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    finite


    1. The world horizon beneath which I now lived was definite, finite, and small


    2. Chewing over finite points of meaning has its appeal


    3. “A large but still a finite number, it fits easily in a sixty four bit integer


    4. He doesn’t have a finite extent you can measure with any instrument, no matter how long it takes to learn to interpret it


    5. He was born near the turn of the 52nd century, he’d never known the fear of years, could never feel what countless generations had known, that they had a finite count of decades, not centuries, and not much over twenty, and then they were dead like a tentacloid instead of remaining an ongoing process like a celluloid


    6. its strength is finite and must be renewed once


    7. indefinitely, his power is finite


    8. For them, the substance is finite,


    9. More recently, prominent scientists have gone further, offering evidence that space and time were finite; that there was a beginning of time and there will be an end


    10. Scientists considering the phenomenon from this limited angle can rightly come to the conclusion that the space-time notion is finite

    11. They asked him whether the cosmos was eternal, whether it was finite or infinite, whether the soul and the body were the same or separate, and whether a Buddha existed after death


    12. The mind, which deals only in finite images, thoughts, and ideas, cannot hold on to the concept of something that is not finite and is not a thing


    13. Try to imagine that you have a finite amount of “Tao energy” or ch’i available to you


    14. From the infinite to the finite


    15. I would like to propose a hypothetical question to the progressive reader: If given a choice, which of the following options would you choose: having been created in God‘s (own) Image or having descended from the apes? Should you choose the former, how come so many of you are willing to embrace evolutionary arguments that have been widely discredited rather than entertain the Divine Wisdom of scriptural teachings that offer a more plausible explanation for our existence? Why restrict your beliefs to worldly perceptions or ideas encumbered by the limits of your (finite) senses rather than explore the wondrous miracle of the human imagination, both moral and intellectual, or ―a capacity for self-transcendence‖ (Reinhold Niebuhr) uncommon among the Beast?


    16. You guys have unlimited space, where the Earth is finite,” said Brendan


    17. Science has pictured, as I’ve indicated in a previous chapter, the very beginning of life as one-celled things existing in a soup of finite hydrocarbon complexes from which they extracted their being


    18. This method is typically used to reduce the total number of test cases to a finite set of


    19. show you with finite eyes the difference that exists


    20. may span that space between the finite and the infinite

    21. finite resources against our fellow humans


    22. Eliminate these illusions, though, and you are confronted with this raw truth: despite being enslaved in a finite body, you are an infinite mind yearning to make sense of a perplexing yet terrifying reality


    23. series of presenters and there is also a ‘hard stop’ (finite time) for the


    24. and there is also a ‘hard stop’ (finite time) for the overall presentation, you will be


    25. Does order come from disorder? Even scientists say the universe is finite, created at one point in time


    26. It would take much longer for the curse to return you to life, and it would drain a great deal more of the curse’s finite supply of power


    27. taught me that we have a finite mind and a course on religion that


    28. So how does a finite mind


    29. In answer to my question, God let me see the vastness of his heavenly archives! My head swam! There was no way my finite mind could understand how God could keep track of these files


    30. The limited sin nature however, doesn’t have infinite thoughts period, because it is a foolish, weak, limited, and finite nature

    31. 11 Judith Hooper and Dick Teresi say that even if it is only a metaphor, the hologram is a compelling one for the brain’s magic show as it suggests how a finite lump of matter could contain an infinite mindscape


    32. Form is the finite instantiation of reality that could be interpreted as complete limitation; all of physical reality shows up as the one thing that it is


    33. In that finite moment of profound darkness, of infinitesimal blackness, a cold hand clung to my ankle


    34. inherent with infinity in a finite world


    35. have finite complexity in order to be a theory, and it must be able to calculate the Omega number to


    36. ‘Twas then I understood still more, the nature of the Folk: They are akin to thought, more subtle than the astral lights of finite shapes


    37. The planet is finite for Christ’s sake! It cannot expand


    38. The material things of finite creation are the time-space repercussions of the Paradise Pattern and the Universal Mind of the eternal God


    39. 3 The highest level to which a finite creature can progress is the recognition of the Universal Father and the knowing of the Supreme


    40. Only in the perfection, harmony, and unanimity of will can the creature become as one with the Creator; and such a state of divinity is attained and maintained only by the creature's continuing to live in time and eternity by consistently conforming his finite personal will to the divine will of the Creator

    41. Error (evil) is not an actual universe quality; it is simply the observation of a relativity in the relatedness of the imperfection of the incomplete finite to the ascending levels of the Supreme and Ultimate


    42. It arises out of the observation of the imperfections which appear in the shadow cast by a finite universe of things and beings as such a cosmos obscures the living light of the universal expression of the eternal realities of the Infinite One


    43. Space is relatively and comparatively finite to all beings of creature status


    44. The real problem is: How can the finite mind of man achieve a logical, true, and corresponding unity of thought? This universe-knowing state of mind can be had only by conceiving that the quantitative fact and the qualitative value have a common causation in the Paradise Father


    45. 4 "Which of you who is a father, if his son asks unwisely, would hesitate to give in accordance with parental wisdom rather than in the terms of the son's faulty petition? If the child needs a loaf, will you give him a stone just because he unwisely asks for it? If your son needs a fish, will you give him a watersnake just because it may chance to come up in the net with the fish and the child foolishly asks for the serpent? If you, then, being mortal and finite, know how to answer prayer and give good and appropriate gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the spirit and many additional blessings to those who ask him? Men ought always to pray and not become discouraged


    46. The prayers of time, when indited by the spirit and expressed in faith, are often so vast and all-encompassing that they can be answered only in eternity; the finite petition is sometimes so fraught with the grasp of the Infinite that the answer must long be postponed to await the creation of adequate capacity for receptivity; the prayer of faith may be so all-embracing that the answer can be received only on Paradise


    47. “The heat, the melting point are all finite and immutable


    48. 15 The finite universe of matter would eventually become uniform and deterministic but for the combined presence of mind and spirit


    49. The silence was a lot longer than the time delay caused by the finite speed of light passing between the two vessels


    50. As long as the reactor was running, there would be water, but food was a finite resource









































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    Synonyms for "finite"

    finite estimable measurable computable

    "finite" definitions

    bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent


    (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person