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Verses 1889-1896

By: Rudyard Kipling

...all me stern. Wi’ these to oversee Ye’ll note I’ve little time to burn on social repartee. The bairns see what their elders miss; they’ll hunt me to ... ..., And a Church of England parson for the Islands of the Blest. We asked no social questions — we pumped no hidden shame — We never talked obstetrics w... ...h. Kipling 260 How shall he clear himself, how reach Your bar or weighed defence prefer? A brother hedged with alien speech And lacking all interpr... ...marble and maple and all, And Brussels an’ Utrecht velvet, and baths and a Social Hall, And pipes for closets all over, and cutting the frames too lig... ...thin-flanked woman, as white and as stale as a bone, An’ she gave you your social nonsense; but where’s that kid o’ your own? I’ve seen your carriages...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... 310 How Change is Corrupted Pg 316 The Effect of Reverse Pyramidality as a Social Dynamic of Accumulation Pg 318 Glorification Pg 321 The Fiv... ...tion of Wealth Pg 332 The Accumulation of Power Pg 334 The Accumulation of Social Standing Pg 334 The Accumulation of Ownership Pg 343 The Acc... ...ove, Courage and Honesty Pg 883 The Triality of the Human Condition Pg 888 Social Dynamics of Separation Pg 889 Punishment Pg 892 Choice and W... ...0 Icons and Tokens Pg 1119 Responsibility and Cooperation Pg 1122 Dynamic Social Balance Pg 1131 The Dynamic of Positive and Negative Energy P... ... Dickens Pg 1385 Disease Pg 1388 Exploration of the Subconscious Pg 1393 Social Form and Function Pg 1395 The Power of Myth Pg 1397 History ... ...age to poison or sabotage every new idea ever sold to them. Their main legal defence is to buy up patents cheaply and then never use them so nobody ... ...o running shoes, pants, coffee houses, movies, radio, newspapers, television, defence industries, aircraft manufacturers, food chains, and fast-food ... ...deny they ever did or said anything they regretted. Then you get the basic defence of the ego: denial, conscious lying. ‘It never happened.’ ‘I ... ...f a healthy ego is an oxymoron because the only reason to develop one is as a defence against human attack. Without the existence of human antagonis...

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On the Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

... extremely abundant in the few spots where they do occur; and that of some social plants being social, that is, abound- ing in individuals, even on th... ... in relation to the parent, and of the parent in relation to the young. In social animals it will adapt the structure of each individual for the benef... ...ations, some slight advantage over other males, in their weapons, means of defence, or charms; and have transmitted these advantages to their male off... ...eight. It is admitted that the rattle- snake has a poison-fang for its own defence and for the destruction of its prey; but some authors sup- pose tha... ... state of nature occasionally become sterile; and if such insects had been social, and it had been profitable to the community that a number should ha... ...ne ox could ever have propagated its kind. Thus I believe it has been with social insects: a slight modification of structure, or instinct, correlated... ...terile females of the same species has been produced, which we see in many social insects. But we have not as yet touched on the climax of the difficu... ...ogeny. But success will often depend on having special weapons or means of defence, or on the charms of the males; and the slightest advantage will le...

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The Voyage of the Beagle

By: Charles Darwin

...ich stains the water for the space of a foot around. Besides this means of defence, an acrid se- cretion, which is spread over its body, causes a shar... ...of regulating its specific gravity. This Diodon possessed several means of defence. It could give a severe bite, and could eject water from its mouth ... ...all made of sticks and reeds; he had also dug a ditch round his house as a defence in case of being attacked. This would, how- ever, have been of litt... ... ball slips away. The smooth hard cov- ering of the mataco offers a better defence than the sharp spines of the hedgehog. The pichy prefers a very dry... ...or ambassadors from a large body of Indians, united in the common cause of defence, near the Cordillera. The tribe to which they had been sent was on ... ...ising animal. That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of mus- cular endurance, and length of life, than ...

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Dombey and Son

By: Charles Dickens

...’ said Mrs Chick, with desperate sternness, ‘whatever you are.’ ‘In my own defence,’ faltered Miss T ox, ‘and only In my own defence against your unki... ...s miserable daughter, only the reduction to their lowest grade, of certain social vices sometimes prevailing higher up? In this round world of many 9... ...ops. The housemaid won- ders too, and so does Mrs Perch, who has the happy social faculty of always wondering when other people wonder, with- out bein... ...d to give him hospitable entertainment. And the generous influence of that social virtue, hospitality (to make no mention of wine and good cheer), ope... ...llen air where Vice and Fever propagate together, raining the tremen- dous social retributions which are ever pouring down, and ever coming thicker! B... ...e since Mr Dombey’s little son died; but all such excitements there take a social, not to say a jovial turn, and lead to the cultivation of good fello... ...’d be a little rational, Misses Brown. I’m hoarse with saying things in my defence, and my very face is shiny with being hugged!’ He rubbed it hard wi... ...-passengers, than comported with a professor of the peace- ful art of self-defence. Arrived at home, instead of leaving Mr T oots in his apartments wh...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...les were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herri... ...according to ability, at all hazards; nay, it was partly with a view to such defence that he engaged in this undertaking. To stem, or if that be impos... ... knead and publish was other than medicinal and sacred. In such environment, social, domestic, physical, did Teufelsdr¨ ockh, at the time of our acqua... ...t arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to which, that his sole possession and defence might not be lost, he had attached a long cord of plaited thongs;... ...led shrine for the Holy in man. Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity; Clothes have made Men of us; they are threatening to make ... ... for example, are we to make of such sentences as the following? “Aprons are Defences; against injury to cleanliness, to safety, to modesty, sometimes... ... grand Electric Battery, and Fountain of motion, from which and to which the Social Activities (like vit reous and resinous Electricities) circulate,... ...gn of folly is over, or altered, and thy clothes are not for triumph but for defence, hast thou always worn them perforce, and as a consequence of Man... ... we possess the master organ, soul’s seat, and true pineal gland of the Body Social: I mean, a PURSE?” Nevertheless it is impossible to hate Professor...

...ch last, indeed, there have been minds to whom the question, How the apples were got in, presented difficulties. Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring? Then, have we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of Intoxicating Liquors? ...

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Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar : Risk Reduction in Natural Resource Management

By: Dr. John Espie Leake

...ses arise from whether a disaster is perceived to be of slow or rapid onset. This investigation reflects on the interplay of short and long- term social and biophysical factors on the scale of one particular disaster, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Nargis, which hit the Ayeyarwady Delta area of Myanmar in May 2008, killing perhaps 140,000 people in four hours. This will be achi...

...cy Management 107 Emergency Responders 110 Structural Defences 111 Warning Systems 112 Health Services ...

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Smallholder Dairying in the Tropics

By: Lindsay Falvey & Charan Chantalakhana

...rs to the next generation of smallholder dairy farmers, scientists and the international development agencies concerned with technical issues and the social and economic benefits of dairying in the tropics. This book results from productive collaboration among institutions and scientists in developing and industrial countries. The Thailand Research Fund (TRF) of the Pri...

... Detection of mastitis Physical examination Strip test Paddle test to detect somatic cells Laboratory tests Collection of milk samples Natural defence mechanisms Teat sphincter and keratin Somatic cells Antibodies Nutrition Control of mastitis Background problem Mastitis control strategy Recommended milking procedures Recommendations for milking equipment ...

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Rudin a Novel

By: Ivan S. Turgenev

...ause he happened to produce his works in a troubled epoch of political and social strife, when the best men were absorbed in other interests and pursu... ...rument of her intellectual progress. III RUDIN is the first of T urgenev’s social novels, and is a sort of artistic introduction to those that follow,... ...t follow, because it refers to the epoch anterior to that when the present social and politi- cal movements began. This epoch is being fast forgotten,... ...er pleasing to its mistress, though she was fond of declaring that for her social prejudices did not exist. ‘Good-morning, my dears,’ began Konstantin... ...s, indeed, with a stake, a very big stake, like those that are used in the defence of a fort.’ ‘Mais c’est un horreur ce que vous dites la, Monsieur,’... ...devote to that interesting subject the hours of leisure left over from his social amuse- ments and his official duties?’ Rudin looked steadily at Piga...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

... she, “to tor- ment the poor boy so.” “My dear,” said the cotton-tassel in defence of his conduct, “Jos is a great deal vainer than you ever were in y... ... the saying is, and had lost all pres- ence of mind and power of attack or defence. Figs, on the con- trary, was as calm as a quaker. His face being q... ...reputation as a fire-eating and jealous warrior was a further and complete defence to his little wife. There are gentlemen of very good blood and fash... ...ch regarded Napoleon), the country seemed in so perfect a state of orderly defence, and the help at hand in case of need so near and overwhelming, tha... ...es with her wit. But, as we have said, she. was growing tired of this idle social life: opera-boxes and restaurateur din- ners palled upon her: nosega... ...Closet, and one of the great 492 V anity Fair dignitaries and illustrious defences of the throne of England, and came up with all his stars, garters,... ... discussed on his way to the theatre, whither everybody went in the cheery social little Ger- man place. The lady in black, the boy’s mamma, laughed a... ...erybody to the house, and she made Jos be- lieve that it was his own great social talents and wit which gathered the society of the place round about ...

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Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

... convivial habits con- nected with the drug-markets, as the beginning of a social chorus, his leading part in the execution of which had led this gent... ...ody was not quite satisfied, and he felt conscious that he set a brilliant social example in being particularly well satisfied with most things, and, ... ...or he had prospered exceedingly upon the Harmon Murder, and had turned the social distinction it conferred upon him to the account of mak- ing several... ... partner.’ This was such an entirely new view of the T erpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in some asto... ...sed through a terrible strait, or who in self-pres- ervation have killed a defenceless fellow-creature, that the record thereof has never faded from t... ...nation he would reply, “Away with it!” But suppose I mounted higher in the social scale. Suppose I drew my arm through the arm of my respected friend ... ... pursued the Secretary , ‘though it were only in self-explanation and self-defence. I hope, Miss Wilfer, that it is not unpardonable—even in me—to mak... ...agreeable enter- tainment was truly pitiable. For, not only was he exposed defenceless to the harangues of Mrs Wilfer, but he received the utmost cont... ...d Bella. ‘Praising me? You are sure? Not blaming me for standing on my own defence against a crew of plunderers, who could suck me dry by driblets? No...

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Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

...h an exclamation of impatience was going to fly at me – I had no shadow of defence, for Joe was busy in the forge when Mr. Pumblechook interposed with... ...l to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmi... ...at the situation admitted of noth- ing less than coming on, and was on his defence straightway; so, without so much as pulling off their singed and bu... ...ssly said that his legal advisers instructed him altogether to reserve his defence?” “I read that just now,” Mr. Wopsle pleaded. “Never mind what you ... ...ly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence? Come! Do you make that of it?” Mr. Wopsle answered, “Those are not... ...that ever was, seemed a combination of impossi- bilities, geographical and social, solar and lunar. Yet in the London streets, so crowded with people ... ...ould have been the kitchen -always sup- posing the boarder capable of self-defence, for, before I had been there a week, a neighbouring lady with whom... ...use six waiters to get drunk on the stairs. I Know that these gratify- ing social ends were so invariably accomplished, that Herbert and I understood ... ...lain-topped cork, rep- resenting some clerical dignitary of a rubicund and social as- pect. With the aid of these appliances we all had something warm...

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