::" 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.

::" 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.

::" I have no desire to analyze what makes Buechner's writing and preaching so extraordinary.

::" Reading is like eating ; the benefits are not in proportion to what is consumed, but to what is digested.

::" Of this Phlegon, as Philostorgius says, to relate fully in detail what befell with the Jews, while Phlegon and Dio mentioned events briefly and made them an appendix to their own narrative.

::" Science is the best defense against believing what we want to.

::" 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.

::" The palace was then being built, but it was the work of Penelope: what was done today, was destroyed tomorrow.

::" In order, therefore, that the clauses cited from Article I of the Constitution may have proper force and effect save only as modified by the Amendment, and that the latter also may have proper effect, it is essential to distinguish between what is and what is not ' income ' as the term is there used ; and to apply the distinction as cases arise according to truth and substance without regard to form.

::" If you woke up tomorrow, and a miracle happened so that you no longer easily lost your temper, what would you see differently?

::" Beloved, what do you wish from Me?

::" 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.

::" The People are in no disagreement that a fundamental right of personal decision exists ; the divergence of the parties focuses on what subjects fall within its protection, the People contending that it extends to only two aspects of sexual behavior-marital intimacy ( by virtue of the Supreme Court's decision in Griswold ) and procreative choice ( by reason of Eisenstadt and Roe v.

::" In light of these decisions, protecting under the cloak of the right of privacy individual decisions as to indulgence in acts of sexual intimacy by unmarried persons and as to satisfaction of sexual desires by resort to material condemned as obscene by community standards when done in a cloistered setting, no rational basis appears for excluding from the same protection decisions-such as those made by the defendants before us-to seek sexual gratification from what at least once was commonly regarded as " deviant " conduct, so long as the decisions are voluntarily made by adults in a noncommercial, private setting.

::" parent's were political with a small p. My parents, both of whom were immigrants to New Zealand, weren't particularly partisan, but they were very aware of what it was like to be in a new country.

::" JJ believes that most people who are interested in what he calls D & S, what I call ' our thing ' and Bill Borher calls wiitwd ( what it is that we do ) and most people on ASB call BDSM, are interested in power exchange.

* In Patrick Rothfuss's " The Wise Man's Fear ", the ancient race of Yll use knots as a written language.

The Impossible Man's race are also revealed to have survived, with their consciousness stored inside the character.

The gang wins and the they later convince Lars to reveal to them the secret location of Mondo Mountain if Reggie beats him in a downhill race at Bruised Man's Curb.

He went on to compare the race to his win at Silverstone two years earlier and dedicated it to the late Enzo Ferrari, a year after the Old Man's death.

" In line with the concepts of the " Manifest Destiny " of white Anglo-Americans to conquer lands inhabited by " inferior " races of Native Americans and Mexicans, and the " White Man's Burden " of Europeans ' obligation to introduce civilization to the " primitive " people of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, American foreign policy in the early 20th century had racial overtones of a " superior " race destined to rule the world.

The tidal currents would carry the discarded immigrants ' bodies to San Juan Island to the north and west of the pass and many ended up in what became known as Dead Man's Bay.

The Poor Man's Guardian in the 1830s, edited by Henry Hetherington dealt with questions of class solidarity, universal suffrage, property, and temperance, and opposed the Reform Act of 1832, The paper explored the rhetoric of violence versus non-violence, or what its writers referred to as moral versus physical force.

Both " Leaving It Up To You " and " Fear Is A Man's Best Friend " ( from Fear ) begin as relatively conventional songs that gradually grow more paranoid in tone before breaking down into what critic Dave Thompson calls " a morass of discordance and screaming ".

The caption says :" Accurst Pelagius, with what false pretenceDurst thou excuse Man's foul Concupiscence, Or cry down Sin Originall, or that The Love of GOD did Man predestinate.

During its initial advance the division engaged German forces, including infantry and armour, in an attempt to secure a narrow, high-rimmed road to the north-west of Bastogne ; during a battle that lasted three days the division suffered nearly 1, 000 casualties attempting to hold what the division's official historian labeled ' Dead Man's Ridge '.

He ponders Man's purpose, and the difference between what is, and what should be.

In what was enthusiastically termed a " parade of evolutionary progress ," visitors could inspect the " primitives " that represented the counterbalance to " Civilisation " justifying Kipling's poem " The White Man's Burden ".

In Islamic prophetology, a messenger may abrogate certain ritual and social laws handed down by his predecessors in order to lighten Man's burden, make lawful what had previously been unlawful, and therefore demonstrate God's mercy for His creation.

But of what use is all this fine Knowledge of Man's own Imaginations, to a Man that enquires after the reality of things?

In 1835 Colonel George Ewing, an Indian trader who did business with the Miami and spoke their language fluently, stayed the night at a log cabin at what was known as Deaf Man's village.

The interchanges between I-490 and West 7th Street and between I-90 and West 14th Street / Abbey Avenue were designed to complete the missing movements at the stack interchange at what is now the termini of both I-71 and I-490 ; I-71 was to continue along the Innerbelt to Dead Man's Curve ( in addition to the original Clark Freeway plans ), while I-290 was to have used a portion of present I-90 meet the Parma Freeway.

* Encounters with what is believed to be members of The Leopard Society are described in the book " Travels in the White Man's Grave: Memoirs from West and Central Africa ", by Donald MacIntosh.

* Several cases of sale or attempted sale described in what is largely a primary source: Grennan, Conor, Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal ( N. Y .: William Morrow, 1st ed.

Also concerned about what he considered Beauregard's " feeble health ," Lee recommended to Davis that he be replaced by Joseph E. Johnston.

By the fall of 1981, the league was showing what The New York Times described as " feeble flickers of life.

The middle movements, one of which was intended to be a scherzo — a mark that Brahms intended a symphonic concerto rather than a virtuoso showpiece — were discarded and replaced with what Brahms called a " feeble Adagio.

For her ' youth ,' ' audacity ,' ' vigour ,' and ' swift directness of purpose ,' read ' elderly ,' ' timid ,' ' feeble ,' and ' nervously shilly-shallying ,' and you will get something of what I meant him to be.

: Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,

I could not help thinking what a feeble and futile effort to keep down Jacobinism this bill must be, when compar'd with the effect to be produc'd by all the consequences arising from compromising with its existence under color of a peace with the Nation — what is to be done with all their Coms Ambassadors, Consuls, and Citizens?

While some would argue that there is no set rule on what sangrita should contain, as the main ingredient, it is commonly considered by older residents of Jalisco that tomato and particularly branded recipes such as the " Clamato " mix stem from ignorance and feeble efforts to recreate the drink due to its growing popularity.

Fidelis rose again on his knees, and stretching forth his arms in the form of a cross, said with a feeble voice " Pardon my enemies, O Lord: blinded by passion they know not what they do.

He was what was known as ' dead-pan '... the feeble smile and owlish blink which had become his stock-in-trade caught on in a big way, and he skyrocketed to fame and fortune ..."

Under those Circumstances, and with these Sentiments we have turned our Eyes to you Gentlemen for Relief, We are informed there is a very large Magazine in your Island under a very feeble Guard ; We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ; -- but if your Favor and Friendship to North America and its Liberties have not been misrepresented, I persuade myself you may, consistent with your own Safety, pro mote and further this Scheme, so as to give it the fairest prospect of Success.