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He has said that one of his guiding principles has been nullius in verba ( take nobody's word, the motto of the Royal Society ), saying that " if scientists as a whole denounce an idea, this should not necessarily be taken as proof that the said idea is absurd ; rather, one should examine carefully the alleged grounds for such opinions and judge how well these stand up to detailed scrutiny.
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But Corporal Johnson has alreadeh said it didn make no diffrunce t'hi-im ''.
`` If Blue Throat has his way he'll keep us all cooped up in here for days '', he said.
Even so astute a commentator as Harold Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting For Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair ''.
The traditional strategy of the South has been to expose the vices of the North, to demonstrate that the North possessed no superior virtue, to `` show the world that '' as James's Christopher Newman said to his adversaries ) `` however bad I may be, you're not quite the people to say it ''.
A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.
George Meredith has said that fervor is the core of style.
In recollection he has said: `` Natural or man-made objects kept coming into my head, but I would suppress them sternly ''.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
`` Some guys bothered me '', Mercer has said.
`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.
A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.
`` He has lost much blood '', he said.
`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.
`` This '', he said, `` is exactly what has been happening between the politically free nations in the postwar world.
In the central contest, that for Mayor, they may have found some pertinent points in what each faction has said about the other.
In addition, he said, he has answered more than 400 messages of congratulations which led him to the comment that he himself had decided he wouldn't send another congratulatory message for the rest of his life.
The same can be said of shaving yet the electric razor has proved useful to many men.
The biggest nuclear device the United States has exploded measured some 15 megatons, although our B-52s are said to be carrying two 20-megaton bombs apiece.
Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.
Noting all the difficulties that stand in the way of reunion, he has said that they ought not to discourage anyone.
Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.
N.C. has said something important so well that this preacher will many times be tempted to quote the whole piece.
`` Unless the oyabun has been working on it '', he said, then checked himself and added: `` You can tell Kayabashi-san that the back road is in very good condition and will be quite safe for his party to use ''.
`` I suppose it has to do with the property '', Mark had said over the telephone when they had discussed their receipt of the letters.
And he said, `` The same fellow who has been running it, Sam Rayburn ''.
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I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.
But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
Madison once remarked: `` My life has been so much a public one '', a comment which fits the careers of the other six.
Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;
An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.
He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;
And it is precisely in this poorer economic class that one finds, and has always found, the most racial friction.
This sentence would have most of the characteristics of a question, but it has some of the characteristics of a statement because the questioner has conveyed the fact that he has no faith in his own timepiece or the one attached to his car.
It will be noted that point f has seven nearest neighbors, h and e have six, and p has only one, while the remaining points have intermediate numbers.
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
A perceptive journalist, Sam Lubell, has phrased it in the title of one of his books as the revolt of the moderates.
Research into several cultures has proven her position to be a mistaken one.
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.
Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.
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