The fabulous tombs of the Recoleta Cemetery stand as vainglorious monuments, in death, to earthly success and ambition.
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That we are smoking, drinking, conversing around the earthly remains of our loved one?
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The Bible describes Eden as an earthly heaven with four rivers flowing from it.
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The Pilgrim Fathers hoped for an earthly paradise without the sin and selfishness of the Old World.
Yearning for abundance alternates with the idea that real paradise is swapping earthly pleasure for something better.
After all, what earthly reason would the social network have for continuing third-party developer support of the product?
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But coming from a body that stresses the spiritual, parts of the meeting's final statement were quite earthly.
The samples have to be cleaned to ensure that no Earthly residue from Curiosity gets into the sample.
As God's final revelation to man, it belongs not to earthly, created things but to an eternal realm.
By many accounts, they live in an Earthly greenzone, sometimes above the law, almost always above financial crises.
What earthly business purpose was served by chopping up the land this way?
And that last earthly tribunal, the U.S. Supreme Court, well knows the intent.
Modernity, and the luxury it created (initially for a few, then for many) made earthly abundance seem within reach.
Markets spin webs of interlocking dependencies bonding complete strangers in harmonious commerce, strengthening communities and enriching our earthly experience.
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The tale explores the notion of earthly fame, but with an otherworldly twist.
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His son Yuli is an Orthodox Jew who, as a conservative Israeli politician, does indeed recognise an earthly homeland.
No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
"It's very difficult not to be overly rooty, not to overdo an earthly feeling or get too powdery, " she said.
At age 93, and with a son running his charity, Sir John is rounding out his contributions to earthly life.
And every earthly reality is only a pale shadow of its archetype, the original pattern, of which it is simply an imperfect copy.
It remains to be seen however, if these Christian capitalists can have both eternal heavenly and long term earthly success.
"I have no earthly knowledge of it, " said the 81-year-old, listed as chairman emeritus and a director for Stanford Financial Group.
Since he officially retired in 2004, Mr. Mandela has concentrated on his foundation, the charity that is already his earthly embodiment.
Such a debate raises the question of what would Jesus drive if he embarked on his earthly ministry in 21st Century.
It seems that, in addition to celestial storm warnings, we should also heed these earthly warnings of an impending nuclear storm.
Reclining statues are a popular representation of Buddha and depict the final moments of his earthly existence as he enters the state of nirvana.
"No one had any earthly idea how big this rascal could be, " Don Kidd, Carlsbad state senator and bank president, says approvingly.
The monument is also a route to earthly salvation, in the form of tourist spending, for this town of about 22, 000 souls.
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"Without the biggest economies being part of the framework to reduce carbon dependence, we have no earthly chance of success, " he said.
Not content with seeking earthly equivalents of extraterrestrial oceans, he is looking for analogies with the atmospheres of other planets as well.
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