But Aleister Crowley regarded it as possessing great power ; he said its true form is abrahadabra.

It may be argued that he regarded the Therapeutae as a contemplative branch of the Essaioi who, he said, pursued an active life.

The Four Noble Truths are regarded as central to the teachings of Buddhism ; they are said to provide a unifying theme, or conceptual framework, for all of Buddhist thought.

At this stage, Friedman said that he and his wife " regarded the job-creation programs such as the WPA, CCC, and PWA appropriate responses to the critical situation ," but not " the price-and wage-fixing measures of the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

For the special case where is a joint probability distribution and the loss function is the negative log likelihood a risk minimization algorithm is said to perform generative training, because can be regarded as a generative model that explains how the data were generated.

Alfred Jodl, Chief of Operations in the OKW, remarked, after Raeder said Kriegsmarine could not meet the operational requirements of the Army, " then a landing in England must be regarded as a sheer act of desperation ".

King said that Mrs. Parks was regarded as " one of the finest citizens of Montgomery — not one of the finest Negro citizens, but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery.

The historian George Herring has said that while the purchase was somewhat the result of Jefferson and Madison's " shrewd and sometimes belligerent diplomacy ", that it " is often and rightly regarded as a diplomatic windfall — the result of accident, luck, and the whim of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The results from the remaining 6 were said to be better than chance, resulting in the experimenters ' conclusion that some dowsers " in particular tasks, showed an extraordinarily high rate of success, which can scarcely if at all be explained as due to chance ... a real core of dowser-phenomena can be regarded as empirically proven.

Apart from being regarded as the City of Music because of its musical legacy, Vienna is also said to be " The City of Dreams " because it was home to the world's first psycho-analyst-Sigmund Freud.

Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1728-1804 ) wrote an oratorio, Debora e Sisera, for the Lenten season of 1788 at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, which was said to have been " almost universally regarded as one of the most sublime works of the late 18th century.

Johnson is said by many to have spread rumors that he took a dive, but Willard is widely regarded as having won the fight outright.

" Presiding judge Navanethem Pillay said in a statement after the verdict: " From time immemorial, rape has been regarded as spoils of war.

A newspaper in San Antonio, Texas praised the " vein of innocent humor " that runs through the film at the expense of Beppo and concluded: "' The Italian ' is regarded as Thomas H. Ince's masterpiece and is said to be greater than his ' Wrath of the Gods ,' ' The Typhoon ' and ' The Bargain.

Similarly, Briseis was said to have regarded Achilles as her husband as well.

Oileus was also the father of Medon, who is usually regarded as illegitimate ; Medon's mother was said to be a nymph named Rhene, though some gave Alcimache as his mother.

The wearing of orange blossoms is said to have started with the Saracens, who regarded them as emblems of fecundity.

Nimoy said he regarded the cinematographer as a fellow artist, and that it was important for them to agree on " a certain look " that Peterman was committed to delivering.

It was said that the reason why Philidor emphasized the pawns in the chess game was related to the political background during the eighteenth century of France, and that he regarded pawns as the " Third rank " on the chess board ( citizens were regarded as the third rank of the society before the French Revolution started in 1789 ).

This very question, however, whether the first principle were to be regarded as single or twofold was one on which the Valentinians themselves were not agreed ; and their differences as to the manner of counting the numbers of the primary Ogdoad confirm what has been said as to the later origin of this doctrine.

At Adair's trial in 1995, the prosecuting lawyer said he was dedicated to his cause against those whom he " regarded as militant republicans – among whom he had lumped almost the entire Roman Catholic population ".

In ethics, he regarded happiness as depending on external influences as well as on virtue, and famously said that " life is ruled by fortune, not wisdom.

Todd J. Moye, author of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986, said that the white residents of Drew " traditionally been regarded as the most recalcitrant in the count on racial matters.

They also characterized Rabbinical traditions about other gods mentioned in the Tanach as simply legends, and regarded them as raising doubt about what was said about Moloch.

He said, `` Some have criticized your book as being neither literary criticism nor history.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.

This might be said to be an upper- or an upper-middle-class bias, but the Commission published as one of its staff studies a book by Byron S. Hollingshead entitled Who Should Go To College??

`` That permitted us to start controlling the ball right away '', said Stram, quipping, `` I think I'll put that play in the book ''.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

Into this book he incorporated his view of " the violent male type ", which he described as a " man who had to be right ", a man who " instantly attracts women " and who he said were the men who " run the world ".

There is scarcely anything to be said for the possibility of Ambrose having written the book before he became a bishop, and added to it in later years, incorporating remarks of Hilary of Poitiers on Romans.

He was said to have written a book comparing the laws of the Scythians with the laws of the Greeks, as well as work on the art of war.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

Steiner described many exercises he said were suited to strengthening such self-discipline ; the most complete exposition of these is found in his book How To Know Higher Worlds.

In the article published in the Journal, a line from " Floater " (" I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound ") was traced to a line in the book, which said " I'm not as cool or forgiving as I might have sounded.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

It is said that Jeremiah retired to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book.

Although Love said she would " never write a book ", she did publish a memoir in 2006 titled Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.

" For instance ," said Dr. Joseph Merlino, Senior Editor of the book Freud at 150: 21st Century Essays on a Man of Genius, " that ... I'm a cross-dresser and I don't want to keep it confined to my circle of friends, or my party circle, and I want to take that to my wife and I don't understand why she doesn't accept it, or I take it to my office and I don't understand why they don't accept it, then it's become a problem because it's interfering with my relationships and environment.

Hilbert said " Physics is too hard for physicists ", implying that the necessary mathematics was generally beyond them ; the Courant-Hilbert book made it easier for them.

In 1919 Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund leader Alfred Roth, writing under the pseudonym Otto Arnim, published the book The Jew in the Army which he said was based on evidence gathered during his participation on the Judenzählung.

" Kenneth Rexroth said, on reading Eighteen Poems, " The reeling excitement of a poetry-intoxicated schoolboy smote the Philistine as hard a blow with one small book as Swinburne had with Poems and Ballads.

Tolkien said he would never allow Lord of the Rings, his great work, to appear in ' so degenerate a form ’ as the paperback book.

Exorcist author / screenwriter William Peter Blatty said in the book Former Child Stars: The Story of America's Least Wanted that he had " no such recollection " of Plato being offered the role.

In Nihon Shoki, a book of Japanese history finished in the eighth century, it is said that the Empire of Japan was founded in 660 BC by Emperor Jimmu.

In a book, " War and Succession " Kissinger said:

He said in a 2007 interview that the book explored the effects of television and mass media on the reading of literature.

In the Epilogue section of the Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, a euhemerized monologue equates Fenrisúlfr to Pyrrhus, attempting to rationalize that " it killed Odin, and Pyrrhus could be said to be a wolf according to their religion, for he paid no respect to places of sanctuary when he killed the king in the temple in front of Thor's altar.