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`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.
`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.
`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.
Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.
Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.
The line is a pretty good one.
The basic premise of all mystery stories is that the distinction between good and bad coincides with the distinction between legal and illegal.
If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;
if he is legal, he may not be good.
They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.
Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.
It is a total situation that is defended: the `` good old days ''.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.
This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.
She is not only a trained mathematician and Classicist, but a good architect.

is and see
It is Eromonga -- look hard, you can see with your naked eye the wooden scaffolding on the cliff ''.
It is hard to see how the situation could be otherwise.
Work is under way to see whether new restraining devices should be installed on all nuclear weapons.
It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
But more important, and the thing which the casual traveler and the blind sojourner often do not see, is that these places and activities are often the settings in which Persians exercise their extraordinary aesthetic sensibilities.
Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess.
So we see that a specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less as he develops, as contrasted to the generalist, who knows less and less about more and more.
What I am here to do is to report on the gyrations of the struggle -- a struggle that amounts to self-redefinition -- to see if we can predict its future course.
One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.
Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.
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.
One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.
But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.
Moreover, if the critic instructs his audience in what to see in a work, he is contributing to this pseudo-thinking ; ;
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

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Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
`` I'd like to know just which it is that those guys don't understand, the liquor or automobiles ''.
It is these other differences between North and South -- other, that is, than those which concern discrimination or social welfare -- which I chiefly discuss herein.
but there is a leavening of liberalism among college graduates throughout the South, especially among those who studied in the North.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.
The short answer to those questions is `` yes ''.
His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.
To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.
The division is not between those who wish to preserve what they have and those who want change.
Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
Without saying or seeming to say that in portraying the Sartoris and the Compson families Faulkner's chief concern is social criticism, we can say nevertheless that through those families he dramatizes his comment on the planter dynasties as they have existed since the decades before the Civil War.
A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

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