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Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Whitehead contends that the human way of understanding existence as a unity of interlocking and interdependent processes which constitute each other and which cause each other to be and not to be is possible only because the basic form of such an understanding, for all its vagueness and tendency to mistake the detail, is initially given in the way man feels the world.
This is a mistake.
It is a mistake, however, to imagine that Sandburg uses the guitar as a prop.
The second mistake is Tibet.
But make no mistake about it, the first reason people turn to camping is one of economy.
If it continues indefinitely it is nearly a statistical certainty that a mistake will be made and that the devastation will begin ''.
Make no mistake, this Gorky Studio drama is a respectable import -- aptly grave, carefully written, performed and directed.
When one manuscript has a difference compared to 99 % of the others, it is understood to be a copyist's mistake.
It would be a mistake to praise Warhol for the design of his boxes ( which were designed by Steve Harvey ), yet the conceptual move of exhibiting these boxes as art in a museum together with other kinds of paintings is Warhol's.
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled On tactical arrays of the Greeks (), is dedicated to the Emperor Hadrian, though this is probably a mistake for Trajan, and the date 106 has been assigned to it.
One problem with sports arbitrage is that bookmakers sometimes make mistakes and this can lead to an invocation of the ' palpable error ' rule, which most bookmakers invoke when they have made a mistake by offering or posting incorrect odds.
As noted earlier one of those factors is anabolic steroids which have the capability of increasing muscle mass, which enables hitters to not only hit " mistake " pitches farther, but it also enables hitters to adjust to " good " pitches such as a well-placed fastball, slider, changeup, or curveball, and hit them for home runs.
For Gilbert Ryle ( 1949 ), a category ( in particular a " category mistake ") is an important semantic concept, but one having only loose affinities to an ontological category.
A common mistake users make is to leave the CD-Rs with the " clear " ( recording ) surface upwards, in order to protect it from scratches, as this lets the sun hit the recording surface directly.
A common mistake is that people take the statement as proof that they, as a human person, exist.
In Belarusian the replacement by е is a mistake, in Russian, it is possible to use either е and ё in print in place of ё but the former is more common.
This interpolation does not minimize the slope, and is not generally real-valued for real ; its use is a common mistake.
However, James Ussher, in his writings of the Ussher chronology, republished as " The Annals of the World " claims that this is a mistake, basing his opinion on the writings of Clemens Alexandrinus.

is and look
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.
Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;
And by a skillful and unobtrusive use of imagery ( the enclosure is called a `` Roman-camp stockade '', the hastily erected lean-to is a `` Babylonian hovel '', the men begin to look like `` Peruvian mummies '' and to acquire `` Gothic faces '' ), Malraux projects a fresco of human endurance -- which is also the endurance of the human -- stretching backward into the dark abyss of time.
That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.
This angle of just where the Orioles can look for improvement this year is an interesting one.
Possibly responsible for this is the incoming trend toward multicolor schemes in rooms, which seems slated to replace the one-color look to which we have been accustomed.
There the truth is, open to eyes that are willing to look.
The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.
The same is true of areas which at first look good because of a few existing recreation features but may actually be poor areas to develop for general public use.
The transducer itself moves the beam in a sector scan, just like a radar antenna, while the entire transducer structure is moved over a 90-degree arc in front of the eye to `` look into '' all corners.
Perhaps the best way to indicate the versatility of design that characterizes the use of plastics in signs and displays would be to look at what is happening in only one of the areas in this complex field -- changeable signs.
`` The human ego being what it is '', I put in, `` science fiction has always assumed that the creatures on the planets of a thousand larger solar systems than ours must look like gigantic tube-nosed fruit bats.
In the notation of the proof of Theorem 12, let us take a look at the special case in which the minimal polynomial for T is a product of first-degree polynomials, i.e., the case in which each Af is of the form Af.
Each dictionary form is looked up in the text-form list by the same method used to look up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading.
This is simply a confession of intellectual sterility spruced up to look virtuous.
Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.
Malocclusion, or a bad fit, is what parents need to look out for.

is and upon
That this abandonment takes place on a stage, during an ' artistic ' performance, is enough to associate Jacoby with art, and to bring down upon him the punishment for art ; ;
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
Hence government must establish greater controls upon corporations so that their activities promote what is deemed essential to the national interest.
No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.
To this end political authority is called upon to exercise its negative and coercive powers.
As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.
In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;
But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.
Even when he is called upon for impromptu remarks, he has notes written on the back of handy envelopes.
In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.
Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.
William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.
`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.
To most observers, there is little doubt that he placed an artificial strait jacket of unity upon the years of Anne's reign which in reality existed only in the pages of his history.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

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