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  2. Opening sentence - Wikipedia

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    Techniques to hold the reader's attention include keeping the opening sentence to the point, showing attitude, shocking, and being controversial. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] One of the most famous opening lines, " It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ", starts a sentence of 118 words [ 4 ] that draws the reader in by its contradiction; the first ...

  3. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    (See Rom 6:23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.") strenuis ardua cedunt: the heights yield to endeavour: Motto of the University of Southampton. stricto sensu cf. sensu stricto: with the tight meaning: Less literally, "in the strict sense". stupor mundi: the wonder of the world

  4. Amor fati - Wikipedia

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    Amor fati is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate".It is used to describe an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary.

  5. Eternity - Wikipedia

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    Eternity, in common parlance, is an infinite amount of time that never ends or the quality, condition or fact of being everlasting or eternal. [1] Classical philosophy , however, defines eternity as what is timeless or exists outside time, whereas sempiternity corresponds to infinite duration.

  6. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    Perfectly correct Latin sentence usually reported as funny from modern Italians because the same exact words, in today's dialect of Rome, mean "A black dog eats a beautiful peach", which has a ridiculously different meaning. canes pugnaces: war dogs or fighting dogs: canis canem edit: dog eats dog

  7. The Immortal (short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Immortal" has been described as a fictional exploration of Nietzsche's theory of eternal recurrence, in which infinite time has wiped out the identity of individuals. [1] The story can be compared to Homer 's Odyssey , in the sense that it is a tribute to the universal, mythical proportion of Homer's work. [ 2 ]

  8. Eternal - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Eternal(s) or The Eternal may refer to: Eternity, ...

  9. Sub specie aeternitatis - Wikipedia

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    The senses present things only as they appear from a given perspective at a given moment in time. An adequate idea, on the other hand, by showing how a thing follows necessarily from one or another of God's attributes, presents it in its "eternal" aspects—sub specie aeternitatis, as Spinoza puts it—without any relation to time. "It is of ...