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::" and Buechner's
::" I have no desire to analyze what makes Buechner's writing and preaching so extraordinary.

::" and theological
::" Différance is not only irreducible to any ontological or theological -- ontotheological -- reappropriation, but as the very opening of the space in which ontotheology -- philosophy -- produces its system and its history, it includes ontotheology, inscribing it and exceeding it without return.

::" and are
::" If anyone imagines that we are stating the case too strongly, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy he meets by asking,
::" Where, oh where, are you tonight?
::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
::" The principle of utility does not mean that any given pleasure, as music, for instance, or any given exemption from pain, as for example health, are to be looked upon as means to a collective something termed happiness, and to be desired on that account.
::" In a classical philosophical opposition we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis, but rather with a violent hierarchy.
::" Nice old, soft bits of good Turkish towelling, properly washed, will make the softest of diaper coverings, inside which specially absorbent napkins ( diapers ), see below at 1A, soft, light, and easily washed, are contained.
::" There are many who have achieved in the world of politics, business or academia who can trace their success to the years they spent at LSE.
::" There are men in the village of Erith that nobody seeth or heareth,
::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.
::" If they are not there,
::" Reading is like eating ; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.
::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte.
::" Positive feedback loops are sources of growth, explosion, erosion, and collapse in systems.
::" Most of you in here are of my vintage: we're ignored by the media.
::" Sacred for lovers of art, you are the glory of faith,
::" The Flowers of the Forest are a ' wede away ".
::" The orders I propose to make are of special significance as they constitute the first recognition and protection of native title resulting in the ongoing enjoyment of native title in the State of Victoria and, it would appear, on the South-Eastern seaboard of Australia.
::" Just as we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if and when, and to the extent that, his interest in them comes to fruition as income, that is, in dividends declared, so we can perceive no constitutional obstacle that stands in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends are declared out of a pre-existing surplus.
::" Permission to fight is given to those who are fought against because they have been wronged-truly Allah has the power to come to their support-those who were expelled from their homes without any right, merely for saying, ' Our Lord is Allah '..." ( Quran, 22: 39-40 )"
::" You should be thankful you are not in the Old Testament times, because there are some of us who would gladly execute you.
::" All things are from Him, through Him and in Him.
::" Aquinas, Augustine, St. Bernard, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddha, Jean Pierre Camus, St. Catherine, Christ, Chuang Tzu, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation, Deliverance, Desire, Eckhart ( five lines, the most quoted person ), Eternity, Fénelon, François de Sales, Godhead, Humility, Idolatry, St. John of the Cross, Knowledge, Lankavatara Sutra, William Law ( another four lines ), Logos, Love, Mahayana, Mind, Mortification, Nirvana, Perennial Philosophy ( six lines, a total of 40 entries in all ), Prayer, Rumi, Ruysbroeck, Self, Shankara, Soul, Spirit, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth, Upanishads ( six different ones are quoted ), Will, Words.
::" What are you reading now?

::" and never
::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.
::" The End of History was never linked to a specifically American model of social or political organization.
::" I never went to college.
::" When the army vinegar ran down unshaven beards, when men helped themselves to acorns, peas, and raw onions, and cooked chopped up goat meat in shepherds ' rank butter — never mind your neighbour — no one was embarrassed by me.
::" When the King heard the news he was distraught for the loss of his wife and manifested his feelings using mourning clothes, after all, they were married for twenty years, and yet remained completely himself apart from a brief time in Bohemia, he never really disscussed the matter "

::" and highly
::" In the pharmaceutical industry, a blockbuster drug is one that achieves acceptance by prescribing physicians as a therapeutic standard for, most commonly, a highly prevalent chronic ( rather than acute ) condition.

::" and most
::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.
::" Ever since the publication of A Long Day's Dying ... Frederick Buechner has one of our most interesting and least predictable writers.
::" Wonderful to say, this greatly desiderated and almost unhoped for curative agent not only exists in Nature, but is an essential element in the human constitution, varying in different persons, of course, like all other bodily and mental gifts ; and most persons possess the power of curing others, or of being themselves cured occasionally, by an inherent sanative influence propagatable between different individuals: for health is transmissible as well as disease, it appears.
::" We took him and Pepe Arenzana to Ayod, where most of the time were in a feeding center where locals go.
::" To form a proper idea of the spirit, the character, and the customs of a Nation, almost unknown in Europe, I deemed it preferable to represent them in their own dress, rather than to enter myself into particular details, always infected by the manner of considering the facts, notwithstanding the utmost endeavors to be guided by truth in the most essential parts.
::" The war between Chalcis and Eretria was the one in which most cities belonging to the rest of Greece were divided up into alliances with one side or the other.
::" JJ believes that most people who are interested in what he calls D & S, what I call ' our thing ' and Bill Borher calls wiitwd ( what it is that we do ) and most people on ASB call BDSM, are interested in power exchange.

::" and which
::" An official perfect game occurs when a pitcher ( or pitchers ) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings.
::" The eras that fell in this reign were: ( 1 ) the remaining seven years of Shuchō ; and ( 2 ) Taika, which was four years long.
::" The eras that fell in this reign were: ( 1 ) the remaining seven years of Shuchō ; and ( 2 ) Taika, which was four years long.
::" The eras that fell in this reign were: ( 1 ) the remaining seven years of Shuchō ; and ( 2 ) Taika, which was four years long.
::" Once again the political clout of the school, which seems to be closely wired into parliament, Whitehall and the Bank of England, is being felt by ministers ...
::" I wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament, which had been his Bible, and the New Testament, which was the Bible about him ; about the history of the church, which had been founded on the faith that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature and his purpose for the world, but had released into the world a fierce power to draw people into that nature and adapt them to that purpose …. No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused in me such intense curiosity, and much more than my intellect was involved, much more than my curiosity aroused.
::" No other European institution has spread over the entire world in the way in which the traditional form of the European university has done.
::" president Eisenhower's Appointment Books contain no entry for a special meeting on July 16, 1954 which might have included a briefing on MJ-12.
::" On the 14th day of Kārttika, in the reign of Mahārāja Minadra, ( in the year ...), ( the corporeal relic ) of Sakyamuni, which is endowed with life ... has been established "
::" In contrast to budō, which has become more competitive, a type of martial art which has kept its ancient mode of training and has been preserved and handed down from generation to generation.
::" Basing itself on Scripture and Tradition, the Council teaches that the Church, a pilgrim now on earth, is necessary for salvation: the one Christ is the mediator and the way of salvation ; he is present to us in his body which is the Church.
::" The closing session of the conference also adopted a resolution recommending that the Congress establish a Department of Community Service which would be charged with aiding in the reconstruction of the spiritual and cultural life of Jews in liberated countries.
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::" In composing his history, Berossus drew on the mythic-historiographical tradition of Mesopotamia, and specifically on such well known texts as the creation myth Enuma Elish, Atrahasis, and the king lists, which provided the point of departure and conceptual framework for a universal history.
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