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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ty of talk for the others, however, and he appeared to eat his luncheon with discrimination and appetite. Miss Molyneux, who had a smooth, nun like fo... ...ave been to close that rare volume for ever. But Lily knew nothing of these discriminations, and could only pronounce her sister’s career a strange a... ...n of the mustiest relics of its old society. In all this there was much less discrimination than in that desire for comprehensiveness of development o... ...here was something irritating—there was almost an air of mockery—in her neat discriminations and clear convictions. In Isabel’s mind to day there was ...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...ent without saying. Aaron’s soul felt rather tired. But she had a touch of discrimination also. He rose and went to the drawing-room. It was a large, ... ... once that they can hire your services. It doesn’t do. They haven’t enough discrimination for that. Much best make rather a favour of it, than sort of...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

...!” he said. “Ever!” and feigned to be selecting a place to kiss with great discrimination. “Come here,” he said, and drew her to him. “Be careful of m...

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The Best of Four

By: Paul Surdi

............................................................ ............. 28 Discrimination ............................................................... ...Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Becky Reviello Discrimination T he definition of discrimination is the unfavorable treatm... ...the unfavorable treatment of people because of their race, color, or sex. Discrimination can be as minor as saying a blonde is dumb to as major as no... ... discrimi- nate unknowingly while others intentionally discriminate. early discrimination of sex. What happens when Jimmy wants to play with Barbie do... ...f sex. What happens when Jimmy wants to play with Barbie dolls? Besides discrimination because of sex, children are taught to discriminate against ... ...Learning discrimina- tion is passed from generation to genera- tion. Since discrimination is ignorance, per- haps education is the only way to stop it... ...orance, per- haps education is the only way to stop it. We do not learn discrimination only when 30 The definition of discrimination is “the unfav... ...the unfavorable treatment of people because of their race, color, or sex.” Discrimination can be as minor as saying a blonde is dumb to as major as no... ...eople discriminate unknowingly while others intentionally discriminate. Discrimination based on one experience is unfair. The robber could have eas...

.... 26 Shaping Experience .......................................................................................................................... 28 Discrimination .................................................................................................................................. 30 How to Make a Local Convenience Store Employee MAD ............................

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French Ways and Their Meaning

By: Edith Wharton

...on education: to a certain degree their instinct takes the place of acquired discrimination. But they set a greater store on it than any other races b... ...the same level of education as those of the cinema halls enjoying with keen discrimination a tragedy by Racine or a drama of Victor Hugo’s. In Americ...

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

...been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide fo...

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Concerning Christian Liberty

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...m all this every man will be able to attain a sure judg- ment and faithful discrimination between all works and laws, and to know who are blind and fo...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

... may not this tend to the encouragement of suicide in general, and without discrimination of its species? No: Donne’s arguments have no prospective re...

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... degree of Systimenoi, or bach- elors, who were selected with more anxious discrimination, were informed that this design was to move towards its ob- ...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

...interests. In levying duties for revenue it is doubtless proper to make such discriminations within the revenue principle as will af ford incidental ... ...is not conceded. The incidental protection afforded to our home interests by discriminations within the revenue range it is believed will be ample. In... ...s shown that the harmony and happiness of our people must depend upon a just discrimination between the sepa rate rights and responsibilities of the ... ...manufactures, especially those necessary for the defense of the country. Any discrimination against a particular branch for the purpose of benefiting ... ...against those countries whose trade policy toward us equitably requires such discrimination. It is thought that there has been such a change in condit... ...equal oppor tunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of big otry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans ...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...are reserved for war, hunting, sports, and devout observances. A very nice discrimination is ordinarily shown in this matter. This division of labour ... ...e of labour. The institution of leisure class is the outgrowth of an early discrimination between employments, according to which some employments are... ... and rests on sufficiently valid and cogent grounds. The ground on which a discrimination between facts is habitually made changes as the interest fro... ...assi- fication of the facts of life depends upon the interest from which a discrimination of the facts is sought. The grounds of discrimination, and t... ...n assertion of prowess, not of diligence. Under the guidance of this naive discrimination between 11 Veblen the inert and the animate, the activities... ...ually into a laborious drill in deportment and an educa- tion in taste and discrimination as to what articles of con- sumption are decorous and what a... ...er conformity with its requirements. So that while the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and ab... ...lity becomes a mark of inferiority and demerit. This growth of punctilious discrimination as to qualitative excellence in eating, drinking, etc. prese... ...umstances, the instinct eventuates in a taste for exploit and an invidious discrimination between noble and ignoble classes has been indicated in an e...

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

By: Henry David Thoreau

... no resting place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful system...

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

By: Various

...ure referred to in Article 189c, may adopt rules designed to prohibit such discrimination.” 9) Articles 8, 8a, 8b and 8c shall become respectively Art... ...red to in para- graphs 1 and 2 shall not constitute a means of arbi- trary discrimination or a disguised restriction on the 19 The Maastrict Treaty f...

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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

By: George Bernard Shaw

...- thing depends on the correct use of the word immo- rality, and a careful discrimination between the pow- ers of a magistrate or judge to administer ...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

...iverse effects. 31 The spheres pour down their various influences without discrimination in the choice of the individual upon whom they fall. Hence s...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...ne or talent to a cold and defective nature? Who cares what sensibility or discrimination a man has at some time shown, if he falls asleep in his chai... ...rule the world, but at short distances the senses are des- potic. The same discrimination of fit and fair runs out, if with less rigor, into all parts...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...to the enslaved people of Cuba, forgetting, for the time being, the unjust discrimination that law and custom make against them in their own country. ...

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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

...ys, at first on the great ones, and then on all church festivities without discrimination, wherever a cross stood in the calendar. On this point he wa...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

... did the triform effect Ray forth into its being all together, Without discrimination of beginning. Order was con-created and constructed In sub...

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

By: Henry David Thoreau

...only my hands. I know another, who, on the contrary, is remarkable for his discrimination in this respect; who knows how to make use of the talents of...

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... and deliver us from the corruption of morals. Now, all the above, without discrimination, applied with injudicious alternation, were felt by many mos...

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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton

...ely objects may be discriminated in themselves, and however accurately the discrimination may be considered, the definition of them may be rendered in... ... the House of Representatives from making legal 257 The Federalist Papers discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the societ... ...s of that sort; a consider- ation which alone ought to satisfy us that the discrimination apprehended would never be attempted. For what induce- ment ... ...capricious partiality in the national councils? Is it to be exercised in a discrimination between the different departments of industry, or between th... ...nsult brevity in discussing the probability of a preference founded upon a discrimination between the dif- ferent kinds of industry and property, beca... ... as far as I un- derstand the meaning of the objectors, they contemplate a discrimination of another kind. They appear to have in view, as the objects... ...ght of suffrage in the choice of that body. But upon what principle is the discrimination of the places of election to be made, in order to answer the... ...result from the immense difficulty, if not impossibility, of a practi- cal discrimination between the cases of one complexion and those of the other. ...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...Mr. Norris, for example, never figured to himself a great wave of critical discrimination sweeping through the ranks of the various provision trades a... ...nd driven men glorify “push” and impatience, and despise fin- ish and fine discriminations as weak and demoralising things. These three, the Serf, the...

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

...t hitherto been accustomed to be controlled by it; and this with very little discrimination as to whether the matter is, or is not, within the legitim... ...easoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self cont...

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The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

By: Kate Chopin

... hung at doors and windows. There were paintings, selected with judgment and discrimination, upon the walls. The cut glass, the silver, the heavy dama... ...y select, in so much as the guests in vited were few and were selected with discrimination. She had counted upon an even dozen seating themselves at ...

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Democracy and Education

By: John Dewey

...mulated or mock problems. The fol- lowing questions may aid in making such discrimination. (a) Is there anything but a problem? Does the question natu... ...ng and food. But if he makes a scientific investigation of the act, such a discrimination is the first thing he would effect. He would examine on the ... ...itigated by a recognition of certain mental faculties, like discernment or discrimination, compari- son, abstraction, and generalization which work up...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ... apart on their stations up the moun- tain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of dis- regarding the Middlemarch discrimination of ranks, and al- ways told his mother that Mrs. Garth was m... ... was something distinct from his own rectitude of con- duct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...rather rude. “Exactly,” said Sir James. “But you seem to have the power of discrimination.” “On the contrary, I am often unable to decide. But that is... ...with Lindley Murray and Mangnall’s Questions was something like a draper’s discrimination of calico trademarks, or a courier’s acquaintance with forei... ...ed apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. And Dorothea was not at ... ...ed to the full the clergyman’s privilege of disregarding the Mid dlemarch discrimination of ranks, and always told his mother that Mrs. Garth was mor... ...se was something distinct from his own rectitude of conduct: it enforced a discrimination of God’s enemies, who were to be used merely as instruments,...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Four

By: Edgar Allan Poe

..., of the case. I have great reliance, however, on that extreme delicacy of discrimination, in matters appertaining to the rules of etiquette, for whic...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...ot to be supposed that the restaurateur would lose sight of that intuitive discrimination which was wont to characterize, at one and the same time, hi...

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Notes on Life and Letters

By: Joseph Conrad

... may be called, roughly, not fine; a conscience, less troubled by the nice discrimination of shades of conduct. A fine conscience is more con- cerned ...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...d and narrow circle, how much, and that how exquisite, was contained! What discrimination, what wit, what delicacy, what fancy, what lurking spleen, w...

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Considerations on Representative Government

By: John Stuart Mill

... the moral sentiments of the community, both in respect of strength and of discrimination. Such a mode of levying the taxes as does not impede the ind...

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...ne until one had boarded. Primarily because of concern regarding potential discrimination and the impact on passenger throughput, “selectees” were no ... ...other pas- sengers were selected at random, both to address concerns about discrimination and to deter terrorists from figur- ing out the algorithm an...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...(to bracket works of very different value) The Scarlet Letter; and by what discrimination are you to open your doors to 119 Memories and Portraits Th...

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