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  • He could scarcely do worse than last time, even if I remain unconvinced Romney has mastered that whole Being a Human Being** thing that's generally considered quite useful.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • He could scarcely do worse than last time, even if I remain unconvinced Romney has mastered that whole Being a Human Being** thing that's generally considered quite useful.

    Mitt Romney & the GOP's Nationalist Rump 2009

  • Whether, like Sankarachargya, we think of the Deity objectively, as the formless and literally omnipresent Being, the _pure Being_ which, according to Hegel, equals nothing, or whether like Swami Vivekananda we think of man and God as really one, all differentiation being a delusion within the mind -- there is _no second_, neither any second to sin against nor any second to commit the sin.

    New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments John Morrison

  • _Being Unmanifest_ is the One in its phase of Absolute Being, undifferentiated, unmanifested, uncreated; without attributes, qualities, or natures.

    Mystic Christianity William Walker Atkinson 1897

  • I, 1, 2 that in texts treating of the creation of the world, such as 'Being only this was in the beginning,' and the like, the words _Being_, _Brahman_, and so on, denote nobody else but

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • I said being, in a similar sense that Sartre does in Being and Nothingness.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2010

  • I said being, in a similar sense that Sartre does in Being and Nothingness.

    The Nation: Top Stories 2010

  • Today, when we hear about professionalism, we often think of high quality, outstanding conduct and ultimate skill Usually, being a professional means that you have special training that qualifies you as such, especially in a particular field And that being stated, whether you are a medical professional, legal professional or accounting professional, you will work in the skill-set with which you were trained and it does not stop there Being professional goes way past just the training, it is a lifelong process

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • That the term Being has not the same sense in all ten is rightly maintained.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Nevertheless it is not correct to say that, Substance = Being + a; for if a is distinct from the term Being, to which it is added, it must be Nothing.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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