Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Happiness, pleasure or joy is an emotional or affective state in which we feel good or happy. Overlapping states or experiences include joy, exultation, delight, bliss, and love. Antonyms include suffering, sadness, grief, and pain. The term pleasure is sometimes used to ...

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• Happiness - Terminology
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• Happiness - Mechanistic view
• Happiness - Biological basis
• Happiness - Difficulties in defining internal experiences
• Happiness - In non-human animals
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• Happiness - In Artificial intelligence
• Happiness - Positive effect study
• Happiness - Behaviors and emotions associated with happiness

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The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, commonly known as Opus Dei (Latin for "Work of God") or Opus ("the Work"), is a prelature created by the Roman Catholic Church, composed of a prelate, secular priests, and lay people, whose mission is to spread the Catholic teaching that everyone is called to become a saint and an apostle. The Opus Dei Prelature "encourages Christians of all social classes to live consistently with their faith in the middle of ...

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• Opus Dei - Instruction and training
• Opus Dei - Doctrine demands and consequences
• Opus Dei - Novelty of doctrine and controversies
• Opus Dei - Fidelity and truth vs. ultraconservatism
• Opus Dei - Demands: theological basis
• Opus Dei - Allegations of being a cult
• Opus Dei - Canonisation of Opus Dei's founder
• Opus Dei - Opus Dei in society
• Opus Dei - Mission and general strategy
• Opus Dei - Membership profile
• Opus Dei - Activities and work
• Opus Dei - Freedom and pluralism vs. far-right politics
• Opus Dei - Revolutionary or conservative?
• Opus Dei - History of Opus Dei: A timeline
• Opus Dei - Footnotes

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The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, is a list of religious and moral imperatives which, according to the Bible, was spoken by God to Moses on Mount Sinai and engraved on two stone tablets. They feature prominently in Judaism and Christianity. In Biblical Hebrew language they are termed עשרת הדברים (translit. Aseret ha-Dvarîm), and in Rabbinical Hebrew עשרת הדברות (translit. Aseret ha-Dibrot), both translatable as "the ten statements". The name decalogue is derived from the Greek name δέκα λόγοι or dekalogoi ("ten statements") found in the Septuag ...

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• Ten Commandments - Exodus 20/Deuteronomy 5
• Ten Commandments - Written in stone
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• Ten Commandments - Second set
• Ten Commandments - 10 Commandments or more?
• Ten Commandments - Texts of the commandments
• Ten Commandments - Jewish understanding
• Ten Commandments - The ten statements
• Ten Commandments - Jewish interpretation
• Ten Commandments - Special status
• Ten Commandments - Samaritan understanding
• Ten Commandments - Christian understanding
• Ten Commandments - Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity
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• Ten Commandments - Typical Protestant view
• Ten Commandments - Jehovah's Witnesses
• Ten Commandments - Muslim understanding
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• Ten Commandments - Sabbath day
• Ten Commandments - Idolatry
• Ten Commandments - Public monuments and controversy in the USA
• Ten Commandments - Origins

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The concept of peace ranks among the most controversial in our time. Peace undoubtedly carries a positive connotation; almost nobody admits to opposing peace; world peace is widely seen as one of the most noble goals of humanity. Various groups, however, differ sharply about what peace entails, how best to achieve peace, and whether peace is even truly possible. Peace - What is peace?. Peace is many things: the meaning of the word peace changes with context. Peace may refer specifically to an agreement conc ...

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• Peace - Absence of war
• Peace - Absence of violence or of evil; presence of justice
• Peace - Plural peaces
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• Peace - Inner peace
• Peace - Environmental Peace
• Peace - Is violence necessary?
• Peace - Historical examples and counter examples
• Peace - Peacemakers
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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Depression, or, more properly, a depressed mood, refers to a state of non-clinical melacholia that is shorter than 2 weeks in duration and distinctly differentiated from a diagnosis of clinical Depression. A depressed mood is generally situational and reactive, and associated w ...

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• Depression mood - Environment
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• Depression mood - Physiological Considerations
• Depression mood - Adaptive benefits of depression

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Humans or human beings define themselves in biological, social, and spiritual terms. Biologically, humans are classified as the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "thinking man"): a bipedal primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, together with the other apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons. Humans have an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects and a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, speech, language, and ...

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• Human - Life cycle
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• Human - Race and ethnicity
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• Human - Population
• Human - Human evolution
• Human - Intelligence
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• Human - Origins
• Human - Language
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• Human - Body image
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• Human - Mind
• Human - Psychology and human ethology
• Human - Philosophy
• Human - Motivation
• Human - Self-reflection and humanism
• Human - Spirit

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See also: 1973 in television, other events of 1974, 1975 in television and the list of 'years in television'. For the American network television schedule, please see 1974-75 American network television schedule. 1974 in television - Events. February 8 - The Secret Storm airs its 5195th and final episode. The show is replaced ten days later by Tattletales, a game show hosted by Bert Convy. March 13 - The Execution of Private Slovik. A made for television fil ...

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• 1974 in television - Ending this year
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See also: 1959 in music, other events of 1960, 1961 in music, 1960s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1960 in music - Events. January 14 - Elvis Presley is promoted to Sergeant in the U.S. Army February 6 - Songwriter Jesse Belvin dies in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, California. Belvin was the co-author of "Earth Angel," the Penguins' classic from 1954 February 17 - The Everly Brothers sign a 10-year, $1 million contract with Warner Bros. Records. March 5 - ...

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• 1960 in music - Classical music
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• 1960 in music - Births
• 1960 in music - Deaths
• 1960 in music - Awards
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• 1960 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

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The Báb · Abdu'l-Bahá Kitáb-i-Aqdas · Kitáb-i-Íqán The Hidden Words Administrative Order The Guardian Universal House of Justice Continental Counsellors Spiritual Assembly Haifa · Akká Shiraz · Baghdad Bahá'í History · Timeline Bábís · Shaykh Ahmad Táhirih · Quddús · Badí' Shoghi Effendi Rúhíyyih Khanum Unity of humanity Unity of religion Gender equality Universal education Science and religion Auxilliary language Symbols · Humor · Laws Calendar · Including:

• Bahá'í teachings - Overview
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• Bahá'í teachings - Mystical Teachings
• Bahá'í teachings - Excerpts from the Bahá'í Writings
• Bahá'í teachings - Oneness of Mankind
• Bahá'í teachings - Unity of Religion
• Bahá'í teachings - Drugs
• Bahá'í teachings - Government

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Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure. In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes. Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness
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• Suffering - Spinozistic Definition of Sorrow

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This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2001, see the links below. 2000s - The decade as a whole. The 2000s decade refers to the years from 2000 to 2009, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. So far, the 2000s has been marked generally with an escalation of the social issues a ...

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Although the term initially described relations between individuals, it is at times used for political purposes to describe relations between states or peoples ("the Franco-German friendship," for example), indicating in this case an affinity or mutuality of purpose between the two nations. Regarding this aspect of international relations, Lord Palmerston has said that, "Nations have no permanent frien ...

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Friendship, Friendship - Etymology, Friendship - History, Friendship - A tradition in decline, Friendship - Physical manifestations, Friendship - Types, Friendship - Developmental issues, Friendship - Cultural variations, Friendship - Russia, Friendship - Greece, Friendship - Asia, Friendship - Modern west, Friendship - Types of Friendships, Friendship - Non-personal friendships, Friendship - Interspecies friendship, Friendship - Colloquial nomenclature, Friendship - Friendship contrasted with comradeship, Friendship - Bibliography

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Empedocles (c. 490 BC – c. 430 BC) was a Greek presocratic philosopher and a citizen of Agrigentum, a Greek colony in Sicily. He maintained that all matter is made up of four Elements (which he called roots): water, earth, air and fire. In addition to these, he postulated something called Love (philia) to explain the attraction of different forms of matter, and of something called Strife (neikos) to account for their separation. He was also one of the first people to state the theory that light travels at a finite (although very large) speed, ...

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Emotions are essentially impulses that move an organism to action, originating automatic reaction behavior which has been adapted through evolution as a survival need. Davidoff (1980) defines emotion as a feeling that is expressed through physiological functions such as facial expressions, faster heartbeat, and behaviors such as aggression, crying, covering face with hands, and so on. Emotion is complex, and the term has no single universally accepted definition. Emotions are mental states that arise spontaneously, rather than ...

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• Emotion - Theoretical traditions
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• Emotion - Physical responses to emotion
• Emotion - Computer models of emotion
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Aristophanes (c. 448 BC-380 BC; Greek ΄Αριστοφανης) was a Greek comic dramatist. The place and even the exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was probably educated in Athens. He was from the Athenian deme of Kudathenaium. He is famous for writing comedies such as The Birds for the two Athenian festivals: the Dionysia and the Lenea. He wrote forty plays, eleven of which still survive, and his plays are the only surviving examples of Old Attic Comedy. Many of his plays were political, and often satirized ...

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• Aristophanes - Surviving plays
• Aristophanes - Dated non-surviving plays
• Aristophanes - Undated non-surviving plays

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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise See Envy (band) for the Japanese hardcore band. See Envy (film) for the 2004 comedy film. See Fullmetal Alchemist for the character named Envy i ...

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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Hate or hatred is an emotion of intense revulsion, distaste, enmity, or antipathy for a person, thing, or phenomenon; a desire to avoid, restrict, remove, or destroy its object. The emotion is often stigmatized; yet it serves imp ...

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Lust is a term for an intense desire or craving, usually sexual although it is also common usage to talk of a "lust for life" or a "lust for power" or other goals. As a sexual term, lust implies a sexual desire in and of itself, an erotic arousal and wish, or intense physical or sexual attraction or craving. In this sense, it is considered a vice by Christianity, and is listed as one of the Seven deadly sins. On the other hand, many people see lust as the purest form of love. This viewpoint argues that bein ...

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An intimate relationship is a interpersonal relationship with a great deal of physical or emotional intimacy. It is usually characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment. Sexuality may or may not be involved. Intimate relationship - Love. Love is an important factor in intimate relationships. Research has established that love is more than just liking a lot, and is distinct from sexual attraction. Typically love in relationships is divided into two types: passionate and companionate. P ...

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Acceptance Anger Anticipation Boredom Disgust Envy Fear Guilt Hate Hope Joy Jealousy Love Remorse Sadness Sorrow Surprise Jealousy is an emotion experienced by one who perceives that another person is giving something that s/he wants or feels is due to them (often attention, love, or affection) to an alternate. For example, a child will likely become jealous when their parents give sweets to a sibling but not t ...

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• Jealousy - Other usages
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Suffixes with the common part -phil- (-phile, -philia, -philic) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something. They are antonymic to suffixes -phob-. Phil- may also be used as a prefix with a similar meaning. Philia (φιλία) as a Greek word for love refers to brotherly love, including friendship and affection. This contrasts to the Greek terms Eros, or sexual/romantic love, and agapē, or detached, spiritual ...

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• -phil- - National
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• -phil- - Other
• -phil- - Prefix phil-

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"Until death do us part." —common ending words of a Christian wedding vow "With this ring I thee wed." —from the traditional Church of England marriage-ceremony formula "With this ring, you are consecrated to me according to the law of Moses and Israel." —translated from the Hebrew words said at a Jewish wedding "N., take this ring as a sign of my love and fidelity. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." —f ...

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Wedding ring, Wedding ring - Traditional customs, Wedding ring - Pre-wedding customs, Wedding ring - Wedding ceremony customs, Wedding ring - Post-wedding customs, Wedding ring - Contemporary usage, Wedding ring - Materials, Wedding ring - Styles patterns fashions, Wedding ring - Quotes

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