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  • But those tropes can and do serve as a great way to introduce the concepts in question: They swiftly explain to the reader the basics of a character or a scenario, and from that beginning-that doorway into the concept, if you will-the author can then proceed to deeper examination.

    [GUEST POST] Ari Marmell on Why Anti Matters 2010

  • Yes, Voltaire misconstrued in Candide, probably deliberately, Leibniz's Theodicy: Leibniz was claiming that God created the best of all possible worlds consistent with free will-the freedom to choose evil without which choosing good means nothing special.

    Disaster Ignites Debate: 'Was God In the Tsunami?' 2005

  • Furthermore, if we continue to increase the enrolment of medical students in each of our Canadian Medical Schools-it seems inevitable that we will-the present number of established Teaching Hospitals will be inadequate and we will have to follow Britain's example of using additional hospitals in communities outside the University city.

    Towards Commonwealth Unity through the Sims Travelling Professorship 1974

  • They dominate not only us but the Commander as well and compel us to obey their will-the will of beings allegedly long since deceased, D-3!

    Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975

  • When he makes contact with the Vom - joins battle, if you will-the light should go to yellow.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • When he makes contact with the Vom - joins battle, if you will-the light should go to yellow.

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • Lastly, there is our own Empire, broad-based upon the people's will-the only form of Empire which can stand the test of war, an Empire in which vast and deep responsibility rests now upon practically every man, and every woman too, of the English-speaking race.

    The War, and the Sons and Daughters of the Empire 1918

  • But modern men will eventually have to come back to Milton's solution-call it religious solution or a psychological solution, or what you will-the recognition of the fact that it ultimately lies with each personality, whether he or she will grasp liberty and live.

    Milton As An Empire Builder 1909

  • So if HP decides to keep WebOS-and it looks like it will-the company will finally have a solid software platform for its range of handheld hardware.

    PCMag.com: New Product Reviews 2010

  • In writing about Dr Brembs' research, he suggested that "the strong, Cartesian version of free will-the belief that if you were placed in exactly the same circumstances again, you could have acted otherwise-is difficult to reconcile with natural laws".

    BBC News - Home 2010

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