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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...napped. "Why not?" Brand asked. "Because you're a scum-bag. You found your ethics in a toilet." "Is your mind made up?" Brand asked. Walter lo... ...won't be able to prove anything. Besides, the other candidates, including the Ethics Committee, will be putting so much pressure on him he'll only l... ... his sons become part of the nightmare. They would grow up to be respectable, professional; maybe, even doctors. "But what to do?" That was the ques... ...e assassinated -- one bullet each to the throat, and the other to the head. A professional kill. Six security guards inside the monument were also ki...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...corruptible; it is a poor but perhaps a well-merited com- pliment to their professional code. W e have squared the whole profession to be individually... ...washes its dirty linen in public by choice and necessity, and disdains all professional etiquette. Few people know what criticisms of the Lord Chief J... ... that women of title, working women, domestic servants, tradesmen’s wives, professional workers, had all been meeting together and working together in... ...lete, but all deserve consideration. It is no good arguing about the finer ethics of the things that are; the business of sane men is to get things be... .... Directly we come to the commercial, directive, official, tech- nical and professional classes in Germany, we come to classes far more highly trained... ... a crisis within a few years of the peace settle- ment. The mercantile and professional classes will join hands with the social democrats to remove th...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...476 AD). Hence the Senate, the bicameral legislature, the institutions of jury and professional judges, the interlocking system of checks and balan... ...es they purport to help, since they are seldom fighting for any liberation. These "professional" jihadists also seem to be more common in internet ... ...The Arabs form the hard core of Al-Qaida. They are the Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi etc. professional revolutionaries and terrorists who have gathered ar... ... Most Middle Eastern states ... probably do, possess the necessary technocratic and professional personnel to run state affairs in an efficient and ... ...re. Even the Iran-Iraq war which decimated tens of thousands of intellectuals and professionals barely dented this existence. Rather, the - mostly... ... possibly, leading to a chaotic situation of "might is right"? In other words, when ethics and expedience conflict with legality - which should prev... ...lzer in "Just and Unjust Wars" (1977), Barrie Paskins and Michael Dockrill in "The Ethics of War" (1979), Richard Norman in "Ethics, Killing, and W...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... read and interpreted as well as her own, and she desired to hear the full professional judg- ment delivered without suppression or softening of its h... ... Pizarro, shining remembrances of martial prow- ess, and the very worst of ethics. T o think little of bloodshed, to quarrel, to fight, to gamble, to ... ...es, which is (philosophically speaking) exaggerated; and by daily use, the ethics of a police-office translate themselves, insen- sibly, into the ethi... ...dy of men amongst us; taken generally, by much the most enlight- ened; but professionally, the most timid. Want of boldness in the administration of o... ...y man but a medical man, since no other man has any obstinate prejudice of professional timid- ity . N. B.—I prescribe for Kate gratis, because she, p... ... zodia- cal light, the interplanetary ether, and other rarities, which the professional body of astronomers would naturally keep (if they could) for t... ... suffer- ing—he pushed her gently backwards to the tripod on which, in her professional character, she was to seat herself. Upon this, in the hurry an... ...that both of them, in a Christian land, make Paley the foundation of their ethics; the alternative being Aristotle. And, in our mind, though far infer...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...e angry — first, at the way they had been deceived; and second, at the outraged ethics of the Northland, where honesty, above all, was man’s prime jewe... ... can’t give him up.” Hay Stockard paused, striving to put into speech the rude ethics of his heart. “He ’s worried me, Baptiste, in the past and now, ... ..., he had harmed no one. Nor had he ever been known to pick a quarrel. He was a professional, and all the fighting brutishness of him was reserved for h... ... his lights, played squarer than square. Ngurn was in himself a fore runner of ethics and contract, of consideration, and gentleness in man. No, Basse...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...untry mails are not interesting to the generality of readers, but I have a professional liking for them myself. I have spent the best part of my 63 T... ...r her own benefit, or does she hold them for theirs? I know nothing of the ethics of the Colonial Office, and not much perhaps of those of the House o... ... It consists of Harvard College, as the undergraduates’ department, and of professional schools of law, medicine, divinity, and science. In the few wo... ...ut it I will confine myself to Harvard College proper, conceiving that the professional schools connected with it have not in themselves any special i...

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Actions and Reactions

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ic of eagles and aeronauts. You can see it in the pic- tures of our racing professionals, from L.V. Rautsch to little Ada Warrleigh—that fathomless ab... ...long!” They pushed at the door, which was unlocked. “Yes. But consider the ethics of the case,” said Jimmy. “Isn’t this burglary or something, Bubbles...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...n the same podium to debate our beliefs, my realistic belief in the basic psychological drives that motivate us and her idealistic concepts of ethics... ...ght be just fine if one‘s ultimate vocational goal was to sweep floors or collect garbage but it would be a huge negative for one who wanted a profes... ... normal for his age and culture. However when a celebrity in a nonviolent setting gets in a fight it may be seen as rather abnormal. But if a profes... ...ommonly deny that they have problems. ―Fantasy or daydreaming occurs when we delight in imagining ourselves to be other than we are: a profes... ... this mechanism. An adult may also adopt characteristics of a departed parent or loved one. Some people identify with an institution such as a profes... ...ry. We must study how to live. We must understand how our minds and bodies work. That means studying physiology and nutrition, psychology and ethics... ...economic capital depends on the importance of one‘s work to the society and how well he or she does it. Like Kino, athletes and actors are not profes... ... tend to have close family relationships. Is this what makes people happy? Americans with their high financial expectations, their strong work ethics...

...184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OPINIONS AND SEEKING EXPERTISE 189 SEMANTICS 191 CONFLICTSINVALUES 199 MORALS OR ETHICS ARE NOT SET IN STONE 201 MORAL RELATIVISM 201 SELF VERSUS SOCIETY 203 VALUE QUESTIONS206 THE WELFARE STATE 207 The Welfare State is Moral from a self-centered point of view 208 From a self centered point of view it is ...

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Heartbreak House : A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes

By: George Bernard Shaw

...e the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few ama- teurs whose hobby is foreig... ...ther frog or philosopher, much less the vulgar commonplaces of sentimental ethics, could weigh for a mo- ment against the remotest off-chance of an ad... ...their time with urgent practical work, had to leave to idler people, or to professional rhetori- cians, the presentation of the war to the reason and ... ...d my head. I assure you I went off dead asleep; and they had to send for a professional to wake me up after I had slept eighteen hours. They had to ca...

... the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreign policy even knew that the guns were loaded. A Russian playwright, Tchekov, had produced four fascinating dramatic studies of Heartbreak House, of whic...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...he publication of the “Birth of Tragedy”, numbers of German philologists and professional philosophers had denounced him as one who had strayed too fa... ... the Soothsayer to Zarathustra. It will be remembered that in Schopenhauer’s ethics, pity is elevated to the highest place among the virtues, and very...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...7/17/04 5:25 PM Page xii Joanne M.Accolla Staff Assistant Alexis Albion Professional Staff Member Scott H.Allan, Jr. Counsel John A. Azzarello Coun... ...ember Scott H.Allan, Jr. Counsel John A. Azzarello Counsel Caroline Barnes Professional Staff Member Warren Bass Professional Staff Member Ann M. Benn... ... Staff Member Ann M. Bennett Information Control Officer Mark S. Bittinger Professional Staff Member Madeleine Blot Counsel Antwion M. Blount Systems ... ...ber Madeleine Blot Counsel Antwion M. Blount Systems Engineer Sam Brinkley Professional Staff Member Geoffrey Scott Brown Research Assistant Daniel By... ...essional Staff Member Geoffrey Scott Brown Research Assistant Daniel Byman Professional Staff Member Dianna Campagna Manager of Operations Samuel M.W ... ...essed to Schroen, the tribals noted that if they were to adopt Bin Ladin’s ethics,“we would have finished the job long before, ” 132 THE 9/11 COMMISSI...

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ty vanity, was lowering to his na- ture. He sank more and more towards the professional Don Juan. With a leer of what the French call fatuity, he bids... ...asses to like him as well as his dog?” It is one of the misfortunes of the professional Don Juan 43 Familiar Studies of Men & Books that his honour f... ... with a choice only of different species of error and miscon- duct.” To be professional Don Juan, to accept the provoca- tion of any lively lass upon ... ...for those who have a true command of the art of words, but for ped- dling, professional amateurs, that these pointed occasions are most useful and ins... ...usiness, and, please God, he would carry it through; and so he gave up his professional career and remained in Yeddo to be at hand against the next op... ...of instruction in the truly noble art of the chase, not without a smack of ethics by the way, from the compendious didactic poem of Gace de la Bigne. ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...the Hebrew stories, and his head had been full of Hebrew poetry and Gospel ethics; until they had struck deep root into his heart, and the very expres... ...er anything approaching their experience. It was about this nucleus of his professional labours that all my father’s scientific inquiries and inventio...

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