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absurd anne grew jane loving
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.' Lauren Willig
absurd birth mountains
Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse. Horace
absurd hardly imagine ridiculous
One can hardly imagine a more ridiculous and absurd interpretation. Sergei Yastrzhembsky
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Neither Beckett, nor Ionesco, not even Arrabal: the biggest responsible for the absurd in entertainment is the guy who calculates the tickets' prices.
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The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. John Major
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. T. J. Miller
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I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
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Only then man will raise his eyes to the sun that caressed with its rays so many millennia of frustration and anguish, of absurd and uncertainty, of lack of power and suffering. He will hail the sun and the stars and everything that surrounds him knowing they are all vanity of vanities. Vanity of vanities that will give man a meaning! This vanity of vanities will tell the man that he truly dreams his own Illusion of Life, that he finally found the meaning!
american-sociologist answers given open possible structure system tells
Moreover, the structure of a theoretical system tells us what alternatives are open in the possible answers to a given question. Talcott Parsons
american-sociologist empirical interest structure
Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
american-sociologist correct empirical far given theory
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
american-sociologist claim empirical obviously reference system
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
american-sociologist becomes closed derived finds logically statement
The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
american-sociologist conception instead near prominent school scientists society though turning views
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
american-sociologist among character desirable great milieu personal respect social
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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One (witness) said he was grateful Mr. Titus was arrested, because now he can steal his business. One witness is a chronic marijuana smoker.
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She's written every word and she's directing the video. It will chronicle the last year and a half of her life.
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They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. C. Everett Koop
chronic contain fear public
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it. Yochai Benkler
chronic invest life longer nation people prevention putting quality resources treatment
We need to invest in prevention because it's better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it's better for us as a nation because we're not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic diseases.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me. Nalo Hopkinson
chronic linked san study university worked
In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres. Elizabeth Blackburn
chronic hard health learned primitive technology
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness.
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We know from a lot of studies if you have health insurance you're more likely to get preventive care, detect conditions early on and you're more likely to have chronic conditions like diabetes or hypertension controlled effectively,
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Mainly we helped people gut out their houses. We had a desire to help and serve the people.
desire
Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.
desires fain fling love
Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free. George Meredith
desire love
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost
desire expressed field language learn sciences social students useful
Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.
desires feet holy serving
Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.
desire exactly pleased violence
So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. Albert Einstein
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Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture freely like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it Oliver Cromwell
desired english-philosopher learned repetition result
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.