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...fluence only to the Royal Family itself. For generations, the Draxens had exerted strong political influence over Kierani affairs and had been invol... ...mself, that he does not need or want our help, and in effect he will have severed certain political ties with us. Then, the next thing we know, the ... ...at the mind is actively work- ing on levels we haven’t begun to understand or unlock. Some philosophers even claim that the dream world is as real or...

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......................................................................... 44 POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................. ... foreign financing. I think that some countries are so busy chasing their political tails that they can‟t move forward. Your lawyers, journalists an... ... the long term trends and possible outcomes, you focused on the immediate political interests. Look what it has done to your economy and your intern... ...wing the joys of parenting. Clearly they wanted to use the most effective political techniques to change the minds of the reticent reproducers. ... ...people. Socially we have concerned people who 29 have been loved, and politically we have intelligent citizens. So it‟s a win-win-win situation. ... ...ic philosophies and religions that are usually strongly influenced by the philosophers of the Enlightenment period. It is particularly true when tho... ...u trying to teach? “Our major films show the lives of composers, philosophers, artists and others who show courage and intellect. There is ...

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...pope. Similarly, the values of the people and those of their religious or political leaders often vary.‖ ---―Wanda, one of my parishioners tol... ...ur thinking. They are absolutely basic to our thinking and our behavior. Philosophers generally realize that they have such assumptions. They call t... ... They call them metaphysics--meaning beyond the physical world. ―Philosophers usually see the world as basically ‗matter‘ or as basically ‗i... ...Matter then comes from God, the ultimate idea. ―Certainly not all philosophers agree. Plato saw the basis, the primary starting point, as ‗i... ...are the rule rather than the exception. Prostitution, gambling, drugs and political payoffs are only a small part of their overall business, much of... ...How well are the common people represented when they have not watered the political flower pots? ―There is something to be said for self inter... ...ose your driving license if you speed, will you speed? If you know that a political candidate will lower your taxes but that your children will be sa... ... but that 50% thinks it is absolutely right, and it makes a great deal of political noise, so you think there are more of them than there actually ar... ..., God or matter. Is there a God. ―Naturally some theologians and philosophers have attempted to prove that a Supernatural exists by using e...

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...7% that same as a chimpanzee and about 60% the same as a chicken, we would have to assume that we have some instincts. ―Psychologists, philos... ...d our reliance on faith and hope. Theologians have given us many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philos... ...or being the toughest inmate, the power gained from being in the best school or on the best team—the examples are endless. Then there are the politi... ... in our children and young adults the abilities to have power to do some things well. This can be in the vocational, avocational, familial or politi... ...is often valued by the newsmen. But is press freedom more valuable to a Muslim whose prophet has been defiled? It is religious values versus politi... ...r over men. Granting sexual favors is even a better means of gaining power over them. Men tend to get their sexual attraction from economic or politi... ...cles for the drive for power. It had forced them to achieve in business, to become the money winners, and to work at the highest academic and politi... ...ove as it is now defined. The idea of love can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philos... ...s meaning in life, or searches for meaning, it is a sign of being psychologically healthy and happy. One might look at the artists and poets, philos...

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.................................................................. 34 KINO’S POLITICAL SYSTEM ............................................................ ...n the late 90s it had been granted a freedom to experiment with social and political policies and with technology. Its progress has been even more s... ...l citizens, are generally primary. They have also eliminated religion as a political force. A strong central government is in place. It requires the... ...buktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates. There were ... ...cial interest groups like farmers, unions or businesses. There is also the political consideration to make a state become beholden to the political p... ...ake in most of the dough. But then they are the bigger contributors to the political races. We‘re talking about tens of millions to hundreds of mill... ...l power of educated, wise and socially conscious citizens. Wise political philosophers expected that the electorate‘s decisions would evolve heaven...

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...l requirement for a separation of church and state, then look as how many political candidates have to continually call on God to bless everybody. A... ...necessary program. It took some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary... ...eople want. Pushing for what they need, like a reduced population, can be political suicide. So instead of curing the root cause of our poverty by r... ...he art of being honest‘ but without an educated electorate we have to use political techniques such as propaganda to nudge our voters. All modern de... ... do this. No modern democracy has voters who are all educated in history, political science, economics, the environmental sciences and all the other... ... and infinite. You may have heard of Shankara, he was the greatest of the philosophers or theologians of Juana. He taught us to use the intellect to...

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...ily. Only then can we reach the utopian goal that has been the dream of the philosophers and saints who have preceded us. “But I want to see ... ...t only goes against the traditions of the human race but it is definitely a politically incorrect idea. This is especially true in countries that ca... ...en we have the idea, especially in the U.S. that allowing for abortion is a politically incorrect action. “But the ideas of what causes or act... ...ically incorrect action. “But the ideas of what causes or actions are politically correct changes. The right, even the necessity, to own slave... ...in college and the right for women to succeed in business and politics. The politically correct idea that Jews and Asians should be kept in lowly pla... ...is going hungry (1aaa) Not so much because of a lack of food as the lack of political will to get the food where it is needed. “It was recen...

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...ire Universe. He came to this conclusion centuries before the pre-Socratic philosophers did. On reading the Odyssey, I formulated the following hypo... ... worth, anyway? Here he is an inconspicuous forerunner to the pre-Socratic philosophers, which soon after would dismantle the belief in the existenc... ... creating a scandal, and so they can easily circulate without religious or political censure attacking them, as instead happens later on with Socrat... ...e living organism. This higher power has nothing to do with the god of the philosophers or the god of the theologians. Homer calls this higher powe... ...eptics has been revisited during modern times by positivist and relativist philosophers. For them relative truths exist and these truths are so rela... ..., who strongly adheres to Socratic thinking and invites all thinkers, both philosophers and scientists, to become humble in their thinking and their...

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...octors' class, held at Dr. Lee's breakfast table, he brought up articles and political cartoons for discussions. Everything from the continuing menace... ...age him he would be a pussycat purring on my lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the m... ... decency to keep the Christian constituents, brethren of Israel, happy. Its political engagements were for its own economic and military hegemony ins... ...other non-Parmenidetian activity that was paradise to the masses and vile to philosophers and contemplatives would have caused her to grab the nearest... ...a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and traditional m... ...y that had tossed the chemicals of inchoate matter, then cloistered artists, philosophers, and other contemplatives would be the dominant force on the...

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...that hardly anyone was listening. He walked on. Most of the speakers were political or religious and some of them were clear- ly a little mad. He pas... ... dust. ‘Do you know where you sit now? On this very spot, great kings and philosophers of centuries past lived their f nest hours. What were their n...

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...king figures created by the manners and customs of our present epoch. May he not, in some conceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterprise to the period of intellectual strength? Our century will bind the realm of isolated power, abounding as it does in creative genius, to the realm of...

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...not, in some con- ceivable order of things, be destined to mark for coming philosophers the great transition which welds a period of material enterpri... ...ing occupies him. Jester and jolly fellow, he keeps on good terms with all political opinions, and is patriotic to the bottom of his soul. A capital m... ...ent piston of the steam-engine called Speculation. “Monsieur,” said a wise political economist, the director- cashier-manager and secretary-general of... ...nd, but only five francs if he got no more than five hundred. The cause of political journalism not interfering with the pre- accepted cause of life i... ... Press is neither a tool nor an article of barter: it is, viewed under its political aspects, an institution. We are bound, in virtue of our position ... ...re bound, in virtue of our position as legislators, to consider all things politically, and therefore” (here he stopped to get breath)—”and there- for...

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...fort for one who had no special training in government, or in the study of political economy, but he had the example of Lafayette in establishing the ... ...the general equality of conditions.” He referred, doubtless, to social and political conditions among the people of the white race, who are described ... ...ith the rights of citizenship, including the right of suffrage. This was a political party movement, intended to be radical and revolu- tionary, but i... ...it was not intended to include other colored races -creates a new phase of political conditions that M. De Tocqueville could not foresee. Yet, in his ... ...ounty governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our political organization which, in the end, will render harmless this wide de... ...b- scure democracy, which had as yet brought forth neither gen- erals, nor philosophers, nor authors, a man might stand up in the face of a free peopl... ...by sacrificing their opinions, they prostitute themselves. Mor- alists and philosophers in America are not obliged to conceal their opinions under the... ... which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving at this state. The philosophers of the eighteenth century explained the gradual decay of relig... ...d the empire of tradition, and overthrew the authority of the schools. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, generalizing at length the same pri...

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... left, of a character unknown to the tragic and the lyric poet, or even to philosophers. We have in this world men whom Rabelais would call agelasts; ... ...tic comedy. He certainly inspired that fine genius. 10 An Essay on Comedy Politically it is accounted a misfortune for France that her nobles thronge... ...te of dense cohesion, very desirable in the estimation of the statesman. A political Aristophanes, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, wa... ...s, taking advantage of his lyrical Bacchic licence, was found too much for political Athens. I would not ask to have him revived, but that the sharp l... ...He had the Comic poet’s gift of common-sense—which does not always include political intelligence; yet his political tendency raised him above the Old... ...te, as he calls himself, was a Titanic pamphleteer, using laughter for his political weapon; a laughter without scruple, the laughter of Hercules. He ... ..., which is directly opposed to the Comic; and in his philosophy, judged by philosophers, he is a comic figure, by reason of this deficiency. ‘So bald ... ...Essay on Comedy You will find learned men undoubtedly, professors, reputed philosophers, and illustrious dilettanti. They have in them, perhaps, every...

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...mately known to every man engaged in the hard practical work of Ameri- can political life. It is difficult to overstate how much it means to a nation ... ...s an interesting distinction between the qualities needed for a successful political career in mod- ern society and those which lead to eminence in th... ...s,—satire the rustic wit of which was not always fit for ears polite. Also political thoughts he put upon paper, and some of his pieces were even deem... ...e State government from V andalia to Springfield; one of those triumphs of political management which are apt to be the pride of the small politician’... ...mpathetic kindness in his heart. His main ambition was confessedly that of political distinc- tion; but hardly any one would at that time have seen in... ..., it awards to him the merit of having accomplished what but few political philosophers would have recognized as pos- sible,—of leading the republic t... ...s fable of the bundle of sticks; and he whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers has declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand...

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...whom they would surely , if they could have done so, have imparted their own political wisdom; but no one ever heard that these sons of theirs were re... ...r sons. Those who are possessed of it cannot be said to be men of science or philosophers, but they are inspired and divine. There may be some trace o... ... attainable in this world, is of all things the most divine. Yet, like other philosophers, he is willing to admit that ‘probability is the guide of li... ...f ideas is spoken of as a doctrine held not by Plato, but by another sect of philosophers, called ‘the Friends of Ideas,’ probably the Megarians, who ... ... is knowledge, has been set aside, and cannot be supposed to be our guide in political life. MENO: I think not. SOCRATES: And therefore not by any wis...

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...ublic affairs and are not over- whelmed by it. Was France less prolific of political capacities than Germany? The rather silly game of what are called... ...from the soil, which was in danger; but in times of peace it was a serious political fault to burden it beyond a certain limit; otherwise it could nev... ...ing his ideas. Rabourdin’s success depended on the tranquil condi- tion of political affairs, which up to this time were still un- settled. He had not... ...d those of the rue Duphot. Neverthe- less, she mistook the quietude of the political thinker and the preoccupation of the intrepid worker for the apat... ...n Monsieur Clement Chardin des Lupeaulx, one of those men whom the tide of political events sends to the surface for a few years, then en- gulfs on a ... ...mple; but above all—and 199 Balzac what I am going to say is intended for philosophers—I wish (if you’ll allow me to misquote a saying of Louis XVIII...

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...n this way the door of immortality, innumerable people, criminals, saints, philosophers, young girls, statesmen, and simple imbeciles, have kept self-... ...ispers. Razumov was one of those men who, living in a period of mental and political un- rest, keep an instinctive hold on normal, practical, everyday... ...im upon anybody in the world has in an hour of trial involving his deepest political convictions turned to an illustrious Russian—that’s all.” The Pri... .... No doubt you shall be looked upon as a martyr some day —a sort of hero—a political saint. But I beg to be excused. I am content in fitting myself to... ...udoir with his confession.” Razumov sat up in anguish. W as he to remain a political sus- pect all his days? W as he to go through life as a man not w... ...Secretariat. Hearing a great noise of footsteps in the hall and aware that political pris- oners were brought over sometimes at night from the fortres...

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...order to clear up the muddle in my own mind about in- numerable social and political questions, questions I could not keep out of my work, which it di... ...not already a little interested and open- minded with regard to social and political questions, and a little exercised in self-examination, you will f... ... has seen. It is now our terrestrial experience that whenever economic and political developments set a class free to travel, that class at once be- g... ...e managed electrically from common gen- erating stations. And the trend of political and social specu- lation points decidedly to the conclusion that ... ...red to be subordinate and subsequent to this general science of Sociology. Political economy and economics, in our world now, consist of a hope- less ... ...e irreducible mathematical expression will at times bring it to unity. Now philosophers after my Utopian pattern, who find the ultimate significance i... ...who profess what is called Science as against psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and literary men, whom he regards as wild, foolish, immoral s...

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...aid beyond their own limits. For nine years, ever since the triumph of his political ideas, the colonel had lived almost entirely outside of social li... ...uture son-in-law, and my lady dreams now of the splendors and dignities of political life.” “Could you love Cecile?” said the colonel to his son. “Yes... ... 10 The Deputy of Arcis REVOLT OF A LIBERAL ROTTEN-BOROUGH THOUGH 1839 IS, politically speaking, very distant from 1847, we can still remember the ele... ... emony now about to take place. Ha! ha! young man; so we intend to enter a political career? Ha! ha! ha! This is our first step—mustn’t step back—it i... ...great work, “the devotion of those who fling themselves into the tumult of political life; he! he! he! It takes more nerve than I possess. Who could h... ...g Poland, the daring pamphleteers, the scrutinizers of the civil test, the philosophers who demand sincerity in the working of our institutions, if th...

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...a good thing for France if this idea could be popularised. The benefits of political harmony are obvious to the least intelli- gent classes. Harmony i... ...ne man among them with the steel-en- compassed brains that can forge a new political system and begin a new career of glory for a nation. The Faubourg... ...e itself under a leader. And now it is easy to give a summary of this semi-political survey. The wish to re-establish a large fortune was upper- most ... ...iews, and a mass 31 Balzac of small defects, a real need of religion as a political factor, combined with a thirst for pleasure which damaged the cau... ...-dying, and would not so much as raise itself or stretch out a hand to any political physician; so well aware of its feeble- ness, or so conscious tha... ...and passion are two different conditions which poets and men of the world, philosophers and fools, alike con- tinually confound. Love implies a give a... ...ded, holding out a hand, which he kissed. “We will be like two grey-headed philosophers who have learned how to enjoy life to the last moment. I will ...