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One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
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One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
One is not more true than the other.
One can only speak of what is in front of him, and that now is simply the mess ''.
One is that they were established, or gained eminence, under pressure provided by these same immigrants, from whom the old families wished to segregate their children.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
One of the obvious conclusions we can make on the basis of the last election, I suppose, is that we, the majority, were dissatisfied with Eisenhower conservatism.
One way to determine whether we have so dangerous a technology would be to check the strength of our society's organs to see if their functioning is as healthy as before.
One thing you can say about Mr. Lyford is that he does not suffer from any insecurity as an American.
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.
One who invites such trials of character is either foolhardy, overconfident or too simple and childlike in faith in mankind to see the danger.
One fame is precious and luminous ; ;
One, a reservation on the point I have just made, is the phenomenon of pseudo-thinking, pseudo-feeling, and pseudo-willing, which Fromm discussed in The Escape From Freedom.
F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.
One of the most frequent views of the value of literature is the education of sensibility that it is thought to provide.
One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.
One is Greece is not yet suffering from overpopulation.
One of them is that it gives meaning and purpose to life.
One cannot read the records of scientists, officials and travelers who have penetrated to the minds of the most savage races without realizing that each individual met with is a person.
One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.
One and sure
One may be sure the present Republican congressional leadership hasn't meant to repeat this error.
One good way to cut your labor waste is to make sure you are using just the right number of men in each crew.
One thing, I am sure of, you must get an interest in life.
One thing was becoming increasingly sure.
One may say, " Sure, it's just a refurbished Theseus, greatly changed to be sure, but still the Theseus ".
One approach is to argue that all real forces drop off with distance from their sources in a known manner, so we have only to be sure that we are far enough away from all sources to ensure that no force is present.
It is naturally impossible in most cases to make sure that some important factor has not been omitted [...] One must not assume that the oracle is omniscient.
One of the tenets he put forward was that a general should only engage in battle when he was sure of victory or had no other choice.
One immediate question was how can one be sure there aren't infinitely many cuts necessary?
One player controlled Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, who were trying to find a magical sword beneath an altar ( just which one, they were not sure ) in Lankhmar.
One that I'm sure nobody's every heard of is Jeffery Pond
One problem some perceived with the Sherman Act was that it was not entirely clear what practices were prohibited, leading to businessmen not knowing what they were permitted to do, and government antitrust authorities not sure what business practices they could challenge.
One must also make sure to face the Qiblah ( direction of prayer ), whilst making du ' a.
* One should make sure that the people need the prince, especially if a time of need should come.
One thing we know for sure about this world ... the known inhabited world is Flat, Level, a Plain World.
One of John Cimbora's primary responsibilities was to make beer and, because it was during Prohibition, to make sure that only certain customers knew about it.
One left-wing critic is Professor Michael Mandel, who wrote that in comparison to politicians, judges do not have to be as sensitive to the will of the electorate, nor do they have to make sure their decisions are easily understandable to the average Canadian citizen.
One of many sports idioms, the phrase " slam dunk " is often used outside of basketball to refer colloquially to something that has a certain outcome or guaranteed success ( a " sure thing ").
One example was to swivel your neck before starting a strafing run to make sure enemy fighters were not on your tail.
One reason for this situation is that proponents of new methods have been so sure that their ideas are so new and so correct that they could not conceive that the older ones have enough validity to cause controversy.
One French official in 1939 expressed the belief that the uncertainty was sure to cause trouble in the future.
:* One should make sure to greet magpies when they are encountered in order to either allay bad luck or encourage good luck, as related to the number of birds and therefore their place in the Magpie poem.
One by one they stop walking, giving in to the snow and sure death.
*" One has to be very sure of oneself to go against the ordinary view of things ; and if one isn't, perhaps it's better not to run any risks, but just to walk along the same secure old road as the common herd.
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