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In equating "living well" with living affluently, capitalism has made it extremely difficult to demonstrate that freedom is more closely identified with personal autonomy than with affluence, with empowerment over life than with empowerment over things, with the emotional security that derives frmo a nourishing community life than with a material security that derives from the myth of a nature dominated by an all-mastering technology.

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: "Living Well" 2006

In equating "living well" with living affluently, capitalism has made it extremely difficult to demonstrate that freedom is more closely identified with personal autonomy than with affluence, with empowerment over life than with empowerment over things, with the emotional security that derives frmo a nourishing community life than with a material security that derives from the myth of a nature dominated by an all-mastering technology.

Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: February 2006 Archives 2006

Struggling with the all-mastering dread that still held him, Midwinter laid his hand gently on

Armadale 2003

He, too, spoke more seriously than usual; he, too, was beginning to feel an all-mastering curiosity to know more.

Armadale 2003

At the first of the stairs on which she set her foot to descend, an all-mastering hesitation, an unintelligible shrinking from some peril unknown, seized her on a sudden.

No Name 2003

That one check to her hopes — a check which at other times would only have roused the resisting power in her to new efforts — had struck her with as suffocating a terror, had prostrated her with as all-mastering a despair, as if she had been overwhelmed by the crowning disaster of expulsion from St. Crux.

No Name 2003

“Yes!” said the dying man, with the all-mastering impatience which his tongue was powerless to express, glittering angrily in his eye.

Armadale 2003

In the all-mastering agitation of the moment, she clapped her hands together, and cried out suddenly in the darkness:

No Name 2003

He drew a graphic contrast between the so-called glory which had been won by great conquerors like Alexander, Cæsar, and himself, and that mysterious and all-mastering power which in all lands and all ages continues to attach itself to the person, the name, the memory of

Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

There was only one man in Fernhurst who was not afraid of him, and that was Lovelace, who was indeed afraid of nothing, and who towered over his contemporaries by the splendour of his athletic achievements, and the strength of an all-mastering personality.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939