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“As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'conditions'. Gravelly Hill or any sort of situation for improvement, when the Earth was properly regarded as a 'garden tenement messuage orchard and if this is nostalgia let you take a breath of April showers let's us reason how is the dampness in your nasal passage -- but I have had lunch in this 'pasture' (B. Ellery to
George Girdler Smith
'gentleman'
1799, for
£150)
overlooking
'the town'
sitting there like
the Memphite lord of
all Creation
with my back -- with Dogtown
over the Crown of
gravelly
hill
It is not bad
to be pissed off”
Source: Maximus Poems
“As it is with humanity’s ascent, so it is with its decline. Declining peoples first lose their sense of moderation. They strive for isolated particulars, they fling themselves shortsightedly on narrow and trifling things, they raise the conditional above the universal; then they pursue pleasure and sensuality, they seek to gratify their hatred and envy of their neighbor, their art depicts what is one-sided what is valid from one perspective only”
“As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory.”
Source: A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects
“As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.”
Source: Murphy
“As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.”
“As it is, plain reasoning assures me I am not indispensable to the universe: but with this reasoning, somehow, does not travel my belief.”
Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
“As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.”
“As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions:
(1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36);
(2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-,
(3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82);
(4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and
(5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).”
“As it occurs in nature, without medical treatment: Rh- (blood type) girls, can only make the baby with Rh- boys. How they gravitate towards each other out of the crowd proves higher order (destiny, fate, superintelligent design).”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and our efforts were stunted by the bane of our insecurities or blunted by the challenges of life, does not a sunset invite us to rest before it whispers the same message the next morning?”
“As it represents and thus conceives of autism as a threat to the normative individual and social body, contemporary advocacy work issues an effective and powerful 'call to arms' against autism. The orientation of contemporary advocacy is clear: to be a 'good' autism advocate is to be positioned 'against' autism, to 'fight' it, 'combat' it, 'defeat' it, and so on. . . It is this war on autism that I take as my focus for the remainder of this book. I do this so as to interrogate how a militarized autism advocacy is systematically producing and sustaining a social environment that is hostile to autistic difference—an environment that, as we shall see, structures and supports possibilities for violence against those who embody autistic difference.”
Source: War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
“As it’s late, I will bid you goodnight. God willing, we will all meet up again in four years, dust of this prediction from ChatGPT, and see then how this statement of the future compares with reality.”
Source: The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall
“As it’s not feasible to research everyone in your target audience, you focus on a group of people that can represent most of the others in your market. For this, you wisely identify and obtain a sample and make sure that no group from your target market is left unrepresented.”
Source: Market Research Like a Pro
“As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.”
Source: Moon Is Harsh Mistres
“As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give me any of your shit - I'm a librarian.”
“As it so happens, following on from LOVE YOURSELF, the first line of the MAP OF THE SOUL series' opening song, "Intro: Persona," goes: "Who am I." Of course, like it says in the lyrics, "The question I had my entire life" is "The question I'll probably never find the answer to my whole life." However, it is in the process of answering this question, which comes around in every period of life, that a person learns what it is they have to do.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“As it so happens, I like your mouth."
"It doesn't -- "
"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.”
Source: Twist
“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…”
Source: Heartless
“As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.”
Source: A New York Winter's Tale
“As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.”
Source: Star Wars: Death Star
“As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.”
“As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.”
“As it stands, the United States is facing a crisis of identity unlike any before. The country is headed toward an inversion of its demographics, with its powerful white majority expected to be out-numbered by people not of European descent within two decades. This is unknown territory for everyone in the hierarchy, an ethnic distribution that could potentially look closer to that of South Africa than to what Americans have grown accustomed to.
Anticipatory fear seems already to have surfaced, but if history is any guide, a change in demographics might have less of a material effect on the dominant caste than imagined. A 2016 study found that, if disparities in wealth continue at the current pace, it would take black families 228 years to amass the wealth that white families have now, and Latino families another 84 years to reach parity.
Thus, as in South Africa, there would be no reason to believe that economic, social, and, in America, political dominance would not still remain in the hands of those who have held it for the entirety of the country's history.
This will be a test of the cherished ideal of majority rule, the moral framework for caste dominance in America since its founding.”
Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.”
“As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host.”
“As it turned out, almost every notion I had on my 13th birthday about my future turned out to be a total waste of my time. When I thought of myself as an adult, all I could imagine was someone thin, and smooth, and calm, to whom things... happened. Some kind of souped-up princess with a credit card. I didn't have any notion about self-development, or following my interests, or learning big life lessons, or, most important, finding out what I was good at and trying to earn a living from it. I presumed that these were all things that some grown-ups would come along and basically tell me what to do about at some point, and that I really shouldn't worry about them. I didn't worry about what I was going to do. What I did worry about, and thought I should work hard at, was what I should be, instead. I thought all of my efforts should be concentrated on being fabulous, rather than doing fabulous things.”
“As it turned out, an apple a day did not keep the doctor away, especially if that happened to be the only thing I ate for an entire day.”
Source: Imperfect Mortals : A Collection of Short Stories
“As it turned out, being human was every bit as much fun as she'd always thought it would be.”
Source: Cress
“As it turned out, Cosima had quite a flair for flavor. She created things that shocked Kat, who had only ever followed her mother's more mundane recipes. One Saturday, Cosima made rosemary, stilton, and walnut bread and their father ran up and down the street after breakfast, telling his neighbors he was training for a marathon. Another Saturday her bacon and brie bread caused Peter Rubens to quit his sales job and revisit a great passion for pottery and carpentry that he'd long before abandoned. Kat personally puts her father's remarriage down to the chocolate and chili bread Cosima made when she was six, Kat liked her stepmother and loved that she was finally free to leave her father and little sister and go out into the world to live her own life.”
Source: The Witches of Cambridge
“As it turned out, everyone knew that I had cancer. That is, everyone except me.”
Source: Cancer Is for Older People: How Young Minds Beat an Old Disease
“As it turned out, I had to get into it and work through it if I was going to be able to get out of it.”
“As it turned out, one aspect of my personality would help me in my odyssey: I was a bider. Temperamentally suited to hold out for good cards, well accustomed to waiting. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.”
Source: The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
“As it turned out, the purée of spring vegetables exceeded Mr. Ravenel's description. The soft reddish-orange emulsion really did taste like a garden. It was a bold, creamy harmony of astringent tomato, sweet carrots, potatoes, and greens, bound together in a lively snap of springtime. As Phoebe bit into a half-crisp, half-sodden crouton, she closed her eyes to savor it. God, it had been so long since she'd really tasted anything.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“As it turned out, everyone wanted a doughnut. Jace wanted two.”
“As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.”
“As it turned out, my perception was so much more intimidating than the reality.”
Source: Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future
“As it turned out, though, it was a lot easier to say that someone deserved to die for what they did than it was to take the responsibility to make that happen.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.”
Source: Mine Till Midnight
“As it turns out,” he says, “I have incredible focus when I’m interested in something.”
Source: Book Lovers
“As it turns out, it was that very rock bottom that became the most firm foundation I had ever planted my feet on. A foundation so solid, it finally provided the springboard I needed to outrun that teasing, taunting shadow of unworthiness that had followed me my entire life.”
Source: You Are Enough: Heartbreak, Healing, and Becoming Whole
“As it turns out, money does grow on trees”
“As it turns out, my acceptance of the heroin addict’s invitation to party may have been a case of poor judgement.”
Source: Oh Honey
“As it turns out, not being distracted by constant Snapchats from Steph means I’m actually getting lots of stuff done. I bet having a fight with her best mate is how Coco Chanel got started.”
Source: Friendship Fails of Emma Nash
“As it turns out, that persistence is a requirement. Thus, he would tell me, you need the dark to show the light, so you shouldn't curse darkness. You needed death to define life.”
Source: The First Confessor
“As it turns out, the whole place was a purgatory for gray-haired widows and divorced men, content to eat frozen dinners and watch Deep Space Nine until they fell asleep alone and covered in potato chip crumbs.”
Source: I Know I Am, But What Are You?
“As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.”
Source: A Small Furry Prayer: Dog Rescue and the Meaning of Life
“As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.”
“As it turns out, it's really expensive to make movies, much more than records.”
“As it turns out, now is the moment you've been waiting for”