There is no use delaying … Stop studying water pitchers and bananas and paint everyday life.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

There are early literary references in the Quran, circa AD 632, to " war-horses … which strike fire, by dashing their hoofs against the stones …" which, if taken literally, is an effect that would have been obtained by shod horses, as barefoot hooves striking stone do not create sparks.

In the bosom of this obscure democracy … the following fine definition of liberty: " There is a twofold liberty, natural … and civil or federal.

" When Tung Kuo Tzu asked Zhuangzi where the Tao was, he replied that it was in the ant, the grass, the clay tile, even in excrement: " There is nowhere where it is not … There is not a single thing without Tao.

There are occasions, in which the hand of the assassin would be very useful … The true answer is this ; that these actions, after all, are not useful, and for that reason, and that alone, are not right.

… There were the part books of the whole of the music in Rosamunde, tied up after the second performance, in December 1823, and probably never disturbed since.

… There are no trees here, but only the vineyards where they produce the Katakekaumene wines which are by no means inferior from any of the wines famous for their quality.

There I learned to appreciate the music of my people … then the blues were born, because from that day on, I started thinking about putting my own experience down in that particular kind of music.

We were among the first members of the colony to arrive at the station of an unfinished railroad … There was a good hotel, well and comfortably furnished, one or two stores neatly furnished and already stocked with goods, several other in process of erection … The streets, scarcely to be defined as such, were full of prairie schooners, containing families waiting until masters could suit themselves with “ claims ,” the women pursuing their housewifely avocations meanwhile – some having cooking stoves in their wagons, others using gypsy fires to do their culinary work ; all seeming happy and hopeful.

There are, according to the Chinese government, “ approximately 200 different kinds of Laogai products that are exported to international markets .” “ A quarter of China ’ s tea is produced in Laogai camps ; 60 percent of China ’ s rubber-vulcanizing chemicals are produced in a single Laogai camp in Shengyang … one of the largest steel-pipe factories in the country is a Laogai camp … ” One Camp alone, Ziangride, harvests more than 22, 000 metric tons of grain every year.

There is no excuse for them not thinking of that except for the unintelligent, in fact, stupid, narrow-minded and selfish leadership which the democracies of the world are cursed with … But when some other system develops stronger leadership, works hard and long, and intelligently and aggressively — which are good traits — and, superimposed upon that, develops the instinct of a racketeer, there is nothing for the democracies to do but fold up.

In January 2009 the Labour Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, reaffirmed this commitment with regard to the health sector, stating that “ PFIs have always been the NHS ’ s ‘ plan A ’ for building new hospitals … There was never a ‘ plan B ’".

There is no room for prudence in revolutions whose fate and eventual success is always decided by boldness and raw courage … this is why Petőfi condemned his compatriots for the sin of opportunism and hesitation when faced with the great problems of their age … Petőfi's works must be regarded as the law of the Hungarian soul … and of the … love of the country ".

Perle and Frum conclude: “ For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation ’ s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust .” These ideas are foundational elements of neoconservatism.

There she was warmly welcomed by the owner who, to her surprise, was a plump fair-haired young woman wearing a garment that looked like a cross between a peasant ’ s dress and a nun ’ s habit, “ with a long full skirt … and a sort of tight-fitting velvet waistcoat over a white silk blouse.

‘ … The development of Japan's large northern island had several objectives: First, it was seen as a means to defend Japan from a rapidly developing and expansionist Russia.

I was innocent before I read them, but by the time I had read them all, there was nothing I did not know about sexual exploits … I had my degree in erotic lore.

But on his arrival, all was chaos – " Scarcely had my troops got over when the dragoons and Swiss who had preceded us, came tumbling down upon my battalions in full flight … My own fellows turned about and fled along with them.

Noticing a rush of horsemen fast approaching from the south, he later recalled – " … I went towards the nearest of these squadrons to instruct their officer, but instead of being listened to was immediately surrounded and called upon to ask for quarter.

I regard myself as Left of Centre which … is where a Party Leader ought to be … It is no use asking, “ What would Keir Hardie have done ?” We must have at the top men brought up in the present age, not, as I was, in the Victorian Age .’

She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.

Of course, I had the usual fears, like going to school … For me, back then, school was a crime against young people.

A kid was shot to death down the street … We were robbed twice, had windows shot out and a car stolen.

The house was first broken into only three days after we moved in … The feeling was so close to extreme danger, and the fear was so intense.

I'd sure love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to explain putting a song in a rape scene for money to his teenage daughter … The deal was pushed through by a new business manager the other three hired.

Christian's death depressed him and he was plagued by suicidal thoughts: " I live with the dead — my mother, my sister, my grandfather, my father … Kill yourself and then it's over.

" He later described the personal anguish behind the painting, " for several years I was almost mad … You know my picture, ' The Scream?

' I was stretched to the limit — nature was screaming in my blood … After that I gave up hope ever of being able to love again.

The term exon derives from the expressed region and was coined by American biochemist Walter Gilbert in 1978: " The notion of the cistron … must be replaced by that of a transcription unit containing regions which will be lost from the mature messengerwhich I suggest we call introns ( for intragenic regions ) alternating with regions which will be expressedexons.

Raising a toast to the crew, he " felt overwhelmed by shame … I was in a no exit situation.

However, Michael Montgomery, in From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish Heritage of American English, states " In Ulster in recent years it has sometimes been supposed that it was coined to refer to followers of King William III and brought to America by early Ulster emigrants …, but this derivation is almost certainly incorrect … In America hillbilly was first attested only in 1898, which suggests a later, independent development.

The Second Vatican Council did not speak of any of these concrete methods … This is a different standpoint than that taken under Pius XI some thirty years which was also maintained by his successor ... we can sense here a clear development in the Church, a development, which is also going on outside the Church.

Punch historian M. H. Spielmann, who knew Tenniel, understood that the political clout contained in his Punch cartoons was capable of “ swaying parties and people, too … ( the cartoons ) exercised great influence ” on the ideas of popular reform skirting throughout the British public.

On 27 February 1914, two days after his death, the Daily Graphic recalled Tenniel: " He had an influence on the political feeling of this time which is hardly measurable … While Tenniel was drawing them ( his subjects ), we always looked to the Punch cartoon to crystallize the national and international situation, and the popular feeling about it — and never looked in vain.

" God knows I go with a heavy heart ," he wrote six days later to his friend and political ally in England, Lord Godolphin, " for I have no hope of doing anything considerable, unless the French do what I am very confident they will not … " – in other words, court battle.

: WHEREAS by the great charter many times confirmed in parliament, it is enacted, That no freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold or liberties, or free customs, or be outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed, and that the King will not pass upon him, or condemn him ; but by lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land …

Without an understanding of Puritanism … there is no understanding of America.

“ Now let us understand the exact meaning of the expression historical Judaism … Looking at Judaism from a historical point of view, we become convinced that there is no one aspect deep enough to exhaust the content of such a complex phenomenon as Judaism … Accordingly, Torah-less Judaism … would be an entirely new thing and not the continuation of something given …

This theorem was established by John von Neumann, who is quoted as saying " As far as I can see, there could be no theory of games … without that theorem … I thought there was nothing worth publishing until the Minimax Theorem was proved ".

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

The most influential and dominant school of Indian philosophy, Advaita Vedanta, rejects theism and dualism by insisting that “ Brahman reality is without parts or attributes … one without a second .” Since, Brahman has no properties, contains no internal diversity and is identical with the whole reality it cannot be understood as God.

Zeno was asked by the Senate to formally reunite the two halves of the Empire: " the west … no longer required an emperor of its own: one monarch sufficed for the world ".

Second, that " the independent involvement of insurgents in Colombia's domestic drug productions, transportation, and distribution is limited … there is no evidence that the national leadership of either the FARC or the ELN has directed, as a matter of policy, that their respective organizations directly engage in independent illicit drug production, transportation, or distribution.

He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang Goethe's world view, in which “ Thinking … is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear.

In regard to fine-tuning, Kenneth Himma writes: " The mere fact that it is enormously improbable that an event occurred ... by itself, gives us no reason to think that it occurred by design … As intuitively tempting as it may be ...” Himma attributes the “ Argument from Suspicious Improbabilities ”, a formalization of “ the fine-tuning intuition ” to George N. Schlesinger: To understand Schlesinger ’ s argument, consider your reaction to two different events.

Another Scripture text that Catholics generally understand as related to the Eucharist is the Gospel of John's account of Jesus as saying: " Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you … he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me and I in him " (), a statement that he did not tone down when, as a result, many of his disciples then abandoned him (), shocked at the idea.

It is known that, unless P = NP, there is no polynomial-time algorithm that finds a tour of length at most 220 / 219 = 1. 00456 … times the optimal tour's length.

In the face of laws restricting public assembly and freedom of the media, restricting campaigning by the MDC for the 2005 Zimbabwe parliamentary elections, President Mbeki was quoted as saying: I have no reason to think that anything will happen … that anybody in Zimbabwe will act in a way that will militate against the elections being free and fair.

his being infinitely happy in himself from all eternity, and from his goodness manifested in his works, that he could have no other design in creating mankind than their happiness ; and therefore he wills their happiness ; therefore the means of their happiness: therefore that my behaviour, as far as it may be a means of the happiness of mankind, should be such … thus the will of God is the immediate criterion of Virtue, and the happiness of mankind the criterion of the wilt of God ; and therefore the happiness of mankind may be said to be the criterion of virtue, but once removed …( and )… I am to do whatever lies in my power towards promoting the happiness of mankind.