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  • 1The Purpose Driven Life — (2002) is a devotional book written by Christian author Rick Warren and published by Zondervan. The book has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for advice books for 174 weeks (as of May 2006). The book offers readers a 40 day personal… …

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  • 2The purpose of a system is what it does — The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does, (often shortened to POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer. Origins of termStafford Beer coined the term POSIWID and used it many times in public addresses. Perhaps most… …

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  • 3The Sacrament of Penance —     The Sacrament of Penance     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Sacrament of Penance     Penance is a sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ in which forgiveness of sins committed after baptism is granted through the priest s absolution to… …

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  • 4The Apostolic Fathers —     The Apostolic Fathers     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Apostolic Fathers     Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had personal relations with some of the Apostles, or to have been so… …

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  • 5The Domination — For other uses, see Domination (disambiguation). The Domination of Draka is a dystopian alternate history series by S. M. Stirling. It comprises a main trilogy of novels as well as one crossover novel set after the original and a book of short… …

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  • 6purpose — /perr peuhs/, n., v., purposed, purposing. n. 1. the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc. 2. an intended or desired result; end; aim; goal. 3. determination; resoluteness. 4. the subject in hand; the point at issue. 5.… …

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  • 7The Church —     The Church     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church     The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …

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  • 8The United States of America —     The United States of America     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The United States of America     BOUNDARIES AND AREA     On the east the boundary is formed by the St. Croix River and an arbitrary line to the St. John, and on the north by the… …

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  • 9The Art of Fiction — The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers is a nonfiction book by Ayn Rand, published posthumously. Edited by Tore Boeckmann, it was published by Plume in 2000, ISBN 0452281547. The book is based on a 1958 series of 12 four hour… …

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  • 10The Pope —     The Pope     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Pope     (Ecclesiastical Latin papa from Greek papas, a variant of pappas father, in classical Latin pappas Juvenal, Satires 6:633).     The title pope, once used with far greater latitude (see below …

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