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“Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he was forty, fat and shabby and worked for the local council. Curiously enough, though he didn't know it, he was also a direct male-line descendant of Genghis Khan, though intervening generations and racial mixing had so juggled his genes that he had no discernible Mongoloid characteristics, and the only vestiges left in Mr L Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.”

Knows Humans Littles Enough Form Left Lines Generations Direct Males Locals Fats Characteristics Hats Forty Genes Carbon Council Apes Fur Ancestry Mixing Descendants Shabby Intervening

Author:Douglas Adams

“You can try, but you seem cleverer than Fudge, so I'd have thought you'd have learned from his mistakes. He tried intervening at Hogwarts. You might have noticed he's not Minister anymore, but Dumbledore's still headmaster. I'd leave Dumbledore alone, if I were you.”

Ifs Trying Stills Seems Might Mistake Ministers Intervening Hogwarts Fudge Headmasters

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?”

Years Looks May Moments Past Grows Routine Afternoon Vivid Your Past Intervening

Author:Roger Zelazny

“In the United States, the government is bailing out banks, intervening in the economy, yet in Latin America, the Right continues to talk about 'free markets.' It's totally outdated; they don't have arguments; they don't have any sense.”

States Government America United United States Economy Argument Latin Free Market Latin America Outdated Intervening Bailing Out

Author:Hugo Chavez

“For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.”

Use Science Nature History Perspective Diversity Mathematics Architecture Aids Astronomy Sufficient Subtlety Intervening Dexterity

Book:Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

“We have tax revenue that's going to allow us to look in a much more comprehensive way at intervening in addiction.”

Way Looks Taxes Addiction Marijuana Revenue Comprehensive Intervening

Author:John Hickenlooper

“For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.”

Evil Morality Shadow All Things Eternity Clouds Passing Passings Good And Evil Affliction Damp Baptized Intervening Fonts Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Property, the right to enjoy the fruits of one's labor, the right to work, to develop, to exercise one's faculties, according to one's own understanding, without the state intervening otherwise than by its protective action; this is what is meant by liberty”

States Action Enjoy Understanding Liberty Exercise Labor Property Fruit Faculty Protective Intervening

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product”

Sometimes Shows Artist Process Interest Interesting Steps Study Products Conversation Models Finals Drawing Thought Process Intervening Scribbles

Book:Sol Lewitt: critical texts

Source: Sol Lewitt: critical texts

“He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever.”

Political Politics Periods Rising Elders Statesmen Intervening

Author:Michael Foot

“We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.”

Looks Mean Ultimate Our Time Interpretation Adaptability Framing Intervening Ultimate Questions

Author:William J. Brennan

“Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.”

Love May Death Change Realizing Absence Seals Those We Love Intervening

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.”

Source: The Nikola Tesla Treasury

“People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block the sensible collaboration between two NHS hospitals. They can no longer deny it, it’s absolutely clear.”

People Firsts Said Two Might Clear First Time Competition Deny Block Hospitals Collaboration Sensible Intervening Nhs

Author:Andy Burnham

“Indeed, there is nothing more arbitrary than intervening as a stranger in a destiny which is not ours.”

Destiny Stranger Existential Arbitrary Intervening

Book:The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

Source: The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism

“While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.”

“Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.”

Moving Choices Nature Lines Travel Elements Draws Weight Centre Intervening

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.”

Wish Ought Equal Members Protection Inequality Guarantees Our Society Judiciary Intervening Equal Protection

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.”

Moving Goal Views Common Strategy Sake Vices Focused Believer Bother Drs Tactics Sequence Intervening

Author:Michael Chabon

“My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility”

Self Philosophy Government Political Politics Responsibility Behavior Ethics Ultimate Libertarian Thinker Self Knowledge Political Philosophy Intervening

Author:Camille Paglia

“I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.”

Years Believe Political Left I Believe Social Rich Modern Events Changed Periods Years Ago England Shore Diverse Grammar Imperatives Intervening Modern English English Grammar

Author:Robert Burchfield

“People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.”

People Needs Government Responsibility Steps Industry Taking Responsibility Housing Every Step Intervening

Author:Eric Cantor

“Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.”

Helping Today Given Church Objects Prophet Abraham Intervening

Book:The marrow of theology

Source: The marrow of theology

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