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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...ize their utility in the long-run by observing the rules and regulations of a level playing field. This noble propensity seemed, alas, to have been... ... argument would crystallize if it was convincingly and repeatedly demonstrated that playing back these patterns of brain activity induces the same ... ...o only when corruption does not constitute an acceptable and normative part of the playing field. When corruption becomes institutionalized - it al... ...ible (differentia). Without the context, the definition can well fit most other non-playing human activities. "Window" – Planar discontinuity in a s... ...nly to discover that they could have done much better by collaborating (that is, by playing irrationally). Instead, they adopt the "Paretto-dominate... ...redictions. Additionally, the deviation of finite sets of data (e.g., the number of cards correctly guessed by subjects) from predictions yielded by... ...les, Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled cell phones, wireless networks, smart cards - are all intrusive and counter- privacy. Add social poli... ...ef in God inspires some scientists who regard science as a method to "peek at God's cards" and to get closer to Him. Another example: the pursuit of...

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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...n the Future • 17 our stores and progressed to featuring them on greeting cards and decorative stuffed dolls. By 1986, Cookie had developed into a ... ...had developed into a girl doing the hula and Chip had become a little boy playing the ukulele. In 1987, a friend saw Christine's drawings, and con­ ... ...ing courteous sometimes got in the way of the games my friends and I were playing. It was like having a job, the only difference being that I was no... ...uced me to Simon and Garfunkel when they were completely unknown and were playing in small, dingy clubs. I thought they were fabulous; they looked v... ...rting style that was very successful. I would send flowers and thoughtful cards, and occasionally pick up my date in a limousine. I took ladies to t... ...gory did not see it as a joke. He never told me how hurt he felt, and the cards stopped coming. Judging and shaming children gets you nowhere. Just... ...d analyzed in her years as a business consultant. $14.95 Personal Power Cards by Barbara Gress A simple, easy to use set of flash cards for emoti... ...imple, easy to use set of flash cards for emotional wellness. Includes 55 cards, a carrying pouch, and an 80 page booklet. The Cards help retrain yo...

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The Power in You

By: Wally Amos

...acts multiplied. People looked forward to those friendly, edible calling cards. Can you see the love here? I loved the cookies my Aunt Della made ... ...cy in the world. After my initial training 6> 7 period, I got my business cards and discovered I could even impress people. But deep inside I still ... ...ness career. I still didn't have the self~ esteem to back up the business cards. In two mar~ riages and numerous relationships I felt I could attra... ...ly caps, 6> 9 fluorescent socks or whatever made me feel good. I started playing the kazoo because it's humorous and fun. (I proclaimed the kazoo a... ...y takes that direction without her being aware of it. Sarah's having fun playing. We can call it, "practic, ing use of imagination," or "playing ma... ...een test marketing the cookies for five years when I used them as calling cards during my years as a personal manager. My homemade cookies always o... ...r of war in Vietnam for several years. Every day he would imagine himself playing golf and get' ting a hole in one. When he was finally freed and s... ...to heal. I've visited many hospital wards, both for children and adults, playing my kazoo as enthusiastically as possible, and· I could always see ... ...ildren's hospital in Oklahoma City, I made a young child, Mason, smile by playing my kazoo; he hadn't smiled for weeks. This is the attitude of ent...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...redictions. Additionally, the deviation of finite sets of data (e.g., the number of cards correctly guessed by subjects) from predictions yielded by... ... inspires some scientists who regard science as a method to "sneak a peek at God's cards" and to get closer to Him. Another example: the pursuit of... ... mechanisms of his critics. Projection, resistance, and displacement do seem to be playing a prominent role. Psychologists are taunted by the lack ...

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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...—that is, the greatest of scamps,— and who had taught us to drink and play cards, took advantage of a night of intoxication to drag us THERE. We start... ...tions to which we are subjected. She has neither cigarettes, nor wine, nor cards, nor comrades, nor public houses, nor public functions. And then the ... .... We had spats about the cof- fee, the table-cloth, the carriage, games of cards,—trifles, in short, which could not be of the least importance to eit... ... thing else, a means of forgetting, an intoxication, just as hunting, card-playing, and my functions at the Zemstvo served the same purpose for me. It... ... keeping myself in a state of perpetual semi-intoxication by hunting, card-playing, and, above all, the use of wine and tobacco. It was because of thi... ...th him. In the beginning, I suppose, because of the pleasure of the violin playing, which she adored. She had even hired for that purpose a violinist ... ...caress’ him. I filled his glass at the table, I grew enthusiastic over his playing, I talked to him with an extremely amiable smile, and I invited him... ... Those brilliant eyes, that severity and majestic expression while she was playing, and then that utter languor, that weak, pitiable, and happy smile ...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Two

By: Edgar Allan Poe

... is a game of puzzles,” he resumed, “which is played upon a map. One party playing requires another to find a given word—the name of town, river, stat... ...this rack, which had three or four compartments, were five or six visiting cards and a solitary letter. This last was much soiled and crumpled. It was... ...or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, of art—or endowing, a... ...st, while our delirious extravagance was at its height. Madly flushed with cards and intoxication, I was in the act of insisting upon a toast of more ... ...some eight or ten, and was solici- tously careful that the introduction of cards should appear ac- cidental, and originate in the proposal of my conte... ...the company, interested in the extent of our play, had abandoned their own cards, and were standing around us as spectators. The parvenu, who had been... ...ured. A search ensued. In the lining of my sleeve were found all the court cards essential in ecarte, and, in the pockets of my wrapper, a number of p...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume One

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...dmitted that he contracted debts and had “an ungovernable passion for card-playing.” These debts may have led to his quarrel with Mr. Allan which even... ...oceed by “the book,” are points commonly regarded as the sum total of good playing. But it is in matters beyond the limits of mere rule that the skill... ...with that of each of his opponents. He considers the mode of assorting the cards in each hand; often counting trump by trump, and honor by honor, thro... ...possession of the con- tents of each hand, and thenceforward puts down his cards with as absolute a precision of purpose as if the rest of the party h...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...supper. We sat around the courtyard fountain and listened to the harpists playing under the burning lamps. Libus, Nanno, Suidas—they are good compan... ...ld woman, watches with burning, lidless eyes, remembering her naked days, playing them back again. Cypress are drenched with sun. P Winter has com... ...umes. Love, I remind myself, with inward nod, can be curious. Well, I am playing the game—if it is a game—circumspectly, knowing winds can be fickl... ...body needing his body: Slick with slime to satiety he shoots forward playing such music upon those strings, wearing a phallus of leather, suc... ...nished smoothing the legs and sat on the floor, Whitey beside me. She was playing with a heap of shavings. Again I had that illusion that time was m... ... 265 She and I had many hours for the gamboa...we ate together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... ... ...eeds, shell spirals, spider webs, ferns, the perfect rectangle, in playing cards, the Parthenon’s façade. Another night of memories, a night for m... ...c...subtleties in metal and wood. Again it’s late. Francesco is playing cards at the château—Parisian girls. The cat has disappeared. Lamps need f... ...d at our easels until lunch. Cold. At lunch, F said: “I lost again at cards last night... I can’t speak French well enough to win. It’s lucky fo...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

...es to take amazingly saccharine pictures of puppies and put them on greeting cards—maybe you can quit your day job and actually make a living from you... ...the content of our culture—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will... ...rds, is lost culture. No one is reprinting the books, screening the films, or playing the songs. No one is allowed to. In fact, we may not even know wh... ..., however, just a warning. While it would be excellent to print it on pocket cards and hand it to our elected rep- resentatives, that alone will not s... ...n be found and copied with ease. The symbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that ... ...int. One function of CSS was indeed to make it harder for the average person playing a DVD on a com- puter to copy the file from the DVD to her hard di... ...ercise those rights legally? I could, after all, make a videotape of the DVD playing on my television, and use that grainy, blurry image in my documen... ...ot on those tapes and thus claim an in- tellectual property right to stop me playing them on TV or digitizing them to make the sounds clearer. The res...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By: Kate Chopin

...d whistling birds were still at it. Two young girls, the Farival twins, were playing a duet from “Zampa” upon the piano. Madame Lebrun was bustling in... ...udelet’s lugger to hear mass. Some young people were out under the wateroaks playing cro quet. Mr. Pontellier’s two children were there sturdy little... ...wind, the trees, the people who had gone to the Cheniere; about the children playing croquet under the oaks, and the Farival twins, who were now perfo... ... up, wipe the water out of his eves and the sand out of his mouth, and go on playing. Tots as they were, they pulled together and stood their ground i... ...s little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand. If your attentions to any married women here were ev... ...y, in dress coat and bear ing a diminutive silver tray for the reception of cards, admitted them. A maid, in white fluted cap, offered the callers li... ...lied Edna, who was eating her soup with evident satisfaction. “I found their cards when I got home; I was out.” “Out!” exclaimed her husband, with som... ... town serves a better one. Was Mrs. Belthrop here?” “Bring the tray with the cards, Joe. I don’t remember who was here.” The Awakening – Chopin 38 Th... ...ment, bringing the tiny silver tray, which was covered with ladies’ visiting cards. He handed it to Mrs. Pontellier. “Give it to Mr. Pontellier,” she ...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...way Pierre remembered that Anatole Kuragin was expecting the usual set for cards that evening, after which there was generally a drinking bout, finish... ...s a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the dis- tance. Cards and supper were over, but the visitors had not yet dispersed. Pierre ... ...at between them and listened attentively. His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, espe... ...ms, some in the sitting room, some in the library . The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from dropping into his usual af... ...nd it seemed ready to lift its tail, jump down on its soft paws, and begin playing with the ball of worsted as a kitten should. “Do you think so?... R... ...hed back in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and older visitor... ... in the sitting room where the count and Marya Dmitrievna had been playing cards with the majority of the more distinguished and older visitors. They ... ... real war, but only a sort of puppet show at which the men of the day were playing, pretending to do something real. Prince Andrew gaily bore with his... ...s nowhere to be found Denisov glanced at Rostov. “W ostov, you’ve not been playing schoolboy twicks...” Rostov felt Denisov’s gaze fixed on him, raise...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... 65 Tolstoy give him pleasure, and why though he grudged spending money on cards or anything harmful, he was prepared to run into some expense for the... ...ut looking at him, made some reply to Boris who sat down beside her. After playing out a whole suit and to his partner’s delight taking five tricks, P... ... the game. After six rubbers the general got up, saying that it was no use playing like that, and Pierre was released. Natasha on one side was talking... ... parties he had seen. Everything was similar: the ladies’ subtle talk, the cards, the general raising his voice at the card table, and the samovar and... ...ther looks up to? Can it be true? Can it be true that there can be no more playing with life, that now I am grown up, that on me now lies a responsibi...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ll time and tune, with both hands, making a great show, the nincompoop! of playing “Judy O’Flannagan and Paddy O’Rafferty.” Affairs being thus miserab... ...se, “Donner und Blitzen!” This was all that could be desired. We exchanged cards. At Chalk-Farm, the next morning, I shot off his nose —and then calle... ...s of a simple kind, such as music, dancing, gymnastic exercises generally, cards, certain classes of books, and so forth. We affected to treat each in... ... don paper mentions the decease of a person from a singular cause. He was playing at ‘puff the dart,’ which is played with a long needle inserted in ... ...ught of his game. His Majesty did not think; he shuffled. The Duc cut. The cards were dealt. The trump is turned—it is—it is—the king! No—it was the q... ...sn’t it?—diamonds, did you say?— terrible wretches those Kickapoos!—we are playing whist, if you please, Mr. Tattle—however, this is the age of invent... ...gorgeous architectural piles; or collect- ing large specimens of Virtu; or playing the munificent patron of Letters and Art; or endowing and bestowing... ...all) which shall lead us to the truth. The circumstance of the Automaton’s playing with his left hand cannot have connexion with the operations of the...

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Man and Superman a Comedy and a Philosophy

By: George Bernard Shaw

...ting an accomplishment which will not even make money for him, like fiddle playing. Effectiveness of assertion is the Alpha and Omega of style. He who... ...f him. I feel the coils tightening round my very self, though you are only playing with me. ANN. Do you think I have designs on Tavy? TANNER. I know y... ...vy, even if you feel it like an ass. It’s the old game: she’s not tired of playing with you yet. OCTAVIUS. [impatiently] Oh, don’t be a fool, Jack. Do... ... Bless you, my children: may you be happy! OCTAVIUS. I wish you would stop playing the fool about this. If it is not serious to you, it is to me, and ... ...you didn’t know? Oh, come, Mr T anner! TANNER. [in fierce earnest] Are you playing the fool, or do you mean it? STRAKER. [with a flash of temper] I’m ... ... Others sit down or lie down to sleep in the open. A few produce a pack of cards and move off towards the road; for it is now starlight; and they know...

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Crime Its Cause and Treatment

By: Clarence Darrow

...f 8 any meat; with some the eating of meat on Friday, and with others the playing of any game of chance for money, or the playing of any game on Sund... ...g study. The doctor for the prosecution may find that the subject can play cards and talk connectedly on most things, and as he is casu- ally visiting... ...tle. Whether they got the psychology from killing or reading or hearing or playing soldier or training makes no difference. Everyone who has any reaso... ...ite are the combina- tions and consequences that may come from turning the cards in a single deck. Who is the perfect one that should be willing to pu...

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...bered himself as he used to be — young and merry. He remembered how he sat playing the guitar in the porch of the inn where he was ar rested, and how... ...d something as if he were annoyed, and stood leaning against the doorpost, playing with his dagger, and glaring askance at Zhílin, like a wolf. The da... ...t it, and considered a while. ‘No,’ said he. ‘It’s the same one. He’s been playing tricks, and walked backwards when he left the road.’ We followed th... ...and all the straws changed into soldiers, with a trum peter and a drummer playing in front, so that there was a whole regiment. Iván laughed. ‘How cl... ...f these lassies, when they themselves have forgotten all about it, and are playing happily together. Dear little souls! They are wiser than you!’ The ... ...y all may be right, but to morrow the Evil One may tempt your husband with cards, wine, or women, and all will go to ruin. Don’t such things happen of...

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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

By: Ulysses S. Grant

... indulged in, male and female, old and young, priest and layman, was Monte playing. Regular feast weeks were held every year at what was then known as... ... houses or streets built over San Fran- cisco Bay. Besides the gambling in cards there was gambling on a larger scale in city lots. These were sold “O... ...ssionists became quiet but were filled with suppressed rage. They had been playing the bully. The Union men or- dered the rebel flag taken down from t... ...ht and left of where the troops were to enter the enemy’s lines, commenced playing. Ledlie’s division marched into the crater immediately on the explo... ...rter of a pound of tea, two or three pounds of coffee, more of sugar, some playing cards, and if anything 594 Personal Memoirs was left over of the p... ...a pound of tea, two or three pounds of coffee, more of sugar, some playing cards, and if anything 594 Personal Memoirs was left over of the proceeds ...

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Bride of Lammermoor

By: Sir Walter Scott

...eel, sirs!” said Mrs. Lightbody, “wha wad hae thought o’ Caleb Balderstone playing an auld acquaintance sic a pliskie!” “Oh, weary on him!” said the s... ...ves; and I even hinted how po- litical matters were like to turn, and what cards would be trumps next Parliament. I said I regarded you as a son—or a ... ...aimed Craigengelt, with a well-assumed air of astonishment, “that would be playing the back-game with a witness! Leap back! Why, is not the girl’s for...

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