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:" Night after night your horse treads down alone
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:" and is
:" A choice function exists in constructive mathematics, because a choice is implied by the very meaning of existence.
:" To this day Harold is not quite sure what made him suddenly pour out the whole story to a little man to whom he had only spoken a few minutes before.
:" It is this villainous sea that troubles me!
:" It is the misfortune of small, precise men always to hanker after large and flamboyant women.
:" The proudest possession of Lord Darnley is an earthenware urn containing the ashes which were presented to him by Melbourne residents when he captained the Englishmen in 1882.
:" His name is Ananda, great king.
:" What a joy he is!
:" It is sensible to avoid drinking alcohol when taking medication.
:" There is naught on earth to compare with the future life.
Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz ' impact as editor as follows :" The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at.
:" The first part of our arithmetic organ ... should be a parallel storage organ which can receive a number and add it to the one already in it, which is also able to clear its contents and which can store what it contains.
Aristotle knew of this tradition when he began his Metaphysics, and had already drawn his own conclusion, which he presented under the guise of asking what being is :" And indeed the question which was raised of old is raised now and always, and is always the subject of doubt, viz., what being is, is just the question, what is substance?
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 ...."
Where being, the noun, is readily accessible to experience and classifiable, being, the participle, is not :" In short ... philosophy may perhaps be able to tell us everything about that which reality is, but nothing at all concerning this not unimportant detail: the actual existence, or non-existence, of what we call reality ....
:" Then there is also in that place the abode called Breidablik, and there is not in heaven a fairer dwelling.
:" He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven ; in that place may nothing unclean be, even as is said here:

:" and fine
:" May your sons be as fine and as noble and good and honest as you were.
:" Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar, by her fine performance of " Mammy " in Gone with the Wind.
:" Bringing a sound knowledge of Naval Administration and professional skill to his assigned task, Rear Admiral Burke reorganized the rapidly expanded staff to meet its ever increasing responsibilities and, through his unusually fine conception of the essentials of modern warfare, materially improved the mutual functioning of the operation, plans and intelligence sections of the staff ...( and ) contributed immeasurably to the success of Naval operations in the Korean theater ..."
The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it :" 3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it.
:" He never married ; he had no country house ; he looks, in his portraits, a fastidious, fine gentleman ; but he worked till he dropped and he lectured when he was dying.
:" A people who can neither read nor write, whose last word is the dagger — fine material for constitutional principles !... The English constitution is the work of centuries .... There is no universal recipe for constitutions.
:" the good person must be a self-lover, since he will both help himself and benefit others by performing fine actions.
:" Isn't it becoming a fine world?
:" The streets are wide and its promenades and fine plane-trees make the town attractive ; but the public buildings, the chief of which are the Saint-Jean-Baptiste cathedral, a heavy building of the 18th century, and the citadel, which serves as barracks and prison, are of small interest.
:" The first of the swords was by all accounts a fine sword, however it is a blood thirsty, evil blade, as it does not discriminate as to who or what it will cut.
:" On Tuesday evening, at 5pm, Messrs Grove, of Bond Street, sent word that they had a very fine sturgeon on their slab.
:" She was 20 nm out in estimating her position and, after making her landfall, cut rounding the southeast point of Rum Cay too fine and went hard on the reef.
:" I was hurt, but if I had to lose I was glad it was to Barbara Stanwyck, who is a grand lady and fine actress.
An 1859 industrial journal noted that :" 19 commodious brick stores were erected in 1858 … besides a large number of fine residences, mostly of brick.
:" Among the unexpected discoveries at Berenike were a range of ancient Indian goods, including the largest single concentration ( 7. 55 kg ) of black peppercorns ever recovered in the classical Mediterranean world (“ imported from southern India ” and found inside a large vessel made of Nile silt in a temple courtyard ); substantial quantities of Indian-made fine ware and kitchen cooking ware and Indian style pottery ; Indian-made sail cloth, basketry, matting, etc.
Art critic Alexis Gray wrote :" Reginald Murray Pollack, who studied at New York City's High School of Music and Art before serving in the U. S. Army Air Force during World War II, was described by his twin brother in a June 1977 Esquire article as " a fine artist, humanist, poetically inclined anti-Vietnam war peace marcher, participant, with other artists, in an antiwar coalition, occasional user of pot and sympathizer with hippies and yippies and most youthful rebels.
:" A classical fencer is supposed to be one who observes a fine position, whose attacks are fully developed, whose hits are marvelously accurate, his parries firm and his ripostes executed with precision.
:" While our good English musicians in power with fine orchestras and much money are pummelling to their utmost ability the down-trodden and unrecognised gifts (!
:" He has, indeed, a fine power of depicting strange scenes and situations to the mental vision by means of a masterly sense of tone colour.
:" This iron hand ... I use for ironing, lifting hot pots from the stove and all horrid sort of hard work ; this leather hand I keep for beating rugs, dusting, sweeping, and so on ; this wooden hand I use for churning and digging in the garden ; these two red rubber hands for dishwashing and scrubbing, and my two fine white hands I keep for holding and braiding by hair.

:" and work
Writing in 1947, Cyril Garbett comments :" The House of Commons was within its constitutional rights in rejecting in a few hours the work of many anxious years.
The British Statute of Anne ( 1710 ) further alluded to individual rights of the artist, beginning: " Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing ... Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors ... to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families :" A right to benefit financially from the work is articulated, and court rulings and legislation have recognized a right to control the work, such as ensuring that the integrity of it is preserved.
:" Actually the work already done by Church and others carries this identification considerably beyond the working hypothesis stage.
:" And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
:" My only Brother has a very large family, three or four of them Boys, and as he has not the means of providing for them all, in the way I wish to see them provided for, I am desirous of having one of them here, to commence in the office, and work his way, by industry and application to business.
:" Do your work as though you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.
:" Put your hands to work, and your heart to God.
:" Since the invention of this machine, Mr. Meikle and others have progressively introduced a variety of improvements, all tending to simplify the labour, and to augment the quantity of the work performed.
" Another review in the same paper also commended the " simple beauty of the story itself " and also praised Beban's performance :" George Beban, who has the difficult role of Pietro Donnetti, gives a piece of character work that is truly marvelous.
:" Loops are short sections of tracks ( probably between one and four bars in length ), which you believe might work being repeated.
:" I am having lots of work preparing the Grynszpan trial.
:" In its original form, Gee's work is intricate and tactile, and while the imagery is sometimes almost overwhelming, the primary concerns are those of a painter ; dealing with form and space.
:" It is this switching cost that has given the customers the patience to stick with Windows through all our mistakes, our buggy drivers, our high TCO, our lack of a sexy vision at times, and many other difficulties [...] Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move.
:" Answering a fan question on how ADV perceives the threat and challenge presented by fansubbers, Matt answered that while fan subtitling is hurting the industry both in the US and in Japan, ' the industry has to learn and adapt to new technology, and has to find ways to work around it.
Writing in The Independent, art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon said :" Goldsmiths graduates are unembarrassed about promoting themselves and their work: some of the most striking exhibitions in London over the past few months —" The East Country Yard Show ", or " Gambler ", both staged in docklands — have been independently organized and funded by Goldsmiths graduates as showcases for their work.
:" In all cases in which work is produced by the agency of heat, a quantity of heat is consumed which is proportional to the work done ; and conversely, by the expenditure of an equal quantity of work an equal quantity of heat is produced.
:" A taonga-derived work is a work that derives its inspiration from mātauranga Māori or a taonga work, but does not relate to or invoke ancestral connections, nor contain or reflect traditional narratives or stories, in any direct way.
:" This Timberline Lodge marks a venture that was made possible by W. P. A., emergency relief work, in order that we may test the workability of recreational facilities installed by the Government itself and operated under its complete control.
:" The hour ends the day ; the author ends his work ".

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