::" There were paradoxical if not opposed trends towards revolutionary and reactionary positions, fear of the new and delight at the disappearance of the old, nihilism and fanatical enthusiasm, creativity and despair.

::" There are many who have achieved in the world of politics, business or academia who can trace their success to the years they spent at LSE.

::" There are men in the village of Erith that nobody seeth or heareth,

::" There was a ship ," quoth he.

::" There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth.

::" There was theatre ( Griffith ), poetry ( Murnau ), painting ( Rossellini ), dance ( Eisenstein ), music ( Renoir ).

::" There is a darkness greater than the one we fight.

::" There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,

::" There, I at once had the feeling that this was the right way to do everything.

::" When it is asked, What is the nature of all our reasonings concerning matter of fact?

::" The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of skepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

::" For here is the chief and most confounding objection to excessive skepticism, that no durable good can ever result from it ; while it remains in its full force and vigor.

::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( the man she wants to marry is Swedish — a specific person )

::" The land of Dilmun is a pure place, the land of Dilmun is a clean place,

::" The only thing standing in the way of future Taliban massacres is Ahmad Shah Massoud.

::" Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.

::" This last is the distinguishing characteristic of classes, and justifies us in treating ẑ ( ψz ) as the class determined by function ψẑ.

::" Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York " ( Son / sun )

::" Wherever there is number, there is beauty.

::" In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view ; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind.

::" Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals, for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures ; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs … A being of higher faculties requires more to make him happy, is capable probably of more acute suffering, and is certainly accessible to it at more points, than one of an inferior type ; but in spite of these liabilities, he can never really wish to sink into what he feels to be a lower grade of existence … It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

::" An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of a concept into measurement of some kind.

::" Once again the political clout of the school, which seems to be closely wired into parliament, Whitehall and the Bank of England, is being felt by ministers ...

::" I need very much to feel the warmth of my people around me, there is work to be done and I will get the strength from my people to finish the business.

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

::" Our house is on the eastern slope of Rupert Mountain, just off a country road, still unpaved then, and five miles from the nearest town … Even at the most unpromising times of year – in mudtime, on bleak, snowless winter days – it is in so many unexpected ways beautiful that even after all this time I have never quite gotten used to it.

::" We have no idea how consciousness emerges from the physical activity of the brain and we do not know whether consciousness can emerge from non-biological systems, such as computers ... At this point the reader will expect to find a careful and precise definition of consciousness.

::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( she wants the man she marries to be Swedish — no specific person in mind )

::" I have no desire to analyze what makes Buechner's writing and preaching so extraordinary.

::" president Eisenhower's Appointment Books contain no entry for a special meeting on July 16, 1954 which might have included a briefing on MJ-12.

::" The Declassification office of the National Security Council has informed us that it has no record of any declassification action having been taken on this memorandum or any other documents on this alleged project ..."

::" Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel of Christ or his Church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and, moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience — those too may achieve eternal salvation " ( Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 16 ).

::" As I have said, our ancestors were taken captive and driven to for no reason at all.

::" You, the class of 1990 ... How do you feel about your valedictorian with the 4. 9 Grade Point Average who arrived in this country six months ago speaking no English in a rowboat from Saigon?

::" Mr. Speaker: If the will of the people is to prevail, if justice is to be done, there can be no question of my expulsion from the house.

::" Koko Made Oide ( Come On Over Here )" by SION ( except first episode, which had no opening )

::" The overall results of this double-blind study strongly indicated that, among these hospitalized geriatric patients with organic symptoms, Gerovital H3 had no ameliorative effect on either psychologic or physiologic functioning.

::" Just as we deem the legislative intent manifest to tax the stockholder with respect to such accumulations only if and when, and to the extent that, his interest in them comes to fruition as income, that is, in dividends declared, so we can perceive no constitutional obstacle that stands in the way of carrying out this intent when dividends are declared out of a pre-existing surplus.

::" If you woke up tomorrow, and a miracle happened so that you no longer easily lost your temper, what would you see differently?

::" When the army vinegar ran down unshaven beards, when men helped themselves to acorns, peas, and raw onions, and cooked chopped up goat meat in shepherds ' rank butter — never mind your neighbour — no one was embarrassed by me.

::" The People are in no disagreement that a fundamental right of personal decision exists ; the divergence of the parties focuses on what subjects fall within its protection, the People contending that it extends to only two aspects of sexual behavior-marital intimacy ( by virtue of the Supreme Court's decision in Griswold ) and procreative choice ( by reason of Eisenstadt and Roe v.

::" In light of these decisions, protecting under the cloak of the right of privacy individual decisions as to indulgence in acts of sexual intimacy by unmarried persons and as to satisfaction of sexual desires by resort to material condemned as obscene by community standards when done in a cloistered setting, no rational basis appears for excluding from the same protection decisions-such as those made by the defendants before us-to seek sexual gratification from what at least once was commonly regarded as " deviant " conduct, so long as the decisions are voluntarily made by adults in a noncommercial, private setting.

::" In sum, there has been no showing of any threat, either to participants or the public in general, in consequence of the voluntary engagement by adults in private, discreet, sodomous conduct.