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It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.
Samuel Alexander

Experience, Words, Two

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Samuel Alexander

Person, May, Same

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Felix Klein

Sense, Rather, Themselves

Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
John Lothrop Motley

Daily, Stronger, Holland

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.
John Lothrop Motley

Country, Broken, Whole

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
Thomas Bulfinch

Education, Work, Hope

Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
Samuel P. Huntington

American, Half, Speaking

More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
Albert Bushnell Hart

England, Local, Thrown

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.
Max Beckmann

Picture, Three, Space

Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Georg Simmel

Life, Time, Relations

Thus, during the winter of 2003 I ventured into a new arena as a professional photographer.
Janine Turner

Winter, Arena, Ventured

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
Charles Hodge

Church, Call, Christ

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.

Study, Choice, Since

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.
Nikki Reed

Tell, Far, Last

My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe

Home, Long, Same

Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
Fredrik Bajer

May, Special, Value

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
Anselm of Canterbury

Good, Give, Highest

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
Nancy Sinatra

Music, Great, Daughter

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
Fatos Nano

Government, Nor, Neither

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts.
Ivan Pavlov

Between, Order, System

When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
Ulrich Beck

Experience, Seriously, Open

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
Ulrich Beck

Government, Democracy, Nation

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Daniel Dennett

Alone, Child, Social

Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
Wilhelm Dilthey

Human, Both, Plan

Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase Obama's extreme liberalism and, thus, his failure to demonstrate why he would make a better president than Obama.
David Limbaugh

Failure, Lost, Why

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
Richard Ernst

Job, Find, Leave

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased investigation.
Adam Schiff

Failure, Find, Far

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
Johann Georg Hamann

Freedom, Nothing, Reason

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
Ada Cambridge

Life, Fire, Hold

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