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He is immediately at a loss, and knows not what to answer ... a Pyrrhonian cannot expect, that his philosophy will have any constant influence on the mind: or if it had, that its influence would be beneficial to society.
This suggestion has been recently repeated by Jerome Murphy-O ' Connor: " It is difficult to imagine that an Alexandrian Jew ... could have escaped the influence of Philo, the great intellectual leader ... particularly since the latter seems to have been especially concerned with education and preaching.
Ravi Batra argues that " all official economic measures adopted since 1981 ... have devastated the middle class " and that the Occupy Wall Street movement should push for their repeal and thus end the influence of the super wealthy in the political process, which he considers a manifestation of crony capitalism.
He accounts for the non-Luwian features as a Mysian influence: " deviations from Luwian ... may plausibly be ascribed to the dialect of the indigenous population of Mysia.
At the same time he found the church to be a " selfish ... church of the landed gentry " with its establishment " out of touch " with the majority of its communicants and altogether a pernicious influence on public life.
As mentioned by writer Mike Carey, Iceman is " an Omega level mutant ... has powers that can influence the ecosystem of the entire world.
He remarked later: " had a very powerful influence on me in my childhood ... even later when I entered political life her influence continued.
When coming to Kubla Khan, he pointed out: " instead of being content to have written finely under the influence of laudanum, recommends ' Kubla-Khan ' to his readers, not as a poem, but as ' a psychological curiosity ' ... Every lover of books, scholar or not, who knows what it is to have his quarto open against a loaf at his tea ... ought to be in possession of Mr. Coleridge's poems, if it is only for ' Christabel ', ' Kubla Khan ', and the ' Ancient Mariner '.
In a series of diagrams illustrating the " environments " that influence various painterly styles, the Suprematist is associated with a series of aerial views rendering the familiar landscape into an abstraction ... ( excerpted from Ms. Bekman Chadaga's paper delivered at Columbia University's 2000 symposium, " Art, Technology, and Modernity in Russia and Eastern Europe ")
According to Lt. Gen. Leonard T. Gerow, President of the Board which recommended its formation, " The College is concerned with grand strategy and the utilization of the national resources necessary to implement that strategy ... Its graduates will exercise a great influence on the formulation of national and foreign policy in both peace and war ...."
" Yockey's philosophy, especially his vehement anti-Semitism, differs heavily from Spengler, however, who criticised anti-Semitism and racialism much in the same vein as his own influence Friedrich Nietzsche had ...
The French minister said in 1793: " Senator Morris and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton ... had the greatest influence over the President's mind, and that it was only with difficulty that he counterbalanced their efforts.
Officials blamed American influence, " In this country unfortunately the settlement of American citizens has been too much permitted and encouraged, and thus in the bosom of this community there exists a treacherous foe ... in many parts of the Province the teachers are Americans ....
He admits, " If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don't know what it was ... She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it.
Neoclassical economics by contrast refers to " the individual in whom the human capital is ... embedded ", which implies a strong association of the individual with the instructional capital they learn from, with little or no social capital influence.
As his grandson wrote, " his lighter side ... obscured the fact that he had both insight and influence.
The naval staff hoped to gain a success to influence postwar budget debates ... Since Raeder had already discussed with Hitler on 20 May the possibility of invading Britain, such a waste of German naval strength off the North Cape counts as one of the most egregious naval misjudgements of the war.
Raeder testified in response to Maxwell Fyfe's question about his Heroes ' Day speech to his belief that starting in 1917 " International Jewry had destroyed the resistance of the German people ... and had gained an excessively large and oppressive influence in German affairs " and all of the anti-Semitic measures of the Nazi regime which presumably included genocide were merely just acts of German self-defence.
' The American critic Harold Bloom has adopted the Freudian notion of the Oedipus Complex to his study of relationships of influence between poets ... and his work has also inspired a feminist variant in the work of Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar '.
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

... and could
Josephus, a contemporary, reports that " Jerusalem ... was so thoroughly razed to the ground by those that demolished it to its foundations, that nothing was left that could ever persuade visitors that it had once been a place of habitation.
Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.
" I could see the enemy advancing ever closer in nine great columns ", wrote Mérode-Westerloo, " ... filling the whole plain from the Danube to the woods on the horizon.
The hoplites ' ash spears, rather than shivering ... could instead stab and stab again, and those of the enemy who avoided their fearful jabbing might easily be crushed to death beneath the sheer weight of the advancing men of bronze.
The successful American businessman and investor Warren Buffett was quoted in the Associated Press ( January 20, 2006 ) as saying " The U. S trade deficit is a bigger threat to the domestic economy than either the federal budget deficit or consumer debt and could lead to political turmoil ...
Animals lacking a mouth could not live ; others lacking reproductive organs could not perpetuate themselves ...
He said of the Siege of Leningrad ( 1941 – 1944 ): " Those who consumed human flesh, or dealt with the human liver trading from dissecting rooms ... were accounted as the political criminals ..." And of the building of Northern Railway Prisoners Camp (" SevZhelDorLag ") Solzhenitsyn reports, " An ordinary hard working political prisoner almost could not survive at that penal camp.
One would think to listen to him that the Government had no responsibility for the state of world affairs ... The Government has now resolved to enter upon an arms race, and the people will have to pay for their mistake in believing that it could be trusted to carry out a policy of peace.
Several of the company's technicians examined the enhanced prints, and although they agreed with Snelling that the pictures " showed no signs of being faked ", they concluded that " this could not be taken as conclusive evidence ... that they were authentic photographs of fairies ".
" Regarding his view on Spectral evidence, Upham concludes that " Cotton Mather never in any public writing ' denounced the admission ' of it, never advised its absolute exclusion ; but on the contrary recognized it as a ground of ' presumption ' ... once admitted nothing could stand against it.
" Refusing to give a literal reading to the state-granted charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which specified that the company could " collect and receive such tariffs ... as it may prescribe, Hughes contended that this clause " necessarily implies that the charges shall be reasonable and does not detract from the power of the State ... to prescribe reasonable rates.
Thorolf of Eyrbyggja Saga was " uncorrupted, and with an ugly look about him ... swollen to the size of an ox ," and his body was so heavy that it could not be raised without levers.
Robert Lowell wrote in 1947, " Nothing could be more wrongheaded, than the English disputes about Dylan Thomas's greatness ...
" " We all felt ... that through documentary film we could develop a new kind of art.
If such an extraordinary event had actually taken place ... could the king have withstood the attitude of the native nobles, who would hardly have looked upon such an occurrence without offering armed resistance to their feeble and capricious sovereign?
In reference to Ezekiel being in his " thirtieth year ... during the fifth year of King Jehoiachin ’ s exile ", it could be determined that he was born c. 622 BCE.
For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".
As Weizenbaum later wrote, " I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.
In everyday life, individuals often find their thoughts pursue a series of fantasies concerning things they wish they could do or wish they had done ... fantasies of control or of sovereign choice ... daydreams '.

... and still
Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".
" Casement then added how assailants would " bring down a dwarf on the way home, for the marital cooking pot ... The Dwarfs, as I say, dispense with cooking pots and eat and drink their human prey fresh cut on the battlefield while the blood is still warm and running.
Mainstream CBT helps individuals replace " maladaptive ... coping skills, cognitions, emotions and behaviors with more adaptive ones ", by challenging an individual's way of thinking and the way that he / she reacts to certain habits or behaviors, but there is still controversy about the degree to which these traditional cognitive elements account for the effects seen with CBT over and above the earlier behavioral elements such as exposure and skills training.
The two most usual cases of the latter are the in the sayings òf ... òf ( either ... or ) and nòg ... nòg ( neither ... nor ) to distinguish them from of ( or ) and nog ( again, still ).
It made the same statement with regard also to later ordinations by those bishops, saying that, " as for those who have already thus unlawfully received ordination or any who may yet accept ordination from these, whatever may be the validity of the orders ( quidquid sit de ordinum validitate ), the Church does not and will not recognise their ordination ( ipsorum ordinationem ), and will consider them, for all legal effects, as still in the state in which they were before, except that the ... penalties remain until they repent " ( Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Decree Episcopi qui alios of 17 September 1976-Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1976, page 623 ).
" Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream "
According to Jaspers, this is the era of history when " the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently ... And these are the foundations upon which humanity still subsists today ".
He who paints living animals is more estimable than those who only represent dead things without movement, and as man is the most perfect work of God on the earth, it is also certain that he who becomes an imitator of God in representing human figures, is much more excellent than all the others ... a painter who only does portraits still does not have the highest perfection of his art, and cannot expect the honour due to the most skilled.
Isaac Asimov once wrote, " In view of what he might still have accomplished ... his death might well have been the most costly single death of the War to mankind generally.
* Even though Eve had Adam for a husband, she was still a virgin ... By disobeying, Eve became the cause of death for herself and for the whole human race.
The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.
He continued by discussing the preface: " despite its obvious undependability as a guide to the actual process of the poem's composition, the preface can still, in Wheeler's words, lead us ' to ponder why Coleridge chose to write a preface ... ' What the preface describes, of course, is not the actual process by which the poem came into being, but an analogue of poetic creation as logos, a divine ' decree ' or fiat which transforms the Word into the world.
" ... Bible in its widest sense, means good ; for the Savior says according to the gospel of John, " I am the good shepherd ;" and it will not be beyond the common use of terms, to say that good is among the most important in use, and though known by various names in different languages, still its meaning is the same, and is ever in opposition to bad.
He was antisocial because he knew society was crap ; he was a hero to youth because he was strong enough not to take the crap ... Brando represented a contemporary version of the free American ... Brando is still the most exciting American actor on the screen.
The team MVP that season was Joe Kapp, who threw for seven touchdowns against the Baltimore Colts – still an all-time NFL record ; however, Kapp refused to accept the award, stating, " There is not one most valuable Viking ... there are 40 most valuable Vikings!
" He compared Bukharin's situation to that of the great chemist Antoine Lavoisier who was guillotined during the French Revolution: " We in France, the most ardent revolutionaries ... still profoundly grieve and regret what we did ....
" Further complicating the news, NewOrderOnline, a website with support from New Order management, reported that, according to " a source close to the band ," " the news about the split is false ... New Order still exists despite what said Peter Hook can leave the band, but this doesn't mean the end of New Order.
In critic Steven Blush's description, " The Sex Pistols were still rock ' n ' roll ... like the craziest version of Chuck Berry.

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