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As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
Montero had set up a strong position, using every bale and box we had in addition to barricades of logs and brush.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
It was a disturbingly familiar face, too, but I couldn't remember where we had met.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I dismissed these feelings as wishful thinking but I could not get it out of my head that we had a strong physical attraction for one another and we both feared to dwell on it because of our relationship.
Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.
we had drifted closer.
Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.
His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.
When these had been pocketed, we could still spend a morning cracking open other pebbles for our delight in seeing how much prettier they were inside than their dull exteriors indicated.
I used his polarity to illustrate what I thought had happened to us in that form of liberalism we call Progressivism.
Then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of another fight, an irrational, an indecent, an undeclared and immoral war with our strongest ( and some had thought noblest ) ally.
Would we gain by keeping alive his memory and besmirching today's Roman Catholics by saying he had a Catholic heart??
When Peter B. Kyne ( Pride Of Palomar, 43 ) informed us in 1921 that we had an instinctive dislike for the Japanese, did the heated debates of the Californians settle the truth or falsity of the proposition??
And we had the uneasy sense that the cleavage between the moral and the political progressed amid the events which concern us.
Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.
About this man we had to think twice.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

we and wit
That is, if we can trust that most specious of prolusions, packed as it is with wit and persiflage.
The Ireland we usually hear about in the theater is a place of bitter political or domestic unrest, lightened occasionally with flashes of native wit and charm.
To wit, we form Ψ as follows:
Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past .</ br >< p > An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that " when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.
Accordingly a thing is wonderful simply, when its cause is hidden simply: and this is what we mean by a miracle: something, to wit, that is wonderful in itself and not only in respect of this person or that.
" I am sore troubled with my Lord of Angus since my last coming into Scotland, and every day more and more, so that we have not been together this half year … I am so minded that, an I may by law of God and to my honour, to part with him, for I wit well he loves me not, as he shows me daily.
" With such wit and wisdom, imagination and innovation, we are led to a fuller awareness and greater understanding of the true relevance of familiar terms to each of our own lives.
When m is a monomorphism, it must be its own image ; thus, not only are abelian categories normal, so that every monomorphism is a kernel, but we also know which morphism the monomorphism is a kernel of, to wit, its cokernel.
From Birbaum we also know that he was famous for his wit and was quite merciless to fops, whom he hated.
In an interview conducted in 2005, Williams ' former promoter, Pak-Man, who worked on over half of the album with the rapper, spoke on the record, with his explanation leaning toward the album being intended as satire: " At that time Canibus was in the studio recording a lot of songs and mean a lot, but he didn't want to make the fans wait no more so he did C True Hollywood Stories and he wanted to have fun wit, so thats what we did we had fun wit ".
Science fiction critic Thomas Wagner underscores the desire for meaning, or pattern recognition, using a comparison between the film clips and Cayce's search for her father after the attacks: he very randomness and ineffability of the clips flies in the face of our natural human tendency towards pattern recognition ... he subculture that surrounds " following the footage " ... an effective plot device for underscoring the novel's post-9 / 11 themes: to wit, the uncertainty of the fabric of day-to-day life people began to feel following that event … as people don't like uncertainty, don't like knowing that there's something we can't comprehend.
He had originally written that " a realm of intimate, personal power is developing "; regarding this as important in some respects ( to wit, the soon-emerging potentials of personal computing ), Brand felt that the overarching project of humankind had more to do with living within natural systems, and this is something we do in common, interactively.
We believe all people have a right to express their unique joy and beauty and we use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency and guilt that chain the human spirit.
Margaret was away when he arrived, but upon her return in the evening, Margaret Fell met him who ' opened us a book that we had never read in, nor indeed had never heard that it was our duty to read in it ( to wit ) the Light of Christ in our consciences, our minds never being turned towards it before.
Peter Manson, in the Poetry Review, claimed the poems, “ speak so precisely and with such a fierce, analytical wit that they transcend their status as poems and become part of the shared apparatus we use to think with.
With cliché-shattering personal essays, interviews, reporting and criticism, we explore the predominant concerns of young men and women with peerless honesty and wit.
:" But we confess, and witness openly with the Lord Jesus Christ, that it shall first happen that the stones shall arise, and offer their service, before there shall be any want of executors and accomplishers of God's counsel ; yea, the Lord God hath already sent before certain messengers, which should testify his will, to wit, some new stars, which do appear and are seen in the firmament in Serpentario and Cygno, which signify and give themselves known to everyone, that they are powerful Signacula of great weighty matters.
Highlander: The Series took us to places we otherwise could not have gone, and did so with intelligence, style, and wit.
The Spartans were especially famous for their dry wit, which we now know as " laconic humour ".

we and wisdom
here we find stored the wisdom of great minds.
Having led the world in this mad race I pray that we may have the wisdom and courage to lead it out of the race.
Is not the present world crisis a race between things we have created which can now destroy us and between populations of sufficient wisdom and character to forestall the tragedy.
How can we have the wisdom to meet such a new and difficult challenge??
In his great and glorious wisdom, he knew that our enemies the Israelites must not be able to read therein what we planned ''.
It is striking that the apostle writes in Col 1: 28 " Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
And perhaps in this is the whole difference ; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
It is this faith, born of racial experience and wisdom, which gives the oppressed the strength to outlive the oppressors and to endure until the day of ultimate triumph when we shall " be brought forth from bondage unto freedom, from sorrow unto joy, from mourning unto festivity, from darkness unto great light, and from servitude unto redemption.
:"... but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory ; ..." ( 1Co.
In Sacred Scripture, therefore, while the truth and holiness of God always remains intact, the marvelous " condescension " of eternal wisdom is clearly shown, " that we may learn the gentle kindness of God, which words cannot express, and how far He has gone in adapting His language with thoughtful concern for our weak human nature ".
* God is not ignorant ( one should not say that God is wise since that word arrogantly implies we know what " wisdom " means on a divine scale, whereas we only know what wisdom is believed to mean in a confined cultural context ).
Hence we are justified in assuming the stem syllable in kvas-ir has reference to the fluid ( saliva ) out of which he was created and that the name Kvas-ir denotes the person who possesses the characteristic qualities inherent in this fluid, viz., poetic inspiration and wisdom .”
: WHEN we stand before the bust of John Hunter, or as we enter the magnificent museum furnished by his labours, and pass slowly, with meditative observation through this august temple, which the genius of one great man has raised and dedicated to the wisdom and uniform working of the Creator, we perceive at every step the guidance, we had almost said, the inspiration, of those profound ideas concerning Life, which dawn upon us, indeed, through his written works, but which he has here presented to us in a more perfect language than that of words the language of God himself, as uttered by Nature.
Astrology has influences upon the Earth, but does not dictate our actions, and wisdom is gained when we know what these influences are and how to deal with them.

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