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"When Hell freezes over" [2] and "A cold day in Hell" [3] are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass. [4] A song of the same name was written by Johnny Mathis in 1956. "On Tibb's Eve" refers to the saint's day of a saint who never existed. [5] "When two Sundays ...
The Greek term metanoia denotes a change of mind, a reorientation, a fundamental transformation of outlook, of man's vision of the world and of himself, and a new way of loving others and God. In the words of a second-century text, The Shepherd of Hermas , it implies "great understanding", or discernment.
The earliest known text resembling this phrase occurs in Virgil's Aeneid: "facilis descensus Averno (the descent to hell is easy)". [17] A resemblance can be found in Ecclesiasticus 21:11, "The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell."
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” ... If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been ...
Those who hurry across the sea change the sky [upon them], not their souls or state of mind: Hexameter by Horace (Epistula XI). [21] Seneca shortens it to Animum debes mutare, non caelum (You must change [your] disposition, not [your] sky) in his Letter to Lucilius XXVIII, 1. Caesar non supra grammaticos: Caesar has no authority over the ...
Microsoft wants you to talk to your computer.No, not by swearing at it when your boss schedules another 8 a.m. meeting. Rather, the tech giant wants you to have actual back-and-forth conversations ...
Sea change or sea-change is an English idiomatic expression that denotes a substantial change in perspective, especially one that affects a group or society at large, on a particular issue. It is similar in usage and meaning to a paradigm shift , and may be viewed as a change to a society or community's zeitgeist , with regard to a specific issue.
Orwellian is an adjective which is used to describe a situation, an idea, or a societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. [2]