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Bertrand Russell ( 1959 ) wrote, " Beyond doubt [...] he was one of the most original minds of the later nineteenth century, and certainly the greatest American thinker ever.
Mysticism, full of the ideas Albertus Magnus expostulated, became the devotion of the greatest minds and hands within the organization.
Together with the leaders of the independence movement, the exile community included the greatest Polish literary and artistic minds, including the Romantic poets Adam Mickiewicz, Juliusz Słowacki, Cyprian Norwid, and composer Frédéric Chopin.
Finding a method of determining exact longitude took centuries, resulting in the history of longitude recording the effort of some of the greatest scientific minds.
As proven by letters she exchanged with her son, her plan to host Germany's greatest minds in salon reunions had been made before she moved out of Hamburg.
By season 2000, Carey had firmly established himself in the minds of most as the greatest player of the modern era and greatest Centre Half Forward ever to play the game.
The book, published anonymously, was well received and credited to some of the greatest minds of the time.
After winning the award in 2003, John Adams expressed " ambivalence bordering on contempt " because " most of the country's greatest musical minds " have been ignored in favor of academic music.
Bacon's skeptical attitude towards the orthodox view of Shakespearean authorship earned her the enduring contempt of many, such as Richard Grant White, but also the professed admiration of many of the greatest literary minds of her generation.
Established by the Longitude Act 1714, the Board gathered the greatest scientific minds of the day to work on the problem, including Sir Isaac Newton, and put up prizes for those who could demonstrate a working device or method.
Wallingford flourished as a trading centre throughout most of the Middle Ages, and Wallingford Priory produced two of the greatest minds of the age, the mathematician Richard of Wallingford and the chronicler John of Wallingford.
The moral of the story is that words are mankind's greatest weapon, as shown in this quote: " There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men.
In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".
The future and the concept of eternity have been major subjects of philosophy, religion, and science and defining them non-controversially has consistently eluded the greatest of minds.
In fact, some of the greatest scientific minds of the time continued to investigate the possibility of vital properties.
The Italian Renaissance scholar Geralomo Cardano ( 1501 – 1575 ) considered him one of the twelve greatest minds of the Middle Ages.
The University of Freiburg has been home to some of the greatest minds of the Western tradition, including such eminent figures as Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Rudolf Carnap, David Daube, Johann Eck, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Friedrich Hayek, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Meinecke, and Max Weber.
His reputation in the minds of Irish nationalist historians is that he executed martial law in his province with the greatest severity, hanging large numbers of rebels, often without much proof of guilt.
The greatest minds from each of the races gathered at this location, where they discovered that the Crystal Planet was slowly eradicating all life.
Here we should " be for ever testing new opinions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy "; and of these, a passion for the arts, " a desire of beauty ", has ( in the summary of one of Pater's editors ) " the greatest potential for staving off the sense of transience, because in the arts the perceptions of highly sensitive minds are already ordered ; we are confronted with a reality already refined and we are able to reach the personality behind the work ".
In the present at Palazzo Senatorio, an international meeting of the world's greatest minds and the world leaders is carried out to discuss Doctor Octopus ' supposed offer to save the world.
The Doctor must recover his wits in time to avoid becoming a permanent part of the Rani's plan to collect the genius of the greatest scientific minds in the universe, of which she has captured many including Einstein, in order that she can create a time manipulator, which would allow the Rani to control time anywhere in the universe, at the expense of all life on Lakertya.

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Our central goal should be to provide the greatest positive incentive for these societies to tackle boldly the tasks which they face.
When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.
In particular, they refuted the assumption of Confucius as a godlike figure and considered him as the greatest sage, but simply a human and mortal
Although he improved on the arching of his father's instruments, by and large they are inferior and no match for the greatest maker of his day, Antonio Stradivari.
Then they suggested Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( one the greatest of the Umayyad caliphs ), but again no.
Hosea declares that unless they repent of these sins, God will allow their nation to be destroyed, and the people will be taken into captivity by Assyria, the greatest nation of the time.
Sociological historian Holger Herwig found in studying German explanations for the origins of World War I, " Those events that are most important are hardest to understand, because they attract the greatest attention from myth makers and charlatans.
In particular, they refuted the assumption of Confucius as a godlike figure and considered him as the greatest sage, but simply a human and mortal
Although this method of charting seems to have existed in China even prior to this publication and scientist, the greatest significance of the star maps by Su Song is that they represent the oldest existent star maps in printed form.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá advised all Bahá ' ís to shun anyone opposing the Covenant: "... one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
Knowing these attributes, Buddhists hold that they will attain the greatest peace and happiness through the practice of Dharma.
Official Nintendo Magazine listed him as the eighth greatest Nintendo moment, describing him as being smug and stating that they loathe him.
... the West needs to recapture and reemphasize and bring to bear upon its present problems the wisdom that lies in the works of its greatest thinkers and in the discussion that they have carried on.
If two numbers have no prime factors in common, their greatest common divisor is 1 ( obtained here as an instance of the empty product ), in other words they are coprime.
At their greatest height they reach an elevation of about, the highest point in southern Finland.
The British Film Institute has produced a poll ranking what they consider to be the 100 greatest British films of all time, the BFI Top 100 British films.
This would explain why tests like the Raven's have shown the greatest increases — they depend on such analysis.
The elements 2 and 1 + √(− 3 ) are two " maximal common divisors " ( i. e. any common divisor which is a multiple of 2 is associated to 2, the same holds for 1 + √(− 3 )), but they are not associated, so there is no greatest common divisor of a and b.
Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists — for example The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, or 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World magazine.
In case a denominator and numerator remain that are too large to ensure they are coprime by inspection, a greatest common divisor computation is needed anyway to ensure the fraction is actually irreducible.
As they began to live in groups and form clans they also began to experience family love, which Rousseau saw as the source of the greatest happiness known to humanity.
Hoover kept the intercepts — America's greatest counterintelligence secret — in a locked safe in his office, choosing not to inform President Truman, Attorney General J. Howard McGrath, or two Secretaries of State — Dean Acheson and General George Marshall — while they held office.

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