In this carefree sentence he summed up the essence of the prevailin' custom of buyin' by book count, and created a sayin' which has survived through the years.

So the difference between the video-feedback loop and our strange loops, our " I " s, is that while the former converts light to the same pattern on a screen, the latter categorizes a pattern and outputs its essence, so that as we get closer and closer to our essence, we get further down our strange loop ( according to Hofstadter's book ' I am a Strange Loop ').

According to the cartoonist Don Rosa, this book was written by the Guardians of the lost Library of Alexandria, compiling the essence of all the knowledge that was unique to the Library.

Nicholas Negroponte captured the essence of these changes in his 1995 book, Being Digital.

* Mirror: Li Shizhen's medical book Bencao Gangmu mentioned, " A mirror is the essence of liquid metal.

The Grand Tour was in essence triggered by the book Voyage to Italy, by Roman Catholic priest Richard Lassels, and published in 1670.

Brassaï captured the essence of the city in his photographs, published as his first collection in 1933 book entitled Paris de nuit ( Paris by Night ).

In part I of his book Feuerbach developed what he calls the " true or anthropological essence of religion.

A second edition is planned for publishing which includes Efrat's own notes she made during the conversation with her father, helping the reader determine the true essence of the book.

Anthony Burgess wrote that Graham Greene's ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter ( 1948 ); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.

Parker confirmed the name of the book that has since become the nickname for the Everglades when Douglas, trying to capture the essence of the Everglades, asked if she could safely call the fresh water flowing from Lake Okeechobee a river of grass.

Also, the title Quicksilver connects the book to the method alchemists used to distill quicksilver, " the pure living essence of God's power and presence in the world ", from, as one character put it, " the base, dark, cold, essentially fecal matter of which the world was made.

J. P. was not very religious but he began to read regularly some of the most basic Hindu scriptures starting with Bhagavada Gita, deriving heroic inspiration from the great battle of the Mahabharata described in the book which enlightens the concept that the essence of man is immortal.

In the Udyoga Parva book of the Mahabharata, this milk is said to be of six flavours and has the essence of all the best things of the earth.

NYMEX's reputation was severely damaged, because, as future chairman Michel Marks told Goodman in his book, " The essence of an exchange is the sanctity of its contract ".

In his review of Crick's book, J. J. Hopfield ( Science magazine, 4 February 1994 ) concluded that, " The book should be read by scientists for its eloquent attempt to put consciousness, which we so much equate with the essence of our humanity, into the realm of science.

When Hegel reaches essence, he starts a new " book ," still under the heading of objective logic.

[...] somehow managed to capture the essence of the genre while completely rewriting its rule book ", commenting that it was also " the first to fuse black metal with progressive and symphonic elements, setting the stage for a bevy of future experimentation in the genre [...] As such, it certainly possesses the farthest-reaching legacy of anything from Norway's bloody first wave, and ranks as one of the most important heavy metal albums of the ' 90s.

Jīng ( 精 ; essence ) should not be confused with the related concept of jìn ( 勁 ; power ), nor with jīng ( 經 ; classic / warp ), which appears in many early Chinese book titles, such as the Nèi Jīng, yì jīng and Chá Jīng, the fundamental text on all the knowledge associated with tea.

The book was originally written to record the essence of discussions held on its title's subject at weekly classes given by Jacobs at the New West End Synagogue and was the subject at the time of some mild criticism, but not of any major censure.

* História do Futuro ( History of the Future ) ( Lisbon, 1718 ; 2nd ed., ibid., 1755 ); this and the Quinto Império and this Clavis Prophetarum seem to be in essence one and the same book in different redactions

Gendlin's book details the six steps of Focusing, which can also be taught as a four-step process, while emphasizing that there is an essence to Focusing which is a flow that is beyond steps.

The leveling-off of all such interesting " memes " down to some neutralized molecular " substance " such as " meme-substance " introduces a bias toward " scientism " and abandons the very essence of what makes ideas interesting, richly available, and worth studying.

He shortly introduces essence, which he will classify as " illusory being " in contrast to " determinate being " as above.

The Priest entreats Baphomet — " O Lion and O Serpent " — to be “ mighty among us .” He then declares the Law of Thelema to the People-" Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law "-who return with “ Love is the law, love under will .” He finally partakes of the Eucharist with the words, “ In my mouth be the essence of the life of the Sun ” ( with the Host ) and “ In my mouth be the essence of the joy of the earth ” ( with the Wine ).

From this point of view the `` militant mobs '' of the past, stirred into action by one ideology or another, were all composed of `` intellectuals '' -- and this is not the level on which the essence of mankind can be discovered.

The essence of contract is that one is free to make a choice of what one will or will not do.

Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.

Heschel then goes on to explore the problems of doubts and faith ; what Judaism means by teaching that God is one ; the essence of humanity and the problem of human needs ; the definition of religion in general and of Judaism in particular ; and human yearning for spirituality.

Non-Trinitarianism includes all Christian belief systems that reject, wholly or partly, the doctrine of the Trinity, namely, the teaching that God is three distinct yet coeternal and coequal hypostases who are indivisibly united in one essence.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

They represent a trinity in unity, three in one, — the same in essence, though multi-form in office: God the Father-Mother ; Christ the spiritual idea of sonship ; divine Science or the Holy Comforter.

The essence of the design was the ability to transfer charge along the surface of a semiconductor from one storage capacitor to the next.

Cyril posited that the composition of the Trinity consisted of one divine essence ( ousia ) in three distinct modes of being ( hypostases.

Though what constitutes sex discrimination varies between countries, the essence is that it is an adverse action taken by one person against another person that would not have occurred had the person been of another sex.

He considered ' These phantasies include a great deal of the true constitutional essence of the subject's personality ' and that the energetic man ' is one who succeeds by his efforts in turning his wishful phantasies into reality ', while the artist ' can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of into symptoms ... the doom of neurosis '.

" ( 91: 7 ) The soul is the essence of man ; it is the part which will outlast this life and be judged in the next, and one of the main reasons human beings were placed in this world is to test and develop their souls.

In essence, it is a chemical messenger that transports a signal from one cell to another.

Fortescue, also writing in the Catholic Encyclopedia, claimed that " the real distinction between God's essence and operation remains one more principle, though it is rarely insisted on now, in which the Orthodox differ from Catholics ".

In contrast to other branches of Christianity, Mormon theology considers God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit to be three separate gods united in will and purpose, ( see social trinitarianism ) as opposed to the orthodox view of three hypostases sharing in one Divine nature or essence ( ousia ), with the three members of the Godhead co-eternal and co-equal, together adored ( worshiped, given latria ) and glorified.

Show became a seminal and original production-in essence one of the first rock videos-on its release in 1964.

Sartre says that if one considered a paper cutter, one would assume that the creator would have had a plan for it: an essence.

It is one of the components of an esoteric description of the ' subtle body ', which consists of nadis ( energy channels ), chakras ( psychic centres ), prana ( subtle energy ), and bindu ( drops of essence ).

:::: Having been created of one essence.

For Kuleshov, the essence of the cinema was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot with another.

Reflections on the nature of the connection and distinction between existence and essence dates back to Aristotle's Metaphysics, and it found one of its later most influential interpretations in the ontology of the eleventh century metaphysician Avicenna ( Ibn Sina ).

In essence, a Turing machine is imagined to be a simple computer that reads and writes symbols one at a time on an endless tape by strictly following a set of rules.

According to the Hindu philosophy the essence of God or Brahman can never be understood or known since Brahman is beyond both existence and non-existence, transcending and including time, causation and space, and thus can never be known in the same material sense as one traditionally ' understands ' a given concept or object.