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All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
Developers of computer games and 3D video cards strive to achieve the same visual quality on personal computers in real-time as is possible for CGI films and animation.
The choice of these is personal — because they project sound, they determine the tonal quality of the harmonica.
Doom featured a sci-fi / horror setting with graphic quality that had never been seen on personal computers or even video game consoles.
After the first album, the band felt that demos for the second album ( on which Corner provided the guide vocals ) better suited his voice, especially in regard to the more raw, personal quality of the lyrics.
In both voting rounds, Academy members are required to vote based upon quality alone, and not to be influenced by sales, chart performance, personal friendships, regional preferences or company loyalty.
An adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella of the same name, Hemingway's agent, Leland Hayward, had previously written to the author: " Of all Hollywood people, the one that comes the closest to me in quality, in personality and voice, in personal dignity and ability, is Spencer Tracy.
Researchers have begun in recent times to distinguish two aspects of personal well-being: Emotional well-being, in which respondents are asked about the quality of their everyday emotional experiences — the frequency and intensity of their experiences of, for example, joy, stress, sadness, anger, and affection — and life evaluation, in which respondents are asked to think about their life in general and evaluate it against a scale.
A systematic review of 137 studies found that personal expectations, the amount of support from caregivers, quality of the caregiver-patient relationship, and involvement in decisionmaking are more important in women's overall satisfaction with the experience of childbirth than are other factors such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, preparation, physical environment, pain, immobility, or medical interventions.
* overall university atmosphere, sense of personal safety / security, tolerance for diverse opinions / ideas, availability of quiet study space, overall library, library services, online library resources, availability of journals / articles / periodicals, total number of library holdings, computer accessibility on campus, availability of up-to-date computer equipment, on-campus network for Internet / email, overall quality / availability of technology on campus, access to course / teaching materials online
The presentation speech praised the quality of sacrificing personal safety in scientific experimentation, a compliment that compared Dalén with Nobel himself.
The personal quality — It — provides the magic to make it happen.
In fact, the 8500 incorporated near-broadcast quality ( 640x480 ) A / V input and output and was the first personal computer to do so ; unfortunately, no hard drive manufactured in 1997 could sustain the 18 MB / sec data rate required to capture video at that resolution.
The Toaster was also the first such video device designed around a general purpose personal computer that was capable of delivering NTSC broadcast quality signals.
We strive to satisfy our Sailors ’ personal goals and improve their quality of life ; we will provide them with meaningful and rewarding career opportunities, promote and retain the best, and ensure fair and equitable treatment of all hands, by all hands, at all times.
This method of choosing a successor is also no guarantee of a quality replacement, as the Weyrwoman herself may choose her successor based on cronyism, personal bias against an otherwise capable goldrider or on poorly thought-out criteria.
The Mount Allison Students ' Union aims to foster a community where the quality of student life ( educational, social and personal ) is constantly improving.
However, other reasons relating to player safety are generally cited and have some merit, as poor quality or poorly stored paint can cause gun failures or personal injury to targeted players.
For example, whilst luxurious private gardens and personal art collections can be high-status goods, when similar goods and services are provided to the public, either as free or low-cost public parks and art galleries, they lose their ' positional ' quality.
Even as late as 1400, the word gentleman still only had the sense of generosus and could not be used as a personal description denoting rank or quality, or as the title of a class.
* Legatum Prosperity Index, an annual ranking developed by the Legatum Institute of 110 countries, according to a variety of factors including wealth, economic growth, personal wellbeing, and quality of life.
Adherents may choose simple living for a variety of personal reasons, such as spirituality, health, increase in " quality time " for family and friends, work – life balance, personal taste, frugality, or reducing personal ecological footprint and stress.

personal and Samuel
Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.
He arrived in Churchill ( now in Manitoba ) and was put to work copying the personal papers of the governor of Fort Churchill, Samuel Hearne.
According to Samuel Angus ( 1925 ) the gnostic sectarians also sought to reconcile the individual to their own personal deification ( henosis ), making each individual God.
The passage referring to Saul as a choice young man, and goodly ( 1 Samuel 9: 2 ) is in this view interpreted as meaning that Saul was not good in every respect, but goodly only with respect to his personal appearance ( Num.
Gould proposed that much of the research was based more upon the racial and social prejudices of the researchers than upon their scientific objectivity ; that on occasion, researchers such as Samuel George Morton ( 1799 – 1851 ), Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), and Paul Broca ( 1824 – 1880 ), committed the methodological fallacy of including their personal ( a priori ) expectations to the conclusions, as part of their analytical reasoning.
According to the historian Samuel H. Adams, Harding's death was mourned by the nation and the average citizen felt a " personal loss ".
This removes a number of ambiguities which have puzzled commentators: it removes 1 Samuel 17: 55 – 58 in which Saul seems not to know David, despite having taken him as his shield-bearer and harpist ; it removes 1 Samuel 17: 50, the presence of which makes it seem as if David kills Goliath twice, once with his sling and then again with a sword ; and it gives David a clear reason, as Saul ’ s personal shield-bearer, for accepting Goliath ’ s challenge.
According to Samuel Decalo, a scholar on African government, Bokassa's personal ambitions played the most important role in his decision to launch a coup against Dacko.
In Snyder v. Phelps ( 2011 ), dissenting Justice Samuel Alito likened the protests of the Westboro Baptist Church members to fighting words and of a personal character, and thus not protected speech.
For some, George Combe's " Constitution, in the way that it advocated personal responsibility and the possibility of naturally sanctioned self-improvement through education or proper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement ;" but it was Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904 ) who published the first self-consciously personal-development " self-help " book — entitled Self-Help — in 1859.
Hugh Lawson White worked as Blount's personal secretary, and was tutored by early Knoxville minister and educator, Samuel Carrick.
Knopf's personal interest in the fields of history, sociology, and science led to close friendships in the academic community with such noted historians as Richard Hofstadter, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Samuel Eliot Morison.
was made under Ziegfeld's personal supervision, with Ziegfeld as a producer with Samuel Goldwyn.
Samuel Johnston's personal collection of books, which he bequeathed to his son James, is preserved in a full-scale replication of Hayes Plantation's library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Pepys Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge, is the personal library collected by Samuel Pepys which he bequeathed to the college following his death in 1703.
Many of her other personal effects can be seen at the Maryhill Museum, formerly the home of Samuel Hill, an American railroad businessman with whom Queen Marie corresponded much of her life.
In 1911, he added a second column, a parody of Samuel Pepy's Diary, with notes drawn from FPA's personal experiences.
* Samuel L. Southard Papers ( 1783-1893 ),( bulk 1802-1846 ), Finding Aid C0250, consisting of 170 boxes and 73. 6 lineal feet of original documents of financial and personal affairs, including correspondence from Charles Muir Campbell of Princeton, NJ.
Samuel Johnson was a personal friend of Hoole, who wrote an account of Johnson's final days in the European Magazine of 1799.
Hence there are quite a number of monographs on names, both personal and geographical, the first of which was that written by Simḥah Cohen ; the best known is that of Samuel ben Phoebus and Ephraim Zalman Margulies entitled Ṭib Giṭṭin.
* Samuel Bernstein, Mr. Confidential, personal website
* Samuel Lewis Honey ( service / personal details, photograph, citation, relevant documents, burial information )
* Austin Clarke, Passage Back Home: a personal reminiscence of Samuel Selvon, Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994.

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