| 1. | " The two figures, one highly
individualised, dedicated to self-assertion and pleasure-seeking, the
other ascetic and self-denying, are sharply contrasted."
| Source: | Bridgman, Joan. "DIANA HAS NOT GONE GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT" Contemporary Review 276.1608 Jan. 1 2000: 33
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| 2. | " Here we hit on a
pivotal point: in many early-Christian writings on virginity, it seems
as if the authors can only promote the ascetic lifestyle by contrasting
it to married life."
| Source: | Otten, Willemien. "Augustine on marriage, monasticism, and the community of the church" Theological Studies v59.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 385-406
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| 3. | " Yet it is too
often forgotten that Epicurus himself was an unimpeachable ascetic who
taught that "genuine pleasure" was not "the pleasure of
profligates," but rather the simple satisfaction of a mind and body
at peace."
| Source: | McMahon, Darrin M. "From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 5-18
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| 4. | "
As should be apparent, Weber's was an ascetic ideal--he told
his audiences that they should neither expect happiness nor value
pleasure for its own sake."
| Source: | Goldberg, John C.P. "Cardozo" Stanford Law Review 51.5 May 1 1999: 1419
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| 5. | " Ascetics across cultural and historical lines force pain
and pleasure into new meaning constellations, so that through practices of
self-mortification and deprivation the body is made transparent, a conduit
..."
| Source: | Queen, Christopher. "Asceticism" Philosophy East and West 49.1 Jan. 1 1999: 75-76
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| 6. | "... the wind
whistling. "One feels almost driven towards the sessions of sweet,
silent thoughts and the remembrance of things past."
But Kathrada was never an ascetic or a prig removed from ordinary
pleasures, and some of his..."
| Source: | SAMPSON, ANTHONY. "Keeping in touch" New Statesman (1996) 129.4487 May 22 2000: 58
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| 7. | "
Paula's virile ascetic excess in life (or, rather, in her Life)
catalyzes Jerome's near unmanning at her death, even as their sex
(here, both biological gender and transcendent desire for union) is
eternally reaffirmed in a theology of Resurrection."
| Source: | Jacobs, Andrew S. "The Sex Lives of Saints: an Erotics of Ancient Hagiography" Church History 73.4 Dec. 1 2004: 838-842
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| 8. | " Elm explains the differences with reference to
Possidius' specific intentions; his main concern is to legitimise
his protagonist as a worthy bishop, holding the balance between ascetic
sanctity of life and public duties."
| Source: | Graumann, Thomas. "Die Macht der Weisheit. Das Bild des Bischofs in der Vita Augustini des Possidius und anderen spataniken und fruhmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55.4 Oct. 1 2004: 757-759
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| 9. | " At one
time an important government minister, Sanatan took up a life of
renunciation and became an ascetic in the sacred forest of Vrindavan."
| Source: | Hughes, Dennis. "Meditation is not what you think: an introduction to the meditation issue" Share Guide .75 Sept. 1 2004: 13-14
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| 10. | "... of Clement of
Alexandria's Paidagogos, how the Alexandrians portrayed Christ as
the physician leading his followers to a full, healthy and non-ascetic
life on earth."
| Source: | Frend, W.H.C. "Jahrbuch fur Antike und Christentum, 45-2002" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 55.4 Oct. 1 2004: 741-743
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| 11. | " Buddhist, Jain and
various Brahmanical ascetics sought distinguish themselves from each
other based upon minute differences in material culture, such as
variations in begging bowls, water pots, staves, color of robes,
retention or non-retention of hairs and caste emblems, and mode of
alms-begging."
| Source: | Hatley, Shaman,Inayatullah, Sohail. "Karma samnyasa: Sarkar's reconceptualization of Indian asceticism" Journal of Asian and African Studies 34.1 Feb. 1 1999: 139-140
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| 12. | "... women, it is their traditional role as mothers and devoted family
members that surfaces, not celibacy or the ascetic life."
| Source: | Drake, H.A. "The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire" Church History 73.4 Dec. 1 2004: 834-836
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| 13. | " The experience made me realize
how little I knew about the practical expressions of Jain dharma, and
caused me to reflect that its severely ascetic ideology obviously
coexisted with a sophisticated appreciation for the exuberant and
sensory life of this world."
| Source: | Lutgendorf, Philip. "Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India" Journal of the American Oriental Society 123.4 Oct. 1 2003: 902-904
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| 14. | "... Alnilam; refers to the nonexistent "criminality of
artists" theme in The Magic Mountain; attributes "monstrous
appetites" to the ascetic hero of Doctor Faustus; maintains that
Jake Barnes's war wound in The Sun Also Rises
"complicates" his sex life (!) and that Harry's vivid
memories,..."
| Source: | Meyers, Jeffrey. "Crux: The Letters of James Dickey" New Criterion 18.9 May 1 2000: 69
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| 15. | "
Thus the whole fabric of the ascetic and unworldly view of life is
in direct antagonism to the active and wordly spirit of Zoroastrianism."
| Source: | Nigosian, S.A. "Zoroastrian perception of ascetic culture" Journal of Asian and African Studies 34.1 Feb. 1 1999: 4-5
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| 16. | "
A recurrent theme in Vasari's Life of Piero di Cosimo is the
artist's eccentric, sordid, and ascetic lifestyle."
| Source: | Waldman, Louis Alexander. "Fact, Fiction, Hearsay: Notes on Vasari's Life of Piero di Cosimo" Art Bulletin 82.1 Mar. 1 2000: 171
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| 17. | " Mystics and ascetics have been telling us for ages that the
goal of life is to learn how to die."
| Source: | Gonzalez-Crussi, F. "APPROACHING THE UNKNOWABLE" Commonweal 77.13 July 14 2000: 27
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| 18. | " In principle, only ascetic celibates play key roles in
the monastery but the two groups are closely linked, and the relaxed
pragmatism of life at Caughera..."
| Source: | FULLER, C.J. "Ascetes et rois: un monastere de Kanphata Yogis au Nepal" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 5.4 Dec. 1 1999: 634
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| 19. | " A
series of illuminating case studies shows that foreigners--many
English--sought out Ireland for its "Christian learning and ascetic
life," which they later carried abroad."
| Source: | CRAMSIE, JOHN R. "Ireland and Her Neighbours in the Seventh Century" History: Review of New Books 28.1 Sept. 22 1999: 18
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| 20. | " It is the story, told plainly, with a strong narrative line and
firm viewpoint, of the life and times of the main line of Thai Buddhist
thudong monks - wandering ascetic meditators - who flourished..."
| Source: | CARRITHERS, MICHAEL. "Forest recollections: wandering monks in twentieth-centuryThailand. xxii" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.2 June 1 2000: 350
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| 21. | " Like Cross, French deploys the ostensibly abstract
intellectual politics of the university in order to undercut the ascetic
assumptions of disembodiedness implicit within the life of the mind,
foregrounding..."
| Source: | DEVER, CAROLYN. "THE FEMINIST ABJECT: DEATH AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THEORY" Studies in the Novel 32.2 June 22 2000: 185
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| 22. | " It was rather like the life of a
mid-Victorian Oxford don: celibate, male-centered, high-minded, not
exactly ascetic" (146)."
| Source: | Crowe, Marian E. "INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY: CATHOLICISM IN DAVID LODGE'S PARADISE NEWS" Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 52.2 Jan. 1 2000: 143
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| 23. | "
November 20, 2004 Atlanta/Inman Park, GA Nia Technique--Dancing
Through Life: Movement as Pleasure Life as Art Playshop."
| Source: | . "New Life Events: about New Life Events" New Life Journal 5.8 Oct. 1 2004: 34-36
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| 24. | " The finesse of this sentence lies in
the phrase "as if there were," which discloses that no
pleasure at all is gained; the major mode repeatedly falls back to the
minor."
| Source: | HATCH, CHRISTOPHER. "Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectivity, Song" Notes 56.3 Mar. 1 2000: 681
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| 25. | " Especially repellent to those with such a mindset has been
an emphasis on leisure time, modes of personal pleasure, community
celebrations, and other activities explicitly valued more highly than
material economic gain."
| Source: | Buell, John. "Reinventing Ralph Nader: Back to the Future" Humanist 60.4 July 1 2000: 40
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