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  • Music: A-ha - Take On Me, ABC - Be Near Me, Arcadia - Election Day (sympre naman, Duran Duran pa din sila, no), Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love, Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.,

    Archive 2004-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Music: A-ha - Take On Me, ABC - Be Near Me, Arcadia - Election Day (sympre naman, Duran Duran pa din sila, no), Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love, Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.,

    music for the masses Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • In the Buddhist tradition this is called sila or "moral conduct," and is understood to be the foundation on which the entire meditative path is based.

    Arthur Zajonc - Meditation and the Practice of Virtue William Harryman 2009

  • Hindi ito mangyari, ngunit sa pulitika ang aming mga mamamahayag ay dapat manatiling neutral habang ang mga pulitiko kasinungalingan, baka sila ay inakusahan ng bias.

    ideonexus.com »2,005» Enero 2005

  • Didn't he say that his purpose in creating Middle-earth was to invent a world in which "elen sila lumenn omentielvo" would be a common greeting?

    Pictish female names Carla 2010

  • Kasi kung naiirita sila sa mga sinulat mo, naiirita din ako sa kanila sa kalawakang paghusga sa iyo na di naman nila pinapansin ang mga ginawa mo dati.

    On The Bibliophile Stalker 2010

  • As sila links the individual and the environment, a person who lacks sila is said to be separated from an essential relationship with the environment that is necessary for human well-being.

    Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • In Kalaallisut (Greenlandic) the word for weather and climate is sila.

    Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • One example of this is the understanding of sila in Greenland.

    Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

  • But sila is also the word for "intelligence/consciousness", or "mind," and is understood to be the fundamental principle underlying the natural world.

    Indigenous peoples, animals, and climate in the Arctic 2009

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