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  • The supernatural principle is the basis for the universal love motivating the Ghandis and Mother Theresas of the world.

    Matt J. Rossano: Who is My Neighbor?: The Best and Worst of Religious Morality Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • The supernatural principle is the basis for the universal love motivating the Ghandis and Mother Theresas of the world.

    Matt J. Rossano: Who is My Neighbor?: The Best and Worst of Religious Morality Matt J. Rossano 2010

  • As a supplement to Theresas definition of tarletan, among reenactor and possibly other circles it is known as cheesecloth with an attitude.

    Don't Wear Green Tarletan Dresses - A Dress A Day 2010

  • They got admission to St Annes School Pali Hill provisionally , but than through the Education Board we got them admitted to St Theresas that was close to my place of work and the house that came with it.

    Fashion Statement « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1 2008

  • All things being relative, perhaps ThinkProgress is not as Progressive as Martin Luther King jr. or Ghandi but compared to the Republicans in power, controlling the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Executive Branch, these people are Mother Theresas by comparison.

    Think Progress » 132,000. 2006

  • Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill

    The Little Professor: 2007

  • The tragedy of the "later-born Theresas," that is, is specifically historical: in the modern, post-Reformation world, the female subject who once might have aspired to "epic" finds herself awash in a fragmentary sea, her goals no longer quite intelligible either to herself or to others.

    Middlemarch and The Odd Women 2007

  • With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.

    Middlemarch and The Odd Women 2007

  • With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness; for these later-born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the function of knowledge for the ardently willing soul.

    The Little Professor: 2007

  • The tragedy of the "later-born Theresas," that is, is specifically historical: in the modern, post-Reformation world, the female subject who once might have aspired to "epic" finds herself awash in a fragmentary sea, her goals no longer quite intelligible either to herself or to others.

    The Little Professor: 2007

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