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*" Contrary to what many romantically inclined critics of contemporary civilization say about the dehumanizing effects of machines, I believe that contact with machines ( particularly complicated machines ) exercises a profoundly humanizing influence in the sense of making people less brutal.
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*" It can't be true what the girls at the Rectory said, that her mother was an opera-dancer —"" A person can't help their birth ," Rosalind replied with great liberality.
*" Alea iacta est " (" The die is cast "), which is reportedly what Caesar said at the crossing of the Rubicon.
*" The Precise Ethnographer " – Ethnographers often create the illusion that field notes are data and reflect what " really " happened.
*" The Literary Ethnographer " – Representation is a balancing act of determining what to " show " through poetic / prosaic language and style versus what to " tell " via straightforward, ‘ factual ’ reporting.
*" mutatis mutandis " = " with change made to what needs to be changed " ( an ablative absolute construction )
*" Shorn of its pseudo-political and spiritual claims and pretensions, Zionism can be seen for what it really is: nothing more than an aggressive minority movement aiming at the subjugation of the majority and the usurpation of their country.
*" Gewalt-Erlebnis-Parks " ( GEP, violence theme parks ) for incurable violent offenders, cops and Nazis with special areas set aside as ethnic theme parks for cultural minorities ( such as lederhosen-wearing Bavarians ), to avoid too close contact between these pogo races lest the pursuit of what each considers necessary for happiness suffers.
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*" Jump Around " is used in many television and cinema productions, such as in the 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, the 1996 film Happy Gilmore, Black Hawk Down, the TV series My Name Is Earl, and American Dad.
*" in certain cantons of Media, ... a woman was allowed to have many husbands, and they looked with contempt on those who had less than five.
*" No lawyer in America has tried and argued on appeal as many landmark cases in as many different areas as Mr. Boies.
*" An important area of investigation in the development of admissibility ideas has been that of conventional sampling-theory procedures, and many interesting results have been obtained.
*" The Gathering of the Texas Herd "-early development of Texas Longhorn breed by Graves Peeler, Sid Richardson, Gene Autry, J. Frank Dobie, there are also many important and relative historical library references.
*" Moreover, I have never seen in any other nation so many individuals who were born blind, so many lame, maimed or having some natural defect.
*" And many recent recordings of pop music demonstrate how music is killed by a metronome for they are as square as a draftsman's T. For the convenience of recording engineers, each player has to record their part on a separate track while listening to a click track — a metronome — and the clicks are then used to synchronize the tracks while the technicians adjust them to their taste and mix them.
*" Professional student " is a slang term commonly used in colleges to describe a student who stays in school for many years rather than embarking on a career.
*" Pancho Matanzas ", a Cuban immigrant that, as many did at the time, would sell anything to support himself and his family.
*" There has been a serious drought in Country X for a while, and it is not very developed, so many of its inhabitants are probably starving ".
*" The next question is: Why do so many brilliant, well-informed, intelligent people fool themselves for so long with such bad thinking and bad evidence?
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