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[ ITALIAN FICTION]
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| ... created Him solely to provide an answer to his doubts... this only justifies His validity and exculpates those who affirm that if He did not exist one should invent Him, since otherwise one would have to say, together with some Christian atheist, that if He exists one must eliminate Him." ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... had learned that one great secret of strength and unflagging courage is to know how to ``let go''--to cease thinking over an anxiety until the right moment comes. It was their habit to ``let go'' for hours sometimes, and wander about looking at places and things--galleries, museums, palaces, ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... State Street) did not tempt her. She knew her value. She could afford to wait. There was money enough on which to live comfortably until the right chance presented itself. She knew every item of her equipment, and she conned them to herself greedily: Definite charm of manner; the thing ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... perceived the new products as brilliant and timely. Most of them, however, had been waiting in the wings, in some instances, a few years, until the right moment arrived to move them out of the marketing group and into the supermarket. One spiteful IF manager revealed anonymously that Locke had ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... who knows what human-or any other-nature is, must know also that man exists; for no one knows the nature of what does not exist-one can know the meaning of the phrase or name 'goat-stag' but not what the essential nature of a goat-stag is. But ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... and feeling exceedingly foolish, while Gil Huntley explained to her about the "blood-sponge" and how he had held it concealed in his hand until the right moment, and had used it in the interest of realism and not to frighten her, as she might have reason to suspect. Gil ... |
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[ MILITARY ART & SCIENCE]
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| ... definition to the falcon, it seems to me to denote that instinct of SELF RESTRAINT which keeps the bird from swooping on its quarry until the right moment, together with the power of judging when the right moment has arrived. The analogous quality in soldiers is the highly important one ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... her head and passed on. Tom was so stunned that he had not even presence of mind enough to say "Who cares, Miss Smarty?" until the right time to say it had gone by. So he said nothing. But he was in a fine rage, nevertheless. He moped into the ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... at once. Raising the battle hymn, they straightway fell upon them, but the others did not await their coming. Thereupon the peltasts gave chase until the right of the enemy was in its turn scattered, though with slight loss in killed; for the enemy''s cavalry was numerous and threatening. But ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... little time without offence to God or man." Ampersand waited immovable while I passed many days in such innocent and healthful pleasures as these, until the right day came for the ascent. Cool, clean, and bright, the crystal morning promised a glorious noon, and the mountain almost seemed to beckon ... |
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[ OTHER LITERATURES]
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| ... for you not to have at once what you wanted, He said to Himself: Yes, Heidi shall have what she asks for, but not until the right time comes, so that she may be quite happy. If I do what she wants now, and then one day she sees that ... |




