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This idea can, in theory, also be applied to human beings. les etres vivants. one can only sustain emotional carrying capacity for so long before one or more variables, inevitably, tip the scales causing the s shaped diagram to plummet as a result of minimal breathing space. ones brain can process so much information before reaching carrying capacity. once carrying capacity is overshot, one's brain will begin to fail to register information.
anti-gens Diary Entry anti-gens 2004
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Si Dieu veut etre connu, cheri, remercie, que ne se montre-t-il sous des traits favorables a tous ces etres intelligens dont il veut etre aime et adore?
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_La vie des etres animes_ (p. 102), "All investigation and observation make it clear that, while the variability of creatures in a state of nature displays itself in very different degrees, yet, in its most astonishing manifestations, it remains confined within a circle beyond which it cannot pass."
At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers Eberhard Dennert
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Egalement verse dans la plupart des matieres sur lesquelles il importe le plus a des etres raisonnables d'avoir une opinion arretee,
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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Annet said of Paul's type of man "l'enthousiaste s'enivre, pour l'ainsi dire, de son propre vin, il se persuade que la cause de ses passions est la cause de Dieu (p. 72), mais quelque violent qu'ait pu etre l'enthousiasme de S. Paul, il sentait tres bien que la doctrine qu'il prechait devait paraitre bizarre et insensee a des etres raisonnables" (p. 141).
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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Annet said of Paul's type of man “l'enthousiaste s'enivre, pour l'ainsi dire, de son propre vin, il se persuade que la cause de ses passions est la cause de Dieu (p. 72), mais quelque violent qu'ait pu etre l'enthousiasme de S. Paul, il sentait tres bien que la doctrine qu'il prechait devait paraitre bizarre et insensee a des etres raisonnables” (p. 141).
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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Egalement verse dans la plupart des matieres sur lesquelles il importe le plus a des etres raisonnables d'avoir une opinion arretee,
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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You are acquainted with my position and my rules, the insignificance of the sum in itself and the other circumstances; there are, in fine, family secrets which must be respected, and family tranquillity is something so sacred that only etres sans cour (among whom I have no reason to reckon you) would repudiate it!
On the Eve 1859
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You are acquainted with my position and my rules, the insignificance of the sum in itself and the other circumstances; there are, in fine, family secrets which must be respected, and family tranquillity is something so sacred that only _etres sans cour_ (among whom I have no reason to reckon you) would repudiate it!
On the Eve Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Dieu veut etre connu, cheri, remercie, que ne se montre-t-il sous des traits favorables a tous ces etres intelligens dont il veut etre aime et adore?
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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