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All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.
Thus, it is no mystical intuition, but an analyzable conception to say that man and his tradition can `` fall out of existence ''.
We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.
He was a learned and brilliant man, one of the best jurists in Europe and with flashes of penetrating insight, and yet in his dealings with other people, particularly when he tried to be ingratiating, he was capable of an abysmal stupidity that can have come only from a complete incomprehension of human nature and human motives.
But it can no longer be so once Benjamin Franklin ( the incarnation of the new rational man ) has flown a kite to it.
Writers of this class of science fiction have clearly in mind the assumptions that man can master the principles of this cause-and-effect universe and that such mastery will necessarily better the human lot.
If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.
But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.
Using a Batista man to screen refugees represented a total misunderstanding of the democratic forces which alone can effectively oppose Castro.
No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again.
`` How can you tell an insane man to reason or a blind man to see ''??
How far could it be, Watson thought bleakly, how far can a blind man crawl??
To cite only a few examples: The wrong man in the wrong position, perhaps even in a junior position abroad, can be a source of great harm to our policy ; ;
By sharing the load of important speeches with his colleagues, the president can develop a cadre of able spokesmen who will help to create a public perception of the university as an institution, something more than the lengthened shadow of one man.
Now can you tell me who was drunk -- The man, his wife, or me ''??

man and be
`` McLish '', he said as he kicked the horse into motion, `` I'd be a mighty sad man if we never met again ''.
It's not the kind of thing that a man would be proud of.
He seemed to be fighting not one man but a dozen.
For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
Mrs. Roebuck thought Johnson was a `` sweet bawh t'lah lahk thet '', but her Herman was getting to be a man, there was no getting around it.
One false move on his part and he would be a dead man.
`` The accommodations may not be the poshest, but man!!
The key man almost certainly would be Col. William W. Wisman, SAC's senior controller.
After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.
Retiring to his beloved Mount Vernon, he returned to preside over the Federal Convention, and was the only man in history to be unanimously elected President.
I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.
At the same time the multiple transvestitism involved -- the fat man as girl and as baby, as coquette pretending to be a baby -- touches for a moment horrifyingly upon the secret sources of a life like Jacoby's, upon the sinister dreams which form the sources of any human life.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
A man must be able to say, `` Father, I have sinned '', or there is no hope for him.
In a society where everything is for sale, Marlowe is the only man who cannot be bought.
During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.
But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.
It is not enough for man to be an ontological esse.
and since they in no way match each other, the result would be a monster rather than a man ''.
`` I should, of course '', he said, `` like any other man, be honored and gratified should the Democrats see fit to nominate me.
The reporters were questioning the Interior man and the French officer, both of whom remained noncommittal as to what action, if any, would be taken in my regard.
By this time Woodruff had accurately measured Pike as a man of great personal pride, a man who would fly into a towering rage if his integrity were questioned, and who would be anxious to avenge himself.

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) But Speaker Sam Rayburn, after huddling in Palm Beach with President-elect Kennedy, decided that this year something had to be done about the Rules Committee -- and that he was the only man who could do anything effective.
Despite being a qualified engineer, a successful businessman, a multiple record-breaker in his own right and a highly effective advocate of his own cause, Campbell was not an easy man and seemed driven to emulate, if not surpass, his father's achievements.
A Sunni Muslim divorce is effective when the man tells his wife that he is divorcing her, however a Shia divorce also requires four witnesses.
His guru, Ramakrishna, taught him Advaita Vedanta ( non-dualism ); that all religions are true and that service to man was the most effective worship of God.
In 1989, the Supreme Court of the United States declared the Board of Estimate unconstitutional because Brooklyn, the most populous borough, had no greater effective representation on the Board than Staten Island, the least populous borough, a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause pursuant to the high court's 1964 " one man, one vote " decision.
It is remarkable that Basil I became an effective and respected monarch, ruling for 19 years, despite being a man with no formal education and no military or administrative experience.
Gentleman's Agreement established his power in the " social conscience " genre in a film that took on the deep-seated but subtle antisemitism of mid-century corporate America. Twelve O ' Clock High was the first of many successful war films in which Peck embodied the brave, effective, yet human fighting man.
Hitler considered Streicher's " primitive methods " to be effective in influencing " the man on the street.
He trained his troops to hold their fire until the enemy came within effective firing range, fire once, and then bayonet the man to the right thereby catching the emeny under their lifted sword arm.
Ali's famous clinching & holding or launching sharp shots from a distance were all for various reasons not as effective as when Ali fought Frazier, the only other man he fought three times.
Jackson called symbols a “ primitive but effective way of communicating ideas ,” and explained that “ a person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man ’ s comfort and inspiration is another ’ s jest and scorn .”
Aguirre ’ s frequent short but impassioned speeches to his men in the film were accurately based on the man ’ s noted “ simple but effective rhetorical ability .”
They are an effective fishing vessel because, when powered by a skilled man, they hardly disturb the water or the fish, and they can be easily manoeuvred with one arm, while the other arm tends to the net ; two coracles to a net.
( http :// www. macrolibrarsi. it / autori / _robert-enright. php ) and of his assistants, pardon is an effective medical tool capable to reduce several troubles affecting man.
Almar Haflidason was effusive about Strangers on a Train in 2001 at the BBC website: " Hitchcock's favourite device of an ordinary man caught in an ever-tightening web of fear plunges Guy into one of the director's most fiendishly effective movies.
Convinced that English preaching was not done as well as it should be, Sheridan focused on delivery as the principal avenue toward delivering effective messages to an audience: " Before you can persuade a man into any opinion, he must first be convinced that you believe it yourself.
* At their deaths, each man was featured in an obituary in the national magazine Time, which noted their joint achievements during Prohibition as the " funniest and most effective team " of federal agents, who made more than 4, 900 arrests and confiscated an estimated 5 million bottles of illegal liquor.
They describe the conditions most effective for learning what their authors call the art of arts and the science of sciences, a learning which is not a matter of information or agility of mind but of a radical change of will and heart leading man towards the highest possibilities open to him, shaping and nourishing the unseen part of his being, and helping him to spiritual fulfilment and union with God.
This tactic was extremely effective, and made him a hated and feared man among the outlaw element.
One possible reason, noted by the FDA, is that in order for ozone to be effective as a germicide, it must be present in a concentration far greater than can be safely tolerated by man or other animals.
** New Jersey governor James McGreevey becomes the first openly gay chief executive of a US state when he discloses an extramarital affair with another man and announces his resignation effective November 12.
" Although he stated that " tunes like the terse " Tightrope " and the dense " Wall of Denial " feel so intensely personal, it's hard to believe that they weren't the product of just one man ", he also stated that " the lighter numbers [...] are just as effective as songs.
Through selective breeding, man has been able to minimize the dog's natural inclination to treat cattle and sheep as prey while simultaneously maintaining the dog's hunting skills, thereby creating an effective herding dog.
After the controversy became known during his term as Secretary, Cisneros offered to submit his resignation to Clinton, who rejected it with a public statement that described Cisneros as " a good man and an effective public servant ".

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