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    1. To have come that close to our present-day scientific theory when nothing obvious, in the ancient world of his day, could have prompted him to that kind of understanding, is nothing short of amazing


    2. From the “Be not afraid” message meant to assuage the wondering terror that still haunted Man from out of the vulnerability of his precariously uncertain past as he encountered these seemingly otherworldly experiences, to the modern versions of angels, meant only to help an individual overcome the “stumbling stones” of life; these have also evolved over that great expanse, from prehistoric through prebiblical and biblical times, to the present-day elucidations


    3. The five parts of this compromise were: California will be free; the territories of New Mexico (including present-day Arizona and Utah) could decide the issue without


    4. recent threat to the world—radical Islamism, with its fanatic interpretations, coercion, terror and violence, and present-day efforts at the reincarnation of the Muslim Empire


    5. What clued me in to the fact that it was Chicago was the trains—constantly running, all over the city, like the El in present-day Chicago


    6. Jason wondered if the figure more accurately presaged the take of present-day casinos! Along with a counterproposal, President Andrew Johnson declared the Indians hostile


    7. These included present-day Texas, New


    8. Army of Observation a few miles from present-day


    9. This history is probably close to what really happened, but it is told with a noticeable present-day, negative prejudice, which makes it questionable


    10. He told her of the Goths, starting with their earliest known history in present-day Sweden and Poland, their subjugation by Attila and rebellion after his death, the Balkan travails, the conquest of Italy and so forth

    11. He couldn't help but think it must have eroded significantly over the thousands of years since the last ice age, particularly if weather patterns had differed from present-day prevailing westerlies


    12. -780, 1289, 1890, 2005, here you are, present-day, and you are worthy of


    13. Accordingly, we three secondary midwayers completed such an adaptation of Jesus' teachings, restating his pronouncements as we would apply them to present-day world conditions, and we now present these statements as they stand after having been edited by the Melchizedek chairman of the revelatory commission


    14. And if Jesus were on earth today, living his life in the flesh, he would be a great disappointment to the majority of good men and women for the simple reason that he would not take sides in present-day political, social, or economic disputes


    15. And now are we about to enter upon a deadly conflict with such a religion since we will so shortly begin the bold proclamation of a new religion -- a religion which is not a religion in the present-day meaning of that word, a religion that makes its chief appeal to the divine spirit of my Father which resides in the mind of man; a religion which shall derive its authority from the fruits of its acceptance that will so certainly appear in the personal experience of all who really and truly become believers in the truths of this higher spiritual communion


    16. The hour is striking for a rediscovery of the true and original foundations of present-day distorted and compromised Christianity -- the real life and teachings of Jesus


    17. 16 The great hope of Urantia lies in the possibility of a new revelation of Jesus with a new and enlarged presentation of his saving message which would spiritually unite in loving service the numerous families of his present-day professed followers


    18. Present-day spacecraft would take about 70,000 years to cover that distance


    19. I remain confident that our Lord has prepared African Americans as our present-day spiritual vanguards


    20. Grégoire and his own family soon sat down at the next table and it took less than a minute before the children from both families started conversing together, with the Tarangs asking questions about life around present-day Toulouse and with the children of Grégoire answering those questions, often in colorful terms

    21. Present-day conceptions of what is natural and appropriate in relationships --


    22. In this regard it can be fruitful to take a look models of present-day pagan societies (of which a few remain on the earth), for indications of the possible forms and directions which can be taken by societies which emphasise feeling and intuition over thinking and believing


    23. There is also information on the ‘Jesus Prayer’, being one of the most sacramental and effective spiritual practices of Christianity, about Saint Agapit, a resounded for ages healer monk of Kiev-Pechersky Monastery, about the present-day spiritual elder Antony


    24. Present-day policies are aimed at improving the performance of credit markets, such as group-lending or creation of collateral, and typically aim to change incentives for borrowers


    25. The sale raised about $50 million at present-day prices


    26. In present-day America, especially the New York City area, the Readers’ community is more open-minded


    27. For example, in the next thirty years, we have a real chance to refocus into Formo-systems of Worlds whose qualities radically differ from those which are typical of our present-day self-perception


    28. In present-day songs the 7-syllable line is rather rare, exceptin combination with lines of five


    29. Colombia and Colombian are restricted to the present-dayColombia and the older Nueva


    30. The obvious mechanization and dehumanization of farming: as it began from the first plow creating the first linear furrow: to the present-day merging of corporate farms into vast, dehumanized, mechanized wastelands cannot be ignored

    31. They were great deceivers and most present-day


    32. exactly the steps which started me on the road to my present-day success


    33. This conclusion is now verified and accepted by al present-day pharmaceutical experts in the


    34. `I don't want anyone to think that I am blaming any of these present-day loafers,' Barrington added


    35. He explained that CBT was a type of short-term, practical, goal-directed therapy that focused not so much on bringing up and examining painful memories but instead on identifying certain present-day behaviors and the sometimes distorted thinking that fueled them, trying to modify beliefs and relate to others in different ways—and by doing so changing behaviors


    36. So presumably the only way the present-day Church could spot the Tomb of Saint Kohdy would be for someone to literally stumble over it on the ground, and that made the Abbey of the Snows, sixty-odd miles to the west on the Stone Shadow River, the Tomb’s true protection


    37. Some present-day Graham-and-Dodders (perhaps because Buffett has had a well-publicized aversion to high tech) have a mistaken notion that all technology is impossible to analyze and is therefore off-limits


    38. On interest coverage: “The present-day investor is accustomed to regard the ratio of earnings to interest charges as the most important specific test of safety


    39. Our own experience leads us to favor the latter technique, although we cannot guarantee brilliant results therefrom under present-day conditions


    40. But it must be pointed out that much present-day market analysis represents a combination of the two kinds described, in the sense that the market’s action alone constitutes the predominant but not the exclusive field of study

    41. To supply an element of concreteness here, let us suggest that to be “large” in present-day terms a company should have $50 million of assets or do $50 million of business


    42. This is a factor of prime importance in present-day investing, and it has received less attention than it deserves


    43. It has a special significance for us, since it seems to encapsulate, on the one hand, all that has been reasonable, stable, and generally good in the traditional methods of handling other people’s money, in contrast—in the other company—with the reckless expansion, the financial legerdemain, and the roller-coaster changes so often found in present-day corporate operations


    44. Present-day Turkey remains committed to the tradition of secularism, in the tradition Atatürk started, but for some Muslims, Atatürk is a controversial figure: They applaud his success in defeating the Western Allies, but they hate the steps he took against Islamic culture


    45. It lies in the fact that an historic character like Alexander I, standing on the highest possible pinnacle of human power with the blinding light of history focused influences: the intrigues, flattery, and self-deception inseparable from power; a character who at every moment of his life felt a responsibility for all that was happening in Europe; and not a fictitious but a live character who like every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth- that this character- though not lacking in virtue (the historians do not accuse him of that)- had not the same conception of the welfare of humanity fifty years ago as a present-day professor who from his youth upwards has been occupied with learning: that is, with books and lectures and with taking notes from them


    46. And while it is true that many families are descended from contract colonists not unlike the present-day braceros, all hold to the dream of the longhorn steer and the unfenced horizon


    47. In view of this fact it is of the utmost importance that present-day vessels should be thoroughly provided with the most efficient life-saving devices


    48. This relation is the object of every science; but to-day the study of this relation is called Ethics by our present-day scholars, and is considered as a science by itself, and a very unimportant one from out the great mass of other sciences


    49. Such feelings as form the chief subjects of present-day art—say, for instance, honor,[101] patriotism, and amorousness—evoke in a working-man only bewilderment and contempt, or indignation


    50. The art of the future, that which is really coming, will not be a development of present-day art, but will arise on completely other and new foundations, having nothing in common with those by which our present art of the upper classes is guided



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