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  2. Slavery as a positive good in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Slavery as a positive good in the United States was the prevailing view of Southern politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or a necessary evil. They defended the legal enslavement of people for their labor as a benevolent, paternalistic institution with social and ...

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Below is an alphabetical list of widely used and repeated proverbial phrases. If known, their origins are noted. A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition.

  4. Starvation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Starvation (crime), a crime under international law Starvation (computer science), a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work

  5. ‘Starve Acre’ Review: Formidably Freaky New Slab of British ...

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    The particular tea-stained finish of Adam Scarth’s cinematography — drenching the film in a kind of year-round fall fug — is our first clue that “Starve Acre” is set in a 1970s Britain ...

  6. Feed a cold, starve a fever - Wikipedia

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    "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage or a wives' tale which attempts to instruct people how to deal with illness. The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease.

  7. Starvation - Wikipedia

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    Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition.In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage [1] and eventually, death.

  8. Buridan's ass - Wikipedia

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    Although Buridan nowhere discusses this specific problem, its relevance is that he did advocate a moral determinism whereby, save for ignorance or impediment, a human faced by alternative courses of action must always choose the greater good. In the face of equally good alternatives Buridan believed a rational choice could not be made. [5]

  9. Two Wolves - Wikipedia

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    The story of the Two Wolves is a memetic legend of unknown origin, commonly attributed to Cherokee or other indigenous American peoples in popular retelling. The legend is usually framed as a grandfather or elder passing wisdom to a young listener; the elder describes a battle between two wolves within one’s self, using the battle as a metaphor for inner conflict.