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    2. Epicurean Thoughts On Taking Action

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    2. Epicurean Tattoos 6

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    2. Epicurean Self-Sufficiency - Video Of A Short Address from the 2013 Promethea Conference in Greece - By George Kaplanis

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy And Boomer Word Associations ("Feeling No Pain") 3

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    2. Epicurean Philosophical Tenets That We Can Know With Certainty 1

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    2. Epicurean Or Not? "Fiat Justitia ruat caelo" (Let Justice be done though the sky falls) 6

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    2. Epicurean nautical references, allusions, and metaphors in the texts 17

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    2. Epicurean kèpos in Autun - France. 7

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    2. Epicurean Instagram post

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    2. Epicurean Festival - Italy - Michele Pinto, Coordinator (Fri, Aug 30th 2019, 8:00 am - Sun, Sep 1st 2019, 8:00 pm) 10

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    2. Epicurean Ethics And the Coronavirus Episode - A Starting Point 3

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    2. Epicurean Emporium 7

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    2. Epicurean Education and the Rhetoric of Concern, by Sean McConnell 1

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    2. Epicurean Cites on The Issue of Impossibiity of Pure Happiness While Accepting Religious Fables

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    2. Epicurean Change 13

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    2. Epicurean Blog 3

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    2. Entertaining Example of Epicurus' Reasons for Rejecting Divination (Nick Of Time - A Short Story Featuring William Shatner) 1

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    2. Empedocles Document Found

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    2. Emily Austin's "LIving For Pleasure" Wins Award. (H/T to Lowri for finding this!)

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    2. ‪Embodied Philosophy ‬ 4

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    2. Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."

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    2. Elli - On Euphronius

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    2. Eliminative Materialism 19

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    2. Eleni Avdoulou wins the award NetoIP 2021 with a thesis about the Papyri of Herculaneum

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    2. Elayne Reviews Alan Reye's Editorial on Thomas Jefferson 2

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    2. Edward Abbey - My Favorite Quotes

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    2. Eclectic Take on Epicurean Philosophy; Earlier Origin of Some Epicurean Concepts; Method of Loci 17

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    2. Early homo sapiens and sociability.

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