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That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.
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this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
And Zen Buddhism, though it is extremely difficult to understand how these internal contradictions are reconciled, helps them in their struggle to achieve personal salvation through sexual release.
It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.
After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
It must be granted that the flouting of convention, no matter how well intentioned one may be, is sure to lead to trouble, or at least to the discomfort that goes with social disapproval.
But I can see from this latest trick of memory how much more arbitrary and influential it is than the will.
Although it is constantly made to look foolish ( too simple to come in out of the rain, people say, who have found in the innocent an impediment ), it does not mind looking foolish because it is not concerned with how it looks.
When someone in the audience rose and asked how does it feel to be a celebrity, Carl said, `` A celebrity is a fellow who eats celery with celerity ''.
No matter how earnest is our quest for guaranteed peace, we must maintain a high degree of military effectiveness at the same time we are engaged in negotiating the issue of arms reduction.
There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.
This is in large part a code of behavior and a glossary of values: what is it that people do and should do and how one should regard it.
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The box is internally wired so the door can never be opened without setting off a screeching klaxon ( `` It's real obnoxious '' ).
In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.
Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.
In order to exonerate himself, he is compelled to find the real criminal, who happens to be his girl friend.
To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.
Harris J. Griston, in Shaking The Dust From Shakespeare ( 216 ), writes: `` There is not a word spoken by Shylock which one would expect from a real Jew ''.
The basic truth in the reactionary response is to be found in its realistic assumption of the primacy of the real over the ideational.
Yet he is right when he claims in his autobiography that he drew the real features of the man, his tender and selfless motives and his rugged fearless strength.
Our problem, therefore, is to devise processes more modest in their aspirations, adjusted to the real world of sovereign nation states and diverse and hostile communities.
The only real problem is to devise a plan whereby the owners of the above-water land can develop their property without the public losing its underwater land and the right to its development for public use and enjoyment.
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.
This is being done both by the revaluation of real property and by seeking out forms of personal property hitherto neglected or ignored.
Command's new Brahms Second is a major effort to make a record that sounds like a real orchestra rather than a copy of one.
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