According to Kawamori, his pitch for the series was simple: " if Macross was robotic mecha and love songs, why not a story about robotic mecha and divining powers?

On the other hand, in Cuba and parts of Nigeria such as Ode Remo, Ijebuland and Ibadan, the position of the Iyanifa as a divining priestess of Ifa is hotly contested on the grounds that in the Ifa Odus Ogunda Ka and Oshe Yekun, no one can become a full Awo Ifa without the presence of Odun, and in the Odu Ifa Irete Ntelu ( Irete Ogbe ), Odun herself says that she would only marry Orunmila if he promised not to permit women to be in the same room as her.

Besides, 'tain't no more'n right for me to follow with my black oxen, so's I can unhook and pull up fast if either of you get in a pinch ''.

`` You might as well wait here while I'm gone, so you can use my shower if you'd like ''.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.

Also, I am convinced that if my company were a sole proprietorship instead of a partnership, I would have been even abler to solve long-range problems for myself and my fellow-employees.

But what you could not know, of course, was how smoothly the Victorian Fitzgerald was to lead into an American Fitzgerald of my own vintage under whose banner we adolescents were to come, if not of age, then into a bright, taut semblance of it.

At the same time, I am aware that my recoil could be interpreted by readers of the tea leaves at the bottom of my psyche as an incestuous sign, since theirs is a science of paradox: if one hates, they say it is because one loves ; ;

Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.

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.

Luckily both women knew my position and if anyone suffered in their opinion it was not I ''.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

My father would have done it if it hadn't been for my mother, who had a fear of being in debt to anyone -- even Alfred Alpert.

Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.

Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.

I've got a quarter of a million Germans in my state, and those krautheads tune in on Father Werther every night, and if he tells them to go out and piss in the public square, that's what they do.

`` I soon came back to my senses '', he said, aloud, to the young blizzard, proudly, drawing himself up, as if making a report to some important superior.

Now, if you don't mind, I should like to hear my own piece performed ''.

`` So that the man should not have thoughts of grandeur, and become lifted up, as if he had no lord, because of the dominion that had been given to him, and the freedom, fall into sin against God his Creator, overstepping his bounds, and take up an attitude of self-conceited arrogance towards God, a law was given him by God, that he might know that he had for lord the lord of all.

Externalists say that if we assume competent speakers know what they think, and say what they think, the difference in what these two speakers mean corresponds to a difference in the thoughts of the two speakers that is not ( necessarily ) reflected by a difference in the internal make up of the speakers or thinkers.

William Roberts's review, for the August 1816 British Review, was more positive than previous analysis but with no detail about the work: " passing over the two other poems which are bound together with ' Christabel ', called ' The Fragment of Kubla Khan ', and ' The Pains of Sleep '; in which, however, there are some playful thoughts and fanciful imagery, which we would gladly have extracted if our room would have allowed it.

Personality — the fundamental characteristics of a person that influence thoughts and behaviors across situations and time — may be considered disordered if judged to be abnormally rigid and maladaptive.

To be classed as a manic episode, while the disturbed mood is present at least three ( or four if only irritability is present ) of the following must have been consistently prominent: grand or extravagant style, or expanded self-esteem ; reduced need of sleep ( e. g. three hours may be sufficient ); talks more often and feels the urge to talk longer ; ideas flit through the mind in quick succession, or thoughts race and preoccupy the person ; over indulgence in enjoyable behaviors with high risk of a negative outcome ( e. g., extravagant shopping, sexual adventures or improbable commercial schemes ).

* Hallucinations ( only one symptom is required if hallucinations are of at least two voices talking to one another or of a voice that keeps up a running commentary on the patient's thoughts or actions )

Because Surrealist writers seldom, if ever, appear to organize their thoughts and the images they present, some people find much of their work difficult to parse.

Some patients feel as if thoughts are being taken out of their minds or deleted ( thought removal ).

A belief that if we are able to practice meditation without continuous stream of thoughts, we are able to reach enlightenment.

But our thoughts can contain only one idea at a time, so if the plot is " hero runs after murderer " and our reflection is " he was foolish to trust the villain ", our thought is something like " hero foolish trust run after murderer villain ".

The conundrum created by our certainty that abstract deductive propositions, if valid ( i. e., if we can " prove " them ), are true, exclusive of observation and testing in the physical world, gives rise to a further reflection ... What if thoughts themselves, and the minds that create them, are physical objects, existing only in the physical world?

And while in his extensive correspondence with German socialists Engels modestly presented his own secondary place in the couple's intellectual relationship and always emphasized Marx ' outstanding role, Russian communists like Lenin raised Engels up with Marx and conflated their thoughts as if they were necessarily congruous.

However, most practicing doctors would readily adapt their thoughts and treatments if it was proven that there was a biological cause to disease previously thought to be idiopathic.

At one point it is said that if the Culture actually had written laws, the sanctity of one's own thoughts against the intrusion of others would be the first on the books.

Over the course of two scenes between Angelo and Isabella, it becomes clear that he harbours lustful thoughts about her, and he eventually offers her a deal: Angelo will spare Claudio's life if Isabella yields him her virginity.

He is credited with saying: " hen an ecologist says ' there goes a badger ,' he should include in his thoughts some definite idea of the animal's place in the community to which it belongs, just as if he had said, ' there goes the vicar.

In his essay " Politics and the English Language ", Orwell derided the use of cliché and dying metaphors, which " even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent " and went on to say " But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Naive respondents really believe this pretense and behave accordingly, reporting some of their past deviance and their thoughts about the deviance of others, fearing that if they do not answer truthfully their untrue answers will reveal their " low integrity ".

) He was initially a huge fan of George W. Bush, but had second thoughts about voting for him because of his weak handshake, and when asked if he would vote for " the other guy ," presumably Al Gore, he responded " I don't know.

Even if he doesn't actually sin physically, his impure thoughts are sin in themselves .” However, apparently at the insistence of some of their husbands, a rabbinical authority quoted as saying “ There is a real danger that by exaggerating, you are doing the opposite of what is intended in severe transgressions in sexual matters ,” issued an edict declaring burka-wearing a sexual fetish, that is as promiscuous as wearing too little.

It is arguable whether Musashi is referring to religious spirituality or if he is actually explaining a way to live a life and process thoughts.

In short the argument holds that if, as thoroughgoing naturalism entails, all of our thoughts are the effect of a physical cause, then we have no reason for assuming that they are also the consequent of a reasonable ground.