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First and Last Things : A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life

By: H. G. Wells

...dentically similar things, but these are things not of expe- rience but of theory, and there is not a phenomenon in chem- istry that is not equally we... ...It is now understood that conceivably only in the subjective world, and in theory and the imagination, do we deal with identically similar units, and ... ...estion rather to express a detachment than a view. For me as a person this theory of predestination has no prac- tical value. At the utmost it is an i... ...redestination has no prac- tical value. At the utmost it is an interesting theory like the theory that there is a fourth dimension. There may be a fou... ...he future— so far as I am concerned. Y ou others are equally free. On that theory I find my life will work, and on a theory of mechani- cal predestina... ...d vigorous people. The false aristocrat is a figure of pride and claims, a consumer followed by dupes. He is proudly secretive, pretending to aims bey...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ined, yet as my mind acquitted me of having taken delight in aught but the theory of field- sports, I did not think myself called upon stubbornly to a... ...rved, drew decay and death from what afforded savour and sustenance to the consumer of the other moiety.’ He then plunged boldly into the mare mag- nu... ...divitiis juventutem luxuria atque avaritia cum superbili invasere: rapere, consumere; sua parvi pendere, aliena cupere; pudore m, amicitiam, pudicitia...

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Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

...estroyer of forests shall shake his red crest against them. He, the bright consumer of palaces, Broad waves he his blazing banner, Red, wide and dusky... ...ication, I was strongly impressed with the desire of tracing out a sort of theory on the subject, which, from some recent acquaintance with the archit...

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Winesbur Inesbur, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

...uths that made the people gro- tesques. The old man had quite an elaborate theory concern-ing the matter. It was his notion that the moment one of the... ...tention. In those days the Standard Oil Company did not deliver oil to the consumer in big wagons and motor trucks as it does now, but delivered inste...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...he conclusion, that there was nothing like money. Not confining himself to theory , or permitting his faculties to rust, even at that early age, in me... ...und the same vices among the poorer class of people who ought to be muffin consumers; and this he attributed to the despair engendered by their being ... ...ng exclusively upon Kate) the good lady had about as much share, either in theory or practice, as any one of the statues of the T welve Apostles which...

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

... creeping back again, her voice just one half-note too high—”that dreadful theory of yours that machinery is beau- tiful, and everything else in the w... ...the world ugly. I thought he would not spare you, Mr. Raut. It’s his great theory, his one discovery in art.” “I am slow to make discoveries,” said Ho... ... I have had little opportunity of calling to see him. But the whole of his theory seems fantastic to me. The facts concerning Davidson stand on an alt... ... declarations of the facts of the case merely 109 H.G . Wells confirm the theory that my insanity is the outcome of over- much brooding upon psycholo... ...ove them hither; but, for my own part, I prefer to believe the alternative theory of Hemsley. Hemsley holds that a pack or shoal of these creatures ma... ...ative into a form that will give it a chance of being read by the ordinary consumer of fiction. My own ideas in the matter are practically identical w...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...nesses stated the price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer 4d. and 4½d. the pound; and the coarse pieces in general to be fro... ...rs cannot be much affected by such regulations, though their inter- est as consumers may, by the rise in the price of provisions. It would be quite ot... ...is case be very deeply affected by such regulations, and their interest as consumers very little. The fall in the price of the wool and the hide would... ...hes, house- hold furniture, etc. which have been purchased by their proper consumers, but which are not yet entirely consumed. The whole stock of mere... ...f which all the other three are circulated and distributed to their proper consumers. Secondly, of the stock of provisions which are in the possession... ...n of the metaphysical arguments by which they support their very ingenious theory, it will sufficiently appear, from the follow- ing review, what are ...

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...t, as a fact, we drink as much as they did; but, nevertheless, that is our theory. I confess, however, that I like wine. It is very wicked, but it see... ...e both an increase of price to the producer and a decrease of price to the consumer. It certainly seems that the produce of cereal crops in the valley... ...snake’s slime. If there be two of them they talk loudly together, having a theory that modesty has been put out of court by women’s rights. But, thoug... ... crowded thoroughfare to drag it along unmo- lested. But, according to her theory, she owes the world nothing in return. She is a woman with perhaps a... ...y American gentlemen who have allowed themselves to be drifted into such a theory. They have begun the world as republican citizens, and as such they ... ...ent has or has not paid anything toward the school’s support. I found this theory carried out so far that at the deaf and dumb school, where some of t...

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Celt and Saxon

By: George Meredith

... in less of mortal time. Excepting an inspired Epic song and an origi- nal Theory of the Heavens, almost anything noteworthy may be accomplished while... ...nspection of the Epic books before it awarded him his crown. The celestial Theory likewise would have to 96 Celt and Saxon be worked out to the last ... ..., revering him. So that, whatever we may think in our own hearts, Epic and Theory have to remain the exception. Battles indeed have been fought, but w... ...ue to the character of the numberless hosts he stands for, is manifestly a consumer of doctor’s drugs. And there you have the symbolism of your countr...

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Aesthetics

By: Florentin Smaradanche

...arger family of mind comprising the whole of the artistic modernism, in a theory of creation that could explain the fields of activity. For this rea... ...n this way the metalinguistic possibilities of communication. Then, in the theory of the paradoxes, as we can see, we leap in continually from a para... ...of the third part. The classical binomial becomes a trinitarian antinomy (theory appreciated by this other theorist of the paradox, Solomon Marcus: ... ...absence of paradox was considered as their state of welfare”). Lupasco’s theory explains the combinative propensity of the paradox and the illimita... ...o fold expectancy and the inexpressible. And so, in front of the notorious theory of the untranslatable nature of poetry, of the impossibility of an ... ...tivity, if we can 10 speak of a complicity between the creator and the consumer of art, which latter can then be inhibited by the proposal of an ...

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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...teresting and amusing act of re appropriation; shaking off all shackles of theory, unattended, as was speedily to appear, with hu miliating uncertain... ... hair and crimson and gold in her tea gown for the same reason: it was her theory that nature itself had overdressed her and that her only course was ... ...d and in her tone. She knew nothing of the ancestor, but she had taken his theory from him, gracefully enough, as one of the little presents that make... ... had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter i... ...t visibly turned pale. Her extraordinarily fine eyes, as it was his present theory that he had always thought them, shone at him the more darkly out of... ...nd arrangement that made her personal scheme a success, the proved private theory that materials to work with had been all she required and that there...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...unias at very close to the cost of growing them and bringing them to market. Consumer desires are satisfied and productive resources are allocated effic... ... sound so good. Patents, by contrast, keep the knowledge public, at least in theory; 3 you must describe it to own it.) And again, decisions about the... ...o the economists, the answer is that trademark law does two things. It saves consumers time. We have good reason to believe that a soap that says “Ivo... ...at quality and commercial information flow regulate themselves, with rational consumers judging among goods of consistent quality produced by manufac- ... ...xclude others from one’s trade name, symbol, or slogan produces a market for consumer information in which firms have incentives to establish quality b... ...formation in which firms have incentives to establish quality brand names and consumers can rely on the meaning and the stability of the logos that sur... ... could turn to the cutting edge of technology or to economics or information theory. But none of those would be as useful a starting place as a letter... ... one of the supporters of copyright extension declared that it was merely “a theory” that monopoly makes things expensive. Macaulay agrees, tongue in ... ... monopoly makes things expensive. Macaulay agrees, tongue in cheek. “It is a theory in Chapter 2 22 -1 ___ 0 ___ 1 ___ 37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 A...

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Proposed Roads to Freedom

By: Bertrand Russell

...phy” (1847). They, like him, tend to base their arguments upon a Ricardian theory of value, but they have not his scope or erudition or scientific bre... ...he Communists is the conquests of political power by the proletariat. “The theory of the Com- munists may be summed up in the single sentence: Aboliti... ...and substance to the theses of the Communist Manifesto. It contributed the theory of surplus value, which professed to explain the actual mechanism of... ...rine is very complicated and is scarcely tenable as a contribution to pure theory. It is rather to be viewed as a translation into ab- stract terms of... ...ssentially for the point of view of the producer as opposed to that of the consumer; it is concerned with reforming actual work, and the organization ... ...nal equally representing the whole body of producers and the whole body of consumers. This Joint Committee would be the ultimate sovereign body , the ... ... ists regard the State as consisting of the community in their capacity as consumers, while the Guilds will represent them in their capacity as produc... ...t and the Guild Congress for decid- ing matters involving the interests of consumers and produc- ers alike. The view of the Guild Socialists is that S... ...he Guild Socialists is that State Social- ism takes account of men only as consumers, while Syndical- ism takes account of them only as producers. “Th...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...st be paid by the inhab- itants of the two other States in the capacity of consumers of what we import. New York would neither be willing nor able to ... ...n to the general authority of the union, it would still be, in fact and in theory, an association of states, or a confederacy. The proposed Constituti... ...ll be led to conclude, that they are the novel refinements of an erroneous theory. Publius. 41 The Federalist Papers FEDERALIST No. 10 The Same Subje... ...di- vidual citizens of America. The consequence of this is, that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionall... ...ath, and to inflict vengeance on sacrilegious despoilers of the temple. In theory, and upon paper, this apparatus of powers seems amply sufficient for... ... who is often obliged to pay them himself without any retribution from the consumer. When the demand is equal to the quantity of goods at market, the ... ...eeping prices down in order to a more expeditious sale. The maxim that the consumer is the payer, is so much 148 The Federalist Papers oftener true t... ...ing State, whose citizens pay their proportion of them in the character of consumers. In this view they are productive of inequality among the States;... ... sole field of labor, the importation of manufactures must increase as the consumers multiply. As soon as domestic manufac- tures are begun by the han...

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

... coffee. To be sure, they do “gloat” over their coffee in a sense unknown to consumers of liquid chicory and health beverages: they “gloat,” in fact, ... ...re generally untested propositions. The French tendency is to test every new theory, religious, artistic or scientific, in the light of wide knowledge ...

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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

...m his personal fortune was in fact not true. The officials developed a new theory: al Qaeda was getting its money else- where, and the United States n... ...able to build and conceal sophisticated explosive devices in lug- gage and consumer products. 29 Tenet told us that in his world “the system was blink... ... to the United States to attend civil aviation schools.The agent based his theory on the “inordinate number of individuals of investigative inter- est... ...ssibility of a suicide hijacking would have been just one more speculative theory among many, hard to spot since the volume of warnings of “al Qaeda t... ...earch these identities. It saw itself as an agency to support intelligence consumers, such as CIA.The NSA tried to respond energetically to any reques... ...overseeing the NCTC, the National Intelligence Director should support the consumers of national intelligence—the president and policymak- ing adviser...

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