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No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.
In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;
Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.
Faulkner has found it useful, but he has employed it with his habitual independence of mind and skeptical outlook.
In analyzing the watercolors of Roy Mason, the first thing that comes to mind is their essential decorativeness, yet this word has such a varied connotation that it needs some elaboration here.
Once she has made up her mind, the queen starts out by constructing, in her chosen abode, a small `` floor '' of dried grass or some woolly material.
-- has now been raised in the reader's mind and in the following form.
Many a sitter ( in a personal sitting ) has been amazed to realize that the medium was describing very vividly his state of mind.
So this proxy situation has set up at least a partial barrier between the medium's ESP and the absent sitter's mind.
You may say this has little pertinence, but, gentlemen, remember that all this prepared my mind, alerted my intelligence.
The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.
He said that the group has no candidates for the charter commission in mind at present, but that it will undoubtedly endorse candidates when the time comes.
And third, the potato chip industry has taken on the flavor of a `` growth '' industry in the public mind of late.
In a long commentary which he has inserted in the published text of the first act of the play, he says at one point: `` However, that experience never raised a doubt in his mind as to the reality of the underworld or the existence of Lucifer's many-faced lieutenants.
The specific instance I have in mind is the Afro-Asian version which has gained prominence only in this second half of the twentieth century.
But in the Chinese mind, there was little difference between the two -- the bonzes were no more metaphysical than a magician has to be.
If the mettle which Ellen exhibits has a bit of theatrical dross in it, never mind ; ;

mind and betrayed
According to the experts at TNA, documents now shown to be forgeries supported controversial arguments central to each of Allen's books: in Hidden Agenda, five documents now known to be forged helped justify his claim that the Duke of Windsor betrayed military secrets to Hitler ; in The Hitler / Hess Deception, thirteen forged papers supported Allen's contention that, in 1941, British intelligence used members of the Royal Family to fool the Nazis into thinking Britain was on the verge of a pro-German putsch ; in Himmler's Secret War, twenty-two counterfeit papers also underpinned the book's core claims that British intelligence played mind games with Himmler to encourage him to betray Hitler from 1943 onwards, and that ultimately they murdered the SS chief.
When ex-team-leader Threshold betrayed the Deviants, he altered Gem's mind and isolated Gem's main personality, preventing the real Gem Antonelli from ever speaking, leaving Gem's body to be occupied only by her other split personalities.
She has abandoned and betrayed the British Library upon learning of Joker's plot to use the second Nancy's son as a vessel to be overtaken by the mind of Mr. Gentleman, the founder of the British Library.
In the Matrix extract, it appeared that Yrcanos was manoeuvred into killing the Mentors after Kiv's mind had been transplanted into the body of the Doctor's companion Peri – the Doctor having apparently betrayed Peri to save himself after exposure to one of the machines in the lab temporarily altered his personality – effectively killing her.
She was rescued by the Viper, having discovered ( erroneously, as Viper revealed to Spider-Woman that it was actually an illusion put into the Viper's mind ) that Spider-Woman was her daughter and instead betrayed the demon, closing the door to his realm, freeing Jessica, and casting Chthon back into the void ( his dimension ).
Although his wife betrayed him with a white man, in his mind the deep sense of personal betrayal by her seems to blend with the widespread feeling in the surrounding society that the Confederacy had been " betrayed " by the black rebels who " stabbed it in the back " and caused its defeat.
Another incident which provides insight into Geoffroi's mind is the retribution exacted upon Lombardy-born Aimery of Pavia, the man who betrayed him in his attempted recapture of Calais on New Year's Eve, 1349.

mind and them
More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.
and bright though they all were, they could not possibly compete for her interest with Papa, whose mind -- although he never tried to dazzle or patronize lesser lights with it -- naturally eclipsed theirs and made them seem to her even younger than they were.
Katie cannot mind your seeing them now ; ;
I want to get my kit in tomorrow morning -- would you mind doing them while I cook the dinner ''??
This gives him the power to form in his mind new image combinations of old memories, ideas and experiences and to project them outside of himself into his environment in new and ever-changing forms.
She drew on all her resources of mind and heart to help them -- to make them at home in the world ; ;
It is not stirring them to confront the racial tensions of today with the mind of Christ.
He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.
While a hazy part of my mind concentrated on swimming down, a clear part sorted over recent events, among them my only positive act in a long time.
Lying awake at night, he could see them, laid out on the floor of his mind.
What Gabriel was being asked to do now, however, was to re-examine all his basic assumptions, make value-judgments on them, and give them new and different powers in his mind to govern his motives.
He dismisses Nora's agonized choice made against her conscience for the sake of his health and her years of secret efforts to free them from the ensuing obligations and danger of loss of reputation, while preserving his peace of mind, as a mere mistake that she made owing to her foolishness, one of her most endearing feminine traits.
" I wouldn't mind doing something with them as these two dirty old men sitting on the couch.
One might also call them bodies, or physical particulars, or concrete things, or matter, or maybe substances ( but bear in mind the word ' substance ' has some special philosophical meanings ).
The three main types of monism are physicalism ( which holds that the mind consists of matter organized in a particular way ), idealism ( which holds that only thought truly exists and matter is merely an illusion ), and neutral monism ( which holds that both mind and matter are aspects of a distinct essence that is itself identical to neither of them ).
" An author can discuss the mind and the voice, but an artist cannot show them.
** Mind Blast: Xavier is able to place massive amounts of information inside the mind of others to cause extreme mental pain on them.
However, he cannot permanently ' reprogram ' human minds to believe what he might want them to believe even if he wanted to do so, explaining that the mind is an organism that would always recall the steps necessary for it to reach the present and thus ' rewrite ' itself to its original setting if he tried to change it.
According to Hubbard, auditing enables the preclear to " contact " and " release " engrams stored in the reactive mind, relieving him of the physical and mental aberrations connected with them.
Ahamkara, the ego or the phenomenal self, appropriates all mental experiences to itself and thus, personalizes the objective activities of mind and intellect by assuming possession of them.
Books written by deprogrammers and exit counselors say that the most essential part of freeing the mind of a person is to convince them that they had been under control.

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