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This world-order , the same for all, no god nor man did create, but it ever was and is and will be: ever-living fire, kindling in measures and being quenched in measures. [bl] This is the oldest extant quote using kosmos, or order, to mean the world. [84] [85] Heraclitus seems to say fire is the one thing eternal in the universe. [86]
The word rhei (ρέι, cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream"; according to Plato's Cratylus, it is related to the etymology of Rhea. πάντοτε ζητεῖν τὴν ἀλήθειαν pántote zeteῖn tḕn alḗtheian "ever seeking the truth" — Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers [24] — a characteristic of ...
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Failure to reason correctly brings about the occurrence of pathē—a word translated as passions, emotions, or affections. [3] [4] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers. [3] The Stoics used the word to discuss generic emotions such as anger, fear and joy. [3]
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.
The first paragraph of the speech was worded to reinforce Roosevelt's portrayal of the United States as a victim of unprovoked Japanese aggression. The initial draft read, "a date which will live in world history". Roosevelt rephrased it as "a date which will live in infamy." [12] The wording was deliberately passive.
Another political interpretation was given in 1898 by a cartoon in the American magazine Puck, urging American intervention in Cuba on the eve of the Spanish–American War (illustrated). More recently, a report in The Guardian about the climate crisis stated that a panel session twice had to be moved because of climate-induced bushfires.
Lighting a fart. Fart lighting, also known as pyroflatulence or flatus ignition, is the practice of igniting the gases produced by flatulence.The resulting flame is often of a blue hue hence the act being known colloquially as a "blue angel", "blue dart" or in Australia, a "blue flame".