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  • Naxalism- The idea and Naxalite- The upholder of that Idea.

    Joke of the day Abhay N 2007

  • I have saved myself from the disaster of beliefs through these magical books, and am free once more as in my early childhood to indulge myself in the iridescent idea of life, as Idea.

    Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Marsden Hartley

  • I hope, at any rate, that in presenting each ballad as one, and reconstructing it sometimes from many versions, I have kept pretty constantly to the idea, of which Professor Ker4 says—‘The truth is that the Ballad is an Idea, a Poetical Form, which can take up any matter, and does not leave that matter as it was before.

    Preface 1910

  • IDEA Cellular has also planned to launch a range of special KBC VAS packs and KBC Game exclusively for Idea subscribers.

    EFYTIMES.COM - by EFY NEWSNETWORK TEAM 2010

  • Dis o ry o P - C c ve r re linic l P s a ha e • Usually the result of experimentation in academic, pure research or biotech labs • Data provide "Proof of Principal" and suggest commercialization of idea • Academic labs incapable of further product development • Idea should be patented to protect "intellectual property" • Patent can be licensed to drug companies for commercialization

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The idea of the Idea has long been understood as 'the boundaries of the campus are the boundaries of the state,' although some early connotations were more government focused:

    Letters in Bottles 2008

  • One of our early 2009 titles, The Monster Within Idea, is a collection that contains nineteen stories from the dark mind of horror writer R. Thomas Riley.

    Pre-orders for The Monster Within Idea apexdigest 2008

  • We have seen that, when Plato introduced the term Idea as an expression for spiritual entities having a real and independent existence, men were still in possession of some recollection of their own pre-earthly existence.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Instead of a concrete plan of action seeing a particular result, the Idea is a momentary contingency of virtual relations that produces a sensation from the point of view of the actual.

    Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_' 2008

  • Rather the Idea is a complex "system of multiple, non-localisable connections between differential elements which is incarnated on real relations and actual terms" (183).

    Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_ 2008

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  • Genus name of a danaid butterfly.

    June 27, 2010