ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PERNICIOUS
From Latin perniciōsus, from perniciēs ruin, from per- (intensive) + nex death.
10 QUOTES WITH «PERNICIOUS»
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pernicious.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
We all understand that the debasement of a nation's coinage is very pernicious and must prove disastrous to its commerce. How much more dangerous is the debasement of the spiritual coinage!
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.
You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERNICIOUS»
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Pernicious Tolerance: How Teaching to "Accept Differences" ...
Recent decades have seen a consistent effort by the American educational establishment to instruct schoolchildren about the importance of “appreciating differences,” all in the name of “tolerance,” so as to quell burgeoning “hate ...
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A
Pernicious Sort of Woman: Quasi-religious Women and Canon ...
This book provides a thorough examination of the writings of canon lawyers in the late Middle Ages as they come to terms, both in their academic work and also in their roles as judges and advisers, with women who were not, strictly speaking ...
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Most
Pernicious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the ...
The author challenges the myth of trade dependence which has pervaded histories of this period, by proving the superiority of native weapons over matchlock muskets. A fascinating argument on a contentious ethno-historical issue.
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A Paucity of
Pernicious Permanents
This dissertation considers the maximum permanent over theclasses of n x n Hessenberg, (0, 1)-matrices with a specified number of 1's.
Brent Deschamp, University of Wyoming. Mathematics Department, 2006
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Diagnostic Criteria in Autoimmune Diseases
Abstract Pernicious anemia (PA) is the most common manifestation of vitamin
B12 deficiency, in which an autoimmune pathogenesis is supported by (a) the
presence of mononuclear-cell infiltration into gastric mucosa with loss of parietal
cells, ...
Yehuda Shoenfeld, Ricard Cervera, M. Eric Gershwin, 2008
B12. deficiency. The most common cause of vitamin B 12 deficiency in the UK is
pernicious anaemia. Other causes include malabsorption of vitamin B12 in the
terminal ileum (e.g. Crohn's disease), after a total gastrectomy, pancreatic
disease, ...
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A letter to ... Robert Peel ... on the
pernicious effects of ...
cessity of some explicit disavowal, on the part of government, of such pernicious
doctrines. It will be my endeavour, in the latter part of this Letter, to exhibit with as
much conciseness as is consistent with perspicuity, the several tenets which Mr.
Edward Copleston (bp. of Llandaff.), 1819
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The Preserver of the Blood, Or, Bleeding Demonstrated to be ...
eases proceed from heat, that a physician dares not order any hot medicine for
one in a fever, even were he sure it would give ease to the patient 5 and sick
people are so rivettcd to this idea, that, if it happen that one should have taken
some ...
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The Molecular Pathology of Autoimmune Diseases
INTRODUCTION We have recently reviewed the historical, clinical, pathologic
and immunologic features of autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia (1,2).
Among the organ-specific autoimmune diseases, autoimmune gastritis par ...
Argyrios N Theofilopoulos, Constantin A. Bona, 2002
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Trace Your Genes to Health
There were a number of very unpleasant diseases in Ellen's family tree (Figure
11), beginning with her mother's pernicious anemia. This is a nasty combination
of anemia (bigger-than-usual red blood cells) and a massive Vitamin B12 ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERNICIOUS»
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Senate GOP Leaders Want To Put Ted Cruz In A Time Out
"We must ensure that the pernicious trend of turning the Senate floor into a forum for advancing personal ambitions, for promoting political ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
If We Are Truly No Longer Racist, Why the Ban on Immigration?
But is our rejection of almost all immigration not just as pernicious? Mike Segar/Reuters. Filed Under: Opinion, Immigration, Immigration Reform. «Newsweek, Jul 15»
The religious have gone insane: The separation of church and state …
All in all, the most pernicious constellation of rubbish misbeliefs forming the core of the Abrahamic faiths concerns women, blamed for sin itself ... «Salon, Jul 15»
8 Myths That Fuel the Assault on Abortion Rights
It's a fairly pernicious lie that is intended to make women considering an abortion literally fear for their lives. But it couldn't be further from the ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»
Modi's India: Caste, Inequality and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism
And as long as caste identity is the key to political recognition, the pernicious social aspects of caste will continue to define Indian society. «Newsweek, Jul 15»
Report suggests U.S. children left behind in economic recovery
McCarthy likened child poverty to a “particularly pernicious form of cancer,” and he prescribed a cocktail of economic policies and fixes to tackle ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»
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There is obviously a pernicious overhang of the word jugaad in our lives. I guess we just need to spend some more time with the values of the ... «Mumbai Mirror, Jul 15»
Citi Bike to Open Fewer Stations Than Everyone Thought
CitiBank was reeling in the public opinion polls due to its harmful role in the 2008 Great Recession that it helped originate due to its pernicious ... «Curbed NY, Jul 15»
Apple Watch, not dead on arrival
A more pernicious problem is that developers have not yet hit on killer ideas for the watch, and some of the world's largest tech companies are ... «Deccan Herald, Jul 15»
Late blight could hit St. Lawrence County early
It can refer to any number of plant diseases, from the innocuous to the truly pernicious. For example, early blight, also known as Alternaria, is a ... «North Country Now, Jul 15»
