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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ed in possession of a mind, a creature needs to have a few states of consciousness linked by memory in a kind of narrative or personal mythology. C... ...ds to have a few states of consciousness and a few states of the unconscious - all linked by memory into a personal narrative? Isn't it a contradic... ...he Girl Containing the United States Democracy and New Colonialism Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair Narcissism, Group Behavior, and Terrorism The I... ...litics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Lists and the Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6,000 ... ...more than 6,000 members). Owner of the Economies in Conflict and Transition Study List , the Toxic Relationships Study List, and the Links and Fac... ...n Study List , the Toxic Relationships Study List, and the Links and Factoid Study List. Editor of mental health disorders and Central and Eastern ...

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Live an Inspiring Life

By: Wally Amos

...d by whom you want to be loved. I've met people who keep a mental laundry list of the qualities they expect from the person they want to fall in lov... ...talking about falling in love with someone who doesn't match your laundry list of suitors. The love I'm describing is blind because it does not dis... ...Many years ago, back when I had my Famous Amos 39 store in Hollywood, I linked the activity of making cookies with the activity of improving readi... ...now. I think all manner of communication improves with enthusiasm. If you listen carefully to a news anchor on 50 television or a broadcaster on r...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...Reductio ad absurdum: if, in the far future, research will unequivocally prove that listening to a certain kind of music or entertaining certain tho... ...s doomed to forever repeat his actions, thus rendering them meaningless. Meaning is linked to irreversible change, without it, it is not to be found... ...are meaningless and Sisyphus has no achievements to talk about. Irreversibility is linked not only to meaning, but also to free will and to the lac... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ...ut succeeds in calling forth any kind of emotional response in his viewers/readers/listeners, he is deemed successful. Every artist has a reference... ...acids and other life substances). In early computing, databases were handled on a "listing" basis ("flat file"), were serial, and had no intrinsic ... ... the perspective, or point of view, of other people, a development that is closely linked with the empathic sharing of others' emotions... One maj... ...is possible (rankings are bound to differ among players). Many of the problems are linked to the variant of rationality used in GT. It is comprised... ...mutually exclusive universes will be the end result of this process. People will be linked by very few common experiences within the framework of vi...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

... did live and move 72. 72. 72. 72. 72. Within the heart of great Apollo—he Listened with all his soul, and laughed for pleasure. Close to his side sto... ... The impious Cyclops. ... UL UL UL UL ULYSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: Listen then what a punishment I have For this fell monster, how secure a fl... ...SEMICHOR SEMICHOR SEMICHOR SEMICHORUS 1 US 1 US 1 US 1 US 1 [Song within]: Listen! listen! he is coming, A most hideous discord humming. Drunken, muse... ... _525 UL UL UL UL ULYSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: Listen, O Cyclops, for I am well skilled In Bacchus, whom I gave thee of to... ... The soft leaves, in our way let us pursue The melancholy loves of Gallus. List! We sing not to the dead: the wild woods knew ... ...ed bliss. Are there not hopes within thee, which this scene _180 Of linked and gradual being has confirmed? Whose stingings bade thy heart look... ...wine around its struggling flight. Oh, many were the friends whom fame Had linked with the unmeaning name, _65 Whose ... ...f earliest love, and all the thoughts which smother Cold Evil’s power, now linked a sister and a brother. 6 40 1: 6 40 1: 6 40 1: 6 40 1: 6 40 1: And ...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...ecessary information contained in each and every physical particle could be somehow linked to (even equal to) the number of possible quantum states,... ...etails the location of the potentials that can materialize into structures. It also lists the anxiety producing "potential singularities" into which... ...ts: Partial repression and the materialization of other potentials into structures linked by the same (wrong) levels of excitation. Put differentl... ... of structures on the field). When one unit is activated, it activates other units, linked to it by way of association. There are also inhibitory me... ...es and their corresponding truth-values. Speakers use language to manipulate their listeners into believing in the manifest intentions behind their... ...rs and their minds. Initially, W. V. Quine put context before meaning: he not only linked meaning to experience, but also to empirically-vetted (no... ...ctive) world-theories. It is the context of the observed behaviors of speakers and listeners that determines what words mean, he said. Thus, Quine ... ...g venues of action: a. Association the formation of networks of ideas, which are linked by way of verbal, intuitive, or structural association, d... ...litics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Lists and the Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6,000 ...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

...om his which newly they had worn, And inwardly restrain’d it. He, as one Who listens, stood attentive: for his eye Not far could lead him through the... ...ll Of spirits accurs’d; but that the sight alone Hereafter may suffice thee, listen how And for what cause in durance they abide. “Of all malicio... ...e hung, Each on the wild thorn of his wretched shade.” Attentive yet to listen to the trunk We stood, expecting farther speech, when us A noise s... ...patient of delay Exclaiming, “Lano! not so bent for speed Thy sinews, in the lists of Toppo’s field.” And then, for that perchance no longer breath Su... ...early note: That so my conscience have no plea against me; Do fortune as she list, I stand prepar’d. Not new or strange such earnest to mine ear. Spee... ...The good, which sets a bound to our aspirings, What bar of thwarting foss or linked chain Did meet thee, that thou so should’st quit the hope Of furth...

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Sophocles Oedipus the King Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

By: F. Storr

... knavish seer. JOCASTA Then thou mayest ease thy conscience on that score. Listen and I ll convince thee that no man Hath scot or lot in the prophetic... ... far. Who has a higher claim that thou to hear My tale of dire adventures? Listen then. My sire was Polybus of Corinth, and My mother Merope, a Dorian... ...mly that a kinsman s woes Be heard by kin and seen by kin alone. OEDIPUS O listen, since thy presence comes to me A shock of glad surprise so noble th... ..., what these strangers say? Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles 82 ANTIGONE We listened, and attend thy bidding, father. OEDIPUS I cannot go, disabled as ... ...Thebans I have most bewailed, Being his kinsman, his most grievous woes. O listen to me, luckless Oedipus, Come home! The whole Cadmeian people claim ... ...ll bury him. How sweet to die in such employ, to rest, Sister and brother linked in love s embrace A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by ...

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Five Works of : Areopagitica, Comus, Lalegro, Il Penseroso, And Lycidas

By: John Milton

...ensed books already printed and divulged; after ye have drawn them up into a list, that all may know which are condemned, and which not; and ordain th... ...in, And to the stack, or the barn door, Stoutly struts his dames before: Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From... ...e, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The m... ... command from sovran Jove, I was despatched for their defence and guard: And listen why; for I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or s... ...r the Tuscan mariners transformed, Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe’s island fell. (Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the... ... guess, Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and perfect in my listening ear; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this ... ...nd sitting by a new made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensualty To a degenerate and degraded state. SEC...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...s attached and name of Gargantua. It was, of course, quite right to make a list of these, to draw up, as it were, a chart of them, but the conclusion ... ...y ballad which recommends this book to read- ers, occur these lines in the list of popular books which Faifeu would desire to replace: ‘Laissez ester ... ...wo first towers, on the outside, were placed the tiltyard, the barriers or lists for tournaments, the hippodrome or riding-court, the theatre or publi... ...ained purple dye, which reached just three inches above the knee, having a list beau- tified with exquisite embroideries and rare incisions of the cut... ...to say, that painters and poets have liberty to paint and devise what they list after their own fancy. But he was not satisfied with their answer, and... ...hat great learning, inestimable erudition, and god-like precepts are knit, linked, rivetted, and mortised in the divine chapters of these eternal decr...

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The Poetics of Aristotle

By: S. H. Butcher

...one the manner, and three the objects of imitation. And these complete the list. These elements have been employed, we may say, by the poets to a man;... ...wo ways,—either as signifying one thing, or as consisting of several parts linked together. Thus the Iliad is one by the linking together of parts, th...

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Resurrection

By: Mrs. Louis Maude

... pay a large sum to her opponent. “The advocate is a genius,” he said. The listeners heard it all with respectful attention, and several of them tried... ...” The advocate was looking at the flowers in her bonnet, and evidently not listening to her, but considering some question or other. Next to the old w... ...hink,” said the jolly merchant. “All right; we’ll soon see.” And, taking a list from his pocket, he began calling out the names, looking at the men, s... ... established with outsiders, they would be liable to punishment. Every one listened with an expression of respectful attention. The merchant, diffusin... ...n his left, who was whispering into his car that a bottle mentioned in the list of the material evidence was missing. “Of having stolen out of the por... ...n brotherly rela- tions with them, and also that these people should be so linked together by this government service that the re- sponsibility for th... ...he chains on their legs exam- ined, and those who were to march in couples linked to- gether with manacles. But suddenly the angry, authorita- tive vo...

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The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

By: E. C. Thomas

... the Benedictines of Durham, was supplied with books from the mother house, lists of which have been preserved; and subse quently a library was bui... ... eludes the sight, which reveals to us more of the qualities of things, and linked with the sub tlest of motions begins and perishes as it were in a... ...ten may shed a perfume without. Thus our nature secretly working in our own, listeners hasten up gladly, as the load stone draws the iron nothing loth... ... retaining their own places they are carried about every way to the minds of listeners. Finally, by the knowledge of literature, we establish Priests,... ..., indeed, not without reason, if she could see our inmost hearts, if she had listened to our secret coun sels, if she had read the book of Theophrast... ...s, not for the refreshment of souls, but rather for tickling the ears of the listeners. The Holy Scripture is not expounded, but is neglected and trea...

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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: Alighieri, Dante, 1265-1321

...hese, who throng Around us: to petition thee they come. Go therefore on, and listen as thou go’st.” The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 14 “... ...etellus, thenceforth from his loss To leanness doom’d. Attentively I turn’d, List’ning the thunder, that first issued forth; And “We praise thee, O Go... ...justice, since I did it not Amongst the living, here amongst the dead.” List’ning I bent my visage down: and one (Not he who spake) twisted benea... ... part The peril grasp him, so beheld I change That spirit, who had turn’d to listen, struck With sadness, soon as he had caught the word. His vis... ...ne or sleep o’ercharg’d?” “Beloved father! so thou deign,” said I, “To listen, I will tell thee what appear’d Before me, when so fail’d my sinki... ...The good, which sets a bound to our aspirings, What bar of thwarting foss or linked chain Did meet thee, that thou so should’st quit the hope Of furth...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... breathing, every slightest tone of which was familiar to his wife. As she listened to it she saw before her his smooth handsome fore- head, his musta... ... presence now that they had made it up. He did not ask if she was ready to listen to him. He did not care. A thought had occurred to him and so it bel... ... intention to persuade Pierre to stay with them till spring. Countess Mary listened till he had finished, made some re- mark, and in her turn began th... ...alarm, depression, and irritability. Denisov, now a general on the retired list and much dissatis- fied with the present state of affairs, had arrived... ...ugh the most absent-minded and forgetful of men, Pierre, with the aid of a list his wife drew up, had now bought every- thing, not forgetting his moth... ...nt with the course of events remain unexecuted. Only the possible ones get linked up with a consecutive series of commands corresponding to a series o... ...ond ago I must still recognize it as not being free, for it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed. Can I lift my 102 War and ...

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Symposium

By: Plato

...authority of Eryximachus the physician, who further proposes that instead of listening to the flute girl and her ‘noise’ they shall make speeches in h... ..., as of number and figure, were everywhere discerned; and in the Pythagorean list of opposites male and female were ranged side by side with odd and e... ...to reflect on this subject. (1) That 29 Plato s Symposium good and evil are linked together in human na ture, and have often existed side by side in... ...? I am especially struck with the beauty of the con cluding words—who could listen to them with out amazement? When I reflected on the immea surabl... ...s Symposium same madness and passion in your longing after wisdom. Therefore listen and excuse my doings then and my sayings now. But let the attendan...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster

...ammatical errors, for she was a loyal supporter of parental authority—Irma listened politely, but soon changed the subject to hockey, in which her who... ... any slight on it, and Mrs. Herriton had to intervene. “Now, dears, don’t. Listen to Lilia’s letter. ‘We love this place, and I do not know how I shal... ...ippo for- bids the banns!” Gino appeared so quickly that he must have been listening outside the door. “Fra Filippo’s blood’s up. He shrinks from noth... ...ber, I always desired a blonde.” Three or four men had collected, and were listening. “We all desire one,” said Spiridione. “But you, Gino, deserve yo... ...ion on the other, and when courte- sies were at their height they suddenly linked arms and swung down the street, tickling each other with lemonade st... ... Fear to Tread gland shrieking and distraught. Miss Abbott headed the long list of those who should never be written to, and who should never be forgi...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...of our people. The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of Executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the... ..., the language of sympathy, encourage ment, and hope to those who earnestly listen to tones which pronounce for the largest rational liberty. But aft... ...urdensome and its wise and efficient discharge full of difficulty. The civil list is so large that a personal knowledge of any large number of the app... ...approve for impar tiality and integrity. As the number of such in the civil list is increased removals from office will diminish. While a Treasury su... ...to weak ships and inefficient guns a rating greatly beyond that of the naval list. That they will again do so upon occasion I do not doubt; but they o... ...erly with out foundation in precedent or reason. The proposition is usually linked with one to make the secondary boy cott lawful. Such a propositio... ... Malaya, the American life given in Korea. We know, beyond this, that we are linked to all free peoples not merely by a noble idea but by a simple nee...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...ng at an age when a child begins to love a fairy tale—all might read it or listen to it, without tedium.” Every one will draw from it what he most nee... ...ing; and you set him to fighting!” “You are a gabbler!” said Bulba. “Don’t listen to your mother, my lad; she is a woman, and knows nothing. What sort... ...teenth year, woman began to present herself more frequently in his dreams; listening to philosophical discussions, he still beheld her, fresh, black-e... ...s regarded the students was that, instead of sitting under the pointer and listening to the worn-out doctrines of a teacher, they practised racing wit... ... jus- 43 Taras Bulba & Other Tales tice in the world!” The other Cossacks listened at first, and then began themselves to say, “In truth, there is no... ...ver fitted to strengthen the spirit of man, yet, if a suitable speech were linked with it, then the strength of the wine and of the spirit would be do...

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

...t off till Monday, perhaps on account of—I don’t know.” She broke off, and listened to the sounds of a Lon- don morning. Their house was in Wickham Pl... ...- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred years. Gone. Gone with the little courts that nurt... ...s. But which of them will rekindle the light within?” To all this Margaret listened, sitting on the haughty nephew’s knee. It was a unique education f... ...m through once more, and then she smiled at her Cousin Frieda. But Frieda, listening to Classi- cal Music, could not respond. Herr Liesecke, too, look... ...under the South-Western main line at Vauxhall. In the tunnel he paused and listened to the roar of the trains. A sharp pain darted through his head, a... ...r, the rights of property itself.” “Undoubtedly,” said Charles. Mr. Wilcox linked his arm in his son’s, but some- how liked him less as he told him mo...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... a vast distance from the metropolis, she had positively no friends on her list of visitors who resided in this great capital; secondly, and far above... ... to find much leisure for answering individual questions. Some, how- ever, listened with a marked air of attention to my earnest request for the circu... ...ave urged me to abstain from such acts of violence, too evidently useless, listlessly and scarcely know- ing what I was in quest of, I strayed by acci... ...sion might be taken. Two magis- trates and a clergyman attended. He gave a list of those whom he had trepanned, and had failed to trepan, by his artif... ...cord was closed, but not before he had placed my wife’s name in the latter list as the one whose injuries in his dying moments most appalled him. This... ...conversation, we might say that it was the power of vast com- bination ‘in linked sweetness long drawn out.’ He gathered into focal concentration the ...

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An Unsocial Socialist

By: George Bernard Shaw

...eel like an author; and so in Christian duty I always read other people’s. Listen to poor Sarah’s tale of guilt. ‘1st October. I am very sorry that I ... ...the distance a cry like that of a cat in distress. She ran to the door and listened. Presently there arose a prolonged wail, slurring up through two o... ...ray ends still swinging from the recent wind, now momentarily hushed as if listening for the coming of the rain. Access from the road- way was by a ro... ... ladies are not my daugh- ters,” said Miss Wilson sharply. “Why do you not listen to what is said to you?” “Don’t be too hard on a common man, lady,” ... ...g them impertinent is not moral force.” “You think then that I am bound to listen patiently to whatever you choose to say to me, however unbecoming it... ...ighten us. Don’t be afraid. Come on.” Henrietta hung back, but her arm was linked in Agatha’s, and she was drawn along in spite of herself. Smilash di...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...l us what they are. It is easy to fore- see, that if different men of different sects should go about to give us a list of those innate practical prin... ... have exam- ined the good and evil of what we desire. What follows after that, follows in a chain of consequences, linked one to another, all dependin... ...me to the lowest and the most inorganical parts of matter, we shall find everywhere that the several spe- cies are linked together, and differ but in ... ...great or discernible gaps be- tween, in all that great variety of things we see in the world, which are so closely linked together, that, in the sever... ...ished guilty”; “Could have done otherwise”; “Freedom”; “Self- determination”; by which chain of ideas thus visibly linked together in train, i.e. each...

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Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...onal Maps (FRMs) 93 1.6 Models illustrating FRM and combined FRMs 96 1.7 Linked Fuzzy Relational Maps 118 Chapter Two ON NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIV... ...ined NRMs and the Introduction of linked NRMs 174 2.10 Neutrosophic Relational Maps versus Neutrosophic Cogn... ...with illustrations of FRMs and put forth the concept of combined FRMs and linked FRMs. The second chapter introduces the notion of Neutrosophic Cogn... ...and combined FRMs are dealt with in section six. Section seven introduces linked FRMs. 1.1 Definition of Fuzzy Cognitive Maps In this section... ...AILURE) +0.8 +0.5 +0.5 +0.8 +1.0 29 An adjacency matrix is used to list the cause and effect relationships between the nodes. The runtime ope... ...ording to this definition of environments, those environmental factors are listed as follows: Uncontrollable factors: Economic conditions, Compet... ... investments (FIN). The innovation in Woodstrat is that these modules are linked together in a hyperknowledge fashion, i.e. when a strong market pos... ...vectors is computed using the following equation: S = 1 – AD. TABLE 1: LIST OF VARIABLES OF THE MODEL VARIABLE NAME DESCRIPTION Illiteracy rat... ... that represents the opinions of experts on how users surf the web. If we list all the concepts involved in the user’s behaviour on the web: C 1 = ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...ees, then sat next to him. The door had shut itself and we were alone. We listened to each other’s breathing and his hand sought mine and climbed my... ...aeus and some friends to supper. We sat around the courtyard fountain and listened to the harpists playing under the burning lamps. Libus, Nanno, Su... ... Were we seven or eight? Together, our bodies grew warm and we lay still, listening to the wind and the rain thud across the green roof, while the s... ...it is such a beautiful name. P There are days when my girls seem utterly listless. Their activities have no meaning to them. Nothing pleases them. ... ... who think in terms of chains.” P Sitting in the square the other day, I listened to Alcaeus speaking, excited be- cause he had taken cudgel in hand... ...ipped it and went off with Becky. No matter how icy, there was fun, hands linked, our runny noses beatific: Becky, whose giggle alerted every boy, w...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

... the last ten years. None of that work has been done alone. As a result, the list of people to whom I am indebted makes Oscar night acknowledgments lo... ...out the excesses of intel- lectual property. Some of them are even true. The list goes on and on. (By the end of this book, I hope to have convinced y... ...that the final arbiter of cul- ture should be the people who watch, read, and listen to it, and who remake it every day. And even if you are dubious ab... ...s of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to the people who actually read, or listen to, or watch the stuff. This is our cultural policy and it is driv... ...d unfettered ownership of the same piece of property simultaneously. Another linked reason comes from the practicality of excluding others from our pr... ...er than necessary to encourage the innovation in the first place. • Fourth, a linked point, they have considerable monopolistic dangers—they may well p... ...r control over some technology outside the range of the monopoly but closely linked to it. The list of dangers goes on and on, and so does the list of... ... less rival than a ham sandwich, say. But, in practice, some of them will be linked or connected in their social setting to other phenomena that are h... ...vement together. The same is true here. Apparently disparate inter- ests are linked by ideas of the protection of the public domain and of the Chapter...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

...it is sometimes quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, in stead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but... ...e government and of all other inter ests and opinions, can compel them to listen, and either com ply, or state clearly why they do not, is in itself... ...izens, and were often wholly in compatible with it. But they were closely linked with the external success and aggrandisement of the state; and it wa... ...the quota, his sec ond perhaps might be more fortunate. He may extend his list to a greater number in the order of his preference, so that if the nam... ...er of his preference, so that if the names which stand near the top of the list either can not make up the quota, or are able to make it up without hi... ...m would have their votes counted for the next person on their respec tive lists who needed them, and could by their aid complete the quota. T o deter...

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Beowulf

By: Anonymous

...a fish rose apace; yet me ‘gainst the monsters my mailed coat, hard and hand linked, help afforded, — battle sark braided my breast to ward, garnished... ...de of the Geats, Beowulf 18 shall bid him battle. Blithe to mead go he that listeth, when light of dawn this morrow morning o’er men of earth, ether ... ...ter loyal! Thanes are friendly, the throng obedient, liegemen are revelling: list and obey!” Went then to her place. — That was proudest of feasts; fl... ...ale; the breastplate hindered, as she strove to shatter the sark of war, the linked harness, with loathsome hand. Then bore this brine wolf, when bott... ...Wulf a wealth of treasure, Each of them had a hundred thousand 3 in land and linked rings; nor at less price reckoned mid earth men such mighty deeds!...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...ding. They are looked upon as candidates; they are placed on the wait- ing list. The conception is only carried a little farther when the life of adul... ...serving carefully cracks on the wall and set him to memorizing meaningless lists of words in an unknown tongue—which is about what we do in fact when ... ...s the measure of what is to happen. To be intelligent we must “stop, look, listen” in making the plan of an activity. To identify acting with an aim a... ...te difficulties? Almost everything testifies to the great premium put upon listening, reading, and the re- production of what is told and read. It is ... ... ers. Excessive reliance upon others for data (whether got from reading or listening) is to be depreciated. Most ob- jectionable of all is the probabi... ...cational and cultural edu- cation. Traditionally, liberal culture has been linked to the notions of leisure, purely contemplative knowledge and a spir...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ow everything.” “What can one say about it?” replied the prince in a cold, listless tone. “What has been decided? They have decided that Buonaparte ha... ...nen lately. He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov’s and will be here tonight.” “Listen, dear Annette,” said the prince, suddenly tak- ing Anna Pavlovna’s h... ...not know how to behave, she resumed her duties as hostess and continued to listen and watch, ready to help at any point where the conversation might h... ...pt an anxious watch on him when he approached the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and again when he passed to an- other ... ... to comply. Anna Pavlovna arranged a group round him, inviting everyone to listen to his tale. “The vicomte knew the duc personally,” whispered Anna P... ...erstitions, infidelity , and folly, and form of those devoted to us a body linked together by unity of purpose and possessed of authority and power. “... ... after some seconds that the impression pro- duced by Prince Andrew’s face linked itself up with Kutuzov’s remembrance of his personality . “Ah, how d... ... with the course of events re- main unexecuted. Only the possible ones get linked up with a consecutive series of commands corresponding to a series o... ...ond ago I must still recognize it as not being free, for it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed. Can I lift my arm? I lift i...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ...ntricate but in- tense sweetness, their varied and voluminous music, their linked chains of lightning, and feel the difference between the fabricator ... ... double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation listen’d while he spoke; 74 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ... ...s, I feel the pain, And he that smarts has reason to complain. Do what you list, for me; you must be sage, And cautious sure; for wisdom is in age: Bu... ...lore? And Pyramus and Thisbe plainly show The feats true lovers, when they list, can do: Though watch’d and captive, yet in spite of all, They found t... ...ll have, I undertake; And thus an end of all dispute I make. T ry when you list; and you shall find, my lord, It is not in our sex to break our word.’...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...tude to our master Pompeius, who, in his condescension, has thought fit to listen to your idolatrous importunities? The god Phoebus, who is a true god... ...e of rather bad character. This nephew, whose name was Pennifeather, would listen to nothing like reason in the matter of “lying quiet,” but insisted ... ...property. Upon finding of this bullet, the examining magistrate refused to listen to any farther testimony, and immediately committed the pris- oner f... ... we enjoyed in living where there was suffrage ad libitum, and no king. He listened with marked interest, and in fact seemed not a little amused. When... ...ll in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the s... ...lution, while they die— Adorning then the dwellings of the sky. A dome, by linked light from Heaven let down, Sat gently on these columns as a crown— ...

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Paradise Lost

By: John Milton

...s discern Th’ advantage, and descending tread us down Thus drooping, or with linked Thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this Gulfe. Awake, arise... ...ith wide CERBEREAN mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they list, would creep, Paradise Lost Milton 32 If aught disturb’d thir no... ... hourly conceiv’d And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when they list into the womb That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw My Bowe... ...h art to reach The Organs of her Fancie, and with them forge Illusions as he list, Phantasms and Dreams, Or if, inspiring venom, he might taint Th’ an... ...hir motions harmonie Divine So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear Listens delighted. Eevning approachd (For we have also our Eevning and o... ...pite don against the most High, Thee once to gaine Companion of his woe. But list’n not to his Temptations, warne Thy weaker; let it profit thee to ha...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...papers, and called in Alpatych who had long been waiting. The prince had a list of things to be bought in Smolensk and, walking up and down the room p... ...xactly like the sample. V ar- nish, sealing wax, as in Michael Ivanovich’s list.” He paced up and down for a while and glanced at his notes. “Then han... ...der the shed, became quiet and with the baby in her arms went to the gate, listening to the sounds and looking in silence at the people. The cook and ... ... sleeves rolled up, swinging her bare elbows, had stepped to the corner to listen to what was being said. “What marvels!” she exclaimed, but hearing h... ...e Assembly of the Nobility,” Prince V asili interrupted, “but they did not listen to me. I told them his election as chief of the militia would not pl... ...ly after some seconds that the impression produced by Prince Andrew’s face linked itself up with Kutuzov’s remembrance of his per- sonality. “Ah, how ...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...oloured rags, while his big unwashed feet stuck out from the other. He was listening. His hut adjoined the wall that encircled the church and the soli... ...ttle on the ground, and whirled it round in the darkness at random. Savely listened to all this din and frowned. The fact was that he knew, or at any ... ... tfoo! he is as ugly as Satan!” The sexton took breath, wiped his lips and listened. The bell was not to be heard, but the wind banged on the roof, an... ...ge is Markovka, and that’s over three miles away. Savely is on the retired list now, and has got the watchman’s job; he has to look after the church… ... ...ring all kinds of stories from the travellers in the evening, and he liked listening to them before going to bed. His old wife, Afanasyevna, and his d... ...d he even stopped for a minute to take breath. “The past,” he thought, “is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of a...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...ing as they were vis- iting our land. It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the... ...st the Europeans talk. The contrary habit, of talking whilst the Europeans listen, we have not yet acquired; and in him who first makes the adven- tur... ... docu- ments that will make a more delectable and curious entertainment to listen to than mine. Yet I doubt whether he will necessarily, by his contro... ...selves so that on neither hypothesis we shall be completely wrong. We must listen to the superior voices, but in such a way that if the second hypothe... ...ous state of mind, although I dare say that to many of you it may seem too listless and half-hearted to merit so good a name. But what matters it in t... ...res will show us, this is a bad speculative omission, but it is intimately linked with the practical merits of the system we are examining. Why regret... ...o be happy, but rather to escape unhappiness; strong hap- piness is always linked with pain; therefore hug the safe shore, and do not tempt the deeper...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...howing that we can think; but behaviourists say that the talk they have to listen to can be explained with- out supposing that people think. Where you... ...ne one chain of experi- ence, or one biography, as a series of occurrences linked by mnemic causation. I think it is this characteristic, more than an... ...the way the light falls. They get only correlated sensa- tions. Two people listening to the same sound do not hear exactly the same thing, because one... ...ver belief that makes the patient regard them as sen- sations. When we are listening for a faint sound—the striking of a distant clock, or a horse’s h... ...mnemic laws, i.e. that it is governed by habit and past experience. If you listen to a man playing the pianola without looking at him, you will have i... ...g for breakfast and it is sure to be bad.” I do not suggest that this is a list of all possible attitudes on the subject; I say only that they are dif...

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The Noble Qur'An

By: Rev. J. M. Rodwell

...n only disjointed notes, speeches, and the retentive memories of those who listened to them. To speak of the Koran is, therefore, practically the same... ...mind is his only teacher. The liter- ary compositions to which he had ever listened were the half- cultured, yet often wildly powerful rhapsodies of e... ...mmadans themselves, with reference especially to the ancient chronological list printed by Weil in his Mohammed der Prophet, as well as upon a careful... ...ed; by Mr. Muir in his Life of Mahomet, who also publishes a chronological list of Suras, 21 however of which he admits have “not yet been carefully f... ...stian histo- ries; while, in the 29 Suras revealed at Medina, we no longer listen to vague words, often as it would seem without posi- tive aim, but t... ...o God, the Only, the Victorious. And thou shalt see the wicked on that day linked together in chains– Their garments of pitch, and fire shall enwrap t...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

..., pointed her out as the mother of the younger female, and who appeared to listen with a mixture of displeasure and impatience. Tinto produced his ske... ...her. He, while passing around the cup which he himself did not taste, soon listened to a thousand exclamations against the Lord Keeper, and passion- a... ...protestations of attachment to himself, and to the honour of his house. He listened with dark and sullen brow to ebul- litions which he considered jus... ...was, from pride as well as policy, most anxious to conceal from others. He listened with great appar- ent composure to an exaggerated account of the t... ...and simple class, was still a man and a father. he stopped, therefore, and listened, while the silver tones of Lucy Ashton’s voice mingled with the ac... ... equals or his superiors in those particulars, no one else would have been linked to her heart by the strong associations of remembered danger and esc... ...aised his beaver from his face, his fingers fumbled as if the one had been linked with rusted iron, or the other had weighed equal with a stone of lea...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...f burr; telling strange tales with singular deliberation and, to a patient listener, excellent ef- fect. After all these ups and downs, he seemed stil... ...annot say, al- 39 Memories and Portraits though perhaps the bees too were linked to him by some recollection of Manor braes and his country childhood... ... Kingussie! I think shame to leave out one of these enchantresses, but the list would grow too long if I remembered all; only I may not forget Allan W... ...them about Boroughmuirhead; he knew besides (the lord knows how, unless by listening) that they were come to Braid for their recovery; and without pau... ...we attain to worthy pleasures. Men and women contend for each other in the lists of love, like rival mesmerists; the ac- tive and adroit decide their ... ...t sincerity, perfect intelligence, a desire to hear although not always to listen, and an unaffected ea- gerness to meet concessions. You have, with B...

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