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Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."
:" We are not there because of our friendship, we are there because, like you, we believe it is right to be there and, like you, we shall stay there as long as it seems necessary to achieve the purposes of the South Vietnamese Government and the purposes that we join in formulating and progressing together.
John Schlight, in his A War Too Long, said of the PAVN's logistical apparatus :" This sustained effort, requiring the full-time activities of tens of thousands of soldiers, who might otherwise have been fighting in South Vietnam, seems proof positive that the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail had disrupted the North Vietnamese war effort.
:" it seems most strange that ... the Creator of Heaven and Earth resorted to the womb of a certain Jewish lady, grew there for nine months and was born as an infant, and afterwards grew up and was betrayed into the hands of his enemies who sentenced him to death and executed him, and that afterwards ... he came to life and returned to his original place.
:" Apart from whatever may be the general wish of the Zulu nation, it seems to me that the seizure of the two refugee women in British territory by an armed force crossing an unmistakable and well known boundary line, and carrying them off and murdering them with contemptuous disregard for the remonstrances of the Natal policemen, is itself an insult and a violation of British territory which cannot be passed over, and unless apologised and atoned for by compliance with the Lieutenant Governor ’ s demands, that the leaders of the murderous gangs shall be given up to justice, it will be necessary to send to the Zulu King an ultimatum which must put an end to pacific relations with our neighbours.
:" It is hard to pinpoint when the movement started but 1968 seems to be a reasonable date.
:" In this film, some audiences will say that the title seems to be very cynical, because it is about two persons living together, and at the end, they are just separate.
In an article he wrote for Life magazine, Williams discussed why he chose her for the part :" Anna and I had both cherished the dream that her appearance in the part I created for her in The Fugitive Kind would be her greatest triumph to date ... he is simply a rare being who seems to have about her a little lightning-shot cloud all her own ....
:" At all Events, they could not maintain such an Independency, without a Strong Naval Force, which it must forever be in the Power of Great Britain to hinder them from having: And whilst His Majesty hath 7000 Troops kept up within them, & in the Great Lakes upon the back of six of them, with the Indians at Command, it seems very easy, provided the Governors & principal Civil Officers are Independent of the Assemblies for their Subsistence, & commonly Vigilant, to prevent any Steps of that kind from being taken.
:" Although I cannot prove this precisely, I sense that the Aztec goal was military glory and staving off the collapse of the universe, whereas the Teotihuacan aim seems to have been the creation of paradise on earth.
:" The hope of a better future seems to be smiling on you, a future in which the relations between Church and State in your country will be regulated in harmonious action to the advantage of both ".
:" It seems that Michelangelo, in his own way, allowed himself to be guided by the evocative words of the Book of Genesis which, as regards the creation of the human being, male and female, reveals: ' The man and his wife were both naked, yet they felt no shame '.
:" nature in all her vigour, and yet in a state of decay, seems to offer to the imagination something more picturesque and more imposing than the sight of this same nature bedecked by the hand of civilised man.
:" There seems to be something about Tibetan Buddhism which appeals to people in the West, where so many people are disillusioned with the stress and the lack of a spiritual aspect in their lives.
He wrote :" Fred is a great player, but the hoo-doo that seems to shadow him will make itself felt wherever he may go.
The Variety reviewer noted :" His debut foray into his own spotlight comes with ' Songs for a New World ,' a musical revue that shows Brown to be a capable songwriter of the Alan Menken school: commercial show-tune pop with palatable sentiment and easy-to-take melody .... ' Songs for a New World ' seems to contain more cabaret convention and pianobar posing than any one revue should have to withstand.
:" Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable.
:" Faith seems to be used by Christians in two senses or on two levels ...
:" That submission seems to me to ignore the realities, namely the very different role and functions of men and women, and the reality that those who sacrifice the opportunity to provide full-time care for their children in favour of a highly competitive professional race do, not uncommonly, question the purpose of all that striving, and question whether they should not re-evaluate their life before the children have grown too old to benefit.
Landru seems to be " all-seeing " and " all-knowing " with spies everywhere, one of whom turns in the party when he does not recognize them as members of " The Body :" the telepathic collective being, symbiotic with Landru, that most of the inhabitants belong to.
:" Whether such adventures ever happened to any one man, or whether, as seems far more likely, the author has supplemented certain experiences of his own by a rich imagination, using as its basis information gathered through wide reading, is immaterial.
:" was done for animals artificially seems to be done with equal efficiency, though more slowly, by nature, in the formation of varieties of mankind, fitted for the country which they inhabit.
:" The officer to whom I previously referred said, " There seems to be a fear back here in Canada that the Germans are going to make a frontal attack upon the Canadians, but the Canadians at the Front are afraid they won't ( laughter ) and ," he continued, " they will get the biggest reception they ever got and pay the biggest price "; and it is interesting to us to know that the only part of the line that the Canadians fought for so strenuously and won which is still in the hands of the Allies, is that which is being held by the Canadians themselves.
:" This conduct upon his part seems perfectly unaccountable ... You know that I have always counselled you to bear everything and remain to the last.

:" and especially
:" We worship ," replied Hengist, " our country gods, Saturn and Jupiter, and the other deities that govern the world, but especially Mercury, whom in our language we call Woden and to whom our ancestors consecrated the fourth day of the week, still called after his name Wodensday.
A trireme ( derived from Latin: " tres remi :" " three-oar ;", literally " three-oarer ") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley, a Hellenistic-era warship that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean, especially the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans.
:" Vincent Anthony Guaraldi ... was born in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco and raised out in the Avenues, surrounded by an Italian American musical family, especially on his mother ’ s side.
:" The residents find this name especially fitting because of the French word abbé which means father added to the French word ville means town.
:" Martha felt a responsibility for the unsophisticated girl under her care, especially since her mother and sister were expecting to see her back at Mount Vernon.
The Latest Decalogue's couplet on murder, " Thou shalt not kill ; but need ' st not strive Officiously to keep alive :" is often quoted in debates on medical ethics in the sense that it is not right to struggle to keep terminally ill people alive, especially if they are suffering.
Furthermore, the Scots ' advantage in numbers is no advantage at all, especially when they are up against properly trained Norman knights :" t is not so much the numbers of the many as the valour of the few that gains the battle.
That is especially true for the millions of dead of this century, from the Armenians all the way to the victims of the Gulag Archipelago or the Cambodians who were and still are being murdered before all of our eyes-but who have still been dropped from the world's memory " In his " Postscript " of 21 April 1987, Fest wrote that in his view :" In its substance, the dispute was initiated by Ernst Nolte's question whether Hitler's monstrous will to annihilate the Jews, judging from its origin, came from early Viennese impressions or, what is more likely, from later Munich experiences, that is, whether Hitler was an originator or simply being reactive.
:" Parterres are the low embellishments of gardens, which have great grace, especially when seen from an elevated position: they are made of borders of several shrubs and sub-shrubs of various colours, fashioned in different manners, as compartments, foliage, embroideries ( passements ), moresques, arabesques, grotesques, guilloches, rosettes, sunbursts ( gloires ), escutcheons, coats-of-arms, monograms and emblems ( devises )" — Traité du iardinage selon les raisons de la nature et de l ’ art, pp 81 – 82 ( quoted by Laird )
:" The Indians all live frugally, especially when in camp.
:" This bill proposes to establish at least one college in every State upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil, where all of needful science for the practical avocations of life shall be taught, where neither the higher graces of classical studies nor that military drill our country now so greatly appreciates will be entirely ignored, and where agriculture, the foundation of all present and future prosperity, may look for troops of earnest friends, studying its familiar and recondite economies, and at last elevating it to that higher level where it may fearlessly invoke comparison with the most advanced standards of the world.
:" Why do many candles, especially small ones, flicker and pop in the last moments before burning out?
:" From Me to You "— it could be done as an old ragtime tune — especially the middle eight — and so we're not writing the tunes in any particular idiom.
:" Under our system Congress, and especially the Senate, shares responsibility with the President for making our Nation's foreign policy.
'" Another possible explanation for the band's moniker is what is described as a " junkie's to do list :" " cop " ( obtain drugs, especially heroin ) " shoot " ( Inject the drugs )" and " cop " again.
:" Only with timely support from the Bayreuth circle, especially Houston S. Chamberlain, Winifred Wagner, and henchmen like Dietrich Eckhart in the Thule Society, could the unimpressive Hitler assume the self-then public image of a Wotan / Siegfried figure, complete with telling nickname: " Wolf.
:" Of the singers there were three or foure so excellent that I thinke few or none in Christendome do exell them, especially one, who had such a peerelesse and ... supernaturall voice for sweetnesse, that I thinke there was never a better singer in the world ...
:" Over the last 25 years, this sort of methodology has been used more and more often, especially by relief agencies in times of emergency ," said Dr. David Rush, a professor and epidemiologist at Tufts University in Boston.
* The original use of the rDNS: network troubleshooting via tools such as traceroute, ping, and the " Received :" trace header field for SMTP e-mail, web sites tracking users ( especially on Internet forums ), etc.
Apple's Andy Hertzfeld mentioned the game in a description of the Macintosh team's reaction to the 1981 IBM PC purchased for them by Steve Jobs " to dissect and evaluate ," noting that the new computer shipped with " some games written in BASIC that were especially embarrassing :"
:" Striae " is also a general term referring to thin, narrow grooves or channels, or a thin line or band especially if several of them are parallel or close together.
:" There is a name for this new critical paradigm, ' popism '— or, more evocatively ( and goofily ), ' poptimism '— and it sets the old assumptions on their ear: Pop ( and, especially, hip-hop ) producers are as important as rock auteurs, Beyoncé is as worthy of serious consideration as Bruce Springsteen, and ascribing shame to pop pleasure is itself a shameful act.
:" O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.
* Jeremy B. Rutter, Dartmouth College, " Prehistoric Archeology of the Aegean :" especially chapters 3, 8, 9.

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