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| The Ancient World: 100 BCE-250 CE |
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22 Everything is made of water |
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22 | (2) |
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The Dao that can be told is not the eternal |
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24 | (2) |
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas |
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26 | (4) |
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Happy is he who has overcome his ego |
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30 | (4) |
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles |
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34 | (6) |
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40 | (1) |
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41 | (1) |
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Man is the measure of all things |
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42 | (2) |
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When one throws to me a peach, I return to him a plum |
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44 | (1) |
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space |
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45 | (1) |
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The life which is unexamined is not worth living |
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46 | (4) |
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Earthly knowledge is but shadow |
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50 | (6) |
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Truth resides in the world around us |
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56 | (8) |
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64 | (2) |
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He has the most who is most content with the least |
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66 | (1) |
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature |
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67 | (5) |
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| The Medieval World: 250-1500 |
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God is not the parent of evils |
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72 | (2) |
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God foresees our free thoughts and actions |
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74 | (2) |
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The soul is distinct from the body |
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76 | (4) |
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Just by thinking about God we can know he exists |
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80 | (2) |
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Philosophy and religion are not incompatible |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (2) |
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Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form |
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86 | (2) |
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Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi |
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The universe has not always existed |
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88 | (8) |
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To know nothing is the happiest life |
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91 | (11) |
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| Renaissance And The Age Of Reason: 1500-1150 |
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The end justifies the means |
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102 | (6) |
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Fame and tranquillity can never be bedfellows |
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108 | (2) |
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110 | (2) |
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112 | (4) |
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116 | (8) |
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Imagination decides everything |
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124 | (2) |
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God is the cause of all things, which are in him |
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126 | (4) |
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience |
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130 | (4) |
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There are two kinds of truths: truths of reasoning and truths of fact |
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134 | (4) |
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138 | (8) |
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| The Age Of Revolution: 1150-1900 |
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd |
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146 | (2) |
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Custom is the great guide of human life |
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148 | (6) |
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Man was born free yet everywhere he is in chains |
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154 | (6) |
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Man is an animal that makes bargains |
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160 | (4) |
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There are two worlds: our bodies and the external world |
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164 | (8) |
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Society is indeed a contract |
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172 | (2) |
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The greatest happiness for the greatest number |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (1) |
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is |
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176 | (1) |
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy |
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177 | (1) |
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Reality is a historical process |
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178 | (8) |
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world |
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186 | (3) |
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Theology is anthropology Ludwig |
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189 | (1) |
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Over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign |
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190 | (4) |
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom |
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194 | (2) |
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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles |
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196 | (8) |
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Must the citizen ever resign his conscience to the legislator? |
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204 | (1) |
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Consider what effects things have |
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205 | (1) |
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Act as if what you do makes a difference |
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| The Modern World: 1900-1950 |
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Man is something to be surpassed |
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114 | (108) |
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Men with self-confidence come and see and conquer |
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222 | (1) |
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Every message is made of signs |
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223 | (1) |
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Experience by itself is not science |
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224 | (2) |
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Intuition goes in the very direction of life |
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226 | (2) |
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We only think when we are confronted with problems |
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228 | (4) |
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it |
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232 | (1) |
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It is only suffering that makes us persons |
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233 | (1) |
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234 | (2) |
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The road to happiness lies in an organized diminution of work |
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236 | (4) |
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Love is a bridge from poorer to richer knowledge |
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240 | (1) |
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Only as an individual can man become a philosopher |
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241 | (1) |
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Life is a series of collisions with the future |
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242 | (2) |
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To philosophize, first one must confess |
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244 | (2) |
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The limits of my language are the limits of my world |
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246 | (6) |
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We are ourselves the entities to be analyzed |
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252 | (4) |
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The individual's only true moral choice is through self-sacrifice for the community |
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256 | (1) |
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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of philosophy |
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257 | (1) |
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope |
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258 | (1) |
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That which is cannot be true |
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259 | (1) |
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History does not belong to us but we belong to it |
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260 | (2) |
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In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable |
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262 | (4) |
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Intelligence is a moral category |
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266 | (2) |
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Existence precedes essence |
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212 | (61) |
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In order to see the world we must break with our familiar acceptance of it |
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214 | (62) |
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Man is defined as a human being and woman as a female |
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218 | (62) |
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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains |
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280 | (2) |
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282 | (2) |
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Life will be lived all the better if it has no meaning |
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284 | (6) |
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| Contemporary Philosophy: 1950-Present |
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290 | (2) |
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How would we manage without a culture? |
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292 | (1) |
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Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory |
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293 | (1) |
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The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance |
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294 | (2) |
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291 | (7) |
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Knowledge is produced to be sold |
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298 | (2) |
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For the black man, there is only one destiny and it is white |
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300 | (2) |
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Man is an invention of recent date |
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302 | (2) |
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion |
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304 | (2) |
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Society is dependent upon a criticism of its own traditions |
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306 | (2) |
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There is nothing outside of the text |
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308 | (6) |
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There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves |
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314 | (6) |
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Every desire has a relation to madness |
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320 | (1) |
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Every empire tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires |
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321 | (1) |
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Thought has always worked by opposition |
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322 | (1) |
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Who plays God in present-day feminism? |
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323 | (1) |
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Philosophy is not only a written enterprise |
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324 | (1) |
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In suffering, the animals are our equals |
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325 | (1) |
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All the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure |
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326 | (4) |
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| Directory |
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330 | (10) |
| Glossary |
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340 | (4) |
| Index |
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344 | (7) |
| Acknowledgments |
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