How To Use Infinite In A Sentence
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Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
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You need infinite patience for this job.
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There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression.
The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church
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An almost seam free marble floor can be inlaid with tracery, borders, natural mosaics and other patterns in an infinite number of ways.
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The second version occurs as Corollary 2 to Proposition 7 and was thought of as a method of expanding solutions of fluxional equations in infinite series.
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On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
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These infinitesimal particles are usually grouped into four main categories: the mesons, the baryons, the leptons, and the photons (the most basic unit of electromagnetic radiation).
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Everything is in the gray area now; every decision must take into account an infinite amount of variables.
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But even with an infinite amount of money, aging could not be conquered.
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The teachings show that our spirit and body are infinitely connected to all the things around us.
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The insect body has produced an almost infinite variety of forms.
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The infinite deviousness of "the ruling classes" and the immense difficulty of the left's task are a given in these halls.
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What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea!
Sir Charles Grandison
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Doubtless the series will spark a rush of transsexuality-centred reality shows that, given the ready and infinite corruptibility of the form, will lose within a year all vestige of the charm of the original and become as mainstream, dreary and degrading to everyone concerned as its other reality brethren.
TV review: My Transsexual Summer; Sorority Girls; and Imagine … Simon and Garfunkel: the Harmony Game
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The number of individuals is infinite; the generic or specific nature of all being is a unit, or to be apprehended as one only thing; from this one conception we give the genuine measures of all existence, and therefore we affirm that a certain class of beings are rational and discoursive.
Essays and Miscellanies
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The very idea of God is a limitation on the infinite.
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The problem with an infinite regress is that it is a fallacious attempt to make an unsound argument support itself.
A Fine-Tuned Multiverse
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Everything would then be crowded together in a state of infinite density: the end of the universe.
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Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote, as indeed the grand and infinite was always.
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_Educated rascality is infinitely more of a menace to society than ignorant rascality_.
Pushing to the Front
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Romoeuf, riding a franc etrier, on that old Herb-merchant's route, quickened during the last stages, has got to Varennes; where the Ten thousand now furiously demand, with fury of panic terror, that Royalty shall forthwith return Paris-ward, that there be not infinite bloodshed.
The French Revolution
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So why not replace the infinite real number field with a finite field, a so-called Galois field?
Finitism in Geometry
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They would not have been significant by using conventional statistical tests for infinite populations.
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The singing, so difficult to bear for many listeners, never settles into a particular pitch, remaining agonisedly in motion; Jandek presents us with a voice in extremity, and an endless quarrying of pain and related states, in which infinite gradations of suffering are allowed to differentiate themselves.
Archive 2007-10-01
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The use of the linguistic frame ‘as A said to B’ is therefore potentially infinitely productive, even if examples are ephemeral, singular, and difficult to collect.
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The sad irony of it all is that God's infinite mercifulness extends to the nether limits where our present breed of politicians abound.
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English blood, had a kind of hankering after it, and would almost rather have such at his board than even a true-born American; and infinitely more welcome were they than Frenchman, Spaniard, or
Erema
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Every window into the divine has its own angle and there is an infinite number of angles.
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In fact there are fascinating glimpses of the Babylonians coming to terms with the fact that division by 7 would lead to an infinite sexagesimal fraction.
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Twice an infinitesimal is an infinitesimal that is twice as big.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Year of Our Lord”
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But though this darkness were wholly removed, there is another darkness, that ariseth not from the want of light, but from the excessive superabundance of light — _caligo lucis nimiæ_, (240) that is, a divine darkness, a darkness of glory, such an infinite excess and superplus of light and glory, above all created capacities, that it dazzles and confounds all mortal or created understandings.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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In addition to supporting their validity, it provides a clearer sense of the relation between infinitude, singularity, and whole - part priority, and of the status of space and time as infinite ‘givens.’
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When your brain is whirring constantly with the almost infinite depths of chess, behind the wheel of a Porsche is not where you should be.
Times, Sunday Times
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The assumption that the benefits of Global Warmist policy are infinite and the costs immaterial is simply rubbish.
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This made calculus a lot cleaner, and it makes the conceptualization of a circle as an infinite-sided polygon possible.
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When truth is forsaken, errors multiply in infinitum -- infinitely.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Will my spirit fly upward to a happy heaven? or shall I sink into the bottomless pit, an outcast from a God of infinite love?
American Indian Stories
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Though commentators and critics do not agree as to whether the later Wittgenstein is still a finitist and whether, if he is, his finitism is as radical as his intermediate rejection of unbounded mathematical quantification (Maddy 1986, 300-301, 310), the overwhelming evidence indicates that the later Wittgenstein still rejects the actual infinite
Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
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It will at once be seen that E_z_ is less than D_x_, and that since the normal at P is vertical and infinite, the evolute of DPE will consist of two branches _x_N, _z_M, to which the vertical normal PL is a common asymptote.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
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An infinitesimally small step for mankind, maybe, but one ginormous step for this unlucky man.
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The Infinite and the Absolute are _only_ the names of two counter _imbecilities_ of the human mind" [296] -- that is, a mental inability to conceive an absolute limitation, or an infinite illimitation; an absolute commencement, or an infinite non-commencement.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
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The arrival times given are those of the centre of the first main pulse after midnight at infinite frequency at the barycentre of the solar system, in seconds.
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The mutoscope widens the use of motion-photography infinitely.
Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers
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This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum).
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day
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Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known by the acronym Icann, is accepting applications for an infinite number of new Web addresses, known as top-level domain names.
A New Challenge for Web Freedom
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Creating a word based off "infinite" suggests it goes on and on.
Obama says differences with Clinton 'infinitesimal'
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But Clark sees something change in his eyes, some infinitesimal flicker of emotion.
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The infinite regulation of cosmos has the characteristics of source, ego restriction, criticized inherit and infinite equilibrium of objective self-contradiction.
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Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size.
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Blandamer window, where in the centre of the infinite multiplication of the tracery shone the sea-green and silver of the nebuly coat.
The Nebuly Coat
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Infinite regress is just another metaphysical conclusion, no different that gods/God.
Creationism, defined
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The colour of edition of set limit to makeup combined smooth shadow and idolum creation to give infinite daydream, let any the people long to be shined by her glamour place.
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An infinite amount of time means that all sorts of crazy things will happen.
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Like an Escher print, this is music that seems to ascend infinitely over a nearly twelve-minute span.
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What an infinitesimal fraction of time's fathomless abyss is assigned to each of us!
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But side by side with that history of inflation from the infinitesimal to the immense is another development, the change year by year from the shabby impecuniosity of the Camden Town lodging to the lavish munificence of the Crest Hill marble staircase and my aunt's golden bed, the bed that was facsimiled from Fontainebleau.
Tono Bungay
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I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)
Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
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This is a very deep zoom into a fractal called the Mandelbrot set. the boundary of the Mandelbrot set is infinite in length and detail. the deeper you go the more complex the image gets.
Vimeo / Recent Public Videos
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I had, somehow, got both lords and deans associated in my mind with infinite swillings of port wine, and bacchanalian orgies, and sat down at first, in much fear and trembling, lest I should be compelled to join, under penalties of salt-and-water; but
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Some of these parameters change rapidly, others very slowly, and the possible permutations are nearly infinite.
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Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Deity is coeternal with Time and Space, and has all his attributes infinite.
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This makes for an infinite amount of music to check out.
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But surely there's a reason football is infinitely more popular than futsal.
The Sun
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It simply exists in an inoffensive and unexciting realm of commonplaceness that makes it incapable of standing out among the pack of infinitely better racers available for any of its chosen platforms.
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The multiverse contains an infinite number of recombinations.
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He has pathos without sentimentality, humour without guile and infinite sympathy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wit and intelligence are infinitely more potent than mere youth.
Times, Sunday Times
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As you get deeper into turkeys, you'll find an almost infinite number of widgets, gadgets and gimmicks for turkey hunters.
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We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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This paper quantitatively analyzes the infinite population dynamics system of the gene pool GA and discusses the influence of the solution space scale on the stability of the gene pool GA.
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They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
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‘Through abstraction I aspire towards the infinite rather than the specific,’ she observes.
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A moment in heaven is infinitely pleasurable, so even if heaven lasts no longer than that, that moment outweighs a lifetime of Epicurean pleasures.
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We are further informed that scientific theories fail at a singularity, which is an event involving infinite mass, density, pressure and temperature.
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His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.
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I don't have an explanation - I'd like to have one but I don't - but in the meantime, without evidence, the odds of your position being right are so infinitesimal as to be irrelevant.
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If neutron degeneracy is not enough to resist the star's collapse it will continue to shrink until the matter is all compressed into an infinitely small, infinitely dense point called a singularity.
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This was an infinitely old notion, going back to the early Bronze Age.
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Pepper, though, was of infinitely more moment to the ancients than to be merely a topping, nostrum, or cachou.
Excerpt: Krakatoa by Simon Winchester
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Light shone around her, constant, as constant as daylight, but infinitely harsher; it was unnatural, artificial.
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Language is sufficiently flexible to allow the construction of an infinite variety of singular terms which do not designate any entity.
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Imagine them denuded of even the attenuated r and r release that they are allowed there; imagine their seemingly infinite protraction.
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The second, which Craig terms the kalÄm argument, holds that an infinite temporal regress is impossible because an actual infinite is impossible.
Cosmological Argument
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Her desire to further her potential led her to explore the neglected art of calligraphy and she soon mastered the infinite possibilities of the Devanagri script.
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Topology'there was a fertile field for intellectual riddlesi Shapes that were infinitely distortable without sacrificing their fundamental qualities.
Blue Adept
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There are an infinite number of items you can represent with single bit.
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Within the restricted scope, the infinite power series is convergent and the formula is workable.
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I read, this morning, the 46th chapter of Isaiah, and, from the fact of this being new years day, my mind has been carried to the goodness of God to usward, in granting all the blessings we enjoy: -- His infinite greatness, wisdom and mercy.
A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Character of Joseph Charless In a Series of Letters to his Grandchildren
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The pivotal moment came, we're told, when newfangled plastic wheels made skateboards infinitely faster and smoother than they'd ever been before.
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That copying something, that sharing something on - line which is infinitely duplicable and there right in front of you natural is different from taking, from going into a store and like sneaking out of it.
CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2009
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These sets can all be put into one-to-one correspondence with the natural numbers; they are called countably infinite.
Skolem's Paradox
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The minimal, magisterial formal aesthetic of the latter though is clearly of another realm to Requiem's crude, lazy, sledgehammer style, and is infinitely more riveting and rewarding.
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What is humankind but a knot of flames burning with nostalgia for the infinite?
The Broken God
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The Hampton Jitney has an Ambassador Service, which is infinitely more comfortable than the regular jitney.
Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? Everybody Sleeps Where? In the Hamptons Part 1
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I no longer thought of God in the analogy of a human body, yet I was constrained to conceive thee to be some kind of body in space, either infused into the world, or infinitely diffused beyond the world -- and this was the incorruptible, inviolable, unchangeable substance, which I thought was better than the corruptible, the violable, and the changeable.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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It's space exploration on an incredibly vast scale, with effectively an infinite number of planets to explore.
The Sun
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Angeli's many works were on infinitesimals and he used them to study spirals, parabolas and hyperbolas.
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Nor grew this familiarity (as yet) any way distasted, till by their daily conversing together, and enterchange of infinite pretty speeches, Jeronimo felt a strange alteration in his soule, with such enforcing and powerfull afflictions; as he was never well but in her company, nor she enjoyed any rest if Jeronimo were absent.
The Decameron
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They were pursuing a mirage of infinite wealth in private aeroplanes, high on champagne and designer drugs.
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Ultimately, El Hanani's drawings are meditations on the relationship of the macroscopic to the microscopic, the infinite to the infinitesimal.
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The supply of raw material for these creations is virtually infinite.
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He didn't mind, so long as the piss was absorbed by the fleecy innards of his pants and didn't trickle down his leg, which was infinitely more foul.
Graeme King and the Creature
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Here Cecilia again met Miss Larolles, who came to make various remarks, and infinite ridicule, upon sundry unfashionable or uncostly articles in the dresses of the surrounding company; as well as to complain, with no little resentment, that Mr Meadows was again standing before the fire!
Cecilia
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Cinesias [running away] "... now rushing along the tracks of Notus, now nearing Boreas across the infinite wastes of the ether.
The Birds
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MM handles my 16,000 files with aplomb, is infinitely customizable if you're into looks, supports all sorts of plug-ins, runs like hot knife through butter, and, of course, scans my watch folder for any changes (and does so in less than one minute at startup).
IWatchSyncer Automatically Adds New Music To iTunes | Lifehacker Australia
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Because this legislation, which entrenches the power of traditional leaders over their rural subjects, will make life infinitely worse for the 15 million overwhelmingly poor people who live in the former Bantustans.
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The pride of the poor people is infinitely great, and exceeded by nothing but their poverty, in some parts, which adds to that which I call their misery; and I must needs think the savages of America live much more happy than the poorer sort of these, because as they have nothing, so they desire nothing; whereas these are proud and insolent and in the main are in many parts mere beggars and drudges.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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They have to identify which of the infinite number of progressive tax schedules they embrace, and then explain why it is best.
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So all that is infinite is unlimited and must be the cause of all things.
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When it looks up at the stars, then closes its eyes, shutting itself off from its surroundings, it evokes in the viewer a longing for the infinite.
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As classically conceived, a real number can be thought of as an infinite decimal, a completed infinity.
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The great mass of nonowning farmers - tenants and sharecroppers - would be infinitely better off.
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Postmodernism has not eliminated the need for grand narratives, but it has infinitely complicated their writing by abrading the link between human experience and what used to be called ‘political economy’.
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One good fiction can often feel infinitely preferable to two stolid facts.
Times, Sunday Times
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The formlessness of infinite choice hobbles relationships: you can't commit if there is always a better option.
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DC rebooted Wonder Woman after the reality-punching Infinite Crisis crossover series, giving the title a facelift with shiny paper and big name creators.
WONDER WOMAN #4 DC Comics, 2007
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You remember the almost rough 'No!' with which, reiteratedly, he met the suggestions of the deputation from Jerusalem that sought to induce him to say that he was more than he knew himself to be, and how he stuck by that infinitely humble and beautiful saying, 'I am a voice' -- that is all.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke
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But Pentagon say and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said that may get a reworking because some Muslim groups have said that the term infinite justice could be offensive to Muslims because in their religion, only Allah can dispense ultimate or infinite justice -- Wolf.
CNN Transcript Sep 20, 2001
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The refusal to see it, to be touched by it, which was so infinitely better than either sympathy or enthusiasm.
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At first Berkeley poured scorn on those who adhere to the concept of infinitesimal. maintaining that the use of infinitesimals in deriving mathematical results is illusory, and is in fact eliminable.
Continuity and Infinitesimals
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The laser cutting will be affected infinitely not only in quality but also in efficiency if there are some rust, paint or other else feculence.
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Nay, but he is sent, and that in a state of humiliation and condescendency, infinitely below his own dignity.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
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What I cannot grasp is how to determine if a sentence is finite or infinite.
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You can see this brush of the infinite on the faces of anyone's who's mourning, even on the face of one who considers himself an agnostic, or an atheist.
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The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated.
Evolution créatrice. English
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In your individual life, you have infinite opportunity to act in concert with the karmic imperatives of your soul.
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The mutakallimÅ«m, theologians who used reason and argumentation to support their revealed Islamic beliefs, developed the temporal version of the argument from the impossibility of an infinite regress, known as the kalÄm argument.
Cosmological Argument
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If I could render you a brain in a jar and as the brain in the jar use my hypothetic infinite powers to dial in to your brain the perfect existence, would you sign up to do it?
Dr. Drew Pinsky: Narcissism and the Economic Crisis?
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What is the infinite ability of spirit to Buddha Dharma?
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If we can understand, experienc, and practice this path, life will be filled with infinite brightness and cheer.
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Everything would then be crowded together in a state of infinite density: the end of the universe.
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In fact, leaving aside the infinitesimally small world of math geniuses, there isn't any evidence that men are more intelligent than women, and no one seriously says so.
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So, no, I didn't edit Son of Man at all, but the choice to reprint this classic and under appreciated work, which makes my Top Twenty list for the best and most visionary of 20th Century SF, as opposed to the nigh-infinite number of other books that could have filled the slot, is the result of the "editorial process" here.
For Your Consideration: Books I Edited in 2008
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Disability varies infinitely in degree and in kind.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Soviets executed soldiers on an infinitely greater scale, either after due process or as summary military punishment.
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Infinite interconnection is an idea both beguiling and intuitively true, but long displaced by a default fragmentation.
June « 2009 « Sentence first
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His gospel is a profluent and mighty stream, fed by the upper springs of infinite wisdom and knowledge.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Every window into the divine has its own angle and there is an infinite number of angles.
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Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.
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Every time consciousness contemplates itself, it must fall into an infinite regress.
THE BROKEN GOD
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It filled his soul again with inexpressible joy and pleasure, as if everything else seemed dark by comparison with that infinite brilliance and radiant light-for it was night.
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An evanescently small amount - infinite parts gin to one part vermouth - less than a molecule - less than a quark - merely wave the vermouth bottle over the shaker - simply bow towards Paris.
Liquid Lunch (Martini Manifesto)
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So after doing a CPS transform and then trampolining it by returning a lambda wrapped "thunk", my interpreter *should have* handled an infinite tail recursive call *without* a stack overflow exception.
Archive 2008-07-01
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tells us nothing about one of the most important elements of risk... what dose causes what level of risk the risk from infinitesimally small doses like this is usually infinitesimal or non-existent.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health!
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He also expanded functions related to the integral of the kernel function as an infinite series in a set of orthonormal eigenfunctions.
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This interpretation would thus offer a novel insight into the selection of the proteinaceous amino acids from the near-infinite possibilities of both prebiotic syntheses and biosynthetic modification.
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The supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect; but a being, however perfect, without dominion, cannot be said to be Lord God. Isaac Newton
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Could Hashem not find it within His infinite mercy to forgive Moshe's one sin?
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And a varied collection of sofas and chairs is infinitely more interesting than matching sets.
Times, Sunday Times
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He maintains that the conditions which sustain life are not infinite.
Improve Your Landscape Painting
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We may well be living in a habitable portion of an infinite and random universe whose initial state obeyed no laws of Nature at all.
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the infinite ingenuity of man
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In particular, that potent instrument called the infinitesimal calculus, which Newton had invented for the investigation of nature, had become so far perfected that Laplace, when he attempted to unravel the movements of the heavenly bodies, found himself provided with a calculus far more efficient than that which had been available to Newton.
Great Astronomers
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An infinite-dimensional Hilbert space arises even in the simple situation of the location of a single particle.
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And that's critical to the analysis of the solar wind, the particles of which contain infinitesimal traces of the 83 naturally occurring elements.
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When I got back to London I seemed to find an almost infinite amount of ways to avoid coming back to my flat.
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But, as we said above, the less men know of nature the more easily can they coin fictitious ideas, such as trees speaking, men instantly changed into stones, or into fountains, ghosts appearing in mirrors, something issuing from nothing, even gods changed into beasts and men and infinite other absurdities of the same kind.
On the Improvement of the Understanding
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When Carlyle, in the strength of his reaction against morbid introspective Byronism, cried aloud to all men in their several vocation, '_Produce, produce; be it but the infinitesimallest product, produce_,' he meant to include production as an element inside the art of living, and an indispensable part and parcel of it.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 5: On Pattison's Memoirs
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The sonnet is probably the most durable of poetic forms, flexible yet sufficiently ordered to provide both infinite variety and a high level of unity in its manifold expressions.
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In what can only be described as a pasty smorgasbord of angst, bloodlust, and infinite consumer tie-ins, the
Torontoist
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Real objects are not point masses but occupy a volume of space and have an infinite variety of shapes.
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Each of you wasted a person who was infinitely more talented than you, and for what?
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We are all therefore of infinite value, glorious destiny and enormous potential.
Times, Sunday Times
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England, and the worthy progenitors of our L. the K. that now is, and by himself also vnder a certain form confirmed: euen so he is determined (without the preiudice of forren lawes) vpon iust mature, and sober deliberation, by his royall authorise to withstand such priuiledges, as by reason of the abuse thereof, haue bene infinitely preiudiciall vnto himselfe and his subiects.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I am a contented father and life is more precious, infinitely more fragile.
Times, Sunday Times
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For in the numbers the infinite in the direction of reduction is not present, as the monad is the smallest; nor is the infinite in the direction of increase, for the parts number only up to the decad.
Physics
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Week 2 Limit of number sequence. Limit of function. infinity and infinitesimal.
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But this is the city which gave the world ‘Salaam Bombay,’ for it to salute the undying spirit of a metropolis which glories in its infinitely multipliable complementary contradictions: its grime and glitz, insularity and cosmopolitanism, arrogance and vulnerability, its indifference and unexpected caring.
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But whoever assumes this role, their supporters can at least derive succour from the infinite spirit of the Highlanders.
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There were infinitesimal cracks in the sides of the box, where one piece of the puzzle abutted the next.
THE HELLBOUND HEART
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The real essence of the conceiv - able quasi rigid continuation of a body Bo is the infinite
Out Of My Later Years
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Other things to cheer one up: finding something that solves an infinite number of wardrobe problems.
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There are infinite of these subtle trifles, and others more subtle than these, of notions, relations, instants, formalities, quiddities, haecceities, which no one can perceive without a Lynceus whose eyes could look through a stone wall and discover those things through the thickest darkness that never were.
In Praise of Folly
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Its vast breadth, parcelled out into eleven lights, and the infinite division of the stonework in the head, impressed the imagination; while mullions and tracery stood out in such inky contrast against the daylight yet lingering outside, that the architect read the scheme of subarcuation and the tracery as easily as if he had been studying a plan.
The Nebuly Coat
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For these analyses, robotic equipment precisely places pieces of the pathogen's DNA in an array of infinitesimally small droplets on glass microscope slides.
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When the western frontier's apparent boundlessness was revealed as only ostensible - when lines were measured and laid down across it, disproving its infiniteness - this escape route was cut off.
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The aunt is a well-drawn type of old-fashioned Scotchwoman, infinitely more natural and more interesting than the niece.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Grace reigning is a reverence of God, and gives honour to him who is infinitely great and high, and to whom all honour is due, than which what is more becoming or should be more pleasing to the rational creature?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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But it does not extend infinitely, as false sentimentalism would have us believe.
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Thus all infinite sequences of natural numbers have the same power, aleph zero.
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He abominated such manifestations of the debasement of the modern age as cars, wireless sets and refrigerators; cherished the past; feared the future; and found in the societies he investigated a way of life and a moral attitude that seemed infinitely more important than anything on offer in the "civilized" West.
Drawn to Harsh Places
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Vedanta allowed this sense of oneness while promoting an infinite variety and variation in religious thought.
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Sooner than such an inversion of social order, I would welcome even Turkish bondage; for surely utter ignorance is infinitely preferable to erudite unwomanliness.
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A friend of mine goes with the theory that there is no self, rather that he is a configuration of infinite diverse elements in a state of constant change.
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And when it comes to illness some of the systems of bathing and exercising prescribed by the "naturopath" are infinitely more troublesome to the patient and his friends than the simple expedient of sending for the doctor and taking the prescribed doses.
Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses
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Marriage is the theme, in all its incomprehensibility, its difficulty and its infinite gentle understandings.
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It is like they embody the spirit of adventure, that sense of infinite newness.
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The student has now acquired sufficient knowledge to be able to soundly judge the infinitely more complex matter of a human life.
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The baseline of infinite size was a generous assumption for the selectionist side, so the case of a finite population makes the argument I put forward even stronger.
The Weasel Thread
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the boundless regions of the infinite
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This unbreakable bond that unites as one,Is as strong as the ascent of the morning sun.Infinite days and nights of joy stream by,And even beyond the day we die.
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With infinite timidity he turned his head and encountered a gaze so soft, so hallowed, that it disconcerted him, and he dropped a "drumstick" of fried chicken, well dotted with ants, from his plate.
Ramsey Milholland
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It has a hydroelectric motor, so it can effectively draw infinite amounts of electric power from the water.
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Apparently if they failed to tighten a wheelnut to the correct torque there was an infinitessimal chance that the wheel might reach critical mass due to vibration and, thanks to the rotational velocity of the circumferential mass, collapse into a black hole, causing untold damage to the universe and wiping our miserable, H&S mad, planet out of existence.
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It is infinitely more difficult to make an accurate assessment of the immediate past and of the present.
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The question of infinity relates to paradoxes - an infinite regress or a circular argument indicate something is wrong with the argument.
