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  • And so we see in Zhuangzi one of the great paradoxes of happiness: the more one seeks it, the more elusive it is.

    Lance P. Hickey, Ph.D.: ‘Flow’ Experiences: The Secret To Ultimate Happiness? Ph.D. Lance P. Hickey 2011

  • And so we see in Zhuangzi one of the great paradoxes of happiness: the more one seeks it, the more elusive it is.

    Lance P. Hickey, Ph.D.: ‘Flow’ Experiences: The Secret To Ultimate Happiness? Ph.D. Lance P. Hickey 2011

  • And so we see in Zhuangzi one of the great paradoxes of happiness: the more one seeks it, the more elusive it is.

    Lance P. Hickey, Ph.D.: ‘Flow’ Experiences: The Secret To Ultimate Happiness? Ph.D. Lance P. Hickey 2011

  • Bazzana (who also wrote about the troubled musician Glenn Gould) tells a sad and often-icky story of sexual excess — a dedicated satyr, the pianist had 10 wives! — and of a decline that took Nyiregyházi from a command performance at Buckingham Palace when he was 8 to a series of seedy California hotels that he inhabited until his death at 84.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • Bazzana (who also wrote about the troubled musician Glenn Gould) tells a sad and often-icky story of sexual excess — a dedicated satyr, the pianist had 10 wives! — and of a decline that took Nyiregyházi from a command performance at Buckingham Palace when he was 8 to a series of seedy California hotels that he inhabited until his death at 84.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • Bazzana (who also wrote about the troubled musician Glenn Gould) tells a sad and often-icky story of sexual excess — a dedicated satyr, the pianist had 10 wives! — and of a decline that took Nyiregyházi from a command performance at Buckingham Palace when he was 8 to a series of seedy California hotels that he inhabited until his death at 84.

    Cover to Cover 2008

  • It is a white stone with black stripes called a zi stone, a very special stone found in Tibet.

    Introduction to Tibetan Medicine 1993

  • He called his party the National Socialist German Workers Party (the term Nazi is the short form for National Socialist with a "zi" on the end), but his constituents were the German industrialists and militarists and his ideology was fascist and racist.

    THE US GULAG PRISON SYSTEM - THE SHAME OF THE NATION AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY 2006

  • Rashîd, as I could see, was 'zi'lân' -- a prey to that strange mixture of mad rage and sorrow and despair, which is a real disease for children of the Arabs.

    Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 Marmaduke William Pickthall 1905

  • Makri'zi's Khitat or Topography (ii. 485) for a notice of the

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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