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Of Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe the philosopher Whitehead said the Earth's first visitors to Mars should be persons likely to make a good impression, and when he was asked, `` Whom would you send ''??
When you stand before the barrel-vaulted colonnade you have the impression that the statue at the end is at a considerable distance, yet it is actually only a few feet away.
Your first impression of this elongated square with its three elegant fountains, its two churches that almost face each other, and its russet-colored buildings, is a sense of restful spaciousness -- particularly welcome after wandering around the narrow and dark streets that you have followed since starting this walk.
Practise then from the start to say to every harsh impression, " You are an impression, and not at all the thing you appear to be.
" Then examine it and test it by these rules you have, and firstly, and chiefly, by this: whether the impression has to do with the things that are up to us, or those that are not ; and if it has to do with the things that are not up to us, be ready to reply, " It is nothing to me.
George liked this lady very much, and her words, " You must learn all you can, then go back out into the world and give your learning back to the people ", made a great impression on him.
At the forum, Falwell told homosexuals in attendance " I don't agree with your lifestyle, I will never agree with your lifestyle, but I love you " and added " anything that leaves the impression that we hate the sinner, we want to change that " He later commented to New York Times columnist Frank Rich that “ admittedly, evangelicals have not exhibited an ability to build a bond of friendship to the gay and lesbian community.
Although Jardine may simply have worn the cap out of superstition, it conveyed a negative impression to the spectators ; his general demeanour drew one comment of " Where's the butler to carry the bat for you?
I yearn over you, but I yearn in vain ; & your long silence really breaks my heart, mystifies, depresses, almost alarms me, to the point even of making me wonder if poor unconscious & doting old Célimare pet name for James has " done " anything, in some dark somnambulism of the spirit, which has ... given you a bad moment, or a wrong impression, or a " colourable pretext " ...
He was asked to put it in writing, which he did, in English, while making the joke: ' If your guns are not better pointed than your pens, then you will make little impression on Copenhagen '.
The Alte Kemenate is not open to the public, but you get a good impression from the school yard or from the small side street Schenkenstraße.
Although this single became her first # 1 on the US charts ( immediately followed by her second # 1, " My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own "), and its B-side " Jealous of you ( Tango della Gelosia )" became a huge hit in Italy, it failed to make any impression on the German charts.
Lyons plays some ornate riffs on the violin ; Chico comments, " Look-a, Mister Lyons, I know you wanna make a good impression, but please don't-a play better than me!
You will experience the cultural heritage dated all the way back from the 1700th century and you will get an impression of how people lived and worked here in the past.
But he was kinda wide across the shoulders-and most of all he just gave you the impression he was a big man, in every way.
As boombox enthusiast Lyle Owerko puts it, “ Towards the end of any culture, you have the second or third generation that steps into the culture, which is so far from the origination, it's the impression of what's real, but it's not the full definition of what's real.
They uh, you, give quick little shoves, and give the false impression that you're trembling.
When you take a young, impressionable child and put him at age three in the middle of a synagogue, and that child sees a man in a costume, dramatically raised up on a kind of stage, singing his heart out at the top of his lungs to a rapt congregation, it makes a lasting impression.
The real estate agent finds out he has failed to meet a deadline and his son is put on the phone and you get the impression that something bad is going to happen to him.
Asked in an interview with Mark Hertsgaard why he had recalled Bonner from El Salvador in the first place, A. M. Rosenthal, then-Executive Editor of the New York Times, explained: " The general impression among me and some others was that Bonner was first-rate, but we were really screwing this guy, because he wasn't getting what you really need to be a reporter.
Tim Russert, a Newseum trustee, said, " The Newseum made a pretty good impression in Arlington, but at your new location on Pennsylvania Avenue, you will make an indelible mark.

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She looked well-fed and prosperous, but he didn't get the impression he was being propositioned the way he'd been hoping.
" The overall impression we get from this solo, as in all of Bix at his best ," writes the trumpeter Randy Sandke, " is that every note is spontaneous yet inevitable.
An example of the need to police his or her behavior would be when people go to a job interview in the white collar work force and dress properly in order to give a great first impression so that they get the job.
Accordingly, while most depositions are not videotaped, opposing counsel may use the opportunity to get an impression of the witness's affect and appearance, because these are telling factors as to how that person will present in front of a jury.
Homer's voice began as a loose impression of Walter Matthau, but Castellaneta could not " get enough power behind that voice " and could not sustain his Matthau impression for the nine to ten hour long recording sessions.
" we get a strong impression of the author's opinions on Rivers's sexuality.
To add to the stress, he is about to get married to the dour Alice Swallow ( Virginia Walker ) and must make a favorable impression upon Mrs. Random ( May Robson ), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum.
" Bakshi responded, " You could pick a still out of Lady and the Tramp and get the same impression.
Many of the old buildings remain, albeit hidden behind the facades of modern shops or neglected, and it is still possible to get a good impression of Kentish Town's heritage in present-day NW5.
VPN remote users get the impression of being directly connected to the central network via a point-to-point link.
“ n the London production, variations were introduced: a weakening of light and voices in the first repeat, and more so in the second ; an abridged second opening ; increasing breathlessness ; changes in the order of the opening words .” The purpose of this is to suggest a gradual winding down of the action for he writes of “ the impression of falling off which this would give, with the suggestion of a conceivable dark and silence in the end, or of an indefinite approximating towards it .” At the end of this second repeat, the play appears as if it is about to start again for a third time ( as in Act Without Words II ), but does not get more than a few seconds into it before it suddenly stops.
Chances of theft can also be reduced with various deterrents, which give the impression to the thief that s / he is more likely to get caught if the vehicle is stolen.
An extract from a letter of Gil Wolman to Jean-Louis Brau, of 20 July 1953, gives a clear impression of what the group and their associates tended to get up to from day to day:
The study shows that subjects in the group “ known for one to three years ” are the most accurate, followed by those “ known for less than one year ,” followed by those “ known for three to five years ” and the least accurate being those “ known for more than five years .” The study concludes that the most accurate ratings come from those who have known the individual being reviewed long enough to get past the first impression, but not so long that they begin to generalize favorably.
You may get a misleading impression if you base your decision on what the advertisement or the brochures say, or what you are told on the phone.
Jack interrogates Graem for information, but before he can get a lead Phillip Bauer sees his son as too much of a risk to reveal his involvement and kills Graem himself ( giving the impression Graem had a heart attack from the drugs ).
" I didn't want it to be like ' Oh, you get your own impression of the lyrics.
Publisher Sarhan responded: " My impression of Mort was that he was stuck in a time warp, wanted to relive his personal ' glory days ' when he edited CRACKED and didn ’ t get what we were trying to do .... A Contributing Editor is a freelancer with whom we have a relationship with.
The subjective impression the fishermen get is always that there's lots of fish-because they only go to places that still have them ... fisheries scientists survey and compare entire areas, not only the productive fishing spots.
As this flashback ends and the girls get back to Devi's apartment Tenna is still not convinced there are evil powers interfering with Devi's social life, but Devi is still under this impression.

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