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  • 1save — 1. v. & n. v. 1 tr. (often foll. by from) rescue, preserve, protect, or deliver from danger, harm, discredit, etc. (saved my life; saved me from drowning). 2 tr. (often foll. by up) keep for future use; reserve; refrain from spending (saved up… …

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  • 2Preparation for Death —     Preparation for Death     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Preparation for Death     ♦ The basic preparation for death     ♦ When should a priest be called?     ♦ Winding up our earthly affairs     ♦ Confession     ♦ Viaticum     ♦ Extreme Unction… …

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  • 3The Sickness Unto Death — Infobox Book | name = The Sickness Unto Death title orig = Sygdommen til Døden translator = image caption = Front cover of the Princeton University Press edition from 1983. author = Søren Kierkegaard illustrator = cover artist = country = Denmark …

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  • 4Faces in the Moon — Infobox Book name = Faces in the Moon image caption = 1994 cover of Faces in the Moon author = Betty Louise Bell country = United States language = English cover artist = Bill Cason series = genre = Native American Literature; Autobiographical… …

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  • 5Taqiyya — Within Shi ite Islamic tradition, [Kohlberg (1977) p. 395] the concept of Taqiyya (تقية fear, guard against ) [ The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions . Ed. John Bowker. Oxford University Press, 2000. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford… …

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  • 6Carpetbagger — In United States history, carpetbaggers was the term southerners gave to northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, between 1865 and 1877. They formed a coalition with freedmen (freed slaves), and scalawags (southern whites who… …

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  • 7ethics — /eth iks/, n.pl. 1. (used with a sing. or pl. v.) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture. 2. the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics;… …

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  • 8Michel Henry — (10 January 1922–3 July 2002) was a French philosopher and novelist. He wrote five novels and numerous philosophical works. He also lectured at universities in France, Belgium, the United States of America, and Japan. Contents 1 Life and work 1.1 …

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  • 9Predestination paradoxes in fiction — Many fictional and mythological works have dealt with various circumstances that can logically arise from time travel, usually dealing with paradoxes. The predestination paradox is a common literary device.Mythology/Self Fulfilling ProphecyWhile… …

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  • 10Salvation — For other uses, see Salvation (disambiguation). Part of a series on Salvation …

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