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... gale force winds tore rooftops off homes, and the Nile spilled over its banks, inundating whole villages under a deluge of mud and water. one lege... ...ng strangers whom I have real no desire to benefit. The same is true for bankers, sales persons, and even cab drivers. In Kabbalah, a giving degree ... ...o receive in order to bestow, just like the worlds had shown him. But his failure taught him that he was different from them, that he was essen- - t... ...e experiences along its spiritual path is collected in a spe- - cial “data bank.” When we want to climb up the spiritual ladder, these Reshimot compr...

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...ents of Monsieur Grandet; the other was Monsieur des Grassins, the richest banker in Saumur, in whose profits Grandet had a certain covenanted and sec... ...marry her dear Adolphe to Mademoiselle Eugenie. Monsieur des Grassins, the banker, vigorously promoted the schemes of his wife by means of secret serv... ...thers and the fresh toilet of Madame des Grassins, the martial head of the banker, the faces of Adolphe, the president, the abbe, and the notary, say-... ...e to time the young the heiress glanced fur- tively at her cousin, and the banker’s wife easily detected a crescendo of surprise and curiosity in her ... ...s to me, wife, that you are taking possession of monsieur,” said the stout banker, laughing. On this remark the notary and the president said a few wo... ...had also resigned his functions as a judge of the com- mercial courts. The failures of Monsieur Roguin and Mon- sieur Souchet, his broker and his nota... ...designedly, concealing the distinction which exists between an involuntary failure and an intentional one. “Father, could you not have prevented such ... ...news of the business trick just 74 Eugenie Grandet played by Grandet, the failure of his brother, and the arrival of his nephew. Obeying the desire t... ...ment for his malicious activity, and he found it suddenly in his brother’s failure. Feeling nothing to squeeze between his own paws, he resolved to cr...

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...at last, a very dreary feeling. In close colloquy, flowing within narrower banks, I sup- pose he was more definite and apprehensible; Sterling in afte... ...ing; and carelessly measured a men much less by his reputed account in the bank of wit, or in any other bank, than by what the man had to show for him... ...I make blotches. I have a vehement suspicion that my Dialogue is an entire failure; but I cannot be plagued with it any longer. Tell her I will not se... ...g directions. “As yet my books are lying as ghost books, in a limbo on the banks of a certain Bristolian Styx, humanly speak- ing, a Canal; but the ot... ...e and Cheapside; but except while he was absent, off for minutes into some banker’s office, lawyer’s, stationer’s, haberdasher’s or what office there ... ...it; resolute to see which was the stronger. It must be owned, he takes his failures in the kindliest manner; and goes along, bating no jot of heart or... ...He was now furthermore busy with a Tragedy of Strafford, the theme of many failures in Tragedy; planning it industriously in his head; eagerly reading... ... “From Isis sent with all her loud acclaims, The Laws he studied on the banks of Thames. Park, race and play, in his capacious plan, Combined... ...considerable; and which, from time to time, he had formed little projects, failures hitherto, for supplying. The rigors of spring were always dangerou...

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...itless with limited measures? Mind the opposite effect in extremity. [The failure of an Indian ascetic monk failed just in this.] Beware of counting ... .... Even the mind will tie in organically with “know-it-all computer memory banks.” Is this a good time to be a person? Impossible! This is a dark age... ...tcome of my life. I had seen that the time of life, death, promotion, and failure are fated, so there was no need for me to think of anything. The ma... ...either their cultivation of morality and virtues, or in their work. Their failures in this life are owed to a single word: laziness. Tianqi, the tea...

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...h, T o feed with kindliest dews its favourite flower, That blooms in mossy banks and darksome glens, _555 Lighting the green woo... ...ve, _390 Where, through an opening of the rocky bank, The waters overflow, and a smooth spot Of glassy quiet mid those batt... ...e west, has caught the expanded sail, And, lo! with gentle motion, between banks Of mossy slope, and on a placid stream, ... ...een expanse, the cove _405 Is closed by meeting banks, whose yellow flowers For ever gaze on their own drooping eyes, Refle... ...dream, or god, or mightier Death, He sought in Nature’s dearest haunt some bank, Her cradle, and his sepulchre. More dark ... ...rest profound and strong such as belongs to no meaner desires, let not the failure be imputed to a natural unfitness for human sympathy in these subli... ...oduce will be merged in taxes, And the revenue will amount to—nothing! The failure of a foreign market for Sausages, bristles, and blood-puddings, And...

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...ave the upper hand again and to be away from a discussion of his amorous failures. Feng-po could and would recite them all. "What do you mean 'wo... ...ight have heard Chih-nil's cries and sobs as Lei-kung vented his fury and failure on her mouth and body. Chapter 11 1920 words "That's funny.... ...0 words Panic and fear gave Ao Rue a speed he'd never suspected. As he banked toward the gold mine, Ch'ang-o shot into the sky. Her flight was e... ... me. I could have loved her. I could have." His voice began to fade to failure. "Listen to me!" Ao Rue jerked him up. "Go to Mud-Pit Hollow. No... ...to look at his brine pools and lines of grunting dragons! As he began to bank through the Ravine of Baboons toward Mud-Pit Hollow, he was becoming ... ... Wind torn at the holes. For a moment, he was able to glide, even make a banked turn despite his broken tail, "Am I not the Earl of the Wind? Am I... ...power, trials fraught with promises of spectacular triumphs and monstrous failures. It was the age-old seduction of the descent into the maelstrom,... ...Of course, it could also be caused by a character flaw or an intellectual failure." Mei-chou grinned. Ao Rue glared at her attempt at humor. She ...

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... in the West as much as those in the East, were equally aware of the moral bankruptcy of society and the never-ending tale of the rich getting fewer a... ... always been there. When I walk east on Seneca Road I come to a steep sand bank and then to some red banks of clay on the road’s south side. For a yea... ...times tumble me off onto the grass, leaping from the top of the steep sand bank with my three companions from next door or building sand castles with ... ...r friend; a particular clump of Queen Anne’s Lace near the top of the sand bank becomes permanently imprinted on my memory to turn up in dreams years ... ... years later as just-so. Each of the horizontal red clay veins in the clay banks east on Seneca Road has its own personal shape, also to be remembered... ...l as with other people, if we see each of these as Thou—but not otherwise. Failure to relate in the Thou mode also cuts us off from spiritual experien...

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...tfolios, a clear evidence of discrimination because they are the largest vote bank: one in five Tamilians is a dalit. We list the attributes given... ...ounced his family and went to Varanasi, a sacred Hindu pilgrimage town on the banks of the Ganga. The insults and the differential treatment he face... ... him an honorary magistrate and he held 29 honorary positions at that time in banks, libraries, war recruitment committee, merchant associations, sc... ...g contradictory to progressiveness. [Puratchi, 10-6-1934] Press The main failure of the Round Table Conference, the disparity of people in poli... ...icines that have been used to cure this disease of disgrace have only faced a failure. If the Scheduled Castes are given communal representation in... ... and used for constructing good roads. Otherwise it may be put near the river banks to be used for washing clothes.” I was often induced to speak se... ... in hooliganism. Rowdy elements tried their best to create panic and ended in failure. Even those who were in foreign countries came to know of the... ...ible. 5. Certain Minority Institutions: In some State Institutions (Example: Banking Industry) reservation took effect only in1972. (Source: Sur... ...resaid jobs as a profession. That would be below his dignity. Government's Failure to meet CERD Obligations Pre and post independence, the stat...

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...und vacancy. True substances are these, which thou behold’st, Hither through failure of their vow exil’d. But speak thou with them; listen, and believ... ... to me. I fain would know, if man By other works well done may so supply The failure of his vows, that in your scale They lack not weight.” I spake; a... ...me ill mark’d vestige of that primal beam. “This would’st thou know, if failure of the vow By other service may be so supplied, As from self ques... ... the earth, the love I bare thee Had put forth more than blossoms. The left bank, That Rhone, when he hath mix’d with Sorga, laves. In me its lord ex... ...hat reign’d there, fashion to my view Our language. And as birds, from river banks Arisen, now in round, now lengthen’d troop, Array them in their fli... ...thou mad’st Such frequent question; for thou saidst—’A man Is born on Indus’ banks, and none is there Who speaks of Christ, nor who doth read nor writ... ...om whose amber seeming waves Flash’d up effulgence, as they glided on ‘Twixt banks, on either side, painted with spring, Incredible how fair; and, fro... ...other Robert, king of Naples, was the friend of Petrarch. v. 60. The left bank.] Provence. v. 62. That horn Of fair Ausonia.] The kingdom of Naple... .... Dante dies at Ravenna, of a complaint brought on by disappointment at his failure in a negotiation which he had been conducting with the Venetians,...

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...n the bedroom. Miscreant is getting on famously down- stairs; one batch of bank-notes he has already bagged; and is 37 Thomas de Quincey hard upon th... ...ount, fifty or seventy pounds, before it was transferred to the hands of a banker. Here, therefore, was a treasure worth some little risk, and a situa... ...oice of victims, but the execution done is what counts. Even for continued failures it would plead advantageously, much more for continued and brillia... ...k-boys; nor blazing tar-barrels. He wanders in a fog such as sits upon the banks of Cocytus. He fancies that Burke, in his lifetime, was popular. Of c... ...few things perfect in this world of frailty. Even lightning is sometimes a failure: Niagara has horrible faults; and Mont Blanc might be improved by a... ... Or was the whole, though successful in relation to the thing attempted, a failure in relation to what ought to have been attempted? Such are the ques... ...t re- cedes into the dusky shades of the heroic, or even fabulous times. A failure, therefore, I think the ‘Antigone,’ in relation to an object that f... ...he ‘Antigone,’ in relation to an object that for us is unattainable; but a failure worth more than many ordinary successes. We are all deeply indebted... ...ication of their English brother, who seemed to be thus left in a state of bankruptcy, ‘no funds’ being available for retaliation, or so they fancied....

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...nts, contrives unexpected gifts of medicine, money, or the like, he averts bankruptcies, arranges profitable transactions, and does a thousand such se... ...he wayward steps of men. If you would fly into the air, there is no God to bank your aeroplane correctly for you or keep an ill-tended engine going; i... ... his utmost to determine and perform the right act. Nothing can excuse his failure to do so. But what is here being insisted upon is that none of thes... ...s, reflecting the rising sun. Death should still hang like mists and cloud banks and shadows in the valleys of the wide landscape about him. There sho... ...ingdom of God. And damnation can be nothing more and nothing less than the failure or inability or disinclination to make that escape. Something of th... ...Revived religion has also, no doubt, been the re- ceiver of many religious bankruptcies, of Positivism for ex- ample, which failed through its bleak a...

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...eally great and wise. Not insupportably inaccurate, I say! They are all as bank-notes, these social dig- nitaries, all representing gold;—and several ... ...ld-lead- ers, do prosper by their quackery, for a day. It is like a forged bank-note; they get it passed out of their worthless hands: others, not the... ... know it, live ever in the knowledge of it. Really a most mournful pity;—a failure to live at all, if we live otherwise! But now, I say, whoever may f... ...the world will be done in that case, what quantities of error, which means failure, which means sorrow and misery, to some and to many, will gradually... ...which accordingly lie unadministered, fermenting into unmeasured masses of failure, of indigent misery: in the outward, and in the inward or spiritual...

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...e unreasonable to expect one of the parties to see it through. Rape, contraception failure, life threatening situations are all such cases. This c... ... or aesthetic grounds), a goal formulated, an experiment performed and a negative (failure) or positive (achievement) result obtained. Only if the ... ... of Political Economy", published in 1848. Undaunted by mounting evidence of market failures - for instance to provide affordable and plentiful publ... ...ame faddish buzzwords and part of a global consensus propagated by both commercial banks and multilateral lenders. As applied to the professions - ... ...l lenders. As applied to the professions - to accountants, stock brokers, lawyers, bankers, insurers, and so on - self- regulation was premised on t... ... heavily and pervasively involved in the minutia of accountancy, stock dealing, and banking than it was only two years ago. But the ethos and myth ... ...s, higher prices were supposed to guarantee an uninterrupted service. Predictably, failure ensued - from electricity utilities in California to rai... ...ot a rant - that Jews are over-represented in certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publis... ...CEOs, politicians, diplomats, managers of higher education institutions, and senior bankers). Globally, Jews are severely under-represented or not- ...

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...t that he is destined to great things – that he refuses to accept setbacks, failures and punishments. He regards them as temporary, as the outcomes... ...dt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed, failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived ... ... enough level of frustration, triggered by recurrent, endemic, and systemic failures in all spheres of policy, even the most resilient democracy dev... ...igger polities is rather more problematic and leads to serious and ominous failures. The problem of the gathering and processing of information - a... ...dt aptly called the banality of evil. Just an ordinary, mentally disturbed, failure, a member of a mentally disturbed and failing nation, who lived ... ... – was tried for his role in an attempted takeover of Israel's Agriculture Bank. Was interned in the State School of Prison Wardens. Managed the Cen...

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...he rains. If it didn't rain, we couldn't grow rice. Often, there were crop failures and then people had to go elsewhere, to Chiang Mai, to buy rice. ... ...and not received my wages. Later I was just told that the factory had gone bankrupt or they say that my work wasn't productive. I haven't looked for w... ...as the finest. And when they don't have enough money, they borrow from the bank and elsewhere. Everybody is indebted to the bank these days. Life used... .... If you have no middleman taking care of the loan, getting money from the bank is slowed down. But if you have a middleman, the matter is dealt with ... ...e a middleman in all loan matters, if one wants it to make progress in the bank. One must take out a larger loan, and so the middleman naturally gets ... ...It's impossible to get out of the debt trap these days from a larger sum. Banking used to be honest before, but today one cannot say that, and such d... ...ertainment, many girls and boys, too, may alleviate the disillusionment of failure at college and university entrance examinations. In college cities,...

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...ect of joy or happiness in the future. They are too experienced in life’s failures to be lured into yet another failed attempt at happiness. But al... ...s from those already in the market. This is the accepted norm. Similarly, banks today are not committed to boosting the faltering economy or assisti... ...ng economy or assisting people who want to start businesses or buy homes. Banks want only one thing: to make as much money as they can for their sh... ...n at the end of every quarter. And this attitude does not only belong to banks. Essentially, every business operates this way, from insurance compa... ...ally, every business operates this way, from insurance companies, through banks and hedge funds, down to the mom-and-pop gro- cery stores. w e call ... ... do so, we will see that there is nothing wrong with the idea of hav- ing banks or insurance companies in our world. Banks are potentially a good th...

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...hing pole. He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent h... ...he great forest. The memories cascaded through Seattle's mind as he sat on the bank of the river waiting for the silver fish that his grandfa­ ther ... ...is Project Survival is like nothing I've ever seen. We've got over twenty phone banks going, and that's still not enough. The publicity is going to ... ...easts. She fended him off. "How accurate is this information?" "Take it to the bank," he said, stroking her body. "Why would Pierce do it?" she ask... ...l the Medical Examiner at Bethesda, ask him to plug into the CDC's medical data bank, just the way he would in any other routine matter." Brent reac... ...d back and placed the tray on the coffee table. "Arc we drinking to success or failure?" Pierce asked, standing in the middle of the room wearing a... ... into her forehead. She crashed backwards, fracturing the glass coffee table. "Failure, 1 presume," Pierce said calmly and walked casually to the m...

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.... ................ 19 CANTO III. The gate of Hell.?Virgil lends Dante in.?The punishment of the neither good nor bad.?Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.?Charon.?Earthquake.?Dante swoons. ................................................................. 22 CANTO IV. The further side of Acheron.?Virgil leads Dante into Limbo, the First Circle of Hell, containing the spiri...

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...r eher eher eheron, and on, and on, and on, and on, and the sinners on its bank.—Char the sinners on its bank.—Char the sinners on its bank.—Char the ... ...sinners on its bank.—Char the sinners on its bank.—Char the sinners on its bank.—Char the sinners on its bank.—Charon.—E on.—E on.—E on.—E on.—Ear ar ... ...he punishment of the neither good nor bad.—Aeheron, and the sinners on its bank.—Charon.—Earthquake.—Dante swoons. “THROUGH ME is the way into the woe... ...hsome worms. And when I gave myself to looking onward, I saw people on the bank of a great river; wherefore I said, “Master, now grant to me that I ma... ...icked souls! hope not ever to see Heaven! I come to carry you to the other bank, into eternal darkness, to heat and frost. And thou who art there, liv... ... side of T rent, struck the Adige on its flank, either by earthquake or by failure of support,— for from the top of the mountain whence it moved, to t...

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... Thus go they over through the umber’d wave, And ever they on the opposing bank Be landed, on this side another throng Still gathers. “Son,” thus sp... ...hus high exhal’d its noisome steam. CANTO XI Upon the utmost verge of a high bank, By craggy rocks environ’d round, we came, Where woes beneath more c... ...Exclaim’d: “He in God’s bosom smote the heart, Which yet is honour’d on the bank of Thames.” A race I next espied, who held the head, And even a... ...us, alone repass’d the ford. CANTO XIII Ere Nessus yet had reach’d the other bank, We enter’d on a forest, where no track Of steps had worn a way. Not... ...ong the sinful women; so ran this Down through the sand, its bottom and each bank Stone built, and either margin at its side, Whereon I straight perce... ...ve. Them quick resentment stung, but him the most, Who was the cause of failure; in pursuit He therefore sped, exclaiming; “Thou art caught.” ... ...on at the dissolute life they led, his sect was much diminished; and through failure of food, and the severity of the snows, he was taken by the peopl...

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... Thus go they over through the umber’d wave, And ever they on the opposing bank Be landed, on this side another throng Still gathers. “Son,” thus sp... ...hus high exhal’d its noisome steam. CANTO XI Upon the utmost verge of a high bank, By craggy rocks environ’d round, we came, Where woes beneath more c... ...Exclaim’d: “He in God’s bosom smote the heart, Which yet is honour’d on the bank of Thames.” A race I next espied, who held the head, And even a... ...us, alone repass’d the ford. CANTO XIII Ere Nessus yet had reach’d the other bank, We enter’d on a forest, where no track Of steps had worn a way. Not... ...ong the sinful women; so ran this Down through the sand, its bottom and each bank Stone built, and either margin at its side, Whereon I straight perce... ...ve. Them quick resentment stung, but him the most, Who was the cause of failure; in pursuit He therefore sped, exclaiming; “Thou art caught.” ... ...on at the dissolute life they led, his sect was much diminished; and through failure of food, and the severity of the snows, he was taken by the peopl... ...und vacancy. True substances are these, which thou behold’st, Hither through failure of their vow exil’d. But speak thou with them; listen, and believ... ... to me. I fain would know, if man By other works well done may so supply The failure of his vows, that in your scale They lack not weight.” I spake; a...

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...tiness. True substances are these which thou seest, here relegated through failure in their vows. Therefore speak with them, and hear, and believe; fo... ...yed below I had showed thee of my love far more than the leaves. That left bank which is bathed by the Rhone, after it has mingled with the Sorgue, aw... ... crown of that land which the Danube waters after it aban- dons its German banks; 13 and the fair T rinacria 14 (which is darkened, not by Typhoeus ... ...nclination binds the understanding. Far more than vainly does he leave the bank, since he returns not such as be sets out, who fishes for the truth, a... ... there shape out our speech to my eyes. And as birds, risen from the river-bank, as if rejoicing together over their food, make of themselves a troop ... ... madest such frequent question; 9 for thou saidest,—‘A man is born on the bank of the Indus, and no one is there who may speak of Christ, nor who may...

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... St. Peter’s Square like a living quilt. The late morning sun broke through a bank of gray clouds, and rays of sun spotlighted the hills of Rome. A... ...ons you need money," Cardona said trying to let Michael off the hook from his failures. "I represent, certain people, who are interested in donating ... ...the more. After completing the usual security check, he passed quickly to a bank of elevators. General Radcliff had cleared his schedule for Alex ... ...t of Honshu. After about an hour, Ky said, "We are almost there." The plane banked into a steep descent. Through the solid green of the forest, An... ...h an even greater revenge. 275 J.Cross/Artemis The Mexicana airliner banked over the lush, rugged hills of Bogota. Soule' wondered how many... ... water." "Being that were speaking in clichés, don't take that one to the bank," Radcliff said without any humor attached. "Don't be surprised... ... But, now is not the time." Soule’ felt the bittersweet taste of success and failure. He weighed the odds. "If you are willing to join with me, I a...

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...s soon as lonely as it had been populous; the pulpit remained a mere mossy bank, more suggestive or fairy dances than of Calvinist sermons, and no one... ...mmons, leaving the young squire and damsel errant with a long winding high-banked lane before them, they reckoned the dispersion to be all for their s... ...antime, and we were to lie off till we heard a whistle like a mavis on the bank, then come and take them aboard. Well, we waited and waited, and all t... ...the lane leading to the road to Paris, it was separated from it by a steep bank, crowned by one of the thick hedgerows charac- teristic of the Bocage.... ...y crept Eustacie, cowering close to a holly-tree at the very summit of the bank, and led by a strange fascination to choose a spot where, unseen her- ... ...rations of outrages committed on Catholics. The army were enraged by their failure before La Rochelle; in effect, it was resolved to make an example, ...

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...tic step in tormenting him with my overstay at my parental home, without any legitimate cause. I should have taken an objective view of my needs. The failure on my own part, drove me to depression, as diagnosed by my `Nani Ji`.” Nidhi asks, “Is your grandma a doctor?” … “Honey-maker or Money-maker for the family?“ … At the residence of Santa’s daughter Preeti, there...

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... helping to finance ―The Eighth Wonder of the World.‖  Mark Twain going bankrupt because he backed a Mergenthaler competitor. Michael Hart’s Invo... ...introducing double-entry bookkeeping set Italy‘s world trade soaring. Bankers were major beneficiaries, because this new mathematical tool let th... ...Aristotle‘s time. In the mid-1800s, however, Gauss decried Archimedes‘s failure two millennia earlier to adopt the convenient notation for the pow... ... his loans.  Accused Gutenberg of embezzlement.  Forced Gutenberg into bankruptcy.  Took over the print shop, its fonts of type, its inks, and i... ... 19 This was too late, of course, for Gutenberg, whose personal bankruptcy spotlighted the dark side of industrial capitalism. the ―divi... ...on and spread democracy around the globe. CHAPTER 17 Mark Twain went bankrupt backing the competitor of the immigrant watchmaker’s Linotype. O... ... right out of the market. In 1894, about the same time the competitive failure of the compositor became obvious to all, Paige died penniless in a...

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...tes your needs and values, it pinpoints the drives which you feel. It uncovers your frustrations, and it shows how you react to successes and failur... ... in this order, have been found to be: an assembly line worker, operator of an elevator with push-button controls, typist in a clerical pool, bank g... ...essively it is a danger signal. If we daydream too much or eat compulsively it is cause for concern. If we cannot take the blame for our own failur... ...we tend to think of ourselves as perfect, it is difficult to see ourselves as occasionally inept—only the mature person can realize a personal failur... ...d things appear to be good. ―Projection is another type of rationalization. When we blame another person for our own inadequacies or failur... ...gration‘ is just the opposite of idealization. Here a person sees another as bad when it is not the case. A parent may be blamed for a child‘s failur... ...eviations. The truly anti-social person seems to have no guilt feelings when ‗doing other people in.‘ They may be aggressive criminals such as bank r... ... in the pursuit of achieving the meta-needs. The French painter, Paul Gauguin, left his family for Tahiti in order to paint. Tumbling from his bankin...

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...sity. For example, once when a shepherd lad was whit tling a stick on the bank of a river, he dropped his knife into the stream. Ahto, as in the fabl... ...native sphere of action, this time making a most miserable and lu dicrous failure, when he emerged from the wilderness and attempted to slay the Finn... ...e many deeps of ocean; Where upon her side she turned her, There the level banks have risen; Where her head was pointed landward, There appeared wide ... ... In the moist earth sows the willow, Mountain ash in virgin places, On the banks of streams the hawthorn, Junipers in hilly regions; This the work of ... ...ourses, May extend the vault of heaven Over every lake and river, O’er the banks of every island. Groves arose in varied beauty, Beautifully grew the ... ...swer: “All the boats that have been fashioned From my wood have proved but failures; Such a vessel floats a distance, Then it sinks upon the bottom Of... ...ck of Manala. Thus the third time does the eagle Bring success from former failures; Thus at last the eagle catches Mana’s pike, the worst of fishes, ... ...nd her thoughts ran on as follow: “Who are these in bright apparel, On the banks of Pohya waters, Are they friends or hostile armies?” Then the hostes... ...e these words in bitter accents: “Kullerwoinen as a workman Is a miserable failure; Whatsoever work he touches Is but ruined by his witchcraft; I shal...

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...ees—The pain-threshold varies in individuals— Insecurity of natural goods— Failure, or vain success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Ho... ...ely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to recognize this fact distinctly may breed confusion, I wish to in... ...res him, all decaying and failing as he is. Well, we are all such helpless failures in the last resort. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with... ...ut the lat- ter abound so that we can afford to overlook the in- numerable failures and self-deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything... ...s and self-deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a [44] “Cautionary Verses for Children”: this title of a much us... ...y the self that consciously is can do absolutely nothing. It is completely bankrupt and without resource, and no works it can accomplish will avail. R... ...ouse can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to pro... ...A God so careful as to make provision even for the unmistakable signing of bank checks and deeds was a deity truly after the heart of eighteenth centu...

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...hat youthful love and truth should end in 112 Henry Esmond bitterness and bankruptcy! To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to se... ...licet: if Virgil could invoke the divine Augustus, a humbler poet from the banks of the Isis may celebrate a victory and a conqueror of our own nation... ...nother risks his life (and his honor, too, sometimes,) against a bundle of bank-notes, or a yard of blue ribbon, or a seat in Parliament; and some for... ...vat,” Esmond at once knew that the fellow’s tongue had first wagged on the banks of the Liffey, and not the Loire; and the poor soldier—a de- serter p... ...all appearance. At length Esmond saw his friend’s name in the Gazette as a bankrupt; and a week after this cir- cumstance my bankrupt walks into Mr. E... ...her, is to praise God. It was at Bruxelles, whither we retreated after the failure of 436 Henry Esmond our plot—our Whig friends advising us to keep ...

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...r built environment are increasing so more is at risk and this trend of increased risk will continue while populations continue to rise. As the World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) enumerates this: ‘Natural disasters are becoming more costly: in constant dollars, disaster costs between 1990 and 1999 were more than 15 times higher ($652 billion in material loss...

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...in Scottish history – Flodden, Darien, or the Forty-five were still either failures or defeats; and the fall of Wallace and the repeated reverses of t... ...n. From this disaster, like a spent swimmer, he came desper- ately ashore, bankrupt of money and consideration; creep- ing to the family he had desert... ...ast step gentle, urbane and with the will to smile. The tale of this great failure is, to those who remained true to him, the tale of a success. In hi... ...ould not have dreamed, if you had known him then, that this was that great failure, that beacon to young men, over whose fall a whole society had hiss... ... reach his inimitable model. Let him try as he please, he is still sure of failure; and it is a very old and a very true saying that failure is the on... ...drovers met in the wilderness, as to-day the deep-sea fishers meet off the banks in the solitude of the Atlantic; and in the one as in the other case ... ...s are but a moment in the history of the elements that build us. Are you a bank-clerk, and do you live at Peckham? It was not always so. And though to... ...t: one, the harbour of Wick, the chief disaster of my father’s life, was a failure; the sea proved too strong for man’s arts; and after expedients hit...