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  • The one is limited in time; the other, unlimited in time; the former I call POTENTIAL USE-VALUE; the latter, KINETIC USE-VALUE.

    Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914

  • When it’s applied to a scalar field, you get a product called a POTENTIAL, which is what that episode is about.

    Solution to the Fringe Glyph Cipher 2009

  • ~ AT LEAST TWO 'POTENTIAL' CANDIDATES ARE STILL IN JR.

    Mayor hijacks Neighborhood Council Congress as costs skyrocket 2007

  • CLASH POTENTIAL 9/10How free should Michael Gove's 'free schools', and the growing number of academies, be?

    War breaks out in Downing Street 2011

  • PRO POTENTIAL: Arkansas State has had a player chosen in the NFL draft in each of the last three years, including S Tyrell Johnson as a second-round pick (Minnesota) in 2008.

    Around the Sun Belt Conference 2010

  • If your book is GOOD and/or has COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL, someone will eventually take notice.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • If your book is GOOD and/or has COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL, someone will eventually take notice.

    You Asked For It 2009

  • CLASH POTENTIAL 6/10Will rows over tax breaks for couples split the Clegg/Cameron marriage?

    War breaks out in Downing Street 2011

  • We have great POTENTIAL to be so much more than we are.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • PRO POTENTIAL: FIU has had two players drafted since it began playing football in 2002 β€” LB Antwan Barnes by Baltimore and WR Chandler Williams by Minnesota β€” both in April 2007.

    Around the Sun Belt Conference 2010

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