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  • In addition, certain families allied to the Nurses by blood or friendship, and whose farms were contiguous with the Nurse farm or close to it, combined to break away from the Salem town authority and set up Topsfield, a new and independent entity whose existence was resented by old Salemites.†   (source)
  • This means any noncovered entity can release or publish a person's medical records without violating HIPAA.†   (source)
  • Everyone knows that from the beginning the Warsaw Pact was to be regarded as a single entity where those rules were concerned.†   (source)
  • Did she ever have the sense of observing herself from afar, as I often did, as if the explosion had knocked my body and my soul into two separate entities that remained about six feet apart from one another?†   (source)
  • I had gone to Everest on assignment for Outside magazine, an independent entity (based in Santa Fe, New Mexico) that works in loose partnership with Outside Online (based in the Seattle area) to publish a version of the magazine on the Internet.†   (source)
  • With one last cry, Durza was rent from head to toe, releasing the darkness, which separated into three entities who flew through Tronjheim's walls and out of Farthen Dur.†   (source)
  • Her weight shifts and she pauses before speaking, as though drawing strength from some unseen entity.†   (source)
  • My dear … entity… it is true that we wished your presence in our place of worship, but you have no evidence that we were involved in any attempt to kidnap you.†   (source)
  • The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was the more dangerous entity, but its operatives of late seemed to be spending most of their energy battling strikers at coalfields and steel mills around the country.†   (source)
  • He must overcome an initial problem: nobody wants to read about geopolitical entities in conflict.†   (source)
  • Mae, no entity should have the power those guys have.†   (source)
  • There was no precedent, he wrote, for a private organization to sue a state entity in his court.†   (source)
  • As a mechanical entity, I have neither.†   (source)
  • McDonald's operates more playgrounds than any other private entity in the United States.†   (source)
  • Her life as a legal entity had been shaped by other people's bargaining and haggling and she was determined to follow a code too rigid to allow for the trade-off, the settlement.†   (source)
  • They are created entities, like mortals, only much more powerful.†   (source)
  • Perenelle was suddenly grateful for the bars that separated her from the terrifying entity.†   (source)
  • We have that in common: We are both people and entities.†   (source)
  • Metaphysical entities are defined.†   (source)
  • Because a perfect entity wouldn't be perfect if it didn't exist.†   (source)
  • It might at first have only a moral authority, but that authority could be substantial, for unlike those other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak from the will of all the people, and in the face of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.†   (source)
  • We're not going to suddenly jump sides and put on the uniform of some dark entity who tries to kill a dog to get his rocks off.†   (source)
  • A few days later the young man called to say he'd found one, an international entity called the Green Light Committee, established to control the distribution of meningococcal vaccine.†   (source)
  • I mean, you work for a publication that is for the most part owned by major corporate entities.†   (source)
  • In our broad sweep, the city looks like a single gigantic creature-or more like a single collective entity created by many intertwining organisms.†   (source)
  • Then I see the sculpture, a few hundred yards away from the doors we entered through yesterday, gloomy and massive and mysterious, like a living entity.†   (source)
  • But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy.†   (source)
  • The party did not exist as a separate entity on Robben Island.†   (source)
  • In spite of my efforts not to think about it, I could feel myself as two entities-my body and me.†   (source)
  • In 1884 at a conference of European leaders in Berlin, Leopold held himself out as a kind of protector of the Congo's people and proposed the formation of a political entity there called the Congo Free State.†   (source)
  • They were the defenders of the faith of Christ, of the principle of authority, and were not prepared to permit the country to be broken down into autonomous entities.†   (source)
  • The fact that he was an unknown entity and thus unpredictable in his actions particularly where children were involved— gave US additional concern.†   (source)
  • They moved in perfect formation, as if they were one entity.†   (source)
  • There are no entities downloaded into human bodies.†   (source)
  • Everyone in town called them the Sisters, like they were a single entity, which in a way they were.†   (source)
  • He didn't yell anything specifically, just a roar of outrage directed at the BoneMan and whatever demonic entity had possessed him to visit such pain upon him.†   (source)
  • You've been buying up companies all over Europe through mergers and acquisitions using surrogate and misleading corporate entities.†   (source)
  • If there exists some wraith, some bodily spirit here in this room with me, if he or she can hear my thoughts as the wet ink travels from my pen to parchment, if in fact said entity has any modicum of compassion still held in reserve, then you-it!†   (source)
  • With a strained exhalation, Mother restated her justification, placing a further emphasis on "It" and "David," as if they were two separate entities.†   (source)
  • In his white slacks and white shirt, with his long white hair, he seemed to draw the meager ambient light to himself, glowing softly like an entity at a séance.†   (source)
  • The body washis body, not a separate entity.†   (source)
  • The King of the Gods is the actual entity in virtue of which the entire multiplicity of eternal objects obtains its graded relevance to each stage of concrescence.†   (source)
  • He is a profoundly alien entity.†   (source)
  • Al! actions are caused by entities.†   (source)
  • In another ("They put like this bandage stuff around it"), like served "to highlight the introduction of new entities into discourse."†   (source)
  • It's as if they exist as their own entity, a form of code.†   (source)
  • And he kisses me again, and now I understand how love can come alive inside you, beneath your skin, beneath your flesh and bone, a separate entity, breathing in and out its own special air, expanding to fill all those hollow places that you can't fill by yourself.†   (source)
  • Sorcery, the art of summoning entities from other planes into servitude, was this young man's particular love.†   (source)
  • In the United States of America, ducks are the most protected and overly regulated entity in history.†   (source)
  • The cottage had been rented to a Northern Virginia—based shell entity owned by an Egyptian national named Qassam el-Banna.†   (source)
  • But try to keep other corporate entities out of the area.†   (source)
  • The wolf and the caribou were so closely linked, he told me, that they were almost a single entity.†   (source)
  • Europe was a cultural and geographical entity.†   (source)
  • A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys.†   (source)
  • I had been reared to think of us as invincible entities, clean and cool and diamond-hard, like our pictures on the Trumps.†   (source)
  • They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, many things he had learned from the Samanas, he had learned from Gotama, he had learned from his father the Brahman, had remained within him for a long time afterwards: moderate living, joy of thinking, hours of meditation, secret knowledge of the self, of his eternal entity, which is neither body nor consciousness.†   (source)
  • Well, dear infant, once upon a time you were like this before… an entity merely existing.†   (source)
  • A single entity defined by the sum of its parts.†   (source)
  • You had to kill yourself, or he had to kill you to get you functioning as a separate entity.†   (source)
  • Made it into an organized, self-propagating entity," Hiro says.†   (source)
  • What if I told you that a thought is an actual thing, a measurable entity, with a measurable mass?†   (source)
  • His Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a mystic one.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, it is inherent in the concept of a perfect entity that such an entity exists.†   (source)
  • The real train of knowledge isn't a static entity that can be stopped and subdivided.†   (source)
  • There are several more, uh, entities that will help us.†   (source)
  • So in the midst of all nature's constant flux and oppo-sites, Heraclitus saw an Entity or one-ness.†   (source)
  • Nor can you have a perfect entity that lacks its most important property, namely, existence.†   (source)
  • It is a third entity which is independent of the two.†   (source)
  • Neither would we possess the idea of a perfect entity if there were no perfect entity.†   (source)
  • He came to the conclusion that in his mind he had a clear and distinct idea of a perfect entity.†   (source)
  • No, and on that point Descartes once again draws upon our idea of the perfect entity.†   (source)
  • The idea of a perfect entity cannot have originated from one who was himself imperfect, he claimed.†   (source)
  • The man in the blue overalls and the woman with the camera were unknown entities.†   (source)
  • The names of the entities that have power to constrain us change with time.†   (source)
  • I made a gesture indicating the two of us as a single entity.†   (source)
  • One, that our memories were altered against our will and we are the pawns of some nefarious entity.†   (source)
  • And if you're on the outside, you become part of that amorphous entity, a 'damn fine staff.'†   (source)
  • That evil is Astaroth, the very same entity that drove us to these shores over three centuries ago.†   (source)
  • It's one entity, and the Oriental won't tolerate a disobedient child, you know that.†   (source)
  • I supposed I was getting used to strange Norse entities popping up in my personal space.†   (source)
  • "You, sir," I said, "are a powerful entity."†   (source)
  • A living entity that regarded its means of survival as evil, would not survive.†   (source)
  • Class V were relegated only to military and governmental entities.†   (source)
  • They bored into his, and in a knee-weakening instant, he knew the entity hiding inside Grace's body.†   (source)
  • It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.†   (source)
  • By definition, the entities inside them are immortal.†   (source)
  • You are an indivisible entity of matter and consciousness.†   (source)
  • Who was that philosopher, she thought, who preached that motion exists without any moving entities?†   (source)
  • They will be a single entity, as you yourselves are the sums of your myriad cells.†   (source)
  • The-entity-of which they are part knows all about us.†   (source)
  • And in many ways the entity thatyourracehasbecomeisstillachild.†   (source)
  • He was sure the BBC would let him go; no doubt they would have legal troubles from numerous powerful entities ….†   (source)
  • The energy the …. well, entity or entities, the actions, the emotions thereof, leave behind, and the energy of the people within its sphere, let's say.†   (source)
  • It offers a critique of the class system, a story of initiation into the adult world of sex and death, an amusing examination of family dynamics, and a touching portrait of a child struggling to establish herself as an independent entity in the face of nearly overwhelming parental influence.†   (source)
  • One exception to that rule is HIPAA: "Even Thomas Jefferson's records, if they exist, are protected by HIPAA if they're held by a covered entity," Gellman said.†   (source)
  • For Sylvie, the church had always been an innocuous entity …. a place of fellowship and introspection …. sometimes just a place to sing out loud without people staring at her.†   (source)
  • We must advise you, however, that the formal name of our modest group is the Church of the Final Atonement and the entity whom the world so blithely calls… the Shrike… we refer to … if we take His name at all… as the Lord of Pain or, more commonly, the Avatar.†   (source)
  • Her childhood was as tangible as the shot silk—a taste, a sound, a smell, all of these, blended into an entity that was surely more than a mood.†   (source)
  • The tattoo is of an alien holding a bouquet of tulips in one hand as though offering them to some unseen entity.†   (source)
  • We never want the customer to think they're dealing with a faceless entity, so you should always be sure to inject humanity into the process.†   (source)
  • According to Robert Gellman, a health-privacy expert who chaired a U.S. government subcommittee on privacy and confidentiality, any Hopkins faculty member releasing Henrietta's medical information today would most likely violate HIPAA, because Hopkins is a covered entity.†   (source)
  • The human body, for example, consists of millions of individual cells, each with different attributes and different purposes, but it functions as a single entity.†   (source)
  • The energy the …. well, entity or entities, the actions, the emotions thereof, leave behind, and the energy of the people within its sphere, let's say.†   (source)
  • So while I slept the Hegemony became a formal entity, the Worldweb was spun to something close to its final shape, the All Thing took its democratic place among the list of humanity's benevolent despots, the TechnoCore seceded from human service and then offered its help as an ally rather than a slave, and the Ousters retreated to darkness and the role of Nemesis… but all these things had been creeping toward critical mass even before I was frozen into my ice coffin between the pork…†   (source)
  • Finally, it was rumored, there would be complete information-sharing among all of these previously disconnected and even adversarial entities, and when they were coordinated, and once all the health data they'd collected was shared, most of this made possible through the Circle and more important, TruYou, viruses could be stopped at their sources, diseases would be tracked to their roots.†   (source)
  • There is an informational entity known as the metavirus, which causes information systems to infect themselves with customized viruses.†   (source)
  • HIPAA protects "all 'individually identifiable health information'… in any form or media, whether electronic, paper, or oral," but it only applies to "covered entities," which are health-care providers and health insurers that "furnish, bill or receive payment for" health care, and who transmit any covered health information electronically.†   (source)
  • Streaking through gray-blue datumplane, banking along chrome-yellow information highways, passing over and under and titrough great cities of glowing information storage, red skyscrapers sheathed in black security ice, simple entities like personal accounts or corporate files blazing like burning refineries in the night.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong is a private, wholly extraterritorial, sovereign, quasi. national entity not recognized by any other nationalities and in no way affiliated with the former Crown Colony of Hong Kong, which is part of the People's Republic of China.†   (source)
  • I don't know of any way of testing it for truth, since all he did was simply compare his understanding of one mystic entity with another.†   (source)
  • Half a dozen of them are kneeling on the pavement with their hands clenched tightly together, mumbling to unseen entities.†   (source)
  • Once it's stated that "the dialectic comes before anything else," this statement itself becomes a dialectical entity, subject to dialectical question.†   (source)
  • He regarded himself as the fixed entity, not the pilgrimage or the mountain, and thus wasn't ready for it.†   (source)
  • When Quality enters the picture as a third metaphysical entity, the preselection of facts is no longer arbitrary.†   (source)
  • So far he has gotten to the fact that he is a thinking person and that there exists a perfect entity.†   (source)
  • A thousand memories of Chris will always be at hand, of course, but not a destructive clinging to some material entity that can never be here again.†   (source)
  • You recall how Descartes had a clear and distinct idea of a 'perfect entity,' on the basis of which he concluded that God exists.†   (source)
  • In addition to this state of mind, "reason," there's a legal entity which is unfortunately called by the same name but which is quite another thing.†   (source)
  • Therefore the idea of a perfect entity must have originated from that perfect entity itself, or in other words, from God.†   (source)
  • Scientific truth was not dogma, good for eternity, but a temporal quantitative entity that could be studied like anything else.†   (source)
  • Descartes only meant that we all possess the idea of a perfect entity, and that inherent in that idea is the fact that this perfect entity must exist.†   (source)
  • Poincaré then hypothesized that this selection is made by what he called the "subliminal self," an entity that corresponds exactly with what Phaedrus called preintellectual awareness.†   (source)
  • He was turning the method of rationality against itself, turning it against his own kind, in defense of an irrational concept, an undefined entity called Quality.†   (source)
  • Darwin had, after all, distanced God a good way from the act of creation, although there were admittedly some who claimed it was surely greater to have created something with its own innate evolutionary potential than simply to create a fixed entity.†   (source)
  • If he's up there, some psychic entity, some ghost, some Doppelgänger waiting up there for us in God knows what fashion — well, he's going to have to wait a long time.†   (source)
  • If Phaedrus had entered science for ambitious or utilitarian purposes it might never have occurred to him to ask questions about the nature of a scientific hypothesis as an entity in itself.†   (source)
  • It's the leading edge of the engine, a two-dimensional surface of no real significance unless you understand that the train isn't a static entity at all.†   (source)
  • I think that the referent of a term that can split a world into hip and square, classic and romantic, technological and humanistic, is an entity that can unite a world already split along these lines into one.†   (source)
  • He had erected an imaginary entity, defined it as incapable of definition, told the students over their own protests that they knew what it was, and demonstrated this by a technique that was as confusing logically as the term itself.†   (source)
  • Now with this Quality he seemed to say the same thing and talk as vaguely as they did, even though what he talked about was as hard and clear and solid as any rationally defined entity he'd ever dealt with.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus' break occurred when, as a result of laboratory experience, he became interested in hypotheses as entities in themselves.†   (source)
  • Poincaré then went on to demonstrate the conventional nature of other concepts of science, such as space and time, showing that there isn't one way of measuring these entities that is more true than another; that which is generally adopted is only more convenient.†   (source)
  • Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past.†   (source)
  • David was primarily interested in the Spirits Perilous, those ancient, immensely powerful entities that constituted a sort of royalty among their kind.†   (source)
  • The knowledge pleased him: it signified that they had achieved new heights of cooperation and were acting together as a single entity-which made them far more powerful than either would be on their own.†   (source)
  • "They're just powerful entities."†   (source)
  • It's a single entity, isn't it?†   (source)
  • The business was small change, and liable at any time to set off hypocritical screeds in the media and debates in that strange political entity called the Swedish parliament.†   (source)
  • Still, perhaps for the first time since they'd left L.A., he and Bryan weren't shooting as separate entities.†   (source)
  • The two of them worked for the Post-Flares Coalition, an entity people in the settlements had heard of but knew almost nothing about.†   (source)
  • She liked the way the daily problems of the world seemed to recede once she took the field, the subtle psychological strategies one had to employ to get the best out of each player, and most of all the sense of satisfaction that came from forging something new out of disparate elements: an entity with its distinct identity, not a collection of individuals, but a new being, a team.†   (source)
  • With the proper spells, the knowledge of an entity's truename conveys absolute mastery of that thing.†   (source)
  • Then he and she merged their identities to a greater degree than ever before, vanquishing all differences between them to become a single entity.†   (source)
  • On the low shelf rested statues of the six major dwarf gods, as well as nine other entities Eragon was unfamiliar with, all carved with exaggerated features and postures to better convey the character of the being portrayed.†   (source)
  • With the truest instinct of my kind, I'd bound myself securely into the body's center of thought, twined myself inescapably into its every breath and reflex until it was no longer a separate entity.†   (source)
  • The dancers in bathing suits, bare limbs molten-bronze from the firelight, shook their shoulders and rolled their hips, dipped and swayed, beat their supple arms like wings or clawed at the radiant air, and to Joe each celebrant seemed to be two entities at the same time.†   (source)
  • Its task, as set out in the government's instructions, was to uncover and prevent threats to the internal security of the nation, that is, "unlawful activity that uses violence, threat, or coercion for the purpose of altering our form of government, inducing decision-making political entities or authorities to take decisions in a certain direction, or preventing individual citizens from exercising their constitutionally protected rights and liberties."†   (source)
  • I thought that once de Wet hadaccepted that we had not yet initiated guerrilla warfare and that the ANC and MK were separate entities, it would have been difficult to impose the death penalty; it would have seemed excessive.†   (source)
  • Fourteen years later, in 1997, citing the continuing "fierce interest in language usage," the magazine returned to the fray with "The War That Never Ends," an article by writer Mark Halpern, blasting Nunberg and other descriptivist grammarians, who "suppose that language is an entity with its own laws of development, or natural destiny, and that prescriptivist grammarians are trying to interfere with the course of that natural destiny."†   (source)
  • There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche.†   (source)
  • Faster, now, wagging wildly and building its strength to support the mighty entity that waited on the other side.†   (source)
  • Each of those under transport is a human being with a different face and mind, and at the same time each is a nameless part of the collective entity.†   (source)
  • I thought she'd entered the deepest place I could provide, the animating entity, the thing, if anything, that will survive my own last breath, and she makes me larger, she amplifies my sense of what it is to be human.†   (source)
  • With unexpected suddenness, he encountered an immense entity, a sentient being of such a colossal nature, he could not grasp the limits of its psyche.†   (source)
  • Somewhere in a corner of the vast astral plane, the entity of the panther moved in sudden, subtle steps as it stalked the entity of the deer.†   (source)
  • A strange sensation, a buzzing vibration, came over Drizzt as he passed through Cryshal-Tirith's entryway, as though he had moved into the bowels of a living entity.†   (source)
  • Protection against the spurt of blood or pus and the viral entities hidden within, submicroscopic parasites in their soviet socialist protein coats.†   (source)
  • It caused such a disagreement between Anurin and Queen Dellanir that Anurin seceded from our government and established the Riders on Vroengard as an independent entity.†   (source)
  • He noticed that she was much calmer afterward, and he realized it wasn't the future that frightened her; it was the past, the fact that she feared the entity inside her body was a figment of a young human girl's shattered mind.†   (source)
  • Nor can I prove that the world and everything in it was not created by an entity or entities in the distant past.†   (source)
  • An LDC, I'd just found out, was a less developed country in the language of banks and other global entities.†   (source)
  • So confident was he in his work that. he didn't spend an extra day (some wizards would spend a week) checking the runes and symbols or bother to test the circle on a lesser entity, such as a mane.†   (source)
  • He knew that those pleas for help were not addressed to him, but to an entity whose shape he had stolen.†   (source)
  • He loves the language of buying and selling and the sight of those clustered sets of letters that represent enormous corporate entities with their jets and stretches and tanker fleets.†   (source)
  • This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.†   (source)
  • It's a territorial roar, the claim of the ego that separates the crowd from other entities, from political rallies or prison riots—everything outside the walls.†   (source)
  • A train has the two great attributes of life, she thought, motion and purpose; this had been like a living entity, but now it was only a number of dead freight cars and engines.†   (source)
  • Joy is not 'the absence of pain,' intelligence is not 'the absence of stupidity,' light is not 'the absence of darkness,' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.'†   (source)
  • She felt with sudden certainty that they feared the precision of his face, the unyielding clarity of his features, the look of being an entity, a look of asserting existence.†   (source)
  • To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.†   (source)
  • It was as if the centuries had sifted the family's qualities through a fine mesh, had discarded the irrelevant, the inconsequential, the weak, and had let nothing through except pure talent; as if chance, for once, had achieved an entity devoid of the accidental.†   (source)
  • No-he thought through the early dusk of autumn evenings, looking out the window of his office-no, he was not indifferent to his mills; but the feeling which had once been passion for a living entity was now like the wistful tenderness one feels for the memory of the loved and dead.†   (source)
  • , the universe of a child's nightmare where identities switch and swim, where the rotter and the hero are interchangeable parts arbitrarily assumed at will-that you are a man-that you are an entity-that you are.†   (source)
  • The mystic parasites who have, throughout the ages, reviled the traders and held them in contempt, while honoring the beggars and the looters, have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.†   (source)
  • She kept seeing his figure in her mind-his figure as he had stood at the door of the structure-she felt nothing else, no wish, no hope, no estimate of her feeling, no name for it, no relation to herself-there was no entity such as herself, she was not a person, only a function, the function of seeing him, and the sight was its own meaning and purpose, with no further end to reach.†   (source)
  • An action not caused by an entity would be caused by a zero, which would mean a zero controlling a thing, a nonentity controlling an entity, the non-existent ruling the existent-which is the universe of your teachers' desire, the cause of their doctrines of causeless action, the reason of their revolt against reason, the goal of their morality, their politics, their economics, the ideal they strive for: the reign of the zero.†   (source)
  • Then she climbed aboard-and the next span of her consciousness was not separate moments and movements, but the sweep of a single motion and a single unit of time, a progression forming one entity, like the notes of a piece of music: from the touch of her hand on the starter-to the blast of the motor's sound that broke off, like a mountain rockslide, all contact with the time behind her-to the circling fall of a blade that vanished in a fragile sparkle of whirling air that cut the space…†   (source)
  • As they proclaim that the only requirement for running a factory is the ability to turn the cranks of the machines, and blank out the question of who created the factory-so they proclaim that there are no entities, that nothing exists but motion, and blank out the fact that motion presupposes the thing which moves, that without the concept of entity, there can be no such concept as 'motion.'†   (source)
  • Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence-that man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness, and that he may permit no breach between body and mind, between action and thought, between his life and his convictions-that, like a judge impervious to public opinion, he may not sacrifice his convictions to the wishes of…†   (source)
  • The nature of an action is caused and determined by the nature of the entities that act; a thing cannot act in contradiction to its nature.†   (source)
  • It has long been conceded by all progressive thinkers that there are no entities, only actions-and no values, only consequences.†   (source)
  • There is only one fundamental alternative in the universe: existence or non-existence-and it pertains to a single class of entities: to living organisms.†   (source)
  • We are the soul, of which railroads, copper mines, steel mills and oil wells are the body-and they are living entities that beat day and night, like our hearts, in the sacred function of supporting human life, but only so long as they remain our body, only so long as they remain the expression, the reward and the property of achievement.†   (source)
  • As they proclaim that the only requirement for running a factory is the ability to turn the cranks of the machines, and blank out the question of who created the factory-so they proclaim that there are no entities, that nothing exists but motion, and blank out the fact that motion presupposes the thing which moves, that without the concept of entity, there can be no such concept as 'motion.'†   (source)
  • It is to a baby that the world appears as a blur of motion, without things that move-and the birth of his mind is the day when he grasps that the streak that keeps flickering past him is his mother and the whirl beyond her is a curtain, that the two are solid entities and neither can turn into the other, that they are what they are, that they exist.†   (source)
  • "It was once commonly maintained that Beauty, Goodness, and Truth were subsistent entities," he said.†   (source)
  • He pondered deeply, like diving into a deep water he let himself sink down to the ground of the sensation, down to the place where the causes lie, because to identify the causes, so it seemed to him, is the very essence of thinking, and by this alone sensations turn into realizations and are not lost, but become entities and start to emit like rays of light what is inside of them.†   (source)
  • Intelligence believed that prisoners were always taken to Klendathu; the Bugs are as curious about us as we are about them — a race of individuals able to build cities, starships, armies, may be even more mysterious to a hive entity than a hive entity is to us.†   (source)
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