::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?

::" The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of skepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( the man she wants to marry is Swedish — a specific person )

::" The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place,

::" The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud.

::" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

::" This last is the distinguishing characteristic of classes, and justifies us in treating ẑ ( ψz ) as the class determined by function ψẑ.

::" Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York " ( Son / sun )

::" Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

::" In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view ; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

::" An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind.

::" There is no true value of any characteristic, state, or condition that is defined in terms of measurement or observation.

::" Once again the political clout of the school, which seems to be closely wired into parliament, Whitehall and the Bank of England, is being felt by ministers ...

::" I need very much to feel the warmth of my people around me, there is work to be done and I will get the strength from my people to finish the business.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.

::" Gloom, despair and agony on me-e!

::" So long everybody!

::" So long, we sure had a good time!

::" Indonesia bersatu!

::" I marvel at myself, I seem an angel!

::" Rejoice, O Full of Grace, the Lord is with you!

::" But nevermore they met!

::" Oh!

::" Pastiche!

::" You know, after all of these years we're full-up!

::" Tickle them!

* To: DECWRL ::" decvax! peregrine! dmi "

his end is ridiculous and trivial.

Hieronymus, like Piepsam, makes his protest quite in vain, and his rejection, though not fatal, is ridiculous and humiliating ; ;

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

This is the year home runs ranged from the sublime to the ridiculous.

His addle-brained knight-errant, self-appointed to the ridiculous position in an age when armor had already been relegated to museums and the chivalrous code of knight-errantry had become a joke, is, as Cervantes no doubt intended, a gaunt but gracious symbol of good, moving soberly and sincerely in a world of cynics, hypocrites and rogues.

He rejected the idea of " music of the spheres " as ridiculous: movement of astronomical bodies, he supposed, is incapable of generating sound.

" Calmer, though cockier and marginally more intelligent than Beavis, Butt-Head is oblivious to subtlety of any sort and is usually completely confident in everything he says and does, no matter how ridiculous or frivolous it is -- unless it has to do with females, in which case he either wavers or comes on too strongly.

for instance, there is a sequence where you are obviously watching a ridiculous documentary and you are told that and you are aware of it, but it still sucks you in.

The term is sometimes used to automatically dismiss claims that are deemed ridiculous, misconceived, paranoid, unfounded, outlandish or irrational.

That it is being used to educate our children is even more ridiculous.

This opinion recurs in critical literature, and, according to Caroline Spurgeon, is supported by Shakespeare himself, who apparently intended to degrade his hero by vesting him with clothes unsuited to him and to make Macbeth look ridiculous by several nimisms he applies: His garments seem either too big or too small for him – as his ambition is too big and his character too small for his new and unrightful role as king.

", " Well, the answer to that ", Benaud replied, " If there is, as there always can be, some emergency or a sensational happening on or off the field where it would be quite ridiculous not to go into the commentary box, of course I'll be in there doing my job and doing it as professionally as I can.

He then notes that it is ridiculous and weird that there are intensities of treatment by the scientists and press, in particular, that he was " much less badly treated ," when in fact he had been the main target of US press, specifically The New York Times, where his obituary ten years later would mock deconstruction and not consider Jacques Derrida, the person, in the face of those grieving his death.

The idea of a march in a single day is also dismissed as ridiculous.

The building of barricades, he wrote to Marcuse, is " ridiculous against those who administer the bomb.

… if you consider the Historical Playes of Shakespeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of Kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, crampt into a representation of two hours and a half, which is not to imitate or paint Nature, but rather to draw her in miniature, to take her in little ; to look upon her through the wrong end of a Perspective, and receive her Images not onely much less, but infinitely more imperfect then the life: this instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous.

The men follow traditional matrimonial rites, but the foibles they excuse are ridiculous, and the farce is built on an absurd confusion of a book and a baby.

Plutarch also states that Spartans treated the Helots " harshly and cruelly ": they compelled them to drink pure wine ( which was considered dangerous – wine usually being cut with water ) "... and to lead them in that condition into their public halls, that the children might see what a sight a drunken man is ; they made them to dance low dances, and sing ridiculous songs ..." during syssitia ( obligatory banquets ).

Not only is the disguise so thin as to be ridiculous, but also in the TV series, Adventures of Superman, this absurdity was carried to an extreme.

He is a dull witted peasant who can be simple and also ridiculous.

Western humour theory begins with Plato, who attributed to Socrates ( as a semihistorical dialogue character ) in the Philebus ( p. 49b ) the view that the essence of the ridiculous is an ignorance in the weak, who are thus unable to retaliate when ridiculed.