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::“ and there
::“ It is true there are cases in which, if we confine ourselves to the effects of the first order, the good will have an incontestable preponderance over the evil.
::“ In the traditional view, it is assumed that there exists a reality in space-time and that this reality is a given thing, all of whose aspects can be viewed or articulated at any given moment.

::“ and is
::“ happiness, private happiness, is the proper or ultimate end of all our actions each particular action may be said to have its proper and peculiar end …( but )….
::“ Now it is evident from the nature of God, viz.
::“ It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others.
::“ The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it.
::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.
::“ I agree with you that the right way of testing actions by their consequences, is to test them by the natural consequences of the particular action, and not by those which would follow if everyone did the same.
::“ One ought to abide by the general principles whose general inculcation is for the best ; harm is more likely to come, in actual moral situations, from questioning these rules than from sticking to them, unless the situations are very extra-ordinary ; the results of sophisticated felicific calculations are not likely, human nature and human ignorance being what they are, to lead to the greatest utility .”
::“ Surely the utilitarian must admit that whatever the facts of the matter may be, it is logically possible that an ‘ unjust ’ system of punishment — e. g. a system involving collective punishments, retroactive laws and punishments, or punishments of parents and relations of the offender — may be more useful than a ‘ just ’ system of punishment ?”
::“ We certainly cannot hope directly to compare their effects except within a limited future ; and all the arguments, which have ever been used in Ethics, and upon which we commonly act in common life, directed to shewing that one course is superior to another, are ( apart from theological dogmas ) confined to pointing out such probable immediate advantages
::“ It is the beginningless round of rebirths that is called the ’ Wheel of the round of rebirths ’ ( saṃsāracakka ).
::“ They ’ re supposed to say, ‘ I got this student, her attendance is good, her GPA is all right — can you interview this person ?’ They ’ re not doing that ,” she said.
::“ It is much better to kill only such you want, without wasting your powder and lead, then to be firing into God ’ s creatures in such a wicked manner .” ( Natty to Judge Marmeduke ) – Chapter III, The Slaughter of Pigeons

::“ and from
After his arrest, Popitz told the Gestapo ::“ As somebody who was very familiar with conditions in the System period the Weimar Republic, my view of the Jewish question was that the Jews ought to disappear from the life of the state and the economy.

::“ and no
::“ involves our saying, for instance, that a world in which absolutely nothing except pleasure existed — no knowledge, no love, no enjoyment of beauty, no moral qualities — must yet be intrinsically better — better worth creating — provided only the total quantity of pleasure in it were the least bit greater, than one in which all these things existed as well as pleasure .”

::“ and pain
::“ Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

::“ and my
::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”
::“ For all those people who have lost or misplaced something that was dear to them, as I have, never give up the dream of searching – never let go of the hope that you ’ ll find it because after all these many years, at last, my Oscar has been returned to me .”

::“ and human
::“ Suppose that a ruler controls a weapon capable of instantly and painlessly destroying the human race.

::“ and makes
::“ Utilitarian ethics makes all of us members of the same moral community.

::“ and for
::“ Arguments for and against God's just judgment resemble those found in Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta ” the delays of divine vengeance “ as well as in the targumic midrash about Cain and Abel in Gen ” “ 4.
::“ With the passage of the Roadless Rule, inventoried roadless areas,for better or worse, more committed to pristine wilderness, and less amendable to road development for purposes permitted by the Forest Service .’”

::“ and help
::“ We are not able, at the moment, to send out envoys and Imperial troops so, in spite of their good wishes, each kingdom seek help, as they please, wherever they can, to the east, west, south, or north .”

::“ and .
::“ Tanizaki wrote clear, rational sentences ,” Mr. Seidensticker wrote.
::“ He would dutifully scrutinize the passage, and answer: ‘ Yes ,’ ” Mr. Seidensticker wrote.
::“ I am going to ask you a rather strange question.
::“ If we consider ‘ The will ’ by Kamel Selim in 1939 the beginning of Egyptian realism in cinema, so we have to admit that ‘ House-Boat No. 70 ’ by Khairy Beshara, 1982, is the start of the new realism ”
::“ Her Majesty is now Queen of Canada but she is the Queen of Canada because she is Queen of the United Kingdom.

there and is
`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
Nevertheless, there is no bath.
It is the last of the three tests of manhood which the women impose, to discover if a male is worthy of survival there.
`` There isn't anything left to say, is there, Keith ''??
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
But there is no use causing him to worry at this time ''.
The strong feeling is certainly there ; ;
but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.
The long-settled areas of states like Virginia and South Carolina developed the ante-bellum culture to its richest flowering, and there the memory is more precious, and the consciousness of loss the greater.
And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold war against Communism.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
At General Power's seat in the balcony there is also a gold phone.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;
Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.
Yet within this limitation there is an astonishing variety: design as intricate as that in the carpet or miniature, with the melodic line like the painted or woven line often flowing into an arabesque.
Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.
However, there is always the possibility that chance will make demands the dancers find impossible to execute.

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