Life in Traditional India Imagine a place where a caste system rules the life of its people, where no matter how hard one works the caste one is in decides their life and where cow dung is considered a magical healer. ... Within a country so far from the modern world, people live strictly by religion and tradition, by following their castes. ... Ones who lived the saintly life that was meant for them, those who chose not to live in a priestly way and chose other professions and those who chose to use their power otherwise. For those that truly did live a "simple and pious- life they chose t...

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Those who have led a fulfilling life and who have lived by God's laws will be rewarded in the afterlife. The righteous will eventually be reunited with their God, in a resurrection of body and soul as a reward of a life well lived. ... That is, they believe that they have only one life to live on this earth. ... If humans do not live the way He has shown as the right way through the Prophet, Muhammad, however, when they are questioned on how they lived their life they will be rewarded accordingly. ... As with Judaism, life is seen as a gift from God and therefore life is expected to be li...

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Socrates could not live with being untrue to himself. ... So he governed himself in a way that he could live with and be happy. This brings about a certain peace of mind and allows him to live life without regret for his decisions that have had some effect on his life and beliefs. ... "I would very much rather defend myslef as I did, and, die, than as you would have had me so and live." ... I guess that the moral protection is that if you think before you act on whatever the situation is, you maybe able to stop yourself from doing wrong to others and having to live life being ashamed o...

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Time does not stop, it is a constant flow of life and once it is gone we cannot get that moment back. No matter what we do, things in life are constantly changing. ... Heraclitus believes that there is one single aspect of reality that is the cause of the short-lived stability of things and that is the uniting source of all things, fire. ... Fire gives our lives structure and a conscious mind to live our lives. ... If someone eats a lot of junk food and doesn't exercise you could reason that they may not live long. ...

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Secondly, the matter of how to live concerns all people. ... Thus, encountering God through the "mystery" and developing an understanding of an ethical life are facets of religious doctrine that concern us all and establish a framework by which we construct our lives. ... Religion presents itself "in moments when one's soul is shaken . . . in moments when all forgone conclusions, all life-stifling trivialities are suspended." ... The bible teaches us that life without commitment is not worthy; that thinking without roots will bear no fruit. ... The religious or spiritual person is th...

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Time goes by, we gradually lost our patience about our life. ... There was a tippler lived in the third planet the little prince visited. ... The most precious thing in life always be the uncountable thing. ... "I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.... So they lived alone, they had no one to talk and became busy every day, doing some so called ma...

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By the virtue of medicine, not only does a person live longer but also lives his life to the fullest in the best of health. ... In short, the patients are often handed a second chance to live. ... Sure, it helps us live a little longer but it also provides us with birth control techniques such as contraceptives and sterility operations to help prevent it. ... This research has shed enormous amount of light on life. ... The democracy that we live in guarantees its citizens with the freedom to choose. ...

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They have no sense of life. They are those that live vicariously through others. There are times in life that you question the meaningfulness of life. ... According to Dante the soul does live after physical death. ... Plato lived in Athena, Greece, in about the same time Aristotle lived there. ...

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In other words, the value of someone's life is measured on a scale of productivity, contribution, and whether or not that life impedes others. ... The mindset on the value of life is clear. ... THE EVOLUTIONIST MINDSET - PURPOSE OF LIFE Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference. These are Darwin's words on the meaning of life. ... Well, many would say to live your life to the fullest, which basically means to l...

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In Marx-Engels Reader, Marx argues that society is merely the product of material conditions that occur over time, which transforms a single individual to a complex society that we live in today. ... Marx explains that it is in human nature that our means of life are to be link with material or physical organisation. ... Thus, by producing their means of subsistence men are indirectly producing their actual material life" (Marx, 150). ... For instance, in the form of ownership in tribal ownership, the production of labour is just at its undeveloped stage because the society lives in a small, s...

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Men must find a truth in themselves, a truth that they must be able to live for. ... If there is nothing to believe in, then life is nothing. The older waiter in the story recognizes the existence of nothing: "Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada" (202). ... Darkness, in contrast, represents the nothingness of life. ... He believed it would give him a purpose in life, living to die for his country. ...

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Stoppard constantly reminds the reader that this is a play, not real life. ... He seems happy to let other people make his decisions for him, right down to whether he will live or die. ... He wants to save his own life, and is willing to trade Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's lives for it. ... He isn't so disturbed about the seeming absurdity and randomness of his life. ... This is where the comedy often comes in: though they might be disturbed by their lack of purpose or relevance in the world they live in, we recognize them as minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, and thus...

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