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" We were actually trying to build something complicated and discovered, serendipitously, that we had accidentally designed something that met all our goals but was much simpler than we had intended .... we realized that the lambda calculus — a small, simple formalism — could serve as the core of a powerful and expressive programming language.
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We were forbidden to swing on the gates, lest they sag on their hinges in a poor-white-trash way, but we could stand on them, when they were latched, rest our chins on the top, and stare and stare, committing to memory, quite unintentionally, all the details that lay before our eyes.
We can also argue that the three brothers Karamazov and Smerdyakov were the external representatives of an internal conflict within one man, Dostoevsky, a conflict having to do with father-murder and the wish to possess the father's woman.
`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.
We were given a job and we carried it out, and later, his case was taken up by the Disciplinary Committee.
`` We were requested by the Secretary General, as I understand it, to discuss with you such matters as appear to us to be relevant, and we are not of course either a formal group or a committee in the sense of being guided by any rules or regulations of the Secretariat.
We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.
We were almost the same age, she was fifteen, I was twelve, and where I felt there was a life to look forward to Lilly felt she had had as much of it as was necessary.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
We were less than a quarter of a mile from the road, and we could trace its shape from the ribbon of powder smoke and dust that hung over it.
`` We were on our vacation in Canada '', Howard explained, in a muffled voice that must have been used to booming, `` and the news didn't catch up with us till we were nearly home.
We would have the means to seek out and destroy the enemy's force -- whether it were fixed or mobile.
We were camping a few weeks ago on Cape Hatteras Campground in that land of pirates, seagulls and bluefish on North Carolina's famed Outer Banks.
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" Levy quotes Walter Tuchman: " hey asked us to stamp all our documents confidential ... We actually put a number on each one and locked them up in safes, because they were considered U. S. government classified.
" He then continued by focusing on the manner in which the poem was composed, ' We could have informed Mr. Coleridge of a reverend friend of ours, who actually wrote down two sermons on a passage in the Apocalypse, from the recollection of the spontaneous exercise of his faculties in sleep.
Other officers complained about the way in which Raeder sought to re-write history in the Official History in way that gloried Tirpitz with no regard to what actually happened with Admiral Assemann of the Historical Branch complaining to Raeder: " I am convinced that it makes no difference to you Herr Admiral, what we write ... We must only write in such a way that you have peace with the old admirals ".
In this number Astaire had to compromise on his one-take philosophy, as Sandrich acknowledged: " We went to huge lengths to make the ' Top Hat ' number look like one take, but actually it's several.
Glenn Danzig has described " I'm the One " as “ another blues song ... about a guy realizing his destiny .” " I'm the One " was originally recorded for Danzig's debut album, as John Christ explained: “ We actually recorded " I'm the One " for the first record, but we decided to save it for this record.
We now know this relates to the origin of the auroral electrons, which is actually inside the Earth's magnetosphere, the region of space controlled by the Earth's magnetism.
We later learn in what should have been the series finale ( titled " Circle ", which explains the time paradox ) that this portal is actually opened by Rick Marshall himself, while in Enik's cave, as a way for the current Marshalls to return to earth, resolving the paradox and allowing Enik to also return to his time.
" We took all our favorite buildings in New York from where they actually stood and sort of put them into one neighborhood ," Gassner continued, " a fantasy vision which adds to the atmosphere and flavor.
We say that this method is a posteriori because we typically miss the actual instant of collision, and only catch the collision after it has actually happened.
Collins: We went to another place actually, we went to California, to the California Folk festival in Berkeley, this was sometime in the summer.
We discover later from her phone call to an unknown person that she is actually an American with a fake French accent.
We can express quaternion multiplication in the modern language of vector cross and dot products ( which were actually inspired by the quaternions in the first place ).
Chris Cain from We Are Scientists said in an interview " We actually recorded a single Ash which is going to come out soon.
We actually hear how these songs resonate with one another, comment upon and affect one another ... in a way, the music speaks for itself ".
We couldn ’ t really believe they would support Boggs, but several Democratic organizations did come out for Wallace and Boggs, and he received just enough Wallace votes to give him the election .” Republican officials seemed convinced that fraudulent votes in some Orleans Parish precincts benefited Boggs and that Treen may have actually won the election.
Such constructions are not actually redundant ( unlike " She slept a sleep " or " We wept tears ") because the object's modifiers provide additional information.
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