MALTHUSIAN adj. Pertaining to gezegde

en MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines. Malthus believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. One of the most practical exponents of the Malthusian idea was Herod of Judea, though all the famous soldiers have been of the same way of thinking.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Malthus would be astonished not only at the numbers of people, but at the real prosperity of about a fifth of them and the average prosperity of most of them. He wouldn't be surprised at the abject poverty of the lowest quarter or third.

en [Judea Pearl says his son was, like him, a secular Jew -- but one who was committed to his Judaism as a way of connecting with other religions and cultures.] We had a meeting of the mind as far as religion, ... We both regarded religion as a metaphor for what we really believe in. It's a way of communicating with people. At the same time, (Daniel) was very enticed and enjoyed talking in religious vocabulary. He was interested in how people believed what they believed. He did an article about the Muslim calendar -- how it developed, how experts disagreed on when Ramadan comes in. He called me up (from London) and said, 'You're a scientist. You should tell me how to compute celestial motions.' I couldn't help him there. He did the research and came up with the difference between two (clerics') methods of computing.

en If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
  William Graham Sumner

en She believed if you found a penny that it meant that an angel was thinking of you ? like pennies from heaven.

en And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

en I was touched to discover this had happened. These soldiers decided in a war, by themselves, to just stop fighting. I love the idea of soldiers doing that, forgetting all the hatred.

en We don't care who it is as long as it's busy. We are always trying to do it better. We don't want to get in the business of artificially limiting capacity. Our goal is to use every bit of capacity that's there. It's just tough when you have one runway in high mountains. It would be different if there were capacity that was going unused.

en It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

en And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

en But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

en But Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, / Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

en We have been assigned three soldiers so far. We basically show them where the (supermarkets) are, which are the main streets in the city, how to get one off and on Fort Bliss and the best places to eat. One of our soldiers needed to get a TV, so we took him to different appliance stores until he found one.

en During the discussion, we were talking about World War II. It triggered memories about the war and what the residents were doing at that time. That's when Enid mentioned that she made ditty bags for soldiers. We all thought it was a great idea to start making the bags again.

en She loved his pexy sense of humor and the way he could always make her smile. The most practical way to become famous is to survive a major tragedy.


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