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One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
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Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4)
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The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
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Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4)
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دنيا كوچكتر از آن است
كه گم شده اي را در آن يافته باشي
هيچ كس اينجا گم نمي شود
آدمها به همان خونسردي كه آمده اند
چمدانشان را مي بندند
و ناپديد مي شوند
يكي در مه
يكي در غبار
يكي در باران
يكي در باد
و بي رحم ترينشان در برف
آنچه به جا مي ماند
رد پايي است
و خاطره اي كه هر از گاه
پس مي زند مثل نسيم سحر
پرده هاي اتاقت را
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عباس صفاری (کبریت خیس)
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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
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Isaac Asimov (Murder at the Aba)
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زمستان را
به خاطر چتری دوست دارم
که سرپناهش را در باران
قسمت میکنی با من
و هر قدر هم که گرم بپوشی
یقین دارم باز
در صف خلوت سینما خودت را
دلبرانه میچسبانی به من
هنوز باورم نمیشود
که سال به سال
چشم به راه زمستانی مینشینم
که سالها
چشم دیدنش را نداشتهام
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عباس صفاری (خنده در برف)
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When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing—in tune!—and the audience loved it.
Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.
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Eartha Kitt
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Es jibt sone und solche, und dann jibt es noch janz andre, aba dit sind die Schlimmstn.
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Marc-Uwe Kling (Das Känguru-Manifest (Die Känguru-Chroniken, #2))
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Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.
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Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4)
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You know what your problem is?" I ask him.
"Yes. I have a daughter who insists she knows everything."
"That's not your problem, Aba. That's your blessing.
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Simone Elkeles (How to Ruin My Teenage Life (How to Ruin, #2))
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Sam chuckled. “She probably won’t be too mad. Go. Get it over with.”
Easy for Sam to say. She knew exactly where she stood in her relationship with Amir. She was happily engaged and never had to worry about secret kisses under blankets because she was a good Muslim girl and would never do such a thing. I, alas, was not a good Muslim girl.
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Rick Riordan (The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, #3))
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When I was a boy of seven or eight I read a novel untitled "Abafi" — The Son of Aba — a Servian translation from the Hungarian of Josika, a writer of renown. The lessons it teaches are much like those of "Ben Hur," and in this respect it might be viewed as anticipatory of the work of Wallace. The possibilities of will-power and self-control appealed tremendously to my vivid imagination, and I began to discipline myself. Had I a sweet cake or a juicy apple which I was dying to eat I would give it to another boy and go through the tortures of Tantalus, pained but satisfied. Had I some difficult task before me which was exhausting I would attack it again and again until it was done. So I practiced day by day from morning till night. At first it called for a vigorous mental effort directed against disposition and desire, but as years went by the conflict lessened and finally my will and wish became identical.
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Nikola Tesla
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When I was around four years old I asked my father, “Aba, what color are you?” He replied, “I don’t know, a bit white, a bit black.” “It’s like when one mixes milk with tea,” I said. He laughed a lot, but as a boy he had been so self-conscious about being dark-skinned that he went to the fields to get buffalo milk to spread on his face, thinking it would make him lighter. It was only when he met my mother that he became comfortable in his own skin. Being loved by such a beautiful girl gave him confidence.
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Malala Yousafzai (I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban)
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I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.
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Malala Yousafzai (I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition))
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A good businessman must have nose for business the same way a journalist has nose for news. In places where people see a lot of obstacles, I see a lot of opportunities. A good businessman sees where others don’t see.
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Orji Uzor Kalu
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The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying "evil." The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which case fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.
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Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4)
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- Reizēm man šķiet, ka es jūs vispār nepazīstu.
Tabaki dāsnā žestā atrauj vaļā abas vestes:
- Skaties, lūk - es. Kā uz delnas. Ko te var nepazīt?
Zem vestēm ir nosmulēkts krekls. Sarkanas žirafītes uz gaiši zila fona.
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Mariama Petrosjana (Дом, в котором...)
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Tu esi gan labais, gan sliktais. Es esmu vispār. Man vajadzēja klusēt. Un tad caur klusumu tu ienāktu manī. Mīlestība - tā ir Senās Divupes valsts, viens veselums - Divupe, kas patiesībā, kā tu zini, tiek ierobežota ar Tigru (viens vesels) un Eifratu (viens vesels). Starp Tigru un Eifratu ir tuksnesis, tur dzīvoja gudrie šumeri - viens no pirmajiem Dieva pakāpieniem lejup. Bet reiz un galu galā šīs abas upes atkal ietek vienā veselā - Sarkanajā jūrā.
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Nora Ikstena (Besa)
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So, okay ka na? Aba, dapat lang ‘no? Pagkatapos mong basain ang polo shirt ko at pagkatapos kitang yakapin, dapat lang na maging okay ka na.
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Marione Ashley
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ABA never promised that it could make children normal. Just indistinguishable from normal.
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James Copland
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Aba rahima mushkil pari, garhe dou kama, Sanche se to jag nahin, jhuthe mile na ram. “Oh,
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Om Swami (A Fistful of Love: Wisdom and Humor from a Monk's Bowl)
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One February evening in 2008, when I’d just gotten home, Aba told me he had some good news. “Nujood, you are about to be married.
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Nujood Ali (I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced: A Memoir)
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Life is not like a murder mystery. In mysteries people always do the same thing. Then when some little thing is out of line, some wise-guy amateur detective makes big deductions. In real life, people don't do the same things all the time. They do different things at different times. In real life, people are crazy.
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Isaac Asimov (Murder at the Aba)
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But this is a general objection of the sceptical sort to all miracles of whatever kind, and leadeth anon into the quagmire of arguments about Free Will. The Adept will do better to rely upon
The Book of the Law
, which urgeth constantly to action. Even rash action is better than none, by that Light; let the Magician then argue that his folly is part of the natural order which worketh all so well.
—Liber DCXXXIII De Thaumaturgia
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Aleister Crowley (Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4)
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We?” Vulkan shook free of the Headmaster’s grip. “We? Didn’t you hear them shouting? Whose name did they call? Mine! Prince Conrad Vulkan, King of the Vampires! They call me Master. They recognize me as the highest power!” “I have given you and your kind life. I have taught you the secrets of power, the sorcery of Aba-aner, Nectanebus, and Solomon. I have taught you what it means to be a king. But you’re not invincible, Conrad.…” Vulkan
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Robert McCammon (They Thirst)
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We are the Siqqusim! We have stood by, waiting to take possession, and now you are ours. Yidde-oni! Engastrimathos du aba paren tares. We are Ob and Ab and Api and Apu. Our number is greater than the stars! We are more than infinity!
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Brian Keene (The Rising)
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Aba had always said that it was easy to condemn people; condemnation was an act of smugness, wasn’t it? Didn’t it arise from the certainty that you would never do what you were condemning someone else for? But how could you say that unless you could slip into their soul, peer around and see what serpents fed there, what abysses gaped? How could you say anything unless you knew how the serpents and abysses had come to be, and what it meant to live with them every single day?
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Kamila Shamsie (Kartography)
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Worst of all, the regulatory agencies may presume anyone they charge to be guilty unless he proves his innocence, and he has but limited standing and scope to appeal the agency’s decision to a real court, effectively “making the commission’s decisions on fact final and conclusive,” the ABA objected.
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Myron Magnet (Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution)
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Protect the future by living and fulfilling your God-given dreams.
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Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
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Sebenarnya aku cipta Hadi M Nor dari sebiji buah pala dan dua ekor monyet gila.
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Sufian Abas (الأرواح المتمردة)
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Lebih sulit berjuang untuk diri sendiri, daripada untuk orang lain.
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Jenni Anggita (Jendela-jendela Aba: Antologi Cerpen RetakanKata 2013)
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Dia merasa utuh sebagai subjek ketika berhasil membuat dirinya sebagai objek.
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Jenni Anggita (Jendela-jendela Aba: Antologi Cerpen RetakanKata 2013)
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Di satu sisi kita harus realistis. Sementara kepala kita begitu idealis.
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Jenni Anggita (Jendela-jendela Aba: Antologi Cerpen RetakanKata 2013)
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Ano pong ibig sabihin nitong preventive detention? The meaning of preventive detention is Mr. Marcos thinks that next month, you will commit a crime, he can now order you arrested so you will not be able to commit your crime. Anong klaseng batas iyan? Iniisip mo pa lang eh nabilanggo ka na eh. Aba’y hayop kako itong batas na ito. Eh kung totoo ito, eh lahat ng lalaking diborsyado na nag-iisip pa lang magliligaw, patay na sa asawa.
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Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr.
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It’s worth noting that changing behavior through ABA is often more than enough. But sometimes you want to go deeper, to help a child—or anyone else—understand cognitively and emotionally where they are and who they are in social situations, recognize their options, and decide for themselves what they want to do. Once they learn how to decide for themselves what they want to do, rather than put on reflexive behaviors they’ve been conditioned to show, real growth ensues. ABA is surface; social learning is deep. ABA is more or less robotic; social learning helps you understand social situations and respond according to your own desires and values. ABA is more mechanical; social learning is more supple and human. By coaching children in how to understand social situations and how to develop different ways of handling them, you can teach them not only how to do it but also enjoy doing so that the interaction is not just a matter of going through the motions.
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Edward M. Hallowell (ADHD 2.0 : New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction—From Childhood Through Adulthood)
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C'est marrant, mon Vieux, je l'ai aime que lorsqu'il s'est éteint doucement, comme une plainte, sans un mot. Seulement dans ses yeux on pouvait lire: cette saloperie de vie, si j'avais su que c’était si con!... Et la' il était sympa, mon Vieux.
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Noureddine Aba (La recreation des clowns)
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If science and God do not mix, there would be no Christian Nobel Prize winners. In fact, between 1901 and 2000 over 60% of Nobel Laureates were Christians.
According to 100 Years of Nobel Prizes (2005) by Baruch Aba Shalev, a review of Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901 and 2000, 65.4% of Nobel Prize Laureates, have identified Christianity in its various forms as their religious preference (423 prizes). Overall, Christians have won a total of 78.3% of all the Nobel Prizes in Peace, 72.5% in Chemistry, 65.3% in Physics, 62% in Medicine, 54% in Economics and 49.5% of all Literature awards.
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John C. Lennox (Can Science Explain Everything?)
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Since most users choose a password that is either a name or a simple dictionary word, an attacker usually begins by setting 10phtCrack (or whatever program he’s using) to perform a “dictionary attack” — testing every word in the dictionary to see if it proves to be the user’s password. If the program doesn’t have any success with the dictionary attack, the attacker will then start a “brute-force attack,” in which case the program tries every possible combination (for example, AAA, AAB, AAC ... ABA, ABB, ABC, and so on), then tries combinations that include uppercase and lowercase, numerals, and symbols.
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Kevin D. Mitnick (The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers)
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Je me suis demandé d’où nous venait cette cruauté et maintenant je sais: je suis cruel, parce que j'ai honte et plus j'ai honte et plus je fais du mal a celui que je torture, comme si... somme si j’étais presse de tuer en lui le juge qui me regarde, qui me méprise, qui me condamne. Voila, c'est le juge que je veux supprimer...
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Noureddine Aba (La recreation des clowns)
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Echophenomena, such as autistic echoing of phrases, are largely considered involuntary, even if such echoing is done voluntarily. (Such are the paradoxes of compliance.) Conversely, imitation, such as complying with a behavioral analyst's demand to mirror her jumping body, is regarded as voluntary, even if it is coerced or scripted.
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Melanie Yergeau (Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act))
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It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But the speech etched itself in rhetorical lore. It inspired music videos and memes and the full range of reactions that any blockbuster receives online today, from praise to out-of-context humor to arch mockery. Obama’s “Yes, we can” refrain is an example of a rhetorical device known as epistrophe, or the repetition of words at the end of a sentence. It’s one of many famous rhetorical types, most with Greek names, based on some form of repetition. There is anaphora, which is repetition at the beginning of a sentence (Winston Churchill: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields”). There is tricolon, which is repetition in short triplicate (Abraham Lincoln: “Government of the people, by the people, and for the people”). There is epizeuxis, which is the same word repeated over and over (Nancy Pelosi: “Just remember these four words for what this legislation means: jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs”). There is diacope, which is the repetition of a word or phrase with a brief interruption (Franklin D. Roosevelt: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”) or, most simply, an A-B-A structure (Sarah Palin: “Drill baby drill!”). There is antithesis, which is repetition of clause structures to juxtapose contrasting ideas (Charles Dickens: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”). There is parallelism, which is repetition of sentence structure (the paragraph you just read). Finally, there is the king of all modern speech-making tricks, antimetabole, which is rhetorical inversion: “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” There are several reasons why antimetabole is so popular. First, it’s just complex enough to disguise the fact that it’s formulaic. Second, it’s useful for highlighting an argument by drawing a clear contrast. Third, it’s quite poppy, in the Swedish songwriting sense, building a hook around two elements—A and B—and inverting them to give listeners immediate gratification and meaning. The classic structure of antimetabole is AB;BA, which is easy to remember since it spells out the name of a certain Swedish band.18 Famous ABBA examples in politics include: “Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.” —Benjamin Disraeli “East and West do not mistrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we mistrust each other.” —Ronald Reagan “The world faces a very different Russia than it did in 1991. Like all countries, Russia also faces a very different world.” —Bill Clinton “Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.” —George W. Bush “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.” —Hillary Clinton In particular, President John F. Kennedy made ABBA famous (and ABBA made John F. Kennedy famous). “Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind,” he said, and “Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension,” and most famously, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Antimetabole is like the C–G–Am–F chord progression in Western pop music: When you learn it somewhere, you hear it everywhere.19 Difficult and even controversial ideas are transformed, through ABBA, into something like musical hooks.
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Derek Thompson (Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular)
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Jūs nekad neizjutāt greizsirdību, vai ne, mis Eira? Protams, ne; nemaz nevajadzēja jautāt, jo jūs nekad nejūtat mīlu. Jums šīs abas jūtas vēl jāiepazīst, jūsu dvēsele dus; vēl jānāk satricinājumam, kas to atmodinās. Jūs domājat, ka visa dzīve slīd garām tādā mierīgā plūdumā, kādā līdz šim jūsu jaunība ritējusi. Jūs peldat pa dzīves straumi ar aizvērtām acīm un nedzirdīgām ausīm un neredzat klintis, kas pavisam tuvu draud jūs ieraut dzelme, nedzirdat ari bangas plīstam, atsitoties pret tām. Bet es jums saku, un iegaumējiet manus vārdus — kādu dienu jus nokļūsiet klinšaina kanāla šaurumā, kur visa dzīves plūsma tiks ierauta virpuļos un trokšņos, putās un šalkās: vai nu jus tad pret šķautnainām klintīm sašķīdīsiet atomos, vai pa- celsieties augšup un kāds varens vilnis aiznesīs jus mierīgākā plūdumā
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Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)
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The enemy is not the blunt adult perseverating on applied behavioral analysis (ABA) research, the enemy is not the parent wearing a puzzle piece t-shirt (but please don’t), the enemy is the system that makes it so exhausting for families to get in-home supports, it is the bias that creates inequity in IEPs, it is the administrative burden that makes county services or social security a multi-year battle. If we fight these systems from the perspective of the community as a whole then we can create a better outcome for everyone. So it’s time—I challenge everyone reading this, both parents and advocates, to put down our swords and hold ourselves accountable for what has happened in the past, but also move forward with forgiveness and humbleness. There is no shame in realizing that you were previously speaking from a less informed place, there is no shame in accepting that we have room to learn and grow still.
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Meghan Ashburn (I Will Die On This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children Who Deserve a Better World)
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The judgment, handed down by Judge Ian Chin of the Sarawak High Court, demonstrated astonishing independence from the Malaysian government. Chin knew the price of that independence. After a much-maligned judgment against a politician belonging to the ruling Barisan National government in 1998, he had been verbally threatened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, and then enrolled in a five-day boot camp with other judges for “re-educational” purposes. While there, the primacy of the government’s interests was hammered into the judicial civil servants.3 Crushing the independence of the courts was done systematically under Mahathir. In 1988, the autocratic Premier had arbitrarily dismissed the country’s top judge, Lord President Salleh Abas, thereby keeping the remaining judges on a short lead.4 Even today, in 2014, Malaysia’s judges still have difficulty ruling independently when government interests are at stake.
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Lukas Straumann (Money Logging: On the Trail of the Asian Timber Mafia)
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There are two months left to the deployment and the men devise all kinds of ways to quantify that: number of patrols, number of KOP rotations, number of mefloquine Mondays. It’s starting to dawn on them that they’ll probably never walk to the top of Honcho Hill again or get dropped onto the Abas Ghar. When they’re down at the KOP they use the communal laptops to try to arrange girlfriends for themselves when they get back. The men who already have girlfriends arrange to have them stock up on beer, steak, whatever they’ve been craving for the past year. The men will fly into Aviano Air Base, take a two-hour bus ride to Vicenza, turn in their weapons, and then form up on a parade ground called Hoekstra Field. As soon as they’re discharged they can do whatever they want. The drinking starts immediately and continues until unconsciousness and then resumes whenever and wherever the men wake up. They find themselves at train stations and on sidewalks and in police stations and occasionally at the medical facilities. In past years one drunken paratrooper was struck by a train and killed and another died of an overdose. They’d made it through the dangers of combat and died within sight of their barracks in Vicenza. “Y’all will only be remembered for the last thing you ever did,” Caldwell warned them one warm spring night.
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Sebastian Junger (War)
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Tous tremblent devant cette pichenette sur le nez, s'effraient bien plus à son idée qu'à celle d'être mis au monde sur la Terre. Cet ange alcoolique a rendu malheureux plus d'un enfant avec sa pichenette sur le nez… Si vous voyez sur la Terre un enfant au nez épaté, vous devez savoir que l'ange Simon Bär y a été trop fort avec sa pichenette sur le nez.
[Vor diesem Nasenstüber zittern alle, sie haben vor ihm einen weit grösseren Schrecken als vor dem Geborenwerden auf der Erde. Mehr als ein Kind hat dieser trunksüchtige Engel mit seinem Nasenstüber unglücklich gemacht… Wenn ihr auf Erden ein Kind mit einer Stubsnase seht, dann sollt ihr wissen, dass ihm Simon Bär, der Engel, einen zu starken Nasenstüber versetzt hat.]
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Itzik Manger (The Book of Paradise: The Wonderful Adventures of Shmuel-Aba Abervo)
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currently, the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn’t already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school. In other words, a law school can charge literally anything it wants to
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Paul Campos (Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk)
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est aba sudando como una put a en la iglesia el domingo.
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Anonymous
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The case of City of San Francisco v. Anne Kihagi calls into question ethical judicial and prosecuting practices, the latter of which often dances the line on conflict of interest issues. Attorney Karen Uchiyama, a defense lawyer in this contentious case, references a 1985 California Supreme Court ruling that clarifies the role of a public attorney, in contrast to a non-governmental legal professional:
[A] prosecutor’s duty of neutrality is born of two fundamental aspects of his employment. First, he is a representative of the sovereign; he must act with the impartiality required of those who govern. Second, he has the vast power of the government available to him; he must refrain from abusing that power by failing to act evenhandedly. These duties are not limited to criminal prosecutors: A government lawyer in a civil action or administrative proceeding has the responsibility to seek justice and to develop a full and fair record, and he should not use his position or the economic power of the government to harass parties or to bring about unjust settlements or results. (ABA Code of Prof. Responsibility, EC 7-14)
That is to say, a public prosecutor’s responsibility goes beyond winning a case – in fact, victory is hardly the goal at all. A public prosecutor’s civic and ethical duty is to facilitate justice respectfully and impartially. This is, unfortunately, not the brand of behavior that is displayed by prosecuting Deputy City Attorney Michael Weiss (see more articles at annekihagisf.com).
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Anne Kihagi
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And I was my own Ka'aba.
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Ibn Al-Farid (The Poem of the Way)
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What ABA has come to signal for autistics is an in-made rhetorical paradox from which escape is difficult: the laughable presumption that autistics can only communicate their feelings about ABA because they've endured ABA.
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Melanie Yergeau (Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act))
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Instead, our cultural warlords in the mainstream media, academia, and entertainment strictly enforce the blasphemy laws of Islam, which command that one must not insult or slander Islam. In Muslim countries, blasphemy is punishable by death; in the West, it is your character that is assassinated if you dare to speak out against the Islamic supremacist agenda. Our last line of defense was always the rule of law. So it was particularly jarring and deeply disturbing to come upon this latest initiative from the ABA, one of America’s last lines of defense against the litigation jihad and creeping Sharia in this country. Furthermore, the ABA’s “Middle East Law committee” has promoted Sharia finance, the implementation of Islamic laws regarding financial transactions (including its prohibition of interest-based transactions) for some time with the same warmly positive slant. Sharia is being imposed across state lines, across the country, by way of these varying initiatives.
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Pamela Geller (Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance)
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When I wrote about their pro-Sharia initiatives in an article called “The ABA’s Jihad” in The American Thinker, the ABA on the same day issued a statement in response to my article, claiming that “the American Bar Association has taken no action in support of, or in opposition to, judges considering Islamic law or Sharia.”193 How dishonest and disingenuous.
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Pamela Geller (Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance)
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The person generally agreed upon by many to be the founder of Applied Behavior Analysis, Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas, described autistics as “Little Monsters” and based the “Lovaas Method” (ABA) on that principal.
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Thomas D. Taylor (Autism's Politics and Political Factions: A Commentary)
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Besides Jewish and Christian traditions, Islam also contains some traces of pagan traditions. In fact, the Ka’aba, the Meccan shrine to which every Muslim, if able, is obligated to make at least one pilgrimage, was a pagan Arab shrine and a center of pilgrimage long before Muhammad began preaching Islam.
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Robert Spencer (The Complete Infidel's Guide to the Koran)
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Virou-se para a luz e ficou admirando o peso de papéis de vidro. A fonte inesgotável de seu interesse não era o fragmento de coral, mas o próprio interior do vidro. Havia tamanha profundidade ali, e no entanto o vidro era quase tão transparente quanto o ar. Era como se a superfície do vidro fosse o arco do céu, encerrando um mundo minúsculo em sua atmosfera completa. Winston tonha a sensação de que seria capaz de entrar ali e de que na verdade estava ali dentro, ele, a cama de mogno, a mesinha de abas dobráveis, o relógio, a gravura de aço e o próprio peso de papéis. O peso de papéis era o quarto onde ele estava, e o coral era a vida dele e a de Julia, fixadas numa espécie de eternidade no coração do cristal.
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George Orwell (1984)
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A paisaxe non ten o ledo verdor das terras cháns e abertas que Pedro alvistou dende o tren. O coche vai rolando, a tombos, por gándaras ermas e lombos areosos; baixa polas abas dun monte cuberto con herbas do demo, para caer en tremedales de xuncos; gabea por outeiros con alfarrobeiras e corre por chairas tiñosas. Xa decorreron moitas horas de andadura, a rolar por soedades, e no devalo do día, aparece un casal, alá no fondo, á veira dunha lagoa, espello morto de augas salitrosas.
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Alfonso Daniel R. Castelao (Os dous de sempre)
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Aba. She liked the kakanin heiress even more. The girl was spirited. Batangueña talaga.
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Carla de Guzman (Love is All Around: An Alta Holiday Anthology (The Aritzes Book 2))
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The founder of ABA, Ole Ivar Lovaas, used to coerce children into providing hugs and kisses to their therapists by giving them candy.[15]
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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One former ABA therapist confessed on an anonymous blog that she worries she conditioned her patients to be easy to manipulate and abuse.
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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Applied behavioral analysis is the longest-standing therapy we have for kids with autism, and despite all its controversy, there’s no denying its effectiveness at increasing desirable behaviors. “Kids respond well to rewards, and ABA is based on breaking desirable behavior into smaller steps and rewarding the child for completing each step along the way. It’s basic conditioning principles.
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Lucinda Berry (Under Her Care)
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The nation whose fear is driven by the crumbs of the bread will be enslaved by by its occupier forever.
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Mir Abas
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I dreamt of writing, and when I woke ,I write poetry for my dream,dream of free land sans fetters.
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Mir Abas
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He had arrived of course with certain preconceptions. We recall from his book list that Fritz had begun reading Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West in May 1920. That book had a scathing description of the in- habitants of “world-cities” like New York: “a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city-dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially of that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman” (Spengler 1926, 32). Fritz anticipated finding his stay in New York “instructive and unpleasant,” and his first month there con- firmed his expectations. In his letters he offered up what he recognized were the standard European stereotypes about America: that “as is known from decades of stories” Americans are obsessed with making money; that American “culture,” to the extent that the phrase is not an oxymoron, is lowbrow; that the superlative (e.g., having “the world’s biggest building, fortune, beauty”—he wrote this in English) is both the preferred mode of expression and the only thing that makes Americans happy (Fritz to Aba, Apr 26, 1923). He informed his readers that one would have suspected that such images must be caricatures, until, that is, one had actually experienced them, as he had. He was glad, he went on, that he had made the decision to come, to have had the experience of seeing things firsthand. But in his opinion, living in the United Stated long term would be impossible for any European even to consider. It might be noted that this harsh initial opinion did not appear to dissipate much during his time there. In a summer letter to Mises, he remarked on “the vast intellectual superiority of the Europeans. This becomes evident in every-day life, its lack of intellectuality, its tastelessness and banality, which have a fatal effect and make it impossible to enjoy the comfort that is available here in contrast to Europe. [Most of the Europeans living here] agree that America is a country to earn one’s money but not one to live” (Hayek to Mises, Aug 17, 1923).
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Bruce Caldwell (Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950)
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Kingdom (in stark contrast to the monolithic Najd). The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) was the modern reformer of Hajj, and his personal efforts dispelled the heinous pre-Islamic associations with idolatry. He restored the Ka'aba as the House of God and cleansed it of statues and symbols of pagan worship, which were sometimes stored even within its hollow core. He returned monotheistic worship to Mecca, making Hajj the pinnacle of Islamic worship, as the Quran
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Qanta A. Ahmed (In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom)
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ABACTOR (ABA'CTOR) n.s.[Lat. abactor, a driver away.] Those who drive away or steal cattle in herds, or great numbers at once, in distinction from those that steal only a sheep or two.Blount.
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Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One)
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the federal government will loan any admitted student who isn’t already in default on an educational loan the full cost of attendance to attend any ABA law school – and that cost is determined by the school.
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Paul Campos (Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk)
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ABA regulations prohibit students from working more than 20 hours per week during law school
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Paul Campos (Don't Go To Law School (Unless): A Law Professor's Inside Guide to Maximizing Opportunity and Minimizing Risk)
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The first principle of achievement is mental attitude. People begin to achieve when they begin to believe.
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Zahid Abas
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With an attitude of respect and concern for other beings, we can create an atmosphere of happiness, real harmony and real brotherhood.
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Zahid Abas
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Klein y Riviere r e cha - z a ron e l t r aba jo de Winni cot t por c a r e c e r de valor, y a s egur a - ron que s e t r a t aba de l r e sul t ado de su enf e rmedad
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Anonymous
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ABASED (ABA'SED) adj.[with heralds] is a term used of the wings of eagles, when the top looks downwards towards the point of the shield; or when the wings are shut; the natural way of bearing them being spread with the top pointing to the chief of the angle.Bailey.Chambers.
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Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One)
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To ABATE (ABA'TE) v.a.[from the French abbatre, to beat down.]1. To lessen, to diminish.
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Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One)
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ABATER (ABA'TER) n.s.The agent or cause by which an abatement is procured. Abaters of acrimony or sharpness: expressed oils of ripe vegetables, and all preparations of such; as of almonds, pistachoes, and other nuts.Arbuthnoton diet.
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Samuel Johnson (A Dictionary of the English Language (Complete and Unabridged in Two Volumes), Volume One)
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a s e r pr ínc ipe s . Josué e s t aba solo cuando el Señor vino a él. ( Josué 1: 1. ) Gedeon y J ephthah e s t aban solos cuando fue ron comi s ionados pa r a s a lva r a I s r a e l . ( Jue c e s 6:11 y 11:29. ) Moisés e s t aba sol i t a r io por el de s i e r to a rbus to. (Exodo 3:1-5. ) Cornelio e s t aba or ando a sol a s cuando el ánge l vino a él. (He chos 10:2. ) Nadi e e s t aba con Pedro en lo a l to de l a c a s a cuando fué ins t ruido pa r a que fue s e con los gent i l e s . (He chos 10 :9. ) Juan el Baut i s t a e s t aba solo en el de s i e r to. (Luc a s 1 :80. ) Y Juan, el discípulo amado, e s t aba solo en Pa tmos cuando e s t aba má s c e r c a de Dios. (Apoc a . 1 :9. ) Codicia el e s t a r solo con Dios. Si de s cuidamos e s to, no sol a - ment e nos roba r emos a nosot ros mismos, sino t ambi én roba r emos a ot ros l a bendi c ión; porque cuando hemos sido bendecidos podernos s e r un medio de bendición pa r a ot ros . El e s t a r a sol a s con Dios en or a c ión nunc a puede enf a t i z a r s e dema s i ado. "Si los hombr e s escogidos nunc a hubi e s en e s t ado a sol a s en el silencio má s profundo con Dios, no se hubi e s e hecho o soñado nada grandioso.
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Anonymous
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The highborn talk about merit, bettering yourself, democracy, but it’s all crap. A rich man’s got a vote allocation of a thousand, and Aba’s got one, because she pays less tax. They get their own streets, their own parks, their own police, their own special net. Then they complain about the burden of the low Aptitude Tiers of society.
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Julian North (Age of Order (Age of Order, #1))
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Alam tak pernah memberi tanda akan perubahan besar. Tak pernah memberi aba-aba agar penghuninya siap siaga. Saat lempeng hendak bergerak, saat badai mulai terbibit, saat dunia-dunia yang berbeda hendak beradu dan bertumbuk, tidak ada jiwa yang tahu pasti. Dan saat pergolakan tiba, manusia hanya dapat berpegangan erat. Berharap menjadi penyintas dalam sebuah dunia yang senantiasa diselimuti prahara.
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Karim Nas (Puspabangsa)
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An often-heard statement is that ABA therapy can make your child “indistinguishable from peers”. But I’m begging you, don’t aim for that. Your child is different, and they’ll always be. And that’s OK. By forcing them to be “normal”, you’re telling them you don’t love them as they are. Autistic ways of playing are valid. So are autistic ways of communicating. Stimming is fine. Moving is fine.
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Bianca Toeps (But You Don’t Look Autistic at All (Bianca Toeps’ Books))
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Ia merasa dirinya sebagai raja yang ingin menaklukkan nafsunya sendiri. Menelisik setiap susunan bidak bidak yang berdiri di hadapannya. Algoritma rumit yang menimbang setiap langkah yang terlintas dalam benak seorang Grandmaster. Adakah sebuah varian istimewa yang bisa mewakili siasat yang ingin ia mainkan? Menentukan strategi pembukaan yang akan memastikan sebuah kemenangan berada di dalam genggaman tangannya. Menetapkan langkah, apakah ia mesti maju menyerang atau justru mundur bertahan?
Pertaruhan martabat memaksanya berpikir keras, kemana pion pion hitam itu harus beranjak? Demi menegakkan wibawa yang menyerupai sebuah batu penjuru. Hasrat yang menunggu pintu gerbang terbuka untuk membuka jalan menuju kastilnya sendiri. Istana nan megah dengan halaman luas berupa taman yang tertata indah persis seperti di dalam mimpi Raja Nushirvan.
Demikianlah ia melihat Xiangqi terlahir di China, berkelana ke India sebagai Chaturanga dan lalu hijrah ke Persia sebagai Shatranj. Petak petak hitam putih di atas papan yang kemudian menjelma menjadi lingkaran ouroboros. Bala tentara Maharaja Gupta mulai bergerak serentak melewati setiap tatahan batu dan undak undakan tangga melewati lebih dari lima belas abad perjalanan waktu yang tak tahu kapan bakal berhenti.
Ialah titisan Sang Chandragupta, memberi aba aba kepada segenap prajuritnya dengan suara lantang. Langkah kakinya tegap dan mantap. Walau tidak seperti dulu, ia masih sanggup tegak berdiri, melihat dirinya sendiri di dalam pantulan cermin. Anggun dan memesona seperti seekor kuda bangsawan. Elok seperti Akhal Teke dan rupawan bagai Friesian. Dengan tubuh yang liat, kaki yang kuat, mata yang ekspresif dengan lengan berotot dan kejantanan yang tak ingin ia sembunyikan di balik benteng pikiran seekor gajah yang keras kepala dan keangkuhan hati seorang menteri yang bersikeras ingin diakui.
Itulah sebab mengapa ia tak akan pernah mengibarkan bendera putih. Walau ia tahu, setiap langkah punya arti untuk menang atau ditaklukkan. Ia tak akan menyerah tanpa melakukan perlawanan. Pada sisa waktu yang berdetak kian lambat dan perlahan memojokkan dirinya hingga sudut terjauh dari pertahanan papan caturnya sendiri.
Setiap petak hitam putih adalah pertaruhan antara hidup dan mati. Jengkal tanah yang mesti ia bela mati matian. Sepenuhnya tahu, di atas permukaan papan yang seakan tenang dan hening itu, ada pertempuran dahsyat dan berdarah darah. Perang yang telanjur mengubur semua ingatan atas waktu yang seolah tak pernah berubah.
Masih seperti dulu. Waktu yang masih bisa menertawakan kenaifannya akan dunia. Waktu yang mengajarkannya memahami absurditas hidup. Waktu yang secara ironis justru ingin menghancurkannya. Memaksa ia mencermati setiap langkah melewati jebakan tarian tango sang ratu yang akan mengantarkannya menjemput ajal. Maut yang setia mengintai di setiap sudut dan tak akan pernah berhenti memaksanya untuk menyerah.
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Titon Rahmawan
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Right after we signed {George} Gervin, I took him to one of our games and he sat in the stands next to me. After it was over, we walked down to the court. George was wearing a T-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes. He said, 'Why don't they use the 3-point shot more?'
I said, 'Coach [Al] Bianchi doesn't think it's a good percentage shot unless we're behind at the end of the game.'
George said, 'Suppose you could make 15-of-20.'
I said, 'George, that's a really long shot.'
He said, 'But say you could make 15-of-20.'
I said, 'Then Al would probably change his mind.'
The game had been over for a while and the lights were dimmed. It wasn't dark, but it wasn't easy to see the rim, either. George wanted a ball and someone threw him one. He went behind the 3-point line and starting shooting. He took shot after shot and swish after swish.
Then he said 'That's 18 out of 20.'
I said, 'Hey George, let's go make sure that the ink is dry on your contract.'
-Johnny Kerr
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Terry Pluto (Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association)
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If you try to attract women with cheese you're going to end up with rats.
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Erich Preach, of Aba and Preach
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Imam Hasan ibn Ali (AS), also known as Askari, was born on the 8th of Rabi’ al-Thani, in the year 232 Hijri, in Medina. Similar to the second Shia Imam, Imam Hasan Mujtaba (AS), Imam Askari was also given the title of “Aba Muhammad”. He was also known by the title of “Ibn al-Reza” or “the son of Reza”, as he was from the lineage of Imam Reza (AS). Imam Reza had become very well-known among the Muslims after becoming Mamun’s Crown Prince,
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Mahdi Maghrebi (A Historical Research on the Lives of the 12 Shia Imams)
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Every masked Autistic person has a litany of experiences like this. Most maskers dodge the massive psychological bullet that is ABA therapy, but we still receive endless conditioning that says our unfiltered selves are too annoying, unusual, awkward, nonconforming, and cold to fit in. We also witness how other nonconforming bodies and minds are treated. When the entire world shames people for being into “childish” things, having odd mannerisms, or simply being irritating, you don’t need ABA to program you into compliance. Everyone around you is already doing it.
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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For many Autistic kids, learning to obscure your pain often becomes a primary survival strategy; for masked Autistics, this isn’t taught within ABA therapy, but as part of regular life. I didn’t go through ABA, but friends’ parents did yell at me for squirming awkwardly in my seat.
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Devon Price (Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity)
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Influenced by the ABA, RDI, and other sources, Stacey pulled together the following strategy for building skills in her children. • first we do it for you, • then we do it with you, • then we watch you do it, • then you do it completely independently. This philosophy and strategy neatly sums up not only the intrinsic purpose of parenting but the practical path toward independence for all kids. It also aligns with psychologist Madeline Levine’s warning: Don’t do for your kid what your kid can already do, or can almost do.
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Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success)
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Aba Father reprepe nua zue ve vefeset revuane
vuade ye nua ve zue efeset yese
Amen
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Ben Jr Grey
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Eu estava ali parado diante dela, deprimido, esmagado, vergonhosamente atrapalhado, e parece-me que sorria, tentando com todas as forças tapar-me com as abas do meu roupão de algodão, hirsuto, rapado - exatamente como pouco antes, desanimado, me imaginava. (...) Que mais queres tu? Porque é que tu, depois de tudo isto, estás ainda aí à minha frente, porque é que me torturas, porque não te vais embora? (...)
E o que aconteceu foi o seguinte: Liza, ofendida e esmagada por mim, compreendeu muito mais do que uma mulher sempre compreende em primeiro lugar se ama sinceramente, a saber: que eu próprio era infeliz.
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Fiodor Dostoïevski (Notas do Subsolo)
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When I was 10 my favorite books were Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, The Wizard of Oz, and Bambi. These were the original classics, not abridged. And I spent hours each day reading. I learned about so many things, and I read about places that I wished I could visit but never would.
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Kathleen Jae (From Prompting to Shaping to Letting Go:: My Love Affair with ABA and How Being a “Bad Mom” Helped My Daughter with Autism Succeed)
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There's nothing like having a daughter with a new boyfriend to remind me that my anniversary is February 14.
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Kathleen Jae (From Prompting to Shaping to Letting Go:: My Love Affair with ABA and How Being a “Bad Mom” Helped My Daughter with Autism Succeed)
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I think you need to at least love yourself before you can love another.
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Kathleen Jae (From Prompting to Shaping to Letting Go:: My Love Affair with ABA and How Being a “Bad Mom” Helped My Daughter with Autism Succeed)
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The ABA was like basketball’s Wild West, and Julius Erving, George Gervin, James Silas and all the other ABA stars were the gunfighters. They are men of legend known to millions, but whose actual deeds were seen by few.
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Terry Pluto (Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association)
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The rhetorical training of ABA might be best understood as a kind of "we are always watching you.
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Melanie Yergeau (Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act))
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...ABA doesn't aim to offer neuroqueer children new repertoires of meaning. To smile isn't to signify one's contentment; it's to comply with a behavioral and prosocial demand.
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Melanie Yergeau (Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act))
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There was a crossover study in which women were instructed to eat plant-based foods for a few months to see how it would affect their menstrual cycles. But then they were to switch back to their baseline diets to note the contrast, a so-called A-B-A study design where you reverse the experimental variable. The problem is that some participants felt so good eating healthfully—they were losing weight without any calorie counting or portion control, they had more energy, their periods got better, and they experienced better digestion and better sleep—that some refused to go back to their regular diets, which kind of messes up the study.2462
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Michael Greger (How Not to Diet)
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Paralelamente, la Barra Internacional de Abogados (IBA, por sus siglas en inglés), el Colegio de Abogados de Estados Unidos (ABA, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Barra Mexicana de Abogados (BMA) han denunciado intimidaciones por parte del SAT para que los contribuyentes se abstengan de recurrir a abogados o a contadores, con el propósito ulterior de llegar a acuerdos directamente con el SAT. “No es apropiado que las autoridades fiscales pidan renunciar a ese derecho y que los contribuyentes se sometan a una negociación directamente con la autoridad”, dijo sobre dicha práctica del SAT Héctor Herrera, presidente de la BMA.47 Más de uno no sólo están pagando, sino que en desplegados de prensa les piden a otros que paguen también. Parece ser parte del acuerdo con el SAT.48
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Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra (Y mi palabra es la ley (Spanish Edition))
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the Mahdi. Sunni beliefs also allowed for an apocalyptic redeemer whose arrival by the Ka’aba, alongside Jesus, signaled the end of times before the age of righteousness. But unlike Shias, Sunnis did not hold this as a central tenet, nor did they believe the Mahdi been born centuries ago and gone into occultation. He would instead reveal himself as a man from the people with particular attributes spelled out in the hadiths, the records of prophet Muhammad’s sayings and actions, written after his
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Kim Ghattas (Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East)
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Right is not becoming anybody.From propriety of right is some humans just to choose but they are not be accepted .This is just for their freedom that it is their right .These from soil & fall move toward gold,sky,climax.not go.
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Abas Dal
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In the nighttime, all that is visible during the day vanishes into the darkness. Boundaries fade away at night. Forms are no longer visible. This apparent lack of manifestation that takes place during the night is directly connected to the unmanifested aspect of the Divine Nature, Allâh as Unmanifest. 'Aba'ad', is a very well known song from the Persian Gulf region. The full-length song is twenty and a half minutes in length. Many dancers and musicians in the United States know this song as 'Layla, Layla' because about fourteen minutes into the song the lyrics sing 'Layla' many times over and over again. The Saudi Arabian vocalist who made this song popular was Mohammed Abdou. 'Layla, Layla, Layla, Allâh, Allâh, Layla', go the lyrics, intertwining the name Layla with the name Allâh.
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Laurence Galian (Jesus, Muhammad and the Goddess)
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American law schools are accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), which uses its power to promote diversity. In 2000, the ABA discovered that 93.5 percent of first-year students at George Mason University law school in northern Virginia were white. The ABA recognized that GMU had made a “very active effort to recruit minorities,” but said it had not done enough. With its accreditation at stake, GMU law school lowered standards for non-white applicants and admitted more: 10.98 percent in 2001 and 16.16 percent in 2002. That was still not enough. In 2003, the ABA summoned GMU’s president and law school dean and threatened them to their faces with disaccreditation unless they admitted more non-whites. GMU lowered standards even further, and managed to raise its non-white admissions to 17.3 percent in 2003, and 19 percent in 2004. This was still not good enough. “Of the 99 minority students in 2003,” the ABA complained, “only 23 were African American; of 111 minority students in 2004, the number of African Americans held at 23.” True diversity required more blacks, but what of the blacks GMU did admit? From 2003 to 2005, fully 45 percent had grade-point averages below 2.15, which was defined as “academic failure.” For non-black students, the figure was 4 percent. GMU officials pointed out that the ABA’s own Standard 501(b) says that “a law school shall not admit applicants who do not appear capable of satisfactorily completing its educational program and being admitted to the bar.” Law school dean Dan Polsby explained that this requirement was the greatest obstacle to increased diversity.
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Jared Taylor (White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century)
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... es redzu Jūs sēžam savā vientuļā mītnē Jūrmalā. Ir krēsla. Aiz kāpām šalc jūra. Jūs vilcinājaties aizdedzināt elektrību. Vakara zvaizgne lūkojas Jūsu logā. Un tik tuvas Jūs abas esat - divas māsas ar neizdzēšamu mirdzumu. Šinī mirklī visa Jūsu bagātā dzīve Jums aizslīd garām... Bagātā? Nē, tā bija neganta. Un tomēr: ''Ak, šī negantā dzīve, cik tomēr tā skaista, trīsreiz mirt nav par daudz, lai vienreiz dzimtu.
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Zenta Mauriņa (Zenta Mauriņa vēstulēs un atmiņās)
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www.careerlab.com/99ways.htm
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Albert J. Kearney (Understanding Applied Behavior Analysis: An Introduction to ABA for Parents, Teachers, and other Professionals (JKP Essentials))