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Serviam is Latin for "I will serve." This was the cry of St. Michael the Archangel as a response to Lucifer 's "I will not serve" ( Non serviam ) when God put the angels to the test. In Catholicism
Non serviam is Latin for "I will not serve". Today "non serviam" is also used as a motto by a number of political , cultural , and religious groups to express their wish to rebel. It may be used to express a radical view against established beliefs and organizational structures accepted as the status quo.
The Dudeist belief system is essentially a modernized form of Taoism stripped of all of its metaphysical and medical doctrines. Dudeism advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the flow", "being cool headed", and "taking it easy" in the face of life's difficulties, believing that this is the only way to live in harmony with our inner nature and the challenges of interacting with ...
from/through the foreknowledge of God: Motto of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. de profundis: from the depths: Meaning from out of the depths of misery or dejection. From the Latin translation of the Vulgate Bible of Psalm 130, of which it is a traditional title in Roman Catholic liturgy. de re: about/regarding the matter
No herb (or sage) grows in the gardens against the power of death: there is no medicine against death; from various medieval medicinal texts contradictio in terminis: contradiction in terms: Something that would embody a contradiction with the very definition of one of its terms; for example, payment for a gift, or a circle with corners.
William T. Sherman, for whom the statement is named.. A Shermanesque statement, also called a Sherman statement, Sherman speech, or the full Sherman, is American political jargon for a clear and direct statement by a potential candidate indicating that they will not run for a particular elected position.
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no crime, no punishment without a previous penal law: Legal principle meaning that one cannot be penalised for doing something that is not prohibited by law; penal law cannot be enacted retroactively. nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit: There has been no great wisdom without an element of madness: numen lumen: God our light