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Deviation : Covenant

By: Elissa Malcohn

... at her mother once. "I don't need the brushes and the pins and the fortune dice. I'm playing with people's bones! Some of those people even talked ... ...the sidelines as she took her slow procession down the main road. They were controlled now, their shoulders thrown back and heads held high, bestowi... ... He waved the list. "They are a cursed people, Zai, forever in our debt. We control whether they live or die. They are afflicted with their killing.... ...nal energies, but even exhausted recruits needed to know about reproductive control. That morning Gria had passed around an intestinal sheath and mo... ... throat, the chunks of mutton in his neighbor's proffered hand. He'd had to control his breathing, his nose a large throbbing rock, useless. His thr... ...Even FeatherFly wore more facial hair than this one. "I thought," she said, controlling her voice, "that the Chamber would have sent us someone more...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...lowest degree, called “our world.” At the degree of our world, we are totally controlled by the will to receive and we are completely detached from ... ...edom in matter made him proclaim his well-known assertion: “God does not play dice with the universe.” Although Einstein used the word “God,” he was ... ...re to indulge in pleasure. Today, human ego is at its apex; we can no longer control it. As a result, we are losing the ability we once had to cope... ..., but according to quantifiable chemical reactions that can be mechani- cally controlled by mathematics. This mechanical approach made possible our h... ...hize about the “residents” of the Upper Worlds. Rather, it teaches us how to control our destiny every single moment. All of the forces and events ... ...spiritual worlds contains only desires, forces, and thoughts. We think we can control the matter of our world, but when we rise to a higher level, w...

...hes us how the spontaneous changes occurring within us affect our surrounding reality. The wisdom of Kabbalah enables us to monitor those changes and control them, and in so doing change our world for the better....

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God the Invisible King

By: H. G. Wells

...end that the God of its life is that Being, or that he has any relation of control or associa- tion with that Being. It does not even assert that God ... ... now considered their prime, and their last period (won by scientific self-control) will be a period of ripe wisdom (from seventy to eighty to a hundr... ...is choice must be social, not merely individual. In what- ever measure ill-controlled individuals may yield to personal impulses or attractions, the a... ...e carries with it no obligation whatever to believe that this Friend is in control of the phenomena. He assumes that he is supposed to be in control a... ...ngs mankind not rest but a sword. It is plain that he can admit no divided control of the world he claims. He concedes noth- ing to Caesar. In our phi... ... thoughts; cleanliness, clearness, a wariness against indolence and preju- dice, careful truth, habitual frankness, fitness and steadfast work; these ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...ople in order to restore his lost self-esteem, his prestige, his sense of power and control over his life, to recover emotionally, or to restore his... ...on, using "rational", cognitive arguments, devices, and procedures: abortion, birth control, the pill. Thus, combining these three mechanisms, natur... ... the same in all of us. This is even when the causes of the sensation are carefully controlled and monitored. A scientist might say that it is only... ...Cannibalism in nature is widespread and serves diverse purposes such as population control (chickens, salamanders, toads), food and protein securit... ...y to decide among equally potent claims is randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we could add and subtract rights in a som... ...me enshrined as the cornerstones of an almost religious outlook ("God does not play dice"). These were assumed to be "objective", "observer independ... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh... ... of two people - we can decide among them randomly (by flipping a coin, or casting dice). Alternatively, we can add and subtract rights in a somewh...

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Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity

By: George Bernard Shaw

...PREJUDICE All this will become clear if we read the gospels without preju- dice. When I was young it was impossible to read them with- out fantastic c... ... application were not kept within the limits which nature sets to the self-control of most of us. Nobody supposes that a man with no ear for music or ... ... through the exercise of a quite common degree of reasoning power and self-control. Most men and women can endure the ordinary annoyances and disappoi... ...from such assaults if he or she chooses to, and proceed to reinforce self- control by threats of severe punishment. But in this they are 66 Shaw mist... ...ting and drinking more than is good for them? It is true that between self-controlled people and ungovernable people there is a narrow margin of moral... ...n- ism or Predestination is quite a good working rule. People without self-control enough for social purposes may be killed, or may be kept in asylums...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...ject as the Philosophy of Protestantism—‘satius erat silere, quam parcius, dicere.’ Better were absolute silence, more respectful as regards the theme... ... activities, were originally but two aspects of one law: to deny the Papal control over men’s conscience being to affirm man’s self-control, was, ther... ...s in No. 3, +x is derived—not from any experience, and therefore cannot be controlled by that sort of hostile experience which Hume’s argument relies ... ...ase. Christianity and Paganism have been separately tried as means of self-control; Christianity has flagrantly failed; Paganism succeeded universally... ...Palenque),—once for all, barring these pure godsends, it is hardly ‘in the dice’ that any downright nov- elty of fact should remain in reversion for t... ...y it is; but in this case there were two desperate defects in the imperial control over that water service. T o use a fleet, you must have a fleet; bu...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... When thou with pleasure shalt retrace the past.] Quando ti giovera dicere io fui. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell 112 So Tasso, G. L. c.... ...inner ] So Trissino Poi facea con le man le fiche al cielo Dicendo: Togli, Iddio; che puoi piu farmi? L’ital. Lib. c... ... me with jewell’d ring had first espous’d.” CANTO VI When from their game of dice men separate, He, who hath lost, remains in sadness fix’d, Revolving... ...countenance Enjoin’d me silence but the power which wills, Bears not supreme control: laughter and tears Follow so closely on the passion prompts them... ... thee from the Goths, and reformed thy laws, if thou art no longer under the control of his successors in the empire?” v. 94. That which God commands...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...inner. Starve me, keep me from books and honest people, educate me to love dice, gin, and pleasure, and put me on Hounslow Heath, with a purse before ... ...d she not wisely kept out of the way. Holding the purse-strings in her own control, to which, in- deed, she liked to bring most persons who came near ... ...ed and visited by my lord at the town eight miles off—pudet haec opprobria dicere nobis)—a great change had taken place in her mind, 90 Henry Esmond ... ...to lose or win magnificently at their horse-matches, or games of cards and dice—and you could never tell, from the de- meanor of these two lords after... ...which many a man will have to render. For in our society there’s no law to control the King of the Fireside. He is master of prop- erty, happiness—lif... ... with tears in her eyes, your wife implored me to play no more with you at dice or at cards, and you know best whether what she asked was not for your... ...n; and I fell among thieves, Harry, and I got back to confounded cards and dice, which I hadn’t touched since my marriage—no, not since I was in the D... ...and pounds to her fortune: for honest Tom’s heart was under such excellent control, that V enus her- self without a portion would never have caused it... ...imself, and an adventur- ous levity that we had the greatest difficulty to control. As for Lady Castlewood, although she scarce spoke a word, ’twas ea...

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The Collected Poems

By: William Butler Yeats

...and panting breast To break upon a sleeper’s rest While their great wooden dice beat on the board. As I would question all, come all who can; Come old... ...n wit. I study hatred with great diligence, For that’s a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not ...

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