in fact, a freezing autumn dulls the blaze.

Thus Marx's famous line-" religion is the opium of the people ", as it soothes them and dulls their senses to the pain of oppression.

Native medicinal plants include dragon's tongue, which produces a gel similar to aloe ; the Needlethorn, whose hollow thorns can be used as hypodermic needles ; Numbweed, a strong analgesic plant that is made into a cream after boiling it in large pots for 3 days that numbs small wounds completely, and dulls larger wounds ; and Fellis, which produces a juice used as a soporific drug.

" They went on to say, " there is no doubt that a deterioration in taste follows the use of this type of hymn and tune ; it fosters an attachment to the trivial and sensational which dulls and often destroys sense of the dignity and beauty which best befit the song that is used in the service of God.

This may, however, be counterproductive, if it dulls the market mechanism by which agencies compete, subsidizing less-capable agencies and penalizing agencies that devote resources to higher-quality opinions.

Rolling Stone rated the album 5 of 5 stars but also wrote "... even when his songwriting is sharp, the mellowing trend in his music dulls the impact.

True dressmaker's pinking shears, however, are not used for paper decoration because paper dulls the cutting edge.

If this does not completely engross, still it thoroughly confuses and dulls the mind.

Unlike an axe, mauls are effective longer after the edge dulls, as the primary mechanism is that of a wedge pushed through along the wood grain, and not a cross-grain chop of an axe.

Clipping dulls the colors and makes the coat soft, curly and more difficult to keep clean, but it is preferred by many owners.

Akira Uozumi, a former Kyōdō News journalist, stated that kisha clubs slowly wear down reporters psychologically, and blunt their instincts as journalists, saying ( in the Asahi Shimbun, on May 26, 2001 ), that " if 70 % or 80 % of your job is collecting secondary or tertiary information from government agencies as quickly as possible, it dulls your instinct for sensing what is actually going on in the world.

In deburring, ECM removes metal projections left from the machining process, and so dulls sharp edges.

The reason the pain dulls is because it binds to and activates opioid receptors.

* When operated bevel-side down there is the advantage of removing less stock, but the blade dulls more rapidly, requiring frequent honing.

The poison dulls all his senses and his companions believe him dead.

This dulls the light and clouds the senses until the person is unconscious.

It dulls the shiny, slick surface and softens the leather.

The size of the cuttings usually decreases as the bit dulls during drilling if weight on bit, formation type and the pressure differential, remain constant.

Breathing shallowly or holding one's breath while working out limits the oxygen supply to the muscles and the brain, decreasing performance and, under extreme stress, risking a black-out or a stroke by aneurysm.

The brain consists of a " bundle of semi-independent agencies "; when " content-fixation " takes place in one of these, its effects may propagate so that it leads to the utterance of one of the sentences that make up the story in which the central character is one's " self ".

" In gender identity disorder, there is discordance between the natal sex of one's external genitalia and the brain coding of one's gender as masculine or feminine.

Apparently there is some chain of events, leading from the burning of skin, to the stimulation of nerve endings, to something happening in the peripheral nerves of one's body that lead to one's brain, to something happening in a particular part of one's brain, and finally resulting in the sensation of pain.

This concept has been said to have implications for mind uploading or mind transference, as it indirectly addresses the question of whether an exact replica of one's brain patterns created within an alternate brain, an android brain, or a virtual universe is the same being as the person it was copied from, or another being entirely.

Although not fully expressed in any character of the film, Castle ultimately presents the audience with the concept of fully supplanting one's biological brain with an entirely synthetic one.

Midway into the film, Theseus ' Ship Paradox does come into question when the character of Gina Parker Smith ( Kyra Sedgwick ) shares that she would rather have the new parts removed, a statement that prompts Trace ( Alison Lohman ) to explain that such an attempt would kill the individual because it would mean removing a part of one's brain.

Parfit's argument for this position relies on our intuitions regarding thought experiments such as teleportation, the fission and fusion of persons, gradual replacement of the matter in one's brain, gradual alteration of one's psychology, and so on.

With this hypersensitivity, the patient would sense pain that the brain normally would not register in the average person such as minor changes in one's heartbeat.

While it does keep completely accurate time overall, it sometimes ticks and tocks out of sync ( example: " tick, tock ... ticktocktick, tock ...") and occasionally misses a tick or tock altogether, which has the net effect of turning one's brain " into a sort of porridge ".

The practice of focusing one's attention changes the brain in ways to improve that ability over time ; the brain grows in response to meditation.

Basic awareness of one's internal and external world depends on the brain stem.

" Higher " forms of awareness including self-awareness require cortical contributions, but " primary consciousness " or " basic awareness " as an ability to integrate sensations from the environment with one's immediate goals and feelings in order to guide behavior, springs from the brain stem which human beings share with most of the vertebrates.

' It was especially in which his ideas put subject to the position of a transcending truth above positivism that garnered attention ; by way that all senses about the world only take the form of ideas within one's mind in any real sense ; to Gentile even the analogy between the function & location of the physical brain with the functions of the physical body were a consistent creation of the mind ( and not brain ; which was a creation of the mind and not the other way around ).

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's highest hopes might ask.

Examples of alternate disaster recovery sites being compromised by the same disaster that affected the primary site include having had a primary site in World Trade Center I and the recovery site in 7 World Trade Center, both of which were destroyed in the 9 / 11 attack, and having one's primary site and recovery site in the same coastal region, which leads to both being vulnerable to hurricane damage ( for example, primary site in New Orleans and recovery site in Jefferson Parish, both of which were hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 ).

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

The point of outing, as I have defended it, is not to wreak vengeance, not to punish, and not to deflect attention from one's own debased state.

Angus MacIntyre of the University of London stated about Cohen: " He was dauntingly clever, and one would have had to be naive or exceptionally altruistic to put one's " hardest problem " to the Paul I knew in the ' 60s.

Whereas others can learn of my pain, for example, I simply have my own pain ; it follows that one does not know of one's own pain, one simply has a pain.

As early as the fifth century BC, Protagoras, who is reputed to have been exiled from Athens because of his agnosticism about the existence of the gods, said that " Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

" After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that all religions are true ; all religions have some error in them ; all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

# I coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.

*" I " is signed by pointing at one's eye, or one's chest.

According to Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers -- The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, Halliburton's message to seek one's destiny abroad, and to embrace romantic enterprises, drew its chief inspiration, as did the new cult of youth emerging after World War I, from poet Rupert Brooke.

The love of the Thou Liebe des Du thus places a value on one's own I.

Love abolishes egoism, it merges the self in the other to find it again enriched in one's own I.

But the Corycian cave exceeds in size those I have mentioned, and it is possible to make one's way through the greater part of it even without lights.

This need not imply that one's mind is all that exists, as with solipsism, but rather that the distinction between " I am " and " it is " is ultimately unnecessary, and a burden that, paradoxically, gives rise to an illusory sense of permanence and independence — that " separate " self which suffers and dies.

'" And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written " Hanwell ".... " Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has ' Hanwell ' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus.

This appropriation of Socrates leads her to introduce novel concepts of conscience ( which gives no positive prescriptions but instead tells me what I cannot do if I would remain friends with myself when I re-enter the two-in-one of thought where I must render an account of my actions to myself ) and morality ( an entirely negative enterprise concerned with non-participation in certain actions for the sake of remaining friends with one's self ).