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You will find only what you bring in. That is why you fail. . You will find only what you bring in. That is why you fail. . Do or do not. There is no try....
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YOGĀCĀRA. The Yogācāra school is, with the Mādhyamika, one of the two main traditions of Indian Buddhism. As the name indicates (yogācāra means "one whose practice is yoga"), t...
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Yogurt is made by curdling milk with purified bacteria cultures that cause the milk sugar, or lactose, to turn into lactic acid. The result is a high-calcium, high-protein dairy food. From early on in its history, yogurt has been linked wi...
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YOGA. Etymologically, the Sanskrit word yoga derives from the root yuj, meaning "to bind together," "hold fast," or "yoke," which also governs the Latin iungere and iugum, the French joug, and so o...
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Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Studios . The series is set in the fictional park of Jellystone. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry...
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Lawrence "Yogi" Berra is one of the most loved figures of the sporting world. The star catcher for the great New York Yankee baseball teams of the mid-twentieth century, he has built a legacy as a dispenser of basic wisdom wo...
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Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way....
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In eastern Yogyakarta city lies the well-preserved Pakualaman Palace, home of the Pakualaman principality. The four palaces—namely Yogyakarta, Pakualaman, Surakarta, and Mangkunegaran—in the Yogyakarta and Surakarta regions e...
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Johannes IV (1836-1889) was an Ethiopian emperor who thwarted Egyptian, Italian, and Sudanese attempts to overrun Ethiopia and took important steps to unify the country. Johannes IV was born in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigre with t...
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Japanese mathematician who in 1988 developed the outline of a proof of Fermat's last theorem, a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for over 300 years. This theorem, inspired by the Pythagorean theorem for determining the leng...
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Born February 18, 1933 Tokyo, Japan Artist, writer, and performer Yoko Ono. © . "When I first came out there was a lot of xenophobia [fear of foreigners] and suspici...
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DJAN'KAWU. The name Djan'kawu (also spelled as Djang'kawu or Djanggawul) refers to ancestral beings described in the mythology of the Dhuwa moiety, or descent group, of the Yolngu people, who live in northeast Arnhem L...
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All the religion's are based on methodology. Some religions believe that by praying once a day will bring them closer to God, and some think praying five times a day will bring them closer to God. For example, Hindus have a day called ...
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Rabbi Yom Tov of Joigny (died 1190) was a French-born English rabbi and poet. He died in the massacre of all the Jews of York in 1190. His hymn "Omnam Kayn" is recited in all Ashkenazi synagogues each year on the evening of the Day of Aton...
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SOURCE: A review of 'The American Diary of a Japanese Girl ', in The Bookman, January, 1913, p. 240. In the following essay, a review of The American Diary of a Japanese Girl, a critic observes that the book's supposedly naive narrator poss...
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Yung-lo (1360-1424) was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, and in his reign the dynasty reached the height of its power owing to his military prowess and civil reforms. A favorite son of Hung-wu, Chu Ti, whose reign title was ...
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YONI is a Sanskrit word with various meanings such as "womb, vulva, vagina; place of birth, source, origin, spring; abode, home, lair, nest; family, race, stock, caste," and so on. It is etymologically derived from the verbal...
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"The Acrophile" is a story touched by hallucination and abounding in symbols. One does not always comprehend [the protagonist] Daani's motivations, follow his thought convolutions, or sympathize with his self-torment. But one respects his s...
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Yordan Radichkov is the most original fiction writer and playwright in Bulgarian literature in the second half of the twentieth century, one who has created works that are appreciated both within his country and abroad. The recognition of ...
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Yordan Yovkov has the reputation, along with Elin Pelin, of being one of the two outstanding Bulgarian prose writers in the period between the world wars. Of the many attempts to characterize him, "visionary realist," "dreamer," and "bard ...
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Yorkshire , a historic county of northern England . It is the largest historic county in Great Britain and has a population of over 5 million people. Contents 1 About the County 2 About Yorkshire people 3 References 4 External links // Abo...
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YORUBA RELIGION. The twelve to fifteen million Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, the Republic of Benin (formerly Dahomey), and Togo (topographically the area is defined as that between 6°0–9°5' 2°41&...
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This is a selection of Yoruba proverbs. A translation is given for each proverb but no indictaion is given of usage or meaning (apart from the last three). This is left to the reader to determine, though other editors should feel free to a...
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SOURCE: "Yosano Akiko," in Modern Japanese Poets and the Nature of Literature, Stanford University Press, 1983, pp. 53-94. A Japanese-born critic and translator, Ueda is the author of several volumes of criticism on Japanese literature. In ...
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The Jewish codifier Joseph ben Ephraim Caro (1488-1575) is the most universally recognized authority on Jewish law and practice. Joseph Caro was born in Spain or Portugal. His family was expelled from Spain in 1492 and then continued eastw...
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Yosemite National Park is a 748,542-acre (303,160-ha) park, located on the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas in northern California. The name Yosemite comes from the name of an Indian tribe, the U-zu-ma-ti, who were massacred in 1851 b...
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The technique and mind are just like the front and back of one’s hand, meaning they are very closely related....
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Yoshida Kenkō (Japanese: 吉田兼好; 1283 ? – 1350 ?) was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezure-Gusa ( Essays in Idleness ), one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Born Urabe Ka...
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Ambition never comes to an end. Ambition never comes to an end....
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(1830–1859), Japanese nationalist. Yoshida Shoin was born Yoshida Norikaka in the castle town of Hagi in Choshu. He was adopted by his uncle. At the age of eighteen he began a series of long journeys for the purpose of learning abou...
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Furui Yoshikichi, the youngest of four children, was born in Tokyo. Both his parents had come from Gifu Prefecture, where his father's family had been wealthy. During World War II the Furui home in Tokyo was bombed, and the family evacuate...
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Yoshio Kodama was the fifth son of an unsuccessful businessman in Nihonmatsu City, Japan. He was sent to Korea to be raised by relatives. In Korea, Kodama's upbringing was filled with isolation and child labor in industry. These experience...
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Yossef ("Yossi") Beilin (born in Petah Tikva, June 12, 1948) is a leftist Israeli politician, Knesset member, and a former deputy foreign minister and justice minister within the Israeli Labour Party. He is currently chairman of Meretz-Yac...
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