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Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.
While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.
In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.
In the ideal state, for instance, he argues that the young citizens should hear only the most carefully selected tales and stories.
The internal energy of an ideal gas depends on temperature only and is independent of pressure or volume.
The concept of the Middle Kingdom at peace, strong and united under a forceful ruler, which had been only a longed-for ideal in the time of the Warring States, was finally realized by the establishment of a Chinese Empire under the Ch'in dynasty ( 221-207 B.C. ).
Antoninus in many ways was the ideal of the landed gentleman praised not only by ancient Romans, but also by later scholars of classical history, such as Edward Gibbon or the author of the article on Antoninus Pius in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:
Note that the above formula is only applicable to classical ideal gases and not Bose – Einstein or Fermi gases.
For an ideal gas, the temperature remains constant because the internal energy only depends on temperature in that case.
Consequently the Gaussian theory only supplies a convenient method of approximating to reality ; and no constructor would attempt to realize this unattainable ideal.
An ideal amplifier would be a totally linear device, but real amplifiers are only linear within limits.
An ideal I of A is called maximal if I ≠ A and if the only ideal properly containing I is A itself.
Theravadin bhikku and scholar Walpola Rahula ( Sri Rahula Maha Thera ) has stated that the bodhisattva ideal has traditionally been held to be higher than the state of a śrāvaka not only in Mahāyāna, but also in Theravāda Buddhism.
As noted in the introduction, Bézout's identity works not only in the ring of integers, but also in any other principal ideal domain ( PID ).
On human nature, Boethius says that humans are essentially good and only when they give in to “ wickedness ” do they “ sink to the level of being an animal .” On justice, he says criminals are not to be abused, rather treated with sympathy and respect, using the analogy of doctor and patient to illustrate the ideal relationship between prosecutor and criminal.
Congregationalism expressed the viewpoint that ( 1 ) every local church is a full realization in miniature of the entire Church of Jesus Christ ; and ( 2 ) the Church, while on earth, besides the local church, can only be invisible and ideal.
On the other hand, to the extent that our society is out of sync with the actualizing tendency, and we are forced to live with conditions of worth that are out of step with organismic valuing, and receive only conditional positive regard and self-regard, we develop instead an " ideal self ".
This formula only gives the ideal thermal efficiency.
The main concept, however, common to all idealist epistemologies is the centrality of Reason: ( i. e.: ' Reason ' with a capital ' R '): a priori Reason: Knowledge can only be, ultimately, a product of the mind and is therefore, by definition, ' ideal '.
A resistive circuit is a circuit containing only resistors and ideal current and voltage sources.
In contrast, ideal fluids can only be subjected to normal, compressive stress which is called pressure.
In early times, horror films such as My Bloody Valentine ( 1981 ), Halloween ( 1978 ), and Friday the 13th ( 1980 ) pertained mostly to a male audience in order to " feed the fantasies of young men ".< ref name = Nowell > Their main focus was to express the fear of women and show them as monsters ; however, this ideal is no longer prevalent in horror films .< ref name = Williams > Women have become not only the main audience and fans of horror films but also the main protagonists of contemporary horror films.
Hilbert produced an innovative proof by contradiction using mathematical induction ; his method does not give an algorithm to produce the finitely many basis polynomials for a given ideal: it only shows that they must exist.

only and can
There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
And any sequence can not only change its positions in the work but can even be eliminated from it altogether.
The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.
We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
In scope and power it can only be compared to Tolstoy's War And Peace.
Surrounded by crime and violence everywhere, the `` hardboiled '' private eye can retain his purity only through a life of self-imposed isolation.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.
So we are faced with a vast network of amorphous entities perpetuating themselves in whatever manner they can, without regard to the needs of society, controlling society and forcing upon it a regime representing only the corporation's needs for survival.
Avoiding runaway technology can be done only by assuring a humane society ; ;
This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.
The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
Moreover, progress in a national transformation can be only gradually earned ; ;
As a nation we can successfully pursue these objectives only from a position of broadly based strength.
It is, however, a disarming disguise, or perhaps a shield, for not only has Mercer proved himself to be one of the few great lyricists over the years, but also one who can function remarkably under pressure.
In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
In my experience the assurance of forgiveness comes only when I have confessed to the wronged one and have made as full reparation as I can devise.

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