:" A corporate body can only act by agents, and it is, of course, the duty of those agents so to act as best to promote the interests of the corporation whose affairs they are conducting.

:" Some of you may ask, what is the good of working so hard merely to collect a few facts which will bring no pleasure except to a few long-haired professors who love to collect such things and will be of no use to anybody because only few specialists at best will be able to understand them?

:" Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

:" No ," said his military friend, " my colonel does not live here — but my comrade does, and he's worth two of the colonel, so by God, doctor, if you don't do your best for him, it will be the worst for you!

:" I have been requested by one of my oldest and best friends in the Company's service to introduce to your and kind offices John Campbell of the Ship Scotia which vessel he has commanded since she was launched, but owing to change of owners and other he is now out of employ with a numerous family and very slender means to provide for them.

:" Freyr is best

:" love of Dionysos, rode upon the back of a wild bull: He shouted boldly to the fullfaced Moon ( Mene )--‘ Give me best, Selene, horned driver of cattle!

:" but when loathsome old age pressed full upon him, and he could not move nor lift his limbs, this seemed to her in her heart the best counsel: she laid him in a room and put to the shining doors.

:" The signer hereby swears to the best of his knowledge and belief that no Jewish or coloured blood flows in either his or in his wife's veins, and that among their ancestors are no members of the coloured races.

:" I have impressed this aggressive view upon Sir B. Frere, both officially and privately, to the best of my power.

Chiaroscuro modelling is now taken for granted, but had some opponents ; the English portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard cautioned in his treatise on painting against all but the minimal use we see in his works, reflecting the views of his patron Queen Elizabeth I of England :" seeing that best to show oneself needeth no shadow of place but rather the open light ... Her Majesty .. chose her place to sit for that purpose in the open alley of a goodly garden, where no tree was near, nor any shadow at all ..."

:" the best of Arthour's Knights,

:" This Seven-a-Side international tournament is without a doubt the most spectacular, exotic, best organized Rugby competition of its kind in the world, and it has consistently produced the highest standard of Sevens Rugby seen anywhere.

:" though he was best known in the medical world for his theory and practice of hypnotism, he had also obtained wonderfully successful results by operation in cases of club foot and other deformities, which brought him patients from every part of the kingdom.

:" The proposals which were put to us do not represent what in our view would have been the best solution for the Rhodesian problem.

In Premiere, Glenn Kenny gave the film four stars and ranked it as one of the ten best films of 2005 :" Insanely evocative ' 60s-style landscapes and settings share screen space with claustrophobic futuristic CGI metropolises ; everyone smokes and drinks too much ; musical themes repeat as characters get stuck in their own self-defeating modes of eternal return.

:" Unbiased " probably best describes the Arceans, as they are considered to be a neutral civilization.

:" I had determined to become a farmer, so I stocked my farm with the best breeds of cattle, most of them being full-blooded and short horns.

:" When I asked him why he had done this, the officer answered that this was ' his revenge for the murder of his best friends in the Haifa Oil Refinery massacre.

:" until all the powder of The Revenge, to the last barrell, was now spent, all her pikes broken, fortie of her best men slain, and the most part of the rest hurt ".

:" A root cause is a portion of a system ’ s structure that ' best ' helps to explain why the system ’ s behavior produces a problem ’ s symptoms.

:" The unfortunately titled The Nigger of the " Narcissus " ( titled The Children of the Sea in the first American edition ) is Conrad's best work of his early period.

:" We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands ... when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

:" The importance of this was enormous ... to the modern ethologist dealing with higher animals and faced as he is with ever-increasing evidence for the complexity of perceptual organization ... the very reverse of Morgan's canon often proves to be the best strategy ".

They also reflect our view that a multi-purpose CATV operation combining carriage of broadcast signals with program origination and common carrier services, might best exploit cable channel capacity to the advantage of the public and promote the basic purpose for which this Commission was created :"

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 ....

:" To promote research and other scientific work in connection with the factors which influence development and retrogression in man and their operation in individuals and communities ; to investigate the origin and elaboration of scientific hypotheses and secular and religious philosophies and their bearing on general theories of Man and his place in the universe ; and to study comparative methodology in history, philosophy and natural science ".

:" the severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes.

:" One suspects they yearn for the day when they can return to their normal publishing routine – that gentlemanly pastiche of philosophy, art, classical music, photography, German and Russian history, East European politics, literary fiction – unencumbered by political duties of a confrontational or oppositional nature.

:" If there is anything in my philosophy that I should hope might last, it is the quite unoriginal but none the less important thesis that the rational life is at once the worthiest of lives and the most valuable.

In his Atheism: a Philosophical Justification, Martin cites a general absence of an atheistic response to contemporary work in philosophy of religion, and accepts the responsibility of a rigorous defense of nonbelief as his " cross to bear :"

:" While Plato sprinkled the seeds of all wisdom throughout all his dialogues, yet he collected the precepts of moral philosophy in the books on the Republic, the whole of science in the Timaeus, and he comprehended the whole of theology in the Parmenides.

:" In about the year 1865, after many years of searching and many visits to the lonely high places where he could fast and meditate, Ramacharaka found a basis for his philosophy.

:" The substance of this book, as it is expressed in the editor's preface, is that to measure " right " by the false philosophy of the Hebrew prophets and " weepful " Messiahs is madness.

:" The only startling fact, and the one that could not have been predicted by the most discerning sociologist or psychologist, is that in his mid-forties he was destined to turn also to mysticism, and that since his conversion he was to be one of a small group in California busily writing books to win as many people as possible over to the " perennial philosophy " as a way of life.

:" The ability to reach a rich vein of such material the unconscious and to translate it effectively into philosophy, literature, music or scientific discovery is one of the hallmarks of what is commonly called genius.

" Irritate, irritate, irritate :" Mr. Evans underscores his advertising philosophy with rhythmic pounding of his fist on the tabletop

:" The whole Walt Disney philosophy eats out of your hand with these pretty little sentimental creatures in grey fur coats.

:" 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.

:" Laws are spider-webs, which catch the little flies, but cannot hold the big ones.

:" 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?

Instead, the philosopher encounters a problem :" Now, if the ' to be ' of a thing could be conceived apart from that which exists, it should be represented in our mind by some note distinct from the concept of the thing itself ....

:" He dwells in the place called Breidablik, which is in heaven ; in that place may nothing unclean be, even as is said here:

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

:" Ansgar accomplished the journey on which he had set out, and after spending nearly twenty days in a ship, he arrived at Birka --" ( Chapter XXVI )

:" When the day for the assembly which was held in the town of Birka drew near, in accordance with their national custom the king caused a proclamation to be made to the people by the voice of a herald, in order that they might be informed concerning the object of their mission.

:" Birka is the main Geatish town ( oppidum Gothorum ), situated in the middle of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), not far ( non longe ) from the temple called Uppsala ( Ubsola ) which the Swedes ( Sueones ) held in the highest esteem when it comes to the worship of the gods ; here forms an inlet of the Baltic or the Barbaric Sea a port facing north which welcomes all the wild peoples all around this sea but which is risky for those who are careless or ignorant of such places ... they have therefore blocked this inlet of the troubled sea with hidden masses of rocks along more than 100 stadions ( 18 km ).

:" Furthermore we have been told that there are many more islands in that sea, one of which is called the Great Estland ( Aestland ) -- And this island is told to be quite close to the Woman Land ( terrae feminarum ), which is not far ( non longe ) away from Birka of the Swedes.

:" In pity of their errors, our archbishop ordained as their diocesan capital Birka, which is in the middle of Sweden ( Sueoniae ) facing Jumne ( Iumnem ), the capital of the Slavs, and equally distant from all the coasts of the surrounding sea.

:" During his journey he seized the opportunity to make a detour to Birka, which is now reduced to loneliness so that one can hardly find vestiges of the city ; therefore impossible to come upon the tomb of the holy Archbishop Unni.

:" And there were three capitals in Sweden two of which were not long away from Uppsala ( vpsala ).

:" The theory of Dr. Sankey as to the manner in which these injuries to the chest occurred in asylums deserved our careful attention.

:" According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x ( which at that time represented a " sh " and " ch " sound ), spelled it Mexicas.

:" A computable number one for which there is a Turing machine which, given n on its initial tape, terminates with the nth digit of that number on its tape.