The whole time, they were slowly being driven to stark, unreasoning terror.
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But the reality is that a lot of it is driven by unreasoning rage.
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Stubbornness, to my mind, connotes a, an unreasoning, a thoughtless refusal to do something.
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No, the real crisis is an upsurge in hatred — unreasoning hatred that bears no relationship to anything the victims have done.
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There is an unreasoning exuberance about foldables, one that you might more often see among sneakerheads salivating at an ultra-exclusive, limited production run.
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I'm most interested in the bright line that Pinker draws between the empirical spirit of science and the unreasoning obscurantism he suggests otherwise prevails.
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" The primary obstacle to this restoration was not economics but fear: "nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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It was just that the blinders were gone, the sport, the spring and sway of the dance, the careless unreasoning madness of it all.
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It's now clear that Republicans just have a deep, unreasoning hatred of the idea that government policy may help some people get health care. Why?
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Instead of trying to convince customers to buy a car on the basis of its better cost efficiency or environmental footprint, manufacturers are trying to elicit an emotional, unreasoning response.
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She is on a quest to understand the peculiar nature of belief, the power of faith — pure, unquestioning and even unreasoning — to shape the way we see the world around us.
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But by the last page I was less convinced of the value of repeatedly witnessing the aimless and unreasoning clash of ignorant armies than I might have been at the book's midpoint.
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That simple and silly partisan unreasoning, or that plus the aforementioned idiocy part, was why I hated Michael Jordan when he was the most widely and deservedly loved athlete who has ever lived.
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She is an embodiment of the unquenchable, unreasoning life force, and also its uselessness against the fates that resign us all to oblivion in the end, and sometimes a living death well before it.
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Such gestures are unquestioned; they are driven by the engine of necessity—the unreasoning force by which the denizens of Nichols's films are charged up and, often against their better judgment, compelled to act.
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This is the dissolution that matters most, to me: the communion across the barricades, the shared and unreasonable and unreasoned and unreasoning hope that everyone might somehow get what they need from this punishing thing.
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Campaign contributions, contributing to a challenger, or simply being in the opposition party are all smeared as the work of the mob -- that mass of people too angry, too unreasoning and too debased to participate in the public sphere.
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It changes shape from moment to moment, and while it is clear and rarely disputed that things are somehow getting worse—more egregious and more ungovernable and more unreasonable and more unreasoning—the descent has a lot of weird switchbacks and unmarked detours.
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" This calls to mind Franklin D. Roosevelt's words to the American people in his first inaugural address at the depth of the Great Depression in 1933: "The only thing we have to fear is... fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
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His lies are preposterous and glaring and never anything but the obvious opposite of what is actually true; his unquestioned desires and deeply held, deeply unreasoning bigotries and petty fixations are all absolutely untouched from the 1988 Rich Guy factory settings; the sheer mass of his annihilating selfishness leaves no room for anything like subtext.
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It's more than that, but also it is always that—there is a want at the heart of it that is unreasoning and unreasonable, and the little blips of transcendence that sports give us are the result of the dynamic tension between that ungovernable want and the rules and norms and various tiers of ritual and discipline and received wisdom that govern the game.
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But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.
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Retrieved 2013-02-11. In this and other writings, Plato relegated doxa as being a belief, unrelated to reason, that resided in the unreasoning, lower-parts of the soul.Sorabji, Richard. 1992. Essays on Aristotle's De Anima, edited by M. C. Nussbaum.
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But there are cross pressures. Against the freedom from "unreasoning fears" there is a feeling of malaise, of something lost. Heroism is lost in the leveling down of aspiration; utilitarianism is thought too flat and shallow. There is no room for death.
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John comes in suddenly and finds them in this compromising situation. He refuses to hear his wife's explanation, declaring that he will give her a divorce so she can marry Barry. Before leaving, John tells Barry, "The woman who can be stolen from one man can be stolen from another." Kathleen marries Barry and is soon subjected to his unreasoning jealousy.
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The South's reaction entered the second phase at around the time of Brown's execution. Southerners were relieved that no slaves had volunteered to help Brown, and felt vindicated in their claims that slaves were content. After Northerners had expressed admiration for Brown's motives, with some treating him as a martyr, Southern opinion evolved into what James M. McPherson called "unreasoning fury".James M. McPherson.
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Anonymity provides to rational individuals a feeling of invincibility and the loss of personal responsibility. An individual becomes primitive, unreasoning, and emotional. This lack of self-restraint allows individuals to "yield to instincts" and to accept the instinctual drives of their "racial unconscious". For Le Bon, the crowd inverts Darwin's law of evolution and becomes atavistic, proving Ernst Haeckel's embryological theory: "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".
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As a teacher, he insisted on the unreasoning observance of rules, differing thus from Scarlatti, who treated all his pupils as individuals. A complete collection of Durante's works, consisting almost exclusively of sacred music, was presented by Gaspare Selvaggi, a Neapolitan art collector and music theorist,Selvaggi, Trattato di armonia, 1823. to the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. A catalogue may be found in Fétis's Biographie universelle.
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Actually, he was a pacifist who hated war and lectured against it, but felt that, when threatened by an aggressive and unreasoning enemy, a nation could not but fight. On this principle, he opposed the Boer War, but supported the Allies in both the World Wars. In 1913, when it seemed that war might yet be avoided, he published a long anti-war poem called The Wine Press.
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Meanwhile, the Army tries but is unable to enter the saucer; Gort stands outside, silent and unmoving. Klaatu tells the President's secretary, Mr. Harley, he has a message that must be delivered to all the world's leaders simultaneously. Harley tells him that in the current political climate this is impossible. Klaatu suggests that he be allowed to go among humans to better understand their "unreasoning suspicions and attitudes".
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Empowered Vol.1, pages 166-169 Then known as Theresa, Spooky was looked down upon for her appearance differing from the rest of the supernaturally idealized blondes that appeared to be the status quo of the school.Empowered Vol.1, page 165 As a result of her social stigma in high school, Theresa was left emotionally damaged and bearing a deep, unreasoning hatred for all blondes - including her later teammate Emp.Empowered Vol.
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Jean Chapman (born 30 October 1929) is a British writer of romance novels since 1981 and a lecturer in creative writing. Her debut novel "The Unreasoning Earth" and "The Red Pavilion" were both shortlisted for the Parker Pen Romantic Novel of the Year Award. She was elected the twenty Chairman (2001–2003) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and is the three-time President of the Leicester Writer's Club.
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His principal shrine is on an island of the Indus River by Bhakkar in Punjab, Pakistan. In The Unreasoning Mask by famed science fiction writer Philip José Farmer, while Ramstan, captain of the al-Buraq, a rare model spaceship capable of instantaneous travel between two points, attempts to stop an unidentified creature that is annihilating intelligent life on planets throughout the universe, he is haunted by repeating vision of meeting al-Khiḍr.
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The River Flows, p.178 L. P. Hartley in the Saturday Review found the characters too rational and analytical: "they ask for and need no interpretation from us" and have within them "no force of unexplored, unreasoning life";The Saturday Review, 13 Nov. 1926, p.592 while Edwin Muir in The Nation and Athenaeum felt that though the narrator's thoughts were set down with passion, "the desires which colour them are never sufficiently realised".
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The unreasoning behavior of the people around him means that they do not qualify as human. Diogenes looked for a human being but reputedly found nothing but rascals and scoundrels. According to Diogenes Laërtius, when Plato gave the tongue-in- cheek definition of man as "featherless bipeds," Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man," and so the Academy added "with broad flat nails" to the definition.
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He is a contradiction, possessing a "narcissistic detachment" from his own "unreasoning drive" allowing him to shift his attention from immediate gratification to "future power". Psychopaths, Mailer continues, "are trying to create a new nervous system for themselves" one that distinguishes itself from the "inefficient and often antiquated nervous circuits of the past". Yet the stable middle-class values necessary to achieve this via sublimation "have been virtually destroyed in our time". Psychoanalysis cannot provide the answer sought by the overstretched nervous system.
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This is an object for which Vernon has an unreasoning terror, naming it "The Beast", as it promotes a hatred of music in his soul. Aunt Nina's marriage breaks up and Walter wants her and her young daughter Josephine (Joe) to live with them, but Myra objects. Fate takes a turn though when the Boer War breaks out and Walter goes off to fight. In his absence, whilst Vernon is away at school, Nina dies and Myra takes Joe in.
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Instead, they are simply spoken to by the shaman. Bound spirits that inadvertently "stick" to humans are considered dangerous, and are the causes of spiritual illnesses, ranging from confusion, strange food cravings, lust, to unreasoning anger. Sometimes in order to speak to certain bound spirits, the shaman may need the intercession of their abyan, who in turn will possess the shaman. Bound spirits can also be interacted with by non-shamans, like when offering sacrifices to the spirit of the forest before a hunt.
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It has also become a manifesto for the ideology of "Qutbism". Commentators have both praised Milestones as a ground-breaking, inspirational work by a hero and a martyr,Moussalli, Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, 1992, 14-15 and reviled it as a prime example of unreasoning entitlement, self-pity, paranoia, and hatred that has been a major influence on Islamist terrorism.What has been the impact of Milestones? English translations of the book are usually entitled simply "Milestones" (the book is also sometimes referred to in English as "Signposts").
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The sympathetic treatment of the strangers in the film, and the unreasoning fear on the part of the townspeople, has been compared by author Gary Grossman to the panicked public reaction to the peaceful alien Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was released the same year. Both have been considered retrospectively as the product of (and a reaction to) the "Red Scare" of post- World War II era. Grossman also cites the later film The Mole People (1956).
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It has cut deep into the thicket of our national attitudes, and > it is a conversational imperative everywhere—from the gabble of big-city > salons and factory lunch breaks rife with unreasoning labels, to ghetto > saloons with their own false labels. As Gil Clancy, who was in Frazier's corner that night, would later comment: > The electricity in the air then was just unbelievable. If they would have > drop the bomb on Madison Square Garden that night, the country wouldn't been > able to run.SportsNight, Satellite News Channel, June 1988.
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Oscar Wilde generally disparaged his depiction of character, while admiring his gift for caricature.. Henry James denied him a premier position, calling him "the greatest of superficial novelists": Dickens failed to endow his characters with psychological depth and the novels, "loose baggy monsters",. betrayed a "cavalier organisation".. Joseph Conrad described his own childhood in bleak Dickensian terms, and noted he had “an intense and unreasoning affection” for Bleak House, dating back to his boyhood. The novel influenced his own gloomy portrait of London in The Secret Agent (1907).
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The plot of the play actually derives from ancient history, specifically the story of Herod the Great as recorded in The Jewish War and Jewish Antiquities by the historian Josephus (which Massinger most likely knew in Thomas Lodge's 1602 translations).Gibson, p. 3. The Duke of Milan also shows a strong debt to Shakespeare's Othello, for its general plot of a man betrayed by unreasoning jealousy into suspecting his innocent wife and so destroying himself.M. J. Thorssen, "Masssinger's Use of Othello in The Duke of Milan," SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, Vol.
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His closing speech to the Senate came in for particularly harsh criticism from the British press, which termed it "bombastic", "grotesque" and "a violent, unreasoning diatribe." The British government was also hostile towards the inquiry. Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, spoke of his contempt for the way the senator had put the blame in a "denunciatory" fashion on the inadequate regulations implemented by the British Board of Trade. The British Ambassador to the United States, James Bryce, demanded that President Taft should dissolve the committee and refused to recognise its jurisdiction.
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In a tragic twist, Margaret and her sisters have not gone away on vacation after all. Filled with unreasoning hatred, Will the axe-wielding maniac slays all the white women but Margaret, openly taunting Nat and daring him to prove his black manhood to the rest of the recruits. With a heavy heart, Nat grabs his sword and chases Margaret into a nearby field, where he slays her with great reluctance. As the breath leaves her body, the pure young maiden sighs her forgiveness for her unwilling executioner.
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In contemporary Indonesia, the term amok (amuk) generally refers not to individual violence, but to frenzied violence by mobs. Indonesians now commonly use the term 'gelap mata' (literally 'darkened eyes') to refer to individual amok. Laurens van der Post experienced the phenomenon in the East Indies and wrote in 1955: In the Philippines, amok also means unreasoning murderous rage by an individual. In 1876, the Spanish governor-general of the Philippines José Malcampo coined the term juramentado for the behavior (from juramentar – "to take an oath"), surviving into modern Philippine languages as huramentado.
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There are faith schools and graduation programs with curriculums that have been described as being oriented towards non-denominational Islam. Non-denominational Muslims have been adopted by some theocratic governments into their fold of pan-Islamism as a means to tackle unreasoning partisanship and takfirism. Some academic press publishing companies have assigned a proper noun-like title to Muslims without a specific sectarian affiliation by capitalizing the designation as Just a Muslim. The customs and rituals practised by non-denominational Muslims in Northern Nigeria are statistically more likely to be Sunni-inclined.
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The aircraft (like ducks on a wall) and the unreasoning shark missiles in their silos were my own contribution. "Tony had joked that his idea for the title of the record had come from his impression of Jet Records who appeared to leave everything until the last minute, though he did explain a deeper significance, one which I think becomes obvious from the artwork. "Many of Clarkin's lyrics show a deep concern for the shortcomings of our civilization and the injustices which occur, although he is not advocating any revolutionary solutions. The changes have to come from each individual.
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" The organization, "formed of management and labor in the film industry," quietly lobbied the House Un-American Activities Committee to examine purported Communist elements in the movie industry, which they did in 1947. Wood had been keeping a black notebook in which he wrote the names of those he considered subversive. His daughter Jeane Wood said that his crusade "transformed Dad into a snarling, unreasoning brute." There was nothing in Wood's personal and professional demeanor during the course of his long career that anticipated the intensity of his anti-Communist rage which "disappointed some of his friends and greatly concerned his family.
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After the calf had satisfied its thirst, they turned back to the barn, but at the doorway the calf stubbornly braced its feet, and despite my father's desperate pulling on the halter, he could not budge the animal. I was outside playing in the snow and, observing the impasse, began laughing heartily. My father challenged me to pull the calf into the barn. Recognizing the situation as one of unreasoning stubborn resistance on the part of the calf, I decided to let the calf have full opportunity to resist, since that was what it apparently wished to do.
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Kid Marvelman survives, and believing the others dead, is left alone in the real world (versus Gargunza's virtual reality, in which he had lived the last few years of his life). Rather than return to human form, he decides to remain in his invulnerable superhuman form, which continues to mature, leaving the Johnny Bates persona in limbo. By the early 1980s, Kid Marvelman has become a violent, deranged sociopath and the head of a corporation known as Sunburst Cybernetics. Keeping his true nature a secret, he nurses a deep, unreasoning hatred toward Marvelman, who suddenly re-appears.
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Sarah did not share Anne's deep interest in religion, a subject she rarely mentioned, although at their last fraught interview she did warn Anne that she risked God's vengeance for her unreasoning cruelty to Sarah. The queen did not want this difference to come between them; but Sarah, always thinking of her husband, wanted Anne to give more support to the Whigs, which she was not prepared to do. Sarah was called to Cambridge in 1703, where her only surviving son, John, Marquess of Blandford, was taken ill with smallpox. The Duke of Marlborough was recalled from the war and was at his bedside when he died on 20 February 1703.
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While Lyell's uniformitarianist views were not to George's liking, he found solace in Professor Huxley's theories. One author described the early nineteenth century, the time of George Poulett Scrope and Charles Lyell's early careers, as an "intellectual 'reign of terror'" which was the "consequence of the unreasoning prejudice and wild alarm excited by the early progress of geological inquiry." Most attempts to explain the past using current processes as a reference was, rather than through calm argument, met by social stigma and intolerance. This can be seen by the treatment of Hutton's Theory of the Earth, Hall's meticulously kept records and experiments, and Playfair's Illustrations.
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Writing for Newsweek, an article titled "A Nasty Piece of Work" by James Kirchick described 'Unhitched' as a 'tawdry new book' that, among other things, included unsubstantiated claims of plagiarism and unfounded personal attacks. Seymour responded by saying that Kirchick's review "was the most deliciously splenetic fanboy tribute to unreasoning hysteria that it has ever been my pleasure to gloat about" in a piece for his blog that was subsequently reposted by Jacobin and Salon. Reviewing the book for the Irish magazine Red Banner, writer Kevin Higgins noted Seymour "lands many heavy punches" on Hitchens' reputation, and that "Unhitched is well written, if a little verbose in places".Higgins, Kevin.
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Kpop Starz hailed "Zutter" as "arguably the group's most blazing and edgy single to date". Billboard said that the song was a "natural progression from their earlier tracks as a duo", and added that the single and the music video "showed just how bizarre the pair can actually be." Philippine Daily Inquirer felt that the song "suggests that GD & TOP are not in reverence of themselves, but are aware they are participating in a time-worn hip-hop tradition of unreasoning self-assertion and the debauchery that follows success." Osen described "Zutter" as "wild and stylish" with a "unique flow and rap with full beat catch the ears of listeners".
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Jones comes to understand what has happened to him: sometime in the future, computers, originally designed to help humans with warfare, are given the power of command. They become all-powerful and all-controlling and lose sight of their original purpose. One of the two computers, "Dulcie", which Jones thinks of as a female, finds a way to simplify "her" work: > Probing into the mysteries of the human brain—so convenient and puzzling a > model of her own—she found the pattern that could fix a mind forever in one > unreasoning conviction. She chose the simplest and best for her purpose: I > love Dulcie.
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Pyle and his wife, Jerry, had this house built in 1940 after years of roving the country as a columnist for Scripps-Howard Newspapers. Pyle was born in Indiana, but chose Albuquerque for a home after visiting many times and developing, in Pyle's words, "a deep, unreasoning affection" for New Mexico. Pyle's dispatches from military theaters overseas, which focused on the war through the experiences of front-line infantry soldiers, were read avidly by millions during World War II. He was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished war correspondence in 1944. Some of his columns mentioned the "little white house and picket fence" back in Albuquerque.
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Margalit, 2007Shulman, dark hope p.2 Shulman's book addresses here what he calls a 'moral conundrum': how Israel, 'once a home to utopian idealists and humanists, should have engendered and given free rein to a murderous, also ultimately suicidal, messianism,' and asks if the 'humane heart of the Jewish tradition' always contain the 'seeds of self-righteous terror' he observed among settlers. He finds within himself an intersection of hope, faith and empathy, and 'the same dark forces that are active among the most predatory of the settlers', and it is this which provides him with 'a reason to act'Shulman, dark hope pp.2-3. against what he regards as 'pure, rarefied, unadulterated, unreasoning, uncontainable human evil'.
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The Jewish Exponent published an opinion piece by Daniel Pipes, who stated Gerban's work was "the literary equivalent of the suicide bombers", and "unreasoning and aggressive with an ultimately murderous intent." Gerban responded to Pipes's accusations with an article, where he concluded: > I think both the Palestinians and Israelis can live together — my family > proves it. The only thing we can hope for is to find the right leadership > and the will to compromise. Remember, when a strong military force like > Israel pressures the Palestinians, who have almost nothing to lose, you will > almost surely observe a rise of armed militants who are willing to resolve > to dirty fighting (suicide bombings, etc.) as a last resort.
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In 1997, Cooper wrote that he coined the term hoplophobia in 1962 "in response to a perceived need for a word to describe a mental aberration consisting of an unreasoning terror of gadgetry, specifically, weapons." In addition to his books on firearms and self-defense, Cooper wrote several books recounting his life adventures plus essays and short stories, including Fire Works (1980); Another Country: Personal Adventures of the Twentieth Century (1992); To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth (1988); and C Stories (2004). His daughter Lindy Wisdom published a biography, Jeff Cooper: the Soul and the Spirit (1996). Jeff Cooper was regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on big-game hunting.
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In this role, Maddock worked on engineering improvements and developing technical skills in design and manufacture, but was often frustrated by unreasoning resistance to change among British management and workers, and within the Civil Service itself. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967, and appointed a Companions of the Order of the Bath in the 1968 New Year Honours. In 1971, Maddock was appointed Chief Scientist in the Department of Trade and Industry when it replaced the Ministry of Technology, and then became Chief Scientist in the Department of Industry from 1974 to 1977 following the department split. Maddock was also made Director of the National Physical Laboratory in 1975, before his retirement from the Civil Service in 1977.
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Criticism of French, especially for his slow release of the reserves on the first day (25 September), began to mount even while the battle was still under way. Haig wrote of French in his diary (2 October) "It seems impossible to discuss military problems with an unreasoning brain of this kind".Holmes 2004, pp. 300–02 Even French's trusted secretary Brinsley Fitzgerald recorded in his diary (5 October 1915) that French's "sudden moods are weird and marvellous but we never now even have explanations".Woodward, 1998, p. 20 Haig told Haldane (9 October) that French's handling of the reserves had lost the battle. Kitchener demanded an explanation (11 October). Haig told Rawlinson (10 and 22 October 1915) he could no longer be loyal to French after Loos.
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Daily > News. December 21, 2010 The storyline's title is a reference to a famous quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance", as indicated by the use of a portion that quote as part of the soundtrack of the trailer presented during the Midtown press conference. The story's antagonist is the Serpent, an Asgardian being who sows doubt and fear among the superheroes of the Marvel Comics Universe, as illustrated by early promotional images for the event, which depict Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, Cyclops, Thor, and Iron Man coming face to face with their worst nightmares.Truitt, Brian.
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The Old Ones' physical and mental natures were such that to pass the time (and to feed themselves), they each seized upon a specific aspect of pain and suffering to study, psychically feeding on the emotions and suffering that would follow. For example, Ya-blik was the symbol of pestilence, betrayal, and pain, and would spread pestilence and foment those dark emotions where they did not already exist. Netosa was another of the Old Ones; its "portfolio" was that of darkness and death, and it kept sentient beings in never-ending, unreasoning fear of same to drink up the emotions that such terror generated. And Xy, greatest amongst their number, was the Great Old One of Power Incarnate, and fed upon the chaos and suffering brought by the other Old Ones as they conquered planets, galaxies, and entire dimensions in his name.
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The ever-recurrent phenomena of history do > not have reasonable causes. It is a mere commonplace to say that they are > caused by what common parlance so aptly terms "human nature." Unreasoning > and unreasonable human nature causes two nations to compete, though no > economic necessity compels them to do so; it induces two political parties > or religions with amazingly similar programs of salvation to fight each > other bitterly, and it impels an Alexander or a Napoleon to sacrifice > millions of lives in his attempt to unite the world under his scepter. We > have been taught to regard some of the persons who have committed these and > similar absurdities with respect, even as "great" men, we are wont to yield > to the political wisdom of those in charge, and we are all so accustomed to > these phenomena that most of us fail to realize how abjectly stupid and > undesirable the historical mass behavior of humanity actually is LORENZ, > Konrad.
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Unlike later behaviorists such as John Watson, who placed a very strong emphasis on the impact of environmental influences on behavior, Thorndike believed that differences in the parental behavior of men and women were due to biological, rather than cultural, reasons. While conceding that society could "complicate or deform" what he believed were inborn differences, he believed that "if we [researchers] should keep the environment of boys and girls absolutely similar these instincts would produce sure and important differences between the mental and moral activities of boys and girls". Indeed, Watson himself overtly critiqued the idea of maternal instincts in humans in a report of his observations of first- time mothers struggling to breastfeed. Watson argued that the very behaviors Thorndike referred to as resulting from a "nursing instinct" stemming from "unreasoning tendencies to pet, coddle, and 'do for' others," were performed with difficulty by new mothers and thus must have been learned, while "instinctive factors are practically nil".
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Roosevelt wore a morning coat and striped trousers for the inauguration, and took the oath with his hand on his family Bible, open to I Corinthians 13. Published in 1686 in Dutch, it remains the oldest Bible ever used in an inaugural ceremony, as well as the only one not in English, and was originally used by Roosevelt for his 1929 and 1931 inaugurations as Governor of New York, and later his three subsequent presidential inaugurations until his death in 1945. Roosevelt proceeded to deliver his 1,883-word, 20 minute-long inaugural address, best known for his famously pointed reference to "fear itself" (paraphrasing Thoreau) in one of its first lines: > So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have > to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which > paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour > of our national life a leadership of frankness and of vigor has met with > that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential > to victory.
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The reserves now became a stick with which to beat French, who by now was talking of making peace before "England was ruined". Haig wrote a detailed letter to Kitchener (29 Sep) claiming "complete" success on the first day and complaining that the reserves had not been placed as close to the front as agreed (this turned out to be untrue) and that French had not released control of them when requested (he had but delays in communications and traffic control had meant that they were not available until 2 pm). French protested that time for the commitment of reserves had been on the second day; when told of this by Robertson (2 Oct) Haig thought this evidence of French's "unreasoning brain". Haig strengthened his case by reports that captured enemy officers had been astonished at the British failure to exploit the attack and by complaining about the government's foot- dragging at introducing conscription and the commitment of troops to sideshows like Salonika and Suvla Bay (6 August), at a time when the Germans were calling up their 1918 Class early.Groot 1988, pp. 208–209.
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