ellauri030.html on line 268: Parasta vanhan hopeäselän elossa on arvovalta! (Jos sitä on - jos ei ole sori vaan, oma moka, olisit ollut aikaisemmin sepompi.) Esim Samuli Rusko-oja, nilkki perustolvana, joka paistatteli loppupäivät ansiottoman arvonnousun valossa. Vähemmän duunia, enemmän auktoriteettia. atque huius extrema aetas hoc beatior quam media, quod auctoritatis habebat plus, laboris minus; apex est autem senectutis auctoritas. Vanhuus, kun siihen liittyy korkeimmat luottamustehtävät, on niin arvovaltaa täynnä, että se korvaa kaikki nuoruuden nautinnot. Kaikki tottelee sun pelkkää nyökkäystä. Habet senectus, honorata praesertim, tantam auctoritatem, ut ea pluris sit quam omnes adulescentiae voluptates. Non in sententia solum, sed etiam in nutu residet auctoritas.
ellauri051.html on line 1760: 1149 My feet strike an apex of the apices of the stairs, 1149 Jalkani osuvat portaiden kärkien kärkeen,
ellauri097.html on line 117: Mencken, says Charles A. Fecher, was, "deeply conservative, resentful of change, looking back upon the 'happy days' of a bygone time, wanted no part of the world that the New Deal promised to bring in." In 1931, the Arkansas legislature passed a motion to pray for Mencken´s soul after he had called the state the "apex of moronia."
ellauri143.html on line 121: The moksa state is attained when a soul is liberated from the cycles of deaths and rebirths, is at the apex, is omniscient, remains there eternally, and is known as a siddha. In Jainism, it is believed to be a stage beyond enlightenment and ethical perfection, states Paul Dundas (n.h.), because they can perform physical and mental activities such as teach, without accruing karma that leads to rebirth.
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