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“The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.”

Mean Found Land Conditions Fixed Consideration Improving Propose Possessing Residence

Book:Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales

Source: Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during ... 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831: with observations on New South Wales

“While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.”

Mean Persons Problem Buddhism Stores Fixed Knowledge And Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.”

May Mean Play Artist Attitude Audience Majority Experiments Fixed Arranging

Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man

Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man

“What modern art means is that you have to keep finding new ways to express yourself, to express the problems, that there are no settled ways, no fixed approach. This is a painful situation, and modern art is about this painful situation of having no absolutely definite way of expressing yourself.”

Way Mean Art Problem Situation Modern Findings Approach Art Is Painful Fixed New Ways Definite Express Yourself Bourgeois Modernism Modern Art Painful Situations

Book:Bourgeois

Source: Bourgeois

“The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.”

Mean Doe Ideas Purpose Enlightenment Fixed Reincarnation True Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.”

Knows Men Mean Would Be Able Religious Fiction Poet Limits Eternal Punishment Fixed Woe Resisting Menace

Book:Lucretius On the Nature of Things

Source: Lucretius On the Nature of Things