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• As he was chief of the Yadavas this Krishna must stand for the actual or mythical personality of some leader of the immigrant nomad tribes. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
• Provisions--actual food, of exceptional kind and quantity--have to be provided, and every man, boy, nerve, muscle, eye, hand, brain, and spirit, has to be taxed to the very uttermost to prevent defeat On the particular year of which we write, symptoms of the coming struggle began to be felt before Christmas eve. —  Post Haste
• Any disposition to assume the oval form, therefore, depended mainly upon the degree of slope of the actual area of the skull implicated. —  Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
• That is far more wholesome than to be always looking at our faults and failures, which depress and tempt us to think that the actual is the measure of the possible, and the past or present of the future. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• Form is the actual, the energy, the entelechy which actualises the potential and determines the final compound These few definitions will make clear the singularly ingenious idea of Aristotle on the nature of the body, the soul, and of their union. —  The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps

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