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and we think them largely futile because, for true excellence of accomplishment, every scholar and every artist must cross boundaries of knowledge and boundaries of points of view.
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I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.
and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
About this man we had to think twice.
Mr. Lyford gives voice to a temper that represents, we think, an achieved plateau of reflective thinking.
One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.
The only rules which I think we shall follow will be those of common sense, justice, and fairness ''.
If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.
Uh huh, we think, looking at them, so that's the Parthenon.
While I fully agree with Sir Anthony's contention, I think that we must carry the analysis farther, bearing in mind that while common peril may be the measure of our need, the existence or absence of a positive sense of community must be the measure of our capacity.
The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.
While some think we move too fast and others too slowly, Florida's record is a good one and stands out among the 50.
But we don't think she creates them.
I think we have the hardest working, best representative in Congress.
We now have to think not only of our national security but also of the future generations who will suffer from any tests we might undertake.
To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.
`` Since the war I have seen the way the Germans have behaved and I think, Holy Mother, we have behaved like this for hundreds of years.
`` And do you really think that the world outside Poland will care any more than we do ''??
`` I think I've fixed the pump so we won't have to worry about it for a long time '', he said.
Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.
Later, we agreed to think of how we wished to spend that night.
In the same way I like to think we owe our loyalty as legislators to our community, our district, our State.
we and them
If we let them go, they won't stay away, they'll find men to ride with them and they'll be back.
There's only one way they can get out now and that's through the Gap -- if we ride hard we can take them ''.
`` Soon as we send them on their way and make camp, let's you and me go for a walk down by the Snake -- all by ourselves ''.
I had seen two of them and we would soon be in another city-wide, joyous celebration with romance in the air ; ;
I was aware that when our eyes met we both quickly averted them.
Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird faery herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
Squatting on our haunches beside the flat stone we broke them on, we were safe behind the high closed gates at the end of the drive: safe from interruption and the observation and possible amusement of the passers-by.
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.
To carry out this exalted conception the author has combined the vivid realism and imaginative power we have noticed in his early poetry and carried them out on a grand scale.
Ideas we must have, and we seek them everywhere.
We experience a vague uneasiness about events, a suspicion that our political and economic institutions, like the genie in the bottle, have escaped confinement and that we have lost the power to recall them.
We feel uncomfortable at being bossed by a corporation or a union or a television set, but until we have some knowledge about these phenomena and what they are doing to us, we can hardly learn to control them.
we will not act in any way which would jeopardize our solemn commitments to them.
It is a characteristic of thoughts that in re-thinking them we come, ipso facto, to understand why they were thought ''.
As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
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As we know, the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; ;
We want no part in such discussions, because we think them largely futile ; ;
Shaffer largely based his allegations on the recollections of Navy Captain Scott Phillpott, who later recanted his recollection, telling investigators that he was " convinced that Atta was not on the chart that we had ".
The writings of Lyotard were largely concerned with the role of narrative in human culture, and particularly how that role has changed as we have left modernity and entered a " postindustrial " or postmodern condition.
How one answers the first question largely depends on the answer to the second question: should we interpret the jar to function as a prison, or a pantry?
It appears likely that Sappho's poetry was largely lost through action of the same indiscriminate forces of cultural change that have left us such paltry remains of all nine canonical Greek lyric poets, of whom only Pindar ( whose works alone survive in a manuscript tradition ) and Bacchylides ( our knowledge of whom we owe to a single dramatic papyrus find ) have fared much better.
It went some way towards discouraging the practice of " clipping ", though this practice was further discouraged and largely eliminated with the introduction of the milled edge we see on coins today.
It has also been proposed that the poverty of the stimulus problem can be largely avoided, if we assume that children employ similarity-based generalization strategies in language learning, generalizing about the usage of new words from similar words that they already know how to use.
Schopenhauer concluded, in fact, that ethical treatment of others was the best attitude, for we are all fellow sufferers and all part of the same will-to-live ; he also discussed suicide with a sympathetic understanding which was rare in his own time, when it was largely a taboo subject.
But the language of calculus as we know it was largely absent from the Principia ; Newton gave many of his proofs in a geometric form of infinitesimal calculus, based on limits of ratios of vanishing small geometric quantities.
It is not known just why Newton changed his mind so radically about the final form of what had been a readable narrative in ' De motu corporum, Liber secundus ' of 1685, but he largely started afresh in a new, tighter, and less accessible mathematical style, eventually to produce Book 3 of the ' Principia ' as we know it.
This is largely because Marillion have – how can we put this kindly?
Primitive promiscuity ( or original promiscuity ), was the ( largely discredited ) 19th-century hypothesis that humans originally lived in a state of promiscuity or " hetaerism " prior to the advent of society as we understand it.
:" For the past hour, we have been listening to music taken largely from Grand Opera.
Apart from several elements of the ducal palace in Dijon ( Tour de Bar ), we find the château de Germolles, largely preserved.
Animal communication systems, Bickerton has argued, are largely composed of indexical ( and, occasionally, iconic ) signs, whereas in human language, " most words are symbolic, and … without symbolic words we couldn't have language.
A minor god in Greek mythology, which we read largely through Athenian writers, Aristaeus or Aristaios (), " ever close follower of the flocks ", was the culture hero credited with the discovery of many useful arts, including bee-keeping ; he was the son of Apollo and the huntress Cyrene.
The secret of these mysteries has largely been kept ; but we know that of three things about the ritual, the aspirants were asked the worst action they had ever committed.
However, since the account in the Gesta of the early part of his exile ( in Scotland, Cornwall and Ireland ) contains fantastic elements which suggest it is largely fictitious, it is hard to know if we can trust this.
It should be noted that it is unlikely that they played music recognizable as klezmer today since the style and structure of klezmer as we know it today is thought to have come largely from 19th century Bessarabia, where the bulk of today's traditional repertoire was written.
And, just to link it up, can we say that your suicide will be largely on account of past petting-parties?
In 1980, T. E. Utley, wrote that the welfare state was " an arrangement under which we all largely cease to be responsible for our own behaviour and in return become responsible for everyone else's.
The physiological blood-flow response largely decides the temporal sensitivity, that is how well we can measure when neurons are active, in BOLD fMRI.
" This statement largely correlates with those of the early Christian fathers who concluded that " because the Spirit is truly God, we are truly divinized by the presence of the Spirit.
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