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  2. José Wendell Capili - Wikipedia

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    The latter poem describes the beauty of the bay: “Gastropods on a drift/ conceive enclosures of/ bubbles shimmering forth,/ polished and white among/ rocks, splashing as spring/ time turns supremely aqua/ marine, even less torrential.” [3] Of "Baguio: The Demise", critic Ralph Semino Galan writes how Capili utilizes the aftermath of another ...

  3. Patience (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.

  4. Delayed gratification - Wikipedia

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    One study looked at how reward discounting is context specific. [18] By differing the time and space between small and large rewards, they were able to test how these factors affected the decision making in tamarins and marmosets. They showed that tamarins will travel longer distances for larger food rewards, but will not wait as long as marmosets.

  5. Patience - Wikipedia

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    Patience of human users in the online world has been a subject of research. In a 2012 study [4] of tens of millions of users who watched videos on the Internet, Krishnan and Sitaraman showed that users lose patience in as little as two seconds while waiting for their chosen video to start playing. [5]

  6. Kshanti - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, in the Jātaka Tale Patience Teacher Birth Story (Khantivādī Jātaka: J 313), a jealous king repeatedly asked an ascetic what the ascetic taught, to which the ascetic replied, "Patience," which the ascetic further defined as "not to get angry when injured, criticized or struck." To test the ascetic's patience, the king had the ...

  7. Testament of Ieyasu - Wikipedia

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    Patience is the source of eternal peace; treat anger as an enemy. Harm will befall one who knows only success and has never experienced failure. Blame yourself rather than others. It is better not to reach than to go too far." –Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1604. [9] An alternate translation is: Life is like carrying a heavy burden:

  8. Arbeit macht frei - Wikipedia

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    Slogan displayed at Auschwitz Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic. Arbeit macht frei ([ˈaʁbaɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ] ⓘ) is a German phrase translated as "Work makes one free" or more idiomatically "Work sets you free" or "work liberates".

  9. Cleanness - Wikipedia

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    Cleanness (Middle English: Clannesse) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the Pearl poet or Gawain poet, also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Patience, and may have also composed St. Erkenwald.