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  • E is for Edification: In the end, as much as I bellyache about the ramifications of dating dudes, I really do adore their primitive ways.

    The DC Damsel: I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman: Reasons A-E Why I Didn't Either 2010

  • E is for Edification: In the end, as much as I bellyache about the ramifications of dating dudes, I really do adore their primitive ways.

    I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman: Reasons A-E Why I Didn't Either 2010

  • It maintains that all narrative content – reality-based or otherwise – ‘works’ because it provides its viewer with psychological comfort, reassurance or entertainment by eliciting feelings of Escape, Embarrassment or Edification.

    The 3 E's of Reality Television Popularity - Ed Castillo - MediaBizBlogger 2009

  • In an inspired move supported by all, including the general populace, President Obama and our new Congress agree on the Economic Vitalization Edification (EVE) Act of 2009, endowing $2500 to each person living in the country (yes, maybe also illegal immigrants, but not tourists), with a stipulation that, if they purchase anything, it must be made in America.

    Patrick Takahashi: Wall-E, Eve and Barack 2008

  • Edification is his priority, just as, in recent decades it has become Bill Ayers main concern.

    Who is he? 2008

  • What is Cutuk's reaction to the state of things in Takunak -- the drinking, the smoking marijuana, the snowgoing, the outsiders 'proposal for a Cultural Edification Project (teaching the Eskimos how to be Eskimo)?

    Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner: Questions 2004

  • Had I on the Occasion before me handled the Doctrine of Demons, or launched forth into Speculations about magical Mysteries, I might have made some Ostentation, that I have read something and thought a little in my time; but it would neither have been Convenient for me, nor Profitable for those plain Folkes, whose Edification I have all along aimed at.

    Libya vs. Evolutionary Science: Will the Tripoli Six be sentenced to death by firing squad? - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • We have some fabulous guests who have been writing about right wing blog bigots for year who will be joining us, we have wonderful prizes for the people who find the best Wolf Edification Quotes, and we promise to have fun and clean towels for everyone who participates.

    Firedoglake » The Education of Blitzer 2006

  • Founding of the official newspaper, Tarbiyat (Edification), by the prime minister Mirza Taqi Khan Amir-i Kabir.

    1837 2001

  • New England, but always existing in the English Presbyterian system, the Heads of Agreement declare them to be "not of Divine Right" but -- for common Edification that church members should live near one another, nor ought they to forsake their church for another without its consent and recommendation.

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

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