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"Jain texts treat Samprati as a patron of Jainism almost in the same light as Buddhist texts treat Asoka."

"Biologists, or rather botanists and zoologists, studied flora and fauna in exhaustive detail, in niches, in situ, penetrating the mysteries of their local habitations, measuring them, counting them, tracking cycles, writing all this down in the equivalent of field guides, and developing the ability to predict many natural phenomena, including phenomena of change: if frost falls, the bud is harmed; if the soil is enriched, growth improves, and so on. The world of life forms was a text whose meaning the biologist interpreted. But these interpretations did not explain and were not meant to explain the biological processes according to which these species could exist in the first place, or descend, or develop, or differ. To explain these more basic issues required the theory of evolution, which, once it was available, became an indispensable instrument in the professional study of local, narrowly coordinated, in situ life forms and the niches they inhabit."

"There is a moral as well as a physical character to all animal life, however humble it may be, enveloped indeed in obscurity, and with a mysterious solemnity, which must ever belong to the secrets of the Eternal. Let us then approach with caution the unknown character of the brute, as being an emanation from Himself; and treat with tenderness and respect the helpless creatures derived from such a source."

"Launched in Japan in December 1994, the PlayStation finally hit these shores a year later in September 1995. I was only an impressionable kid at the time but still remember my dad coming home with a curious rectangular box made of grey plastic. I was immediately drawn to that start-up sound – a futuristic low-bass rumble followed by something that sounded like a crystal ball shattering all over the carpet."

"There is little argument here: The Xbox 360 is a powerful beast that's easily more powerful than 95% of the PCs available today. That will change in the next year or year and a half, but it's impressive nonetheless. The 360 is packed with an enormous amount of processing power, graphic potential, and a healthy amount of flexible memory. With the vehicles in PGR3 using 80,000 polygons per car, graphics aren't going to be the focus any more, it'll be what developers are doing with said graphics. The three 3.2 GHz processors can be independently programmed (enabling programmers to target six threads), which is both a strength and weakness, given traditional programming is done for one processor and the new requirement of having extremely efficient and clean code. Still, the amount of power harnessed in the 360 will enable programmers to finally dig into even deeper, more realistic physics, create greater facial expressions, and invent new gameplay scenarios, and not have to worry about whether the game will look good. They'll all look good."

"Overall, I like the Xbox One's interface. It's certainly a little more busy than the PS4, but I prefer the Metro-style grid, rather than scrolling forever through dozens of tiles. For the most part, the tiled interface dovetails with the Xbox One's larger feature set -- but sometimes there's a little too much depth and complexity, leaving you hunting around for the right menu to perform a certain action. It will be harder to learn the Xbox One's interface for the first time, that's for sure."

"As mentioned above, the N64 was home to a lot of classics and games that literally changed the direction of their franchises, but it was also home to a lot of lesser-known titles that bring out my nostalgia. Glover, Snowboard Kids, Toy Story 2, that weird South Park snowball-fight game, and so many more. One of my favorite things about the N64 is that it had something to offer for everyone, even outside of the classics we all know and love. With the console being home to so many games, each person who played it is sure to have a set of their own, personal classics that fit right in with the more well-known games of yesteryear."

"The Dreamcast was the most powerful game console at the time, I marveled at its capabilities. It featured a 200 MHz processor, more RAM than the Playstation and Nintendo 64, and used a GD-Rom drive that stored 1 GB of data, which is roughly twice the amount of a CD. This made the graphics on the N64 and Playstation look very dated. Games on the Dreamcast always had the best looking textures and everything was always round instead of jagged. I felt more immersed in the games than ever before! To this day, I still believe the graphics on the system looked smoother than on the PlayStation 2."

"The PSP is Sony’s thrown gauntlet, challenging the undisputed king of the handheld realm to a duel to the death, or at least to the very bitter, hurty end. Nintendo has never suffered a serious challenger to the throne they carved out with the GameBoy. Many have tried and fallen: Atari, NEC, Sega (twice), and even SNK. Nintendo launched their portable at the height of their home success, and now Sony’s doing the same thing."

"Sony says it has sold more than 1.2 million Vita units worldwide since the portable launched in Japan on December 17. As CNET blogger Don Reisinger noted in his post, Sony didn't break down the sales figures by country, but acknowledged that this month's launch across the U.S. and Europe helped the Vita "exceed expectations" at this point in its life cycle."

"I have always felt that the idea underlying this theory has a basis other than the purely scientific or historical one."

"We've been hearing about the power of the "Cell Broadband Engine" for what seems like forever, and there's no denying that it has some horsepower. It's an absolute monster for processing data with approximately 40 times the juice of a PS2 CPU and a multi-core blueprint that allows for true parallel processing (with up to nine independent threads per Cell). NVIDIA's built-in G70-based RSX "Reality Synthesizer" has received nearly as much press -- boasting the ability to handle almost 75 billion shader operations per second with a clock speed of 550MHz. Add 256MB of XDR RAM and another 256MB of GDDR3 VRAM and you have quite the collective muscle."

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"Nintendo thinks that good things should come in small packages, and the affordable GameCube, about the size of a squat lunch box, certainly proves that point. Unlike the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, which aspire to be DVD players and living-room minicomputers, this is exclusively a game machine--and a fun, powerful one at that, offering games suited to a broad audience. playback, but you'll need the $30 component-video connector and an HDTV to take advantage of the superior picture quality. We tried out a third-party S-Video connector and found the picture to be quite sharp with titles such as Metroid Prime and Super Monkey Ball 2 on a standard 4:3 TV, as well as an HD-ready Samsung set. So long as a game is optimized for the GameCube, its graphics best that of the PS2, and, in some cases, match that of the Xbox. Overall, however, the Xbox offers slightly superior graphics and performance."

"Yeah! Whale Wash!"

"I was supposed to do Coachella the year prior but I got pregnant unexpectedly. And it ended up being twins, which was even more of a surprise. My body went through more than I could. I was 218 pounds the day I gave birth. I had an extremely difficult pregnancy, high blood pressure. I developed toxemia, preeclampsia, and in the room, one of the baby's heartbeats paused a few times so I had to get an emergency c-section."

"Come on, Ang! Dance with me, mama!"

"Steph Crothers as Tessa Elliot"

"Emma Breezy as Doll"

"Katie Hood (episode 1), Caitlin Dizon (episode 2 onward) as Lizzy"

"Darcy Maguire as Nori Doorman"

"David J. Dixon as Khan Doorman"

"Sean Chiplock as Thad"

"Allanah Fitzgerald as Cyn"

"Elsie Lovelock as Uzi Doorman"

"Between the first and second Purges, Lycan youth rallied in the same way. Against the prudence of their elders, their calls for violent action carried the day. The result? The werewolves are nearly extinct. Is that what you wish for us? Extinction."

"Michael Kovach as Serial Designation N"

"Nola Klop as Serial Designation V"

"Shara Kirby as Serial Designation J"

"It was so moving! And to me, it was absolutely fitting. The entire series was about sacrifice. He never got back because he always gave up his chance for someone else! And the only way he was finally able to get back and do his mission, that he was born for, was by someone else giving the ultimate sacrifice for him."

"She also worked for woman suffrage, believing that the right to vote was essential if socialist women were going to change economic and social evils that they perceived to accompany the capitalist system."

"When I saw that there was no opposition and only one person on the ballot, I felt that this was not allowing people a choice. And we should have choices."

"It was always understood that a compromise needed to be reached on the fee schedule"

"Unlike many who devoted their efforts to obtaining economic equality for working-class women, Branstetter put aside class differences and worked with middle-class suffragists to help women attain the franchise."

"I want the Democratic Party to stand up for principles which we believe in, which is fairness, equity, honesty, and being trustworthy, and doing what is right for all the people the best we know how."

"...Socio-cultural anthropology is a stepchild of this European “modernity”, even as it devotes itself to the task of documenting the global socio-cultural diversity which this modernity is destined to destroy."

"The great mistake of the socialists and their fatal handicap in comparison with traditional religions (as Ernest Gellner used to enjoy pointing out) was to promise that salvation could be achieved in this world."

"Mitchell! What are you doing!? What are you doing?! Mitchell! I gave you that arm. Mitchell! I gave you a second chance. [Mitchell cuts off his arm, Irons screams] Mitchell!"

"Democracy? [mocking] Democracy? Democracy's not what these people need, hell, it's not even what they want. America has been running around the globe, trying to install democracies in nation after nation for a century and it hasn't worked one time. Now why do you think that is? Because these countries don't have the most basic building blocks necessary to support a democracy. Little things like, "we ought to be tolerant of those who disagree with us." or "We ought to be tolerant of those who worship a different god than us!" or, that a journalist ought to be able to disagree with the fucking president! And you think you can walk into this country, based on fundamentalist, religious principles, drop a couple of bombs, topple a dictator and start a democracy!? [scoffs] Give me a break... People don't want freedom. They want rules, boundaries, protections. From invaders and from themselves. People need a leader who can both provide the constraints and the support to keep chaos at bay, and you give them that... and they'll follow. And that's where I come in."

"[Jonathan Irons addresses the UN General Assembly] I am honored to be the first CEO of a private corporation to become a member of the United Nations Security Council. Unfortunately, my appearance today has been clouded by a flurry of speculation that my company is developing a weapon of mass destruction which would be capable of targeting specific ethnic groups. [tries to calm delegates at the revelation] I want to address these allegations head on. Are we developing such a weapon? No, we are not [Assembly members applaud]... because we've already developed it. [Assembly members aghast] But with all due respect, the United Nations is a relic from a different time when nations were unique in their ability to solve the world's problems, but that just isn't the case anymore, primarily because you have you have outsourced the job to me. I have sent people to die in your wars. So I feel uniquely qualified to tell you, your wars don't work! [delegates get angry] Which is why my priorities have changed; from profits to policy, because politicians don't know how to solve problems, but I do. So let's be clear. I am here to solve the world's problems and I believe the world's problems begin [points fingers at a restive audience] with you."

"In the centuries immediately preceding the Muhammadan conquest, the Chandellas of Mahoba and Khajurahu were one of the most powerful Rajput ruling Families. The name that has come down most prominently to modern times is that of Raja Danger, who ascended the throne at fifty-five and reigned with success forty-six years. In 999, when over 100 years old, he drowned himself at the confluence of the Ganges and Jamna at Prag (Allahabad). To the Hindu this was a fitting end for a very old man after a life of prosperity, as it brought him entire salvation."

"I was making games like Policenauts, and I heard rumors about a console on which polygons could be created in real-time. This really grabbed my attention, since one of the major attractions of games is the sensation of action, and I was intrigued to see what I could achieve with those polygons. Metal Gear is a hide-and-seek game and the thought of doing this while adding a camera that could change position really excited me. So I stopped making script-based games and went back to asking for favors from programmers for this 3D world."

"A woman needs to be interested in politics, whatever her party, for the good of the country."

"Race-based negative integration has been a continuous element of the American social bond for large sectors of the citizenry since the founding, but almost always qualified and repudiated with the reminder that “we” are a nation of immigrants. The join between these two features of the American social bond are arguably the foundational contradiction in the idea of America."

"Contemporary economic white nationalism is the dynamic form of hatred of what is different for its own sake."

"Bright Lord? Dark Lord? Same thing, really. End result's me ripping spines out, which I like to do anyway, so either way's a win."

"Anyone looking to carve his way across Mordor needs a guard or two. ...I mean, I don't. Obviously. Pah, if it ever got to the point where I needed a hand on the battlefield, I'd cut my own throat. ...But you? You should have some added muscle. No shame in it."

"Hudson Horstachio, accept no substitutes!"

"I feel extremely delighted especially at the mere thought of achieving my dream. As a child growing up, I always wanted to be a pilot and my late dad made sure that he did all what it takes to make me succeed."

"After I lost my father, everything came to a standstill. I had no way out. My uncle later advised me to write a letter to the president. Which president? I asked. I later wrote to the president of South Sudan and my plea was granted."