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The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.
If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.
That is particularly true of sovereignty when it is applied to democratic societies, in which `` popular '' sovereignty is said to exist, and in federal nations, in which the jobs of government are split.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
The resulting picture might appear a maze of restless confusions and contradictions, but it is more true to life than a portrait of an artificially contrived order.
`` What is more true than anything else??
To swim is true, and to sink is true.
One is not more true than the other.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
A broader concept of imitation is needed, one which acknowledges that true invention is important, that the artist's creativity in part transcends the non-artistic causal factors out of which it arises.
It is true that New England, more than any other section, was dedicated to education from the start.
`` The man's true reputation is his work ''.
Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.
Of few authors is this more true than of Heidenstam.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
Years ago this was true, but with the replacement of wires or runners by radio and radar ( and perhaps television ), these restrictions have disappeared and now again too much is heard.

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It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
this is not so, for education offers all kinds of dividends, including how to pull the wool over a husband's eyes while you are having an affair with his wife.
`` What is the scaffolding for, Brassnose ''??
He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
This is a paradise for hunters.
`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
There is nothing for you '', Matsuo said.
It is almost time for and calinda to begin ''.
I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
but for this discussion the most important division is between those who have been reconstructed and those who haven't.
Had the situation been reversed, had, for instance, England been the enemy in 1898 because of issues of concern chiefly to New England, there is little doubt that large numbers of Southerners would have happily put on their old Confederate uniforms to fight as allies of Britain.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Reduced to its simplest terms, it is an assumption of a collective duty to compensate for the inability of individuals to cope with the rigors of the era.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
There is little time for the men in the command centers to reflect about the implications of these clocks.
Only recently new `` holes '' were discovered in our safety measures, and a search is now on for more.

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Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.
Actually, only two men know what the formula is, Blake and '' -- He stopped and looked at Thor's body.
At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.
The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.
The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
The ambulance is drawn by two `` charming '' little horses.
moreover, it is increasingly difficult to distinguish between the two.
The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.
and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.
Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
It is reasonable to affirm two propositions: Jews have been perceived by non-Jews as all things to all men ; ;
but the possibility of this effort is bound up with that development of historical thought which is the greatest achievement of our civilization in the last two centuries, and it is utterly impossible to people in whom this development has not taken place.
Of the two, The Life Of Bright is incomparably the better biography.
`` But if there is no line, how can there be two countries??
This agreeable state of affairs is explicable, I think, on two counts.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

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