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Listen with Your Heart

By: Barbara Scott

...emblance to actual events, locations, organizations, incidents or persons – living or dead – are coincidental and beyond the intent of the author. B... ...e?” “There are all kinds of martyrs, Danny,” she said sourly. “It’s the living ones that make it hard for the rest of us petty mortals.” “Is... ...tude and a suggestion where someone with her minimal talents could earn her living. If she dared wonder aloud about the legality of their endeavors... ...name of Anthony Comstock is not one that is easily sullied. My war against people of your ilk is well-known. You are merely a minor skirmish.” Co... ... “We could go to court, if we had the time. We could pay off all the right people, if we had the money. But there is a faster, cheaper way, Danny,... ...shman, despite my lace-curtain pretensions, “ Daniel said. “But you of all people should expect that, shouldn’t you, Paddy? Not long since you cro... ... why you called me here today? Are you that desperate to find a reason for living?” “My friends brought me last night. The folly of good intentio... ...were always too hard on Morgan. This was obviously an accident. I, of all people, know how tricky those flash pots are. And you had her trapped i... ...m was comfortable enough to sleep in, and that saved him a dollar or two in living expenses. He was a bit later than usual tonight, owing to the ...

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...ding upon one’s self, without supposing them to be im- perative upon other people. T o write “I believe” is not only less presumptuous and aggressive ... ... schemes of conduct, but that he has observed in the thought of numberless people about him, rendering their action fragmentary, wasteful in the gross... ...o the failure of old formulae and methods to satisfy now, I am afraid many people will choose to understand that I refer to what is often spoken of as... ...almost all the great variety of creeds professed among us English-speaking peoples prescribe certain gen- eral definitions of what is righteous and wh... ...ill have most in mind. This is not human life merely, it is all life. This living world, 11 H G Wells as the New Republican will see it, is no more t... ...of the average birth? This speculation is as old at least as Plato, and as living as the seven or eight babies born into the English-speaking world si... ...is to be made of him, wise contrivance must sur- round him. The soft, new, living thing must be watched for every sign of discomfort, it must be weigh... ...ort and equipment, and it is manifest the mother cannot be earning her own living before and about the time of the child’s birth, nor, unless she is g... ...opment. They are born of mothers preoccupied by the necessity of earning a living or by vain occupations, or already battered and exhausted by 54 Man...

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Menexenus

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

... narrative; in the age of Isocrates and Demosthenes the Athenians were still living on the glories of Marathon and Salamis. The Menexenus veils in pan... ...the Phaedrus is to be attributed to Socrates. The address of the dead to the living at the end of the oration may also be com- pared to the numerous a... ... day do I come to my senses and know where I am; in the meantime I have been living in the Islands of the Blest. Such is the art of our rhetori- cians... .... A word is needed which will duly praise the dead and gently admon- ish the living, exhorting the brethren and descendants of the departed to imitate... ...their valour, and their death they gave in exchange for the salvation of the living. And I think that we should praise them in the order in which natu... ...t hereditary and then elected, and au- thority is mostly in the hands of the people, who dispense offices and power to those who appear to be most des... ...m speaking happened not long ago and we can all of us remember how the chief peoples of Hellas, Argives and Boeotians and Corinthians, came to feel th...

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Analysis of Social Aspects of Migrant Labourers Living with Hiv/Aids Using Fuzzy Theory and Neutrosophic Cognitive Maps

By: W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy and Florentin Smarandache

...LORENTIN SMARANDACHE ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS ... ... XIQUAN Phoenix 2004 ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL ASPECTS OF MIGRANT LABOURERS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS USING FUZZY THEORY AND NEUTROSOPHIC COGNITIVE MAPS ... ...M and Combined Overlap Block NRM 299 Chapter Six Interview of 60 People Living With HIV/AIDS 327 Chapter Seven Conclusions/Suggestions ... ... Combined Overlap Block NRM 299 Chapter Six Interview of 60 People Living With HIV/AIDS 327 Chapter Seven Conclusions/Suggestions 377 ... ... and who are HIV/AIDS infected. So this study cannot be extended to urban people or rich/ sophisticated/ educated populations of Tamil Nadu. We h... ...adu. We have purposefully chosen this study for we saw majority of the people who come to take treatment for HIV/AIDS as inpatients of the Govern... ...this disease and have caught this disease due to migration. Further these people are not empowered with trade unions or welfare associations, for t... ...ions that are working to rehabilitate and support the poor men and women living with HIV/AIDS in the Third- World countries. W.B. Vasantha Kand... ... and members of the public had been interviewed. From that we have 60 men living with HIV/AIDS (who had acquired the disease directly or indirectly...

... only to migrant labourers from rural Tamil Nadu who are poor and uneducated and who are HIV/AIDS infected. So this study cannot be extended to urban people or rich/ sophisticated/ educated populations of Tamil Nadu....

...Migration acquires great significance in the study of peoples and populations, for it not only involves the merely mathematical spatial redistribution of people, but also because it has enormous impact on livelihood, life-styles, employment, socioeconomic and political stability...

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American Notes

By: Rudyard Kipling

...He had already gained fame in India, where scores of cultured and critical people, after reading “Departmental Ditties,” “Plain Tales from the Hills,”... ...1; then a collection of verse, “Life’s Handicap, being stories of Mine Own People,” was published simultaneously in London and New York City; then fol... ... men with an acquaint-ance who had access to the house- hold gods of these people. He returned to England in August, 1896, and did not visit America a... ... Francisco is a mad city—inhab- ited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty. Contents At the Golden Gate... ...entured to suggest that the interior economy of a paper most concerned the people who worked it. “That’s the very thing that interests us,” he said. “... ... reel and the yells of Califor- 33 Rudyard Kipling nia, and three feet of living silver leaped into the air far across the water. The forces were eng... ..., nearly tumbling into that wild river. * * * Then out and away to Livingstone once more. The maiden from New Hampshire disappeared, papa and ...

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Bad Hare Days

By: John Fitzgerald

...ive sport, which resulted in its child-like death screams being heard regularly throughout Ireland, a result was achieved. For those few dedicated people trying desperately to save the gentle creature from the horrors of the cruel sport of hare coursing, the struggle was painful and fought against great odds. The author writes about his experience of a campaign agains...

...solation, though these downsides can to some degree be offset by the sense of camaraderie that comes with being part of a group or campaign involving people from all walks of life. I paid a high price for my campaigning. The loss of my job with a Farmers Co-operative at a time when jobs were scarce in Ireland; followed by arrests, lengthy interrogations, false accusations ...

...1. View to a Blooding -- 8 -- 2. A Living Link -- 13 -- 3. Supper with the Hare Catchers -- 16 -- 4. Crusading Zeal -- 20 -- 5. A Tin-Pot Coliseum -- 22 -- 6. My First Sight of the "Antis" -- 26 -- 7. How to Resist? -- 29 -- 8. Michael D Bids to End Hare Cours...

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Bail Yourself Out

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...these problems: the crisis is essentially not fnancial, but psychological! People 1. have stopped trusting each other, and where there is no trust th... ... frst and most important step to understanding the crisis is to 4. inform people of this natural process, using books (such as Bail Y ourself Out), ... ... all common and accepted in Babel. Among the most prominent and respected people in Babel was a man named Abraham. This man was a priest, an idol wo... ...as also a very perceptive and caring individual. Abraham noticed that the people he loved so dearly were growing apart. where there had been camara... ... or planning the number of rooms without knowing how many people will be living in it. The interplay between the two desires eludes us because it i... ... error. In our efforts to find a sustainable order in life, we have tried living in clans, slavery, greek democracy, feudalism, capitalism, communis... ... But when we do, we will not only have everything we need for comfortable living, we will be secure in knowing that we will have it in the future, ... ...s. In all likelihood, if we didn’t change our desires, we would still be living in caves. There are two stages to building a school that promotes t... ...would walk around the village in his free time, advise people on healthy living, and reprimand those who were negligent. If a person was stubborn a...

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A Matter of Angels : Slightly subversive survival stories

By: Nyla Nox

...s, a girl with a very strong rural accent who would never even have been cast as Shepherd Three if there had been enough boys. However, although her people despised me because I was a refugee of the wrong religion and mine despised her because she was uneducated rural low life, we had occasionally and very secretly bonded over exchanging unwanted items of food that were c...

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...r, things have gotten even worse. Between March and May 2006, Pew surveyed 16,710 people in Britain, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indones... ... that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administration is also eroding. Majorities i... ... eroding. Majorities in only 7 of 14 countries had favorable views of Americans. "People around the world embrace things American and, at the same... ... soul searching and house cleaning do little to ameliorate this antagonism. To the peoples of the poor world, America is both a colonial power and ... ...lin who claimed that the United States must "constantly acquire new land to open up living space" (the forerunner of the infamous German "Lebensraum... ...ecedented measure of temporal authority by making him answerable for all Christians living under Ottoman rule. The last scattered pockets of Byzant... ... seem to think, like Wertheimer and his patronizing ilk, that higher standards of living negate their mission to oppose American culture, ethos an... ...who rattled the moribund and tradition-bound entrenched interests and ratcheted up living standards by imposing land reform, increasing the minimum... ...attle and poultry. Many an urbane urbanite now tend to tiny plots, trying to eke a living out of the fertile banks of the Two Rivers - the Euphrate...

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Fourth International Anthology on Paradoxism

By: Florentin Smarandache

...h it’s the meanest nastiest of all lies * it’s interesting how two people can screw up a dialogue *** personally I don’t have anyt... ...h the national sexual excitement. Sneak into the chaos. Frighten half of the people at the evening news. What a wack’o! Aga Muerte Ortadoglu was swi... ...ictions and oddities of the society in what the rebel “with cause” has been living. Without meaning to emphasize the sociological side of problem, ... ...rated straightened to an obvious aim – the spiritual and moral uniformity of people and of the entire life 185 system, was tantamount to an atte... ...d nobility of mind should be aware of. This store of insights shows thinking people that no one ideology is good for all peoples and all times. Ever... ...onfronting its own ideology of a created world. The practical mentality for peoples of good will to maintain is tolerance for every system insofar ... ... and me supposed to keep it up it feed all eight they say they’s eight of us living but Pap broke the hoe and the weeds is growed they say they lear...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

... be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions); • Requires excessive admiration, adulation, att... ... (magical thinking). Rages when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted by people he or she considers inferior to him or her and unworthy. Prevalen... ... even the most exciting and varied existence becomes routine after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing... ...ne after a while. Living in the same country or apartment, meeting the same people, doing essentially the same things (though with changing content... ...g, kaleidoscopic life. I feel entitled to force life itself, or, at least, people around me – to yield to my wishes and needs, supreme among them t... ... the truth. This is where the narcissist differs from others (from "normal" people). His very self is a piece of fiction concocted to fend off hurt ... ...tions, and so on. The narcissist is entitled to a "special treatment": high living standards, constant and immediate catering to his needs, the erad... ..., people tend to gradually become convinced that their lives are not worth living. They become mutinous and try to restore the "honorable equilibri...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...ually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began com- ing from the monastery. After the service was over the el... ...d Father Zossima, as far as Alyosha could remember afterwards. “Love God’s people. Because we have come here and shut ourselves within these walls, we... ... that I make this prayer, O Lord, for I am lower than all men…. Love God’s people, let not strangers draw away the flock, for if you slumber in your s... ...ll come from all sides and draw away your flock. Expound the Gospel to the people unceasingly… be not ex- tortionate…. Do not love gold and silver, do... ...answered sternly, forbidding her to do so, and saying that to pray for the living as though they were dead was a kind of sorcery . He afterwards forga... ...revail against it. Has it not lasted nineteen centuries, is it not still a living, a moving power in the individual soul and in the masses of people? ... ...the individual soul and in the masses of people? It is still as strong and living even in the souls of athe- ists, who have destroyed everything! For ... ...sk for money, it’s true, but yet he won’t get a farthing from me. I intend living as long as possible, you may as well know, my dear Alexey Fyodorovit... ...happy family of sick children, and, I believe, an insane wife. He has been living here a long time; he used to work as a copying clerk, but now he is ...

...vice of extreme unction followed. The monks assembled and the cell was gradually filled up by the inmates of the hermitage. Meantime it was daylight. People began coming from the monastery. After the service was over the elder desired to kiss and take leave of everyone. As the cell was so small the earlier visitors withdrew to make room for others. Alyosha stood beside the...

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A Theologico-Political Treatise

By: R. H. M. Elwes

...nnot act otherwise. Wherefore among men, so long as they are considered as living under the sway of nature, he who does not yet know reason, or who ha... ... that previous to the law – that is, so long as men are consid- ered of as living under the sway of nature, there is no sin. The natural right of the ... ...re has given them no other guide, and has denied them the present power of living according to sound reason; so that they are no more bound to live by... ...is by the necessity of this alone that all individuals are conditioned for living and acting in a particular way. If any- thing, therefore, in nature ... ...till less to be feared: for it is almost impossible that the majority of a people, espe- cially if it be a large one, should agree in an irrational de... ...oes himself no good: but in a state or kingdom where the weal of the whole people, and not that of the ruler, is the supreme law, obedience to the sov... ...n power; and will be bound so to do so long as the king, or nobles, or the people preserve the sovereign power which 10 A Theologico-Political Treati... ...y by its authority: for when a man has transferred to another his right of living as he likes, which was only limited by his power, that is, has trans... ...ks and heathen, and to give orders to their subjects who settle among such peoples not to assume more freedom, either in things secular or religious, ...

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St Statesman

By: Plato

...cerned with the produc- tion of some object, and objects may be divided into living and lifeless, and rulers into the rulers of living and lifeless ob... ...master-builder, concerned with lifeless matter, but has the task of managing living animals. And the tending of living animals may be either a tend- i... ...was framed; for mankind were left to themselves, and ordered their own ways, living, like the universe, in one cycle after one manner, and in another ... ...a- tion to the art which was concerned with command- 15 Plato for-self over living creatures, when we called it the ‘feeding’ of animals in flocks. T... ... far country , is he to be prohibited from altering his own laws? The common people say: Let a man persuade the city first, and then let him impose ne... ...Examples are akin to analogies, and have a reflex influence on thought; they people the vacant mind, and may often originate new directions of enquiry... ...ies that the subject has a previous knowledge of the rules under which he is living. There is a fallacy , too, in comparing unchange- able laws with a... ...o builds his hope upon the ar- istocracy , upon the middle classes, upon the people, will probably, if he have sufficient experience of them, conclude... ... or the French Revolution, when the same inspiration has taken hold of whole peoples, and permanently raised the sense of freedom and jus- tice among ...

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Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

...s of the recent past. He is one of the representatives of a generation still living. In this fragment, entitled “Underground,” this person introduces ... ...anybody unhappy. I almost did succeed. For the most part they were all timid people—of course, they were petitioners. But of the uppish ones there was... ... neither a rascal nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and us... ...e whole world that to its face! I have a right to say so, for I shall go on living to sixty myself. To seventy! To eighty!… Stay, let me take breath... ...seases and even swagger over them? Though, after all, everyone does do that; people do pride themselves on their diseases, and I do, may be, more than... ...ies I endured in that struggle! I did not believe it was the same with other people, and all my life I hid this fact about myself as a secret. I was a... ... have spoken of this because I keep wanting to know for a fact whether other people feel such enjoyment? I will explain; the enjoyment was just from t... ...ity already in my voice. “Oh, I don’t know.” “But how nice it would be to be living in your father’s house! It’s warm and free; you have a home of you... ...ou! One can only come here when one is drunk. But if you were anywhere else, living as good people live, I should perhaps be more than attracted by yo...

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The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

...delaida Ivanovna Miusov’s action was similarly, no doubt, an echo of other people’s ideas, and was due to the irritation caused by lack of mental free... ... others say he wept without restraint like a little child, so much so that people were sorry for him, in spite of the repulsion he inspired. It is qui... ...se, and at the same time wept for her who released him. As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple- hearted than we su... ...n his mother’s side forgot him too at first. His grandfather was no longer living, his widow, Mitya’ s grandmother, had moved to Moscow, and was serio... ...ent case. This habit, however, is characteristic of a very great number of people, some of them very clever ones, not like Fyodor Pavlovitch. Pyotr Al... ... at once to Paris, he left the boy in charge of one of his cousins, a lady living in Moscow. It came to pass that, settling perma- nently in Paris he,... ...though far from timid boy. At ten years old he had realised that they were living not in their own home but on other people’s charity, and that their ... ...by a teacher of genius. But neither Y efim Petrovitch nor this teacher was living when the young man finished at the gymnasium and entered the univers... ...And here the young man was staying in the house of such a father, had been living with him for two months, and they were on the best possible terms. T...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...Companionism (to coin a word) still exists in France 6 Ferragus among the people. Its traditions, powerful over minds that are not enlightened, and o... ...habit, to the tribe, whose strag- gling members she feeds and lodges. This people, ever mov- ing and changing, though controlled by immutable customs,... ...all things to serve an end, of plotting a vengeance that could not fail of living in thirteen hearts; this happiness of nurturing a secret hatred in t... ... the uni- verse. But to those few, Paris is sad or gay, ugly or beautiful, living or dead; to them Paris is a creature; every man, every fraction of a... ...severance. Thus, young as he was, he had all the republican virtue of poor peoples; he was sober, saving of his time, an enemy to pleasure. He waited.... ...iked, perhaps because there is nothing more delight- ful to see than happy people; but they never stayed long at any festivity. They slipped away earl... ...ster, no father, no mother, no companion, I am neither above nor below any living being in your heart; I am alone there. Clemence, repeat to me those ... ...nothing, monsieur; I am honest; I never lied, or stole the property of any living soul, no matter who. If an empress was my rival, I’d go straight to ... ...e; I am at your orders.” “Monsieur, you know, of course, where this man is living, and I must know it if it costs me all my fortune to penetrate this ...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...s scattered over the surface of books. I begin with this question:—What do people mean in a Christian land by the word ‘religion?’ My purpose is not t... ...radations would have arisen from irreligion. The noblest of all idolatrous peoples, viz. the Romans, have left deeply scored in their very use of thei... ... morality is oftentimes *This is not generally perceived. On the contrary, people are ready to say, ‘Why, so far from it, the very earliest language i... ...i- pher the character of the idolaters. Where Moloch was wor- shipped, the people would naturally be found cruel; where the Paphian V enus, it could n... ...able phenomenon of death? It is not by uttering pompous flatteries of ever-living and ambrotos aei, &c., that a poet could intercept the searching jea... ...ea under Chris- tianity: since I contend that, such as is the God of every people, such, in the corresponding features of character, will *It must not... ...f unprovided cases, or of dilemmas arising,) from the infalli- bility of a living expounder. 45 Thomas de Quincey would not make it. But the contradi... ... being at all aware of what was to come after. Here, for instance, is one, living nearly one thousand six hundred years before the last in the series,... ...valier, when the children of those Moors who had fled from his face whilst living, were insulting the marble statue above his grave, suddenly the stat...

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The Treaty of the European Union the Maastrict Treaty, 7Th February, 1992

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...ms and of the rule of law, DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their culture and their traditions,... ...ble currency, DETERMINED to promote economic and social progress for their peoples, within the context of the accomplishment of the internal market an... ...e free movement of persons while ensuring the safety and security of their peoples, by including provisions on jus- tice and home affairs in this Trea... ...ESOLVED to continue the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to ... ...arks a new stage in the process of creating an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are taken as closely as possible to t... ...vel of employment and of social protection, the raising of the standard of living and quality of life, and economic and social cohesion and solidarity... ... for transport would be liable to have a serious effect on the standard of living and on employment in certain areas and on the operation of transport... ...n the internal market and to contribute thereby to raising the standard of living, a European Social Fund is hereby established in accordance with the... ...tes shall have as their objectives the promotion of employment, im- proved living and working conditions, proper social protection, dialogue between m...

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The Ethics of Aristotle

By: J. A. Smith

...n to “right earth”—and so closer to the facts and problems of actual human living. T urning from criticism of others he states his own positive view o... ...evant powers and capacities. The last is the prime condition of successful living and therefore of satisfaction, but Aristotle does not ignore other c... ..., for Happi- ness is just the exercise or putting forth of these in actual living, everything else is secondary and subordinate. These powers arise fr... ...ot forgotten in the Poli- tics The end of life in the state is itself well-living and well- doing—a life which helps to produce the best life The grea... ...n: the defect to which I allude being no direct result of the time, but of living at the beck and call of passion, and following each object as it ris... ...e fact is that good and bad fortune are constantly circling about the same people: for it is quite plain, that if we are to depend upon the fortunes o... ...imes, or in wrong manner, and so forth (for which reason, by the way, some people define the Virtues as certain states of im- passibility and utter qu... ...ould leave them undone, would be even in the way to become a good man. Yet people in general do not perform these ac- tions, but taking refuge in talk... ... and that they will so be good men: act- ing in truth very like those sick people who listen to the doctor with great attention but do nothing that he...

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