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Briefly Hemmung in the First Outline and the Introduction to it is thought within a rhetoric of the prolific (as Blake calls it), that is simply an inversion of Fichte's dialectic of the I and the not-I.
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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If you do not-I shall force your cooperation, and dispose of you when I no longer need you.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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If she is on the ticket-everyone who voted for her will vote for him in November but if not-I don't know that I will.
Sources: Clinton, Obama supporters discussing exit strategies 2008
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From about age five-I kid you not-I would spend a large percentage of my allowance on packets of seeds, which I would plant in thinly scraped areas of packed-clay dirt, sighing over their failure to grow.
Say Cheese Lindy 2007
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From about age five-I kid you not-I would spend a large percentage of my allowance on packets of seeds, which I would plant in thinly scraped areas of packed-clay dirt, sighing over their failure to grow.
Toast: Lindy 2007
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From about age five-I kid you not-I would spend a large percentage of my allowance on packets of seeds, which I would plant in thinly scraped areas of packed-clay dirt, sighing over their failure to grow.
cheese Lindy 2007
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But the "dishonesty" involved is not about lying to others so much as it is a natural outgrowth of the identification with only a part of the self, the moral part, with a concomitant sense that the other part, with the forbidden desire, is the not-I.
Moral Exo-Skeletons and Endo-Skeletons: A Key Divide in the American Body Politic 2006
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If I felt it necessary to defend the company, and the national interests it serves, against your implied criticism-and I emphatically do not-I would point out that both manipulation and control are sometimes requisite in order to secure and insure stability.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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If I felt it necessary to defend the company, and the national interests it serves, against your implied criticism-and I emphatically do not-I would point out that both manipulation and control are sometimes requisite in order to secure and insure stability.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
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Look, it's not-I can't explain it, I don't think anyone could.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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