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man's and isolation
" Typical of these was spoken by The Honeymooners Ed Norton ( Art Carney ), who identified three times in a man's life when he wants to be alone, with the third being " when he's in the isolation booth of The $ 64, 000 Question.
Inspired by the work of John C. Lilly, Chayefsky spent two years in Boston doing research to write his science fiction novel Altered States ( HarperCollins, 1978 ) about a man's search for his primal self through psychotropic drugs and an isolation tank.
Cuevas has said that his drawing represents the solitude and isolation of contemporary man and man's inability to communicate.
Some philosophers, such as Sartre, believe in an epistemic loneliness in which loneliness is a fundamental part of the human condition because of the paradox between the desire of man's / person's consciousness to have meaning in life conflicting with the isolation and nothingness of the universe.
It is a philosophical reflection on the man's faith of meeting his own destiny and the need to survive in isolation and constant need.

man's and is
`` The man's true reputation is his work ''.
But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.
As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.
What is the common man's complaint??
So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.
Rather it is a division established by two absolutely different ways of thought with regard to man's life in society.
But The Holy Sinner is not simply a retelling of old stories for an old man's entertainment.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
How we travel through the forest is for each man's conscience.
there is no one point in a man's career at which he must select either the technical or the managerial path upward.
In the last analysis, religion is the means of inducing, formulating, expressing, enhancing, implementing, and perpetuating man's deepest experience -- the religious.
Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.
It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient, the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients, shows, as one of his characteristic symptoms, laughter -- laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated, which now makes one feel like weeping, or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man's despair ; ;
It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;
In fact all of our civilized world is the resultant of man's projection of his imagination over the past 60 centuries or more.
`` Purely from the business man's standpoint and without regard to the lawyer's view '', commented a trade journal, `` the matter of patents in the automobile and accessory trade is developing some phases and results that challenge thought as to how far patents are to become weapons of warfare in business, instead of simple beneficient protection devices for encouraging inventive creation ''.
On the contrary, even in the heart of `` the Bible belt '' itself, as can be attested by any one who is called to work there, the industrial and technological revolutions have long been under way, together with the corresponding changes in man's picture of himself and his world.
Non-arable land is sometimes called wasteland, badlands, worthless or no man's land.
* Arminianism is Pelagian ( or Semi-Pelagian ), denying original sin and total depravity – No system of Arminianism founded on Arminius or Wesley denies original sin or total depravity ; both Arminius and Wesley strongly affirmed that man's basic condition is one in which he cannot be righteous, understand God, or seek God.
Thus Myspace and YouTube were not liable for a dyslexic man's inability to navigate the site regardless of how impressive the " online theater " is.
There is no other life ; man's fulfilment is in this life alone.

man's and merely
We are already committed to establishing man's supremacy over nature and everywhere on earth, not merely in the limited social-political-economical context we are fond of today.
" Lovejoy concludes that Rousseau's doctrine, as expressed in his Discourse on Inequality: declares that there is a dual process going on through history ; on the one hand, an indefinte progress in all those powers and achievements which express merely the potency of man's intellect ; on the other hand, an increasing estrangement of men from one another, an intensification of ill-will and mutual fear, cuminating in a monstrous epoch of universal conflict and mutual destruction fourth stage in which we now find ourselves.
In his 1791 book On the Limits of State Action, classical liberal thinker Wilhelm von Humboldt explained how " whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very nature ; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness " and so when the laborer works under external control, " we may admire what he does, but we despise what he is.
' The French ambassador Marillac merely stated that Jane gave a ' long discourse '; Johnson says that she apologised for her ' many sins ', but neither man's accounts supports the later legend that she spoke at length about her late husband or sister-in-law.
" Dogs like that, which share man's hard times and strenuous work, cannot be looked upon merely as animals.
" Capitalism requires such a dread of loss ," he once wrote, " such a forgetfulness of human brotherhood, such a certainty that a man's neighbour is merely a customer to be gained or a rival to be overthrown, and all these are inconceivable in the Catholic conception ...
Refusing to surrender, the Prince merely replied with a slash to the man's face causing a severe wound, but was run through and killed by the counter blow of the Quartermaster, dying immediately.
Not only was the concept that the judicial system was entitled to ' every man's evidence ' itself deeply rooted in the Constitution, but merely determining the scope of the privilege ( when would it apply?
However the school rarely followed this idea through systematically, and, as Friedrich Hayek has written, " never to the point of realizing that what was relevant was not merely man's relation to a particular thing or a class of things but the position of the thing in the whole ... scheme by which men decide how to allocate the resources at their disposal among their different endeavors.
Great art is a multi-faceted phenomenon, which is not content to be merely propaganda or entertainment ; but by appealing to man's higher intellectual and emotional faculties, it is designed to communicate truth.
This time, it sought instead to educate the public that one could not judge a man's sexual orientation merely from his external appearance and to foster understanding and acceptance of homosexuals.
Rather Jesus realized that the young man saw him as an excellent teacher but not as the promised Messiah the " Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace " of Therefore instead of seeking to convince the young man that he was the Messiah, Jesus merely corrected the young man's notion of " goodness " as it pertained to achieving eternal life by stating " If thou wilt be perfect ... come follow me ".
Indeed, this day is not merely a traditional ritual, but a first step on their path to liberation or salvation, the final goal of every man's life, according to the teachings of Jainism.

man's and .
This time it connected solidly on the man's temple, felling him.
Barton caught the lighter man's shoulder and swung him around.
As he passed through it Barton shoved his gun against the man's side.
He knew nothing about the man's history.
Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
Curt managed to duck beneath the man's flailing fist, and drove home a solid left to Jess's mid-section.
He stepped inside Jess's guard and landed two blows to the big man's belly, putting everything he had behind them.
He backed Jess into a corner, grabbed a handful of the man's shirtfront, and drew back his right fist.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
There was nothing in particular on the man's face.
Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.
The sneaker reached out once more to tap against the mass and Ramey's vision darkened except for an unreasonable clarity of the man's leg.
he laid all four knuckles in between the man's cheekbone and his chin.
Ramey's fist and the air expelled from the man's collapsing cheek made a hollow pop in the air like cupped hands clapping together.
A woman's voice said, and then he heard a sort of wail from the man's wife.
Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.
In one: a package of cigarettes and a tinplated lighter, both sticky from the man's bleeding.
With a firm grip on the man's hair Matsuo applied the blade flat on a cheek.
From the convulsive quivers of the man's shoulders it was plain he had resumed the weeping.
Among the policy makers, generals, physicists, psychologists and others charged with controlling the actions of the button pushers and their `` hardware '', the answers to my questions varied partly according to a man's flair for what the professionals in this field call `` scenarios ''.
A fly would crawl down the bulging forehead, into the socket of the eye, walk along the man's lashes and across the wet surface of the eyeball, and the eye did not blink.

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