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::" 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.
::" Now to prepare them against these contingencies, and that they might, have fresh air for the benefit of the elephants, cureloms or mammoths and many other animals, that perhaps were in them, as well as the human beings they contained, the Lord told them how to construct them in order to receive air, that when they were on the top of the water, whichever side up their vessels happened to be, it mattered not ; they were so constructed that they could ride safely, though bottom upwards and they could open their air holes that happened to be uppermost " ( Orson Pratt, JoD 12: 340 ).
::" 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.
::" 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,
::" Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation " ( Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 16 ).
::" The tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and God Himself shall be with them, and shall be their God, and they shall be his people.
::" 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.
::" 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 )"
::" Blowing in the wind, the locks of his hair looked as if they were smoke coming out the fire burning the karmas.
::" Lucullus, indeed, and Drusus and Octavius, and Cato and the whole house of Hortensii, since he held them bound by close social ties, he was treated by them with the highest of honors ; for not only did everyone cultivate his friendship who devoted to hear and to take in anything they did, but even those who only pretended.
::" Arnkel had laid his sword and shield against a hayrick, and now he took up his weapons and defended himself therewith ; but now he began to gather wounds, and withal they came up into the garth about him.
::" 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 "
::" A bold and beautiful translation that serves a timely reminder to all believers that the Qur ' an is not a static scripture, but a living, breathing, ever-evolving text whose sacred words are as applicable today as when they were first uttered by the Prophet Muhammad fourteen centuries ago.
::" parent's were political with a small p. My parents, both of whom were immigrants to New Zealand, weren't particularly partisan, but they were very aware of what it was like to be in a new country.

::" and !
::" Gloom, despair and agony on me-e!
::" So long everybody!
::" So long, we sure had a good time!
::" Indonesia bersatu!
::" I marvel at myself, I seem an angel!
::" Rejoice, O Full of Grace, the Lord is with you!
::" Oh!
::" Pastiche!
::" You know, after all of these years we're full-up!
::" It is ridiculous!
::" Tickle them!
* To: DECWRL ::" decvax! peregrine! dmi "

nevermore and they
Sun and moon, these minister for aye ; The laws of day and night cease nevermore: Given for signs to Jacob's seed that they Shall ever be a nation — till these be o ' er.

they and met
She took it grudgingly, her dark eyes baleful as they met his.
But they met in one searing moment that gave them to one another instantly.
Keith's eyes met Penny's as they stood there in this strange marriage of destruction.
they include harmonies and conflicts within the whole man, and mechanisms whereby inner components are more or less smoothly met.
I feel that few burglars would be prone to break and enter into someone's apartment if they were met with a good hardy growl that a dog would provide.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
The growing communications needs of this new State can best be met, as they have in other States, through the operation and development of such facilities by private enterprise.
We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.
It was during her `` writing '' period that she and Herb met and decided that they were in love.
The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.
Paradoxically, the same week in which Senator McClellan was attempting to extend the anti-trust act to labor in transportation, the Civil Aeronautics Board was assuring the airlines that if they met in concert to eliminate many costly features of air travel, the action would not be deemed a violation of the anti-trust act.
Lincoln's first romantic interest was Ann Rutledge, whom he met when he first moved to New Salem ; by 1835, they were in a relationship but not formally engaged.
A few days after Emancipation was announced, 13 Republican governors met at the War Governors ' Conference ; they supported the president's Proclamation, but suggested the removal of General George B. McClellan as commander of the Union Army.
Polo's travels took him across such a diverse human landscape and his accounts of the peoples he met as he journeyed were so detailed that they earned for Polo the name " the father of modern anthropology.
Experiments have been conducted to attempt the synthesis of ununennium ( Uue ), which is likely to be the next member of the group, but they have all met with failure .< ref name =" link "> However, ununennium may not be an alkali metal due to relativistic effects, which are predicted to have a large influence on the chemical properties of superheavy elements.
He first met Poirot in Belgium, 1904, during the Abercrombie Forgery and later that year they joined forces again to hunt down a criminal known as Baron Altara.
There, he met director Carlos Marcovich and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, and they made what would be his first short film, Vengeance is mine.
She then committed suicide by stabbing herself with the same sword she gave Aeneas when they first met.
In the seventh week after Easter May 878, around Whitsuntide, Alfred rode to ‘ Egbert's Stone ’ east of Selwood, where he was met by " all the people of Somerset and of Wiltshire and of that part of Hampshire which is on this side of the sea is, west of Southampton Water, and they rejoiced to see him ".
But they were met by a large force under the three great ealdormen of Mercia, Wiltshire and Somerset, and forced to head off to the northwest, being finally overtaken and blockaded at Buttington.
In the autumn of the year, he also met with Duke Frederick II of Austria and they agreed to stop the skirmishes on the border, but the Duke soon broke the agreement.
And they too could be removed from office at any time that the assembly met.
The owners of these western clubs accompanied Hulbert and Spalding to New York where they secretly met with owners from New York, Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston.
His brothers were equally willing to save the dowager queen, but Otto got an army into the field: they subsequently met at the old Lombard capital of Pavia and were married in 951 ; he was crowned emperor in Rome, 2 February 962 by Pope John XII, and, most unusually, she was crowned empress at the same ceremony.
Both Clintons received law degrees from Yale Law School, where they met and began dating.

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