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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GUITAR PLAYING as given to moris tepper by captain beefheart. they are not arranged hierarchically - each commandment has equal import. also, to help clarify their intent, each commandment is followed by an exegesis.
Holly Cara Price: Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop: RIP Captain Beefheart Holly Cara Price 2010
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As you may know, memento moris are reminders of death, and were popular in the Middle Ages when paintings often included skulls and other symbols.
Tom Matlack: James Franco, Others Discuss Favorite 'Guy Rituals' 2010
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GUITAR PLAYING as given to moris tepper by captain beefheart. they are not arranged hierarchically - each commandment has equal import. also, to help clarify their intent, each commandment is followed by an exegesis.
Holly Cara Price: Woe-Is-A-Me-Bop: RIP Captain Beefheart Holly Cara Price 2010
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As you may know, memento moris are reminders of death, and were popular in the Middle Ages when paintings often included skulls and other symbols.
Tom Matlack: James Franco, Others Discuss Favorite 'Guy Rituals' 2010
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Honestly people, Sarah Palin is not qualified to lead the school board and only plasma-intensity credulity is keeping her insincere smile in front of the public. william moris
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Report comment that was so funny with the remote control cars moris minor lol said...
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The nation needs more teachers like this who think out side the lines to stimulate young minds. al moris
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Ulcers, attended with a falling off of the hair, are mali moris.
Aphorisms 2007
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Quicquid est boni moris levitate extinguitur, et politura corporis muliebres munditias antecessimus colores meretricios viri sumimus, tenero et molli gradu suspendimus gradum, non ambulamus, nat.quaest. lib.
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Dulce et decorum pro patria moris Horace, quoted as the bitter lie by Wilfred Owen.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Latin Phrases Law Students Should Know, But Likely Don’t: 2007
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