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I take this to mean that the intelligent -- and therefore necessarily cynical??
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`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.
Ballet dancer: Protests, tears, and `` take what you want, Nicolas, I am a dancer, you are a poet, it is all beautiful ''.
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.
I suggested that one must let it in because it is the truth, but Beckett did not take to the word truth.
I take the central meaning here to be the contrast between the drab empty quality of life without literature and a life enriched by it.
What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.
but this -- yes, terrible step I am about to take is lightened with an inundating joy by the new-found hope that here, in these poems, is treasure -- or at least some measure of beauty, which I did not know of ''.
Those famous lines of the Greek Anthology with which a fading beauty dedicates her mirror at the shrine of a goddess reveal a wise attitude: `` Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was, What from this day I shall be, Venus, let me never see ''.
I and mean
When I question them as to what they mean by concepts like liberty and democracy, I find that they fall into two categories: the simpler ones who have simply accepted the shibboleths of their faith without analysis ; ;
I don't mean a few aesthetes who play about with sensations, like a young prince in a miniature dabbling his hand in a pool.
I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.
I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.
I and intelligent
Although she never practiced her profession formally, she typified the new woman of the post – World War I era: intelligent, robust, and aware of multiple female possibilities.
[...] I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic ".
'" In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress who played Brown, said " I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
When President George W. Bush announced that he would veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, she said, " This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself.
Unready to inherit the throne, Nicholas reputedly said, " I am not ready to be Tsar ...." Though an intelligent and kind-hearted man, lacking any preparation to rule, he continued his father's harsh polices.
" For my part ," he says, " I take my stand in human anatomy "; elsewhere he insists upon " the necessity, in each particular case, of an intelligent designing mind for the contriving and determining of the forms which organized bodies bear.
Despite this, Clouseau does appear to show some awareness that he is not the most competent or intelligent person, as he is notably embarrassed by and quick to brush aside his more extreme acts of clumsiness with phrases such as " I know that ", and attempts to appear elegant and refined regardless of what calamity he has just caused.
In arranging the marriages of his children, Philip followed an intelligent diplomatic and strategic design, which would be followed by his successors in Burgundy as far as Emperor Maximilian I.
I soon found them to be good-humoured, clever — the working classes very much more intelligent than those of England — economical and hospitable.
I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries ..."
Before he left the United States in March 1888, Chamberlain proposed to Mary, describing her as ' one of the brightest and most intelligent girls I have yet met '.
In 1980 Rukeyser explained his hosting philosophy to The New York Times as, " I am talking to one person, whom I regard as intelligent, with a good sense of humor, but not all that technically knowledgeable.
I quite agree that the question what and how much good labor unions do is one on which intelligent people may differ -- I think that laboring men sometimes attribute to them advantages, as many attribute to combinations of capital disadvantages, that really are due to economic conditions of a far wider and deeper kind -- but I could not pronounce it unwarranted if Congress should decide that to foster a strong union was for the best interest not only of the men, but of the railroads and the country at large.
" He wrote some intelligent stuff, and didn't shy away from the vocabulary, which I thought was cool.
The thought, " I am increasing my risk of lung cancer " can be dissonant with the self-related belief, " I am an intelligent, reasonable person who makes good decisions.
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