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I and insist
It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.
I will insist particularly upon the following fact, which seems to me quite important and beyond the phenomena which one could expect to observe: The same crystalline crusts potassium uranyl sulfate, arranged the same way with respect to the photographic plates, in the same conditions and through the same screens, but sheltered from the excitation of incident rays and kept in darkness, still produce the same photographic images.
" Our kind friend Mr. Carroll has come to hasten my departure, and in a very bad humor with me, because I insist on waiting until the large picture of General Washington is secured, and it requires to be unscrewed from the wall.
The folly and absurdity of the Queen in allowing this trumpery must strike every sensible and well-thinking mind, and I am astonished the ministers themselves do not insist on her at least going to Osborne during the Exhibition, as no human being can possibly answer for what may occur on the occasion.
I didn't insist, but for me it was logical that there was a studio, there were artists in the studio, Casterman asked for it to be finished, there were twenty-three finished books, that one story was not finished ; so I had to finish it ".
" If evidence of participation by other nations in Iran's nuclear program is discovered, I will insist that the Administration use, rather than ignore, the evidence in determining how the U. S. deals with that nation or nations on other issues.
In written language, mentioned words or phrases often appear between quotation marks (" Chicago " contains three vowels ) or in italics ( When I say honey, I mean the sweet stuff that bees make ), and style authorities such as Strunk and White insist that mentioned words or phrases must always be made visually distinct in this manner.
I will insist that justice will be done.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, is said to have remarked: " I am no judge of painting, but on two articles I think I may insist: first that the painter employed be a Protestant ; and secondly that he be an Englishman ".
" This is not a new alphabet, I insist on this form, just a new version of the alphabet, based on the earliest signs of Adyghe-Abkhaz, which evolved over several millennia ,"-said Ruslan Daur.
" Grove later observed, " People will insist on thinking of me as a musician, which I really am not in the very least degree.
I believe it is the business of every one interested in education to insist upon the school as the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform in order that society may be awakened to realize what the school stands for, and aroused to the necessity of endowing the educator with sufficient equipment properly to perform his task ”.
The fact is, he is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk, but to insist upon a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.
And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this ; and I have concluded, after consultation with my friends, and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.
*" Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities-even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how.
The guru said, " All right, if you insist on giving me dakshina, then give me 140 million gold coins, 10 million for each of the 14 sciences I have taught you.
How much more, then, would I insist on staying here, after I have come to love the land !”

I and upon
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
The clerk impressed this upon me: that I should not arrive in the hall before ten o'clock.
He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.
And so I would only touch upon it now ( much as I have long wanted to write a book about it ).
I am not making a clinical judgment here, for such personal tragedies are real and are commonplace in the analyst's consulting room, but literature makes a different claim upon our sympathies than tragedy in life.
Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.
I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.
Just as I was about to enlarge upon my discovery of the underside of the leaf of love, memory, displeased at being asked to yield its unsavory secrets, dashed ahead of me, calling back over its shoulder: `` Skip it.
Even now I will not intrude upon her except to state a few bare facts.
I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.
But that year was different, for just as the city, in the form of my street clothes, had intruded upon my mountain nights, so an essential part of the summer gave promise of continuing into the fall: Jessica and I, about to be separated not by a mere footbridge or messhall kitchen but by the immense obstacle of residing in cruelly distant boroughs, had agreed to correspond.
No one could be more devoted than he to the American Congress as an institution and more aware of its historical significance in the political history of the world, and I shall never forget his moving talks, delivered in simple yet eloquent words, upon the meaning of our jobs as Representatives in the operation of representative government and their importance in the context of today's assault upon popular government.
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Tuesday, October 24th, 1961, as United Nations day, calling upon all our citizens to engage in appropriate observances, demonstrating faith in the United Nations and thereby contributing to a better understanding of the aims of the United Nations throughout the land.
I hope no one expects that only Presidential appointees are looked upon as sources of ideas.

I and believing
Of Christianity he has this to say: "... it is not now true for me ... Every believing Christian is, I am sure, my spiritual brother ... but if systemically I called myself a Christian I feel that to most men I should imply too much and so tell a lie.
" He goes on to admit: " Nevertheless, when I first heard of Mr. Galton's experiments, I did not sufficiently reflect on the subject, and saw not the difficulty of believing in the presence of gemmules in the blood.
I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be ; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others ; ascribing to himself every human excellence ; & believing he never claimed any other.
World War I scattered the writers and artists who had been based in Paris, and in the interim many became involved with Dada, believing that excessive rational thought and bourgeois values had brought the conflict of the war upon the world.
During Marshall's second term, the United States entered World War I. Marshall was a reluctant supporter of the war, believing the country to be unprepared and feared it would be necessary to enact conscription.
This statement misled fans, friends and family members into believing that I was seriously ill when I was not.
" Eastwood also said that he was on the fence when it came to believing in God saying " I was born during the Depression and I was brought up with no specific church.
During World War I, Stanislaw Wojciechowski, believing that Germany posed the biggest threat to Poland, moved to Moscow and after the fall of the Tsarist regime was elected President of the Council of Polish Parties ’ Union.
" If the pharmaceutical industry were this careless, I could announce a cure for cancer today – to a believing press.
The band broke up early in 2001, after Aaron Tokona " stopped believing that I was doing what I really wanted to do.
Whilst engaged in writing in his spare time, Garner attempted to gain employment as a teacher, but soon gave that up, believing that " I couldn't write and teach ; the energies were too similar ", and so began working as a general labourer for four years, remaining unemployed for much of that time.
The amendment was rejected by the government, however, with the First Lord of the Treasury, Arthur Balfour, believing it would be " an anomaly which, I think, would be not unnaturally resented by other districts which are as large in point of population as Westminster, although doubtless not so rich in historical associations ".
He became determined to show " the world he is mean enough " but after a series of more evil crimes, he grew tired of being more evil and turned himself into a toy outside his old girlfriend's house, believing " This is the best I can ever be ".
'" And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written " Hanwell ".... " Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has ' Hanwell ' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus.
I wanted them to know what it really meant to be in a war — to be shot and wounded, to be fighting for my life on the intensive care ward — not the myth we had grown up believing.
He had previously been a decorated veteran of World War I, but he did not take pride in his service, believing that no just cause was fought for.

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