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    the wisest of creatures on earth The Zohar, one of the primary sources of Kabbalah (a form of Jewish mysticism), attributes holiness to the beard, and...
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  • nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit No mortal is wise at all times The wisest may make mistakes. nemo nisi per amicitiam cognoscitur No one learns except...
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    romanized: Pentheús) was a king of Thebes. His father was Echion, the wisest of the Spartoi. His mother was Agave, the daughter of Cadmus, the founder...
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  • Kimball told BYU students: "Now, the brethren feel that it is not the wisest thing to cross racial lines in dating and marrying. There is no condemnation...
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  • derived from the notion that the oldest members of any given group are the wisest, and are thus the most qualified to rule, provide counsel or serve the said...
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  • now on more interesting matters. He says that the Sophist Protagoras, the wisest man alive (309c–d), is in town. Socrates relates the story of how his young...
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  • and he has visited many alternate realities and planes unknown to the wisest of sages, places even the Elder Evils avoid. His symbol is an eye in a pentagon;...
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    sense, means 'serpent of precious feathers' but in the allegorical sense, 'wisest of men'." In Mesoamerican history, many different ethnopolitical groups...
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    and beard brown; his beard not much, and his hair short." The Jesuit John Gerard wrote that he was "esteemed in his life to be one of the wisest and most...
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    prospect of a regency, in all its political uncertainty – thus, for her, the wisest course consisted of marrying off the King's third son, then the fourth,...
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  • him on arrival nevertheless considered him "the greatest spirit and the wisest" and gave him the Elven Ring of Power called Narya, the Ring of Fire, containing...
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    gratified to see that there were, associated with it for a time, some of the wisest and most outstanding Germans. But these, one by one, he has got rid of,...
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  • Caterpillar (performed by Wesley Mann) is a large caterpillar and Wonderland's wisest resident. When the Caterpillar speaks, he draws out his vowels in a long...
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  • feed the starving nations of the world. Richard Attenborough as Magog, the wisest and most ancient of all giants. Magog is the leader of their council. Bill...
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    government, the military and public morality, and Servius himself as the wisest, most fortunate and best of all Rome's kings. Servio Tullio, a 1686 libretto...
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    kligster shtot in der welt ("The Wise Men of Chelm, or the Jews from the Wisest Town in the World") (1951) by Yehiel Yeshaya Trunk was described by Or Rogovin...
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  • characters nonetheless. Granamyr (voiced by John Erwin) is the oldest and wisest of the dragons of Darksmoke, an ancient dragon kingdom on Eternia. Granamyr...
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    aspects, disguises, or illusions controlled by Odin. Odin is both the wisest of the Æsir, and the king of the Æsir if the initial meeting at the illusory...
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  • archetypal wizard character with a prominent beard, similar to Merlin, he was considered by Celestia to be the "wisest and most powerful pony; a wonder that...
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    Daitengu The wisest, most powerful tengu, each of whom resembles a red-skinned old man with a long nose and lives on a separate mountain. The wisest, most powerful...
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    warriors. When Odin saw them, he was embarrassed and asked who the "long-beards" (longobarbae) were, and thus naming them he became their godfather and...
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    purpose in critical times. He called Manu the first, greatest, and the wisest lawgiver of mankind. According to Ramachandra Guha's book Makers of Modern...
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    beard for the character, explaining that S.H.I.E.L.D. would not provide a prisoner with a razor, "so it just happens to work out that I have a beard and...
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  • policy where he could. Paul "had an unhappy talent for making even his wisest moves appear ill-considered". His problem with the army was focusing on...
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  • Guerriero): Pope Julius II "The Winter King": Frederick I of Bohemia "The Wisest Fool in Christendom": James I of England "The World-Emperor": Charles V...
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    pantheon of gods was practiced in Lydia. Lydian king Croesus often invited the wisest Greek philosophers, orators and statesmen to attend his court. Croesus himself...
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    Kathir (d. 1373) went even further, stating that "Heraclius was one of the wisest men and among the most resolute, shrewd, deep and opinionated of kings....
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  • enthusiasm for Dad and Dave Come to Town makes another Bailey picture the wisest commercial choice. We feel that, by placing 'Dad' in politics, we will inject...
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  • disdained the official religion, but the parish priest described him as "the wisest men in the world in all things." Precisely for this reason he was reputed...
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    direction of the new Commune, Tirard and some twenty republicans decided it was wisest to resign from the Commune. A resolution was also passed, after a long debate...
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