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  • 1Shortcut to Happiness — Infobox Film | name = Shortcut to Happiness caption = Movie poster for Shortcut to Happiness director = Alec Baldwin (credited as Harry Kirkpatrick } producer = Randall Emmett George Furla Bob Yari David Glasser writer = Pete Dexter Bill Condon… …

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  • 2Spiritual materialism — or spiritual narcissism are terms used to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn the pursuit of spiritualism into an ego building and confusion creating endeavor.Ferrer (2001) p.35] This is based on the idea that ego development is …

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  • 3Sadhana — For other uses, see Sadhana (disambiguation). Japanese Sadhana (Buddhism) …

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  • 4To Hell with the Goddamn Spring — ( es. Al diablo la maldita primavera) is a Colombian play, based on the novel of the same name by Alonso Sánchez Baute (which won the Opera prima award in 2002). It was adapted for the theatre by Colombian director Jorge Ali Triana in 2004. The… …

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  • 5pleasure — n. 1. Enjoyment, gratification, comfort, delight, joy, gladness, temporary happiness, satisfaction, solace. 2. Sensuality, voluptuousness, luxury, animal gratification. 3. Will, choice, preference, purpose, wish, mind, desire. 4. Favor, kindness …

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  • 6performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 7Limbo — • A word of Teutonic derivation, meaning literally hem or border, as of a garment, or anything joined on Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Limbo     Limbo      …

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  • 8japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …

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  • 9Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …

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  • 10literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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