::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

::" Now that's finished ... and so am I.

::" 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 ...

::" Buechner's theological efforts are never systematic treatises but instead short, highly literary productions in most of which he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally and his own fiction in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard, published in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace, comprise a slender volume which is one of his most important and revealing works.

::" Ever since the publication of A Long Day's Dying ... Frederick Buechner has one of our most interesting and least predictable writers.

::" Minadrasa maharajasa Katiassa divasa 4 4 4 11 pra-me ... ( prati ) ta pranasame ... Sakamunisa "

::" 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 "

::" Some of these artists were doubtlessly influenced by Pollock's example ...

::" We may predict that ... as methods relevant to organized complexity develop in laboratory science, the social sciences will benefit in proportion.

::" I ... recall seeing an airplane flight made by the late Gustave Whitehead approximately thirty-five years ago.

::" You, the class of 1990 ... How do you feel about your valedictorian with the 4. 9 Grade Point Average who arrived in this country six months ago speaking no English in a rowboat from Saigon?

::" And if by chance any whale or sperm whale or mermaid or coca or dolphin or Musaranha or other large fish that resembles some of these die in Sesimbra or Silves or elsewhere ...

::" It is now recognised that this legislative framework has not kept pace with contemporary developments in safety regulation ... ( T ) the legislation does not establish a coherent chain of responsibility for the effective management of rail safety risks.

::" Father rejoice with me, I have become God ...

::" I knew if I ever recorded any kind of tribute to Chris, it would have to be up-tempo, happy ... a song like him ... not some slow, mournful song.

::" Ensete is totally involved in every aspect of the daily social and ritual life of the Gurage, who, with several others tribes in Southwest Ethiopia, form what has been termed the Ensete Culture Complex area ... the life of the Gurage is enmeshed with various uses of ensete, not the least of which is nutritional.

::" And I proceeded and saw a place ... where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones ....

::" We've seen the price rise from $ 50 a unit ( 22 kilograms ) to $ 250 a unit in two and a half years ...

::" For lo, I do set my bow in the cloud ...

::" Indology is a ‘ secular eschatology ’ built around a Euro-centric view of the world ... Its creators were driven mainly by European colonial and Christian missionary interests.

::" Jim Kiick ... loved the game and loved clutch situations -- where he was at his best.

::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?

::" The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of skepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

::" 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.

::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( the man she wants to marry is Swedish — a specific person )

::" The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place,

::" The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud.

::" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

::" This last is the distinguishing characteristic of classes, and justifies us in treating ẑ ( ψz ) as the class determined by function ψẑ.

::" Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York " ( Son / sun )

::" Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

::" In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view ; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind.

::" 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.

::" An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind.

::" There is no true value of any characteristic, state, or condition that is defined in terms of measurement or observation.

::" I need very much to feel the warmth of my people around me, there is work to be done and I will get the strength from my people to finish the business.

::" 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.

::" 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 Duplessis regime may well have endured for too long, the Union Nationale leader's traditionalist policies may well have been anachronistic when compared with the relatively modern society that, in many respects, the Quebec of the 1950s had already become.

::" Any serious attempt to sort out the relative historical reliability of the individual supplications found in all the versions of the Sahifa on the basis of modern critical scholarship would be an undertaking of major proportions.

::" The principle of condonation for criminal offences is peculiar to the Military Code, and is of comparatively modern origin The Duke of Wellington's Memorandum.