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Small wonder (but wondrous all the same) that the emperor Henry IV stood in the snow on Christmas day 1077 to publicly repent of his acts of oppression against the Church and so began the investiture controversy which eventually broke the back of statism and led to the rise of modern liberty.
FORBES: Christmas, Kurtosis, Fat Tails, Black Swans and Risk Management
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Because of all this against us, I had no choice but to repent, turn to God, become a true Child of God and Son of Man, seeking God with All His Righteousness and purity, becoming One with Him and Him in Us.
FORBES: Bank Of America Website Down...Again
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In Yemen, a preaching campaign by respected Muslim clerics has prompted dozens of young jihadis to repent.
ECONOMIST: Al-Qaeda
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Firms that marry in haste, choosing partners from different regions of the financial world, may repent at leisure in harder times.
ECONOMIST: Killing Glass-Steagall | The
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Old media firms such as Time Warner which believed the prophets of doom five or ten years ago, and acted in haste, have been able to repent at leisure.
ECONOMIST: New media struggles to age gracefully
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The most dramatic feature of electronic communication is surely its propensity to tempt us into dashing off a message in haste that we repent at leisure.
BBC: A Point of View: Mourning the loss of the written word