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He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.
yes, they had read about the case ; ;
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
Reverently and raised their eyes, as if they were at a loss to describe how they felt about Kafka, which they were, because they had no opinions about Kafka, not having read Kafka.
Although Pearson disbelieved almost everything Lizzie said, and read a sinister purpose into almost everything she did, he happily accepted her statement about Bridget as the whole truth.
`` I read those newspaper stories about you '', she had said.
He gave the impression of never having read a word about art, but there was no doubt that he had an eye for the best.
Those of us who read the papers may think we know a good deal about that election ; ;
He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.
With a special configuration tool, the CT-80 could reconfigure its floppy drivers to read and write the floppies of about 80 other CP / M systems.
* 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
I was innocent before I read them, but by the time I had read them all, there was nothing I did not know about sexual exploits … I had my degree in erotic lore.
Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.
Considering Dio must have read Tacitus, it is worth noting he mentions nothing about suicide ( which was also how Postumus and Nero ended their lives ).
While not illegal, on 15 March the Treasurer of the party, Jack Dromey stated publicly that he had neither knowledge of or involvement in these loans and had only become aware when he read about it in the newspapers.
Every cleric in Holy Orders and every member of a religious order must publicly join in or privately read aloud ( i. e. using the lips as well as the eyes — it takes about two hours in this way ) the whole of the Breviary services allotted for each day.
He had also read something about computers ( a relatively recent phenomenon ), and from his experience as a radar technician he knew that information could be analyzed and displayed on a screen.
By Part II, people know about him through " having read his adventures ", and so, he needs to do less to maintain his image.
This distinction had previously contributed to debate in the early Church about whether they should be read in the churches and thus be classified as canonical texts.
Often the best teaching comes in the form, " I'll tell you what I think, but read the Bible for yourself, and then study and pray about it.
When Douglass was about twelve years old, Hugh Auld's wife Sophia started teaching him the alphabet despite the fact that it was against the law to teach slaves to read.
During his book sales efforts, and nearly broke, Capra read a newspaper article about a new movie studio opening up in San Francisco.

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It would be profitable, I believe, to read these realistic humorists alongside Faulkner's works, the thought being not that he necessarily read them and owed anything to them directly, but rather that they dealt a hundred years ago with a class of people and a type of life which have continued down to our time, to Faulkner's time.
In the early days of Christian worship the Bible furnished all that was thought necessary, containing as it did the books from which the lessons were read and the psalms that were recited.
" As Douglass began to read newspapers, political materials, and books of every description, he was exposed to a new realm of thought that led him to question and condemn the institution of slavery.
It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.
In the camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundred, and I have often thought that as Mrs. White would read the same and knowing that I lived near, she would pray for my appearance and that she might be saved.
The hypomnemata constituted a material memory of things read, heard, or thought, thus offering these as an accumulated treasure for rereading and later meditation.
In fact, ontogeny evolves – the phylogenetic history of a species cannot be read directly from its ontogeny, as Haeckel thought would be possible, but characters from ontogeny can be ( and have been ) used as data for phylogenetic analyses ; the more closely related two species are, the more apomorphies their embryos share.
For in these was reflected that which a personality must feel concerning the evolution and essential being of humanity when this personality is kept back from grasping the spiritual world by the restricted thought in the philosophy of nature characterizing the end of the 19th century .... What attracted me particularly was that one could read Nietzsche without coming upon anything which strove to make the reader a ' dependent ' of Nietzsche's.
Turturro originally thought that he was going to have a bigger role in the film but when he read the script, he realized that it was much smaller.
Consequently, it is difficult to read him with objectivity, as his writings reflect the thought of his time, but as Dawkins observed, his was a strong and logical approach to evidence, whether human or natural.
By the time this letter was received by Lanfranc in Rome, it had been read by several other people ; and as Berengar was not well thought of there, Lanfranc feared his association with him might prejudice his own interests, and laid the matter before the pope, Leo IX, who excommunicated Berengar at a synod after Easter, 1050, and summoned him to appear personally at another to be held at Vercelli in September.
Philip Schaff argued that it was a mistake to " read between his lines what he never intended to put there " or to imagine " offences of which he was not guilty even in thought.
It has been argued within the novels by opponents of the Culture that the role of humans in the Culture is nothing more than that of pets, or parasites on Culture Minds, and that they can have nothing genuinely useful to contribute to a society where science is close to omniscient about the physical universe, where every ailment has been cured, and where every thought can be read.
The actor remembers that when he first read the screenplay, " I thought it was a great part.
Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be " a one-shot thing " but " Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in.
I thought, ' Who'd want to read a book about a poor little girl with menstrual problems?
When she read the script, Brennan thought it so powerful she wanted very much to be a part of the film and gladly accepted the role.
Quaid was asked to read for the part of Bobby, the rich kid from Wichita Falls, but Bogdanovich thought he would be better as Marlow ; it was Quaid's debut role.
As a thirteen-year-old, he read a Readers Digest article about the University of Chicago and told his parents he wanted to attend ; his parents thought it was unreasonable and did not encourage his hopes.
Hirst says: “ When I was asked to direct this film, I read the text and thought it was incredibly precise and strict.
… I have not thought it any disgrace to my self to take him into my parlor and teach him both to read and write.
The court decided that Russia's refusal to consider the Church of Scientology's application for registration as a religious community " had been a violation of Article 11 ( freedom of assembly and association ) of the European Convention on Human Rights read in the light of Article 9 ( freedom of thought, conscience and religion ).
Is there any limit you can think of that you would not put in a magazine because you thought a child should not see or read about it?
" Hjalmar Holand, principal promoter of the Kensington Runestone ( found not far to the south-east of Barrett in 1898 ) interpreted the year symbols as 1362, the same as the Kensington stone, but debunker Johan Holvik thought they should be read as 1776.

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