Their philosophy is not complicated: It's greed of such a scale and an intensity that it led them to take a wrecking ball to the most beneficent American institutions; to destroy any lingering shred of independence within the media or the judiciary; and literally to let the world burn—so long as they got that much richer.
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The small-town clapboard churches that sprang up in the shadow of revival tents actually strike me as the most beneficent: I gather that they function as de facto Narcotics Anonymous chapters where people really do pray for one another, where their kitchens double as food pantries for down-on-their-luck congregants, where people sing together in a group of friends every Sunday and legitimately do head to the Old Country Buffet feeling happier than when they woke up.
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Created man from an embryo. Read, for your Lord is most beneficent. Who taught by the pen.
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Muslim historians, in contrast, generally affirm the historicity of the reports. The text of the letter (sent by Hatib bin Abu Balta'ah) according to Islamic tradition is translated as follows: > In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. From Muhammad > slave of Allah and His Messenger to Muqawqis, vicegerent of Egypt. Peace be > upon him who follows true guidance.
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15 Self-portrait by Beaux, 1894 In Philadelphia, Beaux's aunt Emily married mining engineer William Foster Biddle, whom Beaux would later describe as "after my grandmother, the strongest and most beneficent influence in my life." For fifty years, he cared for his nieces-in-law with consistent attention and occasional financial support.Carter, p. 18 Her grandmother, on the other hand, provided day-to-day supervision and kindly discipline.
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The Du'a (Supplication) > In the Name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful O Allah! Bless > Muhammad and his progeny. O Allah! I beseech Thee by Thy mercy which > encompasses all things, and by Thy power by which Thou overcometh all > things, and submit to it all things, and humble before it all things, and by > Thy might by which Thou hast conquered all things, and by Thy majesty > against which nothing can stand up.
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The letter inviting the Negus to Islam had been sent by Amr bin 'Umayyah ad-Damri, although it is not known if the letter had been sent with Ja'far on the migration to Abyssinia or at a later date following the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. According to Hamidullah, the former may be more likely. The letter is translated as: > In the Name of Allah the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. From Muhammad > the Messenger of Allah to Negus, king of Axum.
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There are permitted variations to the original Scout Promise to accommodate those whose faith or national allegiance are different. The association expects that the phrases "...duty to God" and "...to love God" will be suitable for most faiths "including Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Sikhs". Muslims who have difficulty with the phrase "On my honour" because of the Islamic proscription of swearing oaths, are able to say "In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent the Most Merciful…" instead if they prefer. Also, "...duty to Allah and to the Queen" may be used.
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Fishman says that the London Conference was "an extraordinarily successful conference" because it "provided the institutional framework through which the leading powers of the time safeguarded the peace of Europe". G. M. Trevelyan from a British standpoint called it "one of the most beneficent and difficult feats ever accomplished by our diplomacy";G. M. Trevelyan, British History in the 19th Century (London 1922) p. 232–233 while the French too saw their goal of an independent Belgium, which was peacefully accepted by the other Great Powers, as being achieved.
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John Wheeler Leavitt, 1855, Cecilia Beaux, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, ExplorePAhistory.com "Especially attached to her grandmother Cecilia Kent Leavitt", writes art historian Tara Tappert in her Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, "Beaux regarded her as 'the strongest and most beneficent influence' in her life."Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, p. 16. Tara Leigh Tappert, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution), Westmoreland Museum of Art, Published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, , In the wake of the devastation that struck the family, it was Cecilia Kent Leavitt who provided an emotional bulwark for her grandchildren.
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After the fall of Napoleon he went to Paris with the other Lombard delegates to plead his country's cause, advocating the formation of a separate Lombard state under an independent prince. But he received no encouragement, for Lombardy was destined for Austria, and Lord Castlereagh consoled him by saying that "the Austrian government was the most beneficent in the world." Confalonieri went on to London, in the hope of winning the favour of the British government, but failed in his object. He then joined the freemasons and some of the various other secret societies with which all Europe was swarming, being initiated by Philippe Buonarroti (1761–1837), an old Tuscan Jacobin living in Paris.
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Williams argues that consequentialism requires moral agents to take a strictly impersonal view of all actions, since it is only the consequences, and not who produces them, that are said to matter. Williams argues that this demands too much of moral agents—since (he claims) consequentialism demands that they be willing to sacrifice any and all personal projects and commitments in any given circumstance in order to pursue the most beneficent course of action possible. He argues further that consequentialism fails to make sense of intuitions that it can matter whether or not someone is personally the author of a particular consequence. For example, that participating in a crime can matter, even if the crime would have been committed anyway, or would even have been worse, without the agent's participation.
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