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  2. Thirst - Wikipedia

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    According to preliminary research, quenching of thirst – the homeostatic mechanism to stop drinking – occurs via two neural phases: a "preabsorptive" phase which signals quenched thirst many minutes before fluid is absorbed from the stomach and distributed to the body via the circulation, and a "postabsorptive" phase which is regulated by ...

  3. Taṇhā - Wikipedia

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    Quenching and blowing out these fires completely, is the path to final release from dukkha and saṃsāra, in Buddhism. [12] The Pali texts, states David Webster, repeatedly recommend that one must destroy taṇhā completely, and this destruction is necessary for nirvāṇa .

  4. Tantalus - Wikipedia

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    Tantalus (Ancient Greek: Τάνταλος Tántalos), also called Atys, was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment in Tartarus: for revealing many secrets of the gods and for trying to trick them into eating his son, he was made to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches, with the fruit ever eluding his grasp, and the water always receding before he ...

  5. Trishna (Vedic thought) - Wikipedia

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    Gautama Buddha said that the cause of sorrow – the second of the Four Noble Truths – is desire; and the cause of desire is tanha or trishna. [8]The truth is - that deeds come from upādāna (clinging to existence), upādāna comes from trishna (craving), trishna comes from vedana (torture), the perception of pain and pleasure, the desire for rest; sensation (contact with objects) brings ...

  6. Lethe - Wikipedia

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    The English poet John Keats references the river in poems "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on Melancholy" written in 1819. In Faust, Part Two, the titular character, Faust, is bathed "in the dew of Lethe" so that he would forget what happened in Faust, Part One. A remorseful Faust would not work well with the rest of Part 2.

  7. Buridan's ass - Wikipedia

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    Since the paradox assumes the ass will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water. [1] A common variant of the paradox substitutes the hay and water for two identical piles of hay; the ass, unable to choose between the two, dies of hunger.

  8. Najat Abdul Samad - Wikipedia

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    Abdul Samad was born in As-Suwayda, Syria, in 1967 as part of the local Druze community. After her medical training as a gynecologist and obstetrician at the University of Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine and working in this profession for several years, she obtained a degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Damascus University.

  9. Matthew 12:20 - Wikipedia

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    He shall not quench a smoking flax, shows the feebleness of that spark which though not quenched, only moulders in the flax, and that among the remnants of that ancient grace, the Spirit is yet not quite taken away from Israel, but power still remains to them of resuming the whole flame thereof in a day of penitence."