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::" and most
::" 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
.
::" 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.
::" Buechner's theological efforts
are never systematic treatises but instead short
, highly literary productions
in most of which
he draws explicit links with fiction-writing generally
and his own fiction
in particular ... Buechner's 1969 Noble Lectures at Harvard
, published
in 1970 as The Alphabet of Grace
, comprise a slender volume which
is one of his
most important
and revealing works
.
::" Ever since the publication of A Long Day's Dying ... Frederick Buechner has one of
our most interesting
and least predictable writers
.
::" In the pharmaceutical industry
, a blockbuster drug
is one
that achieves acceptance by prescribing physicians as a therapeutic standard for
, most commonly
, a highly prevalent chronic
( rather than acute
) condition
.
::" Wonderful to say
, this greatly desiderated
and almost unhoped for curative agent not only exists
in Nature
, but
is an essential element
in the human constitution
, varying
in different persons
, of course
, like all other bodily
and mental gifts ;
and most persons possess the
power of curing others
, or of being themselves cured occasionally
, by an inherent sanative influence propagatable between different individuals: for health
is transmissible as well as disease
, it appears
.
::" We took him
and Pepe Arenzana to Ayod
, where
most of the time were
in a feeding center where locals go
.
::" To form a proper idea of the spirit
, the character
, and the customs of a Nation
, almost unknown
in Europe
, I deemed
it preferable to represent them
in their own dress
, rather than to enter myself into particular details
, always infected by the manner of considering the facts
, notwithstanding the utmost endeavors to be guided by truth
in the
most essential parts
.
::" Aquinas
, Augustine
, St
. Bernard
, Bhagavad-Gita
, Buddha
, Jean Pierre Camus
, St
. Catherine
, Christ
, Chuang Tzu
, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation
, Deliverance
, Desire
, Eckhart
( five lines
, the
most quoted person ), Eternity
, Fénelon
, François de Sales
, Godhead
, Humility
, Idolatry
, St
. John of the Cross
, Knowledge
, Lankavatara Sutra
, William Law
( another four lines ), Logos
, Love
, Mahayana
, Mind
, Mortification
, Nirvana
, Perennial Philosophy
( six lines
, a total of 40 entries
in all ), Prayer
, Rumi
, Ruysbroeck
, Self
, Shankara
, Soul
, Spirit
, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth
, Upanishads
( six different ones
are quoted ), Will
, Words
.
::" The war between Chalcis
and Eretria was the one
in which
most cities belonging to the rest of Greece were divided up into alliances with one side or the other
.
::" and people
::" Senate people-and Roman " = " The Senate
and Roman
people "
::" O Stranger
, send the news home to the
people of Sparta
that here
we
::" 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 wanted to learn about Christ – about the Old Testament
, which had been his Bible
, and the New Testament
, which was the Bible about him ; about the history of the church
, which had been founded
on the faith
that through him God had not only revealed his innermost nature
and his purpose for the world
, but had released into the world a fierce
power to draw
people into
that nature
and adapt them to
that purpose …. No intellectual pursuit had ever aroused
in me such intense curiosity
, and much more than my intellect was involved
, much more than my curiosity aroused
.
::" Godric came as mysteriously alive for me as Bebb had
and, with him
, all the
people he knew
and the whole medieval world
he lived
in.
::" The Muhammedans
, an alien
people ,... by shylockian methods become prosperous like Jews
.
::" We love
our children
, but it's weird when you consider
that in the next century
, you're going to have
people in nursing homes with names like Heather
and Debbie
.
::" Mr
. Speaker: If the will of the
people is to prevail
, if justice
is to be done
, there can be no question of my expulsion from the house
.
::" The tabernacle of God
is with men
, and he shall dwell with them
, and God Himself shall be with them
, and shall be their God
, and they shall be his
people.
::" For the
people of the West
.
::" During a certain period
in the not too distant past
, Japan
, following a mistaken national policy
, advanced along the road to war
, only to ensnare the Japanese
people in a fateful crisis
, and, through its colonial rule
and aggression
, caused tremendous damage
and suffering to the
people of many countries
, particularly to those of Asian nations
.
::" To achieve future prosperity
, we need more
and talented
people.
::" and who
::" Who was the fool
, who the wise
,
::" Are you the Katherine MacLean
who wrote
' Incommunicado '?
::" There
are many
who have achieved
in the world of politics
, business or academia
who can trace their success to the years they spent at LSE
.
::" I was reading a magazine as
I waited my turn at a barber shop one day when
, triggered by a particular article
and the photographs
that went with
it, there floated up out of some hitherto unexplored subcellar of me a character
who was to dominate my life as a writer for the next six years
and more
.
::" Those
who, through no fault of their own
, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church
, but
who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart
, and, moved by grace
, try
in their actions to
do his will as they know
it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation "
( Second Vatican Council
, Lumen Gentium
, 16 ).
::" One day the circle of those
who sat at the feet of Seyyid Kázim was augmented by a fresh arrival
.
::" He
is a notorious terrorist
, and we have very clearly
and publicly announced
what is going to happen to notorious terrorists
who commit heinous crimes of the type Mr
. Basayev has been involved
in.
::" In the years when
our Country was
in mortal danger
, ( name
) who served
( dates
) gave generously of his time
and powers to make himself ready for her defence by force of arms
and with his life if need be
.
::" all
who owned property or houses sold them
and lay them at the feet of the apostles to be distributed to everyone according to his need
.
::" The great majority of those
who have carefully investigated the subject have come to the conclusion
that there exists
in man
, as one of his constituent principles
, a certain subtle element
, known by the names of animal electricity
, animal magnetism
, galvanism
, the nervous energy
, the nervous fluid
, etc
.
::" You
, the class of 1990 ... How
do you feel about your valedictorian with the 4
. 9 Grade Point Average
who arrived
in this country six months ago speaking no English
in a rowboat from Saigon?
::" It was not you
who ate the idea
, but the idea
that ate you
.
::" To the memory of Lieutenant Jacques Charlot "
( who transcribed Ravel's four-hand piece Ma mère l
' oye for solo piano
)
::" Permission to fight
is given to those
who are fought against because they have been wronged-truly Allah has the
power to come to their support-those
who were expelled from their homes without any right
, merely for saying
, ' Our Lord
is Allah '..."
( Quran
, 22: 39-40 )"
::" Ultra-alien aliens resembling large dots
in large bottles-and the Earthmen
who try to communicate with them ..." Panther Edition blurb
.
::" You should be thankful you
are not
in the Old Testament times
, because there
are some of us
who would gladly execute you
.
::" Ensete
is totally involved
in every aspect of the daily social
and ritual life of the Gurage
, who, with several others tribes
in Southwest Ethiopia
, form
what has been termed the Ensete Culture Complex area ... the life of the Gurage
is enmeshed with various uses of ensete
, not the least of which
is nutritional
.
::" Lucullus
, indeed
, and Drusus
and Octavius
, and Cato
and the whole house of Hortensii
, since
he held them bound by close social ties
, he was treated by them with the highest of honors ; for not only did everyone cultivate his friendship
who devoted to hear
and to take
in anything they did
, but even those
who only pretended
.
::" and are
::" If anyone imagines
that we are stating the case too strongly
, let him try an experiment with the first bright boy
he meets by asking
,
::" Where
, oh where
, are you tonight?
::" 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
.
::" The principle of utility does not mean
that any given pleasure
, as music
, for instance
, or any given exemption from pain
, as for example health
, are to be looked upon as means to a collective something termed happiness
, and to be desired
on that account
.
::" In a classical philosophical opposition
we are not dealing with the peaceful coexistence of a vis-à-vis
, but rather with a violent hierarchy
.
::" Nice old
, soft bits of good Turkish towelling
, properly washed
, will make the softest of diaper coverings
, inside which specially absorbent napkins
( diapers ), see below at 1A
, soft
, light
, and easily washed
, are contained
.
::" There
are men
in the village of Erith
that nobody seeth or heareth
,
::" 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
.
::" If they
are not there
,
::" Reading
is like eating ; the benefits
are not
in proportion to
what is consumed
, but to
what is digested
.
::" Team Obama ’ s anti-anti-missile initiatives
are not simply acts of unilateral disarmament of the sort to be expected from an Alinsky acolyte
.
::" Positive feedback loops
are sources of growth
, explosion
, erosion
, and collapse
in systems
.
::" Most of you
in here
are of my vintage: we're ignored by the media
.
::" Sacred for lovers of art
, you
are the glory of faith
,
::" The Flowers of the Forest
are a
' wede away ".
::" The orders
I propose to make
are of special significance as they constitute the first recognition
and protection of native title resulting
in the ongoing enjoyment of native title
in the State of Victoria
and, it would appear
, on the South-Eastern seaboard of Australia
.
::" Just as
we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if
and when
, and to the extent
that, his interest
in them comes to fruition as income
, that is, in dividends declared
, so
we can perceive no constitutional obstacle
that stands
in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends
are declared out of a pre-existing surplus
.
::" All things
are from Him
, through Him
and in Him
.
::" What
are you reading now?
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