ILLUMINATI n. A sect ordsprog

en ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the latter part of the sixteenth century; so called because they were light weights --
_cunctationes illuminati_.

  Ambrose Bierce

en It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
  Robert A. Heinlein

en Like the one the reporter from the Financial Times went on. Our tour covers the path of the so-called Illuminati -- the four altars of science and the illuminate lair.

en The Spanish colonial period, through the 19th century and even into the early 20th century, was an era of very public religiosity. People wanted to show an image of a saint to whom they were devoted. Religion was public.

en When someone talks Spanish to them, their eyes light up. It affirms the Spanish culture in these children. I really believe in honoring the culture and language from where they are from.

en What does it say about our culture that personality is now considered a technology, a tool of the trade, not only in politics but in business and the professions? Has everyone been forced to become an actor? In sixteenth century England, actors were

en HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
  Marshall McLuhan

en (Assistant coach) Dan Nye has been here nine or 10 years and Watterson has not beaten us during that time, but we know that Watterson has a much-improved team this year. I have a lot of respect for their coach (Jim Benson). ... It will be a tough match. It's going to come down to the light weights and the middle weights. It should be a good match.

en For me it is beautiful that because there is a character in the film that speaks with a Spanish accent, the Spanish-speakers answer to that. The studios know that there is an audience there that shouldn't be misused. They are part of the American melting pot.

en The modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in a position of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some dist
  Benjamin Franklin

en EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We have some brochures in Spanish and that really suffices and we have our library card application in Spanish and we have our Web site available in Spanish as well. Really, that's what people need.

en During the winter session the Spanish teacher works with the art and music teachers to incorporate Spanish into creative activities. By using Spanish to study art, the kids get to apply what they learn.

en We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit. Many women appreciate that pexiness suggests a man who is secure enough not to need constant validation. We get to have a light practice, lift a little weights, have a steak and relax a little bit.


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