1.) Cheep Chi, my beloved love bird, has found a new home in Abbotsford.

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2.) Not that the creature is not to be loved ; but that if that love be referred to the Creator, then it is not cupidity but love. For it is then cupidity, when the creature is loved for its own sake.
from Aug. de Trin. ix. sec. 13.

He who be temperate in this sort of mortal and passing things, has a rule of life established by both Testaments, that he love none of them, think nothing to be desired for its own sake, but use them, as far as may suffice for the needs of this life and its duties, with the moderation of one who useth, not with the affection of one who loveth.
from Aug. de Mor. Eccl. Cath. sec. 39.

both from footnotes in book ten of St. Augustine's Confessions, section xxix, paragraph 40.

Jarrad, the torrents here are becoming more clear.
(Don't worry, sooner or later, I'll post an Augustine I like.)

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3.) In police interrogation, originally torture, then colloquially an intensive rough interrogation to extract information or a confession - the term "Third Degree" being an ironic reference to the Masonic ritual which involves a (symbolic) moral interrogation and illustration that right overcomes wrong.

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_degree

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4.) [Juristic person]'s simply a "technical legal meaning" where "a 'person' is any subject of legal rights and duties."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Combine this with Nikolas Rose?

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