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“The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.”

Ifs Men Mind States Play Seems Form United Quality United States Dangerous Intellectual Various Practicals Luxury Manifestation Indulgence Piety Playfulness

Author:Richard Hofstadter

“When any body of statesmen make public asservations by one or various voices, that there is no discord among them, not a dissentient voice on any subject, people are apt to suppose that they cannot hang together much longer.”

People Body Together Voice Subjects Various Statesmen Discord

Book:The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

Source: The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children

“My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.”

Years Born Existence Democracy Grew Husband Grew Up Europe Twenties Moved Various Israel Experiments My Husband Dictatorship Socialist Brazil Utopian Filthy

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession, in which those phenomena (various planetary happenings) follow each other, and by the harmony of the world, if we will only, as the saying goes, look at the matter with both eyes.”

Ifs World Looks Matter Eye Earth Order Sun Taught Happenings Harmony Various Succession Axes

Author:Nicolaus Copernicus

“In the Small group the individual can know the effects of his actions on his several fellows, and the rules may effectively forbid him to harm them in any manner and even require him to assist them in specific ways. In the Great Society many of the effects of a person's actions on various fellows must be unknown to him. It can, therefore, not be the specific effects in the particular case, but only rules which define kinds of actions prohibited or required, which must serve as guides to the individual.”

Knows Way Kind May Persons Action Individual Cases Groups Effects Particular Fellows Various Harm Guides Small Groups Great Society

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”

“To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.”

Feels Mean Emotion Teach Virtue Circumstances Various Educate Prompts

Author:Roger Scruton

“A source of strength in the early days was that groups in various parts of the world were prepared to construct experimental computers without necessarily intending them to be the prototype for serial production. As a result, there became available a body of knowledge about what would work and what would not work.”

World Body Results Groups Source Computer Prepared Productions Various Available Constructs Serials Prototype Source Of Strength

Author:Maurice Wilkes

“The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning.”

Mean Play Body Joy Winning Individual Sports Knowing Pieces Discipline Training Train Various Efficient Harsh Relaxation Compulsion

Author:Jacques Ellul

“Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.”

People Character Mets Pure Aspect Various Invention Mixtures

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The usage of the words "public" and "public sphere" betrays a multiplicity of concurrent meanings. Their origins go back to various historical phases and, when applied synchronically to the conditions of a bourgeois society that is industrially advanced and constituted as a social-welfare state, they fuse into a clouded amalgam. Yet the very conditions that make the inherited language seem inappropriate appear to require these words, however confused their employment.”

“We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!”

People Giving Made Two Reality Today Together Term Progress Type Giving Up Rate Cancer Various Decades Recovery Cures Stride Detection

Author:Eva LaRue

“I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows.”

“I strenuously object to the very word "grotesque" which has become hackneyed to the point of nausea...I would prefer my music to be described as "Scherzo-ish" in quality, or else by three words describing the various degrees of the Scherzo - whimsicality, laughter, mockery.”

Three Quality Objects Degrees Laughter Various Describing Mockery Grotesque Three Words Nausea

Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.”

Needs Mean Night Simple Morning Duty Members Tasks Various Cease Employee Categories Now And Then Senior Distribution Obliged Small Parts Clerks Deputies

Author:Jose Saramago

“To waste! You are unknown and unwanted, save by me. This, because you are fairly adept at the various embalming arts and you occasionally compose a clever epitaph.”

Art Waste Various Clever Unwanted Epitaph Adept Embalming

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not, with various blessings for you--blessings which you will know how to value properly, for early disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.”

Knows Heart Young Values Hours Know How Doubt Blessing Disappointment Various Trials Nurse Amiable Admonition

Book:The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

Source: The Children of the Abbey: A Tale

“It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.”

“Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.”

People Kind Various Conformity Unwilling Dummy

Author:Neal Ascherson

“I never did know exactly what was meant by the term "The Beats," but let's say that the original meeting, association, comradeship of Allen Ginsberg, myself, Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Philip Whalen, who's not here, Lew Welch, who's dead, Gregory Corso, for me, to a somewhat lesser extent (I never knew Gregory as well as the others) did embody a criticism and a vision which we shared in various ways, and then went our own ways for many years.”

Knows Way Years Wells Term Vision Beats Criticism Originals Meetings Various Association Philip Comradeship Ginsberg

Author:Gary Snyder

“In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items equally in the exclusive representation of a normal item taken out of their usual context, is by far the most radical - in its effect comparable to a Japanese Zen koan - paradox to be witnessed, which modern art has produced, one of the most forceful impulses that generated from it.”

Art Different Taken Modern Subjects Effects Normal Various Radical Combination Impulse Paradox Hiding Usual Representation Absurdity Items Exclusive Modern Art Different Subjects

Author:Antoni Tapies

“Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.”

Doe Alive Infinite Various Surface Canvas

Author:Alton Tobey

“Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.”

Thinking Facts Figures Logic Various Totality

Author:Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

“At any moment there is certainly not balanced trade between the various areas of the habitable globe that happens to be under seperate national governments - there is an ever-changing pattern of deficits and surpluses.”

Moments Government Happens Areas Trade Patterns Various Balanced Globes Deficit Surplus

Book:Contributions to Modern Economics

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.”

Way Issues Projects Argument Ill Various Debate Contemporary Addresses Considering Modernity Animism

Book:Animism: Respecting the Living World

Source: Animism: Respecting the Living World

“So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.”

Writing Shows School Girl Opportunity Events High School Various Mysterious Vampire Shirts Sarcastic Diaries Attending Hairstyles Investigating Eavesdropping Being Sarcastic

Author:Kelly Link

“The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.”

Thinking Mind Humans Form Universe Subjects Materials Mathematics Various Wide Range Manifestation Branches Appropriate Human Mind Corresponding Human Thought Enquiry

Author:Benjamin Peirce

“The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various “modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion.”

“As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.”

Thinking Should Reading Objects Train Mere Various Copies Pupils

Book:The Enquirer

Source: The Enquirer

“The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back piecemeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.”

Ifs Knows Believe Littles Long Found Differences Known Prove Various Command Revolutionary Bags Chemicals Regimes Caves Innovative Laboratory Saddles

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“The first step to be taken, is to study carefully the fundamental phenomenon above described, and to examine all the various circumstances under which it presents itself.”

Firsts Steps Study Taken Circumstances Fundamentals Various Phenomenon First Steps

Book:Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-dynamics: Embracing the Late Discoveries and Improvements, Digested Into the Form of a Treatise : Being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England

Source: Elements of Electricity, Magnetism, and Electro-dynamics: Embracing the Late Discoveries and Improvements, Digested Into the Form of a Treatise : Being the Second Part of a Course of Natural Philosophy, Compiled for the Use of the Students of the University at Cambridge, New England

“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.”

May Use Action Law Courses Written Happened Essentials Tasks Remains Historical Various Narrative Sequence Written History

Book:The New Psychohistory

Source: The New Psychohistory

“Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.”