5. Ritual behavior in animals - Wikipedia

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    Animal faith is the study of animal behaviours that suggest proto-religious faith. It is commonly believed that religion and faith are unique to humans, [1] [2] [3] largely due to the typical dictionary definition of the word religion (see e.g. Wiktionary or Dictionary.com) requiring belief in a deity, which has not been observed in non-human animals. [4]

  6. Pumping lemma for context-free languages - Wikipedia

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    The pumping lemma for context-free languages (called just "the pumping lemma" for the rest of this article) describes a property that all context-free languages are guaranteed to have. The property is a property of all strings in the language that are of length at least p {\displaystyle p} , where p {\displaystyle p} is a constant—called the ...

  7. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    Taiwan (other national languages of Taiwan are Mandarin, Formosan languages, [26] Hakka [28] and Taiwanese Hokkien. [27]) Taiwanese Hokkien: Taiwan (using Traditional Chinese characters and/or pe̍h-oē-jī (Latin letters); other national languages of Taiwan are Mandarin, Formosan languages, [26] Hakka [28] and Taiwan Sign Language. [27]) Tajik:

  8. Second-language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    There are other rankings of language difficulty as the one by The British Foreign Office Diplomatic Service Language Centre which lists the difficult languages in Class I (Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin); the easier languages are in Class V (e.g. Afrikaans, Bislama, Catalan, French, Spanish, Swedish). [12]

  9. Passive obedience - Wikipedia

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    [3] However, Berkeley does make exceptions to this sweeping moral statement, stating that we need not observe precepts of "usurpers or even madmen" [4] and that people can obey different supreme authorities if there are more than one claims to the highest authority (§52). On the other hand, Berkeley also insists that disobedience to a tyrant ...