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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.
But still, the proposition is worth examination.
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.
In proportion to the degradation of his moral worth, is the increase of his worth to them ''.
The game is not worth the ammunition it would cost.
That fact is very clearly illustrated in the case of the many present-day intellectuals who were Communists or near-Communists in their youth and are now so extremely conservative ( or reactionary, as many would say ) that they can define no important political conviction that does not seem so far from even a centrist position as to make the distinction between Mr. Nixon and Mr. Khrushchev for them hardly worth noting.
one who is thoroughly human, who affects no dignity, and who is endowed with real ability, genuine worth, and sterling honesty -- all dedicated to secure the best interests of the country he has loved and served so long.
Last year a boy he knows and helped in Journalism won the Thoroughbred Racing Ass'n Scholarship which is worth $10,000.
The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.
The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.
Consider what you have to earn to be able to spend the $3,000 and your building time is well worth it.
It costs two to three times as much to remove a BTU in summer as it does to add one in winter, so every solitary BTU is worth attention.
If you have an annual or regular physical examination program, is it worth what it is costing you??
But it is worth pondering that very little has been published on any phase of field techniques in linguistics.
Like primitive numbers in mathematics, the entire axiological framework is taken to rest upon its operational worth.
But what is the operational worth of a sociology which mimetically reproduces the idea of physical models??
In this connection it is worth noting how names are sometimes obtained.

is and dwelling
For who is your equal in greatness, O dwelling place of God the Word?
:" Then there is also in that place the abode called Breidablik, and there is not in heaven a fairer dwelling.
The book of Obadiah is based on a prophetic vision concerning the fall of Edom, a mountain dwelling nation whose Founding Father was Esau.
It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).
The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".
The celestial character of Diana is reflected in her connection with light, inaccessibility, virginity, and her preference for dwelling on high mountains and in sacred woods.
The mountain represents the Devil, or his world, since the Devil was one part of the whole of matter, but the world is the total mountain of evil, a deserted dwelling place of beasts, to which all who lived before the law and all Gentiles render worship.
Now, all that lasts is the decaying shell of a once thriving dwelling .” Thus, without the decrepit backdrop to initiate the events, the Gothic Novel would not exist.
It is also noted to have been a place of dwelling for Balder, Forseti's father in Norse and Germanic mythologies.
The English word house derives directly from the Old English Hus meaning " dwelling, shelter, home, house ," which in turn derives from Proto-Germanic Khusan ( reconstructed by etymological analysis ) which is of unknown origin.
Heimdallr is attested as possessing foreknowledge, keen eyesight and hearing, is described as " the whitest of the gods ", and keeps watch for the onset of Ragnarök while drinking fine mead in his dwelling Himinbjörg, located where the burning rainbow bridge Bifröst meets heaven.
" (" A hymn is the praise of God with song ; a song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.
Hentai is perceived as " dwelling " on sexual fetishes, including:
Along with dwelling in a sukkah, the principal ritual unique to this holiday is use of the Four Species ( lulav ( palm ), hadass ( myrtle ), aravah ( willow ) and etrog ( citron ).
Oannes is described as dwelling in the Persian Gulf, and rising out of the waters in the daytime and furnishing mankind instruction in writing, the arts and the various sciences.
Maybe also that this hilltop dwelling, commissioned by Giovanni de ' Medici, Cosimo il Vecchio's second son, with its view over the city, is the very first example of a Renaissance villa: that is to say it follows the Albertian criteria for rendering a country dwelling a " villa suburbana ".

is and some
`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
It is perhaps difficult to conceive, but imagine that tonight on London bridge the Teddy boys of the East End will gather to sing Marlowe, Herrick, Shakespeare, and perhaps some lyrics of their own.
An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.
To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
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.
This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.
Even in domains where detailed and predictive understanding is still lacking, but where some explanations are possible, as with lightning and weather and earthquakes, the appropriate kind of human action has been more adequately indicated.
In some areas, the progress is slower than in others.
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.
And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.
But the highroad, according to the description of its traffic, belongs to life as it is lived in unawareness of death, while the way to the churchyard belongs to some other sort of life: a suffering form, an existence wholly comprised in the awareness of death.
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.
These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.
It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.
Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

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