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devil lily

(= tiger lily) east Asian perennial having large reddish-orange black-spotted flowers with reflexed petals

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tiger lily kentan Lilium lancifolium

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Friedrich Nietzsche said that if you look in the eye of the Devil for too long, you risk becoming a devil yourself.
Just as the Devil can quote scripture for his purpose, Third World communitarianism can be the slogan of a deracinated tyrant trained, as in the case of Pol Pot, at the Sorbonne.
Far from being the spawn of the devil, CDSs are a useful financial instrument that can improve not only financial stability, but also the way that companies and countries are run.
The devil is in the details, and that is where the attack must focus.
As for labor rights, the agreement makes a devil's bargain: it opens trade while locking in a status quo that is appalling.
This position also opened another front in the Church's battle with Eastern European Orthodox Christianity, which lent theological support to vampire myths by teaching that non-decomposed bodies could not go to heaven and could be revivified by the devil.
Heated exchanges between the authorities and opponents of the laws led many to believe that the devil is, indeed, in the details.
Alas, as always, the Devil is in the details: the EU's institutions were originally designed for 6 members, but within a decade or two the EU will probably have 25-30 (perhaps more) member states.
Only radicals and populists -- of which we retain too many -- can afford a devil-may-care attitude toward making the state function more efficiently.
The underlying cause of conflict is not that Hezbollah or Hamas have grievances against Israel so much as that they view Jews as prophet-murdering, devil-aiding, imperialistic sub-humans whose state must be wiped off the map.
In his great verse drama Faust, Goethe has God send humanity the Devil (Mephistopheles) in order to stir things up.
The religious demon is a far less appealing devil than Uncle Sam.
Nevertheless, the devil is in the details.
But the devil is in the details, and, even in the most optimistic scenario, the trade-off between competition and stability will remain.
But, taking the long view, the future surely does not lie with organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood. The religious demon is a far less appealing devil than Uncle Sam.
The United Nations is the devil's own creation.
Both issues sound simpler than they are: the devil is in the details, and the details leave ample scope for disagreement over the definition, monitoring, and enforcement of terms.
The technical questions are complex, and the proverbial devil really is in the countless details.
And yet, while US President Barack Obama has referred to the quartet's decision as his guiding principle for diplomatic action on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the situation remains as dire as ever, because the devil remains in the details.

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