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...love is a kind of murder. Since one existent cannot see another as a subject but only as an object, the "stare" of the other interrupts "the secret state" that to the existent is his existence, and this interruption causes a "hemorrhage" of freedom that drains being into nothingness. Ergo: "Hell is other people." Other people, that is to say, are a man's punishment for not living his own life as truly and as fully as he can. In Sartre's opinion, whosoever shall lose his life shall lose everything. "You are your life," he proclaims...
Winnie ille Pu caput foramine extraxit, aliquamdiu cogitabat et secum cogitabat: 'Aliquis adesse debet quia aliquem "nemo" dixisse oportuit.' Caput ergo iterum in foramen inseruit et dixit...
...classic form, Parkinson's Law (TIME, Oct. 28, 1957) holds that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," ergo, an organization's personnel mushrooms faster than mushrooms. In his earlier book, Author Parkinson also bantered entertainingly on how to tell somebodies from nobodies at cocktail parties (the somebodies come late and shun walls), how institutions achieve perfection of layout just before collapsing, and how the deliberations of any finance committee "will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved." The Law and the Profits, well illustrated by Cartoonist Robert C. Osborn, is twice...
Seeking Trouble? What was Red China up to? Western specialists in Hong Kong had originally conjectured the continuing Chinese difficulties in Tibet explained its action. The rebellion could not be crushed until Tibetan hope for outside help was extinguished. Ergo, India, which had given asylum to the Dalai Lama and to 13,000 Tibetan refugees, must be shown up as unwilling or unable to help...
Most of the Protestant bishops are married and practice birth control. Ergo, they must devise some means of justifying...