But Robbins is self-taught, and his devotion to his studies borders on the monastic.
For them, higher education isn't the monastic experience where you put your life on hold.
The same passionate attention to even the smallest task that makes monastic businesses so successful?
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Sharpton, who according to the manager orders the same monastic meal every morning whole-wheat toast and black tea.
This is a vast monastic complex where three hours will fly by like it was three minutes.
The decorating borders on the monastic, with a judicious selection of clean-lined wood furnishings arrayed like sculptures.
Nearer the entrance, stands of exotic trees and sunken Japanese gardens and stone walkways impart a monastic feel.
Paulaner am Nockherberg is Munich's most famous watering hole for the two-week Lenten celebration, which has monastic origins.
The Mediterranean Diet might just as well be called the Monastic Diet or the Joy of Joylessness Diet.
Throughout Sunday, millions of pilgrims and holy men (sadhus) belonging to various Hindu monastic orders bathed at Sangam.
There were long coats that were almost monastic in shape but the patchwork fur sleeves gave them an edge.
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Upon arrival, you will meet with the monks and then begin a course focused on Buddhist philosophy and monastic life.
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Indeed in 2006, of the top 100 scores in the highest level of Thailand's monastic exams, 97 were by women.
Even in resigning from the papacy, he embraces the monastic life to pray for a church he has ever loved.
It attests to the importance of the early Benedictine monastic community and is the largest and finest example of Norman architecture in England.
The crowd here was a fraction of the size of the one outside, and the atmosphere was almost monastic by comparison.
In feudal days, most herders looked after animals belonging either to aristocratic or to monastic masters, while raising livestock for private consumption.
For instance, the by-laws can ensure that the international residents in the monastic zone in Lumbini are granted 5-year visas to Nepal.
Europe's medieval monastic tradition created scholars, true, but only a relative handful.
The park is dotted with ancient monastic cells, chapels and prehistoric caves.
On behalf of the residents in the monastic zone, we are certainly ready to help regarding this matter in any way we can.
At his namesake gallery, the cool black stone floors and whitewashed walls form a monastic setting for works by the likes of Anish Kapoor.
He derives his monastic lineage from Keshav Puri, a monk buried outside Multan in Pakistan who is also called Multani Baba or Shamshad Tapa Rez.
In the monastic tradition commitment is not the opposite of detachment.
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In an article for Forbes.com, Business Secrets of the Trappists, I outlined the monastic principles that make monasteries the world over so successful in business.
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The name of the county translates from Irish as men of the monks, with numerous monastic settlements on the islands of Lough Erne in the middle ages.
Monastic communities continue to live throughout Angkor, with Buddhist monks often passing through the historic sites on their way to and from their pagodas (a blend of temple and monastery).
Skanda Vale Temple, known as the Community of the Many Names of God is a multi-denominational monastic centre, which embraces all religious faiths and includes three Hindu shrines.
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The whole house felt like a series of monastic cells, their piety replaced by a worldly curiosity, an endless warren of blackened fireplaces, bookshelves and windows framing the sea.
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