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Art is Dead
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Samuel L. Jackson: Actor Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award at BET Ceremony
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Newly industrialized country (NIC)
The category of newly industrialized country (NIC) is a socioeconomic classification applied to several countries around the world by political scientists and economists.
NICs usually share some other common features, including:
- Strong political leaders.
- A switch from agricultural to industrial economies, especially in the manufacturing sector.
- An increasingly open-market economy, allowing free trade with other countries in the world.
- Large national corporations operating in several continents.
- Strong capital investment from foreign countries.
- Political leadership in their area of influence.
- Rapid growth of urban centers and population.
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SAMO©
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What is life all about?
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LIVE WIRES
Due to faulty infrastructure, many urban areas suffer from frequent
blackouts and power cuts, and the electrical grid often doesn’t serve
the people who need it most.
I’ve visited many cities filled
with tangled wires such as those in this photo from Thailand, where
people have illegally tapped into the grid on their own to get the power
they need—at great personal risk.
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What is the purpose of existence?
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Catch the wave. #Brexit #Texit
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Marcel Duchamp 1968 BBC interview
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What is the meaning of life?
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There is no better than here. When your there becomes a here you will simply obtain another there that again looks better than here.
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Sutra
Without explanation:
Soul is, for there is no proof that it is not. (Sutra 1, Book 6) This
different from body, because heterogeneous. (Sutra 2, Book 6) Also
because it is expressed by means of the sixth. (Sutra 3, Book 6)
With Vijnanabhiksu’s explanatory bhasya filled in:
Soul is, for there is no proof that it is not, since we are aware of “I
think”, because there is no evidence to defeat this. Therefore all that
is to be done is to discriminate it from things in general. (Sutra 1,
Book 6) This soul is different from the body because of heterogeneous or
complete difference between the two. (Sutra 2, Book 6) Also because it,
the Soul, is expressed by means of the sixth case, for the learned
express it by the possessive case in such examples as ‘this is my body’,
‘this my understanding’; for the possessive case would be unaccountable
if there were absolute non-difference, between the body or the like,
and the Soul to which it is thus attributed as a possession. (Sutra 3,
Book 6)
–Kapila in Samkhya Sutra, Translated by James Robert Ballantyne