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BOOKS
A_Treatise_on_Cosmic_Fire
Big_Mind,_Big_Heart
Full_Circle
General_Principles_of_Kabbalah
Heart_of_Matter
Hymn_of_the_Universe
Let_Me_Explain
Liber_Null
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
Plotinus_-_Complete_Works_Vol_01
Process_and_Reality
Savitri
Spiral_Dynamics
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Imitation_of_Christ
The_Life_Divine
The_Practice_of_Magical_Evocation
The_Republic
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead
Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.wby_-_In_Memory_Of_Major_Robert_Gregory

IN CHAPTERS CLASSNAME

IN CHAPTERS TEXT
0.00a_-_Introduction
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
0.00_-_THE_GOSPEL_PREFACE
0.00_-_The_Wellspring_of_Reality
0.01_-_I_-_Sri_Aurobindos_personality,_his_outer_retirement_-_outside_contacts_after_1910_-_spiritual_personalities-_Vibhutis_and_Avatars_-__transformtion_of_human_personality
0.02_-_The_Three_Steps_of_Nature
01.02_-_Natures_Own_Yoga
01.02_-_Sri_Aurobindo_-_Ahana_and_Other_Poems
01.03_-_Mystic_Poetry
01.04_-_The_Intuition_of_the_Age
01.04_-_The_Poetry_in_the_Making
01.05_-_Rabindranath_Tagore:_A_Great_Poet,_a_Great_Man
01.09_-_William_Blake:_The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
01.11_-_The_Basis_of_Unity
01.12_-_Goethe
01.13_-_T._S._Eliot:_Four_Quartets
0.11_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.13_-_Letters_to_a_Student
0.14_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0_1954-08-25_-_what_is_this_personality?_and_when_will_she_come?
0_1958-07-21
0_1958-11-26
0_1959-06-03
0_1960-10-08
0_1961-11-05
0_1961-12-20
0_1962-01-09
0_1962-08-04
0_1962-09-26
0_1962-10-27
0_1963-06-22
0_1963-08-24
0_1963-09-28
0_1963-12-31
0_1965-11-27
0_1965-12-25
0_1966-02-19
0_1966-03-26
0_1966-06-25
0_1967-02-08
0_1967-02-15
0_1967-03-02
0_1967-03-07
0_1967-04-05
0_1967-05-24
0_1967-06-17
0_1967-07-05
0_1967-07-22
0_1967-08-02
0_1967-08-05
0_1967-08-12
0_1967-10-11
0_1967-11-22
0_1967-12-27
0_1968-04-06
0_1968-11-13
0_1968-12-25
0_1969-01-01
0_1969-05-03
0_1969-05-21
0_1969-05-24
0_1969-05-31
0_1969-10-11
0_1969-11-22
0_1970-01-07
0_1971-06-26
0_1971-08-21
0_1971-09-04
0_1972-02-05
0_1972-02-16
0_1972-03-29a
0_1972-03-29b
02.04_-_The_Right_of_Absolute_Freedom
02.05_-_Robert_Graves
02.06_-_Vansittartism
02.09_-_The_Way_to_Unity
02.12_-_Mysticism_in_Bengali_Poetry
02.12_-_The_Ideals_of_Human_Unity
02.13_-_On_Social_Reconstruction
02.13_-_Rabindranath_and_Sri_Aurobindo
02.14_-_Panacea_of_Isms
03.04_-_Towardsa_New_Ideology
03.06_-_Here_or_Otherwhere
03.10_-_Hamlet:_A_Crisis_of_the_Evolving_Soul
03.11_-_Modernist_Poetry
03.11_-_The_Language_Problem_and_India
04.03_-_Consciousness_as_Energy
04.04_-_A_Global_Humanity
04.05_-_The_Immortal_Nation
04.07_-_Matter_Aspires
05.02_-_Physician,_Heal_Thyself
05.03_-_Bypaths_of_Souls_Journey
05.07_-_The_Observer_and_the_Observed
05.09_-_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience
05.12_-_The_Soul_and_its_Journey
05.13_-_Darshana_and_Philosophy
06.05_-_The_Story_of_Creation
07.25_-_Prayer_and_Aspiration
07.29_-_How_to_Feel_that_we_Belong_to_the_Divine
07.45_-_Specialisation
08.01_-_Choosing_To_Do_Yoga
08.21_-_Human_Birth
08.28_-_Prayer_and_Aspiration
08.37_-_The_Significance_of_Dates
10.01_-_Cycles_of_Creation
1.00a_-_DIVISION_A_-_THE_INTERNAL_FIRES_OF_THE_SHEATHS.
1.00c_-_DIVISION_C_-_THE_ETHERIC_BODY_AND_PRANA
1.00d_-_DIVISION_D_-_KUNDALINI_AND_THE_SPINE
1.00e_-_DIVISION_E_-_MOTION_ON_THE_PHYSICAL_AND_ASTRAL_PLANES
1.00_-_PREFACE_-_DESCENSUS_AD_INFERNOS
1.00_-_Preliminary_Remarks
1.01_-_Adam_Kadmon_and_the_Evolution
1.01_-_Appearance_and_Reality
1.01_-_Economy
1.01_-_Historical_Survey
1.01_-_Newtonian_and_Bergsonian_Time
1.01_-_SAMADHI_PADA
1.01_-_Tara_the_Divine
1.01_-_THAT_ARE_THOU
1.01_-_The_Castle
1.01_-_The_First_Steps
1.01_-_The_Mental_Fortress
1.01_-_The_Science_of_Living
1.028_-_Bringing_About_Whole-Souled_Dedication
1.02_-_Groups_and_Statistical_Mechanics
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_SADHANA_PADA
1.02_-_Self-Consecration
1.02_-_The_7_Habits__An_Overview
1.02_-_The_Development_of_Sri_Aurobindos_Thought
1.02_-_The_Great_Process
1.02_-_The_Pit
1.02_-_The_Recovery
1.02_-_The_Three_European_Worlds
1.02_-_What_is_Psycho_therapy?
1.031_-_Intense_Aspiration
1.038_-_Impediments_in_Concentration_and_Meditation
1.03_-_APPRENTICESHIP_AND_ENCULTURATION_-_ADOPTION_OF_A_SHARED_MAP
1.03_-_Preparing_for_the_Miraculous
1.03_-_Questions_and_Answers
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_THE_GRAND_OPTION
1.03_-_The_Psychic_Prana
1.03_-_The_Sephiros
1.04_-_Feedback_and_Oscillation
1.04_-_Magic_and_Religion
1.04_-_SOME_REFLECTIONS_ON_PROGRESS
1.04_-_The_Aims_of_Psycho_therapy
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Crossing_of_the_First_Threshold
1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She
1.04_-_The_Future_of_Man
1.04_-_The_Need_of_Guru
1.04_-_The_Paths
1.04_-_The_Sacrifice_the_Triune_Path_and_the_Lord_of_the_Sacrifice
1.04_-_The_Silent_Mind
1.05_-_2010_and_1956_-_Doomsday?
1.056_-_Lack_of_Knowledge_is_the_Cause_of_Suffering
1.05_-_Buddhism_and_Women
1.05_-_CHARITY
1.05_-_Qualifications_of_the_Aspirant_and_the_Teacher
1.05_-_The_Creative_Principle
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_THE_NEW_SPIRIT
1.05_-_True_and_False_Subjectivism
1.06_-_LIFE_AND_THE_PLANETS
1.06_-_Magicians_as_Kings
1.06_-_MORTIFICATION,_NON-ATTACHMENT,_RIGHT_LIVELIHOOD
1.06_-_Psychic_Education
1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life
1.06_-_The_Sign_of_the_Fishes
1.07_-_Cybernetics_and_Psychopathology
1.07_-_On_Dreams
1.07_-_The_Farther_Reaches_of_Human_Nature
1.07_-_THE_GREAT_EVENT_FORESHADOWED_-_THE_PLANETIZATION_OF_MANKIND
1.07_-_The_Literal_Qabalah_(continued)
1.080_-_Pratyahara_-_The_Return_of_Energy
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_Independence_from_the_Physical
1.08_-_Information,_Language,_and_Society
1.08_-_RELIGION_AND_TEMPERAMENT
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_Wherein_is_expounded_the_first_line_of_the_first_stanza,_and_a_beginning_is_made_of_the_explanation_of_this_dark_night
1.09_-_Concentration_-_Its_Spiritual_Uses
1.09_-_Fundamental_Questions_of_Psycho_therapy
1.09_-_Kundalini_Yoga
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_Sleep_and_Death
1.09_-_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Big_Bang
1.09_-_The_Ambivalence_of_the_Fish_Symbol
11.03_-_Cosmonautics
1.1.04_-_Philosophy
1.10_-_Concentration_-_Its_Practice
1.10_-_Conscious_Force
1.10_-_THE_FORMATION_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
11.11_-_The_Ideal_Centre
11.15_-_Sri_Aurobindo
1.11_-_Delight_of_Existence_-_The_Problem
1.11_-_FAITH_IN_MAN
1.1.2_-_Intellect_and_the_Intellectual
1.12_-_SOME_REFLECTIONS_ON_THE_RIGHTS_OF_MAN
1.12_-_The_Divine_Work
1.12_-_The_Superconscient
1.12_-_TIME_AND_ETERNITY
1.13_-_Gnostic_Symbols_of_the_Self
1.13_-_SALVATION,_DELIVERANCE,_ENLIGHTENMENT
1.13_-_THE_HUMAN_REBOUND_OF_EVOLUTION_AND_ITS_CONSEQUENCES
1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.
1.13_-_The_Supermind_and_the_Yoga_of_Works
1.14_-_TURMOIL_OR_GENESIS?
1.15_-_Index
1.15_-_SILENCE
1.15_-_The_Supramental_Consciousness
1.16_-_On_Concentration
1.17_-_DOES_MANKIND_MOVE_BIOLOGICALLY_UPON_ITSELF?
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_THE_HEART_OF_THE_PROBLEM
1.19_-_ON_THE_PROBABLE_EXISTENCE_AHEAD_OF_US_OF_AN_ULTRA-HUMAN
12.04_-_Love_and_Death
1.2.04_-_Sincerity
1.20_-_The_End_of_the_Curve_of_Reason
1.2.1.06_-_Symbolism_and_Allegory
1.21_-_FROM_THE_PRE-HUMAN_TO_THE_ULTRA-HUMAN,_THE_PHASES_OF_A_LIVING_PLANET
1.21_-_My_Theory_of_Astrology
1.22_-_ON_THE_GIFT-GIVING_VIRTUE
1.22_-_THE_END_OF_THE_SPECIES
1.23_-_The_Double_Soul_in_Man
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_RITUAL,_SYMBOL,_SACRAMENT
1.2.4_-_Speech_and_Yoga
1.24_-_The_Advent_and_Progress_of_the_Spiritual_Age
1.28_-_The_Ninth_Bolgia__Schismatics._Mahomet_and_Ali._Pier_da_Medicina,_Curio,_Mosca,_and_Bertr_and_de_Born.
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
13.03_-_A_Programme_for_the_Second_Century_of_the_Divine_Manifestation
1.37_-_Oriential_Religions_in_the_West
1.4.02_-_The_Divine_Force
1.40_-_Coincidence
1.439
1.450_-_1.500_Talks
1.47_-_Lityerses
1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe
1.68_-_The_Golden_Bough
1.77_-_Work_Worthwhile_-_Why?
1.80_-_Life_a_Gamble
1914_06_23p
1917_09_24p
1929-05-26_-_Individual,_illusion_of_separateness_-_Hostile_forces_and_the_mental_plane_-_Psychic_world,_psychic_being_-_Spiritual_and_psychic_-_Words,_understanding_speech_and_reading_-_Hostile_forces,_their_utility_-_Illusion_of_action,_true_action
1951-01-15_-_Sincerity_-_inner_discernment_-_inner_light._Evil_and_imbalance._Consciousness_and_instruments.
1951-02-03_-_What_is_Yoga?_for_what?_-_Aspiration,_seeking_the_Divine._-_Process_of_yoga,_renouncing_the_ego.
1951-03-03_-_Hostile_forces_-_difficulties_-_Individuality_and_form_-_creation
1951-03-14_-_Plasticity_-_Conditions_for_knowing_the_Divine_Will_-_Illness_-_microbes_-_Fear_-_body-reflexes_-_The_best_possible_happens_-_Theories_of_Creation_-_True_knowledge_-_a_work_to_do_-_the_Ashram
1951-04-09_-_Modern_Art_-_Trend_of_art_in_Europe_in_the_twentieth_century_-_Effect_of_the_Wars_-_descent_of_vital_worlds_-_Formation_of_character_-_If_there_is_another_war
1951-04-17_-_Unity,_diversity_-_Protective_envelope_-_desires_-_consciousness,_true_defence_-_Perfection_of_physical_-_cinema_-_Choice,_constant_and_conscious_-_law_of_ones_being_-_the_One,_the_Multiplicity_-_Civilization-_preparing_an_instrument
1951-04-21_-_Sri_Aurobindos_letter_on_conditions_for_doing_yoga_-_Aspiration,_tapasya,_surrender_-_The_lower_vital_-_old_habits_-_obsession_-_Sri_Aurobindo_on_choice_and_the_double_life_-_The_old_fiasco_-_inner_realisation_and_outer_change
1951-05-05_-_Needs_and_desires_-_Discernment_-_sincerity_and_true_perception_-_Mantra_and_its_effects_-_Object_in_action-_to_serve_-_relying_only_on_the_Divine
1951-05-11_-_Mahakali_and_Kali_-_Avatar_and_Vibhuti_-_Sachchidananda_behind_all_states_of_being_-_The_power_of_will_-_receiving_the_Divine_Will
1953-04-22
1953-05-20
1953-06-03
1953-07-08
1953-07-15
1953-07-22
1953-07-29
1953-09-16
1953-10-28
1953-11-04
1953-12-16
1953-12-30
1954-02-03_-_The_senses_and_super-sense_-_Children_can_be_moulded_-_Keeping_things_in_order_-_The_shadow
1954-04-14_-_Love_-_Can_a_person_love_another_truly?_-_Parental_love
1954-06-30_-_Occultism_-_Religion_and_vital_beings_-_Mothers_knowledge_of_what_happens_in_the_Ashram_-_Asking_questions_to_Mother_-_Drawing_on_Mother
1954-12-08_-_Cosmic_consciousness_-_Clutching_-_The_central_will_of_the_being_-_Knowledge_by_identity
1955-05-25_-_Religion_and_reason_-_true_role_and_field_-_an_obstacle_to_or_minister_of_the_Spirit_-_developing_and_meaning_-_Learning_how_to_live,_the_elite_-_Reason_controls_and_organises_life_-_Nature_is_infrarational
1955-06-08_-_Working_for_the_Divine_-_ideal_attitude_-_Divine_manifesting_-_reversal_of_consciousness,_knowing_oneself_-_Integral_progress,_outer,_inner,_facing_difficulties_-_People_in_Ashram_-_doing_Yoga_-_Children_given_freedom,_choosing_yoga
1955-08-17_-_Vertical_ascent_and_horizontal_opening_-_Liberation_of_the_psychic_being_-_Images_for_discovery_of_the_psychic_being_-_Sadhana_to_contact_the_psychic_being
1955-09-21_-_Literature_and_the_taste_for_forms_-_The_characters_of_The_Great_Secret_-_How_literature_helps_us_to_progress_-_Reading_to_learn_-_The_commercial_mentality_-_How_to_choose_ones_books_-_Learning_to_enrich_ones_possibilities_...
1955-10-05_-_Science_and_Ignorance_-_Knowledge,_science_and_the_Buddha_-_Knowing_by_identification_-_Discipline_in_science_and_in_Buddhism_-_Progress_in_the_mental_field_and_beyond_it
1955-10-12_-_The_problem_of_transformation_-_Evolution,_man_and_superman_-_Awakening_need_of_a_higher_good_-_Sri_Aurobindo_and_earths_history_-_Setting_foot_on_the_new_path_-_The_true_reality_of_the_universe_-_the_new_race_-_...
1955-11-16_-_The_significance_of_numbers_-_Numbers,_astrology,_true_knowledge_-_Divines_Love_flowers_for_Kali_puja_-_Desire,_aspiration_and_progress_-_Determining_ones_approach_to_the_Divine_-_Liberation_is_obtained_through_austerities_-_...
1956-01-04_-_Integral_idea_of_the_Divine_-_All_things_attracted_by_the_Divine_-_Bad_things_not_in_place_-_Integral_yoga_-_Moving_idea-force,_ideas_-_Consequences_of_manifestation_-_Work_of_Spirit_via_Nature_-_Change_consciousness,_change_world
1956-02-08_-_Forces_of_Nature_expressing_a_higher_Will_-_Illusion_of_separate_personality_-_One_dynamic_force_which_moves_all_things_-_Linear_and_spherical_thinking_-_Common_ideal_of_life,_microscopic
1956-03-14_-_Dynamic_meditation_-_Do_all_as_an_offering_to_the_Divine_-_Significance_of_23.4.56._-_If_twelve_men_of_goodwill_call_the_Divine
1956-06-27_-_Birth,_entry_of_soul_into_body_-_Formation_of_the_supramental_world_-_Aspiration_for_progress_-_Bad_thoughts_-_Cerebral_filter_-_Progress_and_resistance
1956-08-01_-_Value_of_worship_-_Spiritual_realisation_and_the_integral_yoga_-_Symbols,_translation_of_experience_into_form_-_Sincerity,_fundamental_virtue_-_Intensity_of_aspiration,_with_anguish_or_joy_-_The_divine_Grace
1956-08-15_-_Protection,_purification,_fear_-_Atmosphere_at_the_Ashram_on_Darshan_days_-_Darshan_messages_-_Significance_of_15-08_-_State_of_surrender_-_Divine_Grace_always_all-powerful_-_Assumption_of_Virgin_Mary_-_SA_message_of_1947-08-15
1956-08-29_-_To_live_spontaneously_-_Mental_formations_Absolute_sincerity_-_Balance_is_indispensable,_the_middle_path_-_When_in_difficulty,_widen_the_consciousness_-_Easiest_way_of_forgetting_oneself
1957-01-16_-_Seeking_something_without_knowing_it_-_Why_are_we_here?
1957-05-08_-_Vital_excitement,_reason,_instinct
1957-05-29_-_Progressive_transformation
1957-07-10_-_A_new_world_is_born_-_Overmind_creation_dissolved
1958-01-01_-_The_collaboration_of_material_Nature_-_Miracles_visible_to_a_deep_vision_of_things_-_Explanation_of_New_Year_Message
1958-01-08_-_Sri_Aurobindos_method_of_exposition_-_The_mind_as_a_public_place_-_Mental_control_-_Sri_Aurobindos_subtle_hand
1958-04-16_-_The_superman_-_New_realisation
1958-09-10_-_Magic,_occultism,_physical_science
1958_09_26
1958_11_07
1958-11-26_-_The_role_of_the_Spirit_-_New_birth
1965_12_25
1967-05-24.1_-_Defining_the_Divine
1969_10_06
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Beyond_the_Wall_of_Sleep
1f.lovecraft_-_Discarded_Draft_of
1f.lovecraft_-_Herbert_West-Reanimator
1f.lovecraft_-_Out_of_the_Aeons
1f.lovecraft_-_Pickmans_Model
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Curse_of_Yig
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Martins_Beach
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tomb
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Very_Old_Folk
1f.lovecraft_-_Under_the_Pyramids
1.fs_-_Shakespeare's_Ghost_-_A_Parody
1.fs_-_The_Battle
1.lovecraft_-_Lines_On_General_Robert_Edward_Lee
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
1.rb_-_Abt_Vogler
1.wby_-_An_Irish_Airman_Foresees_His_Death
1.wby_-_In_Memory_Of_Major_Robert_Gregory
1.whitman_-_As_I_Lay_With_My_Head_in_Your_Lap,_Camerado
1.whitman_-_Great_Are_The_Myths
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Universal
2.01_-_Indeterminates,_Cosmic_Determinations_and_the_Indeterminable
2.01_-_On_Books
2.01_-_The_Therapeutic_value_of_Abreaction
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.02_-_The_Ishavasyopanishad_with_a_commentary_in_English
2.02_-_The_Mother_Archetype
2.03_-_DEMETER
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.04_-_The_Divine_and_the_Undivine
2.05_-_Apotheosis
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.05_-_Universal_Love_and_how_it_leads_to_Self-Surrender
2.05_-_VISIT_TO_THE_SINTHI_BRAMO_SAMAJ
2.06_-_The_Wand
2.07_-_On_Congress_and_Politics
2.09_-_The_Pantacle
2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST
2.1.02_-_Combining_Work,_Meditation_and_Bhakti
2.12_-_On_Miracles
2.1.2_-_The_Vital_and_Other_Levels_of_Being
2.13_-_On_Psychology
2.1.4.1_-_Teachers
2.1.4.2_-_Teaching
2.1.4_-_The_Lower_Vital_Being
2.14_-_The_Origin_and_Remedy_of_Falsehood,_Error,_Wrong_and_Evil
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.1.5.1_-_Study_of_Works_of_Sri_Aurobindo_and_the_Mother
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence
2.16_-_The_Magick_Fire
2.17_-_December_1938
2.18_-_January_1939
2.19_-_Feb-May_1939
2.19_-_The_Planes_of_Our_Existence
2.20_-_Nov-Dec_1939
2.20_-_The_Infancy_and_Maturity_of_ZO,_Father_and_Mother,_Israel_The_Ancient_and_Understanding
2.21_-_1940
2.23_-_Man_and_the_Evolution
2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man
2.25_-_Mercies_and_Judgements_of_Knowledge
2.27_-_The_Gnostic_Being
2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force
2.3.06_-_The_Mind
2.3.07_-_The_Mother_in_Visions,_Dreams_and_Experiences
2.3.1_-_Ego_and_Its_Forms
2.3.2_-_Desire
2.4.1_-_Human_Relations_and_the_Spiritual_Life
30.03_-_Spirituality_in_Art
30.04_-_Intuition_and_Inspiration_in_Art
3.01_-_THE_BIRTH_OF_THOUGHT
3.02_-_THE_DEPLOYMENT_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
3.03_-_SULPHUR
3.05_-_Cerberus_And_Furies,_And_That_Lack_Of_Light
3.05_-_SAL
3.09_-_Of_Silence_and_Secrecy
3.1.01_-_The_Problem_of_Suffering_and_Evil
3.10_-_Of_the_Gestures
3.16.1_-_Of_the_Oath
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
32.05_-_The_Culture_of_the_Body
32.07_-_The_God_of_the_Scientist
3.21_-_Of_Black_Magic
33.06_-_Alipore_Court
33.16_-_Soviet_Gymnasts
33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars
3.4.03_-_Materialism
34.07_-_The_Bride_of_Brahman
3.4.1.01_-_Poetry_and_Sadhana
3-5_Full_Circle
36.07_-_An_Introduction_To_The_Vedas
4.01_-_Introduction
4.02_-_Humanity_in_Progress
4.03_-_Prayer_to_the_Ever-greater_Christ
4.03_-_The_Meaning_of_Human_Endeavor
4.03_-_The_Special_Phenomenology_of_the_Child_Archetype
4.04_-_Conclusion
4.15_-_Soul-Force_and_the_Fourfold_Personality
4.2.1_-_The_Right_Attitude_towards_Difficulties
4.2.5_-_Dealing_with_Depression_and_Despondency
4.4.4.01_-_The_Descent_of_Peace,_Force,_Light,_Ananda
5.05_-_The_War
5.06_-_Supermind_in_the_Evolution
5.4.02_-_Occult_Powers_or_Siddhis
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
6.10_-_THE_SELF_AND_THE_BOUNDS_OF_KNOWLEDGE
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
Apology
Appendix_4_-_Priest_Spells
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_IV._-_That_empire_was_given_to_Rome_not_by_the_gods,_but_by_the_One_True_God
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_XIII._-_That_death_is_penal,_and_had_its_origin_in_Adam's_sin
BOOK_X._-_Porphyrys_doctrine_of_redemption
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
Cratylus
ENNEAD_01.06_-_Of_Beauty.
ENNEAD_04.04_-_Questions_About_the_Soul.
ENNEAD_06.05_-_The_One_and_Identical_Being_is_Everywhere_Present_In_Its_Entirety.345
For_a_Breath_I_Tarry
Gorgias
Liber_111_-_The_Book_of_Wisdom_-_LIBER_ALEPH_VEL_CXI
Liber_46_-_The_Key_of_the_Mysteries
Liber_71_-_The_Voice_of_the_Silence_-_The_Two_Paths_-_The_Seven_Portals
Phaedo
r1912_12_06
r1912_12_08
r1913_07_05
r1913_12_26
r1914_07_11
r1914_11_21
r1914_11_29
r1914_12_10
r1919_08_11
r1919_08_20
r1920_06_07
Sayings_of_Sri_Ramakrishna_(text)
Sophist
Tablets_of_Baha_u_llah_text
Talks_076-099
Talks_500-550
Talks_600-652
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_1
Talks_With_Sri_Aurobindo_2
The_Act_of_Creation_text
Theaetetus
The_Anapanasati_Sutta__A_Practical_Guide_to_Mindfullness_of_Breathing_and_Tranquil_Wisdom_Meditation
The_Coming_Race_Contents
The_Divine_Names_Text_(Dionysis)
The_Dwellings_of_the_Philosophers
the_Eternal_Wisdom
The_Garden_of_Forking_Paths_2
The_Gospel_According_to_Mark
The_Gospel_According_to_Matthew
The_Logomachy_of_Zos
The_Monadology
The_Poems_of_Cold_Mountain
The_Riddle_of_this_World
The_Shadow_Out_Of_Time
Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra_text
Timaeus

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TERMS STARTING WITH

Major arcana: The 22 tarot cards of the tarot (q.v.) deck.

Major Arcana ::: "The Major Mysteries". The twenty-two trumps of the Tarot that each indicate a major stage of realization or progression on the aspirant's journey from The Fool to the Universe.

Majordomo "messaging, tool" A popular {freeware} {mailing list} processor written in {Perl} which runs under {Unix}. Majordomo is a "groupware" project which evolved from code by Brent Chapman "brent@greatcircle.com", with maintenance by John Rouillard "rouilj@cs.umb.edu". The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson "cwilson@sgi.com". A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; from Latin "major domus" - "master of the house". {(http://greatcircle.com/majordomo/)}. (2001-04-27)

Majordomo ::: (messaging, tool) A popular freeware mailing list processor written in Perl which runs under Unix. Majordomo is a groupware project which evolved John Rouillard . The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson .A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; from Latin major domus - master of the house. .(2001-04-27)

Major premiss: See figure (syllogistic). Major term: (Gr. meizon horos) That one of the three terms in a syllogism which appears as predicate of the conclusion; so called by Aristotle because in the first, or perfect, figure of the syllogism it is commonly the term of greatest extension, the middle term being included in it, and the minor term in turn coming under the middle term. See Aristotelianism; Logic, formal, § 5. -- G.R.M.

Major publications: Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, Berlin 1925; Gesammelte Aufsätze, Wien, l938; Problems of Ethics (Rynin, transl.), New York 1939. -- S.S.S.

Major Trends in fewish Mysticism. The name de¬

major ::: a. --> Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Of greater dignity; more important.
Of full legal age.
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a


major and minor marks. See MAHĀPURUsALAKsAnA.

major and minor marks

majorarcana ::: Major Arcana The name given to the 22 'Trump' cards in a Tarot deck. Arcana is the plural form of the Latin word 'arcanum', which means 'closed' or 'secret'. See also Minor Arcana below.

major arc: The longer of the 2 parts of circumference (arcs) defined (and split) by 2 points on the circumference of a circle.

majorat ::: a. --> The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.


majorate ::: n. --> The office or rank of a major. ::: a. --> To augment; to increase.

majoration ::: n. --> Increase; enlargement.

major axis: The longer axis of an ellipse, passing through its focus.

majorcan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Majorca. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

major delivery "programming" A (chiefly British) synonym for {major release}. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The {release} notation would be "v9.0". (1996-08-04)

major delivery ::: (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be v9.0. (1996-08-04)

major-domo ::: n. --> A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

major general ::: --> An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.

majorities ::: pl. --> of Majority

majority ::: n. --> The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one&


major release "programming" A {release} of a piece of software which is not merely a {revision} or a {bug fix release} but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the {interface}, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a {revision}. See also {major delivery}. (1996-08-04)

major release ::: (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility).Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision.See also major delivery. (1996-08-04)

majorship ::: n. --> The office of major.


TERMS ANYWHERE

1. The fact, character, or quality of being useful or serviceable; fitness for some desirable purpose or valuable end; usefulness, serviceableness. 2. Philos. The ability, capacity, or power of a person, action, or thing to satisfy the needs or gratify the desires of the majority, or of the human race as a whole. 3. A useful, advantageous, or profitable thing, feature, etc.; a use. Chiefly in pl. utility"s, utilities.

6.001 "education" /siks dub*l oh wun/, /dub*l oh wun/ or rarely /siks dub*l oh fun/ {MIT}'s introductory computer class for majors, known for its intensity. Developed by {Gerald Sussman} and {Hal Abelson}, the course is taught in {Scheme} and introduces {recursion}, {higher-order functions}, {object-oriented programming} and much more. Students who grasp the {meta}circular {interpreter} gain entry into the {Knights of the Lambda-Calculus}. 6.001 has been exported to several other colleges, sometimes successfully. The textbook, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", written with Julie Sussman is a classic that can be found on the shelves of many computer scientists, whether they took the course or not. Legendary characters from the class, problem sets, and book include the wise Alyssa P. Hacker, Ben Bitdiddle, Lem E. Tweakit and Eva Lu Ator, the careless Louis Reasoner and {Captain Abstraction}. (1994-11-22)

7th Heaven” [Rf. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish

Abduction: (Gr. apagoge) In Aristotle's logic a syllogism whose major premiss is certain but whose minor premiss is only probable. -- G.R.M.

abduction ::: n. --> The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.
The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.
A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is


(a) Emptiness, non-existence, a major characteristic of Tao.

"Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri

“Aesthesis therefore is of the very essence of poetry, as it is of all art. But it is not the sole element and aesthesis too is not confined to a reception of poetry and art; it extends to everything in the world: there is nothing we can sense, think or in any way experience to which there cannot be an aesthetic reaction of our conscious being. Ordinarily, we suppose that aesthesis is concerned with beauty, and that indeed is its most prominent concern: but it is concerned with many other things also. It is the universal Ananda that is the parent of aesthesis and the universal Ananda takes three major and original forms, beauty, love and delight, the delight of all existence, the delight in things, in all things.” Letters on Savitri

aid-major ::: n. --> The adjutant of a regiment.

AI koan ::: (humour) /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by Danny Hillis at the MIT AI Lab around various major figures of the Lab's culture.See also ha ha only serious, mu.In reading these, it is at least useful to know that Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, and Drescher are AI researchers of note, that Tom Knight was one of the Lisp machine's principal designers, and that David Moon wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. * * * A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on.Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong.Knight turned the machine off and on.The machine worked. * * * better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understandhow to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] * * * In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.What are you doing?, asked Minsky.I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe, Sussman replied.Why is the net wired randomly?, asked Minsky.I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play, Sussman said.Minsky then shut his eyes.Why do you close your eyes?, Sussman asked his teacher.So that the room will be empty.At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. * * * A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating his morning meal.I would like to give you this personality test, said the outsider, because I want you to be happy.Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: I wish the toaster to be happy, too. (1995-02-08)

AI koan "humour" /A-I koh'an/ One of a series of pastiches of Zen teaching riddles created by {Danny Hillis} at the {MIT AI Lab} around various major figures of the Lab's culture. See also {ha ha only serious}, {mu}. In reading these, it is at least useful to know that {Marvin Minsky}, {Gerald Sussman}, and Drescher are {AI} researchers of note, that {Tom Knight} was one of the {Lisp machine}'s principal designers, and that {David Moon} wrote much of Lisp Machine Lisp. * * * A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. * * * One day a student came to Moon and said: "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons." Moon patiently told the student the following story:   "One day a student came to Moon and said: `I understand   how to make a better garbage collector... [Pure reference-count garbage collectors have problems with circular structures that point to themselves.] * * * In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe", Sussman replied. "Why is the net wired randomly?", asked Minsky. "I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play", Sussman said. Minsky then shut his eyes. "Why do you close your eyes?", Sussman asked his teacher. "So that the room will be empty." At that moment, Sussman was enlightened. * * * A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating his morning meal. "I would like to give you this personality test", said the outsider, "because I want you to be happy." Drescher took the paper that was offered him and put it into the toaster, saying: "I wish the toaster to be happy, too." (1995-02-08)

Algorithmic Model "programming" A method of estimating software cost using mathematical {algorithms} based on the parameters which are considered to be the major cost drivers. These estimate of effort or cost are based primarily on the size of the software or {Delivered Source Instructions} (DSI)s, and other productivity factors known as {Cost Driver Attributes}. See also {Parametric Model}. (1996-05-28)

Algorithmic Model ::: (programming) A method of estimating software cost using mathematical algorithms based on the parameters which are considered to be the major cost software or Delivered Source Instructions (DSI)s, and other productivity factors known as Cost Driver Attributes.See also Parametric Model. (1996-05-28)

Allegro ::: (operating system) The code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1998. . (1997-10-15)

Allegro "operating system" The code name for the major {Mac OS} release due in mid-1998. {(http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html)}. (1997-10-15)

altered states ::: Also known as “nonordinary” states of consciousness. There are at least two major types of altered states: exogenous or “externally created” (e.g., drug induced, or near-death experiences) and endogenous or “self-created” (including trained states such as meditative states).

Amdahl Corporation ::: (company) A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large mainframes, UNIX and Open Systems software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services.Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and IBM plug-compatible mainframe computing environments.Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994).In 1997 Amdahl became a division of Fujitsu. . (1995-05-23)

Amdahl Corporation "company" A US computer manufacturer. Amdahl is a major supplier of large {mainframes}, {UNIX} and {Open Systems} software and servers, data storage subsystems, data communications products, applications development software, and a variety of educational and consulting services. Amdahl products are sold in more than 30 countries for use in both open systems and {IBM} plug-compatible mainframe computing environments. Quarterly sales $397M, profits $13M (Aug 1994). In 1997 Amdahl became a division of {Fujitsu}. {(http://amdahl.com/)}. (1995-05-23)

American Standard Code for Information Interchange "character, standard" The basis of {character sets} used in almost all present-day computers. {US-ASCII} uses only the lower seven {bits} ({character points} 0 to 127) to convey some {control codes}, {space}, numbers, most basic punctuation, and unaccented letters a-z and A-Z. More modern {coded character sets} (e.g., {Latin-1}, {Unicode}) define extensions to ASCII for values above 127 for conveying special {Latin characters} (like accented characters, or {German} ess-tsett), characters from non-Latin writing systems (e.g., {Cyrillic}, or {Han characters}), and such desirable {glyphs} as distinct open- and close-{quotation marks}. ASCII replaced earlier systems such as {EBCDIC} and {Baudot}, which used fewer bytes, but were each {broken} in their own way. Computers are much pickier about spelling than humans; thus, {hackers} need to be very precise when talking about characters, and have developed a considerable amount of verbal shorthand for them. Every character has one or more names - some formal, some concise, some silly. Individual characters are listed in this dictionary with alternative names from revision 2.3 of the {Usenet} ASCII pronunciation guide in rough order of popularity, including their official {ITU-T} names and the particularly silly names introduced by {INTERCAL}. See {V} {ampersand}, {asterisk}, {back quote}, {backslash}, {caret}, {colon}, {comma}, {commercial at}, {control-C}, {dollar}, {dot}, {double quote}, {equals}, {exclamation mark}, {greater than}, {hash}, {left bracket}, {left parenthesis}, {less than}, {minus}, {parentheses}, {oblique stroke}, {percent}, {plus}, {question mark}, {right brace}, {right brace}, {right bracket}, {right parenthesis}, {semicolon}, {single quote}, {space}, {tilde}, {underscore}, {vertical bar}, {zero}. Some other common usages cause odd overlaps. The "

anterior self ::: One of the three major aspects of the overall self, along with the proximate and distal self. The anterior self is a person’s sense of the Witness, the pure Self, or “I-I,” shining through the proximate self at whatever stage of self-development. See I-I.

Apagoge: (Gr. apagoge) In Aristotle's logic (1) a syllogism whose major premiss is certain but whose minor premiss is only probable; abduction; (2) a method of indirect demonstration whereby the validity of a conclusion is established by assuming its contradictory and showing that impossible or unacceptable consequences follow; the reductio ad impossibile. -- G.R.M.

apotome ::: n. --> The difference between two quantities commensurable only in power, as between Ã2 and 1, or between the diagonal and side of a square.
The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.


Araboth—the 7th Heaven, where the major

Arundhati (Sanskrit) Arundhatī [probably from a not + the verbal root rudh to check, restrain, bind] One who releases, frees, unbinds; a medicinal climber, with power to heal severe wounds; consort of the sage Vasishtha; consort of Dharma, meaning established law, procedure, truth, referring in this case to the cosmos; from Arundhati were born “the divisions of earth” (VP 1:15); personification of the morning star, Phosphoros or Lucifer-Venus of the ancient Greeks and Latins, one of the seven stars of Ursa Major; power invoked by the bridegroom for conjugal excellence; name of kundalini, the occult energy in humanity symbolized by a coiled serpent said to lie latent at the base of the spinal column until energized into activity by strenuous yoga exercises.

As against the faulty ethical procedures of the past and of his own day, therefore, Kant very early conceived and developed the more critical concept of "form," -- not in the sense of a "mould" into which content is to be poured (a notion which has falselv been taken over by Kant-students from his theoretical philosophy into his ethics), but -- as a method of rational (not ratiocinative, but inductive) reflection; a method undetermined by, although not irrespective of, empirical data or considerations. This methodologically formal conception constitutes Kant's major distinctive contribution to ethical theory. It is a process of rational reflection, creative construction, and transition, and as such is held by him to be the only method capable if coping with the exigencies of the facts of hunnn experience and with the needs of moral obligation. By this method of creative construction the reflective (inductive) reason is able to create, as each new need for a next reflectively chosen step arises, a new object of "pure" -- that is to say, empirically undetermined -- "practical reason." This makes possible the transition from a present no longer adequate ethical conception or attitude to an untried and as yet "indemonstrable" object. No other method can guarantee the individual and social conditions of progress without which the notion of morality loses all assignable meaning. The newly constructed object of "pure practical reason" is assumed, in the event, to provide a type of life and conduct which, just because it is of my own construction, will be likely to be accompanied by the feeling of self-sufficiency which is the basic pre-requisite of any worthy human happiness. It is this theory which constitutes Kant's ethical formalism. See also Autonomy, Categorical Imperative, Duty, End(s), Freedom, Happiness, Law, Moral, Practical Imperative, Will. -- P. A.S.

Ash (Hebrew) ‘Āsh [probably from nā‘ash to support, bear] In Job (9:9) wrongly translated as the star Arcturus; from the Arabic it is evident that Ursa Major is referred to. Different peoples consider the Great Bear as the vital support or carrier not only of destiny but of the heavens. Thus the Hindus speak of the Saptarshayah (seven rishis), who preside over this constellation and have our universe in karmic supervision.

Association for Computing ::: (body) (ACM, before 1997 - Association for Computing Machinery) The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in and application of Information Technology. John Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was one of ACM's founders.Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful interchange of ideas.ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers, practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the Association's major programs and services - publications, special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and special activities.The ACM Press publishes journals (notably CACM), book series, conference proceedings, CD-ROM, hypertext, video, and specialized publications such as curricula recommendations and self-assessment procedures. . (1998-02-24)

Association for Computing "body" (ACM, before 1997 - "Association for Computing Machinery") The largest and oldest international scientific and educational computer society in the industry. Founded in 1947, only a year after the unveiling of {ENIAC}, ACM was established by mathematicians and electrical engineers to advance the science and application of {Information Technology}. {John Mauchly}, co-inventor of the ENIAC, was one of ACM's founders. Since its inception ACM has provided its members and the world of computer science a forum for the sharing of knowledge on developments and achievements necessary to the fruitful interchange of ideas. ACM has 90,000 members - educators, researchers, practitioners, managers, and engineers - who drive the Association's major programs and services - publications, special interest groups, chapters, conferences, awards, and special activities. The ACM Press publishes journals (notably {CACM}), book series, conference proceedings, {CD-ROM}, {hypertext}, {video}, and specialized publications such as curricula recommendations and self-assessment procedures. {(http://info.acm.org/)}. (1998-02-24)

At the end of the third round, there were forerunning monads who were already human in nature and characteristic, and who were leading the way towards the true humanity of the fourth round, and therefore were the guides of the less progressed human monads when it became the latter’s turn to incarnate during the fourth round. These advance-guard monads are sometimes termed the Sons of Yoga. As intellectual and moral responsibility appears in the evolving human monads only when mind enters the picture — which occurred for the majority of the human monads only during the third root-race of the fourth round — during the third round few monads had reached the stage of true intellectual and moral responsibility; and during the second round even these forerunners were themselves unfolding the powers and responsibilities of mind and of choice. During the third round: “He had now a perfectly concrete or compacted body; at first the form of a giant ape, and more intelligent (or rather cunning) than spiritual. For in the downward arc he has now reached the point where his primordial spirituality is eclipsed or over-shadowed by nascent mentality. In the last half of this third round his gigantic stature decreases, his body improves in texture . . . and he becomes a more rational being — through still more an ape than a Deva man” (ML 87-8) — that is, manas (mind) was not yet functioning. Thus while the third-round forerunners may be considered truly human, the great bulk of the human kingdom was still but in the elemental stages of intellectual and moral responsibility. Mind was only just beginning to show itself, and hence the humans were rather cunning than intellectual, instinctual rather than spiritual.

A/UX "operating system" (Apple's UniX) {Apple}'s first version of {Unix} for {Macintosh} computers. A/UX merges the {Macintosh Finder} ({GUI}) with a Unix core, offering functions from both systems. It will run on some late-model {Motorola 68000} Macs, but not on the {Power Mac}. A/UX is based on {AT&T} Unix {System V}.2.2 with numerous extensions from V.3, V.4 and {BSD} 4.2/4.3. It also provides full {POSIX} compliance. A/UX 3.x.x incorporates {System 7} for the Macintosh, thus supporting the vast majority of Macintosh {applications}. System 7 and Unix are fully integrated under A/UX 3.x.x with the Unix file system being seen as a disk drive by the Finder. {jagubox's A/UX Home Page (http://jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/aux/Info/FAQ.auxl)}. (1997-12-13)

A/UX ::: (operating system) (Apple's UniX) Apple's first version of Unix for Macintosh computers. A/UX merges the Macintosh Finder (GUI) with a Unix core, offering functions from both systems. It will run on some late-model Motorola 68000 Macs, but not on the Power Macintosh.A/UX is based on AT&T Unix System V.2.2 with numerous extensions from V.3, V.4 and BSD 4.2/4.3. It also provides full POSIX compliance.A/UX 3.x.x incorporates System 7 for the Macintosh, thus supporting the vast majority of Macintosh applications. System 7 and Unix are fully integrated under A/UX 3.x.x with the Unix file system being seen as a disk drive by the Finder. . (1997-12-13)

B 1. {byte}. 2. "language" A systems language written by {Ken Thompson} in 1970 mostly for his own use under {Unix} on the {PDP-11}. B was later improved by Kerninghan(?) and Ritchie to produce {C}. B was used as the systems language on {Honeywell}'s {GCOS-3}. B was, according to Ken, greatly influenced by {BCPL}, but the name B had nothing to do with BCPL. B was in fact a revision of an earlier language, {bon}, named after Ken Thompson's wife, Bonnie. ["The Programming Language B", S.C. Johnson & B.W. Kernighan, CS TR 8, Bell Labs (Jan 1973)]. [Features? Differences from C?] (1997-02-02) 3. "language" A simple {interactive} {programming language} designed by {Lambert Meertens} and {Steven Pemberton}. B was the predecessor of {ABC}. B was the first published (and implemented) language to use indentation for block structure. {(ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/languages/B.tar.Z)}. ["Draft Proposal for the B Language", Lambert Meertens, CWI, Amsterdam, 1981]. [{(http://python-history.blogspot.com/2011/07/karin-dewar-indentation-and-colon.html)}]. 4. "language, specification" A specification language by Jean-Raymond Abrial of {B Core UK}, Magdalen Centre, Oxford Science Park, Oxford OX4 4GA. B is related to {Z} and supports development of {C} code from specifications. B has been used in major {safety-critical system} specifications in Europe, and is currently attracting increasing interest in industry. It has robust, commercially available tool support for specification, design, proof and code generation. E-mail: "Ib.Sorensen@comlab.ox.ac.uk". (1995-04-24)

backward combatability "humour" /bak'w*d k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ (Play on "{backward compatibility}") A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous {protocols}, formats, layouts, etc. are irrevocably discarded in favour of "new and improved" protocols, formats and layouts, leaving the previous ones not merely deprecated but actively defeated. (Too often, the old and new versions cannot definitively be distinguished, such that lingering instances of the previous ones yield crashes or other infelicitous effects, as opposed to a simple "version mismatch" message.) A backward compatible change, on the other hand, allows old versions to coexist without crashes or error messages, but too many major changes incorporating elaborate backward compatibility processing can lead to extreme {software bloat}. See also {flag day}. [{Jargon File}] (2003-06-23)

balearic ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.

Bear, Great. See URSA MAJOR AND MINOR

Bennett and Baylis, Formal Logic, New York, 1939. 5. CATEGORICAL SYLLOGISM is the name given to certain forms of valid inference (of the functional calculus of first order) which involve as premisses two (formulas representing) categorical propositions, having a term in common -- the middle term. Using S, M, P as minor term, middle term, and major term, respectively, we give the traditional classification into figures and moods. In each case we give the major premiss first, the minor premiss immediately after it, and the conclusion last; in some cases we give a third (existential) premiss which is suppressed in the traditional account. Because of the admission of singular propositions under the heads A, E, two different forms of valid inference appear in some cases under the same figure and mood -- these singular forms are separately listed.

Betrayal of the Mysteries Ancient writers affirm that the prime requisite of every candidate seeking entrance into the Mysteries was a pledge of utter secrecy. Persons guilty of the betrayal of the Mysteries were rigidly excluded from participation in the celebration of the rites. Likewise those were debarred who accidentally were guilty of homicide or any major crime, or who had been proved guilty of sorcery. If merely unfortunate mediums, they were taken care of in hospitals maintained for that purpose in the neighborhood of temples, and if possible restored to health; if consciously traitorous or wicked, they were dealt with in other ways. Thus it is clear that even in the degenerate days dating from before Plato’s time in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, abuse of occult power was considered one of the most heinous of human offenses, for it struck directly at the roots of society, and it was for this last reason that betrayal of the Mysteries, sorcery, or similar offense was punished by the State itself.

bipolar transistor "electronics" A {transistor} made from a sandwich of n- and p-type {semiconductor} material: either npn or pnp. The middle section is known as the "base" and the other two as the "collector" and "emitter". When used as an amplifying element, the base to emitter junction is in a "forward-biased" (conducting) condition, and the base to collector junction is "reverse-biased" or non-conducting. Small changes in the base to emitter current (the input signal) cause either {holes} (for pnp devices) or free {electrons} (for npn) to enter the base from the emitter. The attracting voltage of the collector causes the majority of these charges to cross into and be collected by the collector, resulting in amplification. Contrast {field effect transistor}. (1995-10-04)

bipolar transistor ::: (electronics) A transistor made from a sandwich of n- and p-type semiconductor material: either npn or pnp. The middle section is known as the the majority of these charges to cross into and be collected by the collector, resulting in amplification.Contrast field effect transistor. (1995-10-04)

Blavatsky writes that the rendering Ja-ho-vah is “a perversion of the Holy Name”: that the majority of the Jews themselves were ignorant of the true pronunciation. “Alone, out of all their nation the high priests had it in their possession, and respectively passed it to their successors,” before their death. “Once a year only, on the day of atonement, the high priest was allowed to pronounce it in a whisper” (IU 2:398-9).

Major arcana: The 22 tarot cards of the tarot (q.v.) deck.

Majordomo "messaging, tool" A popular {freeware} {mailing list} processor written in {Perl} which runs under {Unix}. Majordomo is a "groupware" project which evolved from code by Brent Chapman "brent@greatcircle.com", with maintenance by John Rouillard "rouilj@cs.umb.edu". The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson "cwilson@sgi.com". A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; from Latin "major domus" - "master of the house". {(http://greatcircle.com/majordomo/)}. (2001-04-27)

Majordomo ::: (messaging, tool) A popular freeware mailing list processor written in Perl which runs under Unix. Majordomo is a groupware project which evolved John Rouillard . The current Majordomo maintainer is Chan Wilson .A majordomo is a person who speaks, makes arrangements, or takes charge for another; from Latin major domus - master of the house. .(2001-04-27)

Major premiss: See figure (syllogistic). Major term: (Gr. meizon horos) That one of the three terms in a syllogism which appears as predicate of the conclusion; so called by Aristotle because in the first, or perfect, figure of the syllogism it is commonly the term of greatest extension, the middle term being included in it, and the minor term in turn coming under the middle term. See Aristotelianism; Logic, formal, § 5. -- G.R.M.

Major publications: Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, Berlin 1925; Gesammelte Aufsätze, Wien, l938; Problems of Ethics (Rynin, transl.), New York 1939. -- S.S.S.

Major Trends in fewish Mysticism. The name de¬

- .Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York:

boa [IBM] Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}. Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time. It is rumored within IBM that channel cables for the 370 are limited to 200 feet because beyond that length the boas get dangerous --- and it is worth noting that one of the major cable makers uses the trademark "Anaconda". [{Jargon File}]

boat-tail ::: n. --> A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.

brigadier general ::: --> An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.

bug tracking system "programming" (BTS) A system for receiving and filing {bugs} reported against a {software} project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the {source code} of which is often available for use by other projects. Well known BTSs include {GNATS}, {Bugzilla}, and {Debbugs}. (2002-06-12)

bug tracking system ::: (programming) (BTS) A system for receiving and filing bugs reported against a software project, and tracking those bugs until they are fixed. Most major software projects have their own BTS, the source code of which is often available for use by other projects.Well known BTSs include GNATS, Bugzilla, and Debbugs.(2002-06-12)

bulk ::: n. --> Magnitude of material substance; dimensions; mass; size; as, an ox or ship of great bulk.

The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt.
The cargo of a vessel when stowed.
The body. ::: v. i.


Business Software Alliance ::: (company) The BSA was created by Microsoft in 1988 in an attempt to combat software theft. The alliance includes the majority of leading software publishers including Novell, Symantec, and Autodesk and is actively campaigning in over 65 countries.The BSA operates a three-pronged approach: 1. Lobbying to strengthen copyright laws and co-operation with law enforcement agencies. 2. Educating the public counterfeiters. BSA's aims are the same as the Federation Against Software Theft but it is not limited to the UK.In December 1990 the BSA obtained the first legal order in the UK which allowed a surprise search on a company's offices for suspected copyright infringement. .UK Office: Business Software Alliance, 1st Floor, Leaconfield House, Curzon Street, London W1Y 8AS, United Kingdom.See also software audit. (1996-05-19)

Business Software Alliance "company" The BSA was created by {Microsoft} in 1988 in an attempt to combat {software theft}. The alliance includes the majority of leading software publishers including {Novell}, {Symantec}, and {Autodesk} and is actively campaigning in over 65 countries. The BSA operates a three-pronged approach: 1. Lobbying to strengthen copyright laws and co-operation with law enforcement agencies. 2. Educating the public through marketing, roadshows, etc. 3. Bringing legal actions against counterfeiters. BSA's aims are the same as the {Federation Against Software Theft} but it is not limited to the UK. In December 1990 the BSA obtained the first legal order in the UK which allowed a surprise search on a company's offices for suspected copyright infringement. {(http://bsa.org/bsa)}. UK Office: Business Software Alliance, 1st Floor, Leaconfield House, Curzon Street, London W1Y 8AS, United Kingdom. See also {software audit}. (1996-05-19)

By way of connoting different types of society, many contemporary Marxists, especially in the U.S.S.R., building upon Marx's analysis of the two phases of "communist society" ("Gotha Program") designate the first or lower phase by the term socialism, the second or higher by the term communism (q.v.). The general features of socialist society (identified by Soviet thinkers with the present phase of development of the U.S.S.R.) are conceived as follows: Economic collective ownership of the means of production, such as factories, industrial equipment, the land, and of the basic apparatus of distribution and exchange, including the banking system; the consequent abolition of classes, private profit, exploitation, surplus value, (q.v.) private hiring and firing and involuntary unemployment; an integrated economy based on long time planning in terms of needs and use. It is held that only under these economic conditions is it possible to apply the formula, "from each according to ability, to each according to work performed", the first part of which implies continuous employment, and the second part, the absence of private profit. Political: a state based upon the dictatorship of the proletariat (q.v.) Cultural the extension of all educational and cultural facilities through state planning; the emancipation of women through unrestricted economic opportunities, the abolition of race discrimination through state enforcement, a struggle against all cultural and social institutions which oppose the socialist society and attempt to obstruct its realization. Marx and Engels held that socialism becomes the inevitable outgrowth of capitalism because the evolution of the latter type of society generates problems which can only be solved by a transition to socialism. These problems are traced primarily to the fact that the economic relations under capitalism, such as individual ownership of productive technics, private hiring and firing in the light of profits and production for a money market, all of which originally released powerful new productive potentialities, come to operate, in the course of time, to prevent full utilization of productive technics, and to cause periodic crises, unemployment, economic insecurity and consequent suffering for masses of people. Marx and Engels regarded their doctrine of the transformation of capitalist into socialist society as based upon a scientific examination of the laws of development of capitalism and a realistic appreciation of the role of the proletariat. (q.v.) Unlike the Utopian socialism (q.v.) of St. Simon, Fourier, Owen (q.v.) and others, their socialism asserted the necessity of mass political organization of the working classes for the purpose of gaining political power in order to effect the transition from capitalism, and also foresaw the probability of a contest of force in which, they held, the working class majority would ultimately be victorious. The view taken is that Marx was the first to explain scientifically the nature of capitalist exploitation as based upon surplus value and to predict its necessary consequences. "These two great discoveries, the materialist conception of history and the revelation of the secret of capitalist production by means of surplus value we owe to Marx. With these discoveries socialism became a science . . ." (Engels: Anti-Dühring, pp. 33-34.) See Historical materialism. -- J.M.S.

Cache On A STick "architecture" (COAST) {Intel Corporation} attempt to's standardise the modular {L2 cache} subsystem in {Pentium}-based computers. A COAST module should be about 4.35" wide by 1.14" high. According to earlier specifications from {Motorola}, a module between 4.33" and 4.36" wide, and between 1.12" and 1.16" high is within the COAST standard. Some module vendors, including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification. Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock tree to each synchronous chip be balanced, i.e. equal length from edge of the connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise. For a 256 {kilobyte} cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock driver and hence increase the clock speed. However, this creates unbalanced loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system. (1996-06-10)

Cache On A STick ::: (architecture) (COAST) Intel Corporation attempt to's standardise the modular L2 cache subsystem in Pentium-based computers.A COAST module should be about 4.35 wide by 1.14 high. According to earlier specifications from Motorola, a module between 4.33 and 4.36 wide, and between including some major motherboard suppliers, greatly violate the height specification.Another COAST specification violated by many suppliers concerns clock distribution in synchronous modules. The specification requires that the clock connector to individual chips. An unbalanced clock tree increases reflections and noise.For a 256 kilobyte cache module the standard requires the same clock be used for both chips but some vendors use separate clocks to reduce loading on the clock loading in other motherboard configurations, such as motherboards with soldered caches in the system. (1996-06-10)

casters-up mode [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for "broken" or "down". Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is "down" may be already being restarted before the failure is noticed, whereas one which is "casters up" is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it). [{Jargon File}]

casters-up mode ::: [IBM, probably from slang belly up] Yet another synonym for broken or down. Usually connotes a major failure. A system (hardware or software) which is which is casters up is usually a good excuse to take the rest of the day off (as long as you're not responsible for fixing it).[Jargon File]

Cell [from Latin cella a small room] A small enclosed space; applied to the unit of organic life since the mid-17th century, when Robert Hooke, using one of the early microscopes, discovered that cork consisted of many little empty enclosed spaces separated from each other, which he called cells. A century later these cells were found to contain a semi-transparent substance occurring in all vegetable and animal matter, which thereafter was regarded as the basis of organic life and so received the name of protoplasm. The cells is a collective entity containing subordinate symbiotic entities. Its structure is divided into two major parts: the central nucleus which contains the genetic material, and the surrounding cytoplasm. Theosophically, human cells sprang originally from the inner human entity, who functions as their oversoul.

chakras. ::: the six main yogic centres in the body; points or knots in the subtle human body located at the physical counterparts of the major plexuses of arteries, veins and nerves; meeting points of the subtle, non-physical energy channels, called nadis

Comdex ::: A computer show that is held twice yearly, once in the spring (in Atlanta) and once in autumn (in Las Vegas). Comdex is a major show during which new releases of software and hardware are made. Microsoft, for example, often annouces its products at Comdex. (1995-01-11)

Comdex "business" A computer show that is held twice yearly, once in the spring (in Atlanta) and once in autumn (in Las Vegas). Comdex is a major show during which new releases of software and hardware are made. {Microsoft}, for example, often annouces its products at Comdex. (1995-01-11)

comma ::: n. --> A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.
A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.


commonalty ::: n. --> The common people; those classes and conditions of people who are below the rank of nobility; the commons.
The majority or bulk of mankind.


COmmon Business Oriented Language ::: (language, business) /koh'bol/ (COBOL) A programming language for simple computations on large amounts of data, designed by the CODASYL Committee in April 1960. COBOL's natural language style is intended to be largely self-documenting. It introduced the record structure.COBOL was probably the most widely used programming language during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the major programs that required repair or replacement due to some organisations and many old COBOL programs are still running in dinosaur shops.Major revisions in 1968 (ANS X3.23-1968), 1974 (ANS X3.23-1974) and 1985.Many hackers regard COBOL with fear and loathing for being an evil, weak, verbose, and flabby language used by card wallopers to do boring mindless things on dinosaur mainframes. Many believe that all COBOL programmers are suits or code grinders, and would deny all knowledge of the language.Usenet newsgroup: comp.lang.cobol.[Initial Specifications for a Common Business Oriented Language DoD, US GPO, Apr 1960].(2002-02-21)

COmmon Business Oriented Language "language, business" /koh'bol/ (COBOL) A programming language for simple computations on large amounts of data, designed by the {CODASYL} Committee in April 1960. COBOL's {natural language} style is intended to be largely self-documenting. It introduced the {record} structure. COBOL was probably the most widely used programming language during the 1960s and 1970s. Many of the major programs that required repair or replacement due to {Year 2000} {software rot} issues were originally written in COBOL, and this was responsible for a short-lived increased demand for COBOL programmers. Even in 2002 though, new COBOL programs are still being written in some organisations and many old COBOL programs are still running in {dinosaur} shops. Major revisions in 1968 (ANS X3.23-1968), 1974 (ANS X3.23-1974) and 1985. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.cobol}. ["Initial Specifications for a Common Business Oriented Language" DoD, US GPO, Apr 1960]. (2002-02-21)

Computer Telephone Integration ::: (communications) (CTI or - Telephony -) Enabling computers to know about and control telephony functions such as making and receiving voice, fax, integration of telephone and computer systems and is a major development in the evolution of the automated office.CTI is not a new concept - such links have been used in the past in large telephone networks - but only dedicated call centres could justify the costs of Novell, Microsoft and Intel are developing better telephony services and capabilities which should eventually enable low cost CTI.The main CTI functions are integrating messaging with databases, word processors etc.; controlling voice, fax, and e-mail messaging systems from a single answered or transferred; speech synthesis and speech recognition; automatic logging of call related information for invoicing purposes or callback.Typical productivity benefits are improved customer service; increased productivity; reduced costs; enhanced workflow automation; protected investment in computers and telephony; computerised telephony intelligence.IBM were one of the first with workable CTI, now sold as CallPath. Callware's Phonetastic is typical of the new breed of middleware.CTI came out of the 1980s call centre boom, where it linked central servers and IVRs with PBXes to provide call transfer and screen popping. In the 1990s, TAPI, to provide a desktop version that would allow control of a desktop telephone and assist in hot desking.Desktop CTI was made obsolete by the mobile phone revolution, e-mail and, above all, VoIP, and CTI has never advanced outside the call centre.See also Telephony Application Programming Interface.(2003-12-04)

Constellations. See ZODIAC; PLEIADES; URSA MAJOR AND MINOR, etc.

Convergent Technologies Operating System ::: (operating system) (CTOS, BTOS, STARSYS) /see-toss/ A modular, message-passing, multi-process based operating system.Convergent Technologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086, which had CTOS as its operating system. It is a modular operating system with built in local area networking. CTOS supports multiple processes or threads, and message-based inter-process communication.Companies which have licensed CTOS include Burroughs (BTOS) and Bull (STARSYS). The largest customer was Unisys, with whom Convergent Technologies merged to become one company in 1988. CTOS now has over 800,000 users worldwide.CTOS runs on Intel Pentium computers, and can run concurrently with Microsoft Windows NT.For some reason, CTOS is no longer marketted to new customers, although there is a support comittment for existing customers until 2001. Major customers include Police Forces, Banks, and Airlines.Latest version: CTOS III 1.3.2.[Exploring CTOS, Miller E., Crook J., Loy J. - Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-297342-1, 1991]. (1996-09-24)

Convergent Technologies Operating System "operating system" (CTOS, BTOS, STARSYS) /see-toss/ A modular, {message-passing}, {multi-process} based {operating system}. {Convergent Technologies}' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the {Intel 8086}, which had CTOS as its operating system. It is a modular operating system with built in {local area networking}. CTOS supports multiple processes or {threads} and message-based {inter-process communication}. Companies which licensed CTOS included {Burroughs} (BTOS) and {Bull} (STARSYS). The largest customer was {Unisys}, with whom Convergent Technologies merged to become one company in 1988. CTOS had over 800,000 users worldwide. CTOS ran on Intel {Pentium} computers, and could run concurrently with {Microsoft} {Windows NT}. Support for existing customers lasted at least until 2001. Major customers included police forces, banks, and airlines. ["Exploring CTOS", Miller E., Crook J., Loy J. - Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-297342-1, 1991]. (1996-09-24)

cosmi majoris et minoris historia, the hierarchies are

Creative Theory of Perception: The creative theory, in opposition to the selective theory, asserts that the data of sense are created or constituted by the act of perception and do not exist except at the time and under the conditions of actual perception, (cf. C. D. Broad, The Mind and its Place in Nature, pp. 200 ff.) See Selective Theory of Perception. The theories of perception of Descartes, Locke, Leibniz and Berkeley are historical examples of creative theories, Russell (Problems of Philosophy, Ch. II and III) and the majority of the American critical realists defend creative theories. -- L.W.

(c) Secondary Modes (or Forms), namely, Major Yang, Minor Yang, Major Yin, and Minor Yin, which are engendered by the Two Primary Modes, Yin and Yang, products of the Great Ultimate (T'ai Chi).

CYBIL ::: Control Data's system programming language in the 80's. Major parts of CDC systems written in this.

CYBIL Control Data's system programming language in the 80's. Major parts of CDC systems written in this.

data path "architecture" A {CPU}'s internal {data bus} and {functional units}. The width of the data path in bits is a major determiner of the processor's performance. (1997-07-09)

data path ::: (architecture) A CPU's internal data bus and functional units. The width of the data path in bits is a major determiner of the processor's performance. (1997-07-09)

data redundancy "data, communications, storage" Any technique that stores or transmits extra, derived data that can be used to detect or repair errors, either in hardware or software. Examples are {parity bits} and the {cyclic redundancy check}. If the cost of errors is high enough, e.g. in a {safety-critical system}, redundancy may be used in both hardware AND software with three separate computers programmed by three separate teams ("triple redundancy") and some system to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system. The term is not typically used for other, less beneficial, duplication of data. 2. "communications" The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information. Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question. [Shannon and Weaver, 1948, p. l3] (2010-02-04)

debugger "tool, programming" A {tool} used by a {programmer} to monitor and control a program he is trying to fix. The most important functions of a debugger are {tracing}, stepping, {breakpoints} and {watches}. Tracing displays a step-by-step report on what {statement} the program is currently executing, allowing the programmer to follow the {flow of control} through {if statements}, {loops (loop)}, {subroutine} calls, etc. {Breakpoints} and {watches} both pause execution of the program and return control to the debugger under certain conditions. A {breakpoint} triggers when execution reaches a particular {statement} in the program and a {watch} triggers whenever a specific variable is modified. Stepping is like a breakpoint on every statement, often with the option to step "into" or "over" a {subroutine}, i.e. continue stepping through the statements of the subroutine or just execute it without pausing and resume stepping when it returns. Whenever control returns to the debugger it lets the programmer ask to see the values of {variables}, and possibly modify them, before resuming execution. Some debuggers can be set to automatically perform some action like display a variable value and resume. A debugger can interact with the target program in different ways. Some debuggers require the program to be loaded into the debugger which may then modify or "instrument" the program for debugging. Others can "attach" to a program that is already running. Some are built into the normal program execution environment (e.g. an {interpreter}) and can be set to run under certain conditions, e.g. errors. Early debuggers such as {Unix}'s {adb} only knew about the compiled executable code so sometimes debugging had to be done at the level of {machine code} instructions and numerical memory locations. If you were lucky, the debugger could access the program's {symbol table} and display the original names of subroutines and variables. Sometimes this required the program to be "compiled for debugging". Since compiling every program for debugging would add significantly to the size of a {distribution} of a whole {operating system}, it is common for programs to be distributed without debugging support but for individual programs to be made available with it. A major advance in debuggers was source-level debugging. This gives the programmer a view of their {source code} annotated with breakpoints and a pointer to the statement currently being executed. Such a view is commonly part of an {integrated development environment} like {Visual Basic}. (2014-08-23)

demigod ::: (person) A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or and more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis.See also net.god, true-hacker.[Jargon File] (1994-10-27)

demigod "person" A hacker with years of experience, a national reputation, and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community. To qualify as a genuine demigod, the person must recognisably identify with the hacker community and have helped shape it. Major demigods include {Ken Thompson} and {Dennis Ritchie} (co-inventors of {Unix} and {C}) and {Richard Stallman} (inventor of {Emacs}). In their hearts of hearts, most hackers dream of someday becoming demigods themselves, and more than one major software project has been driven to completion by the author's veiled hopes of apotheosis. See also {net.god}, {true-hacker}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-27)

Demon Internet Ltd. "company" One of the first company to provide public {Internet} access in the UK. The staff of Demon Systems Ltd., an established software house, started Demon Internet on 1992-06-01 and it was the first system in the United Kingdom to offer low cost full {Internet} access. It was started with the support of about 100 founder members who discussed the idea on {Compulink Information Exchange}, and were brave enough to pay a year's subscription in advance. They aimed to have 200 members in the first year to cover costs, ignoring any time spent. After about two weeks they realised they needed nearer 400. By November 1993 they had over 2000 subscribers and by August 1994 they had about 11000 with 20% per month growth. All revenues have been reinvested in resources and expansion of service. Demon link to {Sprintlink} in the United States making them totally independent. They peer with {EUNet} and {PIPEX} to ensure good connectivity in Great Britain as well as having links to the {JANET}/{JIPS} UK academic network. A direct line into the {Department of Computing, Imperial College, London (http://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk)} from their Central London {Point of Presence} (PoP) (styx.demon.co.uk) gives access to the biggest {FTP} and {Archie} site in Europe. Demon provide local call access to a large proportion of the UK. The central London {PoP} provides {leased line} connections at a cheaper rate for those customers in the central 0171 area. Further lines and {PoPs} are being added continuously. Subscribers get allocated an {Internet Address} and can choose a {hostname} within the demon.co.uk {domain}. They can have any number of e-mail address at that host. In October 1994 Demon confirmed a large contract with the major telecommunications provider {Energis}. They will supply guaranteed bandwidth to Demon's 10Mb/s {backbone} from several cities and towns. Several {PoPs} will be phased out and replaced with others during 1995. E-mail: "internet@demon.net". {(ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/)}. {(http://demon.co.uk/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:demon.announce}. Telephone: +44 (181) 349 0063. Address: Demon Internet Ltd., 42 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London N3 1TT, UK. (1994-11-08)

Demon Internet Ltd. ::: (company) One of the first company to provide public Internet access in the UK.The staff of Demon Systems Ltd., an established software house, started Demon Internet on 1992-06-01 and it was the first system in the United Kingdom to per month growth. All revenues have been reinvested in resources and expansion of service.Demon link to Sprintlink in the United States making them totally independent. They peer with EUNet and PIPEX to ensure good connectivity in Great Britain as Central London Point of Presence (PoP) (styx.demon.co.uk) gives access to the biggest FTP and Archie site in Europe.Demon provide local call access to a large proportion of the UK. The central London PoP provides leased line connections at a cheaper rate for those customers in the central 0171 area. Further lines and PoPs are being added continuously.Subscribers get allocated an Internet Address and can choose a hostname within the demon.co.uk domain. They can have any number of e-mail address at that host.In October 1994 Demon confirmed a large contract with the major telecommunications provider Energis. They will supply guaranteed bandwidth to Demon's 10Mb/s backbone from several cities and towns. Several PoPs will be phased out and replaced with others during 1995.E-mail: . . .Usenet newsgroup: demon.announce.Telephone: +44 (181) 349 0063.Address: Demon Internet Ltd., 42 Hendon Lane, Finchley, London N3 1TT, UK. (1994-11-08)

demons) is an article of faith with two of our major world religions, and part of the tradition

Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada "language" (DIANA) A formerly {de facto standard} {intermediate language} for {Ada} programs, developed by Goos and Wulf at {CMU} in January 1981. DIANA is an {attributed tree} representation, with an abstract interface defined in {Interface Description Language} (Nestor, Lamb and Wulf, CMU, 1981; Snodgrass(?), 1989(?)). DIANA resulted from a merger of {AIDA} and {TCOL.Ada}. At the present (2001) it is no longer used by the major ADA compilers ["DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada", G.T. Goos et al, LNCS 161, Springer 1983]. (2001-09-15)

Descriptive Intermediate Attributed Notation for Ada ::: (language) (DIANA) A formerly de facto standard intermediate language for Ada programs, developed by Goos and Wulf at CMU in January 1981. DIANA is an DIANA resulted from a merger of AIDA and TCOL.Ada. At the present (2001) it is no longer used by the major ADA compilers[DIANA - An Intermediate Language for Ada, G.T. Goos et al, LNCS 161, Springer 1983].(2001-09-15)

Digital Equipment Corporation "company, hardware" (DEC) A computer manufacturer and software vendor. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering {time-sharing} machines. The first of the group of hacker cultures nucleated around the {PDP-1} (see {TMRC}). Subsequently, the {PDP-6}, {PDP-10}, {PDP-20}, {PDP-11} and {VAX} were all foci of large and important hackerdoms and DEC machines long dominated the {ARPANET} and {Internet} machine population. The first PC from DEC was a {CP/M} computer called {Rainbow}, announced in 1981-82. DEC was the technological leader of the minicomputer era (roughly 1967 to 1987), but its failure to embrace {microcomputers} and {Unix} early cost it heavily in profits and prestige after {silicon} got cheap. However, the {microprocessor} design tradition owes a heavy debt to the {PDP-11} {instruction set}, and every one of the major general-purpose microcomputer {operating systems} so far (CP/M, {MS-DOS}, {Unix}, {OS/2}) were either genetically descended from a DEC OS, or incubated on DEC {hardware} or both. Accordingly, DEC is still regarded with a certain wry affection even among many hackers too young to have grown up on DEC machines. The contrast with {IBM} is instructive. Quarterly sales $3923M, profits -$1746M (Aug 1994). DEC was taken over by {Compaq Computer Corporation} in 1998. In 2002 Compaq was in turn acquired by {Hewlett-Packard} who sold off parts of Digital Equipment Corporation to {Intel} and absorbed the rest. The Digital logo is no longer used. (2012-07-29)

Dii Majores. See DII MAGNI

dirtball ({XEROX PARC}) A small, perhaps struggling outsider; not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company". Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and scope of PARC's contributions to computer science have been such that this superior attitude is not much resented. - ESR [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-07)

dirtball ::: (XEROX PARC) A small, perhaps struggling outsider; not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, Xerox is not a dirtball company.Outsiders often observe in the PARC culture an institutional arrogance which usage of this term exemplifies. The brilliance and scope of PARC's contributions to computer science have been such that this superior attitude is not much resented. - ESR[Jargon File] (1994-12-07)

display standard ::: (hardware) IBM and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display standards for IBM PCs. The standards are mostly connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an EGA board can also do CGA and MDA.With the PS/2, IBM introduced the VGA standard and built it into the main system board motherboard. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability.Graphics software has to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for high-resolution displays. Either software software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems is fraught with compatibility problems. Display Resolution Colours Sponsor Systems T: text, G: graphics.More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types.See also MDA, CGA, EGA, PGA, Hercules, MCGA, VGA, SVGA, 8514, VESA.

display standard "hardware, standard" {IBM} and others have introduced a bewildering plethora of graphics and text display {standards} for {IBM PC}s. The standards are mostly implemented by plugging in a video display board (or "{graphics adaptor}") and connecting the appropriate monitor to it. Each new standard subsumes its predecessors. For example, an {EGA} board can also do {CGA} and {MDA}. With the {PS/2}, IBM introduced the {VGA} standard and built it into the main system board {motherboard}. VGA is also available as a plug-in board for PCs from third-party vendors. Also with the PS/2, IBM introduced the {8514} high-resolution graphics standard. An 8514 adaptor board plugs into the PS/2, providing a dual-monitor capability. Graphics software had to support the major IBM graphics standards and many non-IBM, proprietary standards for displays. Either software vendors provided {display drivers} or display vendors provided drivers for the software package. In either case, switching software or switching display systems was fraught with compatibility problems. Display  Resolution Colours Sponsor Systems MDA   720x350 T 2 IBM   PC CGA   320x200 4 IBM   PC EGA   640x350 16 IBM   PC PGA   640x480 256 IBM   PC Hercules 729x348 2 non-IBM PC MCGA   720x400 T   320x200 G 256 PS/2 VGA   720x400 T   640x480 G 16 SVGA   800x600 16 VESA XVGA 1024x768 256 (IBM name: 8514) T: text, G: graphics. More colours are available from third-party vendors for some display types. See also {MDA}, {CGA}, {EGA}, {PGA}, {Hercules}, {MCGA}, {VGA}, {SVGA}, {8514}, {VESA}. [What were the corresponding "mode" numbers"?] (2011-03-20)

distal self ::: One of the three major aspects of the overall self, along with the anterior and proximate self. The distal self is the objective self, which is experienced as “me” or “mine,” in contrast to the proximate self (“I” or “I/me”) and the anterior self (“I-I”). See proximate self and anterior self.

Distributed Component Object Model ::: (programming) (DCOM) Microsoft's extension of their Component Object Model (COM) to support objects distributed across a network. DCOM has been submitted to the IETF as a draft standard. Since 1996, it has been part of Windows NT and is also available for Windows 95.Unlike CORBA, which runs on many operating systems, DCOM is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and by Software AG, under the name EntireX, for Unix and IBM mainframes. DCOM serves the same purpose as IBM's DSOM protocol.DCOM is broken because it's an object model that has no provisions for inheritance, one of the major reasons for object oriented programming in the first place. .[Details?](2000-08-02)

Distributed Component Object Model "programming" (DCOM) {Microsoft}'s extension of their {Component Object Model} (COM) to support objects distributed across a {network}. DCOM has been submitted to the {IETF} as a draft standard. Since 1996, it has been part of {Windows NT} and is also available for {Windows 95}. Unlike {CORBA}, which runs on many {operating systems}, DCOM is currently (Dec 1997) only implemented by {Microsoft} for {Microsoft Windows} and by {Software AG}, under the name "{EntireX}", for {Unix} and {IBM} {mainframes}. DCOM serves the same purpose as {IBM}'s {DSOM} {protocol}. DCOM is broken because it's an {object model} that has no provisions for {inheritance}, one of the major reasons for {object oriented programming} in the first place. {(http://microsoft.com/com/tech/DCOM.asp)}. [Details?] (2000-08-02)

ditone ::: n. --> The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).

dog ::: n. --> A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
A mean, worthless fellow; a wretch.
A fellow; -- used humorously or contemptuously; as, a sly dog; a lazy dog.
One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).


dog star ::: --> Sirius, a star of the constellation Canis Major, or the Greater Dog, and the brightest star in the heavens; -- called also Canicula, and, in astronomical charts, / Canis Majoris. See Dog days.

do ::: n. --> A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization, or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
Deed; act; fear.


drum major ::: --> .
The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.
The marching leader of a military band.
A noisy gathering. [R.] See under Drum, n., 4.


d ::: --> The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
As a numeral D stands for 500. in this use it is not the initial of any word, or even strictly a letter, but one half of the sign / (or / ) the original Tuscan numeral for 1000.


Dual In-line Memory Module ::: (storage) Small circuit boards carrying memory integrated circuits, with signal and power pins on both sides of the board, in contrast to single-in-line memory modules (SIMM).The individual gold or lead connectors (pins) on SIMMs, although they are on both sides of the chip, are connected to the same memory chip, while on a DIMM, allows for a wider data path, as more modules can be accessed at once. DIMM pins are arranged in a zigzag design to allow PCB tracks to pass between them.The 8-byte DIMM format with dual-sided contacts can accommodate 4- and 16-megabit dynamic RAM chips, and is predicted to handle 64- and 256-Mbit connect directly to 32 bit data buses, and is intended for use in memory-expansion applications in notebook computers.A Dual in-line memory module (DIMM), as opposed to SIMMs (used by the majority of the PC industry) allows for a 128-bit data path by interleaving memory on path. Suppliers are unanimous in their belief that the DIMM will eventually replace the SIMM as the market's preferred memory module. (1996-01-28)

Dual In-line Memory Module "storage" Small circuit boards carrying memory {integrated circuits}, with signal and power pins on both sides of the board, in contrast to {single-in-line memory modules} (SIMM). The individual gold or lead connectors (pins) on SIMMs, although they are on both sides of the chip, are connected to the same memory chip, while on a DIMM, the connections on each side of the module connect to different chips. This allows for a wider data path, as more modules can be accessed at once. DIMM pins are arranged in a zigzag design to allow PCB tracks to pass between them. The 8-byte DIMM format with dual-sided contacts can accommodate 4- and 16-megabit {dynamic RAM} chips, and is predicted to handle 64- and 256-Mbit devices. The 8-byte DIMM will hold up to 32 megabytes of memory using 16-Mbit DRAMs, but with the 256-Mbit future-generation DRAM, it will be able to hold a 64-Mx64 configuration. Another variation, the 72-pin {SO-DIMM}, is designed to connect directly to 32 bit data buses, and is intended for use in memory-expansion applications in {notebook computers}. A Dual in-line memory module (DIMM), as opposed to SIMMs (used by the majority of the PC industry) allows for a 128-bit data path by interleaving memory on alternating memory access cycles. SIMMs on the other hand, have a 64-bit data path. Suppliers are unanimous in their belief that the DIMM will eventually replace the SIMM as the market's preferred memory module. (1996-01-28)

dur ::: a. --> Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.

Eclectic [from Greek eklektikos selective, picking out] Applied to systems of philosophy or religion which cull the best from a variety of systems, with the view of thus arriving at essentials. It was applied to the School of Ammonius Saccas and other Alexandrian philosophers, implying that they picked out what was best in all faiths in order to make a new system, doing so because they knew that all the major systems of human religion and philosophy fundamentally derive from a common wisdom-religion of remote antiquity, and therefore that each such system contains at least some elements of truth. Hence they were teaching the wisdom-religion through synthesizing, and by illustrating it from various faiths. The word is also applied to other matters, e.g. schools of painting.

Edward Yourdon ::: (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the Yourdon method of structured systems analysis and design, as well as software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world.Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world.He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory.In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling.Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals.He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense.Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network. (1995-04-16)

Edward Yourdon "person" A {software engineering} consultant, widely known as the developer of the "{Yourdon method}" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of {object-oriented analysis} and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from {MIT}, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of {Information Technology} at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with {DEC} and {General Electric}. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different {mainframe} computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving {time-sharing} and {virtual memory}. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, {Yourdon, Inc.}. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and {system dynamics} modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on {computer crime} and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network. (1995-04-16)

Ehrenfels, Maria Christian Julius Leopold Karl, Freiherr von: (1859-1932) As one of the leaders of the "Brentano School", he affirmed that the fundamental factor in valuation was desire. His principal interest was to trace the way in which desires and motives generate values. He described for the most part the development, the conflict, the hierarchy, and the obsolescence of values. Having a major influence upon the analytic approach to value theory, his outlook was relativistic and evolutionary. Main works: Uber Gestaltqualitäten (1890), System der Werttheorie (1897); Sexualethik (1907). -- H.H.

ellipse ::: n. --> An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
Omission. See Ellipsis.
The elliptical orbit of a planet.


-. Eng. tr. (still in MS.) by Major Herbert Irwin

enharmonical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.
Pertaining to a change of notes to the eye, while, as the same keys are used, the instrument can mark no difference to the ear, as the substitution of A/ for G/.
Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which


Enterprise Resource Planning "application, business" (ERP) Any {software} system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. This may include manufacturing, distribution, personnel, project management, payroll, and financials. ERP systems are accounting-oriented information systems for identifying and planning the {enterprise}-wide resources needed to take, make, distribute, and account for customer orders. ERP systems were originally extensions of {MRP II} systems, but have since widened their scope. An ERP system also differs from the typical MRP II system in technical requirements such as {relational database}, use of {object oriented programming} language, {computer aided software engineering} tools in development, {client/server} {architecture}, and {open system} {portability}. {JBOPS} are the major producers of ERP software. {"ERP Systems - Using IT to gain a competitive advantage", Shankarnarayanan S. (http://expressindia.com/newads/bsl/advant.htm)}. (1999-07-27)

Enterprise Resource Planning ::: (application, business) (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. This may include manufacturing, distribution, personnel, project management, payroll, and financials.ERP systems are accounting-oriented information systems for identifying and planning the enterprise-wide resources needed to take, make, distribute, and of object oriented programming language, computer aided software engineering tools in development, client/server architecture, and open system portability.JBOPS are the major producers of ERP software. ERP Systems - Using IT to gain a competitive advantage, Shankarnarayanan S. . (1999-07-27)

enthymeme ::: n. --> An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.

epichirema ::: n. --> A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.

equated with Adiriel [Rf Scholem, Major Trends

etat major ::: --> The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers.

Ethereal, Ethereality Used in an attempt to define states of matter more refined and less dense than familiar physical matter. The differences between the higher divisions of matter is analogous to the corresponding subdivisions of physical matter — solid, liquid, gas, and fiery. Thus the characteristic of the solid is fixity of form, restriction of movement; that of liquid, mobility; of gas, expansibility; while the fiery element among other things is exempt from gravitation. The major divisions of matter must be graded on a somewhat analogous scale.

Ethical formalism: (Kantian) Despite the historical over-shadowing of Kant's ethical position by the influence of The Critique of Pure Reason upon the philosophy of the past century and a half, Kant's own (declared) major interest, almost from the very beginning, was in moral philosophy. Even the Critique of Pure Reason itself was written only in order to clear the ground for dealing adequately with the field of ethics in the Grundlegung zur Metapkysik der Sttten (1785), in the Kritik der Praktischen Vernunft (1788), and in the Metaphysik der Sitten (1797). By the end of the seventeen-sixties Kant was ready to discard every prior ethical theory, from the earlv Greeks to Baumgarten, Rousseau, and the British moralists, finding, all of them, despite the wide divergencies among them, equally dogmatic and unacceptable. Each of the older theories he found covertly to rely upon some dogmatic criterion or other, be it a substantive "principle," an intuition, or an equally substantive "sense." Every such ethical theory fails to deal with ethical issues as genuinely problematic, since it is amenable to some "demonstrative" preconceived criterion.

European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH ::: (body) (ECRC) A joint research organisation founded in 1984 on the initiative of three major European manufacturers: Bull (France), ICL (UK) and competitive ability of the European Information Technology industry and thus complement the work of national and international bodies.The Centre is intended to be the breeding ground for those ideas, techniques and products which are essential for the future use of electronic information processing. The work of the Centre will focus on advanced information processing technology for the next generation of computers.ECRC is an independent company, owned equally by its shareholders. The formal interface between ECRC and its shareholders consists of two bodies: The supervises their execution and the Scientific Advisory Board, which advises the Shareholders' Council in determining future research directions.There are many collaborations between ECRC and its shareholders' companies on specific projects (Technology Transfer, prospective studies etc). The Centre is the member companies, and others seconded from public research agencies and universities.Seminars are held which bring together specialists from the Centre and the member companies.ECRC's mission is to pursue research in fundamental areas of computer science. The aim is to develop the theory, methodologies and tools needed to build to both fundamental research and the process of delivering the results to industry.ECRC plays an important role in Europe and is involved in several European Community initiatives. It is regularly consulted by the Commission of the research plans, international co-operation and relationships between academia and industry.Address: ECRC GmbH, Arabellastrasse 17, D-81925 Munich, Germany. .Telephone: +49 (89) 926 99 0. Fax: +49 (89) 926 99 170. (1994-12-01)

European Computer-Industry Research Centre GmbH "body" (ECRC) A joint research organisation founded in 1984 on the initiative of three major European manufacturers: {Bull} (France), {ICL} (UK) and {Siemens} (Germany). Its activities were intended to enhance the future competitive ability of the European {Information Technology} industry and thus complement the work of national and international bodies. The Centre is intended to be the breeding ground for those ideas, techniques and products which are essential for the future use of electronic information processing. The work of the Centre will focus on advanced information processing technology for the next generation of computers. ECRC is an independent company, owned equally by its shareholders. The formal interface between ECRC and its shareholders consists of two bodies: The Shareholders' Council, which approves the Centre's programmes and budgets and supervises their execution and the Scientific Advisory Board, which advises the Shareholders' Council in determining future research directions. There are many collaborations between ECRC and its shareholders' companies on specific projects (Technology Transfer, prospective studies etc). The Centre is staffed by highly qualified scientists drawn from different countries. Research staff are hired directly by ECRC, as well as some who come on assignment from the member companies, and others seconded from public research agencies and universities. Seminars are held which bring together specialists from the Centre and the member companies. ECRC's mission is to pursue research in fundamental areas of computer science. The aim is to develop the theory, methodologies and tools needed to build innovative computer applications. ECRC contributes actively to the international effort that is expanding the frontiers of knowledge in computer science. It plays an important role in bridging the gap between research and industry by striving to work at the highest academic level with a strong industrial focus. ECRC constitutes an opportunity in Europe for the best scientists and offers young researchers the possibility to mature in an environment which exposes them to both fundamental research and the process of delivering the results to industry. ECRC plays an important role in Europe and is involved in several European Community initiatives. It is regularly consulted by the Commission of the European Communities on strategic issues, such as the definition of future research plans, international co-operation and relationships between academia and industry. Address: ECRC GmbH, Arabellastrasse 17, D-81925 Munich, Germany. {(http://ecrc.de/)}. Telephone: +49 (89) 926 99 0. Fax: +49 (89) 926 99 170. (1994-12-01)

Every round brings about a new evolutionary development on every one of the globes of the earth-chain, and a fundamental change in the physical, psychic, mental, intellectual, and spiritual constitution of man. The manas principle (the fifth or intellectual principle) will be fully developed at the end of the fifth round, and corresponding aspects of the human constitution will be evolved in minor degree during the sixth and seventh root-races of the fourth round. Although the vast majority of human beings in that future round will be far more evolved than is the present-day or fourth round mankind, nevertheless during the fifth round on this globe will occur what theosophical literature calls the moment of choice. At that time the monads which will continue to rise on the ascending arc must have reached a certain point in their unfolding evolution enabling them successfully to pursue their upward evolutionary journey towards spirit. Those monads who shall not have reached this evolutionary status, and who therefore are not able to continue the upward arc, must perforce wait for the future manvantara, a loss in evolutionary opportunity and in time of many hundreds of millions of years.

faction ::: n. --> One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
Tumult; discord; dissension.


Ficino, Marsilio: Of Florence (1433-99). Was the main representative of Platonism in Renaissance Italy. His doctrine combines NeoPlatonic metaphysics and Augustinian theologv with many new, original ideas. His major work, the Theologia Ptatonica (1482) presents a hierarchical system of the universe (God, Angelic Mind, Soul, Quality, Body) and a great number of arguments for the immortality of the soul. Man is considered as the center of the universe, and human life is interpreted as an internal ascent of the soul towards God. Through the Florentine Academy Ficino's Platonism exercised a large influence upon his contemporaries. His theory of "Platonic love" had vast repercussions in Italian, French and English literature throughout the sixteenth century. His excellent Latin translations of Plato (1484), Plotinus (1492), and other Greek philosophers provided the occidental world with new materials of the greatest importance and were widely used up to the beginning of the nineteenth century. -- P.O.K.

Figure (syllogistic): The moods of the categorical syllogism (see Logic, formal, § 5) are divided into four figures, according as the middle term is subject in the major premiss and predicate in the minor premiss (first figure), or predicate in both premisses (second figure), or subject in both premisses (third figure), or predicate in the major premiss and subject in the minor premiss (fourth figure). Aristotle recognized only three figures, including the moods of the fourth figure among those of the first. The separation of the fourth figure from the first (ascribed to Galen) is accompanied by a redefinition of "major" and "minor" -- so that the major premiss is that involving the predicate of the conclusion, and the minor premiss is that involving the subject of the conclusion. -- A.C.

film at 11 "jargon" (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "{ITS} crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient. [{Jargon File}] (1998-03-24)

First Tier ::: A phrase used to summarize the first six major levels of values development according to Clare Graves and Spiral Dynamics: Survival Sense, Kin Spirits, Power Gods, Truth Force, Strive Drive, and Human Bond. First-Tier stages are characterized by a belief that “my values are the only correct values.” This lies in contrast to Second-Tier levels of development, wherein individuals recognize the importance of all value systems. Integral Theory uses First Tier to refer to the first six degrees or levels of developmental altitude (Infrared, Magenta, Red, Amber, Orange, and Green).

Frank, Philipp: (b. 1884) A member of the "Vienna Circle," who has made his home in the U. S. He has been avowedly influenced by Mach. His major work lies on the borderline between philosophy and physics and he makes an effort "to employ only concepts which will not lose their usefulness outside of physics."

(full) Enlightenment ::: Being one with all major states (horizontal enlightenment) and all major structure-stages (vertical enlightenment) that exist at any given historical time.

GCOS "operating system" /jee'kohs/ An {operating system} developed by {General Electric} from 1962; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System). The GECOS-II operating system was developed by {General Electric} for the 36-bit {GE-635} in 1962-1964. Contrary to rumour, GECOS was not cloned from {System/360} [{DOS/360}?] - the GE-635 architecture was very different from the {IBM 360} and GECOS was more ambitious than DOS/360. GE Information Service Divsion developed a large special multi-computer system that was not publicised because they did not wish {time sharing} customers to challenge their bills. Although GE ISD was marketing {DTSS} - the first commercial time sharing system - GE Computer Division had no license from Dartmouth and GE-ISD to market it to external customers, so they designed a time-sharing system to sell as a standard part of GECOS-III, which replaced GECOS-II in 1967. GECOS TSS was more general purpose than DTSS, it was more a programmer's tool (program editing, e-mail on a single system) than a BASIC TSS. The {GE-645}, a modified 635 built by the same people, was selected by {MIT} and {Bell} for the {Multics} project. Multics' infancy was as painful as any infancy. Bell pulled out in 1969 and later produced {Unix}. After the buy-out of GE's computer division by {Honeywell}, GECOS-III was renamed GCOS-3 (General Comprehensive Operating System). Other OS groups at Honeywell began referring to it as "God's Chosen Operating System", allegedly in reaction to the GCOS crowd's uninformed and snotty attitude about the superiority of their product. [Can anyone confirm this?] GCOS won and this led in the orphaning and eventual death of Honeywell {Multics}. Honeywell also decided to launch a new product line called Level64, and later DPS-7. It was decided to mainatin, at least temporarily, the 36-bit machine as top of the line, because GCOS-3 was so successfull in the 1970s. The plan in 1972-1973 was that GCOS-3 and Multics should converge. This plan was killed by Honeywell management in 1973 for lack of resources and the inability of Multics, lacking {databases} and {transaction processing}, to act as a business operating system without a substantial reinvestment. The name "GCOS" was extended to all Honeywell-marketed product lines and GCOS-64, a completely different 32-bit operating system, significanctly inspired by Multics, was designed in France and Boston. GCOS-62, another different 32-bit low-end DOS level was designed in Italy. GCOS-61 represented a new version of a small system made in France and the new {DPS-6} 16-bit {minicomputer} line got GCOS-6. When the intended merge between GCOS-3 and Multics failed, the Phoenix designers had in mind a big upgrade of the architecture to introduce {segmentation} and {capabilities}. GCOS-3 was renamed GCOS-8, well before it started to use the new features which were introduced in next generation hardware. The GCOS licenses were sold to the Japanese companies {NEC} and {Toshiba} who developed the Honeywell products, including GCOS, much further, surpassing the {IBM 3090} and {IBM 390}. When Honeywell decided in 1984 to get its top of the range machines from NEC, they considered running Multics on them but the Multics market was considered too small. Due to the difficulty of porting the ancient Multics code they considered modifying the NEC hardware to support the Multics compilers. GCOS3 featured a good {Codasyl} {database} called IDS (Integrated Data Store) that was the model for the more successful {IDMS}. Several versions of transaction processing were designed for GCOS-3 and GCOS-8. An early attempt at TP for GCOS-3, not taken up in Europe, assumed that, as in {Unix}, a new process should be started to handle each transaction. IBM customers required a more efficient model where multiplexed {threads} wait for messages and can share resources. Those features were implemented as subsystems. GCOS-3 soon acquired a proper {TP monitor} called Transaction Driven System (TDS). TDS was essentially a Honeywell development. It later evolved into TP8 on GCOS-8. TDS and its developments were commercially successful and predated IBM {CICS}, which had a very similar architecture. GCOS-6 and GCOS-4 (ex-GCOS-62) were superseded by {Motorola 68000}-based {minicomputers} running {Unix} and the product lines were discontinued. In the late 1980s Bull took over Honeywell and Bull's management chose Unix, probably with the intent to move out of hardware into {middleware}. Bull killed the Boston proposal to port Multics to a platform derived from DPS-6. Very few customers rushed to convert from GCOS to Unix and new machines (of CMOS technology) were still to be introduced in 1997 with GCOS-8. GCOS played a major role in keeping Honeywell a dismal also-ran in the {mainframe} market. Some early Unix systems at {Bell Labs} used GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services. The field added to "/etc/passwd" to carry GCOS ID information was called the "{GECOS field}" and survives today as the "pw_gecos" member used for the user's full name and other human-ID information. [{Jargon File}] (1998-04-23)

GCOS ::: (operating system) /jee'kohs/ An operating system developed by General Electric from 1962; originally called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System).The GECOS-II operating system was developed by General Electric for the 36-bit GE-635 in 1962-1964. Contrary to rumour, GECOS was not cloned from System/360 [DOS/360?] - the GE-635 architecture was very different from the IBM 360 and GECOS was more ambitious than DOS/360.GE Information Service Divsion developed a large special multi-computer system that was not publicised because they did not wish time sharing customers to GECOS TSS was more general purpose than DTSS, it was more a programmer's tool (program editing, e-mail on a single system) than a BASIC TSS.The GE-645, a modified 635 built by the same people, was selected by MIT and Bell for the Multics project. Multics' infancy was as painful as any infancy. Bell pulled out in 1969 and later produced Unix.After the buy-out of GE's computer division by Honeywell, GECOS-III was renamed GCOS-3 (General Comprehensive Operating System). Other OS groups at Honeywell their product. [Can anyone confirm this?] GCOS won and this led in the orphaning and eventual death of Honeywell Multics.Honeywell also decided to launch a new product line called Level64, and later DPS-7. It was decided to mainatin, at least temporarily, the 36-bit machine as lacking databases and transaction processing, to act as a business operating system without a substantial reinvestment.The name GCOS was extended to all Honeywell-marketed product lines and GCOS-64, a completely different 32-bit operating system, significanctly inspired small system made in France and the new DPS-6 16-bit minicomputer line got GCOS-6.When the intended merge between GCOS-3 and Multics failed, the Phoenix designers had in mind a big upgrade of the architecture to introduce segmentation and capabilities. GCOS-3 was renamed GCOS-8, well before it started to use the new features which were introduced in next generation hardware.The GCOS licenses were sold to the Japanese companies NEC and Toshiba who developed the Honeywell products, including GCOS, much further, surpassing the IBM 3090 and IBM 390.When Honeywell decided in 1984 to get its top of the range machines from NEC, they considered running Multics on them but the Multics market was considered too small. Due to the difficulty of porting the ancient Multics code they considered modifying the NEC hardware to support the Multics compilers.GCOS3 featured a good Codasyl database called IDS (Integrated Data Store) that was the model for the more successful IDMS.Several versions of transaction processing were designed for GCOS-3 and GCOS-8. An early attempt at TP for GCOS-3, not taken up in Europe, assumed that, as in required a more efficient model where multiplexed threads wait for messages and can share resources. Those features were implemented as subsystems.GCOS-3 soon acquired a proper TP monitor called Transaction Driven System (TDS). TDS was essentially a Honeywell development. It later evolved into TP8 on GCOS-8. TDS and its developments were commercially successful and predated IBM CICS, which had a very similar architecture.GCOS-6 and GCOS-4 (ex-GCOS-62) were superseded by Motorola 68000-based minicomputers running Unix and the product lines were discontinued.In the late 1980s Bull took over Honeywell and Bull's management choose Unix, probably with the intent to move out of hardware into middleware. Bull killed technology) are still to be introduced in 1997 with GCOS-8. GCOS played a major role in keeping Honeywell a dismal also-ran in the mainframe market.Some early Unix systems at Bell Labs used GCOS machines for print spooling and various other services. The field added to /etc/passwd to carry GCOS ID information was called the GECOS field and survives today as the pw_gecos member used for the user's full name and other human-ID information.[Jargon File] (1998-04-23)

Global System for Mobile Communications "communications" (GSM) One of the major {standards} for digital {mobile} communications. In 1982, the Groupe Speciale Mobile was formed by the {Confederation of European Posts and Telecommunications} (CEPT) to design a pan-European mobile technology. GSM was named after the "Groupe de travail Spéciale pour les services Mobiles" group of {CEPT} that wrote the first GSM specifications. By 2011, GSM was in use in over 60 countries and serving over six billion subscribers. The GSM standard uses the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz bands. {GPRS} allows {packet switched} data communications over GSM, and is widely used for {web} and {electronic mail} access from mobile devices. {GSM History (http://www.gsma.com/aboutus/history)}. (2017-01-03)

Global System for Mobile Communications ::: (communications) (GSM, originally Groupe de travail Sp?ciale pour les services Mobiles) One of the major standards for digital cellular subscribers. The GSM standard is currently used in the 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz bands.GPRS allows circuit switched data communications over GSM, and is widely used for World Wide Web and electronic mail access from cellular devices. .(2005-01-26)

Glory. [Rf. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish

Gorgias: (c. 480 - c. 375 B.C.) Celebrated orator, rhetorician and philosopher from Leontini in Sicily. He was numbered among the leading Sophists. He spent the major part of his long life in Greece, particularly in Athens. The Platonic dialogue bearing his name indicates in some measure the high esteem in which he was held. -- L.E.D.

Great Bear. See URSA MAJOR AND MINOR

"Greatest Happiness": In ethics, the basis of ethics considered as the highest good of the individual or of the greatest number of individuals. The feeling-tone of the individual, varying from tranquillity and contentment to happiness, considered as the end of all moral action, as for example in Epicurus, Lucretius and Rousseau. The welfare of the majority of individuals, or of society as a whole, considered as the end of all moral action, as for example in Plato, Bentham and Mill. The greatest possible surplus of pleasure over pain in the greatest number of individuals. Although mentioned by Plato in the Republic (IV, 420), the phrase in its current form probably originated in the English translation, in 1770, of Beccaria's Dei delitti e delle pene, where it occurs as "la massima felicita divisa nel maggior numero", which was rendered as "the greatest happiness of the greatest number", a phrase enunciated by Hutcheson in 1725. One of a number of ethical ideals or moral aims. The doctrine with which the phrase is most closely associated is that of John Stuart Mill, who said in his Utilitarianism (ch. II) that "the happiness which forms the . . . standard of what is right in conduct, is not the agent's own happiness, but that of all concerned". -- J.K.F.

great Hebrew patriarchs. [Rf Scholem, Major

Great Runes Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic {operating systems} still emit these. See also {runes}, {smash case}, {fold case}. Back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmision devices, the {Teletype Corporation} was faced with a major design choice. To shorten code lengths and cut complexity in the printing mechanism, it had been decided that {teletypes} would use a {monocase} {font}, either ALL UPPER or all lower. The Question Of The Day was therefore, which one to choose. A study was conducted on readability under various conditions of bad ribbon, worn print hammers, etc. Lowercase won; it is less dense and has more distinctive letterforms, and is thus much easier to read both under ideal conditions and when the letters are mangled or partly obscured. The results were filtered up through {management}. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity correctly." In this way (or so, at least, hacker folklore has it) superstition triumphed over utility. Teletypes were the major input devices on most early computers, and terminal manufacturers looking for corners to cut naturally followed suit until well into the 1970s. Thus, that one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years. (1994-12-02)

Great Runes ::: Uppercase-only text or display messages. Some archaic operating systems still emit these.See also runes, smash case, fold case.Decades ago, back in the days when it was the sole supplier of long-distance hardcopy transmittal devices, the Teletype Corporation was faced with a major filtered up through management. The chairman of Teletype killed the proposal because it failed one incredibly important criterion: It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deitycorrectly. one bad call stuck us with Great Runes for thirty years. (1994-12-02)

gross reductionism ::: One of two major versions of reductionism, along with subtle reductionism. Gross reductionism, in effect, reduces all quadrants to the Upper-Right quadrant, or the exterior of an individual, and then reduces all higher-order complexity in the Upper Right to atomic and subatomic particles. Also known as “atomism.” See subtle reductionism and flatland.

Group Think ::: The tendency for members of a cohesive group to reach decisions without weighing all the facts, especially those contradicting the majority opinion.

(g) The problem of the structure of the knowledge-situation is to determine with respect to each of the major kinds of knowledge just enumerated -- but particularly with respect to perception -- the constituents of the knowledge-situation in their relation to one another. The structural problem stated in general but rather vague terms is: What is the relation between the subjective and objective components of the knowledge-situation? In contemporary epistemology, the structural problem has assumed a position of such preeminence as frequently to eclipse other issues of epistemology. The problem has even been incorporated by some into the definition of philosophy. (See A. Lalande, Vocabulaire de la Philosophie, art. Theorie de la Connaissance. I. and G.D. Hicks, Encycl. Brit. 5th ed. art. Theory of Knowledge.) The principal cleavage in epistemology, according to this formulation of its problem, is between a subjectivism which telescopes the object of knowledge into the knowing subject (see Subjectivism; Idealism, Epistemological) and pan-objectivism which ascribes to the object all qualities perceived or otherwise cognized. See Pan-obiectivism. A compromise between the extrernes of subjectivism and objectivism is achieved by the theory of representative perception, which, distinguishing between primary and secondary qualities, considers the former objective, the latter subjective. See Representative Perception, Theory of; Primary Qualities; Secondary Qualities.

hack "jargon" 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack "foo"" is roughly equivalent to ""foo" is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See {Hacking X for Y}. 5. To pull a prank on. See {hacker}. 6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. Short for {hacker}. 8. See {nethack}. 9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as {Dungeons and Dragons} and {Zork}. See also {vadding}. See also {neat hack}, {real hack}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-08-26)

hack ::: (jargon) 1. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.2. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed.3. To bear emotionally or physically. I can't hack this heat!4. To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: What are you doing? I'm hacking TECO. In a general (time-extended) sense: What do you equivalent to foo is my major interest (or project). I hack solid-state physics. See Hacking X for Y.5. To pull a prank on. See hacker.6. To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. Whatcha up to? Oh, just hacking.7. Short for hacker.8. See nethack.9. (MIT) To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also vadding.See also neat hack, real hack.[Jargon File] (1996-08-26)

Haeberlin, Paul: (1878-) A well known Swiss thinker whose major contributions until recent years were in the field of education. In his hands phenomenology has become existential philosophy. A transcendental-idealistic tone pervades his philosophy. He combines in theory the advantages of existential phenomenology with those of psychologism. -- H.H.

hagdon ::: n. --> One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

Ham ham (Hebrew) Ḥām [from ḥām hot, warm, heat, warmth] In the Bible, one of the three sons of Noah, from whom a great majority of the southern nations were supposed to trace their descent (Genesis 10). Some scholars have suggested that ham is equivalent to khem (black), the native name of Egypt, for Chem is the name of Egypt in the Qabbalah.

Hell, says Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish

Hierarchy of types: See Logic, formal, § 6. Hilbert, David, 1862-, German mathematician. Professor of mathematics at the University of Göttingen, 1895-. A major contributor to many branches of mathematics, he is regarded by many as the greatest mathematician of his generation. His work on the foundations of Euclidean geometry is contained in his Grundlagen der Geometrie (1st edn., 1899, 7th edn., 1930). Concerning his contributions to mathematical logic and mathematical philosophy, see the articles mathematics, and proof theory. -- A. C.

High-Definition Multimedia Interface "video, standard" (HDMI) an industry standard for connecting digital audio and video devices via a single cable. HDMI can connect any audio/video source, such as a {set-top box}, {DVD player}, or {A/V receiver} to an audio and/or video {output device} such as a digital television (DTV). HDMI supports standard, enhanced, or high-definition video, plus multi-channel digital audio. It transmits all {ATSC} HDTV standards and supports 8-channel, 192kHz, uncompressed digital audio and all currently-available compressed formats (such as {Dolby Digital} and {DTS}), HDMI 1.3 adds additional support for new lossless digital audio formats {Dolby TrueHD} and {DTS-HD Master Audio} with {bandwidth} to spare to accommodate future enhancements. HDMI 1.4 incorporates connection via {Ethernet}. HDMI was created by {Hitachi}, {Panasonic Corporation}, {Philips}, {Sony}, {Thomson} (RCA), {Toshiba} and {Silicon Image} and has the support of several major motion picture producers and distributors. {hdmi.org (http://hdmi.org/)}. (2009-06-29)

His major works are: Thus Spake Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil, and Genealogy of Morals. -- H.H.

history 1. "history" {Virginia Tech history of computing (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/index.html)}. {IT Rentals computing timeline (http://www.itrentals.com/historyofcomputing/)}. 2. "operating system" A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to a {command interpreter}) which can be re-entered without re-typing them. The major improvement of the {C shell} (csh) over the {Bourne shell} (sh) was the addition of a command history. This was still inferior to the history mechanism on {VMS} which allowed you to recall previous commands as the current input line. You could then edit the command using cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history editing facilities are available under {tcsh} and {GNU Emacs}. 3. The history of the world was once discussed in {Usenet} newsgroups {news:soc.history} and {news:alt.history}. (2013-08-04)

history ::: 1. (operating system) A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to a command interpreter) which can be re-entered without re-typing them. The major then edit the command using cursor motion, insert and delete. These sort of history editing facilities are available under tcsh and GNU Emacs.2. (history) .3. See Usenet newsgroups soc.history and alt.history for discussion of the history of the world. (1995-04-05)

History. Inasmuch as pure or basic Materialism has been an infrequent doctrine among major thinkers, the history of philosophy broadly understood, is largely the history of Idealism.

horizontal enlightenment ::: Becoming one with all five major states: gross, subtle, causal, witnessing, and nondual.

IBM PC "computer" International Business Machines Personal Computer. IBM PCs and compatible models from other vendors are the most widely used computer systems in the world. They are typically single user {personal computers}, although they have been adapted into multi-user models for special applications. Note: "IBM PC" is used in this dictionary to denote IBM and compatible personal computers, and to distinguish these from other {personal computers}, though the phrase "PC" is often used elsewhere, by those who know no better, to mean "IBM PC or compatible". There are hundreds of models of IBM compatible computers. They are based on {Intel}'s {microprocessors}: {Intel 8086}, {Intel 8088}, {Intel 80286}, {Intel 80386}, {Intel 486} or {Pentium}. The models of IBM's first-generation Personal Computer (PC) series have names: IBM PC, {IBM PC XT}, {IBM PC AT}, Convertible and Portable. The models of its second generation, the Personal System/2 ({PS/2}), are known by model number: Model 25, Model 30. Within each series, the models are also commonly referenced by their {CPU} {clock rate}. All IBM personal computers are software compatible with each other in general, but not every program will work in every machine. Some programs are time sensitive to a particular speed class. Older programs will not take advantage of newer higher-resolution {display standards}. The speed of the {CPU} ({microprocessor}) is the most significant factor in machine performance. It is determined by its {clock rate} and the number of bits it can process internally. It is also determined by the number of bits it transfers across its {data bus}. The second major performance factor is the speed of the {hard disk}. {CAD} and other graphics-intensive {application programs} can be sped up with the addition of a mathematics {coprocessor}, a chip which plugs into a special socket available in almost all machines. {Intel 8086} and {Intel 8088}-based PCs require {EMS} (expanded memory) boards to work with more than one megabyte of memory. All these machines run under {MS-DOS}. The original {IBM PC AT} used an {Intel 80286} processor which can access up to 16 megabytes of memory (though standard {MS-DOS} applications cannot use more than one megabyte without {EMS}). {Intel 80286}-based computers running under {OS/2} can work with the maximum memory. Although IBM sells {printers} for PCs, most printers will work with them. As with display hardware, the software vendor must support a wide variety of printers. Each program must be installed with the appropriate {printer driver}. The original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard was severely criticised by typists for its non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys. In 1984, IBM corrected this on its AT keyboard, but shortened the backspace key, making it harder to reach. In 1987, it introduced its Enhanced keyboard, which relocated all the function keys and placed the control key in an awkward location for touch typists. The escape key was relocated to the opposite side of the keyboard. By relocating the function keys, IBM made it impossible for software vendors to use them intelligently. What's easy to reach on one keyboard is difficult on the other, and vice versa. To the touch typist, these deficiencies are maddening. An "IBM PC compatible" may have a keyboard which does not recognize every key combination a true IBM PC does, e.g. shifted cursor keys. In addition, the "compatible" vendors sometimes use proprietary keyboard interfaces, preventing you from replacing the keyboard. The 1981 PC had 360K {floppy disks}. In 1984, IBM introduced the 1.2 megabyte floppy disk along with its AT model. Although often used as {backup} storage, the high density floppy is not often used for interchangeability. In 1986, IBM introduced the 720K 3.5" microfloppy disk on its Convertible {laptop computer}. It introduced the 1.44 megabyte double density version with the PS/2 line. These disk drives can be added to existing PCs. Fixed, non-removable, {hard disks} for IBM compatibles are available with storage capacities from 20 to over 600 megabytes. If a hard disk is added that is not compatible with the existing {disk controller}, a new controller board must be plugged in. However, one disk's internal standard does not conflict with another, since all programs and data must be copied onto it to begin with. Removable hard disks that hold at least 20 megabytes are also available. When a new peripheral device, such as a {monitor} or {scanner}, is added to an IBM compatible, a corresponding, new controller board must be plugged into an {expansion slot} (in the bus) in order to electronically control its operation. The PC and XT had eight-bit busses; the AT had a 16-bit bus. 16-bit boards will not fit into 8-bit slots, but 8-bit boards will fit into 16-bit slots. {Intel 80286} and {Intel 80386} computers provide both 8-bit and 16-bit slots, while the 386s also have proprietary 32-bit memory slots. The bus in high-end models of the PS/2 line is called "{Micro Channel}". {EISA} is a non-IBM rival to Micro Channel. The original IBM PC came with {BASIC} in {ROM}. Later, Basic and BasicA were distributed on floppy but ran and referenced routines in ROM. IBM PC and PS/2 models PC range Intro CPU Features PC Aug 1981 8088 Floppy disk system XT Mar 1983 8088 Slow hard disk XT/370 Oct 1983 8088 IBM 370 mainframe emulation 3270 PC Oct 1983 8088 with 3270 terminal emulation PCjr Nov 1983 8088 Floppy-based home computer PC Portable Feb 1984 8088 Floppy-based portable AT Aug 1984 286 Medium-speed hard disk Convertible Apr 1986 8088 Microfloppy laptop portable XT 286 Sep 1986 286 Slow hard disk PS/2 range Intro CPU Features Model 1987-08-25 8086 PC bus (limited expansion) Model 1987-04-30 8086 PC bus Model 30 1988-09-286 286 PC bus Model 1987-04-50 286 Micro Channel bus Model 50Z Jun 1988 286 Faster Model 50 Model 55 SX May 1989 386SX Micro Channel bus Model 1987-04-60 286 Micro Channel bus Model 1988-06-70 386 Desktop, Micro Channel bus Model P1989-05-70 386 Portable, Micro Channel bus Model 1987-04-80 386 Tower, Micro Channel bus IBM PC compatible specifications CPU CPU  Clock  Bus   Floppy Hard    bus  speed width RAM  disk disk OS    bit  Mhz   bit byte  inch byte Mbyte 8088 16  4.8-9.5 8  1M*   5.25 360K 10-40 DOS    3.5 720K    3.5 1.44M 8086 16   6-12   16  1M* 20-60 286 16   6-25   16 1-8M*  5.25 360K 20-300 DOS    5.25 1.2M OS/2 386 32   16-33  32 1-16M** 3.5 720K Unix    3.5 1.44M 40-600 386SX 32   16-33  16 1-16M** 40-600 *Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with EMS memory boards **Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with normal "extended" memory and a memory management program. See also {BIOS}, {display standard}. (1995-05-12)

IBM PC ::: (computer) International Business Machines Personal Computer.IBM PCs and compatible models from other vendors are the most widely used computer systems in the world. They are typically single user personal computers, although they have been adapted into multi-user models for special applications.Note: IBM PC is used in this dictionary to denote IBM and compatible personal computers, and to distinguish these from other personal computers, though the phrase PC is often used elsewhere, by those who know no better, to mean IBM PC or compatible.There are hundreds of models of IBM compatible computers. They are based on Intel's microprocessors: Intel 8086, Intel 8088, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel model number: Model 25, Model 30. Within each series, the models are also commonly referenced by their CPU clock rate.All IBM personal computers are software compatible with each other in general, but not every program will work in every machine. Some programs are time sensitive to a particular speed class. Older programs will not take advantage of newer higher-resolution display standards.The speed of the CPU (microprocessor) is the most significant factor in machine performance. It is determined by its clock rate and the number of bits it can across its data bus. The second major performance factor is the speed of the hard disk.CAD and other graphics-intensive application programs can be sped up with the addition of a mathematics coprocessor, a chip which plugs into a special socket available in almost all machines.Intel 8086 and Intel 8088-based PCs require EMS (expanded memory) boards to work with more than one megabyte of memory. All these machines run under MS-DOS. The one megabyte without EMS). Intel 80286-based computers running under OS/2 can work with the maximum memory.Although IBM sells printers for PCs, most printers will work with them. As with display hardware, the software vendor must support a wide variety of printers. Each program must be installed with the appropriate printer driver.The original 1981 IBM PC's keyboard was severely criticised by typists for its non-standard placement of the return and left shift keys. In 1984, IBM corrected them intelligently. What's easy to reach on one keyboard is difficult on the other, and vice versa. To the touch typist, these deficiencies are maddening.An IBM PC compatible may have a keyboard which does not recognize every key combination a true IBM PC does, e.g. shifted cursor keys. In addition, the compatible vendors sometimes use proprietary keyboard interfaces, preventing you from replacing the keyboard.The 1981 PC had 360K floppy disks. In 1984, IBM introduced the 1.2 megabyte floppy disk along with its AT model. Although often used as backup storage, the introduced the 1.44 megabyte double density version with the PS/2 line. These disk drives can be added to existing PCs.Fixed, non-removable, hard disks for IBM compatibles are available with storage capacities from 20 to over 600 megabytes. If a hard disk is added that is not another, since all programs and data must be copied onto it to begin with. Removable hard disks that hold at least 20 megabytes are also available.When a new peripheral device, such as a monitor or scanner, is added to an IBM compatible, a corresponding, new controller board must be plugged into an the PS/2 line is called Micro Channel. EISA is a non-IBM rival to Micro Channel.The original IBM PC came with BASIC in ROM. Later, Basic and BasicA were distributed on floppy but ran and referenced routines in ROM.IBM PC and PS/2 modelsPC range Intro CPU FeaturesPC Aug 1981 8088 Floppy disk system PS/2 range Intro CPU FeaturesModel 1987-08-25 8086 PC bus (limited expansion) IBM PC compatible specifications CPU CPU Clock Bus Floppy Hardbus speed width RAM disk disk OS *Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with EMS memory boards**Under DOS, RAM is expanded beyond 1M with normal extended memory and a memory management program.See also BIOS, display standard. (1995-05-12)

I didn't change anything! An aggrieved cry often heard as bugs manifest during a regression test. The {canonical} reply to this assertion is "Then it works just the same as it did before, doesn't it?" See also {one-line fix}. This is also heard from applications programmers trying to blame an obvious applications problem on an unrelated systems software change, for example a divide-by-0 fault after terminals were added to a network. Usually, their statement is found to be false. Upon close questioning, they will admit some major restructuring of the program that shouldn't have broken anything, in their opinion, but which actually {hosed} the code completely. [{Jargon File}]

Illicit process of the major: In the categorical syllogism (Logic, formal, § 5), the conclusion cannot be a proposition E or O unless the major term appears in its premiss as distributed -- i.e., as subject of a proposition A or E, or the predicate of a proposition E or O. Violation of this rule is the fallacy of illicit process of the major. -- A.C.

illicit process of the major;

In astronomy, Atri is one of the stars of the Ursa Major, this constellation being especially connected with the seven maharshis.

indent style ::: (programming) The rules one uses to indent code in a readable fashion. There are four major C indent styles, described below; all have the aim of respect to the statement(s) they enclose and to the guard or controlling statement (if, else, for, while, or do) on the block, if any.K&R style - Named after Kernighan & Ritchie, because the examples in K&R are formatted this way. Also called kernel style because the Unix kernel is partisans. The basic indent shown here is eight spaces (or one tab) per level; four spaces are occasionally seen, but are much less common. if (cond) {body> here is eight spaces, but four spaces are just as common (especially in C++ code). if (cond){ indent per level shown here is eight spaces, but four spaces are occasionally seen. if (cond){ always four spaces per level, with { and } halfway between the outer and inner indent levels. if (cond){ screen at once. Doubtless these issues will continue to be the subject of holy wars.[Jargon File] (1995-07-24)

Indian Philosophy: General name designating a plethora of more or less systematic thinking born and cultivated in the geographic region of India among the Hindus who represent an amalgamation of adventitious and indigenous peoples, but confined at first exclusively to the caste-conscious Indo-germanic conquerors of the lands of the Indus and Ganges. Its beginnings are lost in the dim past, while a distinct emergence in tangible form is demonstrable from about 1000 B.C. Hindu idiosyncrasies are responsible for our inability to date with any degree of accuracy many of the systems, schools, and philosophers, or in some cases even to refer to the latter by name. Inasmuch as memory, not writing, has been universally favored in India, an aphoristic form (cf. sutra), subtended by copious commentaries, give Indian Philosophy its distinctive appearance. The medium is Sanskrit and the dialects derived from it. There are translations in all major Asiatic and European languages. The West became familiar with it when philologists discovered during last century the importance of Sanskrit. As a type of thinking employing unfamiliar conceptions and a terminology fluctuating in meaning (cf., e.g., rasa), it is distinct from Western speculations. Several peaks have been reached in the past, yet Indian Philosophy does not cease to act fructifyingly upon the present mind in India as elsewhere. Various factions advance conflicting claims as to the value of Indian speculation, because interpretations have not as yet become standardized. Textual criticism is now making strides, but with varying successes. Among larger histories of Indian Philosophy may be mentioned those of Deussen, Das Gupta, Bel-valkar and Ranade, and Radhakrishnan.

Individual Psychology: (a) In the widest sense, individual psychology is one of the major departments of psychology, comparable to such other major subdivisions as experimental psychology, abnormal psychology, comparative psychology, etc. It is the branch of psychology devoted to the investigation of mental variations among individuals and includes such topics as: character and temperament (see Characterology) mental types, genius, criminality, intelligence, testing, etc. Attention was frst directed to individual differences by Francis Galton (Hereditary Genius, 1869). Galton's method was applied to mental deficiency by Dugdale (The Jukes, 1877) and Galton himself extended the same type of inquiry to free association and imagery in Inquiries into Human Faculty, 1883. A more recent contribution to individual psychology is Cattell's American Men of Science (1906).

In harmony with Kant's major concern in his other Critiques, -- namely the establishment of lawfulness in each respective sphere (of scientific knowledge, of moral action, and of artistic and religious hopefulness) -- Kant's primary aim in ethics is the unification or synthesis of the field of action. Since, however, action is ever changing and since eternally new and creative possibilities of action are constantly coming into view, Kant saw that lawfulness in the ethical sphere could not be of either a static or predetermined nature.

in his Utriusque cosmi majoris et minoris historia, the

Initial Operational Test and Evaluation "testing" (IOT&E) The first phase of {operational test} and evaluation conducted on {pre-protectional} items, {prototypes}, or pilot production items and normally completed prior to the first major production decision. Conducted to provide a valid estimate of expected system operational effectiveness and suitability. (1996-12-27)

Insignia Solutions, Inc. "company" /in-sig'nee-* s*-loosh'nz/ A company that made its name as a provider of software that allows users to run {Microsoft Windows} and {MS-DOS} {application programs} on {Digital}, {HP}, {IBM}, {Motorola}, {NeXT}, {Silicon Graphics} and {Sun}/{SPARC} {workstations}, {X terminals}, {Java} desktops, and {Apple Computer}'s {Power Mac} and {Motorola 68000}-based computers. Insignia Solutions was founded in 1986. Their first product, {SoftPC} 1.0 for Sun workstations, was introduced in 1988. Also in 1988, Insignia shipped its first version of SoftPC for Apple Computer's Macintosh. As the demand to run Windows and MS-DOS applications on non-Intel computers grew, Insignia signed {OEM} agreements with several companies including {Data General}, Digital, {Fujitsu}, HP, {Intergraph Corp.}, Motorola, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems. Insignia Solutions sold its {SoftWindows} and {RealPC} product lines to {FWB Software} [when?]. Its major product in 2000 is the {Jeode} platform, a {Java virtual machine} for {Internet appliances} and {embedded} devices. {Home Page (http://insignia.com/)}. (2000-02-14)

Insignia Solutions, Inc. ::: (company) /in-sig'nee-* s*-loosh'nz/ A company that made its name as a provider of software that allows users to run Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS Sun/SPARC workstations, X terminals, Java desktops, and Apple Computer's Power Macintosh and Motorola 68000-based computers.Insignia Solutions was founded in 1986. Their first product, SoftPC 1.0 for Sun workstations, was introduced in 1988. Also in 1988, Insignia shipped its first agreements with several companies including Data General, Digital, Fujitsu, HP, Intergraph Corp., Motorola, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems.Insignia Solutions sold its SoftWindows and RealPC product lines to FWB Software [when?]. Its major product in 2000 is the Jeode platform, a Java virtual machine for Internet appliances and embedded devices. .(2000-02-14)

Intel 80186 "processor" A {microprocessor} developed by {Intel} circa 1982. The 80186 was an improvement on the {Intel 8086} and {Intel 8088}. As with the 8086, it had a 16-bit {external bus} and was also available as the {Intel 80188}, with an 8-bit external {data bus}. The initial {clock rate} of the 80186 and 80188 was 6 MHz. They were not used in many computers, but one notable exception was the {Mindset}, a very advanced computer for the time. They were used as {embedded processors}. One major function of the 80186/80188 series was to reduce the number of chips required. "To satisfy this market, we defined a processor with a significant performance increase over the 8086 that also included such common peripheral functions as software-controlled wait state and chip select logic, three timers, priority interrupt controller, and two channels of DMA (direct memory access). This processor, the 80186, could replace up to 22 separate VLSI (very large scale integration) and TTL (transistor-transistor logic) packages and sell for less than the cost of the parts it replaced." -- Paul Wells of Intel Corporation writing in Byte (reference below) New instructions were also introduced as follows: ENTER Make stcak frame for procedure parameters LEAVE High-level procedure exit PUSHA Push all general registers POPA Pop all general registers BOUND Check array index against bounds IMUL Signed (integer) multiply INS Input from port to string OUTS Output string to port ["The Evolution of the iAPX 286", Bob Greene, Intel Corporation, PC Tech Journal, December 1984, page 134]. ["The 80286 Microprocessor", Paul Wells, Intel Corporation, Byte, November 1984, p. 231]. (1999-05-10)

Intel 80186 ::: (processor) A microprocessor developed by Intel circa 1982. The 80186 was an improvement on the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. As with the 8086, it had a were not used in many computers, but one notable exception was the Mindset, a very advanced computer for the time. They were used as embedded processors.One major function of the 80186/80188 series was to reduce the number of chips required.To satisfy this market, we defined a processor with a significant performance increase over the 8086 that also included such common peripheral functions as integration) and TTL (transistor-transistor logic) packages and sell for less than the cost of the parts it replaced.-- Paul Wells of Intel Corporation writing in Byte (reference below)New instructions were also introduced as follows: ENTER Make stcak frame for procedure parametersLEAVE High-level procedure exit [The Evolution of the iAPX 286, Bob Greene, Intel Corporation, PC Tech Journal, December 1984, page 134].[The 80286 Microprocessor, Paul Wells, Intel Corporation, Byte, November 1984, p. 231]. (1999-05-10)

interchangeably with “great angel.” In Major

Internet Engineering Task Force "networking, standard, body" (IETF) The IETF is a large, open international community of network designers, operators, vendors and researchers whose purpose is to coordinate the operation, management and evolution of the {Internet} and to resolve short- and mid-range {protocol} and architectural issues. It is a major source of proposals for {protocol} {standards} which are submitted to the {Internet Architecture Board} (IAB) for final approval. The IETF meets three times a year and extensive minutes are included in the IETF Proceedings. The IETF Secretariat, run by The {Corporation for National Research Initiatives} with funding from the US government, maintains an index of {Internet-Drafts} whereas {RFCs} are maintained by The {Internet Architecture Board}. {(http://ietf.org)}. (1999-01-27)

Internet "networking" 1. With a lower-case "i", any set of {networks} interconnected with {routers}. 2. With an upper-case "I", the world's collection of interconnected networks. The Internet is a three-level {hierarchy} composed of {backbone networks}, {mid-level networks}, and {stub networks}. These include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various {protocols}, chiefly the {Internet Protocol}. Until the advent of the {web} in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed mostly via {command line} interfaces such as {telnet} and {FTP}. Since then it has grown to become a ubiquitous aspect of modern information systems, becoming highly commercial and a widely accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as advertising, brand building and online sales and services. Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge. While the web (primarily in the form of {HTML} and {HTTP}) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other {protocols} in use, supporting applications such as {electronic mail}, {chat}, {remote login} and {file transfer}. There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with {InterNIC} in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994. In 1996 there were over 100 {Internet access providers} in the US and a few in the UK (e.g. the {BBC Networking Club}, {Demon}, {PIPEX}). There are several bodies associated with the running of the Internet, including the {Internet Architecture Board}, the {Internet Assigned Numbers Authority}, the {Internet Engineering and Planning Group}, {Internet Engineering Steering Group}, and the {Internet Society}. See also {NYsernet}, {EUNet}. {The Internet Index (http://openmarket.com/intindex)} - statistics about the Internet. (2015-03-26)

Internet ::: (networking) (Note: capital I). The Internet is the largest internet (with a small i) in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span many different physical networks around the world with various protocols, chiefly the Internet Protocol.Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate research departments and was accessed this explosive transformation with the result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge.While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other protocols in use, supporting applications such as electronic mail, Usenet, chat, remote login, and file transfer.There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994. In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club, Demon, PIPEX).There are several bodies associated with the running of the Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Internet Engineering and Planning Group, Internet Engineering Steering Group, and the Internet Society.See also NYsernet, EUNet. - statistics about the Internet.(2000-02-21)

Internet Public Library (IPL) A project at the {University of Michigan} School of Information and Library Studies to provide an on-line, 24 hour public library, chaired by an assemblage of librarians and information industry professionals. The library aims to provide library services to a target audience estimated to number 1/4 of the entire American population by the end of the century. The Internet Public Library is scheduled to go on-line in March 1995. Among the first services will be on-line reference; youth services; user education; and professional services for librarians. {(http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/)}. {(telnet://ipl.sils.umich.edu/)}. Mailing list: majordomo@sils.umich.edu. (1995-07-20)

In the plural, the celestial seven munis, a collective title given to the seven stars of Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Here is the reason the marharshis of this constellation play so important a part in archaic Hindu and theosophical esoteric teaching — the genuinely evolved muni is one who is a true mahatma, one who has evoked into relatively full activity all the seven parts of his constitution.

In the statement of a sorites all conclusions except the last are suppressed, and in fact the sorites may be thought of as a single valid inference independently of analysis into constituent syllogisms. According to the order in which the premisses are arranged, the sorites is called progressive (if in the analsis into syllogisms each new premiss after the first is a major premiss, and each intermediate conclusion serves as a minor premiss for the next syllogism) or regressive or Goclenian (if each new premiss after "the first is a "minor premiss, and each intermediate conclusion a major premiss). -- A.C.

In this series we explore the words of other languages and list their definitions given by major dictionaries as well as by other disciples and Sri Aurobindo in his letters on Savitri.

intranet ::: (networking) Any network which provides similar services within an organisation to those provided by the Internet outside it but which is not company of one or more World-Wide Web servers on an internal TCP/IP network for distribution of information within the company.Since about 1995, intranets have become a major growth area in corporate computing due to the availability of cheap or free commercial browser and web server software which allows them to provide a simple, uniform hypertext interface to many kinds of information and application programs.Some companies give limited access to their intranets to other companies or the general public. This is known as an extranet. (1997-07-14)

intranet "networking" Any {network} which provides similar services within an organisation to those provided by the {Internet} outside it but which is not necessarily connected to the Internet. The commonest example is the use by a company of one or more {web} servers on an internal {TCP/IP} network for distribution of information within the company. Since about 1995, intranets have become a major growth area in corporate computing due to the availability of cheap or free commercial {browser} and {web server} software which allows them to provide a simple, uniform {hypertext} interface to many kinds of information and {application programs}. Some companies give limited access to their intranets to other companies or the general public. This is known as an "{extranet}". (1997-07-14)

Iomega Corporation ::: (company, storage) A storage device manufacturer whose major products are the Zip and Jaz removable disk drives and Ditto tape drives. They became popular with an early product called the Bernoulli Box.These products fall in line with their focus set in 1994 to help people manage their stuff. The company's stated aim is to create portable, fast, large and cheap storage solutions. Iomega's major competitor in the growing market for removable disks is SyQuest, who seem to always be a few weeks behind them.In general, Iomega target the Small Office/Home Office. They are also investigating the growing digital photography market which also needs large removable storage devices.Iomega's president and CEO is Kim Edwards. They have nearly 2000 employees in offices world-wide. Revenue for the quarter ending Dec 1996 was $371 million and net income was $20 million.Headquarters: Roy, Utah, USA. . (1997-04-15)

Iomega Corporation "company, storage" A storage device manufacturer whose major products are the {Zip} and {Jaz} removable {disk drives} and {Ditto} {tape drives}. They became popular with an early product called the {Bernoulli Box}. These products fall in line with their focus set in 1994 "to help people manage their stuff". The company's stated aim is to create portable, fast, large and cheap storage solutions. Iomega's major competitor in the growing market for removable disks is {SyQuest}, who seem to always be a few weeks behind them. In general, Iomega target the {Small Office/Home Office}. They are also investigating the growing {digital photography} market which also needs large removable storage devices. Iomega's president and CEO is Kim Edwards. They have nearly 2000 employees in offices world-wide. Revenue for the quarter ending Dec 1996 was $371 million and net income was $20 million. Headquarters: Roy, Utah, USA. {(http://iomega.com/index.html)}. (1997-04-15)

It is held that society has not accomplished many basic transformations peacefully, that fundamental changes in the economic system or the social superstructure, such as that from medieval serf-lord to modern worker-capitalist economy, have usually involved violence wherein the class struggle passes into the acute stage of revolution because the existing law articulates and the state power protects the obsolete forms and minority-interest classes which must be superseded. The evolution of capitalism is considered to have reached the point where the accelerating abundance of which its technics are capable is frustrated by economic relationships such as those involved in individual ownership of productive means, hiring and firing of workers in the light of private profits and socially unplanned production for a money market. It is held that only technics collectively owned and production socially planned can provide employment and abundance of goods for everyone. The view taken is that peaceful attainment of them is possible, but will probably be violently resisted by priveleged minorities, provoking a contest of force in which the working class majority will eventually triumph the world over.

Jains, Jainas [from jina victorious] Followers of the jinas; one of the major Indian religions. Scholars place their origin in the 5th century BC, believing them to be the last direct representatives of the philosophical schools which then flourished. Jainism, however, became overshadowed with the rise of Buddhism, which it closely resembles; but came to the front when the Buddhist fervor waned in India. The first recorded Jain teacher is Vaddhamana (known as Mahavira, “the great hero”), a contemporary of Gautama Buddha; the Jains themselves state that there was a succession of teachers antedating him, and enumerate 24 Jinas or Tirthankaras. Jains deny the authority of the Vedas and do not believe in any personal supreme god. They have a complex religious philosophy which includes belief in the eternity of matter, the periodicity of the universe, and the immortality of human’s and animal’s minds. They are particularly known for avoiding harming any living thing.

JavaScript "language" (Formerly "LiveScript") {Netscape}'s simple, cross-{platform}, {web} {scripting language}, only very vaguely related to {Java} (which is a {Sun} trademark). JavaScript is intimately tied to the {web}, and currently runs in only three environments - as a {server}-side {scripting} language, as an embedded language in {server-parsed HTML}, and as an embedded language run in web {browsers} where it is the most important part of {DHTML}. JavaScript has a simplified {C}-like {syntax} and is tightly integrated with the browser {Document Object Model}. It is useful for implementing enhanced {forms}, simple web {database} {front-ends}, and navigation enhancements. It is unusual in that the {scope} of {variables} extends throughout the function in which they are declared rather than the smallest enclosing block as in C. JavaScript originated from {Netscape} and, for a time, only their products supported it. {Microsoft} now supports a work-alike which they call JScript. The resulting inconsistencies make it difficult to write JavaScript that behaves the same in all browsers. This could be attributed to the slow progress of JavaScript through the standards bodies. JavaScript runs "100x" slower than {C}, as it is purely interpreted ({Java} runs "10x" slower than C code). {Netscape} and allies say JavaScript is an "open standard" in an effort to keep {Microsoft} from monopolising web software as they have desktop software. {Netscape} and {Sun} have co-operated to enable {Java} and JavaScript to exchange messages and data. See also {VBScript}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.lang.javascript}. Mailing List: "majordomo@obscure.org" ("subscribe javascript" in body). (2003-04-28)

JBOPS "business, jargon" A nickname for the major {ERP} and enterprise software application companies: {JD Edwards}, {Baan}, {Oracle}, {PeopleSoft}, and {SAP}. (1999-07-27)

JBOPS ::: (business, jargon) A nickname for the major ERP and enterprise software application companies: JD Edwards, Baan, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. (1999-07-27)

J. L. Coolidge, A History of Geometrical Methods, New York, 1940. Mathesis universalis: Universal mathematics. One major part of Leibniz's program for logic was the development of a universal mathematics or universal calculus for manipulating, i.e. performing deductions in, the universal language (characteristica universalis). This universal language, he thought, could be constructed on the basis of a relatively few simple terms and, when constructed, would be of immense value to scientists and philosophers in reasoning as well as in communication. Leibniz's studies on the subject of a universal mathematics are the starting point in modern philosophy of the development of symbolic, mathematical logic. -- F.L.W.

Joint Academic NETwork (JANET) The {wide area network} which links UK academic and research institutes. JANET is controlled by the {Joint Network Team} (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is an {internet} (a large number of interconnected sub-networks) that provides connectivity within the community as well as access to external services and other communities. The {hub} is the JANET subnetwork, a private {X.25} {packet-switched} network that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority of sites, {local area networks} (LANs) are connected to JANET allowing off-site access for the computers and terminals connected to these networks. The {Coloured Book} {protocol} architecture is used to support interactive terminal access to computers (for both character terminals and screen terminals), inter-host file transfers, {electronic mail} and remote {batch} job submission. {(http://nic.ja.net/)}. See also {JIPS}, {SuperJanet}. (1995-02-07)

judgments ::: Basic attitudes that can be taken toward any phenomena. There are at least three major judgments that humans at Orange altitude or higher can make: aesthetic (Is it attractive?), moral (Is it good?), and cognitive (Is it real?).

kangaroo ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of jumping marsupials of the family Macropodidae. They inhabit Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, They have long and strong hind legs and a large tail, while the fore legs are comparatively short and feeble. The giant kangaroo (Macropus major) is the largest species, sometimes becoming twelve or fourteen feet in total length. The tree kangaroos, belonging to the genus Dendrolagus, live in trees; the rock kangaroos, of the genus Petrogale, inhabit rocky situations; and the brush kangaroos, of the

Kevo "language" A {prototype}-based {object-oriented} language written for {Macintosh} by Antero Taivalsaari at UTA, Finland. Kevo is built around a {threaded code} {interpreter} and features a unique prototype-based {object} model (which is based neither on {classes} nor {Self}-style {delegation}), {pre-emptive multitasking}, {cooperative multitasking}, dynamic {memory management}, an icon-based {object browser} and editor modelled loosely after Mac {Finder}. Kevo's {syntax} is close to {Forth} and its {semantics} resembles {Self} and {Omega}. {(ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/kevo/)}. E-mail: "kevo-interest@ursamajor.uvic.ca". [TR DCS-197-19, U Victoria, June 1992]. (1993-05-18)

Keys of the tarot: The twenty-two major arcana of the tarot deck (q.v.).

kremvax /krem-vaks/ (Or kgbvax) Originally, a fictitious {Usenet} site at the Kremlin, named like the then large number of {Usenet} {VAXen} with names of the form foovax. Kremvax was announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko. The posting was actually forged by Piet Beertema as an April Fool's joke. Other fictitious sites mentioned in the hoax were moskvax and {kgbvax}. This was probably the funniest of the many April Fool's forgeries perpetrated on {Usenet} (which has negligible security against them), because the notion that {Usenet} might ever penetrate the Iron Curtain seemed so totally absurd at the time. In fact, it was only six years later that the first genuine site in Moscow, demos.su, joined {Usenet}. Some readers needed convincing that the postings from it weren't just another prank. Vadim Antonov, senior programmer at Demos and the major poster from there up to mid-1991, was quite aware of all this, referred to it frequently in his own postings, and at one point twitted some credulous readers by blandly asserting that he *was* a hoax! Eventually he even arranged to have the domain's gateway site *named* kremvax, thus neatly turning fiction into truth and demonstrating that the hackish sense of humour transcends cultural barriers. Mr. Antonov also contributed some Russian-language material for the {Jargon File}. In an even more ironic historical footnote, kremvax became an electronic centre of the anti-communist resistance during the bungled hard-line coup of August 1991. During those three days the Soviet UUCP network centreed on kremvax became the only trustworthy news source for many places within the USSR. Though the sysops were concentrating on internal communications, cross-border postings included immediate transliterations of Boris Yeltsin's decrees condemning the coup and eyewitness reports of the demonstrations in Moscow's streets. In those hours, years of speculation that totalitarianism would prove unable to maintain its grip on politically-loaded information in the age of computer networking were proved devastatingly accurate - and the original kremvax joke became a reality as Yeltsin and the new Russian revolutionaries of "glasnost" and "perestroika" made kremvax one of the timeliest means of their outreach to the West. [{Jargon File}]

Ku: Cause, "that with the obtaining of which a thing becomes." "A minor cause is that the obtaining of which a thing may not necessarily be so but without the obtaining of which a thing will never be so." "A major cause is that with the obtaining of which a thing is necessarily so but without the obtaining of which a thing is necessarily not so." (Neo-Mohism.) -- W.T.C.

laodicean ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Laodicea, a city in Phrygia Major; like the Christians of Laodicea; lukewarm in religion.

level/line fallacy (LLF) ::: The confusing of a level in a line with the line itself. There are two major versions of the level/line fallacy: fixation, where a level in a line is glorified and absolutized, and thus the entire line is frozen at the level where the confusion originally occurred; and repression, where a level in a line is denied or suppressed and thus the entire line is suppressed.

lieutenant general ::: --> An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.

Life-Atoms ::: The physical body is composed essentially of energy, of energies rather, in the forms that are spoken ofin modern physical science as electrons and protons. These are in constant movement; they areincessantly active, and are what theosophists call the imbodiments or manifestations of life-atoms. Theselife-atoms are inbuilt into man's body during the physical life which he leads on earth, although they arenot derivative from outside, but spring forth from within himself -- at least a great majority of them aresuch. This is equivalent to saying that they compose both his physical as well as his intermediate nature,which latter is obviously higher than the physical.When the man dies -- that is to say, when the physical body dies -- its elements pass, each and all, intotheir respective and appropriate spheres: some into the soil, to which those that go there are drawn bymagnetic affinity, an affinity impressed upon their life-energies by the man when alive, whoseovershadowing will and desires, whose overlordship and power, gave them that direction. Others passinto the vegetation from the same reason that the former are impelled to the mineral kingdom; others passinto the various beasts with which they have, at the man's death, magnetic affinity, psychic affinity moreaccurately, an affinity which the man has impressed upon them by his desires and various impulses; andthose which take this path go to form the interior or intermediate apparatus of the beasts into which theypass. So much for the course pursued by the life-atoms of the man's lowest principles.But there are other life-atoms belonging to him. There are life-atoms, in fact, belonging to the sphere ofeach one of the seven principles of man's constitution. This means that there are life-atoms belonging tohis intermediate nature and to his spiritual nature and to all grades intermediate between these two higherparts of him. And in all cases, as the monad "ascends" or "rises" through the spheres, as he goes step bystep higher on his wonderful postmortem journey, on each such step he discards or casts off thelife-atoms belonging to each one of these steps or stages of the journey. With each step, he leaves behindthe more material of these life-atoms until, when he has reached the culmination of his wonderfulpostmortem peregrination, he is, as Paul of the Christians said, living in "a spiritual body" -- that is tosay, he has become a spiritual energy, a monad.Nature permits no absolute standing still for anything, anywhere. All things are full of life, full of energy,full of movement; they are both energy and matter, both spirit and substance; and these two arefundamentally one -- phases of the underlying reality, of which we see but the maya or illusory forms.The life-atoms are actually the offspring or the off-throwings of the interior principles of man'sconstitution. It is obvious that the life-atoms which ensoul the physical atoms in man's body are asnumerous as the atoms which they ensoul; and there are almost countless hosts of them, decillions upondecillions of them, in practically incomputable numbers. Each one of these life-atoms is a being which isliving, moving, growing, never standing still -- evolving towards a sublime destiny which ultimatelybecomes divinity.

Limbus Major (Latin) [from limbus border + major great] Used by Paracelsus for the fundamental matter from which all creatures have sprung — Adam’s Earth. He also applied it to the manifestation of that primordial substance in each one of the creatures.

Linux ::: (operating system) (Linus Unix) /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the Unix kernel originally written from scratch with no proprietary code.The kernel runs on Intel and Alpha hardware in the general release, with SPARC, PowerPC, MIPS, ARM, Amiga, Atari, and SGI in active development. The SPARC, networking. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable symmetric multiprocessing.Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other project supports Linux as its kernel until the research Hurd kernel is completed.This kernel would be no use without application programs. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other public domain these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or emulators exist for dozens of other computing environments.The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx).There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as Digital, IBM, and Apple and numerous smaller network and Providers, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and embedded microcontrollers. Debian is one popular open source distribution.The pronunciation of Linux has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because Linus has an english pronunciation of Linus and minus. Others say /li'niks/ following Minix, which Torvalds was working on before Linux. . . . UK Mirror .(2000-06-09)

Linux "operating system" ("Linus Unix") /li'nuks/ (but see below) An implementation of the {Unix} {kernel} originally written from scratch with no proprietary code. The kernel runs on {Intel} and {Alpha} hardware in the general release, with {SPARC}, {PowerPC}, {MIPS}, {ARM}, {Amiga}, {Atari}, and {SGI} in active development. The SPARC, PowerPC, ARM, {PowerMAC} - {OSF}, and 68k ports all support {shells}, {X} and {networking}. The Intel and SPARC versions have reliable {symmetric multiprocessing}. Work on the kernel is coordinated by Linus Torvalds, who holds the copyright on a large part of it. The rest of the copyright is held by a large number of other contributors (or their employers). Regardless of the copyright ownerships, the kernel as a whole is available under the {GNU} {General Public License}. The GNU project supports Linux as its kernel until the research {Hurd} kernel is completed. This kernel would be no use without {application programs}. The GNU project has provided large numbers of quality tools, and together with other {public domain} software it is a rich Unix environment. A compilation of the Linux kernel and these tools is known as a Linux distribution. Compatibility modules and/or {emulators} exist for dozens of other computing environments. The kernel version numbers are significant: the odd numbered series (e.g. 1.3.xx) is the development (or beta) kernel which evolves very quickly. Stable (or release) kernels have even major version numbers (e.g. 1.2.xx). There is a lot of commercial support for and use of Linux, both by hardware companies such as {Digital}, {IBM}, and {Apple} and numerous smaller network and integration specialists. There are many commercially supported distributions which are generally entirely under the GPL. At least one distribution vendor guarantees {Posix} compliance. Linux is particularly popular for {Internet Service Providers}, and there are ports to both parallel supercomputers and {embedded} {microcontrollers}. {Debian} is one popular {open source} distribution. The pronunciation of "Linux" has been a matter of much debate. Many, including Torvalds, insist on the short I pronunciation /li'nuks/ because "Linus" has an /ee/ sound in Swedish (Linus's family is part of Finland's 6% ethnic-Swedish minority) and Linus considers English short /i/ to be closer to /ee/ than English long /i:/ dipthong. This is consistent with the short I in words like "linen". This doesn't stop others demanding a long I /li:'nuks/ following the english pronunciation of "Linus" and "minus". Others say /li'niks/ following {Minix}, which Torvalds was working on before Linux. {More on pronunciation (/pub/misc/linux-pronunciation)}. {LinuxHQ (http://linuxhq.com/)}. {slashdot (http://slashdot.org/)}. {freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/)}. {Woven Goods (http://fokus.gmd.de/linux/)}. {Linux Gazette (http://ssc.com/lg)}. {funet Linux Archive (ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux)}, {US mirror (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/)}, {UK Mirror (ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/Linux/)}. (2000-06-09)

Listproc ::: A mailing list processor owned and developed by BITNET which runs under Unix.See also Listserv, Majordomo.[Details?] (1995-02-22)

Listproc A {mailing list} processor owned and developed by {BITNET} which runs under {Unix}. See also {Listserv}, {Majordomo}. [Details?] (1995-02-22)

Listserv "messaging" An automatic {mailing list} server, initially written to run under {IBM}'s {VM} {operating system} by Eric Thomas. Listserv is a {user name} on some computers on {BITNET}/{EARN} which processes {electronic mail} requests for addition to or deletion from mailing lists. Examples are listserv@ucsd.edu, listserver@nysernet.org. Some listservs provide other facilities such as retrieving files from {archives} and {database} search. Full details of available services can usually be obtained by sending a message with the word HELP in the subject and body to the listserv address. Eric Thomas, has recently formed an international corporation, L-Soft, and has ported Listserv to a number of other {platforms} including {Unix}. Listserv has simultaneously been enhanced to use both the {Internet} and {BITNET}. Two other major {mailing list} processors, both of which run under {Unix}, are {Majordomo}, a {freeware} system, and {Listproc}, currently owned and developed by {BITNET}. (1995-02-22)

Listserv ::: (messaging) An automatic mailing list server, initially written to run under IBM's VM operating system by Eric Thomas.Listserv is a user name on some computers on BITNET/EARN which processes electronic mail requests for addition to or deletion from mailing lists. Examples are , Some listservs provide other facilities such as retrieving files from archives and database search. Full details of available services can usually be obtained by sending a message with the word HELP in the subject and body to the listserv address.Eric Thomas, has recently formed an international corporation, L-Soft, and has ported Listserv to a number of other platforms including Unix. Listserv has simultaneously been enhanced to use both the Internet and BITNET.Two other major mailing list processors, both of which run under Unix, are Majordomo, a freeware system, and Listproc, currently owned and developed by BITNET. (1995-02-22)

lurking ::: (messaging, jargon) The activity of one of the silent majority in a electronic forum such as Usenet; posting occasionally or not at all but reading casually used reflexively: Oh, I'm just lurking. Often used in the lurkers, the hypothetical audience for the group's flamage-emitting regulars.Lurking and reading the FAQ are recommended netiquette for beginners who need to learn the history and practises of the group before posting. (1997-06-14)

lurking "messaging, jargon" The activity of one of the "silent majority" in a electronic forum such as {Usenet}; posting occasionally or not at all but reading the group's postings regularly. This term is not pejorative and indeed is casually used reflexively: "Oh, I'm just lurking". Often used in "the lurkers", the hypothetical audience for the group's {flamage}-emitting regulars. Lurking and reading the {FAQ} are recommended {netiquette} for beginners who need to learn the history and practises of the group before posting. (1997-06-14)

Macintosh user interface "operating system" The {graphical user interface} used by {Apple Computer}'s {Macintosh} family of {personal computers}, based on graphical representations of familiar office objects (sheets of paper, files, wastepaper bin, etc.) positioned on a two-dimensional "{desktop}" workspace. Programs and data files are represented on screen by small pictures ({icons}). An object is selected by moving a {mouse} over the real desktop which correspondingly moves the {pointer} on screen. When the pointer is over an icon on screen, the icon is selected by pressing the button on the mouse. A {hierarchical file system} is provided that lets a user "{drag}" a document (a file) icon into and out of a {folder} (directory) icon. Folders can also contain other folders and so on. To delete a document, its icon is dragged into a {trash can} icon. For people that are not computer enthusiasts, managing files on the Macintosh is easier than using the {MS-DOS} or {Unix} {command-line interpreter}. The Macintosh always displays a row of menu titles at the top of the screen. When a mouse button is pressed over a title, a {pull-down menu} appears below it. With the mouse button held down, the option within the menu is selected by pointing to it and then releasing the button. Unlike the {IBM PC}, which, prior to {Microsoft Windows} had no standard {graphical user interface}, Macintosh developers almost always conform to the Macintosh interface. As a result, users are comfortable with the interface of a new program from the start even if it takes a while to learn all the rest of it. They know there will be a row of menu options at the top of the screen, and basic tasks are always performed in the same way. Apple also keeps technical jargon down to a minimum. Although the Macintosh user interface provides consistency; it does not make up for an {application program} that is not designed well. Not only must the application's menus be clear and understandable, but the locations on screen that a user points to must be considered. Since the mouse is the major selecting method on a Macintosh, mouse movement should be kept to a minimum. In addition, for experienced typists, the mouse is a cumbersome substitute for well-designed keyboard commands, especially for intensive text editing. {Urban legned} has it that the Mac user interface was copied from {Xerox}'s {Palo Alto Research Center}. Although it is true that Xerox's {smalltalk} had a GUI and Xerox introduced some GUI concepts commercially on the {Xerox Star} computer in 1981, and that {Steve Jobs} and members of the Mac and {Lisa} project teams visited PARC, Jef Raskin, who created the Mac project, points out that many GUI concepts which are now considered fundamental, such as dragging objects and pull-down menus with the mouse, were actually invented at Apple. {Pull-down menus} have become common on {IBM}, {Commodore} and {Amiga} computers. {Microsoft Windows} and {OS/2} {Presentation Manager}, {Digital Research}'s {GEM}, {Hewlett-Packard}'s {New Wave}, the {X Window System}, {RISC OS} and many other programs and operating environments also incorporate some or all of the desktop/mouse/icon features. {Apple Computer} have tried to prevent other companies from using some {GUI} concepts by taking legal action against them. It is because of such restrictive practises that organisations such as the {Free Software Foundation} previously refused to support ports of their software to Apple machines, though this ban has now been lifted. [Why? When?] (1996-07-19)

maggiore ::: a. --> Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.

Mahatma(Mahatman, Sanskrit) ::: "Great soul" or "great self" is the meaning of this compound word (maha, "great";atman, "self"). The mahatmas are perfected men, relatively speaking, known in theosophical literature asteachers, elder brothers, masters, sages, seers, and by other names. They are indeed the "elder brothers"of mankind. They are men, not spirits -- men who have evolved through self-devised efforts in individualevolution, always advancing forwards and upwards until they have now attained the lofty spiritual andintellectual human supremacy that now they hold. They were not so created by any extra-cosmic Deity,but they are men who have become what they are by means of inward spiritual striving, by spiritual andintellectual yearning, by aspiration to be greater and better, nobler and higher, just as every good man inhis own way so aspires. They are farther advanced along the path of evolution than the majority of menare. They possess knowledge of nature's secret processes, and of hid mysteries, which to the average manmay seem to be little short of the marvelous -- yet, after all, this mere fact is of relatively smallimportance in comparison with the far greater and more profoundly moving aspects of their nature andlifework.Especially are they called teachers because they are occupied in the noble duty of instructing mankind, ininspiring elevating thoughts, and in instilling impulses of forgetfulness of self into the hearts of men.Also are they sometimes called the guardians, because they are, in very truth, the guardians of the raceand of the records -- natural, racial, national -- of past ages, portions of which they give out from time totime as fragments of a now long-forgotten wisdom, when the world is ready to listen to them; and theydo this in order to advance the cause of truth and of genuine civilization founded on wisdom andbrotherhood.Never -- such is the teaching -- since the human race first attained self-consciousness has this order orassociation or society or brotherhood of exalted men been without its representatives on our earth.It was the mahatmas who founded the modern Theosophical Society through their envoy or messenger,H. P. Blavatsky, in New York in 1875.

Mahatma (Sanskrit) Mahātman [from mahā great + ātman self] Great soul or self; relatively perfected human beings, also called teachers, elder brothers, Masters, sages, seers, etc. They are human beings who, through self-directed evolution and spiritual striving over many lifetimes, have attained a lofty spiritual and intellectual state. They are farther advanced evolutionarily than the majority of people, possessing great knowledge and powers; but their primary duty is the instruction and protection of mankind. From this body of advanced human beings, which has existed since humanity attained self-consciousness, have come the great teachers and the wisdom at the root of the world’s great religious, philosophic, and scientific systems.

mailing list "messaging" (Often shortened in context to "list") An {electronic mail address} that is an alias (or {macro}, though that word is never used in this connection) which is expanded by a {mail exploder} to yield many other e-mail addresses. Some mailing lists are simple "reflectors", redirecting mail sent to them to the list of recipients. Others are filtered by humans or programs of varying degrees of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to be "moderated". The term is sometimes used, by extension, for the people who receive e-mail sent to such an address. Mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction, along with {Usenet}. They predate {Usenet}, having originated with the first {UUCP} and {ARPANET} connections. They are often used for private information-sharing on topics that would be too specialised for or inappropriate to public {Usenet} groups. Though some of these maintain almost purely technical content (such as the {Internet Engineering Task Force} mailing list), others (like the "sf-lovers" list maintained for many years by Saul Jaffe) are recreational, and many are purely social. Perhaps the most infamous of the social lists was the eccentric bandykin distribution; its latter-day progeny, {lectroids} and {tanstaafl}, still include a number of the oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom. Mailing lists are easy to create and (unlike {Usenet}) don't tie up a significant amount of machine resources (until they get very large, at which point they can become interesting torture tests for mail software). Thus, they are often created temporarily by working groups, the members of which can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet face-to-face. There are several programs to automate mailing list maintenance, e.g. {Listserv}, {Listproc}, {Majordomo}. Requests to subscribe to, or leave, a mailing list should ALWAYS be sent to the list's "-request" address (e.g. ietf-request@cnri.reston.va.us for the IETF mailing list). This prevents them being sent to all recipients of the list and ensures that they reach the maintainer of the list, who may not actually read the list. [{Jargon File}] (2001-04-27)

mailing list ::: (messaging) (Often shortened in context to list) An electronic mail address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this varying degrees of sophistication; lists filtered by humans are said to be moderated.The term is sometimes used, by extension, for the people who receive e-mail sent to such an address.Mailing lists are one of the primary forms of hacker interaction, along with Usenet. They predate Usenet, having originated with the first UUCP and ARPANET distribution; its latter-day progeny, lectroids and tanstaafl, still include a number of the oddest and most interesting people in hackerdom.Mailing lists are easy to create and (unlike Usenet) don't tie up a significant amount of machine resources (until they get very large, at which point they can created temporarily by working groups, the members of which can then collaborate on a project without ever needing to meet face-to-face.There are several programs to automate mailing list maintenance, e.g. Listserv, Listproc, Majordomo.Requests to subscribe to, or leave, a mailing list should ALWAYS be sent to the list's -request address (e.g. for the IETF ensures that they reach the maintainer of the list, who may not actually read the list.[Jargon File](2001-04-27)

mainframe "computer" A term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or "main frame" of a room-filling {Stone Age} batch machine. After the emergence of smaller "{minicomputer}" designs in the early 1970s, the traditional {big iron} machines were described as "mainframe computers" and eventually just as mainframes. The term carries the connotation of a machine designed for batch rather than interactive use, though possibly with an interactive {time-sharing} operating system retrofitted onto it; it is especially used of machines built by {IBM}, {Unisys} and the other great {dinosaurs} surviving from computing's {Stone Age}. It has been common wisdom among hackers since the late 1980s that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for {number crunching} {supercomputers} (see {Cray})), having been swamped by the recent huge advances in {integrated circuit} technology and low-cost personal computing. As of 1993, corporate America is just beginning to figure this out - the wave of failures, takeovers, and mergers among traditional mainframe makers have certainly provided sufficient omens (see {dinosaurs mating}). Supporters claim that mainframes still house 90% of the data major businesses rely on for mission-critical applications, attributing this to their superior performance, reliability, scalability, and security compared to microprocessors. [{Jargon File}] (1996-07-22)

mainframe ::: (computer) A term originally referring to the cabinet containing the central processor unit or main frame of a room-filling Stone Age batch used of machines built by IBM, Unisys and the other great dinosaurs surviving from computing's Stone Age.It has been common wisdom among hackers since the late 1980s that the mainframe architectural tradition is essentially dead (outside of the tiny market for failures, takeovers, and mergers among traditional mainframe makers have certainly provided sufficient omens (see dinosaurs mating).Supporters claim that mainframes still house 90% of the data major businesses rely on for mission-critical applications, attributing this to their superior performance, reliability, scalability, and security compared to microprocessors.[Jargon File] (1996-07-22)

major ::: a. --> Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Of greater dignity; more important.
Of full legal age.
Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a


majorat ::: a. --> The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.


majorate ::: n. --> The office or rank of a major. ::: a. --> To augment; to increase.

majoration ::: n. --> Increase; enlargement.

majorcan ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to Majorca. ::: n. --> A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

major delivery "programming" A (chiefly British) synonym for {major release}. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The {release} notation would be "v9.0". (1996-08-04)

major delivery ::: (programming) A (chiefly British) synonym for major release. E.g, the ninth major release of a piece of software might be called MD9. The release notation would be v9.0. (1996-08-04)

major-domo ::: n. --> A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

major general ::: --> An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.

majorities ::: pl. --> of Majority

majority ::: n. --> The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
The military rank of a major.
The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one&


major release "programming" A {release} of a piece of software which is not merely a {revision} or a {bug fix release} but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the {interface}, change in compatibility). Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a {revision}. See also {major delivery}. (1996-08-04)

major release ::: (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not merely a revision or a bug fix release but which contains substantial changes (e.g., an overhaul of the interface, change in compatibility).Traditionally, major releases are numbered as X.0; for example, WordPerfect 6.0 is a major release, significantly different from any previous version; whereas WordPerfect 6.1 has only minor changes, and is, thus, only a revision.See also major delivery. (1996-08-04)

majorship ::: n. --> The office of major.

mancy and physiognomy. [Rf. Scholem, Major

Margaret Hamilton "person" (born 1936-08-17) A {computer scientist}, {systems engineer} and business owner, credited with coining the term {software engineering}. Margaret Hamilton published over 130 papers, proceedings and reports about the 60 projects and six major programs in which she has been involved. In 1965 she became Director of Software Programming at MIT's {Charles Stark Draper Laboratory} and Director of the Software Engineering Division of the {MIT Instrumentation Laboratory}, which developed on-board {flight software} for the Apollo space program. At {NASA}, Hamilton pioneered the Apollo on-board guidance software that navigated to and landed on the Moon and formed the basis for software used in later missions. At the time, programming was a hands-on, engineering descipline; computer science and software engineering barely existed. Hamilton produced innovations in {system design} and software development, enterprise and {process modelling}, development paradigms, {formal systems modelling languages}, system-oriented objects for systems modelling and development, {automated life-cycle environments}, {software reliability}, {software reuse}, {domain analysis}, correctness by built-in language properties, open architecture techniques for robust systems, full {life-cycle automation}, {quality assurance}, {seamless integration}, {error detection and recovery}, {man-machine interface} systems, {operating systems}, {end-to-end testing} and {life-cycle management}. She developed concepts of {asynchronous software}, {priority scheduling} and {Human-in-the-loop} decision capability, which became the foundation for modern, ultra-reliable software design. The Apollo 11 moon landing would have aborted when spurious data threatened to overload the computer, but thanks to the innovative asynchronous, priority based scheduling, it eliminated the unnecessary processing and completed the landing successfully. In 1986, she founded {Hamilton Technologies, Inc.}, developed around the {Universal Systems Language} and her systems and software design {paradigm} of {Development Before the Fact} (DBTF). (2015-03-08)

marjoram ::: n. --> A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

mass ::: n. 1. A body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size. 2. A large amount or number, such as a great body of people. masses, flower-masses. 3. Bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness. 4. The main body, bulk, or greater part of anything. 5. Physics. A measure of the amount of matter contained in or constituting a physical body. adj. 6. Of, involving, composed of masses of people (or things) or the majority of people (or a society, group, etc.); done, made, etc., on a large scale. v. 7. To gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble. massed.

masterwort ::: n. --> A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre.
Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).


mayor ::: n. --> The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.

MD ::: 1. (audio, storage) Mini Disk.2. (programming) major delivery.3. message digest function.(2001-12-02)

MD 1. "audio, storage" {Mini Disk}. 2. "programming" {major delivery}. 3. {message digest function}. (2001-12-02)

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation ::: (body) (MCC) One of the first, and now one of the largest, US computer industry research and development consortia.Founded in late 1982 by major computer and semiconductor manufacturers, MCC's membership has diversified to include a broad range of high-profile corporations and development agencies and leading universities, allows MCC's partners to maximise the benefit of scarce research and development resources.Some of the technical areas in which MCC has distinguished itself are:System Architecture and Design (optimise hardware and software design, provide for scalability and interoperability, allow rapid prototyping for improved time-to-market, and support the re-engineering of existing systems for open systems).Advanced Microelectronics Packaging and Interconnection (smaller, faster, more powerful, and cost-competitive).Hardware Systems Engineering (tools and methodologies for cost-efficient, up-front design of advanced electronic systems, including modelling and design-for-test techniques to improve cost, yield, quality, and time-to-market).Environmentally Conscious Technologies (process control and optimisation tools, information management and analysis capabilities, and non-hazardous material alternatives supporting cost-efficient production, waste minimisation, and reduced environmental impact).Distributed Information Technology (managing and maintaining physically distributed corporate information resources on different platforms, building blocks for the national information infrastructure, networking tools and services for integration within and between companies, and electronic commerce).Intelligent Systems (systems that intelligently support business processes and enhance performance, including decision support, data management, forecasting and prediction). .Address: Austin, Texas, USA. (1995-04-25)

Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation "body" (MCC) One of the first, and now one of the largest, US computer industry research and development consortia. Founded in late 1982 by major computer and semiconductor manufacturers, MCC's membership has diversified to include a broad range of high-profile corporations from electronics, computers, aerospace, semiconductors, and related industries, reflecting the full range of companies vital to the life cycle of {Information Technology} products. Active involvement of small- and medium-sized firms and technology users, along with well-established alliances with government research and development agencies and leading universities, allows MCC's partners to maximise the benefit of scarce research and development resources. Some of the technical areas in which MCC has distinguished itself are: System Architecture and Design (optimise hardware and software design, provide for scalability and interoperability, allow rapid prototyping for improved time-to-market, and support the re-engineering of existing systems for open systems). Advanced Microelectronics Packaging and Interconnection (smaller, faster, more powerful, and cost-competitive). Hardware Systems Engineering (tools and methodologies for cost-efficient, up-front design of advanced electronic systems, including modelling and design-for-test techniques to improve cost, yield, quality, and time-to-market). Environmentally Conscious Technologies (process control and optimisation tools, information management and analysis capabilities, and non-hazardous material alternatives supporting cost-efficient production, waste minimisation, and reduced environmental impact). Distributed {Information Technology} (managing and maintaining physically distributed corporate information resources on different {platforms}, building blocks for the {national information infrastructure}, networking tools and services for integration within and between companies, and electronic commerce). Intelligent Systems (systems that "intelligently" support business processes and enhance performance, including {decision support}, {data management}, forecasting and prediction). {(http://mcc.com/)}. Address: Austin, Texas, USA. (1995-04-25)

Microsoft SQL Server "database" A {relational database management system} (RDBMS) which is part of {Microsoft}'s {BackOffice} family of {servers}. SQL Server was designed for {client/server} use and is accessed by applications using {SQL}. It runs on {Windows NT} version 3.5 or higher and is compliant with the {ANSI} {SQL-92} and {FIPS} 127-2 {SQL} {standards}. SQL Server supports {symmetric multiprocessing} hardware; {SNMP}, {ODBC}, and major {open standard} communications {protocols}. It has {Internet} integration, data {replication}, and {data warehousing} features. Microsoft SQL Server was originally developed by {Sybase Corporation} but the cooperation was broken sometime [when?] before version 6.0. {(http://microsoft.com/sql)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.databases.ms-sqlserver}. (2001-04-27)

Microsoft SQL Server ::: (database) A relational database management system (RDBMS) which is part of Microsoft's BackOffice family of servers. SQL Server was designed for NT version 3.5 or higher and is compliant with the ANSI SQL-92 and FIPS 127-2 SQL standards.SQL Server supports symmetric multiprocessing hardware; SNMP, ODBC, and major open standard communications protocols. It has Internet integration, data replication, and data warehousing features.Microsoft SQL Server was originally developed by Sybase Corporation but the cooperation was broken sometime [when?] before version 6.0.Latest version: 7.0. [Or is it 2000?] .Usenet newsgroup: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver.(2001-04-27)

Middle Term: (Gr. mesos horos) That one of the three terms in a syllogism which appears in both premisses; so called by Aristotle because in the first, or perfect, figure of the syllogism it is commonly intermediate in extension between the Major Term and the Minor Term. See Aristotelianism; Major Term; Minor Term. See Logic, formal, § 5. -- G.R.M.

Mimamsa: Short for Purva-Mimamsa, one of the six major systems of Indian philosophy, founded by Jaimini, rationalizing Vedic ritual and upholding the authority of the Vedas by a philosophy of the word (see vac). In metaphysics it professes belief in the reality of the phenomenal, a plurality of eternal souls, but is indifferent to a concept of God though assenting to the superhuman and eternal nature of the Vedas. There is also an elaborate epistemology supporting Vedic truths, an ethics which makes observance of Vedic ritual and practice a condition of a good and blissful life.

Mimamsi: Short for Purva-Mimamsa, one of the six major systems of Indian philosophy (q. v.), founded by Jaimini, rationalizing Vedic ritual and upholding the authority of the Vedas by a philosophy of the word (see vac). In metaphysics it professes belief in the reality of the phenomenal, a plurality of eternal souls, but is indifferent to a concept of God though assenting to the superhuman and eternal nature of the Vedas. There is also an elaborate epistemology supporting Vedic truths, an ethics which makes observance of Vedic ritual and practice a condition of a good and blissful life. -- KS.L.

minority ::: a. & n. --> The state of being a minor, or under age.
State of being less or small.
The smaller number; -- opposed to majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.


Minor premiss: See figure (syllogistic). Minor Term: (Gr. elatton horos) That one of the three terms in a syllogism that appears as subject of the conclusion; so called by Aristotle because it is commonly the term of least extension. See Aristotelianism; Major Term; Middle Term; Logic, formal, § 5. -- C.R.M.

Mishnah, authorities of: The authorities cited in the Mishnah as rings in "golden chain" of the Jewish masorah (tradition) are: Sopherim (scribes) known also as Anshe Keneseth Hagedolah (men of the great synod), beginning with Ezra of the Bible and terminating with Simeon the Just. Five Zugoth (duumviri) the last pair being the noted Hillel and Shamai. The former was according to E. Renan's hypothesis, a teacher of Jesus, Tannaim (repeaters) --They numbered 277 and are divided into 5 generations. In the first generation were men who still held office in the temple of Jerusalem and witnessed its destruction (70 A.D.). The second generation counts the celebrated Nasi Rabban Gamaliel II and R. Eliezer ben Hyrcanus, excommunicated for opposing the rule of the majority, R. Ishmael who was held hostage in Rome, and R. Akiba, supporter of Bar Koheba who suffered a martyr's death by the Romans, Elisha b, Abuiah, the heretic.

moria ::: (games) /mor'ee-*/ Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons and Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and days, elvish. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking.[Jargon File]

moria "games" /mor'ee-*/ Like {nethack} and {rogue}, one of the large {PD} {Dungeons and Dragons}-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare {elder days}, {elvish}. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking. [{Jargon File}]

Motorola 68050 ::: There was no 68050. The successor to the Motorola 68040 was the Motorola 68060.The even numbers (68000, 68020, 68060) were reserved for major revisions to the 680x0 core. The odd numbers (68010, 68030, 68050) were minor upgrades from the enhancements. The 68050 would have been a 68040 with some bugs fixed, which didn't really warrant a new name so it was sold as a 68040. (1995-11-29)

Motorola 68050 There was no 68050. The successor to the {Motorola 68040} was the {Motorola 68060}. The even numbers (68000, 68020, 68060) were reserved for major revisions to the 680x0 core. The odd numbers (68010, 68030, 68050) were minor upgrades from the previous chip. For example, the {Motorola 68010} was a {Motorola 68000} with some minor enhancements and modifications to some user/superuser instruction assignments. The {Motorola 68030} was a {Motorola 68020} with an {MMU} and more minor enhancements. The 68050 would have been a 68040 with some bugs fixed, which didn't really warrant a new name so it was sold as a 68040. (1995-11-29)

Motorola 6809 ::: (MC6809) An eight-bit microprocessor from Motorola, Inc.The 6809 was a major advance over both its predecessor, the Motorola 6800 and also over the 6502. The 6809 had two 8-bit accumulators, rather than one in the instruction). Some instructions were replaced by more general ones which the assembler would translate, and some were even replaced by addressing modes.Other features were one of the first multiplication instructions of the time, 16-bit arithmetic and a special fast interrupt. But it was also highly 6800, it included the undocumented HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) bus test instruction.The Hitachi 6309 was a version with extra registers. The 6809 was used in the UK Dragon 32 personal computer and was followed by the Motorola 68000.See also SEX.Usenet newsgroup: comp.sys.m6809.There is a simulator called usim and an assembler by Lennart Benschop (1995-02-01)

Motorola 6809 "processor" (MC6809) An eight-bit {microprocessor} from {Motorola, Inc.}. The 6809 was a major advance over both its predecessor, the {Motorola 6800} and the {6502}. The 6809 had two 8-bit {accumulators}, rather than one in the 6502, and could combine them into a single 16-bit register. It also featured two {index registers} and two {stack pointers}, which allowed for some very advanced {addressing modes}. The 6809 was {source compatible} with the 6800, even though the 6800 had 78 instructions and the 6809 only had around 59 (including a {SEX} instruction). Some instructions were replaced by more general ones which the {assembler} would translate and some were replaced by {addressing modes}. The 6809 had one of the first multiplication instructions of the time, 16-bit arithmetic and a special fast {interrupt}. But it was also highly optimised, gaining up to five times the speed of the 6800 series CPU. Like the 6800, it included the undocumented HCF ({Halt and Catch Fire}) bus test instruction. The {Hitachi 6309} was a version with extra {registers}. The 6809 was used in the UK "{Dragon 32}" {personal computer} and was followed by the {Motorola 68000}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.sys.m6809}. Lennart Benschop "lennart@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl" posted a {emulator} (originally called "usim") and a {cross-assembler} to {Usenet} newsgroup {alt.sources} on 1993-11-03. Ray P. Bellis "rpb@psy.ox.ac.uk" released a version 0.11. {Benschop emulator (http://lennartb.home.xs4all.nl/m6809.html)}. (2014-06-24)

Motorola, Inc. "company" One of the world's leading providers of wireless communications, semiconductors and advanced electronic systems and services. Major equipment businesses include mobile telephone, two-way radio, paging and data communications, personal communications, automotive, defense and space electronics, computers, satellite communications systems, police and emergency service radio systems, taxicab dispatching (radio) systems. Communication devices, computers and millions of consumer products are powered by Motorola semiconductors. They are probably best known in the computing world for their {microprocessors}, including the {Motorola 6800} and {Motorola 68000} {CISC} families and {Motorola 88000} {RISCs}, the {Motorola DSP56000} {digital signal processors} and the {PowerPC} on which they collaborated. They also led the development of {VMEbus}. Quarterly sales $5400M, profits $367M (Aug 1994). See also {Envoy}, {Monsoon}, {MPL}. {(http://mot.com/)}. Address: Schaumberg, Illinois, USA. (1994-12-01)

mouse droppings 1. "graphics, operating system, jargon" {Pixels} (usually single) that are not properly restored when the {mouse pointer} moves away from a particular location on the screen, producing the appearance that the mouse pointer has left droppings behind. The major causes for this problem are {MS-DOS} programs that write to the screen memory corresponding to the mouse pointer's current location without hiding the mouse pointer first, and mouse drivers that do not quite support the {graphics mode} in use. 2. "web, jargon" The client address recorded in a {web} server's log whenever a client connects to a site. Users may be unaware that their activity is being logged in this way but the potential for misuse of the information is limited. [March 1996 Macworld, p260, Viewpoint article by Larry Irving]. (1994-12-05)

Multics ::: (operating system) /muhl'tiks/ MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service. A time-sharing operating system co-designed by a consortium including 1969, and took several more years to achieve respectable performance and stability.Multics was very innovative for its time - among other things, it was the first major OS to run on a symmetric multiprocessor; provided a hierarchical file default mode of operation. Multics was the only general-purpose system to be awarded a B2 security rating by the NSA.Bell Labs left the development effort in 1969. Honeywell commercialised Multics in 1972 after buying out GE's computer group, but it was never very successful: at its peak in the 1980s, there were between 75 and 100 Multics sites, each a multi-million dollar mainframe.One of the former Multics developers from Bell Labs was Ken Thompson, a circumstance which led directly to the birth of Unix. For this and other reasons, aspects of the Multics design remain a topic of occasional debate among hackers. See also brain-damaged and GCOS.MIT ended its development association with Multics in 1977. Honeywell sold its computer business to Bull in the mid 1980s, and development on Multics was stopped in 1988 when Bull scrapped a Boston proposal to port Multics to a platform derived from the DPS-6.A few Multics sites are still in use as late as 1996.The last Multics system running, the Canadian Department of National Defence Multics site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, shut down on 2000-10-30 at 17:08 UTC.The Jargon file 3.0.0 claims that on some versions of Multics one was required to enter a password to log out but James J. Lippard , program that required a password before one could type anything, including logout. .Usenet newsgroup: alt.os.multics.[Jargon File](2002-04-12)

Multics "operating system" /muhl'tiks/ MULTiplexed Information and Computing Service. A {time-sharing} {operating system} co-designed by a consortium including {MIT}, {GE} and {Bell Laboratories} as a successor to MIT's {CTSS}. The system design was presented in a special session of the 1965 Fall Joint Computer Conference and was planned to be operational in two years. It was finally made available in 1969, and took several more years to achieve respectable performance and stability. Multics was very innovative for its time - among other things, it was the first major OS to run on a {symmetric multiprocessor}; provided a {hierarchical file system} with {access control} on individual files; mapped files into a paged, segmented {virtual memory}; was written in a {high-level language} ({PL/I}); and provided dynamic inter-procedure linkage and memory (file) sharing as the default mode of operation. Multics was the only general-purpose system to be awarded a B2 {security rating} by the {NSA}. Bell Labs left the development effort in 1969. {Honeywell} commercialised Multics in 1972 after buying out GE's computer group, but it was never very successful: at its peak in the 1980s, there were between 75 and 100 Multics sites, each a multi-million dollar {mainframe}. One of the former Multics developers from Bell Labs was {Ken Thompson}, a circumstance which led directly to the birth of {Unix}. For this and other reasons, aspects of the Multics design remain a topic of occasional debate among hackers. See also {brain-damaged} and {GCOS}. MIT ended its development association with Multics in 1977. Honeywell sold its computer business to {Bull} in the mid 1980s, and development on Multics was stopped in 1988 when Bull scrapped a Boston proposal to port Multics to a {platform} derived from the {DPS-6}. A few Multics sites are still in use as late as 1996. The last Multics system running, the Canadian Department of National Defence Multics site in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, shut down on 2000-10-30 at 17:08 UTC. The {Jargon file} 3.0.0 claims that on some versions of Multics one was required to enter a password to log out but James J. Lippard "lippard@primenet.com", who was a Multics developer in Phoenix, believes this to be an {urban legend}. He never heard of a version of Multics which required a password to logout. Tom Van Vleck "thvv@multicians.org" agrees. He suggests that some user may have implemented a 'terminal locking' program that required a password before one could type anything, including logout. {(http://multicians.org/)}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:alt.os.multics}. [{Jargon File}] (2002-04-12)

Multi-User Dimension "games" (MUD) (Or Multi-User Domain, originally "Multi-User Dungeon") A class of multi-player interactive game, accessible via the {Internet} or a {modem}. A MUD is like a real-time {chat} forum with structure; it has multiple "locations" like an {adventure} game and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic and a simple economic system. A MUD where characters can build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world is sometimes known as a "{MUSH}". Most MUDs allow you to log in as a guest to look around before you create your own character. Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's {DEC-10} in 1979. It was a game similar to the classic {Colossal Cave} adventure, except that it allowed multiple people to play at the same time and interact with each other. Descendants of that game still exist today and are sometimes generically called BartleMUDs. There is a widespread myth that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on {British Telecom} (the motto: "You haven't *lived* 'til you've *died* on MUD!"); however, this is false - Richard Bartle explicitly placed "MUD" in the {PD} in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth. Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs ({VAXMUD}, {AberMUD}, {LPMUD}). Many of these had associated {bulletin-board systems} for social interaction. Because these had an image as "research" they often survived administrative hostility to {BBSs} in general. This, together with the fact that {Usenet} feeds have been spotty and difficult to get in the UK, made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there. AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the US; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see parallels with the growth of {Usenet} in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasise social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and competition. In 1991, over 50% of MUD sites are of a third major variety, LPMUD, which synthesises the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue. The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. There is now a move afoot to deprecate the term {MUD} itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. {UMN MUD Gopher page (gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/11/fun/Games/MUDs/Links)}. {U Pennsylvania MUD Web page (http://cis.upenn.edu/~lwl/mudinfo.html)}. See also {bonk/oif}, {FOD}, {link-dead}, {mudhead}, {MOO}, {MUCK}, {MUG}, {MUSE}, {chat}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:rec.games.mud.announce}, {news:rec.games.mud.admin}, {news:rec.games.mud.diku}, {news:rec.games.mud.lp}, {news:rec.games.mud.misc}, {news:rec.games.mud.tiny}. (1994-08-10)

Multi-User Dimension ::: (games) (MUD) (Or Multi-User Domain, originally Multi-User Dungeon) A class of multi-player interactive game, accessible via the Internet or a modem. MUDs allow you to log in as a guest to look around before you create your own character.Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth.Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of these had associated This, together with the fact that Usenet feeds have been spotty and difficult to get in the UK, made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there.AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the US; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. There is now a move afoot to deprecate the term MUD itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. . .See also bonk/oif, FOD, link-dead, mudhead, MOO, MUCK, MUG, MUSE, chat.Usenet newsgroups: rec.games.mud.announce, rec.games.mud.admin, rec.games.mud.diku, rec.games.mud.lp, rec.games.mud.misc, rec.games.mud.tiny. (1994-08-10)

Murphy's Law "humour" (Or "Sod's Law") The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for {lusers}. For example, you don't make a two-pin plug symmetrical and then label it "THIS WAY UP"; if it matters which way it is plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also the anecdote under {magic smoke}). Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the US Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject's body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later. Within months "Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on "Anything that can go wrong, will"; this is sometimes referred to as {Finagle's Law}. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself! [{Jargon File}] (1998-02-14)

Murphy's Law ::: (humour) (Or Sod's Law) The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in plugged in, then you make the design asymmetrical (see also the anecdote under magic smoke).Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of the engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the US Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) quoted at a news conference a few days later.Within months Murphy's Law' had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed Finagle's Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy's Law acting on itself![Jargon File] (1998-02-14)

nanocomputer "architecture" /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ A computer with molecular-sized switching elements. Designs for mechanical nanocomputers which use single-molecule sliding rods for their logic have been proposed. The controller for a {nanobot} would be a nanocomputer. Some nanocomputers can also be called {quantum computers} because quantum physics plays a major role in calculations. {Richard P. Feynman} is still cited today for his work in this area. ["Feynman Lectures on Computation", Richard P. Feynman (Editor, Author), Robin W. Allen (Editor), Tony Hey (Author)] [{Jargon File}] (2008-01-14)

narrow ::: superl. --> Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem.
Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority.


NATURAL ::: An integrated 4GL from Software AG, Germany. The menu-driven version is SUPER/NATURAL.Natural 2 is a major upgrade to Natural 1.Version 2.1.7 in the MVS environment (June 1995, also available for Unix).Natural works with DB2 and various other databases, but Natural and Adabas normally go together. There are many products available in the Natural family, including SuperNatural, Natural for Windows, Entire Connection (enables up/downloading and interaction with Excel) and Esperant. (1995-11-14)

NATURAL An integrated {4GL} from {Software AG}, Germany. The menu-driven version is SUPER/NATURAL. Natural 2 is a major upgrade to Natural 1. Version 2.1.7 in the MVS environment (June 1995, also available for Unix). Natural works with {DB2} and various other {databases}, but Natural and {Adabas} normally go together. There are many products available in the "Natural" family, including SuperNatural, Natural for Windows, Entire Connection (enables up/downloading and interaction with {Excel}) and Esperant. (1995-11-14)

Negative Skew ::: A curve or distribution of scores that has extreme scores below the mean that are atypical of the majority of scores.

network, the 1. "jargon, networking" (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as {Internet}, the old {ARPANET}, {NSFnet}, {BITNET}, and the virtual {UUCP} and {Usenet} "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial {time-sharing} services (such as {CompuServe}) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by {electronic mail} through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP ({bang-path}) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See {network address}. 2. "body" A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many {hackers} have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of {ha ha only serious}). [{Jargon File}] (1999-01-26)

network, the ::: 1. (jargon, networking) (Or the net) The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them.A site was generally considered on the network if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet.See network address.2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel Schr�dinger's Cat, to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).[Jargon File] (1999-01-26)

New Storage System ::: (storage) (NSS) A major Multics implementation project during the 1970s. The initial Multics file system design had evolved from the one-huge-disk world directory branch to a VTOC entry for each file. The new system had much better recovery performance in exchange for a small space and performance cost. (1997-01-29)

New Storage System "storage" (NSS) A major {Multics} implementation project during the 1970s. The initial Multics {file system} design had evolved from the one-huge-disk world of {CTSS}. When multiple disk units were used they were just assigned increasing ranges of disk addresses, so a {segment} could have {pages} scattered over all disks on the system. This provided good {I/O} {parallelism} but made {crash recovery} expensive. NSS redesigned the lower levels of the file system, introducing the concepts of {logical volume} and {physical volume} and a mapping from a Multics directory branch to a {VTOC} entry for each file. The new system had much better recovery performance in exchange for a small space and performance cost. (1997-01-29)

Nietzsche, Friedrich: (1844-1900) Nietzsche's discovery and description of "resentment", to mention only one of his major achievements, stamps him as one of the philosophical psychologists of the last century. His critique of the antiquated and false values of the educated middle class led pre-war generations to the pursuit of anethics of more realistic ideals. See Superman.

No proof of consistency of the functional calculus of order omega (or even of lower order) wiih the axiom of infinity added is known, except by methods involving assumptions so strong as to destroy any major significance.

Oahspe: “A new Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Ambassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens on the Earth for the past Twenty-four Thousand Years.” A book published originally by the Essenes of Kosmon, a Fraternity of Faithists, and currently by Wing Anderson (Kosmon Industries, Los Angeles, Calif.) The preface to the eleventh American edition (copyright 1953 by E. Wing Anderson) states that OAHSPE (pronounced O as in clock, AH as in father, SPE as in Speak) means sky, earth and spirit and is the title of a new bible given to the world in the year 1881; it goes on to say that the book was written down, under spiritual guidance, by Dr. John B. Newbrough, who was gifted with astonishing extrasensory perception and was actively engaged in psychic research. The preface goes on to say that “OAHSPE purports to have been written at the command of God, who states that He is not the Creator but is simply chief executive officer . . . of our planet earth. He explains who the Creator is and also makes clear the difference between Lord, Lord God, God and the Creator. This strange book informs us that the world entered a new era in the year 1848, how the new era is different from those which preceded it and what changes will come to humanity within the next few years.... OAHSPE is made up of thirty-six books covering the history of the planet, the history of the human race, the history of every major religion, past and present, an analysis of today and a prophecy of tomorrow.”

Occipital Lobe ::: One of for lobes of the brain. Contains the visual cortex and therefore plays a major role in the interpretation of visual information.

ofanim. [Rf Psalms 68:18; Scholem, Major Trends

Of the dilemma four kinds are distinguished. The simple constructive dilemma has two major premisses A ⊃ C and B ⊃ C, minor premiss A ∨ B, conclusion C. The simple destructive dilemma has two major premisses A ⊃ B and A ⊃ C, minor premiss ∼B ∨ ∼C, conclusion ∼A. The complex constructive dilemma has two major premisses A ⊃ B and C ⊃ D, minor premiss A ∨ C, conclusion B ∨ D. The complex destructive dilemma has two major premisses A ⊃ B and C ⊃ D, minor premiss ∼B ∨ ∼D, conclusion ∼A ∨ ∼C. (Since the conclusion of a complex dilemma must involve inclusive disjunction, it seems that the traditional account is best rendered by employing inclusive disjunction throughout.)

One interpretation of this allegory is that Vishnu appears in such fashion at the time of a major deluge for the preservation of the sishtas — the fine flowers of all living things in their respective hierarchical classes, which are thus preserved as seeds of life from age to age. The Biblical Noah, the Babylonian Oannes, and the Chaldean Dagon are representations of the same cosmic or human event.

Online Media ::: (company) A company formed by Acorn Computer Group plc to exploit the ARM RISC in television set-top box decoders. They are wooing British Telecommunications plc to use the box in some of its video on demand trials.The box will be based on an ARM8 core with additional circuits to enable MPEG to be decoded in software - possibly dedicated instructions for interpolation, will reduce component numbers and therefore cost by transferring functions presently on boards into the single RISC chip.The interactive set-top boxes are not limited to the television - personal computer videoconferencing and extended networking are being developed. Acorn Limited, News International, Alcatel NV and its majority shareholder Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA.The company is presently wholly owned by Acorn, but eventually expects to bring in external investment. Online will start a four phase trial in Cambridge with Hauser company promising super-cheap Asynchronous Transfer Mode - and Anglia Television, later this year.[Article by cross-posted from tandem.news.computergram, 1994-07-7]. (1997-05-14)

"Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga

“Ordinarily we mean by it [consciousness] our first obvious idea of a mental waking consciousness such as is possessed by the human being during the major part of his bodily existence, when he is not asleep, stunned or otherwise deprived of his physical and superficial methods of sensation. In this sense it is plain enough that consciousness is the exception and not the rule in the order of the material universe. We ourselves do not always possess it. But this vulgar and shallow idea of the nature of consciousness, though it still colours our ordinary thought and associations, must now definitely disappear out of philosophical thinking. For we know that there is something in us which is conscious when we sleep, when we are stunned or drugged or in a swoon, in all apparently unconscious states of our physical being. Not only so, but we may now be sure that the old thinkers were right when they declared that even in our waking state what we call then our consciousness is only a small selection from our entire conscious being. It is a superficies, it is not even the whole of our mentality. Behind it, much vaster than it, there is a subliminal or subconscient mind which is the greater part of ourselves and contains heights and profundities which no man has yet measured or fathomed.” Letters on Yoga

OS/2 /O S too/ {IBM} and {Microsoft}'s successor to the {MS-DOS} {operating system} for {Intel 80286} and {Intel 80386}-based {microprocessors}. It is proof that they couldn't get it right the second time either. Often called "Half-an-OS". The design was so {baroque}, and the implementation of 1.x so bad, that 3 years after introduction you could still count the major {application programs} shipping for it on the fingers of two hands, in {unary}. Later versions improved somewhat, and informed hackers now rate them superior to {Microsoft Windows}, which isn't saying much. See {second-system effect}. On an {Intel 80386} or better, OS/2 can {multitask} between existing {MS-DOS} {applications}. OS/2 is strong on connectivity and the provision of robust {virtual machines}. It can support {Microsoft Windows} programs in addition to its own {native} applications. It also supports the {Presentation Manager} {graphical user interface}. {OS/2} supports {hybrid multiprocessing} (HMP), which provides some elements of {symmetric multiprocessing} (SMP), using add-on IBM software called {MP/2}. OS/2 SMP was planned for release in late 1993. After OS/2 1.x the {IBM} and {Microsoft} partnership split. IBM continued to develop OS/2 2.0, while Microsoft developed what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 into {Windows NT}. In October 1994, IBM released version OS/2 3.0 (known as "Warp") but it is only distantly related to {Windows NT}. This version raised the limit on RAM from 16MB to 1GB (like Windows NT). IBM introduced networking with "OS/2 Warp Connect", the first multi-user version. OS/2 Warp 4.0 ("Merlin") is a {network operating system}. {(http://mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/os2world.html)}. [Dates?] [{Jargon File}] (1995-07-20)

oxeye ::: n. --> The oxeye daisy. See under Daisy.
The corn camomile (Anthemis arvensis).
A genus of composite plants (Buphthalmum) with large yellow flowers.
A titmouse, especially the great titmouse (Parus major) and the blue titmouse (P. coeruleus).
The dunlin.
A fish; the bogue, or box.


Packard Bell Electronics, Inc. "company" A leading US computer vendor. As recently as 29 November 1995 the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was having financial difficulties and that one of its major suppliers of CPUs, {Intel}, was about to make a large cash loan, so as to prevent loss of a major customer. Packard Bell is a privately held company and the WSJ also reported that {NEC} has been rumored to have bought a large minority block of shares to help the company stay in business. Its computers are sold in major retail outlets in the USA and are available as a bundled package: desktop or {tower} {486} {CPU}, single 3.5 inch {floppy disk drive}, {CD-ROM}, {sound card}, 14 inch colour {monitor}, and 4-8MB of {RAM}. 1995 end-of-year prices in Computer Currents magazine (a California Bay Area bi-monthly giveaway publication) are US$1500 (approx. 1000 pounds) for a 486 desktop, with 8MB RAM, 420MB hard disk drive, single 3.5 inch floppy drive, 14 inch colour monitor, 2-speed CD-ROM, and 16-bit sound card. Headquarters: Sacramento, California, USA. (1996-01-02)

Packard Bell Electronics, Inc. ::: (company) A leading US computer vendor.As recently as 29 November 1995 the Wall Street Journal reported that the company was having financial difficulties and that one of its major suppliers of reported that NEC has been rumored to have bought a large minority block of shares to help the company stay in business.Its computers are sold in major retail outlets in the USA and are available as a bundled package: desktop or tower 486 CPU, single 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, CD-ROM, sound card, 14 inch colour monitor, and 4-8MB of RAM.1995 end-of-year prices in Computer Currents magazine (a California Bay Area bi-monthly giveaway publication) are US$1500 (approx. 1000 pounds) for a 486 desktop, with 8MB RAM, 420MB hard disk drive, single 3.5 inch floppy drive, 14 inch colour monitor, 2-speed CD-ROM, and 16-bit sound card.Headquarters: Sacramento, California, USA. (1996-01-02)

packet driver ::: (networking) IBM PC local area network software that divides data into packets which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that application programs can read the data as a continuous stream.FTP Software created the specification for IBM PC packet drivers but Crynwr Software dominate the market and have done the vast majority of the implementations.Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple applications to share a network interface at the data link layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's standard packet type or service access point field(s).The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface.Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the DECnet, Banyan's, LifeNet's, Novell's or 3Com's without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface.Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied.There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning. . (1994-12-05)

packet driver "networking" {IBM PC} {local area network} software that divides data into {packets} which it routes to the network. It also handles incoming data, reassembling the packets so that {application programs} can read the data as a continuous stream. {FTP Software} created the specification for {IBM PC} packet drivers but {Crynwr Software} dominate the market and have done the vast majority of the implementations. Packet drivers provide a simple, common programming interface that allows multiple {applications} to share a {network interface} at the {data link} layer. Packet drivers demultiplex incoming packets among the applications by using the network media's {standard packet type} or {service access point} field(s). The packet driver provides calls to initiate access to a specific packet type, to end access to it, to send a packet, to get statistics on the network interface and to get information about the interface. Protocol implementations that use the packet driver can coexist and can make use of one another's services, whereas multiple applications which do not use the driver do not coexist on one machine properly. Through use of the packet driver, a user could run {TCP/IP}, {XNS} and a proprietary protocol implementation such as {DECnet}, {Banyan}'s, {LifeNet}'s, {Novell}'s or {3Com}'s without the difficulties associated with pre-empting the network interface. Applications which use the packet driver can also run on new network hardware of the same class without being modified; only a new packet driver need be supplied. There are several levels of packet driver. The first is the basic packet driver, which provides minimal functionality but should be simple to implement and which uses very few host resources. The basic driver provides operations to broadcast and receive packets. The second driver is the extended packet driver, which is a superset of the basic driver. The extended driver supports less commonly used functions of the network interface such as {multicast}, and also gathers statistics on use of the interface and makes these available to the application. The third level, the high-performance functions, support performance improvements and tuning. {(http://crynwr.com/crynwr/home.html)}. (1994-12-05)

paulist ::: n. --> A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

Peripheral Component Interconnect "hardware" (PCI) A standard for connecting {peripherals} to a {personal computer}, designed by {Intel} and released around Autumn 1993. PCI is supported by most major manufacturers including {Apple Computer}. It is technically far superior to {VESA}'s {local bus}. It runs at 20 - 33 MHz and carries 32 bits at a time over a 124-pin connector or 64 bits over a 188-pin connector. An address is sent in one cycle followed by one word of data (or several in burst mode). PCI is used in systems based on {Pentium}, {Pentium Pro}, {AMD 5x86}, {AMD K5} and {AMD K6} processors, in some {DEC Alpha} and {PowerPC} systems, and probably {Cyrix 586} and {Cyrix 686} systems. However, it is processor independent and so can work with other processor architectures as well. Technically, PCI is not a bus but a {bridge} or {mezzanine}. It includes buffers to decouple the {CPU} from relatively slow peripherals and allow them to operate asynchronously. (1997-12-07)

Perl ::: (language, tool) A high-level programming language, started by Larry Wall in 1987 and developed as an open source project. It has an eclectic heritage, and languages. Originally developed for Unix, it is now available for many platforms.Perl's elaborate support for regular expression matching and substitution has made it the language of choice for tasks involving string manipulation, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing CGI scripts.The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written Perl code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write.Perl's only primitive data type is the scalar, which can hold a number, a string, the undefined value, or a typed reference. Perl's aggregate data types Strings in Perl are eight-bit clean, including nulls, and so can contain binary data.Unlike C but like most Lisp dialects, Perl internally and dynamically handles all memory allocation, garbage collection, and type coercion.Perl supports closures, recursive functions, symbols with either lexical scope or dynamic scope, nested data structures of arbitrary content and complexity (as contain embedded documentation in POD (Plain Old Documentation), a simple markup language.The normal Perl distribution contains documentation for the language, as well as over a hundred modules (program libraries). Hundreds more are available from The Perl, but can be implemented as interfaces to code in other languages, typically compiled C.The free availability of modules for almost any conceivable task, as well as the fact that Perl offers direct access to almost all system calls and places no Perl, in a parody of a famous remark about lex, as the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming.The use of Perl has grown significantly since its adoption as the language of choice of many World-Wide Web developers. CGI interfaces and libraries for Perl exist for several platforms and Perl's speed and flexibility make it well suited for form processing and on-the-fly web page creation.Perl programs are generally stored as text source files, which are compiled into virtual machine code at run time; this, in combination with its rich variety of Ousterhout's dichotomy. Perl programs are usually called Perl scripts, if only for historical reasons.Version 5 was a major rewrite and enhancement of version 4, released sometime before November 1993. It added real data structures by way of references, un-adorned subroutine calls, and method inheritance.The spelling Perl is preferred over the older PERL (even though some explain the language's name as originating in the acronym for Practical Extraction and Report Language). The program that interprets/compiles Perl code is called perl, typically /usr/local/bin/perl or /usr/bin/perl.Current version: 5.005_03 stable, 5.005_62 in development, as of 1999-12-04. .Usenet newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce, comp.lang.perl.misc.[Programming Perl, Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-93715-64-1].[Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA].[Jargon File] (1999-12-04)

Perl "language, tool" A {high-level} programming language, started by {Larry Wall} in 1987 and developed as an {open source} project. It has an eclectic heritage, deriving from the ubiquitous {C} programming language and to a lesser extent from {sed}, {awk}, various {Unix} {shell} languages, {Lisp}, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Originally developed for {Unix}, it is now available for many {platforms}. Perl's elaborate support for {regular expression} matching and substitution has made it the {language of choice} for tasks involving {string manipulation}, whether for text or binary data. It is particularly popular for writing {CGI scripts}. The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written Perl code indecipherable to the uninitiated. The syntax is, however, really quite simple and powerful and, once the basics have been mastered, a joy to write. Perl's only {primitive} data type is the "scalar", which can hold a number, a string, the undefined value, or a typed reference. Perl's {aggregate} data types are {arrays}, which are ordered lists of {scalars} indexed by {natural numbers}, and hashes (or "{associative arrays}") which are unordered lists of scalars indexed by strings. A reference can point to a scalar, array, hash, {function}, or {filehandle}. {Objects} are implemented as references "{blessed}" with a {class} name. Strings in Perl are {eight-bit clean}, including {nulls}, and so can contain {binary data}. Unlike C but like most Lisp dialects, Perl internally and dynamically handles all memory allocation, {garbage collection}, and type {coercion}. Perl supports {closures}, {recursive functions}, {symbols} with either {lexical scope} or {dynamic scope}, nested {data structures} of arbitrary content and complexity (as lists or hashes of references), and packages (which can serve as classes, optionally inheriting {methods} from one or more other classes). There is ongoing work on {threads}, {Unicode}, {exceptions}, and {backtracking}. Perl program files can contain embedded documentation in {POD} (Plain Old Documentation), a simple markup language. The normal Perl distribution contains documentation for the language, as well as over a hundred modules (program libraries). Hundreds more are available from The {Comprehensive Perl Archive Network}. Modules are themselves generally written in Perl, but can be implemented as interfaces to code in other languages, typically compiled C. The free availability of modules for almost any conceivable task, as well as the fact that Perl offers direct access to almost all {system calls} and places no arbitrary limits on data structure size or complexity, has led some to describe Perl, in a parody of a famous remark about {lex}, as the "Swiss Army chainsaw" of programming. The use of Perl has grown significantly since its adoption as the language of choice of many {web} developers. {CGI} interfaces and libraries for Perl exist for several {platforms} and Perl's speed and flexibility make it well suited for form processing and on-the-fly {web page} creation. Perl programs are generally stored as {text} {source} files, which are compiled into {virtual machine} code at run time; this, in combination with its rich variety of data types and its common use as a glue language, makes Perl somewhat hard to classify as either a "{scripting language}" or an "{applications language}" -- see {Ousterhout's dichotomy}. Perl programs are usually called "Perl scripts", if only for historical reasons. Version 5 was a major rewrite and enhancement of version 4, released sometime before November 1993. It added real {data structures} by way of "references", un-adorned {subroutine} calls, and {method} {inheritance}. The spelling "Perl" is preferred over the older "PERL" (even though some explain the language's name as originating in the acronym for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"). The program that interprets/compiles Perl code is called "perl", typically "/usr/local/bin/perl" or "/usr/bin/perl". {(http://perl.com/)}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:comp.lang.perl.announce}, {news:comp.lang.perl.misc}. ["Programming Perl", Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-93715-64-1]. ["Learning Perl" by Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA]. [{Jargon File}] (1999-12-04)

Perry, Ralph Barton: (1876-) Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He was one of the founders of the new realist movement His classic biography of William James won the Pulitzer Prize for 1936. During the first World War he served as a major with the War Department Committee on Education and Special Training and this service has evidenced itself in his fervent advocacy of militant democracy. Among his works are Present Philosophical Tendencies, Philosophy of the Recent Past, General Theory of Value, 1926; Thought and Character of Wm. James, 2 vols., 1935; Shall Not Pertsh From the Earth, 1941. See Neo-Realism. -- L.E.D.

plain TeX "publication" {Donald Knuth}'s original set of user-level {macros} for interaction with his {TeX} formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more {user-friendly} {LaTeX} macros used by the majority of the TeX community. (1997-11-20)

plain TeX ::: (publication) Donald Knuth's original set of user-level macros for interaction with his TeX formatter. Dedicated TeX fans still prefer these over the more user-friendly LaTeX macros used by the majority of the TeX community. (1997-11-20)

Plato's theory of knowledge can hardly be discussed apart from his theory of reality. Through sense perception man comes to know the changeable world of bodies. This is the realm of opinion (doxa), such cognition may be more or less clear but it never rises to the level of true knowledge, for its objects are impermanent and do not provide a stable foundation for science. It is through intellectual, or rational, cognition that man discovers another world, that of immutable essences, intelligible realities, Forms or Ideas. This is the level of scientific knowledge (episteme); it is reached in mathematics and especially in philosophy (Repub. VI, 510). The world of intelligible Ideas contains the ultimate realities from which the world of sensible things has been patterned. Plato experienced much difficulty in regard to the sort of existence to be attributed to his Ideas. Obviously it is not the crude existence of physical things, nor can it be merely the mental existence of logical constructs. Interpretations have varied from the theory of the Christian Fathers (which was certainly not that of Plato himself) viz , that the Ideas are exemplary Causes in God's Mind, to the suggestion of Aristotle (Metaphysics, I) that they are realized, in a sense, in the world of individual things, but are apprehended only by the intellect The Ideas appear, however, particularly in the dialogues of the middle period, to be objective essences, independent of human minds, providing not only the foundation for the truth of human knowledge but afso the ontological bases for the shadowy things of the sense world. Within the world of Forms, there is a certain hierarchy. At the top, the most noble of all, is the Idea of the Good (Repub. VII), it dominates the other Ideas and they participate in it. Beauty, symmetry and truth are high-ranking Ideas; at times they are placed almost on a par with the Good (Philebus 65; also Sympos. and Phaedrus passim). There are, below, these, other Ideas, such as those of the major virtues (wisdom, temperance, courage, justice and piety) and mathematical terms and relations, such as equality, likeness, unlikeness and proportion. Each type or class of being is represented by its perfect Form in the sphere of Ideas, there is an ideal Form of man, dog, willow tree, of every kind of natural object and even of artificial things like beds (Repub. 596). The relationship of the "many" objects, belonging to a certain class of things in the sense world, to the "One", i.e. the single Idea which is their archetype, is another great source of difficulty to Plato. Three solutions, which are not mutually exclusive, are suggested in the dialogues (1) that the many participate imperfectly in the perfect nature of their Idea, (2) that the many are made in imitation of the One, and (3) that the many are composed of a mixture of the Limit (Idea) with the Unlimited (matter).

plumbing ::: (Unix) Term used for shell code, so called because of the prevalence of pipelines that feed the output of one program to the input of another. Under capability is considered one of Unix's major winning features. A few other operating systems such as IBM's VM/CMS support similar facilities.The tee utility is specifically designed for plumbing.[Jargon File] (1995-02-23)

plumbing (Unix) Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of "{pipelines}" that feed the output of one program to the input of another. Under {Unix}, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temporary file {grind}ing encapsulated in a {shell script}. This is much less effort than writing {C} every time, and the capability is considered one of Unix's major winning features. A few other {operating systems} such as {IBM}'s {VM/CMS} support similar facilities. The {tee} utility is specifically designed for plumbing. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-23)

plurality ::: n. --> The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.
The greater number; a majority; also, the greatest of several numbers; in elections, the excess of the votes given for one candidate over those given for another, or for any other, candidate. When there are more than two candidates, the one who receives the plurality of votes may have less than a majority. See Majority.


Political Philosophy: That branch of philosophy which deals with political life, especially with the essence, origin and value of the state. In ancient philosophy politics also embraced what we call ethics. The first and most important ancient works on Political Philosophy were Plato's Politeia (Republic) and Aristotle's Politics. The Politeia outlines the structure and functions of the ideal state. It became the pattern for all the Utopias (see Utopia) of later times. Aristotle, who considers man fundamentally a social creature i.e. a political animal, created the basis for modern theories of government, especially by his distinction of the different forms of government. Early Christianity had a rather negative attitude towards the state which found expression in St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei. The influence of this work, in which the earthly state was declared to be civitas diaboli, a state of the devil, was predominant throughout the Middle Ages. In the discussion of the relation between church and empire, the main topic of medieval political philosophy, certain authors foreshadowed modern political theories. Thomas Aquinas stressed the popular origin of royal power and the right of the people to restrict or abolish that power in case of abuse; William of Ockham and Marsiglio of Padua held similar views. Dante Alighieri was one of the first to recognize the intrinsic value of the state; he considered the world monarchy to be the only means whereby peace, justice and liberty could be secured. But it was not until the Renaissance that, due to the rediscovery of the individual and his rights and to the formation of territorial states, political philosophy began to play a major role. Niccolo Machiavelli and Jean Bodin laid the foundation for the new theories of the state by stressing its independence from any external power and its indivisible sovereignty. The theory of popular rights and of the right of resistance against tyranny was especially advocated by the "Monarchomachi" (Huguenots, such as Beza, Hotman, Languet, Danaeus, Catholics such as Boucher, Rossaeus, Mariana). Most of them used the theory of an original contract (see Social Contract) to justify limitations of monarchical power. Later, the idea of a Natural Law, independent from divine revelation (Hugo Grotius and his followers), served as an argument for liberal -- sometimes revolutionary -- tendencies. With the exception of Hobbes, who used the contract theory in his plea for absolutism, almost all the publicists of the 16th and 17th century built their liberal theories upon the idea of an original covenant by which individuals joined together and by mutual consent formed a state and placed a fiduciary trust in the supreme power (Roger Williams and John Locke). It was this contract which the Pilgrim Fathers translated into actual facts, after their arrival in America, in November, 1620, long before John Locke had developed his theorv. In the course of the 17th century in England the contract theory was generally substituted for the theory of the divine rights of kings. It was supported by the assumption of an original "State of Nature" in which all men enjoyed equal reciprocal rights. The most ardent defender of the social contract theory in the 18th century was J. J. Rousseau who deeply influenced the philosophy of the French revolution. In Rousseau's conception the idea of the sovereignty of the people took on a more democratic aspect than in 17th century English political philosophy which had been almost exclusively aristocratic in its spirit. This tendency found expression in his concept of the "general will" in the moulding of which each individual has his share. Immanuel Kant who made these concepts the basis of his political philosophy, recognized more clearly than Rousseau the fictitious character of the social contract and treated it as a "regulative idea", meant to serve as a criterion in the evaluation of any act of the state. For Hegel the state is an end in itself, the supreme realization of reason and morality. In marked opposition to this point of view, Marx and Engels, though strongly influenced by Hegel, visualized a society in which the state would gradually fade away. Most of the 19th century publicists, however, upheld the juristic theory of the state. To them the state was the only source of law and at the same time invested with absolute sovereignty: there are no limits to the legal omnipotence of the state except those which are self imposed. In opposition to this doctrine of unified state authority, a pluralistic theory of sovereignty has been advanced recently by certain authors, laying emphasis upon corporate personalities and professional groups (Duguit, Krabbe, Laski). Outspoken anti-stateism was advocated by anarchists such as Kropotkin, etc., by syndicalists and Guild socialists. -- W.E.

Positive Skew ::: A curve or distribution of scores that has extreme scores above the mean that are atypical of the majority of scores

pre/trans fallacy ::: In any recognized developmental sequence, the confusion of a pre-X stage and a trans-X stage simply because both are non-X. This fallacy has two major forms: the reduction of trans-X to pre-X and the elevation of pre-X to trans-X. For example, the confusion of pre-rational and trans-rational, pre-personal and trans-personal, or pre-conventional and post-conventional.

prime time ::: (From TV programming) Normal high-usage hours on a time-sharing system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for along with time-sharing itself, almost obsolete. The hackish tendency to late-night hacking runs has changed not a bit.[Jargon File] (1995-01-18)

prime time (From TV programming) Normal high-usage hours on a {time-sharing} system; the day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for {night mode} hacking. The rise of the personal workstation has rendered this term, along with {time-sharing} itself, almost obsolete. The hackish tendency to late-night {hacking runs} has changed not a bit. [{Jargon File}] (1995-01-18)

Princeton University ::: (body, education) Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college. First located in century. The College was officially renamed Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the Graduate School was established.Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866 graduate students). The ratio of full-time students to faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one.Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres. The University's James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres.As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than 1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region. . (1994-01-19)

Princeton University "body, education" Chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, Princeton was British North America's fourth college. First located in Elizabeth, then in Newark, the College moved to Princeton in 1756. The College was housed in Nassau Hall, newly built on land donated by Nathaniel and Rebeckah FitzRandolph. Nassau Hall contained the entire College for nearly half a century. The College was officially renamed Princeton University in 1896; five years later in 1900 the Graduate School was established. Fully coeducational since 1969, Princeton now enrolls approximately 6,400 students (4,535 undergraduates and 1,866 graduate students). The ratio of full-time students to faculty members (in full-time equivalents) is eight to one. Today Princeton's main campus in Princeton Borough and Princeton Township consists of more than 5.5 million square feet of space in 160 buildings on 600 acres. The University's James Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro consists of one million square feet of space in four complexes on 340 acres. As Mercer County's largest private employer and one of the largest in the Mercer/Middlesex/Somerset County region, with approximately 4,830 permanent employees - including more than 1,000 faculty members - the University plays a major role in the educational, cultural, and economic life of the region. {(http://princeton.edu/index.html)}. (1994-01-19)

proceedings "publication" (Proc.) A printed collection of papers presented at a conference or meeting, e.g. "The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Microelectronics for Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems". Along with learned journals, conference proceedings are a major repository of peer-reviewed research results. (2008-07-16)

programming language ::: (language) A formal language in which computer programs are written. The definition of a particular language consists of both syntax (how the various symbols of the language may be combined) and semantics (the meaning of the language constructs).Languages are classified as low level if they are close to machine code and high level if each language statement corresponds to many machine code instructions level). A roughly parallel classification is the description as first generation language through to fifth generation language.The other major classification of languages distinguishes between imperative languages, procedural language and declarative languages. .(2004-05-17)

programming language "language" A {formal language} in which {computer programs} are written. The definition of a particular language consists of both {syntax} (how the various symbols of the language may be combined) and {semantics} (the meaning of the language constructs). Languages are classified as low level if they are close to {machine code} and high level if each language statement corresponds to many machine code instructions (though this could also apply to a low level language with extensive use of {macros}, in which case it would be debatable whether it still counted as low level). A roughly parallel classification is the description as {first generation language} through to {fifth generation language}. The other major classification of languages distinguishes between {imperative languages}, {procedural language} and {declarative languages}. {Programming languages in this dictionary (/contents/language.html)}. {Programming languages time-line/family tree (http://levenez.com/lang/history.html)}. (2004-05-17)

Project MAC "project" A project suggested by J C R Licklider; its founding director was {MIT} Prof. Robert M Fano. MAC stood for Multiple Access Computers on the 5th floor of Tech Square, and Man and Computer on the 9th floor. The major efforts were Corbato's {Multics} development and {Marvin Minsky}'s {Artificial Intelligence} Laboratory. In 1963 Project MAC hosted a summer study, which brought many well-known computer scientists to Cambridge to use {CTSS} and to discuss the future of computing. Funding for Project MAC was provided by the Information Processing Techniques Office of the {Advanced Research Projects Agency} (ARPA) of the US Department of Defense. See also {Early PL/I}, {MacLisp}, {MACSYMA}, {MDL}, {Multipop-68}, {OCAL}. (1997-01-29)

Proof by cases: Represented in its simplest form by the valid inference of the propositional calculus, from A ⊃ C and B ⊃ C and A ∨ B to C. More complex forms involve multiple disjunctions, e.g., the inference from A ⊃ D and B ⊃ D and C⊃ D and [A ∨ B] ∨ C to D. The simplest form of proof by cases is thus the same as the simple constructive dilemma (see Logic, formal, § 2), the former term deriving from mathematical usage and the latter from traditional logic. For the more complex forms of proof by cases, and like generalizations of the other kinds of dilemma to the case of more than two major premisses, logicians have devised the names trilemma, tetralemma, polylemma -- but these are not much found in actual use. -- A.C.

proximate self ::: One of the three major aspects of the overall self, along with the distal and anterior self. The proximate self is the intimately subjective self, which is experienced as an “I” or “I/me.” It is also the equivalent of the self-identity stream. Wilber’s fulcrums of development refer to the stages of proximate self-sense development.

psephism ::: n. --> A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

Psychodynamic Therapy ::: A modern adaptation of psychoanalytic therapy which has made sometimes minor and sometimes major changes to Freud&

Quantity: In Aristotle and Kant (q.v.), one of the categories (q.v.) of judgment. See Quality. Quaternio terminorum: In the categorical syllogism (logic, formal, § 5), the major and minor premisses must have a term in common, the middle term. Violation of this rule is the fallacy of quaternio terminorum, or of four terms. It is most apt to arise through equivocation (q.v.), an ambiguous word or phrase playing the role of the middle term, with one meaning in the major premiss and another meaning in the minor premiss; and in this case the fallacy is called the fallacy of ambiguous middle. -- A.C.

Queen Mary and Westfield College (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the {University of London}. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties. QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty courses are encouraged and the physical proximity of all the College buildings is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies. {(http://qmw.ac.uk/)}. (1995-01-25)

Queen Mary and Westfield College ::: (QMW) One of the largest of the multi-faculty schools of the University of London. QMW has some 6000 students and over 600 teaching and research staff organised into seven faculties.QMW was one of the first colleges in the University of London to develop fully the course-unit, or modular, approach to degree programmes. Cross faculty is a major factor in enabling students to adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their studies. . (1995-01-25)

question. And that is perhaps still true today; a belief in angels is part of the doctrine of three of the four major

REALITY—That which is believed to exist independently of thoughts or opinions; the independently existent; the genuine; opposed to the imaginary or fanciful. That appears reality which receives a major share of the attention.

redundancy ::: 1. (parallel) The provision of multiple interchangeable components to perform a single function in order to cope with failures and errors. Redundancy switched on when needed (cold standby). Another common form of hardware redundancy is disk mirroring.Redundancy can also be used to detect and recover from errors, either in hardware or software. A well known example of this is the cyclic redundancy to check that they all produce the same answer, or some kind of majority voting system.2. (communications) The proportion of a message's gross information content that can be eliminated without losing essential information.Technically, redundancy is one minus the ratio of the actual uncertainty to the maximum uncertainty. This is the fraction of the structure of the message which is determined not by the choice of the sender, but rather by the accepted statistical rules governing the choice of the symbols in question.[Shannon and Weaver, 1948, p. l3][Better explanation?] (1995-05-09)

release "programming" (Or "released version", "baseline") A version of a piece of software which has been made public (as opposed to a version that is in development, or otherwise unreleased). A release is either a {major release}, a {revision}, or a {bugfix}. Pre-release versions may be called {alpha test}, or {beta test} versions. See {change management}. (1996-08-04)

release ::: (programming) (Or released version, baseline) A version of a piece of software which has been made public (as opposed to a version that is in development, or otherwise unreleased).A release is either a major release, a revision, or a bugfix.Pre-release versions may be called alpha test, or beta test versions.See change management. (1996-08-04)

revision "programming" A {release} of a piece of software which is not a {major release} or a {bugfix}, but only introduces small changes or new features. (1996-08-04)

revision ::: (programming) A release of a piece of software which is not a major release or a bugfix, but only introduces small changes or new features. (1996-08-04)

Roscelin: (c. 1050-c 1120) born at Compiegne, France, probably studied in Soissons and Rheims. He taught as Canon of Compiene, and at Tours, Loches (where Abelard was his pupil) and Besancon. Noted in philosophy for his extremely nominalistic solution to the problem of universals. Theologically, he was accused of tritheism. No major works are extant and his views are known only through possibly biased accounts in John of Salisbury, (Metalogicus, II, 17, PL 199, 874), St. Anselm, Abailard and Otto of Freising.

rot13 /rot ther'teen/ [{Usenet}: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre qvq vg!" Most {Usenet} news reading and posting programs include a rot13 feature. It is used to enclose the text in a sealed wrapper that the reader must choose to open - e.g. for posting things that might offend some readers, or {spoilers}. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding. [{Jargon File}]

rot13 ::: /rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from rotate alphabet 13 places], v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 readers, or spoilers. A major advantage of rot13 over rot(N) for other N is that it is self-inverse, so the same code can be used for encoding and decoding.[Jargon File]

Rudimentary or Vestigial Organs These include a number of different tissue-remnants or organs of primitive type, some of which are only transients in the developing fetus, while others persist in the bodies of animals or man, where they are dwarfed, atrophied, or functionless as far as is known. The vermiform appendix, the ear muscles, the gill clefts, pineal gland, rudimentary tail of the embryo, etc., are referred to as affording silent testimony to the reality of functions which were vitally active in primeval life, but which have long since atrophied in the course of animal and human progress (SD 2:119). The fact of such organs in the human body is adduced in support of the Darwinian theory, but it can equally well support the theory that the mammals came from man. Again, we know that, though man did not evolve from the apes, there was a time when his form somewhat resembled that which the apes now have. The possession of distinct traces in each sex of the reproductive apparatus of the other sex is biological evidence of ancient hermaphroditism. The undifferentiated sex of the embryo during its early growth also reviews the asexual character of the first root-races. The present routine process of maturation or reduction of chromosomes in the fertilized cell, and the death of the polar cells, appear to biologists as somehow unnaturally involved. This process, however, apparently in some degree, echoes distantly the change in the third root-race from an androgynous reproductive method to that of the separated sexes. The law of retardation which operates when a higher type has been evolved, now “preserves hermaphroditism as the reproductive method of the majority of plants and many lower animals” (SD 2:172n). Thus, man is not the copy but the evolutionary prototype, for “the potentiality of every organ useful to animal life is locked up in Man — the microcosm of the Macrocosm” (SD 2:685). The human form is the repertory of all mammalian forms, and nature preserves organs and functions in vestigial condition against a future time when, if these organs and functions be latent and not merely in process of disappearance, they will become active again. This accounts for the occasional reversion to utterly unknown primeval types as noted in teratology. A general unity of type has been preserved throughout the ages all through the multitude of organisms which grew out of a few basic types. “The economy of Nature does not sanction the co-existence of several utterly opposed ‘ground plans’ of organic evolution on one planet” (SD 2:683).

Sadducees [from Greek saddoukaioi from Hebrew tsadoq supposed to be the founder of the sect, meaning just, righteous] Among Europeans, a skeptic or doubter; originally the party of the Jewish priestly aristocracy which arose in the 2nd century BC under the later Hasmoneans. The Sadducees have come to be regarded as primarily a political party opposed to the Pharisees, called by some the party of the Scribes, but later Jewish tradition following Josephus more accurately regarded them as a philosophico-religious school. The Sadducees, a sect of erudite philosophers, opposed a great deal of the commonly accepted beliefs of the majority of the Jews, who were actually nearly all Pharisees — as for instance, the immortality of the personal soul, and the actual resurrection of the physical body; yet they strongly upheld what they considered the genuine meaning, and therefore the true authority, of the Jewish scriptures. They likewise opposed no small number of doctrinal or religious innovations, some of them true, and some of them less true in nature, which had been accepted by the body of the Pharisees — virtually by the Jewish people. And the reason for their reluctance to accept these innovations, whether of doctrine or interpretation of the Jewish scriptures, seems to be that they preferred a highly philosophical and even perhaps mystical interpretation, which they said the Jewish scriptures contained, rather than the more popular versions accepted by the Hebrew people as a whole. One may say that what the Gnostics were to the body of the Christians in the early centuries of the Christian era, the Sadducees were to the body of the Jews or Pharisees. The Sadducees likewise claimed to be the scientists and genuine philosophers of the Hebrews; although it is apparently quite true that as time went on their attitude of opposition, and even of reluctance, often became, at least among individual Sadducees, an attitude of cynicism and even possibly of cynical disbelief.

same-day service "humour, operating system" An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to {MS-DOS} {system calls} (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not {well-behaved}. See also {PC-ism}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-12-17)

same-day service ::: (humour, operating system) An ironic term used to describe long response time, particularly with respect to MS-DOS system calls (which ought to require only a tiny fraction of a second to execute). Such response time is a major incentive for programmers to write programs that are not well-behaved.See also PC-ism.[Jargon File] (1996-12-17)

Sankhya: Perhaps the oldest of the major systems of Indian philosophy, founded by Kapila (sixth century B.C.). Originally not theistic, it is realistic in epistemology, dualistic in metaphysics, assuming two moving ultimates, Cosmic Spirit (purusha) and Cosmic Substance (prakriti), both eternal and uncaused. Prakriti possesses the three qualities or principles of sattva, rajas, tamas, first in equipoise. When this is disturbed, the world in its multifariousness evolves in conjunction with purusha which becomes the plurality of selves in the process. The union (samyoga) of spirit and matter is necessary for world evolution, the inactivity of the former needing the verve of the latter, and the non-intelligence of that needing the guidance of conscious purusha. Successively, prakriti produces mahat or buddhi, ahamkara, manas, the ten indriyas, five tanmatras and five mahabhutas (q.v.).

Sankhya: Perhaps the oldest of the major systems of Indian philosophy (q.v.), founded by Kapila. Originally not theistic, it is realistic in epistemology, dualistic in metaphysics, assuming two moving ultimates, spirit (purusa, q.v.) and matter (prakrti, q.v.) both eternal and uncaused. Prakrti possesses the three qualities or principles of sattva, rajas, tamas (see these and guna), first in equipoise. When this is disturbed, the world in its multifariousness evolves in conjunction with purusa which becomes the plurality of selves in the process. The union (samyoga) of spirit and matter is necessary for world evolution, the inactivity of the former needing the verve of the latter, and the non-intelligence of that needing the guidance of conscious purusa. Successively, prakrti produces mahat or buddhi, ahamkara, manas, the ten indriyas, five tanmatras and five mahabhutas (all of which see). -- K.F.L.

Saptarshis (Sanskrit) Saptarṣi-s [from sapta seven + ṛṣi sage] Seven sages or rishis; the seven great planetary spirits intimately connected with the constellation Ursa Major. Their names are commonly given as Marichi, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, and Vasishtha. “By the seven great Rishis, the seven great rupa hierarchies or classes of Dhyan Chohans, are meant. Let us bear in mind that the Saptarshi (the seven Rishis) are the regents of the seven stars of the Great Bear, therefore, of the same nature as the angels of the planets, or the seven great Planetary Spirits. They were all reborn, all men on earth in various Kalpas and races. Moreover, ‘the four preceding Manus’ are the four classes of the originally arupa gods — the Kumaras, the Rudras, the Asuras, etc.: who are also said to have incarnated. They are not the Prajapatis, as the first are, but their informing principles — same of which have incarnated in men, while others have made other men simply the vehicles of their reflections” (SD 2:318n). The seven rishis are also said to mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle.

savoy ::: n. --> A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major), having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.

Scalable Processor ARChitecture "computer" (SPARC) An {instruction set architecture} designed by {Sun Microsystems} for their own use in 1985. Sun was a maker of {680x0}-based {Unix} {workstations}. Research versions of {RISC} processors had promised a major step forward in speed but existing manufacturers were slow to introduce a RISC type processor, so Sun went ahead and developed its own, based on the {University of California at Berkley}'s {RISC I} and {RISC II} 1980-2. In keeping with their open philosophy, they licenced it to other companies, rather than manufacture it themselves. The evolution and standardisation of SPARC is now directed by the non-profit consortium {SPARC International, Inc.} SPARC was not the first {RISC} processor. The {AMD 29000} came before it, as did the {MIPS R2000} (based on {Stanford}'s design) and {Hewlett-Packard} {Precision Architecture} {CPU}, among others. The SPARC design was radical at the time, even omitting multiple cycle multiply and divide instructions (like a few others), while most RISC CPUs are more conventional. SPARC implementations usually contain 128 or 144 {registers}, ({CISC} designs typically had 16 or less). At each time 32 registers are available - 8 are global, the rest are allocated in a "window" from a stack of registers. The window is moved 16 registers down the stack during a function call, so that the upper and lower 8 registers are shared between functions, to pass and return values, and 8 are local. The window is moved up on return, so registers are loaded or saved only at the top or bottom of the register stack. This allows functions to be called in as little as 1 cycle. Like some other RISC processors, reading global register zero always returns zero and writing it has no effect. SPARC is {pipelined} for performance, and like previous processors, a dedicated {condition code register} holds comparison results. SPARC is "scalable" mainly because the register stack can be expanded (up to 512, or 32 windows), to reduce loads and saves between functions, or scaled down to reduce {interrupt} or {context switch} time, when the entire register set has to be saved. Function calls are usually much more frequent, so the large register set is usually a plus. SPARC is not a chip, but a specification, and so there are various implementations of it. It has undergone revisions, and now has multiply and divide instructions. Most versions are 32 bits, but there are designs for 64-bit and {superscalar} versions. SPARC was submitted to the {IEEE} society to be considered for the {P1754} microprocessor standard. SPARC(R) is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. [The SPARC Architecture Manual, v8, ISBN 0-13-825001-4]. (1994-11-01)

Science and Engineering Research Council ::: (body) (SERC) Formerly the largest of the five research councils funded by the British Government through the Office of Science and Technology. SERC Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington; the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.In April 1994 SERC was split into the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. SERC's remote Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC. The two major SERC laboratories - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory are now independent. . (1994-12-15)

Science and Engineering Research Council "body" (SERC) Formerly the largest of the five research councils funded by the British Government through the Office of Science and Technology. SERC funded higher education research in science and engineering, including computing and was responsible for the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Oxford; the Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington; the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Cambridge and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. In April 1994 SERC was split into the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. SERC's remote sensing efforts have been transferred to the Natural Environment RC and its biotechnology efforts merged with the Agriculture and Food RC to make the new Biotechnology and Biological Sciences RC. The two major SERC laboratories - {Rutherford Appleton Laboratory} and Daresbury Laboratory are now independent. {(http://unixfe.rl.ac.uk/serc/serc.html)}. (1994-12-15)

SCSI-2 ::: (hardware) A version of the SCSI command specification.SCSI-2 shares the original SCSI's asynchronous and synchronous modes and adds a Fast SCSI mode (10MB/s) and Wide SCSI (16 bit, 20MB/s or rarely 32 bit).Another major enhancement was the definition of command sets for different device classes. SCSI-1 was rather minimalistic in this respect which led to addresses that problem. allowing scanners, hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, tapes and many other devices to be connected.Normal SCSI-2 equipment (not wide or differential) can be connected to a SCSI-1 bus and vice versa. (1995-04-19)

SCSI-2 "hardware" A version of the {SCSI} command specification. SCSI-2 shares the original SCSI's {asynchronous} and {synchronous} modes and adds a "{Fast SCSI}" mode ("10MB/s) and "{Wide SCSI}" (16 bit, "20MB/s or rarely 32 bit). Another major enhancement was the definition of command sets for different device classes. SCSI-1 was rather minimalistic in this respect which led to various incompatibilities especially for devices other than {hard-disks}. SCSI-2 addresses that problem. allowing {scanners}, {hard disk drives}, {CD-ROM} drives, tapes and many other devices to be connected. Normal SCSI-2 equipment (not wide or {differential}) can be connected to a SCSI-1 bus and vice versa. (1995-04-19)

SCSI adaptor "hardware" (Or "host adaptor") A device that communicates between a computer and its {SCSI} {peripherals}. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned {SCSI ID} 7. It is often a separate card that is connected to the computer's {bus} (e.g. {PCI}, {ISA}, {PCMCIA}) though increasinly, SCSI adaptors are built in to the {motherboard}. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like {Ultra SCSI} and {Ultra-Wide SCSI}. There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all. The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use {DMA} or {bus mastering}. Some SCSI adaptors include a {BIOS} to allow PCs to {boot} from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it. {Adaptec} make the majority of SCSI {chipsets} and many of the best-selling adaptors. Note that it is not a "SCSI controller" - it does not control the devices, and "SCSI interface" is redundant - the "I" of "SCSI" stands for "interface". (1999-11-24)

SCSI adaptor ::: (hardware) (Or host adaptor) A device that communicates between a computer and its SCSI peripherals. The SCSI adaptor is usually assigned SCSI ID motherboard. Apart from being cheaper, busses like PCI are too slow to keep up with the newer SCSI standards like Ultra SCSI and Ultra-Wide SCSI.There are several varieties of SCSI (and their connectors) and an adaptor will not support them all.The performance of SCSI devices is limited by the speed of the SCSI adaptor and its connection to the computer. An adaptor that plugs into a parallel port is unlikely to be as fast as one incorporated into a motherboard. Fast adaptors use DMA or bus mastering.Some SCSI adaptors include a BIOS to allow PCs to boot from a SCSI hard disk, if their own BIOS supports it.Adaptec make the majority of SCSI chipsets and many of the best-selling adaptors.Note that it is not a SCSI controller - it does not control the devices, and SCSI interface is redundant - the I of SCSI stands for interface. (1999-11-24)

Seagate Technology "company" A major manufacturer of {hard disk drives}, founded in 1979 as "Shugart Technology" by {Alan F. Shugart} and {Finis Conner}. That name is on the original patents for the 5.25" hard disk drive. They changed the name to Seagate Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid friction with {Xerox}, which had since purchased Alan's earlier company, {Shugart Associates}. {(http://seagate.com/)}. {Technical information at Impediment (http://impediment.com/seagate/)}. Address: 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA. Fax: +1 (408) 438 3320. (2000-02-09)

Seagate Technology ::: (company) A major manufacturer of hard disk drives, founded in 1979 as Shugart Technology by Alan F. Shugart and Finis Conner. That name is on the Technology soon after to avoid confusion, and also to avoid friction with Xerox, which had since purchased Alan's earlier company, Shugart Associates. . .Address: 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066, USA.Fax: +1 (408) 438 3320.(2000-02-09)

Sephiroth: A Hebrew term for “the mystical and organically related hierarchy of the ten creative powers emanating from God, constituting, according to the kabalistic system, the foundation of the existence of the world.” (M. Buber: Tales of the Hasidim.) The ten Sephiroth are: 1. The Divine Crown (Kether); 2. The Divine Wisdom (Hokhmah); 3. The Intelligence of God (Binah); 4. The Divine Love or Mercy (Hesed); 5. The Divine Power of judgment and retribution (Gevurah or Din); 6. The Divine Compassion (Rahamin) which mediates between God’s Power of judgment and His Mercy; 7. The Lasting Endurance or Firmness of God (Netsah); 8. God’s Majesty or Splendor (Hod); 9. The Foundation of all active forces in God (Yesod); 10. The Kingdom of God (Malkhuth), which the Zohar usually describes as the mystical archetype of Israel’s community. (The above terms are based on the interpretations given by G. G. Scholem in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. Other authorities occasionally adopt different terminologies. Thus, the fourth of the Sephiroth is frequently called Tiphereth, Beauty.)

septentrio ::: n. --> The constellation Ursa Major.

SES/workbench "tool, simulation" An iconic {simulation} and design tool, linked to some of the major {CASE} systems now available or in development. (1996-03-28)

SES/workbench ::: (tool, simulation) An iconic simulation and design tool, linked to some of the major CASE systems now available or in development. (1996-03-28)

shearwater ::: n. --> Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon.

Shivaism, Sivaism, Saivism: One of the major groups of Hinduism which has evolved, in addition to religious doctrines and observances, also philosophical systems of note, based upon certain Agamas (q.v.). Shiva, as one aspect of the trimurti (q.v.), has inspired cosmological speculations no less than psychological and logical ones. As philosophy it attained its greatest flower in the Kashmirian Trika (q.v.) -- K.F.L.

si ::: --> A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido&

Simple Network Management Protocol version 2 ::: (protocol) (SNMP v2) A revision of Simple Network Management Protocol (not just a new MIB) which includes improvements in the areas of performance, security, confidentiality, and manager-to-manager communications.The major components of SNMPv2 are defined in the following RFCs: {RFC 1089} - SNMP over Ethernet{RFC 1140} - IAB Official Protocol Standards . . . (1997-12-02)

Simple Network Management Protocol version 2 "protocol" (SNMP v2) A revision of {Simple Network Management Protocol} (not just a new {MIB}) which includes improvements in the areas of performance, security, confidentiality, and manager-to-manager communications. The major components of SNMPv2 are defined in the following {RFCs}: {RFC 1089} - SNMP over Ethernet {RFC 1140} - IAB Official Protocol Standards {RFC 1155} - Structure and Identification of Management    Information for TCP/IP based internets {RFC 1156} (H) - Management Information Base Network Management of TCP/IP based internets {RFC 1157} - A Simple Network Management Protocol {RFC 1158} - Management Information Base Network    Management of TCP/IP based internets: MIB-II {RFC 1161} (H) - SNMP over OSI {RFC 1187} - Bulk Table Retrieval with the SNMP {RFC 1212} - Concise MIB Definitions {RFC 1213} - Management Information Base for Network    Management of TCP/IP-based internets: MIB-II {RFC 1215} (I) - A Convention for Defining Traps for use with the SNMP {RFC 1224} - Techniques for Managing    Asynchronously Generated Alerts {RFC 1270} (I) - SNMP Communication Services {RFC 1303} (I) - A Convention for Describing SNMP-based Agents {RFC 1470} (I) - A Network Management Tool Catalog {RFC 1298} - SNMP over IPX {RFC 1418} - SNMP over OSI {RFC 1419} - SNMP over IPX {RFC 1441} - Introduction to SNMP v2 {RFC 1442} - SMI For SNMP v2 {RFC 1443} - Textual Conventions for SNMP v2 {RFC 1444} - Conformance Statements for SNMP v2 {RFC 1445} - Administrative Model for SNMP v2 {RFC 1446} - Security Protocols for SNMP v2 {RFC 1447} - Party MIB for SNMP v2 {RFC 1448} - Protocol Operations for SNMP v2 {RFC 1449} - Transport Mappings for SNMP v2 {RFC 1450} - {MIB} for SNMP v2 {RFC 1451} - Manager to Manger MIB {RFC 1452} - Coexistance between SNMP v1 and SNMP v2 {FAQ (http://cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/snmp-faq)}. {Introduction (http://gt-er.cg.org.br/documentacao/buffer/gerencia/faq1.html)}. {Cisco (http://cisco.com/cpropub/univ-src/ccdcp/data/doc/software/11_1/mib/mover.htm)}. (1997-12-02)

simultaneous shipment "programming" (simship) The release of international, {localised} versions of software at the same time, or within a short period of time of the original release. Major software publishers can release as many as 30 different localised versions within a month or two of the original version. These products may have thousands of pages of {documentation}. (1999-06-09)

simultaneous shipment ::: (programming) (simship) The release of international, localised versions of software at the same time, or within a short period of time of the original release.Major software publishers can release as many as 30 different localised versions within a month or two of the original version. These products may have thousands of pages of documentation. (1999-06-09)

Skew ::: The degree to which a curve or distribution of scores has extreme scores atypical of the majority of scores

Sonata ::: (operating system) The code name for the major Mac OS release due in mid-1999. . (1997-10-15)

Sonata "operating system" The code name for the major {Mac OS} release due in mid-1999. {(http://devworld.apple.com/mkt/informed/appledirections/mar97/roadmap.html)}. (1997-10-15)

Speech Application Programming Interface "programming, standard" (SAPI) {Microsoft}'s standard {API} for speech synthesis and {speech recognition} in {Windows 95}. The idea is to let developers try out and use various low-level speech software from any number of verndors, while retaining the same API. Mike Rozak is the lead of the SAPI project at Microsoft. Numerous major speech vendors have announced SAPI-support plans. {SRAPI}, the competing speech recognition API by {Lotus}/WordPerfect, is fast becoming obsolete. (1996-03-04)

Speech Application Programming Interface ::: (programming, standard) (SAPI) Microsoft's standard API for speech synthesis and speech recognition in Windows 95. The idea is to let developers try out and use various low-level speech software from any number of verndors, while retaining the same API.Mike Rozak is the lead of the SAPI project at Microsoft. Numerous major speech vendors have announced SAPI-support plans. SRAPI, the competing speech recognition API by Lotus/WordPerfect, is fast becoming obsolete. (1996-03-04)

spiritual ::: The word “spiritual” has at least four major usages: 1. “Spiritual” refers to the highest levels in any developmental line (e.g., transrational cognition, transpersonal self-identity, etc.). 2. “Spiritual” is a separate developmental line itself (e.g., Fowler’s stages of faith). 3. “Spiritual” refers to a state or peak experience (e.g., nature mysticism). 4. “Spiritual” means a particular attitude or orientation, like openness, wisdom, or compassion, which can be present at virtually any state or stage.

spod "chat" (Great Britain) A lower form of life found on {chat} systems and {MUDs}. The spod has few friends in {RL} and uses chat instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the {net}. He has all the negative traits of the {computer geek} without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge of, or interest in, how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to {sysadmins}, clogging up lines in order to reach new {MUDs}, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto {Internet} ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same computer that he is using and enter {chat}. Compare {newbie}, {tourist}, {weenie}, {twink}, {terminal junkie}, {dweeb}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-01-18)

SQR "database, language" A {fourth generation language} for the creation of reports from {databases}. SQR is interpreted to dynamically generate {SQL} queries and format the results. Originally a {Sybase} product, it was then sold to MITI, who subsequently changed their name to {SQRIBE}. SQR Server supports {native} database access for all major {DBMSs} and the use of {platform} independent {Java} code. (1998-09-19)

SQR ::: (database, language) A fourth generation language for the creation of reports from databases. SQR is interpreted to dynamically generate SQL queries and format the results.Originally a Sybase product, it was then sold to MITI, who subsequently changed their name to SQRIBE.SQR Server supports native database access for all major DBMSs and the use of platform independent Java code. (1998-09-19)

Standard Generalized Markup Language "language, text" (SGML) A generic {markup} language for representing documents. SGML is an International Standard that describes the relationship between a document's content and its structure. SGML allows document-based information to be shared and re-used across applications and computer {platforms} in an open, vendor-neutral format. SGML is sometimes compared to {SQL}, in that it enables companies to structure information in documents in an open fashion, so that it can be accessed or re-used by any SGML-aware application across multiple platforms. SGML is defined in "ISO 8879:1986 Information processing -- Text and office systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)", an {ISO} standard produced by {JTC} 1/SC 18 and amended by "Amendment 1:1988". Unlike other common document file formats that represent both content and presentation, SGML represents a document's content {data} and structure (interrelationships among the data). Removing the presentation from content establishes a neutral format. SGML documents and the information in them can easily be re-used by publishing and non-publishing {applications}. SGML identifies document elements such as titles, paragraphs, tables, and chapters as distinct objects, allowing users to define the relationships between the objects for structuring data in documents. The relationships between document elements are defined in a {Document Type Definition} (DTD). This is roughly analogous to a collection of {field} definitions in a {database}. Once a document is converted into SGML and the information has been 'tagged', it becomes a database-like document. It can be searched, printed or even programmatically manipulated by SGML-aware applications. Companies are moving their documents into SGML for several reasons: Reuse - separation of content from presentation facilitates multiple delivery formats like {CD-ROM} and {electronic publishing}. Portability - SGML is an international, platform-independent, standard based on {ASCII} text, so companies can safely store their documents in SGML without being tied to any one vendor. Interchange - SGML is a core data standard that enables SGML-aware applications to inter-operate and share data seamlessly. A central SGML document store can feed multiple processes in a company, so managing and updating information is greatly simplified. For example, when an aeroplane is delivered to a customer, it comes with thousands of pages of documentation. Distributing these on paper is expensive, so companies are investigating publishing on CD-ROM. If a maintenance person needs a guide for adjusting a plane's flight surfaces, a viewing tool automatically assembles the relevant information from the document {repository} as a complete document. SGML can be used to define attributes to information stored in documents such as security levels. There are few clear leaders in the SGML industry which, in 1993, was estimated to be worth US $520 million and is projected to grow to over US $1.46 billion by 1998. A wide variety tools can be used to create SGML systems. The SGML industry can be separated into the following categories: Mainstream Authoring consists of the key {word processing} vendors like {Lotus}, {WordPerfect} and {Microsoft}. SGML Editing and Publishing includes traditional SGML authoring tools like {ArborText}, {Interleaf}, {FrameBuilder} and {SoftQuad Author}/Editor. SGML Conversions is one of the largest sectors in the market today because many companies are converting legacy data from mainframes, or documents created with mainstream word processors, into SGML. Electronic Delivery is widely regarded as the most compelling reason companies are moving to SGML. Electronic delivery enables users to retrieve information on-line using an intelligent document viewer. Document Management may one day drive a major part of the overall SGML industry. SGML Document Repositories is one of the cornerstone technologies that will affect the progress of SGML as a data standard. Since 1998, almost all development in SGML has been focussed on {XML} - a simple (and therefore easier to understand and implement) subset of SGML. {"ISO 8879:1986//ENTITIES Added Latin 1//EN" (http://ucc.ie/info/net/isolat1.html)} defines some characters. [How are these related to {ISO 8859}-1?]. {ISO catalogue entry (http://iso.ch/cate/d16387.html)}. SGML parsers are available from {VU, NL (ftp://star.cs.vu.nl/Sgml)}, {FSU (ftp://mailer.cc.fsu.edu/pub/sgml)}, {UIO, Norway (ftp://ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/SGMLS)}. See also {sgmls}. {Usenet} newsgroup: {news:comp.text.sgml}. ["The SGML Handbook", Charles F. Goldfarb, Clarendon Press, 1991, ISBN 0198537379. (Full text of the ISO standard plus extensive commentary and cross-referencing. Somewhat cheaper than the ISO document)]. ["SGML - The User's Guide to ISO 8879", J.M. Smith et al, Ellis Harwood, 1988]. [Example of some SGML?] (2000-05-31)

Standard Generalized Markup Language ::: (language, text) (SGML) A generic markup language for representing documents. SGML is an International Standard that describes the relationship that it can be accessed or re-used by any SGML-aware application across multiple platforms.SGML is defined in ISO 8879:1986 Information processing -- Text and office systems -- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), an ISO standard produced by JTC 1/SC 18 and amended by Amendment 1:1988.Unlike other common document file formats that represent both content and presentation, SGML represents a document's content data and structure establishes a neutral format. SGML documents and the information in them can easily be re-used by publishing and non-publishing applications.SGML identifies document elements such as titles, paragraphs, tables, and chapters as distinct objects, allowing users to define the relationships between becomes a database-like document. It can be searched, printed or even programmatically manipulated by SGML-aware applications.Companies are moving their documents into SGML for several reasons:Reuse - separation of content from presentation facilitates multiple delivery formats like CD-ROM and electronic publishing.Portability - SGML is an international, platform-independent, standard based on ASCII text, so companies can safely store their documents in SGML without being tied to any one vendor.Interchange - SGML is a core data standard that enables SGML-aware applications to inter-operate and share data seamlessly.A central SGML document store can feed multiple processes in a company, so managing and updating information is greatly simplified. For example, when an can be used to define attributes to information stored in documents such as security levels.There are few clear leaders in the SGML industry which, in 1993, was estimated to be worth US $520 million and is projected to grow to over US $1.46 billion by 1998.A wide variety tools can be used to create SGML systems. The SGML industry can be separated into the following categories:Mainstream Authoring consists of the key word processing vendors like Lotus, WordPerfect and Microsoft.SGML Editing and Publishing includes traditional SGML authoring tools like ArborText, Interleaf, FrameBuilder and SoftQuad Author/Editor.SGML Conversions is one of the largest sectors in the market today because many companies are converting legacy data from mainframes, or documents created with mainstream word processors, into SGML.Electronic Delivery is widely regarded as the most compelling reason companies are moving to SGML. Electronic delivery enables users to retrieve information on-line using an intelligent document viewer.Document Management may one day drive a major part of the overall SGML industry.SGML Document Repositories is one of the cornerstone technologies that will affect the progress of SGML as a data standard.Since 1998, almost all development in SGML has been focussed on XML - a simple (and therefore easier to understand and implement) subset of SGML. defines some characters. [How are these related to ISO 8859-1?]. .SGML parsers are available from , , .See also sgmls.Usenet newsgroup: comp.text.sgml.[The SGML Handbook, Charles F. Goldfarb, Clarendon Press, 1991, ISBN 0198537379. (Full text of the ISO standard plus extensive commentary and cross-referencing. Somewhat cheaper than the ISO document)].[SGML - The User's Guide to ISO 8879, J.M. Smith et al, Ellis Harwood, 1988].[Example of some SGML?](2000-05-31)

Standard Widget Toolkit "graphics, programming, standard" (SWT) The {Eclipse Foundation}'s {framework} for developing {graphical user interfaces} in {Java}. SWT is written in explicitly standard Java but uses the {Java Native Interface} to talk to a {platform}-native GUI library. SWT is the third major attempt to give Java a decent GUI framework, following {AWT} and {Swing}. Of the three, SWT is the most consistent with the native GUIs but its programming model is hard to port to non-{Windows} platforms. {Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWT)}. (2004-12-21)

Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "body, education" (SAIL) /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ An important site in the early development of {LISP}; with the {MIT AI Lab}, {BBN}, {CMU}, {XEROX PARC}, and the {Unix} community, one of the major wellsprings of technical innovation and hacker-culture traditions (see the {WAITS} entry for details). The SAIL machines were shut down in late May 1990, scant weeks after the MIT AI Lab's ITS cluster was officially decommissioned. [{Jargon File}] (2001-06-22)

Stupids ::: Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other like herself, a huge majority of Stupids, and a minority of Tweens, the merely ordinary geniuses.[Jargon File]

Stupids Term used by {samurai} for the {suits} who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses. [{Jargon File}]

Subrace Used to distinguish the major or root-races from the minor races which are offshoots from the mother-race (ML 83). In a planetary chain, there are seven rounds in a manvantara (period of activity) and root-races during each round; further that there are seven subraces in every root-race, and septenary offshoots from the subraces.

Subsumption: Noun signifying that the subject of a proposition is taken under the predicate. Also the inclusion of the species under the genus, and the individual under the species. The minor premiss which applies a general law stated by the major premiss of a syllogism is called a subsumption. -- J.J.R.

subtle reductionism ::: One of the two major versions of reductionism, along with gross reductionism. Subtle reductionism reduces all quadrants to the Lower-Right quadrant, asserting, in effect, that there exists only interwoven, holistic patterns of “Its.” See gross reductionism and flatland.

SuperPaint "graphics" A pioneering {graphics} program and {framebuffer} computer system developed by {Richard Shoup} at {Xerox PARC}. Design started in 1972 and the system produced its first stable image in April 1973. SuperPaint was one of the first computers used for creative work, video editing and animation, all which would become major sections within the entertainment industry and major components of industrial design. SuperPaint had a {graphical user interface} and could capture images from video input or combine them with digital data. SuperPaint was the first program with features such as changing {hue, saturation and value}, a {colour palette}, custom {polygons} and lines, virtual paintbrushes and pencils, auto-filling of images and {anti-aliasing}. {Richard Shoup's website (http://www.rgshoup.com/prof/SuperPaint/)}. (2008-11-27)

syllogisms ::: logic. Forms of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

SYMPL "language" SYsteMs Programming Language. {CDC}'s derivative of {Jovial}. SYMPL is a non-{re-entrant} {block structured} language with extensive {bit manipulation} facilities, which is linkable with {Fortran}. Major parts of CDC systems during the 1970s were written in SYMPL. (1995-02-14)

SYMPL ::: (language) SYsteMs Programming Language.CDC's derivative of Jovial. SYMPL is a non-re-entrant block structured language with extensive bit manipulation facilities, which is linkable with Fortran. Major parts of CDC systems during the 1970s were written in SYMPL. (1995-02-14)

system mangler "humour" A humorous synonym for "{system manager}", possibly from the fact that one major {IBM} {operating system} had a {root} account called SYSMANGR. The term refers specifically to a systems programmer in charge of administration, software maintenance, and updates at some site. Unlike {admin}, this term emphasises the technical end of the skills involved. [{Jargon File}] (1995-11-10)

system mangler ::: (humour) A humorous synonym for system manager, possibly from the fact that one major IBM operating system had a root account called SYSMANGR. The term software maintenance, and updates at some site. Unlike admin, this term emphasises the technical end of the skills involved.[Jargon File] (1995-11-10)

System V ::: 1. The other major versions of the Unix operating system apart from BSD. Developed by AT&T. Later versions of Unix such as SunOS combined the best features of System V and BSD Unix. (1994-10-31)[Differences?]2. A supplier of Unix open systems for Intel x86 processors. They supply products from SCO and Solaris and offer general support for Unix, TCP/IP, and Internet. They serve and create third-party WWW pages and provide on-line support for commercial and non-commercial applications. .See also System V Interface Definition. (1994-12-12)

System V 1. The other major versions of the {Unix} {operating system} apart from {BSD}. Developed by {AT&T}. Later versions of Unix such as {SunOS} combined the best features of {System V} and {BSD} Unix. (1994-10-31) [Differences?] 2. A supplier of {Unix} {open systems} for {Intel x86} processors. They supply products from {SCO} and {Solaris} and offer general support for {Unix}, {TCP/IP}, and {Internet}. They serve and create third-party {WWW} pages and provide on-line support for commercial and non-commercial applications. {(http://systemv.com/)}. See also {System V Interface Definition}. (1994-12-12)

T'ai yang: The Major Mode of Activity See T'ai Chi. T'ai yin: The Major Mode of Passivity. See T'ai Chi. Tai Tung-yuan: (Tai Chen, Tai Shen-hsiu, 1723-1777) carne from a poor family, self-made to be a leader in outstanding intellectual activities of the time, and became an authority in philology, mathematics, geography as well as philosophy. By reinteipreting the teachings of Mencius, he attempted to rediscover the original meanings of Confucius and Mencius. His Tai-shih I-shu (works) consists of 31 chuans in several volumes. -- W.T.C.

Ta Ku: Major cause. See: ku. Talmud: (Learning) An encyclopedic work in Hebrew-Aramaic produced during 800 years (300 B.C.-500 A.D.) in Palestine and Babylon. Its six sedarim (orders) subdivided in 63 massektot (tractates) represent the oral tradition of Judaism expounding and developing the religious ideas and civil laws of the written special hermeneutic middot (measures) of law (i.e., the Hebrew Bible) by means of Rabbi Hillel, 13 of R. Ishmael and 32 of R. Eliezer of Galilee.

Tarot: A deck of playing cards, based on a system of occult symbols arranged in a pattern of 78 cards; 22 of these are tarot cards (“major arcana”), the other 56 are suit cards (“minor arcana”). These cards can be used for divination. The term tarot is applied also to designate such divination.

Tension: Since normal mental life oscillates between two extremes: a plane of action in which sensori-motor functions occur, and a plane of dream, in which we live our imaginative life, of which memory is a major part, there are as many corresponding intermediate planes as there are degrees of 'attention to life', adaptation to reality. The mind has a power sui generis to produce contractions and expansions of itself. Calling attention to the need of distinguishing various heights of tension or 'tones' in psychic life, Bergson interprets the life of the universe and the life of human personality in terms of tension. -- H.H.

Terminal Oriented Social Science "project" (TOSS) The Cambridge Project {Project MAC} was an ARPA-funded political science computing project. They worked on topics like survey analysis and simulation, led by Ithiel de Sola Pool, J.C.R. Licklider and Douwe B. Yntema. Yntema had done a system on the {MIT} Lincoln Labs {TX-2} called the {Lincoln Reckoner}, and in the summer of 1969 led a Cambridge Project team in the construction of an experiment called TOSS. TOSS was like {Logo}, with {matrix} operators. A major feature was multiple levels of {undo}, back to the level of the {login} session. This feature was cheap on the Lincoln Reckoner, but absurdly expensive on {Multics}. (1997-01-29)

The complex scheme of major races and their subdivisions — overlapping each other and in various stages of their evolution, intermingling and crossing with one another — gives rise to the immense variety of types which we see on earth today. See also ROOT-RACE(S)

The descent of the peace is often one of the first major posi- tive experiences of the sadhana. In this state of peace the nor-

The disjunctive syllogism has also two moods. Modus tollendo ponens is any one of the four following forms of inference: from A ∨ B and ∼B to A; from A ∨ B and ∼A to B* from A + B and ∼B to A; from A + B and ∼A to B. Modus ponendo tollens is either of the following forms of inference: from A + B and A to ∼B; from A + B and B to ∼A. In each case the first premiss named is the major premiss and the second one the minor premiss.

the Egyptian Gnostics; Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism.]

The five moods of the fourth figure are sometimes characterized instead as indirect moods of the first figure, the two premisses (major and minor) being interchanged, and the names being then given respectively as Baralipton, Celantes, Dabitis, Fapesmo, Frisesomorum. (Some add the five "weakened" moods, Barbari, Celaront, Cesaro, Camestros, Calemos, to be obtained respectively from Barbara, Celarent, Cesare, Camestres, Calemes, by subalternation of the conclusion.) Other variations in the names of the moods are also found. These names have a mnemonic significance, the first three vowels indicating whether the major premiss, minor premiss, and conclusion, in order, are A, E, I, or O; and some of the consonants indicating the traditional reductions of the other moods to the four direct moods of the first figure. The Port-Royal Logic, translated by T. S. Baynes, 2nd edn., London, 1851.

The Gnostics and Their Remains-, Scholem, Major

The hypothetical syllogism has two kinds or moods. Modus ponens is the inference from a major premiss A ⊃ B and a minor premiss A to the conclusion B. Modus tollens is the inference from a major premiss A ⊃ B and a minor premiss ∼B to the conclusion ∼A.

The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus ::: (project) (TRON) A project to develop an operating system and man-machine interface that can work with other operating systems to provide an environment by Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo and supported by most of the major Japanese computer makers and NTT. .(2003-05-23)

The Real-Time Operating System Nucleus "project" (TRON) A project to develop an {operating system} and {man-machine interface} that can work with other operating systems to provide an environment for many small distributed computers to cooperate in {real time}. TRON is headed by Dr. Ken Sakamura of the {University of Tokyo} and supported by most of the major Japanese computer makers and {NTT}. {(http://atip.org/public/atip.reports.91/tron.html)}. (2003-05-23)

There are two major points of reference for tracing1 the path that Soviet philosophy has taken -- the successive controversies around the issues of mechanism and of idealism. The first began in the early twenties as a discussion centering on the philosophy of science, and eventually spread to all phases of philosophy. The central issue was whether materialism could be identified with mechanism. Those who answered in the affirmative, among them Timiriazev, Timinski, Axelrod and Stepanov, were called mechanistic materialists. Their position tended to an extreme empiricism which was suspicious of generalization and theory, saw little if any value in Hegel's philosophy, or in dialectical as distinguished from formal logic, and even went so far, in some cases, as to deny the necessity of philosophy in general, resting content with the findings of the specific sciences. It was considered that they tended to deny the reality of quality, attempting to reduce it mechanically to quantity, and to interpret evolution as a mere quantitative increase or decrease of limited factors, neglecting the significance of leaps, breaks and the precipitation of new qualities. In opposition to their views, a group of thinkers, led by Deborin, asserted the necessity of philosophic generalizition and the value of the dialectical method in Hegel as a necessary element in Marxian materialism. In 1929, at a conference of scientific institutions attended by 229 delegates from all parts of the country, the issues were discussed by both sides. A general lack of satisfaction with the mechanist position was expressed in the form of a resolution at the close of the conference. However, the Deborin group was also criticized, not only by the mechanists, but by many who were opposed to the mechanists as well. It was felt by Mitin, Yudin and a group of predominantly younger thinkers that neither camp was really meeting the obligations of philosophy. While they felt there was much that was valuable in Deborin's criticism of mechanism, it seemed to them that he had carried it too far and had fallen over backward into the camp of the idealists. They called his group menshevizing idealists, that is to say, people who talked like the Mensheviks, a pre-revolutionary faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. By this was meant that they were unduly abstract, vague and tended to divorce theory from practice. In particular, they seemed to accept Hegelian dialectics as such, overlooking the deeper implications of the materialist reconstruction of it which Marx insisted upon. Moreover, they had neglected the field of social problems, and consequently made no significant philosophic contribution to momentous social issues of the times such as collectivization of the land, abandonment of NEP, the possibility of a Five Year Plan. At a three day conference in 1930, the situation was discussed at length by all interested parties. Deborin, Karev and Sten leading the discussion on one side, Mitin and Yudin on the other. The sense of the meetings was that the criticisms made of the Deborin group were valid.

These lokas and talas are invisible spheres of a nature far more ethereal so far as the majority of the lokas is concerned than bhurloka, our material earth. The lokas apply not only to the solar system, but to the planetary chain and to every one of its globes.

These progenitors are divided into two main classes: those which are incorporeal, such as the agnishvattas, and those which are corporeal, such as the angirasas, the descendants of Angiras (VP 3:14). Theosophically, angirasas are a class of manasaputras, the emanated offspring of the incorporeal agnishvattas or kumaras. In the Vaivasvata or seventh manvantara (our present one) Angiras is given as the son of Agni, though originally Agni was born from Angiras. In astronomy Angiras is both the father or regent of Brihaspati (the planet Jupiter) and the planet itself; also a star in Ursa Major, inasmuch as Angiras is one of the seven great rishis. As such the name of Angiras is linked with the bringing of light and associated with luminous bodies.

The term is variable, inasmuch as what would be the ring-pass-not for the human hierarchy would not be so to a superior hierarchy. Similarly the ring-pass-not for the beings below the human kingdom is not a boundary for humans. This has an especial reference to states of consciousness, and the majority of the human host is still unable to extend its consciousness beyond the sphere of man’s immediate activities — which thus at present form for humanity an intangible but very real ring-pass-not. There is a ring-pass-not surrounding globe D, this earth, and a ring of farther extension surrounding the earth planetary-chain, and beyond that still another surrounding the solar system, and a still larger one circumscribing the galaxy, etc.

the throne of God.” [R/l Scholem, Major Trends

The working class, in coming to power, is seen to establish its own state form, based upon the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is maintained so long as a state is necessary, and which is considered to extend democracy to the majority by establishing collective ownership of the means of production. This first stage is defined as socialism, the economic principle of which is, "from each according to ability, to each according to work performed". The second stage is defined as communism, the economic principle of which is, "from each according to ability, to each according to need" (Marx "Gotha Program"). In its fullest sense, on a world wide scale, this stage is considered to include an economy of abundance made possible by social utilization of unrestricted production, a disappearance of the antagonism between town and country and that between mental and physical labor, and, because irreconcilable class conflicts will ha\e ceased to exist, a "withering away" (Engels: Anti-Dühring) of the state as an apparatus of force. What will remain will be a state-less '"administration of things."

Third Eye Possessed by early humans and, up to the physicalization of the third root-race, it was the only seeing organ in most living species. At the beginning of that root-race, the organ which has developed into the eye was beneath a semitransparent covering or membrane, like some of the blind vertebrata today. In early humanity, the third eye was the organ of spiritual vision, as it was that of objective vision in the animals (SD 2:299), as indeed it still remains, and it appears as the pineal gland inside the skull of modern mankind. In the course of physical evolution, with corresponding loss of spiritual vision, the cyclopean eye was gradually replaced by the physical vision of the two front eyes. The original eye has since then continued to function — although unrecognized by the vast majority of people — as the organ of intuitive discernment. As this recession was not complete before the close of the fourth root-race, there were late subraces of Lemurians and of early Atlanteans who were still in some degree at least physically three-eyed (SD 2:302).

  “This Hindu sacred beverage answers to the Greek Ambrosia or nectar, drunk by the gods of Olympus. A cup of kykeon was also quaffed by the mysta at the Eleusinian initiation. He who drinks it easily reaches Brahma, or the place of splendor (Heaven). The soma-drink known to Europeans is not the genuine beverage, but its substitute; for the initiated priests alone can taste of the real soma; and even kings and rajas, when sacrificing, receive the substitute. . . . We were positively informed that the majority of the sacrificial priests of the Dekkan have lost the secret of the true soma. It can be found neither in the ritual books nor through oral information. The true followers of the primitive Vedic religion are very few; these are the alleged descendants from the Rishis, the real Agnihotris, the initiates of the great Mysteries. The soma-drink is also commemorated in the Hindu Pantheon, for it is called King-Soma. He who drinks of it is made to participate in the heavenly king, because he becomes filled with it, as the Christian apostles and their converts became filled with the Holy Ghost, and purified of their sins. The soma makes a new man of the initiate; he is reborn and transformed, and his spiritual nature overcomes the physical; it gives the divine power of inspiration, and develops the clairvoyant faculty to the utmost. According to the exoteric explanation the soma is a plant, but, at the same time it is an angel. It forcibly connects the inner, highest ‘spirit’ of man, which spirit is an angel like the mystical soma, with his ‘irrational soul,’ or astral body, and thus united by the power of the magic drink, they soar together above physical nature and participate during life in the beatitude and ineffable glories of Heaven.

tierce-major ::: n. --> See Tierce, 4.

transformed into Metatron. [R/! Scholem, Major

Transitor: In astrological terminology, a slow-moving major planet whose lingering aspect to a birth planet produces a displacement of equilibrium, which is then activated by an additional aspect from a Culminator, a faster-moving body such as the Sun or Moon, to the same or another planet, thereby precipitating the extemalization.

Transport Layer Interface ::: (networking, programming) (TLI, or Transport Level Interface) A protocol-independent interface for accessing network facilities, modelled after the ISO transport layer (level 4), that first appeared in Unix SVR3.TLI is defined by SVID as transport mechanism for networking interfaces, in preference to sockets, which are biased toward IP and friends. A disavantage is library, libnsl_s.a. The major functions are t_open, t_bind, t_connect, t_listen, t_accept, t_snd, t_rcv, read, write.According to the Solaris t_open man page, XTI (X/OPEN Transport Interface) evolved from TLI, and supports the TLI API for compatibility, with some variations on semantics. (1999-06-10)

Transport Layer Interface "networking, programming" (TLI, or "Transport Level Interface") A {protocol}-independent interface for accessing network facilities, modelled after the {ISO} {transport layer} (level 4), that first appeared in {Unix SVR3}. TLI is defined by {SVID} as transport mechanism for networking interfaces, in preference to {sockets}, which are biased toward {IP} and friends. A disavantage is that a process cannot use read/write directly, but has to use backends using {stdin} and {stdout} to communicate with the network connection. TLI is implemented in SVR4 using the {STREAMS} interface. It adds no new {system calls}, just a library, libnsl_s.a. The major functions are t_open, t_bind, t_connect, t_listen, t_accept, t_snd, t_rcv, read, write. According to the {Solaris} t_open {man page}, XTI (X/OPEN Transport Interface) evolved from TLI, and supports the TLI {API} for compatibility, with some variations on semantics. (1999-06-10)

trilemma ::: n. --> A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.
A state of things in which it is difficult to determine which one of three courses to pursue.


Two aspects of Russell's work are likely to remain of permanent importance, his major part in the twentieth century renaissance of logic, his reiterated attempts to identify the methods of philosophy with those of the sciences. (1) While the primary objective of Principia was to prove that pure mathematics could be derived from logic, the success of this undertaking (as to which hardly any dissenting opinion persists) is overshadowed by the importance of the techniques perfected in the course of its prosecution. Without disrespect to other pioneers in the field, it is sufficient to point out that a knowledge of the symbolic logic of Russell and Whitehead is still a necessary prerequisite for understanding contemporary studies in logic, in the foundations of mathematics, and tht philosophy of science.

TYMNET "networking, history" A United States-wide commercial computer network, created by {Tymshare, Inc.} some time before 1970, and used for {remote login} and file transfer. The network public went live in November 1971. In its original implementation, it consisted of fairly simple circuit-oriented {nodes}, whose circuits were created by central network supervisors writing into the appropriate nodes' "permuter tables". The supervisors also performed login validations as well as circuit management. Circuits were character oriented and the network was oriented toward interactive character-by-character {full-duplex} communications circuits. The network had more than one supervisor running, but only one was active, the others being put to sleep with "sleeping pill" messages. If the active supervisor went down, all the others would wake up and battle for control of the network. After the battle, the supervisor with the highest pre-set priority would dominate, and the network would then again be controlled by only one supervisor. (During the takeover battle, the net consisted of subsets of itself across which new circuits could not be built). Existing circuits were not affected by supervisor switches. There was a clever scheme to switch the echoing function between the local node and the host based on whether or not a special character had been typed by the user. Data transfers were also possible via "auxiliary circuits". The Tymshare hosts (which ran customer code) were {SDS 940}, {DEC} {PDP-10}, and eventually {IBM 370} computers. {Xerox} {XDS 940} might have been used if Xerox, who bought the design for the SDS 940 from Scientific Data Systems, had ever built any. The switches were originally {Varian Data Machines} 620i. The {Interdata 8/32} was never used because the performance was disappointing. The TYMNET Engine, based loosely on the Interdata 7/32, was developed instead to replace the Varian 620i. In the early 1990s, newer "Turbo" nodes based on the {Motorola 68000} began to replace the 7/32s. These were later replaced with {SPARCs}. PDP-10s supported (and still do in 1999) cross-platform development and billing. {Tymshare, Inc.} originally wrote and implemented TYMNET to provide nationwide access for their {time-sharing} customers. La Roy Tymes booted up the public TYMNET in November of 1971 and, as of March 2002, it had been running ever since without a single system crash. TYMNET was the largest commercial network in the United States in its heyday, with nodes in every major US city and a few overseas as well. Tymshare acquired a French subsidiary, {SLIGOS}, and had TYMNET nodes in Paris, France. Tymshare sold the TYMNET network software to {TRW}, who created their own private network (which was not called TYMNET). In about 1979, TYMNET Inc. was spun off from Tymshare, Inc. to continue administration and development of the network. TYMNET outlived its parent company Tymshare and was acquired by {MCI}. As of May 1994 they still ran three {DEC KL-10s} under {TYMCOM-X}, although they planned to decommission them soon. The original creators of TYMNET included: Ann Hardy, Norm Hardy, Bill Frantz. La Roy Tymes (who always insisted that his name was NOT the source of the name) wrote the first supervisor which ran on the 940. Joe Rinde made many significant technical and marketing contributions. La Roy wrote most of the code of the network proper. Several others wrote code in support of development and administration. Just recently (1999) La Roy, on contract, wrote a version of the supervisor to run on {SPARC} hardware. The name TYMNET was suggested by Vigril Swearingen in a weekly meeting between Tymshare technical and marketing staff in about 1970. {(http://cap-lore.com/ETH.html)}. [E-mail from La Roy Tymes] (2002-11-26)

Undistributed middle: In the categorical syllogism (logic, formal, § 5), the middle term must appear in at least one of the two premisses (major and minor) is dtstributed -- i.e., as denoting the subject of a proposition A or E, or the predicate of a proposition E or O. Violation of this rule is the fallacy of undistributed middle. A.C. Uniformity of Nature: Principle that what happens once in nature will, under a sufficient degree of similarity of circumstances, happen again and as often as the same circumstances recur. -- A.C.B.

Unicode 1. "character" A 16-bit {character set} standard, designed and maintained by the non-profit consortium Unicode Inc. Originally Unicode was designed to be universal, unique, and uniform, i.e., the code was to cover all major modern written languages (universal), each character was to have exactly one encoding (unique), and each character was to be represented by a fixed width in bits (uniform). Parallel to the development of Unicode an {ISO}/{IEC} standard was being worked on that put a large emphasis on being compatible with existing character codes such as {ASCII} or {ISO Latin 1}. To avoid having two competing 16-bit standards, in 1992 the two teams compromised to define a common character code standard, known both as Unicode and {BMP}. Since the merger the character codes are the same but the two standards are not identical. The ISO/IEC standard covers only coding while Unicode includes additional specifications that help implementation. Unicode is not a {glyph encoding}. The same character can be displayed as a variety of {glyphs}, depending not only on the {font} and style, but also on the adjacent characters. A sequence of characters can be displayed as a single glyph or a character can be displayed as a sequence of glyphs. Which will be the case, is often font dependent. See also Jörgen Bettels and F. Avery Bishop's paper {Unicode: A universal character code (http://research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJB02/DTJB02SC.TXT)}. (2002-08-06) 2. "language" A pre-{Fortran} on the {IBM 1130}, similar to {MATH-MATIC}. [Sammet 1969, p.137]. (2004-09-14)

University of Durham "body, education" A busy research and teaching community in the historic cathedral city of Durham, UK (population 61000). Its work covers key branches of science and technology and traditional areas of scholarship. Durham graduates are in great demand among employers and the University helps to attract investment into the region. It provides training, short courses, and expertise for industry. Through its cultural events, conferences, tourist business and as a major employer, the University contributes in a wide social and economic sense to the community. Founded in 1832, the University developed in Durham and Newcastle until 1963 when the independent University of Newcastle upon Tyne came into being. Durham is a collegiate body, with 14 Colleges or Societies which are a social and domestic focus for students. In 1992, the Universities of Durham and Teesside launched University College, Stockton-on-Tees, which has 190 students in the first year. {(http://dur.ac.uk/)}. (1995-03-17)

Ursa Major and Minor The northern constellations of the Big and Little Bear, or the Big and Little Dipper. These two septenates form part of the astronomical key to the ancient wisdom, Ursa Major corresponding to the seven creative rishis, builders, mind-born sons of the first lord called Avalokitesvara in Buddhism. The founders of root-races were connected mystically with the pole star; and as the Aryan Hindus claim that their pole star was in Ursa Major, and at a later date in Ursa Minor, the antiquity is shown. The Little Bear represents a secondary septenate of creative powers. According to Clement of Alexandria the two cherubs placed in the Tabernacle on opposite ends of the Mercy Seat were the Big and Little Bear, representing the two hemispheres of the universe. Clement likewise points out that as each cherub has six wings, both together have twelve wings, thus signifying the twelve houses or mansions of the zodiac, and ever-moving time progressing through them (Miscellanies 5:6).

UTF-8 "character" (UCS transformation format 8) An {ASCII}-compatible multibyte {Unicode} and {UCS} encoding, used by {Java} and {Plan 9}. The {Unicode character} set occupies a 16-bit code space. The most obvious Unicode encoding (known as UCS-2) consists of a sequence of 16-bit words. Such strings can contain bytes like '\0' or '/' which have a special meaning in filenames and other {C} library function parameters. In addition, the majority of {Unix} tools expects ASCII files and can't read 16-bit words as characters without major modifications. For these reasons, UCS-2 is not a suitable external encoding of Unicode in filenames, text files, environment variables, etc. The {ISO 10646} {Universal Character Set} (UCS), a superset of Unicode, occupies a 31-bit code space and the obvious UCS-4 encoding for it (a sequence of 32-bit words) has the same problems. The UTF-8 encoding of Unicode and UCS avoids the problems of fixed-length Unicode encodings because an ASCII file encoded in UTF is exactly same as the original ASCII file and all non-ASCII characters are guaranteed to have the most significant bit set (bit 0x80). This means that normal tools for text searching etc. work as expected. UTF-8 is defined in {RFC 2279}. ["File System Safe UCS Transformation Format (FSS_UTF)", X/Open Preliminary Specification, X/Open Company Ltd., Document Number: P316. This information also appears in ISO/IEC 10646, Annex P]. {Plan 9 UTF manual entry (ftp://ftp.uu.net/doc/obi/Bell.Labs/plan9pm/09utf.ps.Z)}. (1998-07-29)

-. Utriusque cosmi majoris et minoris historia. 2 vols.

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Vaisesika: One of the major systems of Indian philosophy (q.v.) founded by Ulaka, better known by his surname Kanada. It is a pluralistic realism, its main insistence being on visesa or particularity of the ultimate reality, incidental to an atomism. There are theistic implications. Reality falls into seven categories: nine substances (dravya, q.v.), 24 qualities (guna, q.v.), action (karma, q.v.), universality (samanya, q.v.), particularity (visesa), inherence (samavdya), and non-existence (abhava). -- K.F.L.

validity claims ::: The major truth claims native to each of the four quadrants. See truthfulness, truth, mutual understanding, and functional fit.

vayu. ::: the air element; air current related to the "airy" vital forces of the body; vedic God of the wind; the vayus or air currents exist both in the physical and subtle bodies, functioning through the body, mind and senses &

Vendidad (Pahlavi) [from vi-daevo-datem the anti-demonic law] The principal book of the Avesta, consisting of 22 sections or fargards. The major part of the book is concerned with detailed instructions and teachings on how to avoid sin and defilement by moral and physical purification, “each of which teachings is based on Occult laws” (TG 363). The first fargard tells the story of the creation, and the legend of Yima and the Golden Age. Another tells of the formation of our earth and its six companion karshvares or globes.

version "programming" One of a sequence of copies of a program, each incorporating new modifications. Each version is usually identified by a number, commonly of the form X.Y where X is the major version number and Y is the release number. Typically an increment in X (with Y reset to zero) signifies a substantial increase in the function of the program or a partial or total re-implementation, whereas Y increases each time the progam is changed in any way and re-released. Version numbers are useful so that the user can know if the program has changed ({bugs} have been fixed or new functions added) since he obtained his copy and the programmer can tell if a bug report relates to the current version. It is thus always important to state the version when reporting bugs. Statements about compatibility between different software components should always say which versions they apply to. See {change management}. (1997-12-07)

vijnanavada. ::: "Doctrine of Consciousness"; one of two major schools of Mahayana buddhism which holds that Reality is consciousness only and all that exists are minds and their experiences

virtual machine 1. An {abstract machine} for which an {interpreter} exists. Virtual machines are often used in the implementation of portable executors for {high-level languages}. The HLL is compiled into code for the virtual machine (an {intermediate language}) which is then executed by an {interpreter} written in {assembly language} or some other portable language like {C}. Examples are {Core War}, {Java Virtual Machine}, {OCODE}, {OS/2}, {POPLOG}, {Portable Scheme Interpreter}, {Portable Standard Lisp}, {Parallel Virtual Machine}, {Sequential Parlog Machine}, {SNOBOL Implementation Language}, {SODA}, {Smalltalk}. 2. A software emulation of a physical computing environment. The term gave rise to the name of {IBM}'s {VM} {operating system} whose task is to provide one or more simultaneous execution environments in which operating systems or other programs may execute as though they were running "on the bare iron", that is, without an eveloping Control Program. A major use of VM is the running of both outdated and current versions of the same operating system on a single {CPU} complex for the purpose of system migration, thereby obviating the need for a second processor. (2002-04-15)

Virtual Machine "operating system" (VM) An {IBM} pseudo-{operating system} {hypervisor} running on {IBM 370}, {ESA} and {IBM 390} architecture computers. VM comprises CP ({Control Program}) and CMS ({Conversational Monitor System}) providing Hypervisor and personal computing environments respectively. VM became most used in the early 1980s as a Hypervisor for multiple {DOS/VS} and {DOS/VSE} systems and as IBM's internal operating system of choice. It declined rapidly following widespread adoption of the {IBM PC} and hardware partitioning in {microcode} on IBM {mainframes} after the {IBM 3090}. VM has been known as VM/SP (System Product, the successor to {CP/67}), VM/XA, and currently as VM/ESA (Enterprise Systems Architecture). VM/ESA is still in used in 1999, featuring a {web} interface, {Java}, and {DB2}. It is still a major IBM operating system. {(http://vmdev.gpl.ibm.com/)}. ["History of VM"(?), Melinda Varian, Princeton University]. (1999-10-31)

Virtual Reality Modeling Language "virtual reality, language" (VRML) A draft specification for the design and implementation of a {platform}-independent language for {virtual reality} scene description. VRML 1.0 was released on 1995-05-26. {(http://vrml.org/)}. {Wired (http://vrml.wired.com/)}. {Hypermail Archive (http://vrml.wired.com/arch/)}. Mailing list: "majordomo@wired.com" (message body: "subscribe www-vrml your-email-address"). (1995-07-20)

Vishnuism: (Visnuism) One of the major philosophico-religious groups into which Hinduism has articulated itself. It glorifies Vishnu as the supreme being who creates and maintains the world periodically by means of his bhuti and kriya saktis (q.v.) or powers of becoming and producing, corresponding to the causae materialis et efficiens. The place of man's soul in this development is explained variously depending on the relation it maintains to the world-ground conceived in Vishnuite fashion. -- K.F.L.

Voice over IP "communications" (VoIP) Any technology providing {voice telephony} services over {IP}, including {CODECs}, {streaming} {protocols} and {session control}. The major advantage of VoIP is lower cost, by avoiding dedicated voice circuits. Currently VoIP is being deployed on internal corporate networks, and, via the {Internet}, for low cost (and low quality) international calls. It is also used for telephony applications such as voice and fax mail. The {ITU} standard is {H.323}, which is a whole suite of protocols, while the {IETF} has developed the much simpler {SIP} to solve the session control problem and {MGCP}/{Megaco} to solve the gateway problem. (2003-11-30)

wagoner ::: n. --> One who conducts a wagon; one whose business it is to drive a wagon.
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WAITS /wayts/ The mutant cousin of {TOPS-10} used on a handful of systems at {SAIL} up to 1990. There was never an "official" expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as "West-coast Alternative to ITS". Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence. The early screen modes of {Emacs}, for example, were directly inspired by WAITS's "E" editor - one of a family of editors that were the first to do "real-time editing", in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion/overwriting. The modern style of multi-region windowing is said to have originated there, and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsewhere played major roles in the developments that led to the XEROX Star, the Macintosh, and the Sun workstations. {Bucky bits} were also invented there thus, the ALT key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy. One notable WAITS feature seldom duplicated elsewhere was a news-wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read, store, and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals; the system also featured a still-unusual level of support for what is now called "multimedia" computing, allowing analog audio and video signals to be switched to programming terminals. Ken Shoemake adds: Some administrative body told us we needed a name for the operating system, and that "SAIL" wouldn't do. (Up to that point I don't think it had an official name.) So the anarchic denizens of the lab proposed names and voted on them. Although I worked on the OS used by CCRMA folks (a parasitic subgroup), I was not writing WAITS code. Those who were, proposed "SAINTS", for (I think) Stanford AI New Time-sharing System. Thinking of ITS, and AI, and the result of many people using one machine, I proposed the name WAITS. Since I invented it, I can tell you without fear of contradiction that it had no official meaning. Nevertheless, the lab voted that as their favorite; upon which the disgruntled system programmers declared it the "Worst Acronym Invented for a Time-sharing System"! But it was in keeping with the creative approach to acronyms extant at the time, including self-referential ones. For me it was fun, if a little unsettling, to have an "acronym" that wasn't. I have no idea what the voters thought. :) [{Jargon File}] (2003-11-17)

waybread ::: n. --> The common dooryard plantain (Plantago major).

weenie 1. [on BBSes] Any of a species of {luser} resembling a less amusing version of {BIFF} that infests many {BBS}es. The typical weenie is a teenage boy with poor social skills travelling under a grandiose {handle} derived from fantasy or heavy-metal rock lyrics. Among {sysops}, "the weenie problem" refers to the marginally literate and profanity-laden {flamage} weenies tend to spew all over a newly-discovered BBS. Compare {spod}, {computer geek}, {terminal junkie}. 2. Among hackers, when used with a qualifier (for example, as in {Unix weenie}, {VMS} weenie, {IBM} weenie) this can be either an insult or a term of praise, depending on context, tone of voice, and whether or not it is applied by a person who considers him or herself to be the same sort of weenie. It implies that the weenie has put a major investment of time, effort and concentration into the area indicated; whether this is good or bad depends on the hearer's judgment of how the speaker feels about that area. See also {bigot}. 3. The {semicolon} character, ";" ({ASCII} 59). (1995-01-18)

Whetstone "benchmark" The first major {synthetic benchmark} program, intended to be representative for numerical ({floating-point} intensive) programming. It is based on statistics gathered by Brian Wichmann at the {National Physical Laboratory} in England, using an {Algol 60} {compiler} which translated Algol into instructions for the imaginary Whetstone machine. The compilation system was named after the small town of Whetstone outside the City of Leicester, England, where it was designed. The later {dhrystone} benchmark was a pun on Whetstone. Source code: {C (ftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/benchmark/whetstonec.Z)}, {single precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstones.Z)}, {double precision Fortran (ftp://netlib.att.com:/netlib/benchmark/whetstoned.Z)}. ["A Synthetic Benchmark", H.J. Curnow and B.A. Wichmann, The Computer Journal, 19,1 (1976), pp. 43-49]. (1994-11-14)

Wilber-Combs Lattice ::: The general idea (arrived at independently by Ken Wilber and Allan Combs) that a person at virtually any stage of awareness can experience any major state, but will interpret those state-experiences according to their respective stage. The result is a grid of developmental stages intersecting with and interpreting various states.

Windows Millennium Edition "operating system" (Windows ME) An update of {Microsoft} {Windows 98}, released in 2000. ME included updates of packaged software and new software such as {Windows Media Player} 7, {Windows Movie Maker}. It also has an updated {user interface} with new colours and icons, but few major changes. Windows ME was followed by {Windows XP}. (2003-05-13)

Wittgenstein's doctrines were a major influence in the evolution of Logical Positivism (q.v.) though his later work is out of sympathy with that movement. Later lectures (in the form of unpublished mimeographed notes) embody a more relativistic approach to language, and are largely devoted to the inculcation of a therapeutic method directed against the perennial temptation to ask senseless questions in philosophy.

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Yale Haskell "language" A fully integrated {Haskell} programming environment. It provides tightly coupled interactive editing, {incremental compilation} and dynamic execution of Haskell programs. Two major modes of compilation, correspond to {Lisp}'s traditional "interpreted" and "compiled" modes. Compiled and interpreted modules may be freely mixed in any combination. Yale Haskell is run using either a command-line interface or as an {inferior process} running under the {Emacs} editor. Using the Emacs interface, simple two-keystroke commands evaluate expressions, run dialogues, compile {modules}, turn specific compiler diagnostics on and off and enable and disable various {optimisers}. Commands may be queued up arbitrarily, thus allowing, for example, a compilation to be running in the background as the editing of a source file continues in Emacs in the foreground. A "scratch pad" may be automatically created for any module. Such a pad is a logical extension of the module, in which additional function and value definitions may be added, but whose evaluation does not result in recompilation of the module. A tutorial on Haskell is also provided in the Emacs environment. A {Macintosh} version of Yale Haskell includes its own integrated programming environment, complete with an Emacs-like editor and {pull-down menus}. Yale Haskell is a complete implementation of the Haskell language, but also contains a number of extensions, including: (1) Instead of stream based I/O, a {monadic I/O} system is used. Although similar to what will be part of the new {Haskell 1.3} report, the I/O system will change yet again when 1.3 becomes official. (2) Haskell programs can call both {Lisp} and {C} functions using a flexible foreign function interface. (3) Yale Haskell includes a {dynamic typing} system. Dynamic typing has been used to implement {derived instances} in a user extensible manner. (4) A number of small Haskell 1.3 changes have been added, including {polymorphic recursion} and the use of @_@ in an expression to denote {bottom}. Although the 1.3 report is not yet complete, these changes will almost certainly be part of the new report. (5) A complete Haskell level {X Window System} interface, based on {CLX}. (6) A number of {annotations} are available for controlling the optimiser, including those for specifying both function and data constructor {strict}ness properties, "{inlining}" functions, and specialising {over-loaded} functions. Many standard {prelude} functions have been specialised for better performance using these annotations. (7) {Separate compilation} (including {mutually recursive} {modules}) is supported using a notion of a UNIT file, which is a kind of localised {makefile} that tells the compiler about compiler options and logical dependencies amongst program files. (8) Yale Haskell supports both standard and "{literate}" Haskell syntax. Performance of Yale Haskell's compiled code has been improved considerably over previous releases. Although still not as good as the Glasgow ({GHC}) and Chalmers ({HBC}) compilers, the flexibility afforded by the features described earlier makes Yale Haskell a good choice for large systems development. For some idea of performance, Hartel's latest "Nuc" benchmark runs at about the same speed under both Yale Haskell and hbc. (Our experiments suggest, however, that Yale Haskell's compiled code is on average about 3 times slower than hbc.) Binaries are provided for {Sun}/{SPARC} and {Macintosh}, but it is possible to build the system on virtually any system that runs one of a number of {Common Lisp} implementations: {CMU Common Lisp}, {Lucid Common Lisp}, {Allegro Common Lisp} or {Harlequin LispWorks}. {akcl}, {gcl} and {CLisp} do not have adaquate performance for our compiler. The current version is 2.1. {Yale (ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/haskell/yale)}. (128.36.13.1). {UK (ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/pub/haskell/yale/)}. {Sweden (ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/yale/)}. E-mail: "haskell-request@cs.yale.edu", "haskell-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk". (1993-07-14)

Yerk "language" (After Yerkes Observatory) An {object-oriented} language based on a {Forth} {Kernel} with some major modifications. It was originally known as {Neon}, developed and sold as a product by {Kriya Systems} from 1985 to 1989. Several people at The {University of Chicago} have maintained Yerk since its demise as a product. Because of possible trademark conflict they named it Yerk, which is not an acronym for anything, but rather stands for Yerkes Observatory, part of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at U of C. Version 3.62. {(ftp://oddjob.uchicago.edu/pub/Yerk/)}. E-mail: Bob Lowenstein "rfl@oddjob.uchicago.edu". (1994-11-23)

You cannot expect every vision to translate itself in a corres- ponding physical fact. Some do, (he majority don't, others belong to the supraphysical entirely and indicate realities, possibilities or tendencies that have their scat there. How far these will influ- ence the life or realise ihcmsclvs in it or whether they will do so at all depends upon the nature of (he vision, the power in it, sometimes on the will or the formative power of the seer.

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1:Get in my lobby. Were starting the case now.
   ~ Major Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell,
2:The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ~ Henri Bergson,
3:Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
   ~ William Strunk,
4:If you don't see what is happening, it doesn't mean it's not happening. ~ 'We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.',
5:Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire." ~ John of the Cross, (1542-1591) major figure of the Counter-Reformation, Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite friar and priest, Wikipedia.,
6:Forms of religion but forge so many bonds round the individual; Spiritual Consciousness alone disperses them." ~ "Mahabharata," one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India… contains philosophical and devotional material", Wikipedia,
7:The major part of the work done in the universe is accomplished without any interference of desire; it proceeds by the calm necessity and spontaneous law of Nature. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Work,
8:God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, You're it. I mean you're really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen. ~ Hafez,
9:Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality & governments destroy freedom." ~ Michael Ellner(1949- 2018),
10:One by one he would conjure up the world's major electronic papers; he knew the codes of the more important ones by heart, and had no need to consult the list on the back of his pad. Switching to the display unit's short-term memory, he would hold the front page while he quickly searched the headlines and noted the items that interested him. ~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,
11:Even if you strive diligently on your chosen path day after day, if your heart is not in accord with it, then even if you think you are on a good path, from the point of view of the straight and true, this is not a genuine path. If you do not pursue a genuine path to its consummation, then a little bit of crookedness in the mind will later turn into a major warp. Reflect on this. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
12:John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/; Hungarian: Neumann Janos Lajos, pronounced [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 - February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, inventor, computer scientist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics (foundations of mathematics, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, topology, and numerical analysis), physics (quantum mechanics, hydrodynamics, and quantum statistical mechanics), economics (game theory), computing (Von Neumann architecture, linear programming, self-replicating machines, stochastic computing), and statistics.
   ~ Wikipedia,
13:To take the last issue, the difficult issue, first. The first great Dharma systems, East and West, all arose, without exception, in the so-called "axial period" (Karl Jaspers), that rather extraordinary period beginning around the 6th century B.C. (plus or minus several centuries), a period that saw the birth of Gautama Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Moses, Plato, Patanjali—a period that would soon give way, over the next few centuries, to include Ashvaghosa, Nagarjuna, Plotinus, Jesus, Philo, Valentinus…. Virtually all of the major tenets of the perennial philosophy were first laid down during this amazing era (in Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity….) ~ Ken Wilber, Integral Life, right-bucks,
14:called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world. That was a major achievement, and it led to a further achievement. Right at that time and after the war the same techniques were used to whip up a hysterical Red Scare, as it was called, which succeeded pretty much in destroying unions and eliminating such dangerous problems as freedom of the press and freedom of political thought. There was very strong support from the media, from the business establishment, which in fact organized, pushed much of this work, and it was, in general, a great success. ~ Noam Chomsky, Media Control,
15:The thunderbolt (vajra) is one of the major symbols in Buddhist iconography, signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlightenment) which shatters the illusory realities of the world. The Absolute, or Adi Buddha, is represented in the images of Tibet as Vajra-Dhara (Tibetan: Dorje-Chang) "Holder of the Adamantine Bolt.
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We know also that among primitive peoples warriors may speak of their weapons as thunderbolts. Sicut in coelo et in terra: the initiated warrior is an agent of the divine will; his training is not only in manual but also in spiritual skills. Magic (the supernatural power of the thunderbolt), as well as physical force and chemical poison, gives the lethal energy to his blows. A consummate master would require no physical weapon at all; the power of his magic word would suffice. ~ Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces,
16:Therefore, we can attain the overmental consciousness in many different ways: through religious passion, through poetic, intellectual, artistic, or heroic zeal, or through anything that helps man to exceed himself. - Sri Aurobindo assigned a special place to art, which he considered one of the major means of spiritual progress. Unfortunately, artists and creators too often have a considerable ego standing in the way, which is their main difficulty. The religious man, who has worked to dissolve his ego, finds it easier, but he rarely attains universality through his own individual efforts, leaping instead beyond the individual without bothering to develop all the intermediate rungs of the personal consciousness, and when he reaches the top he no longer has a ladder to come down, or he does not want to come down, or there is no individual self left to express what he sees, or else his old individual self tries its best to express his new consciousness, provided he feels the need to express anything at all.
   ~ Satprem,
17:A major part of the book is devoted to poetry. It opens with Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. The author has a novel way of appreciating this most wonderful epic, which continually overwhelms and bewilders us. He has taken this bewilderment as the subject of the chapter "An Uninitiated Reader's Response to Savitri". This is a rarely explored area, namely the magical poetic beauty of Savitri that casts a spell on the reader even when he does not always understand its content. For the lover of poetry is attracted by its "beauty and strength", "he is overawed by the grandeur of the animated spirituality". Any time spent with Savitri thus becomes a special moment in his life. Later in the book we find another kind of appreciation of the epic in the chapter on K. D. Sethna as a "crusader of aesthetic yoga". There the author calls Savitri the "Odyssey of Integral Yoga" where yoga and poetry come together. He also appreciates the "sensitive analysis of stylistic effect" by Sethna, who uses wonderful quotations from Savitri as examples of adequate style, effective style, illumined style, etc. (From the Near to Far by Dr. Saurendranth Basu) ~ Nandita Chatterjee, review of the book,
18:About the only law that I think relates to the genre is that you should not try to explain, to find neat explanations for what happens, and that the object of the thing is to produce a sense of the uncanny. Freud in his essay on the uncanny wrote that the sense of the uncanny is the only emotion which is more powerfully expressed in art than in life, which I found very illuminating; it didn't help writing the screen-play, but I think it's an interesting insight into the genre. And I read an essay by the great master H.P. Lovecraft where he said that you should never attempt to explain what happens, as long as what happens stimulates people's imagination, their sense of the uncanny, their sense of anxiety and fear. And as long as it doesn't, within itself, have any obvious inner contradictions, it is just a matter of, as it were, building on the imagination (imaginary ideas, surprises, etc.), working in this area of feeling. I think also that the ingeniousness of a story like this is something which the audience ultimately enjoys; they obviously wonder as the story goes on what's going to happen, and there's a great satisfaction when it's all over not having been able to have anticipated the major development of the story, and yet at the end not to feel that you have been fooled or swindled. ~ Stanley Kubrick,
19:Shouldn't we consider in every nation major changes in the traditional ways of doing things, a fundamental restructuring of economic political social and religious institutions. We've reached a point where there can be no more special interests or special cases, nuclear arms threaten every person on the Earth. Fundamental changes in society are sometimes labelled impractical or contrary to human nature, as if nuclear war were practical or as if there's only one human nature. But fundamental changes can clearly be made, we're surrounded by them. In the last two centuries abject slavery which was with us for thousands of years has almost entirely been eliminated in a stirring worldwide revolution. Women, systematically mistreated for millennia are gradually gaining the political and economic power traditionally denied them and some wars of aggression have recently been stopped or curtailed because of a revulsion felt by the people in the aggressor nations. The old appeals to racial sexual religious chauvinism and to rabid nationalist fervor are beginning not to work. A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. ~ Carl Sagan,
20:Why God sometimes allows people who are genuinely good to be hindered in the good that they do. God, who is faithful, allows his friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. For a loving person it would be a great joy to be able to achieve many great feats, whether keeping vigils, fasting, performing other ascetical practices or doing major, difficult and unusual works. For them this is a great joy, support and source of hope so that their works become a prop and a support upon which they can lean. But it is precisely this which our Lord wishes to take from them so that he alone will be their help and support. This he does solely on account of his pure goodness and mercy, for God is prompted to act only by his goodness, and in no way do our works serve to make God give us anything or do anything for us. Our Lord wishes his friends to be freed from such an attitude, and thus he removes their support from them so that they must henceforth find their support only in him. For he desires to give them great gifts, solely on account of his goodness, and he shall be their comfort and support while they discover themselves to be and regard themselves as being a pure nothingness in all the great gifts of God. The more essentially and simply the mind rests on God and is sustained by him, the more deeply we are established in God and the more receptive we are to him in all his precious gifts - for human kind should build on God alone. ~ Meister Eckhart,
21:Supermind, on the other hand, as a basic structure-rung (conjoined with nondual Suchness) can only be experienced once all the previous junior levels have emerged and developed, and as in all structure development, stages cannot be skipped. Therefore, unlike Big Mind, supermind can only be experienced after all 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-tier junior stages have been passed through. While, as Genpo Roshi has abundantly demonstrated, Big Mind state experience is available to virtually anybody at almost any age (and will be interpreted according to the View of their current stage), supermind is an extremely rare recognition. Supermind, as the highest structure-rung to date, has access to all previous structures, all the way back to Archaic-and the Archaic itself, of course, has transcended and included, and now embraces, every major structural evolution going all the way back to the Big Bang. (A human being literally enfolds and embraces all the major transformative unfoldings of the entire Kosmic history-strings to quarks to subatomic particles to atoms to molecules to cells, all the way through the Tree of Life up to its latest evolutionary emergent, the triune brain, the most complex structure in the known natural world.) Supermind, in any given individual, is experienced as a type of omniscience-the supermind, since it transcends and includes all of the previous structure-rungs, and inherently is conjoined with the highest nondual Suchness state, has a full and complete knowledge of all of the potentials in that person. It literally knows all, at least for the individual.
   ~ Ken Wilber?,
22:[the value of sublimation:]
   And since Yoga is in its essence a turning away from the ordinary material and animal life led by most men or from the more mental but still limited way of living followed by the few to a greater spiritual life, to the way divine, every part of our energies that is given to the lower existence in the spirit of that existence is a contradiction of our aim and our self-dedication. On the other hand, every energy or activity that we can convert from its allegiance to the lower and dedicate to the service of the higher is so much gained on our road, so much taken from the powers that oppose our progress. It is the difficulty of this wholesale conversion that is the source of all the stumblings in the path of Yoga. For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self, are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth and work against the whole-heartedness of our endeavour.
   In a certain sense we are nothing but a complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires and associations, - an amalgam of many small self-repeating forces with a few major vibrations. What we propose in our Yoga is nothing less than to break up the whole formation of our past and present which makes up the ordinary material and mental man and to create a new centre of vision and a new universe of activities in ourselves which shall constitute a divine humanity or a superhuman nature.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, [71] [T1],
23:scope and aim of the works of sacrifice :::
   Into the third and last category of the works of sacrifice can be gathered all that is directly proper to the Yoga of works; for here is its field of effectuation and major province. It covers the entire range of lifes more visible activities; under it fall the multiform energies of the Will-to-Life throwing itself outward to make the most of material existence. It is here that an ascetic or other-worldly spirituality feels an insurmountable denial of the Truth which it seeks after and is compelled to turn away from terrestrial existence, rejecting it as for ever the dark playground of an incurable Ignorance. Yet it is precisely these activities that are claimed for a spiritual conquest and divine transformation by the integral Yoga. Abandoned altogether by the more ascetic disciplines, accepted by others only as a field of temporary ordeal or a momentary, superficial and ambiguous play of the concealed spirit, this existence is fully embraced and welcomed by the integral seeker as a field of fulfilment, a field for divine works, a field of the total self-discovery of the concealed and indwelling Spirit. A discovery of the Divinity in oneself is his first object, but a total discovery too of the Divinity in the world behind the apparent denial offered by its scheme and figures and, last, a total discovery of the dynamism of some transcendent Eternal; for by its descent this world and self-will be empowered to break their disguising envelopes and become divine in revealing form and manifesting process as they now are secretly in their hidden essence.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 169,
24:The general characteristics and attributions of these Grades are indicated by their correspondences on the Tree of Life, as may be studied in detail in the Book 777.
   Student. -- His business is to acquire a general intellectual knowledge of all systems of attainment, as declared in the prescribed books. (See curriculum in Appendix I.) {231}
   Probationer. -- His principal business is to begin such practices as he my prefer, and to write a careful record of the same for one year.
   Neophyte. -- Has to acquire perfect control of the Astral Plane.
   Zelator. -- His main work is to achieve complete success in Asana and Pranayama. He also begins to study the formula of the Rosy Cross.
   Practicus. -- Is expected to complete his intellectual training, and in particular to study the Qabalah.
   Philosophus. -- Is expected to complete his moral training. He is tested in Devotion to the Order.
   Dominus Liminis. -- Is expected to show mastery of Pratyahara and Dharana.
   Adeptus (without). -- is expected to perform the Great Work and to attain the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel.
   Adeptus (within). -- Is admitted to the practice of the formula of the Rosy Cross on entering the College of the Holy Ghost.
   Adeptus (Major). -- Obtains a general mastery of practical Magick, though without comprehension.
   Adeptus (Exemptus). -- Completes in perfection all these matters. He then either ("a") becomes a Brother of the Left Hand Path or, ("b") is stripped of all his attainments and of himself as well, even of his Holy Guardian Angel, and becomes a babe of the Abyss, who, having transcended the Reason, does nothing but grow in the womb of its mother. It then finds itself a
   Magister Templi. -- (Master of the Temple): whose functions are fully described in Liber 418, as is this whole initiation from Adeptus Exemptus. See also "Aha!". His principal business is to tend his "garden" of disciples, and to obtain a perfect understanding of the Universe. He is a Master of Samadhi. {232}
   Magus. -- Attains to wisdom, declares his law (See Liber I, vel Magi) and is a Master of all Magick in its greatest and highest sense.
   Ipsissimus. -- Is beyond all this and beyond all comprehension of those of lower degrees. ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,
25:The majority of Buddhists and Buddhist teachers in the West are green postmodern pluralists, and thus Buddhism is largely interpreted in terms of the green altitude and the pluralistic value set, whereas the greatest Buddhist texts are all 2nd tier, teal (Holistic) or higher (for example, Lankavatara Sutra, Kalachakra Tantra, Longchenpa's Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Nagarjuna's Madhyamaka treatises, and so forth).

This makes teal (Holistic), or Integral 2nd tier in general, the lowest deeply adequate level with which to interpret Buddhism, ultimate Reality, and Suchness itself. Thus, interpreting Suchness in pluralistic terms (or lower) would have to be viewed ultimately as a dysfunction, certainly a case of arrested development, and one requiring urgent attention in any Fourth Turning.

These are some of the problems with interpreting states (in this case, Suchness states) with a too-low structure (in short, a severe misinterpretation and thus misunderstanding of the Ultimate). As for interpreting them with dysfunctional structures (of any altitude), the problem more or less speaks for itself. Whether the structure in itself is high enough or not, any malformation of the structure will be included in the interpretation of any state (or any other experience), and hence will deform the interpretation itself, usually in the same basic ways as the structure itself is deformed. Thus, for example, if there is a major Fulcrum-3 (red altitude) repression of various bodily states (sex, aggression, power, feelings), those repressions will be interpreted as part of the higher state itself, and so the state will thus be viewed as devoid of (whereas this is actually a repression of) any sex, aggression, power, feelings, or whatever it is that is dis-owned and pushed into the repressed submergent unconscious. If there is an orange altitude problem with self-esteem (Fulcrum-5), that problem will be magnified by the state experience, and the more intense the state experience, the greater the magnification. Too little self-esteem, and even profound spiritual experiences can be interpreted as "I'm not worthy, so this state-which seems to love me unconditionally-must be confused." If too much self-esteem, higher experiences are misinterpreted, not as a transcendence of the self, but as a reward for being the amazing self I am-"the wonder of being me." ~ Ken Wilber, The Religion Of Tomorrow,
26:meta-systemic operations ::: As the 1950's and 60s begin to roll around the last stage of first tier emerged as a cultural force. With the Green Altitude we see the emergence of Pluralistic, Multicultural, Post-Modern world-views.

Cognition is starting to move beyond formal-operations into the realm of co-ordinating systems of abstractions, in what is called Meta-systemic Cognition. While formal-operations acted upon the classes and relations between members of classes. Meta-systemic operations start at the level of relating systems to systems. The focus of these investigations is placed upon comparing, contrasting, transforming and synthesizing entire systems, rather than components of one system. This emergent faculty allows self-sense to focus around a heightened sense of individuality and an increased ability for emotional resonance. The recognition of individual differences, the ability to tolerate paradox and contradiction, and greater conceptual complexity all provide for an understanding of conflict as being both internally and externally caused. Context plays a major role in the creation of truth and individual perspective. With each being context dependent and open to subjective interpretation, meaning each perspective and truth are rendered relative and are not able to be judged as better or more true than any other. This fuels a value set that centers on softness over cold rationality. Sensitivity and preference over objectivity.

Along with a focus on community harmony and equality which drives the valuing of sensitivity to others, reconcilation, consensus, dialogue, relationship, human development, bonding, and a seeking of a peace with the inner-self. Moral decisions are based on rights, values, or principles that are agreeable to all individuals composing a society based on fair and beneficial practices. All of this leads to the Equality movements and multiculturalism. And to the extreme form of relativitism which we saw earlier as context dependant nature of all truth including objective facts.

Faith at the green altitude is called Conjunctive, and allows the self to integrate what was unrecognized by the previous stages self-certainty and cognitive and affective adaptation to reality. New features at this level of faith include the unification of symbolic power with conceptual meaning, an awareness of ones social unconscious, a reworking of ones past, and an opening to ones deeper self. ~ Essential Integral, 4.1-52, Meta-systemic Operations,
27:Countless books on divination, astrology, medicine and other subjects
Describe ways to read signs. They do add to your learning,
But they generate new thoughts and your stable attention breaks up.
Cut down on this kind of knowledge - that's my sincere advice.

You stop arranging your usual living space,
But make everything just right for your retreat.
This makes little sense and just wastes time.
Forget all this - that's my sincere advice.

You make an effort at practice and become a good and knowledgeable person.
You may even master some particular capabilities.
But whatever you attach to will tie you up.
Be unbiased and know how to let things be - that's my sincere advice.

You may think awakened activity means to subdue skeptics
By using sorcery, directing or warding off hail or lightning, for example.
But to burn the minds of others will lead you to lower states.
Keep a low profile - that's my sincere advice.

Maybe you collect a lot of important writings,
Major texts, personal instructions, private notes, whatever.
If you haven't practiced, books won't help you when you die.
Look at the mind - that's my sincere advice.

When you focus on practice, to compare understandings and experience,
Write books or poetry, to compose songs about your experience
Are all expressions of your creativity. But they just give rise to thinking.
Keep yourself free from intellectualization - that's my sincere advice.

In these difficult times you may feel that it is helpful
To be sharp and critical with aggressive people around you.
This approach will just be a source of distress and confusion for you.
Speak calmly - that's my sincere advice.

Intending to be helpful and without personal investment,
You tell your friends what is really wrong with them.
You may have been honest but your words gnaw at their heart.
Speak pleasantly - that's my sincere advice.

You engage in discussions, defending your views and refuting others'
Thinking that you are clarifying the teachings.
But this just gives rise to emotional posturing.
Keep quiet - that's my sincere advice.

You feel that you are being loyal
By being partial to your teacher, lineage or philosophical tradition.
Boosting yourself and putting down others just causes hard feelings.
Have nothing to do with all this - that's my sincere advice.
~ Longchenpa, excerpts from 30 Pieces of Sincere Advice
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28:... one of the major personality traits was neuroticism, the tendency to feel negative emotion. He [Jung] never formalized that idea in his thinking. Its a great oversight in some sense because the capacity to experience negative emotion, when thats exaggerated that seems to be the core feature of everything we that we regard as psychopathology. Psychiatric and psychological illness. Not the only thing but its the primary factor. So.

Q: What is the best way to avoid falling back into nihilistic behaviours and thinking?
JBP:Well, a large part of that I would say is habit. The development and maintainance of good practices. Habits. If you find yourself desolute, neurotic, if your thought tends in the nihilistic direction and you tend to fall apart, organizing your life across multiple dimensions is a good antidote its not exactly thinking.
Do you have an intimate relationship? If not then well probably you could use one.
Do you have contact with close family members, siblings, children, parents, or even people who are more distantly related. If not, you probably need that.
Do you see your friends a couple of times a week? And do something social with them?
Do you have a way of productively using your time outside of employment?
Are you employed?
Do you have a good job? Or at least a job that is practically sufficient and enables you to work with people who you like working with? Even if the job itself is mundane or repetitive or difficult sometimes the relationships you establish in an employment situation like that can make the job worthwhile.
Have you regulated your response to temptations? Pornography, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, is that under control?

I would say differentiate the problem. Theres multiple dimensions of attainment, ambition, pleasure, responsibility all of that that make up a life, and to the degree that is it possible you want to optimize your functioning on as many of those dimensions as possible.
You might also organize your schedule to the degree that you have that capacity for discipline.
Do you get enough sleep?
Do you go to bed at a regular time?
Do you get up at a regular time?
Do you eat regularly and appropriately and enought and not too much?
Are your days and your weeks and your months characterized by some tolerable, repeatable structure? That helps you meet your responsibilities but also shields you from uncertainly and chaos and provides you with multiple sources of reward?
Those are all the questions decompose the problem into, the best way of avoiding falling into nihilistic behaviours and thinking. ~ Jordan B. Peterson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-geMoCsNAw,
29:Something happened to you before you were born, and this is what it was:
   STAGE ONE: THE CHIKHAI
   The events of the 49-day Bardo period are divided into three major stages, the Chikhai, the Chonyid, and the Sidpa (in that order). Immediately following physical death, the soul enters the Chikhai, which is simply the state of the immaculate and luminous Dharmakaya, the ultimate Consciousness, the BrahmanAtman. This ultimate state is given, as a gift, to all individuals: they are plunged straight into ultimate reality and exist as the ultimate Dharmakaya. "At this moment," says the Bardo Thotrol, "the first glimpsing of the Bardo of the Clear Light of Reality, which is the Infallible Mind of the Dharmakaya, is experienced by all sentient beings.''110 Or, to put it a different way, the Thotrol tells us that "Thine own consciousness, shining, void, and inseparable from the Great Body of Radiance, hath no birth, nor death, and is the Immutable Light-Buddha Amitabha. Knowing this is sufficient. Recognizing the voidness of thine own intellect to be Buddhahood ... is to keep thyself in the Divine Mind."110 In short, immediately following physical death, the soul is absorbed in and as the ultimate-causal body (if we may treat them together).
   Interspersed with this brief summary of the Bardo Thotrol, I will add my commentaries on involution and on the nature of the Atman project in involution. And we begin by noting that at the start of the Bardo experience, the soul is elevated to the utter heights of Being, to the ultimate state of Oneness-that is, he starts his Bardo career at the top. But, at the top is usually not where he remains, and the Thotrol tells us why. In Evans-Wentz's words, "In the realm of the Clear Light [the highest Chikhai stage] the mentality of a person . . . momentarily enjoys a condition of balance, of perfect equilibrium, and of [ultimate] oneness. Owing to unfamiliarity with such a state, which is an ecstatic state of non-ego, of [causal] consciousness, the . . . average human being lacks the power to function in it; karmic propensities becloud the consciousness-principle with thoughts of personality, of individualized being, of dualism, and, losing equilibrium, the consciousness-principle falls away from the Clear Light."
   The soul falls away from the ultimate Oneness because "karmic propensities cloud consciousness"-"karmic propensities'' means seeking, grasping, desiring; means, in fact, Eros. And as this Erosseeking develops, the state of perfect Oneness starts to "break down" (illusorily). Or, from a different angle, because the individual cannot stand the intensity of pure Oneness ("owing to unfamiliarity with such a state"), he contracts away from it, tries to ''dilute it," tries to extricate himself from Perfect Intensity in Atman. Contracting in the face of infinity, he turns instead to forms of seeking, desire, karma, and grasping, trying to "search out" a state of equilibrium. Contraction and Eros-these karmic propensities couple and conspire to drive the soul away from pure consciousness and downwards into multiplicity, into less intense and less real states of being. ~ Ken Wilber, The Atman Project,
30:At it's narrowest (although this is a common and perhaps the official position; need to find ref in What is Enlightenment) "integral", "turquois" (Spiral Dynamics), and "second tier" (ditto) are all synonms, and in turn are equivalent to Wilber IV / AQAL/Wilber V "Post-metaphysical" AQAL. This is the position that "Integral = Ken Wilber". It constitutes a new philosophical school or meme-set, in the tradition of charismatic spiritual teachers of all ages, in which an articulate, brilliant, and popular figure would arise, and gather a following around him- or her-self. After the teacher passes on, their teaching remains through books and organisations dedicated to perpetuating that teaching; although without the brilliant light of the Founder, things generally become pretty stultifying, and there is often little or no original development. Even so, the books themselves continue to inspire, and many people benefit greatly from these tecahings, and can contact the original Light of the founders to be inspired by them on the subtle planes. Some late 19th, 20th, and early 21st century examples of such teachers, known and less well-known, are Blavatsky, Theon, Steiner, Aurobindo, Gurdjieff, Crowley, Alice Bailey, Carl Jung, Ann Ree Colton, and now Ken Wilber. Also, many popular gurus belong in this category. It could plausibly be suggested that the founders of the great world religions started out no different, but their teaching really caught on n a big way.

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At its broadest then, the Integral Community includes not only Wilber but those he cites as his influences and hold universal and evolutionary views or teachings, as well as those who, while influenced by him also differ somewhat, and even those like Arthur M Young that Wilber has apparently never heard of. Nevertheless, all share a common, evolutionary, "theory of everything" position, and, whilst they may differ on many details and even on many major points, taken together they could be considered a wave front for a new paradigm, a memetic revolution. I use the term Daimon of the Integral Movement to refer to the spiritual being or personality of light that is behind and working through this broader movement.

Now, this doesn't mean that this daimon is necessarily a negative entity. I see a lot of promise, a lot of potential, in the Integral Approach. From what I feel at the moment, the Integral Deva is a force and power of good.

But, as with any new spiritual or evolutionary development, there is duality, in that there are forces that hinder and oppose and distort, as well as forces that help and aid in the evolution and ultimate divinisation of the Earth and the cosmos. Thus even where a guru does give in the dark side (as very often happens with many gurus today) there still remains an element of Mixed Light that remains (one finds this ambiguity with Sai Baba, with Da Free John, and with Rajneesh); and we find this same ambiguity with the Integral Community regarding what seems to me a certain offputting devotional attitude towards Wilber himself. The light will find its way, regardless. However, an Intregral Movement that is caught up in worship of and obedience to an authority figure, will not be able to achieve what a movement unfettered by such shackles could. ~ M Alan Kazlev, Kheper, Wilber, Integral,
31:The Science of Living

To know oneself and to control oneself

AN AIMLESS life is always a miserable life.

Every one of you should have an aim. But do not forget that on the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.

   Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.

   But whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realised unless you have realised perfection in yourself.

   To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. It is an assiduous study which demands much perseverance and sincerity. For man's nature, especially his mental nature, has a spontaneous tendency to give a favourable explanation for everything he thinks, feels, says and does. It is only by observing these movements with great care, by bringing them, as it were, before the tribunal of our highest ideal, with a sincere will to submit to its judgment, that we can hope to form in ourselves a discernment that never errs. For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, what we are truly created for, what we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is opposed to it. In this way, little by little, all the parts, all the elements of our being can be organised into a homogeneous whole around our psychic centre. This work of unification requires much time to be brought to some degree of perfection. Therefore, in order to accomplish it, we must arm ourselves with patience and endurance, with a determination to prolong our life as long as necessary for the success of our endeavour.

   As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection.

   All this can be realised by means of a fourfold discipline, the general outline of which is given here. The four aspects of the discipline do not exclude each other, and can be followed at the same time; indeed, this is preferable. The starting-point is what can be called the psychic discipline. We give the name "psychic" to the psychological centre of our being, the seat within us of the highest truth of our existence, that which can know this truth and set it in movement. It is therefore of capital importance to become conscious of its presence in us, to concentrate on this presence until it becomes a living fact for us and we can identify ourselves with it.

   In various times and places many methods have been prescribed for attaining this perception and ultimately achieving this identification. Some methods are psychological, some religious, some even mechanical. In reality, everyone has to find the one which suits him best, and if one has an ardent and steadfast aspiration, a persistent and dynamic will, one is sure to meet, in one way or another - outwardly through reading and study, inwardly through concentration, meditation, revelation and experience - the help one needs to reach the goal. Only one thing is absolutely indispensable: the will to discover and to realise. This discovery and realisation should be the primary preoccupation of our being, the pearl of great price which we must acquire at any cost. Whatever you do, whatever your occupations and activities, the will to find the truth of your being and to unite with it must be always living and present behind all that you do, all that you feel, all that you think.

   To complement this movement of inner discovery, it would be good not to neglect the development of the mind. For the mental instrument can equally be a great help or a great hindrance. In its natural state the human mind is always limited in its vision, narrow in its understanding, rigid in its conceptions, and a constant effort is therefore needed to widen it, to make it more supple and profound. So it is very necessary to consider everything from as many points of view as possible. Towards this end, there is an exercise which gives great suppleness and elevation to the thought. It is as follows: a clearly formulated thesis is set; against it is opposed its antithesis, formulated with the same precision. Then by careful reflection the problem must be widened or transcended until a synthesis is found which unites the two contraries in a larger, higher and more comprehensive idea.

   Many other exercises of the same kind can be undertaken; some have a beneficial effect on the character and so possess a double advantage: that of educating the mind and that of establishing control over the feelings and their consequences. For example, you must never allow your mind to judge things and people, for the mind is not an instrument of knowledge; it is incapable of finding knowledge, but it must be moved by knowledge. Knowledge belongs to a much higher domain than that of the human mind, far above the region of pure ideas. The mind has to be silent and attentive to receive knowledge from above and manifest it. For it is an instrument of formation, of organisation and action, and it is in these functions that it attains its full value and real usefulness.

   There is another practice which can be very helpful to the progress of the consciousness. Whenever there is a disagreement on any matter, such as a decision to be taken, or an action to be carried out, one must never remain closed up in one's own conception or point of view. On the contrary, one must make an effort to understand the other's point of view, to put oneself in his place and, instead of quarrelling or even fighting, find the solution which can reasonably satisfy both parties; there always is one for men of goodwill.

   Here we must mention the discipline of the vital. The vital being in us is the seat of impulses and desires, of enthusiasm and violence, of dynamic energy and desperate depressions, of passions and revolts. It can set everything in motion, build and realise; but it can also destroy and mar everything. Thus it may be the most difficult part to discipline in the human being. It is a long and exacting labour requiring great patience and perfect sincerity, for without sincerity you will deceive yourself from the very outset, and all endeavour for progress will be in vain. With the collaboration of the vital no realisation seems impossible, no transformation impracticable. But the difficulty lies in securing this constant collaboration. The vital is a good worker, but most often it seeks its own satisfaction. If that is refused, totally or even partially, the vital gets vexed, sulks and goes on strike. Its energy disappears more or less completely and in its place leaves disgust for people and things, discouragement or revolt, depression and dissatisfaction. At such moments it is good to remain quiet and refuse to act; for these are the times when one does stupid things and in a few moments one can destroy or spoil the progress that has been made during months of regular effort. These crises are shorter and less dangerous for those who have established a contact with their psychic being which is sufficient to keep alive in them the flame of aspiration and the consciousness of the ideal to be realised. They can, with the help of this consciousness, deal with their vital as one deals with a rebellious child, with patience and perseverance, showing it the truth and light, endeavouring to convince it and awaken in it the goodwill which has been veiled for a time. By means of such patient intervention each crisis can be turned into a new progress, into one more step towards the goal. Progress may be slow, relapses may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained, one is sure to triumph one day and see all difficulties melt and vanish before the radiance of the truth-consciousness.

   Lastly, by means of a rational and discerning physical education, we must make our body strong and supple enough to become a fit instrument in the material world for the truth-force which wants to manifest through us.

   In fact, the body must not rule, it must obey. By its very nature it is a docile and faithful servant. Unfortunately, it rarely has the capacity of discernment it ought to have with regard to its masters, the mind and the vital. It obeys them blindly, at the cost of its own well-being. The mind with its dogmas, its rigid and arbitrary principles, the vital with its passions, its excesses and dissipations soon destroy the natural balance of the body and create in it fatigue, exhaustion and disease. It must be freed from this tyranny and this can be done only through a constant union with the psychic centre of the being. The body has a wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is able to do so many more things than one usually imagines. If, instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that now govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, you will be amazed at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, at every minute it will be able to put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt to find rest in action and to recuperate, through contact with the universal forces, the energies it expends consciously and usefully. In this sound and balanced life a new harmony will manifest in the body, reflecting the harmony of the higher regions, which will give it perfect proportions and ideal beauty of form. And this harmony will be progressive, for the truth of the being is never static; it is a perpetual unfolding of a growing perfection that is more and more total and comprehensive. As soon as the body has learnt to follow this movement of progressive harmony, it will be possible for it to escape, through a continuous process of transformation, from the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will no longer have any reason to exist.

   When we reach this degree of perfection which is our goal, we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power and strength and the body will be the expression of a perfect beauty and harmony.

   Bulletin, November 1950

   ~ The Mother, On Education,

*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:The major key to your better future is you. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
2:Ideas will be the major source of new wealth. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
3:Decisions can be a major challenge for all of us. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
4:A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
5:Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
6:I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds. ~ george-carlin, @wisdomtrove
7:What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
8:The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
9:A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general. ~ abraham-lincoln, @wisdomtrove
10:If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
11:It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
12:I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. ~ bruce-lee, @wisdomtrove
13:The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove
14:The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
15:The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
16:A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove
17:No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove
18:Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand! ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
19:If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
20:Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
21:Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
22:It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart? ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
23:Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
24:We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
25:Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
26:Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
27:The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
28:Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove
29:Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
30:In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
31:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
32:Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
33:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
34:You too can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aim and destination. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove
35:Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
36:You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
37:I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
38:Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
39:Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
40:“Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
41:The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
42:The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
43:If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. ~ g-k-chesterton, @wisdomtrove
44:The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
45:I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
46:Poor or fuzzy communications are major time-wasters. Take the time to be crystal-clear in your communications with others. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
47:An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
48:Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
49:We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
50:A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as &
51:Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
52:That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ~ elie-wiesel, @wisdomtrove
53:I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation. ~ bob-dylan, @wisdomtrove
54:By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
55:It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove
56:It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
57:If general perception changes from seeing the glass as &
58:People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
59:The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
60:One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
61:Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying. ~ ernest-hemingway, @wisdomtrove
62:General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
63:Wherever You Are, Be There. One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
64:I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
65:Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
66:Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of listening is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than what the other person is saying. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
67:The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
68:The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.    ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
69:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness.  The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.    ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
70:Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
71:Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
72:I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ abraham-maslow, @wisdomtrove
73:It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
74:If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
75:I was a chemistry major, but I'm always winding up as a teacher in English departments, so I've brought scientific thinking to literature. There's been very little gratitude for this. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
76:This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
77:Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
78:We need to teach our children how to debate the major life issues. Debate strengthens their beliefs and enables them to defend themselves against ideologies that are going to come their way. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
79:The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
80:What you do off the job plays a major role in how far you go on the job. How many good books, do you read each year? How often do you attend workshops? Who do you spend must of your time with? ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
81:A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
82:How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant? ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
83:In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
84:The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as &
85:The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold. ~ francis-crick, @wisdomtrove
86:The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove
87:The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
88:You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
89:If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
90:Before the 1940s the terms system and systems thinking had been used by several scientists, but it was Bertalanffy's concepts of an open system and a general systems theory that established systems thinking as a major scientific movement ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove
91:Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the &
92:Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
93:While I was raised around churches and had gotten to know a few preachers fairly well, the thought never entered my head that I would one day stand and deliver. Not only was I not interested, I lived with a major struggle: I stuttered. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
94:One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
95:God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag has kissed you and said, You’re it. I mean you’re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen. ~ hafez, @wisdomtrove
96:I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace. ~ ken-wilber, @wisdomtrove
97:The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
98:The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. That is why I wish to pay fair price for every value. If I have to pay for it or earn it, that makes something of me. If I get it for free, that makes nothing of me. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
99:Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
100:With enough of us connecting heart with heart, center with center, innovation with innovation, prayer with prayer, through the internet and the noosphere, we can have a major impact on a more gentle transition toward the next stage of evolution. ~ barbara-marx-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
101:In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
102:You cannot prevent a major catastrophe, but you can build an organization that is battle-ready, where people trust one another. In military training, the first rule is to instill soldiers with trust in their officers - because without trust, they won't fight. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
103:Businesses always have opportunities to improve service, product lines, manufacturing techniques, and the like, and obviously these opportunities should be seized. But a business that constantly encounters major change also encounters many chances for major error ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
104:It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. ~ e-m-forster, @wisdomtrove
105:What is the major problem? It is fundamentally the confusion between effectiveness and efficiency that stands between doing the right things and doing things right. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
106:Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy. ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
107:When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
108:One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere. ~ alain-de-botton, @wisdomtrove
109:Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with it-and almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
110:The banking business is no favorite of ours. When assets are twenty times equity - a common ratio in this industry - mistakes that involve only a small portion of assets can destroy a major portion of equity. And mistakes have been the rule rather than the exception at many major banks. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
111:I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own inherent and inescapable structural characteristics, and the artist and functional practitioner will again strive to comprehend and control them. ~ amsel-adams, @wisdomtrove
112:If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment. ~ tom-peters, @wisdomtrove
113:The number-one killer in this country is heart disease. And the majority of people suffer their first major heart attack on Monday morning between eight and nine. That is the time, of course, when most people are getting ready to go to jobs that they don’t like, jobs that are making them sick. ~ les-brown, @wisdomtrove
114:In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last 700 years - starting with Beowulf and Chaucer and working his way up through  the Renaissance, the Victorian era and on into the 20th century. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
115:I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
116:My major contribution to the format was to suggest that I be able to step out of the plot and speak directly to the audience, and then be able to go right back into the action. That was an original idea of mine; I know it was because I originally stole it from Thornton Wilder's play Our Town. ~ george-burns, @wisdomtrove
117:Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
118:Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
119:The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
120:Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
121:For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
122:We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
123:Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: "In Christ There Is No East Nor West. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
124:There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise; it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
125:The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time! ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
126:Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society and especially in the economy as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
127:Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
128:It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
129:Pour the bulk of your time into action, not deciding. The state of indecision is a major time waster. Don't spend more than 60 seconds in that state if you can avoid it. Make a firm, immediate decision, and move from uncertainty to certainty to action. Let the world tell you when you're wrong, and you'll soon build enough experience to make accurate, intelligent decisions. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove
130:The psyche is built upon avoiding this pain, and as a result, it has fear of pain as its foundation. That is what caused the psyche to be. To understand this, notice that if the feeling of rejection is a major problem for you, you will fear experiences that cause rejection. That fear will become part of your psyche.- Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove
131:Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
132:The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to &
133:The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation. ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
134:The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question &
135:A hundred years ago-even 20 or 30 years ago-it was possible, if not always easy, to close major business by calling on and satisfying a key decision-maker. Today, every piece of business entails multiple decisions, and those decisions are virtually never made by the same person. Not only do you have to contend with multiple decisions, but the people who make those decisions may not even work in the same place. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
136:Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
137:Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science but ends at himself, the Napoleon complex of both intelligence and imagination. On the other hand the anti-theist wouldn't survive without a deity beyond himself to hunt. He doesn't pretend, he simply nullifies his own position. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
138:That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to deleverage. They want to take down their assets and liabilities. What seemed so easy to borrow against a year ago now looks like rat poison to them. So they're trying to deleverage. There is only one institution in the world that can leverage up in a way that's all a countervailing force to that, and that's the United States Treasury. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
139:There are solutions to the major problems of our time; some of them even simple. But they require a radical shift in our perceptions, our thinking, our values. And, indeed, we are now at the beginning of such a fundamental change of worldview in science and society, a change of paradigms as radical as the Copernican revolution. Unfortunately, this realization has not yet dawned on most of our political leaders, who are unable to connect the dots, to use a popular phrase. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove
140:If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
141:Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time-the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received-from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days. ~ malcolm-gladwell, @wisdomtrove
142:How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. ~ carl-sagan, @wisdomtrove
143:The great secret found at the heart of all the major spiritual traditions of the world is this. If you pay close attention to your identity, you will discover your subjective nature as awareness. This is your deep I. It is what the Hindu philosophers call the ‘atman’, the Buddhist masters call your ‘buddha-nature’, and the Christian mystics call your ‘spirit’. The word ‘spirit’ means essence. The word ‘essence’ comes from the Latin ‘esse’ meaning ‘to be’. Your deep I is your being. It is what you are. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
144:Most people have major leaks in their collection process. Many have collected things but haven't processed or decided what action to take about them. Others make good decisions about "stuff" in the moment but lose the value of that thinking because they don't efficiently organize the results. Still others have good systems but don't review them consistently enough to keep them functional. Finally, if any one of these links is weak, what someone is likely to choose to do at any point in time may not be the best option. ~ david-allen, @wisdomtrove
145:The major asset in this category is gold, currently a huge favorite of investors who fear almost all other assets, especially paper money (of whose value, as noted, they are right to be fearful). Gold, however, has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative. True, gold has some industrial and decorative utility, but the demand for these purposes is both limited and incapable of soaking up new production. Meanwhile, if you own one ounce of gold for an eternity, you will still own one ounce at its end. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
146:Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
147:It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
148:It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life" -she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should&
149:That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
150:The psyche is built upon avoiding this pain, and as a result, it has fear of pain as its foundation. That is what caused the psyche to be. To understand this, notice that if the feeling of rejection is a major problem for you, you will fear experiences that cause rejection. That fear will become part of your psyche. Even though the actual events causing rejection are infrequent, you will have to deal with the fear of rejection all the time. That is how we create a pain that is always there. If you are doing something to avoid pain, then pain is running your life. All of your thoughts and feelings will be affected by your fears. ~ michael-singer, @wisdomtrove
151:The Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor that describes the amount of trust you build up in a relationship. Much like a financial bank account, deposits are made and withdrawals are taken from an Emotional Bank Account. When you do something positive for another person, it can be a major deposit for that person. Deposits build a reserve of goodwill and trust. On the other hand, when you do something negative toward another person, you make a withdrawal. When withdrawals exceed deposits, the account is overdrawn and the level of trust deteriorates. With your relationships, it’s vital that you make continual deposits in order to sustain a high level of trust.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
152:As the twenty-first century unfolds, it is becoming more and more evident that the major problems of our time – energy, the environment, climate change, food security, financial security – cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are all interconnected and interdependent. Ultimately, these problems must be seen as just different facets of one single crisis, which is largely a crisis of perception. It derives from the fact that most people in our modern society, and especially our large social institutions, subscribe to the concepts of an outdated worldview, a perception of reality inadequate for dealing with our overpopulated, globally interconnected world. ~ fritjof-capra, @wisdomtrove
153:Every major religion has similar ideas of love, the same goal of benefiting through spiritual practice, and the same effect of making its followers into better human beings.  All religions teach moral precepts for perfecting the functions of the mind, body, and speech.  All teach us not to lie or steal or take others' lives, and so on.  The common goal of all moral precepts laid down by the great teachers of humanity is unselfishness.  Those teachers wanted to lead their followers away from the paths of negative deeds caused by ignorance and to introduce them to paths of goodness.  All religions can learn from one another; their ultimate goal is to produce better human beings who will be more tolerant, more compassionate, and less selfish.    ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
154:You can give so much in this life, and that offers you many opportunities to release the self. For example, you can give time, helpfulness, donations, restraint, patience, noncontention, and forgiveness. Any path of service—including raising a family, caring for others, and many kinds of work—incorporates generosity. Envy—and its close cousin, jealousy—is a major impediment to generosity. So notice the suffering in envy, how it is an affliction upon you. Envy actually activates some of the same neural networks involved with physical pain (Takahashi et al. 2009). In a compassionate and kind way, remind yourself that you will be all right even if other people have fame, money, or a great partner—and you don’t. To free yourself from the clutches of envy, send compassion and loving-kindness to people you envy. ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove
155:The greatest victory in living memory – of the United States over the Soviet Union – was achieved without any major military confrontation. The United States then got a fleeting taste of old-fashioned military glory in the First Gulf War, but this only tempted it to waste trillions on humiliating military fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan. China, the rising power of the early twenty-first century, has assiduously avoided all armed conflicts since its failed invasion of Vietnam in 1979, and it owes its ascent strictly to economic factors. In this it has emulated not the Japanese, German and Italian empires of the pre-1914 era, but rather the Japanese, German and Italian economic miracles of the post-1945 era. In all these cases economic prosperity and geopolitical clout were achieved without firing a shot. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
156:Relax and steady the mind, focusing on the breath. Pick a situation in which you feel someone has wronged you. Be mindful of your reactions to this person, especially the deeper ones. Scan yourself for any ill will. Now reflect on some of the various causes—the ten thousand things—that have led this person to act in the way that he has. Consider biologically based factors affecting him, like pain, age, innate temperament, or intelligence. Consider the realities of his life: race, gender, class, job, responsibilities, daily stresses. Consider whatever you know about his childhood. Consider major events in his life as an adult. Consider his mental processes, personality, values, fears, hot buttons, hopes, and dreams. Consider his parents in light of whatever you know or can reasonably guess about them; consider, too, the factors that may have shaped their lives. Reflect on the historical events and other upstream forces that have formed the river of causes flowing through his life today. Look inside yourself again. Do you feel any differently now about him? Do you feel any differently about yourself? ~ rick-hanson, @wisdomtrove

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1:Disunity costs votes. ~ John Major,
2:had been a major ~ Haruki Murakami,
3:Til Major Cramohn
~ Ambrosius Stub,
4:Life is full of surprises. ~ John Major,
5:Pachelbel’s Canon in D major. ~ Anonymous,
6:Ground control to Major Tom. ~ David Bowie,
7:If is a very big preposition. ~ John Major,
8:What is your major malfunction? ~ R Lee Ermey,
9:Some people eat eggs, I wear them. ~ John Major,
10:I'm a golfer not a history major. ~ Bubba Watson,
11:I was an English major in college! ~ Maggie Siff,
12:Political suicide can end a career. ~ John Major,
13:Coffee is one of my major food groups. ~ Sylvia Day,
14:I read good. I was an English major. ~ P J O Rourke,
15:along this major road into London from ~ Ann Swinfen,
16:Every setback has a major comeback. ~ Russell Wilson,
17:I was a drama major through college. ~ Creed Bratton,
18:major country-western nightclub, one ~ John Sandford,
19:My mother was the center of the family. ~ John Major,
20:Celine Dion is my major inspiration. ~ Jackie Evancho,
21:I was an international studies major. ~ Anna Chlumsky,
22:Recovery begins from the darkest moment. ~ John Major,
23:Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major, op. 17, ~ Lisa Genova,
24:Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere ~ John Major,
25:I can't legislate to change human nature. ~ John Major,
26:The major key to your better future is you. ~ Jim Rohn,
27:The world order needs a major overhaul. ~ George Soros,
28:I'm an old-fashioned theatre major at heart. ~ Tom Lenk,
29:Mamma, Major Grantly has--skedaddled. ~ Anthony Trollope,
30:Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto in D Major. ~ Louise Penny,
31:Fear and doubt are major stampeders. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
32:The major cause of problems are solutions ~ Eric Sevareid,
33:Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude. ~ Treat Williams,
34:I am the very model of a modern major general ~ W S Gilbert,
35:I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later. ~ John Major,
36:I just hope we don’t cause a major paradox. ~ Michelle Madow,
37:In this case, two wrongs made a major right. ~ Katie McGarry,
38:I want to get out of the major opera houses. ~ Renee Fleming,
39:Don’t major on the fall, major on getting up! ~ Jerry Savelle,
40:It's a good idea not to major in minor things. ~ Tony Robbins,
41:major-domo, Sept Bantrabal’s most senior servant, ~ Anonymous,
42:What's your major, Lennie? Oh yeah: Dorkology. ~ Jandy Nelson,
43:Adopt and change before any major trends or changes. ~ Jack Ma,
44:Guilt is the major motivating force in my life. ~ Linda Barnes,
45:My major influence was my ten years older sister. ~ Willa Ford,
46:Every major move in my life was done instinctively. ~ T D Jakes,
47:I want to go to Berkeley and major in music. ~ Cheyenne Kimball,
48:The major force in world history is sheer dumbness. ~ Eric Wolf,
49:America's Least Favorite Major Fast Food Chain Is... ~ Anonymous,
50:My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases. ~ Ang Lee,
51:my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions. ~ J A Jance,
52:The Quartets have been a major part of my work. ~ Elliott Carter,
53:You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. ~ John Major,
54:Almond milk + cinnamon crunch = major key to success. ~ DJ Khaled,
55:A major concept in ACT is the idea of “workability. ~ Russ Harris,
56:Anonymity was one of the major perks of the OASIS. ~ Ernest Cline,
57:How many major decisions did you actually make? ~ James Lee Burke,
58:John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly. ~ Gyles Brandreth,
59:Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy. ~ Noam Chomsky,
60:The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, ~ Paulo Coelho,
61:Vega, you got some major balls harassing my girl. ~ Katie McGarry,
62:Major organizational changes create uncertainty. ~ Irene Rosenfeld,
63:The nose looked at the Major and frowned a little. ~ Nikolai Gogol,
64:Input of public judgement for any major tax reform. ~ Newt Gingrich,
65:servant, the grand duet in D major, all were for ~ Gustave Flaubert,
66:The major way to conquer fear is to make a decision. ~ Reshad Feild,
67:Hell hath no fury like a liberal arts major scorned. ~ Florence King,
68:I'm going bald. I'm having a major problem with it. ~ Gedde Watanabe,
69:I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. ~ John Major,
70:It take 15,000 casualties to train a major general. ~ Ferdinand Foch,
71:(Khufu insisted Jell-O had major healing properties.) ~ Rick Riordan,
72:Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. ~ Kevin Gates,
73:The suburb was the major element of Australian society. ~ Robin Boyd,
74:And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette. ~ Paul McCartney,
75:If Dave Robbie’s a song, he’s written in major chords. ~ Cath Crowley,
76:In a major matter no details are small. ~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi,
77:I’ve got major skills and can definitely hold my own. ~ Robin Bielman,
78:Skating has always been a major area of interest to me. ~ Sasha Cohen,
79:Changing your major will not change a broken economy. ~ Sarah Kendzior,
80:Congress is responsible for every major change in India ~ Sonia Gandhi,
81:I'm a history major, baby. I know tons of useless facts ~ Elle Kennedy,
82:I was recently voted best standup never to win a major. ~ Andy Kindler,
83:Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s ~ Ken Kesey,
84:I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing. ~ Slash,
85:What is Bear’s major? Football? Beer? Mind-blowing Sex? ~ Kandi Steiner,
86:I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues. ~ Matt Holliday,
87:In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts. ~ Maud Adams,
88:Major change is never applauded until your numbers prove it. ~ Anonymous,
89:My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves. ~ Ken Stott,
90:Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder. ~ Laurell K Hamilton,
91:I perceive your devilish intention,' said Major Finney. ~ Agatha Christie,
92:I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology ~ Clifford Geertz,
93:Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering. ~ Pema Chodron,
94:We don’t matriculate engineering as a major for females, ~ Denise Kiernan,
95:Habitual earliness is cumulatively a major waste of time. ~ Graeme Simsion,
96:I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. ~ John Major,
97:Marty stayed busy as a chemistry major at Seattle University, ~ Jamie Ford,
98:My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?' ~ Philip K Dick,
99:The major fortunes in America have been made in land. ~ John D Rockefeller,
100:The major thing is to view biology as an information science. ~ Leroy Hood,
101:There is no major case against life’s enjoyments. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
102:Cardiovascular disease is a major complication of diabetes. ~ Antonio Gotto,
103:Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking. ~ Loni Anderson,
104:I'm selling more records on my own than I did on major labels. ~ Aimee Mann,
105:Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis. ~ Jack Nicholson,
106:Most people fail in life because they major in minor things. ~ Tony Robbins,
107:NAFTA is a major stepping stone to the New World Order. ~ Henry A Kissinger,
108:The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. ~ John Major,
109:Today I've made a major decision. I'm never going to die. ~ Gary Shteyngart,
110:vaunted progress as a major player in the global economy, ~ Steven D Levitt,
111:He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. ~ Terry Pratchett,
112:I have one major problem with the Internet: It's full of liars. ~ John Lydon,
113:Kimberly Green had a major conniption. “Are you insane?” They ~ Harlan Coben,
114:Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line. ~ Barack Obama,
115:My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college. ~ Amy Schumer,
116:The desire to create wealth is the next major motivator, ~ Peter H Diamandis,
117:A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious. ~ Graham Greene,
118:I did try to go to college and try to be an English major. ~ Hamish Linklater,
119:If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure. ~ John Cleese,
120:I truly believe, as an institution, most major labels should just die. ~ Moby,
121:My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. ~ Russell Banks,
122:The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man. ~ Peter Kreeft,
123:The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown. ~ Michael Jackson,
124:And we’d managed two terms in office without a major scandal. ~ Michelle Obama,
125:Ground Control to Major Spazz. Can you hear me, Major Spazz? ~ Tammy Blackwell,
126:If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general. ~ James Whistler,
127:I'm psychology major who has no desire to work with people. ~ Megan McCafferty,
128:The medical establishment has become the major threat to health. ~ Ivan Illich,
129:Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. ~ John Major,
130:A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
131:Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. ~ Cathy Guisewite,
132:I definitely hope to attend UCLA in a year, and major in business. ~ Mila Kunis,
133:I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible. ~ Darrell Hammond,
134:Major third complications can be overcome by lots of alcohol. ~ Eddie Van Halen,
135:Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~ Mignon McLaughlin,
136:Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. ~ Edward R Murrow,
137:Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw. ~ Terry Pratchett,
138:Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party. ~ John Bolton,
139:Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear? ~ Barry Cryer,
140:Because he rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon. ~ Neil Gaiman,
141:Deepest thoughts and major works eventually become insignificant. ~ Albert Camus,
142:He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity. ~ Norman Tebbit,
143:I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books. ~ Jodie Foster,
144:Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups. ~ Cathy Guisewite,
145:My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. ~ Mira Sorvino,
146:often in The Descent of Man, “my dog” steps forth as major evidence. ~ Tom Wolfe,
147:UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless. ~ John Major,
148:Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. ~ John Major,
149:Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best. ~ Terry Southern,
150:I don't have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds. ~ George Carlin,
151:I don’t have pet peeves - I have major psychotic fucking hatreds. ~ George Carlin,
152:I’m from here, born and raised, and I’m a criminal justice major. ~ Jamie McGuire,
153:Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. ~ John Major,
154:That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. ~ Antonia Fraser,
155:The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. ~ Hugh Hefner,
156:There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major. ~ Arnold Schoenberg,
157:They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience. ~ John Major,
158:I am a pop girl! And I'm on a major label. I enjoy singing pop songs. ~ Katy Perry,
159:I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. ~ John Major,
160:If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question. ~ John Major,
161:I used to be a major people pleaser, but that way purgatory lies. ~ Tracie Bennett,
162:One day every major city in America will have a telephone. ~ Alexander Graham Bell,
163:There's Adam Clymer, major league asshole from The New York Times. ~ George W Bush,
164:Well, let's put it this way, you'll be a major by nightfall or dead ~ Jack Higgins,
165:When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major problem. ~ J G Ballard,
166:Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. ~ Garrison Keillor,
167:Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life. ~ Sheryl Crow,
168:[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine. ~ Amartya Sen,
169:Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth. ~ John Major,
170:We owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country. ~ Donald Trump,
171:When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. ~ John Major,
172:When you're in a major market downturn, the beta eats the alpha. ~ Jeffrey Gundlach,
173:Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~ George Carlin,
174:Get in my lobby. Were starting the case now.
   ~ Major Kusanagi, Ghost in the Shell,
175:I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life. ~ Hugh Hefner,
176:My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction. ~ Rosemary Clement Moore,
177:My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women ~ John Hersey,
178:The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational. ~ Gary F Marcus,
179:There is really one city for everyone just as there is one major love. ~ Dawn Powell,
180:There’s a reason that major Democratic candidates work with Hollywood. ~ Ben Shapiro,
181:They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies. ~ Orson Welles,
182:What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
183:I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. ~ John Major,
184:Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office. ~ Joseph Heller,
185:Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war ~ Noam Chomsky,
186:one of the “slow burns,” where all the major blood vessels are missed. I ~ Max Brooks,
187:Pride takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one. ~ Ryan Holiday,
188:The effective thinker treats arrogance as the major sin of thinking. ~ Edward de Bono,
189:The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies. ~ Jello Biafra,
190:The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil. ~ Stefan Molyneux,
191:There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. ~ John Major,
192:When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. ~ John Major,
193:I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life. ~ Julius Erving,
194:If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure. ~ Napoleon Hill,
195:I've signed with major labels, and I haven't had any control over the money. ~ Chuck D,
196:I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major. ~ Boris Kodjoe,
197:Just like the Perimeter! It never rains but it pours," declared the Major. ~ Garth Nix,
198:My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ~ Truman Capote,
199:The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
200:When major businesses join progressive boycotts, they often succeed. ~ Steven Levitsky,
201:A lot of people think Major League’s called Wild Thing. As they should. ~ Charlie Sheen,
202:High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game. ~ Jim Bouton,
203:I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. ~ John Major,
204:I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables. ~ William Shakespeare,
205:Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. ~ Bruce Dickinson,
206:Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. ~ John Major,
207:English was what people who didn’t know what to major in majored in. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
208:I could live inside a G major chord, with Grace, if she was willing. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
209:I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips. ~ Jeff Goldblum,
210:It's been a long while since we've had a major celebrity criminal case. ~ Renee Montagne,
211:I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities. ~ Sue Grafton,
212:One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA ~ Alexander Graham Bell,
213:the neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life. ~ R C Sproul,
214:Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there. ~ Joe DiMaggio,
215:We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major.” Armistead ~ Jeff Shaara,
216:When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward. ~ John Major,
217:At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution. ~ Thomas Piketty,
218:I'm an art major. You're a political science major. YOU go lay down the law. ~ C K Walker,
219:I think major reorganisation is not something the government's about to do. ~ Theresa May,
220:Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named ~ David Simpson,
221:Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. ~ Charles Bukowski,
222:The only dream I've ever had is to become a major league baseball player. ~ Mark Teixeira,
223:The shell fishing industry represents a major part of Louisiana's economy. ~ Bobby Jindal,
224:Any major illness transforms a patient’s—really, an entire family’s—life. ~ Paul Kalanithi,
225:Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career. ~ Andre Leon Talley,
226:I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles. ~ Evelyn Ashford,
227:Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. ~ Stephen D Krashen,
228:The major wars that the U.S. became involved in are all ethically defensible. ~ Liu Xiaobo,
229:Yes, a major can break a record or sell a hit, but it can never lead the way. ~ Rich Cohen,
230:As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job. ~ Michael Moriarty,
231:Difficulties are inevitable,” I said. “Major projects require persistence. ~ Graeme Simsion,
232:Had I mentioned I wasn’t a people person with some major anger issues? ~ A Meredith Walters,
233:It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller. ~ Alice Winocour,
234:Know how your representatives stand on major national or state issues. ~ Marilyn vos Savant,
235:Lack of loyalty is one of the major causes of failure in every walk of life ~ Napoleon Hill,
236:When I say "major key," I think being grateful is actually respecting yourself. ~ DJ Khaled,
237:Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco ~ Katherine Applegate,
238:I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal. ~ Candace Parker,
239:Never run advertising until the major publicity possibilities have been exploited. ~ Al Ries,
240:Pieta Brown is a great singer/songwriter who possesses major star power magnetism. ~ Don Was,
241:the ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ S J Scott,
242:t is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ~ Douglas Adams,
243:Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment. ~ Jim George,
244:How could she not be with someone who shared such a major chunk of her life? ~ Liane Moriarty,
245:It is a major sin to break a contract, especially in military situations. ~ John Walker Lindh,
246:It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. ~ Douglas Adams,
247:Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!! ~ Mandy M Roth,
248:My family has served the country in almost every major war since the Civil War. ~ Jack Scalia,
249:Through my whole career, that's been a major thing - bringing my family with me. ~ Gemma Ward,
250:Asperger's isn't a fault. It's a variant. It's potentially a major advantage. ~ Graeme Simsion,
251:I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. ~ John Major,
252:I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. ~ Rachel Weisz,
253:One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost. ~ Valerie Jarrett,
254:Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally. ~ Eddie Griffin,
255:The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience. ~ B F Skinner,
256:The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. ~ Irving Kristol,
257:To have a major breakthrough in policy, you have to be able to stop and think. ~ Newt Gingrich,
258:You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. ~ Paulo Coelho,
259:A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. ~ Liz Carpenter,
260:Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman. ~ Barack Obama,
261:I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. ~ David Byrne,
262:I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it. ~ Chris Martin,
263:Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that. ~ Dawn Angelique,
264:My major goal is to take my bathrobe off before the kids get home from school. ~ Matthew Weiner,
265:Part of most major religions is a clause stating that other religions are wrong. ~ Dan Zarrella,
266:The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come. ~ Manmohan Singh,
267:The shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev,
268:To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art. ~ Vaclav Havel,
269:Believing in who you are is a major part of a powerful combination for success. ~ Darren Johnson,
270:I didn't major in math. I majored in miracles, and I still believe in them, too. ~ Mike Huckabee,
271:I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology. ~ Robert Sternberg,
272:I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. ~ Bruce Lee,
273:not admit this. For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce ~ John Grisham,
274:Promoting a record on a major label is like running a minor military campaign. ~ Robyn Hitchcock,
275:Sorry, I was a philosophy major, so nutjob cultist is the only job I can hold. ~ Brian Clevinger,
276:The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength. ~ Saul Alinsky,
277:Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
278:You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own. ~ John Major,
279:Baseball in the Navy always was much more fun than it had been in the major leagues. ~ Bob Feller,
280:But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default. ~ Chip Kidd,
281:Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence that we use to understand ourselves. ~ Neil Shubin,
282:I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldnt say I have a major sweet tooth. ~ Larry Fitzgerald,
283:Is it going to hurt?"
"You bet."
Sergeant Major had a lousy bedside manner. ~ Ilona Andrews,
284:The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ Abraham Maslow,
285:[B]ipartisanship means tarring and feathering politicans from both major parties. ~ Glenn Reynolds,
286:In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses. ~ Ai Weiwei,
287:I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. ~ John Major,
288:My major focus is national security because that's really what the president runs. ~ Rudy Giuliani,
289:[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death. ~ John Major,
290:Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises. ~ Ambrose Bierce,
291:The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. ~ Alvin Toffler,
292:We must not be philosophical before her. Mamma, Major Grantly has — skedaddled. ~ Anthony Trollope,
293:As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: ~ Craig A Evans,
294:College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, ~ Stephen King,
295:...every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. ~ John Steinbeck,
296:I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty ~ G H Hardy,
297:I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major. ~ Sigourney Weaver,
298:In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*. ~ Jean Philippe Rameau,
299:Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist. ~ Norman Mailer,
300:I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets. ~ Stokely Carmichael,
301:major city to Mount Toba. I think it’s a reference to where the attack will start.” “A ~ A G Riddle,
302:Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories. ~ Jeff Britting,
303:The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. ~ Jim Rohn,
304:The power of proclamation is the one weapon the church needs to major in these days. ~ Derek Prince,
305:You don't just choose a name at random. A name is a name. A major responsibility. ~ Silvana de Mari,
306:As we live in an insane world major, maybe it's time we gave insane solutions a chance. ~ John Wayne,
307:Fairness is a wonderful attribute, Major Anderson. It has nothing to do with war. ~ Orson Scott Card,
308:I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. ~ Christie Hefner,
309:into many major trials. For a handsome fee, Pankey and his staff would work all sorts ~ John Grisham,
310:A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. ~ Confucius,
311:As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear. ~ Camille Paglia,
312:In the Middle Ages, adultery was thought to be a major cause of the herring leaving. ~ Mark Kurlansky,
313:It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. ~ T E Lawrence,
314:I was an English major, so I love discussing possibilities and alternate theories. ~ William Mapother,
315:The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media. ~ William Colby,
316:The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats. ~ Ayn Rand,
317:The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. ~ Jim Harrison,
318:The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
319:The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. ~ Stephen Ambrose,
320:Until the early 1970s, the United States was the very model of a modern major economy. ~ Angus Deaton,
321:When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding. ~ Mike Vallely,
322:And off they went, emitting a perfect major triad via fart-noises with their mouths, ~ George Saunders,
323:If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't. ~ Nate Silver,
324:(I recommend that you make all of your major moves on the first of April. Just in case.) ~ Tom Robbins,
325:Japan and China, major buyers of Western-made aircraft, are now developing their own jets. ~ Anonymous,
326:Modern allopathic medicine is the only major science stuck in the pre-Einstein era. ~ Charlotte Gerson,
327:Music will always be a major part of my life, its my outlet, I'm in my element and I'm free. ~ Mandisa,
328:No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday. ~ Erma Bombeck,
329:focusing on a Major Dick Long of the 73rd Ohio, who possessed “a killing set of whiskers ~ Karen Abbott,
330:Here's the major problem with going on strike for more money: You cannot get rich by demand! ~ Jim Rohn,
331:If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia. ~ Bob Dylan,
332:I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace. ~ Yitzhak Rabin,
333:It's kind of major, learning to drive. I feel like it kicked up other stuff in my life. ~ Noah Baumbach,
334:I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996. ~ El P,
335:I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it. ~ Shirley Manson,
336:move by Ukraine to join NATO, which the Kremlin says is a major threat to Russian security. ~ Anonymous,
337:Nearly every major innovation of the 20th century took place without claims of epiphany. ~ Scott Berkun,
338:Oh, Major, you do so love to annoy, don't you?"
"It is the stuff of living, my lady. ~ Gail Carriger,
339:Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. ~ Kim Young sam,
340:The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. ~ Nora Ephron,
341:There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems! ~ Sean Connery,
342:the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers. ~ Patricia Ireland,
343:The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally. ~ John Major,
344:He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary. ~ Christy Reece,
345:Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. ~ Karl A Menninger,
346:human beings do not make major life decisions unless something challenges them to do so. ~ Donald Miller,
347:Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly. ~ John Major,
348:Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
349:We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ~ Horace Mann,
350:All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. ~ Michael Crichton,
351:Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors. ~ Confucius,
352:I'm a big fan of curling, follow all the major world events. Watch all four Tennis majors. ~ W P Kinsella,
353:Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value. ~ Donald Trump,
354:My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. ~ John Major,
355:Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel. ~ Jay Samit,
356:Social unrest and protectionism are the two major risks of the world economic crisis. ~ Christine Lagarde,
357:The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don't cause major problems. ~ David Filo,
358:Work is a major instrument of God’s providence; it is how he sustains the human world. ~ Timothy J Keller,
359:And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget. ~ Tupac Shakur,
360:An economic model conditioned on the notion that nothing major will change is a useless one. ~ Nate Silver,
361:I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes. ~ John Major,
362:No biologist has actually seen the origin by evolution of a major group of organisms. ~ G Ledyard Stebbins,
363:The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one. ~ Idries Shah,
364:We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis. ~ David Rockefeller,
365:Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them ~ Marilyn vos Savant,
366:Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. ~ Gordon Gee,
367:Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. ~ William Shakespeare,
368:I don't take vacations. I don't get sick. I don't observe major holidays. I'm a jack hammer. ~ Jim Harbaugh,
369:If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play? ~ George Carlin,
370:I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people. ~ Scott Westerfeld,
371:In an age of multiple and massive innovations, obsolescence becomes the major obsession. ~ Marshall McLuhan,
372:I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. ~ John Major,
373:It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart? ~ Nicholas Sparks,
374:The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel. ~ Philip Berrigan,
375:The perceiving eye sees “insurmountable obstacles” or “major setbacks” or even just “issues. ~ Ryan Holiday,
376:There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement. ~ Galen Rowell,
377:We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones. ~ Mark Hart,
378:When confronted with a major emotional trigger like this, I have two modes - fight or flight - ~ Lex Martin,
379:And I started as a journalism major at Ohio State, ended up in theater and I love to read. ~ Patricia Heaton,
380:And though Xavier was handsome and well-to-do, he had one major flaw.
He wasn't Colin. ~ Alyxandra Harvey,
381:I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language. ~ Andrew Breitbart,
382:Invention is the root of innovation. Innovation is the major force for change in the future. ~ Philippe Kahn,
383:I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. ~ John Major,
384:I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist. ~ Michael Steger,
385:learned that the time after a major incident offered a period of safety and the best rest, ~ Gavin de Becker,
386:Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same. ~ Matt Groening,
387:This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears. ~ Jim Butcher,
388:This is why you’re all kernels and I’m a major general. ’Cause you got corn silk in your ears. ~ Jim Butcher,
389:Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out. ~ John P Kotter,
390:I'd love to major in Music. I love what I do, but I want to really understand it, more in depth. ~ Coco Jones,
391:If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. ~ John Major,
392:I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. ~ Joe Biden,
393:I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ~ Howard Cosell,
394:I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go. ~ John Major,
395:Major General Howard Conner, “without the Navajos, the marines would never have taken Iwo Jima. ~ Simon Singh,
396:Major Sullivan is working on that. She wants everything dismissed. The fruits of a poisoned tree. ~ Lee Child,
397:O major, porém, continuava a andar com aquele passo rápido dos majores que andam depressa. ~ Machado de Assis,
398:The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life. ~ Amartya Sen,
399:There are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade. ~ Humphrey Bogart,
400:We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things. ~ Jim Rohn,
401:We will not build our offensive game plans around our punter... We hope we don’t major in punting. ~ Rex Ryan,
402:Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it. ~ Brian Tracy,
403:Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s. ~ Joey Santiago,
404:I'm going to do what any self-respecting English major would do: pull something out of my ass. ~ Beth Kendrick,
405:I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective. ~ Tracey Emin,
406:I've never wanted to kill myself over anything major. It's always the little things that do me in. ~ Bill Burr,
407:I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well! ~ Stjepan eji,
408:Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race. ~ Bernard Marcus,
409:nothing short of a major social movement can successfully dismantle the new caste system. ~ Michelle Alexander,
410:The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. ~ Richard A Epstein,
411:A lack of profitability is consistently the major reason cited for business discontinuation. ~ Mike Michalowicz,
412:A major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory. ~ Friedrich Durrenmatt,
413:A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues. ~ Lee Iacocca,
414:Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption. ~ Aaron Levie,
415:Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world. ~ Herman E Daly,
416:Only in North America is it regarded as a major achievement to speak one language moderately well. ~ Dick Pound,
417:Those who have not undergone minor disasters are usually being held in reserve for something major ~ Gore Vidal,
418:Africa, being the major target of colonial plunder, therefore becomes a major source of conflict. ~ Gerald Horne,
419:I can say with confidence that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force. ~ Yoshijiro Umezu,
420:I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life. ~ Seth Rogen,
421:I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. ~ Robert A Heinlein,
422:it may be true that I have a timeshare in Crazytown, but Major Smythe is the mayor of Crazyland. ~ Craig Alanson,
423:I was going to write a book one day and I actually did. To have it is a major accomplishment for me. ~ DJ Khaled,
424:Now so many really good groups who have had a first major hit can't get a deal for a second one. ~ Crystal Gayle,
425:Ruby red, with G major, the magic of the raven, brings the Circle of Twelve home into safe haven. ~ Kerstin Gier,
426:The United States invaded Iraq to gain control of one of the major sources of the world's energy. ~ Noam Chomsky,
427:When God does not supply our motivation, we tend to major in the minors and minor in the majors. ~ Gary L Thomas,
428:Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. ~ Vinton Cerf,
429:Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture. ~ Dean Koontz,
430:Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~ Dag Hammarskjold,
431:Emerging markets have shifted from being a major support to world trade growth to a significant drag, ~ Anonymous,
432:Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action. ~ Brenda Shoshanna,
433:High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre. ~ Guy Kawasaki,
434:I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara Act II (1905),
435:I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan ~ Francine Prose,
436:I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. ~ Werner Herzog,
437:So what happened? (Maggie) Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
438:I feel like little kids should and do steal money. That is a major part of being a young child. ~ Cameron Esposito,
439:It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it. ~ Sidney Crosby,
440:I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid. ~ Dan Mangan,
441:Money was not the major thing, but it was definitely a destination, someplace I wanted to end up. ~ Barbara Stanny,
442:My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul. ~ Deborah Harkness,
443:My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul. ~ Deborah Harkness,
444:My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way. ~ William J Clinton,
445:Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life. ~ Molly Parker,
446:The masculine DOES while the feminine IS. Major in the feminine, but minor in the masculine. ~ Marianne Williamson,
447:The reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. ~ John C Maxwell,
448:The web is just going to be one more of those major change factors that businesses face every decade. ~ Steve Jobs,
449:Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries. ~ Chris Patten,
450:Ursa Major, Leo, Cepheus. Her breaths came easier and slower with each familiar constellation. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
451:We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. ~ Julian Assange,
452:What is common to both, however, is the accumulation of many minor victories to make a major victory. ~ Mao Zedong,
453:When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight. ~ John Major,
454:a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
455:A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. ~ Wendell Berry,
456:If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up. ~ Mickey Gilley,
457:Its first major task had been the liquidation of over 4,000 Polish officers in the forest at Katyn. ~ Antony Beevor,
458:Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. ~ Win Butler,
459:On the subject of motive, there are, generally speaking, six major motives for murder. Ready? They ~ Nelson DeMille,
460:She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides,
461:The European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us. ~ John Bolton,
462:We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago. ~ Ken Jennings,
463:American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region. ~ Kim Dae jung,
464:Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. ~ Rem Koolhaas,
465:I can tell by their roughness that they expect a major struggle. We Young girls are getting a reputation. ~ Susan Ee,
466:I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song. ~ Susane Colasanti,
467:I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. ~ Ken Thompson,
468:I wanted time for my heart to heal and for my head to wrap itself around these major life changes. ~ Debbie Macomber,
469:One of the major ingredients for professional success in science is luck. Without this, forget it. ~ Leon M Lederman,
470:Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places. ~ Shannon L Alder,
471:So what happened? (Maggie)
Nothing major. It’s just a group of assholes out to kill me. (Wren) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
472:Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty. ~ Akong Rinpoche,
473:the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat. ~ Timothy Ferriss,
474:The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. ~ Abraham Maslow,
475:There are virtually no major life decisions you make that are not in some way based on your finances. ~ Harlan Coben,
476:We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. ~ Wynton Marsalis,
477:You might be a redneck if you think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups. ~ Jeff Foxworthy,
478:I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"... ~ Helen Simonson,
479:If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough. ~ Sallie Krawcheck,
480:I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. ~ John Major,
481:Know more about the situation you're facing than a reporter who is writing a major article would. ~ Laurie Beth Jones,
482:Major League Baseball should retire Roberto Clemente's number, just like they did Jackie Robinson's. ~ Carlos Beltran,
483:Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance. ~ Max von Laue,
484:Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to. ~ Jancee Dunn,
485:To deal with something major, start by doing what is immediate. The bigger answers will come with time. ~ Parul Sheth,
486:We all lie like hell. It wears us out. It is the major source of all human stress. Lying kills people. ~ Brad Blanton,
487:We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together. ~ Stewart Butterfield,
488:(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap. ~ Nelson Algren,
489:Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. ~ Gunnar Myrdal,
490:I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball. ~ Brooks Robinson,
491:I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration. ~ Rajneesh,
492:I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. ~ David Attenborough,
493:I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. ~ John Major,
494:Letting him manage in the major leagues is like sending Bo Derek through cellblock A without a bodyguard. ~ Bill James,
495:Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street! ~ Joe Garagiola,
496:One of the major Lockhart restaurants, Kreuz Market, ships to anywhere in the continental United States. ~ Tyler Cowen,
497:Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals. ~ Simon Hoggart,
498:The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. ~ Aly Khan,
499:The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short. ~ Eleanor Clift,
500:Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. ~ Jim Rohn,
501:Adults appreciate the flavor of wine, its nuances and such. And we have major problems and stress. ~ Kaui Hart Hemmings,
502:Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. ~ Theodor Adorno,
503:I believe there are and will be major opportunities to enhance Time Warner's value in future combinations. ~ Carl Icahn,
504:I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major. ~ Jean Grae,
505:I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. ~ Milton Friedman,
506:Major change is often said to be impossible unless the head of the organization is an active supporter. ~ John P Kotter,
507:Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
508:Most people don’t know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. ~ Eckhart Tolle,
509:My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult. ~ Florence Henderson,
510:When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone. ~ Catherine Zeta Jones,
511:You need three major resources to have a successful writing career: time, writing space, and money. ~ Randy Ingermanson,
512:A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud. ~ Tim LaHaye,
513:Every major work of art is a transgression, but the artist is not necessarily, by nature, a transgressor. ~ E L Doctorow,
514:If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field. ~ Woody Allen,
515:I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it. ~ Arj Barker,
516:most of the Universe’s major wars had been caused by zealots aggressively spreading their own religion, so ~ Eoin Colfer,
517:Plot as such is not a major ingredient in my novels... it's often better to sail on the unconscious sea. ~ Richard Adams,
518:while every major language has a word for violence, there is no word to express the idea of nonviolence ~ Mark Kurlansky,
519:He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life. ~ Grant Fuhr,
520:If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. ~ Martin Scorsese,
521:In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. ~ Douglas Adams,
522:The Clash were a major influence on my own music. They were the best rock 'n' roll band. Thanks, Joe. ~ Bruce Springsteen,
523:The combination of a would-be authoritarian and a major crisis can, therefore, be deadly for democracy. ~ Steven Levitsky,
524:The Major Arcana cards are the big-picture cards. They're dramatic: the characters are larger than life. ~ Corrine Kenner,
525:There is almost always a major blip for whatever reason and we have learnt to expect it and not to panic. ~ Peter Cundill,
526:The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives ~ Russell Brand,
527:We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
528:All of the major accomplishments that I have made in my career have been in many instances against the odds. ~ Herman Cain,
529:'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it. ~ Madeleine L Engle,
530:I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors. ~ Simon Sinek,
531:I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win. ~ Retief Goosen,
532:in one major synthesis would seem to be the next major step in understanding that our species must take. ~ Vine Deloria Jr,
533:I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid. ~ Peter James,
534:Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back. ~ Steve Scalise,
535:One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members. ~ Tony Evans,
536:The major media companies are significantly reducing their financial commitment to the motion picture sector. ~ Peter Bart,
537:The most terrible wars of history, the two major wars of the century, have nothing to do with religions. ~ Richard Dawkins,
538:All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth. ~ David Fontana,
539:It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt) ~ Sylvia Plath,
540:I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. ~ Tony Kushner,
541:Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between. ~ Michelle Richmond,
542:No. She was damned well going to have herself a major panic attack and he could damned well deal with it. ~ Felicity Heaton,
543:One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking. ~ Daniel Kahneman,
544:Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet ~ Robert Hunter,
545:Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
546:terrorism, seen as a nuisance during the nuclear arms race and the Cold War, was emerging as a major threat.) ~ Fred Kaplan,
547:The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since. ~ Noam Chomsky,
548:The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military. ~ Chester W Nimitz,
549:To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege. ~ Mark Teixeira,
550:With Collins gone the major political personality left in the Free State was on the other side, de Valera. ~ Tim Pat Coogan,
551:A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful. ~ Edwin H Friedman,
552:Government is so big today that more than half the population gets a major part of its income from the state. ~ John Stossel,
553:If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. ~ Theodor W Adorno,
554:I started in college as a business major and finally transferred to home economics and studied making clothes. ~ Phillip Lim,
555:It is when the disciplines operate independently of one another that major clashes and deficiencies occur. ~ Donald A Norman,
556:Major turnoff… When someone’s sense of entitlement is greatly disproportionate to their sense of gratitude. ~ Steve Maraboli,
557:Margaret Thatcher was the first political leader in any major country to warn of the dangers of climate change ~ Ed Miliband,
558:My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates. ~ Steve Carlton,
559:The earlier you start, the easier it is to accumulate major wealth. Still, it's never really too late to begin. ~ David Bach,
560:The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. ~ Ralph Merkle,
561:we need to make a few critical decisions in major areas of life and then manage those decisions day to day. ~ John C Maxwell,
562:Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.
It was its tendency to bend at the knees. ~ Terry Pratchett,
563:Canada is preparing to play a major role in the continued stability and security of Afghanistan through ISAF. ~ Paul Cellucci,
564:Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. ~ James W Pennebaker,
565:I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. ~ Jerome Ringo,
566:If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way. ~ John Kasich,
567:I have never seen a major trial which lacked significant perjury, and I have yet to see that perjury punished. ~ F Lee Bailey,
568:I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not. ~ Linda Evangelista,
569:In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life. ~ Paulo Coelho,
570:In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood. ~ Shashi Tharoor,
571:I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. ~ Wyclef Jean,
572:the major denial talking points that would be used to combat climate science for the next twenty years. ~ Shawn Lawrence Otto,
573:There isn’t a controversial issue or major human taboo that hasn’t been tackled by a college-age writing group. ~ Mara Wilson,
574:Adopting this definition means you can be successful right now, whether or not you’ve achieved your major goals. ~ Russ Harris,
575:I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really. ~ Maggie Gyllenhaal,
576:I was a history major in school. I review the past a lot and think about music history and how culture unfolds. ~ Bruce Pavitt,
577:Richard Bandler suggested that one of the major blocks to creativity was the feeling of knowing you are right. ~ John Bradshaw,
578:The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich,
579:We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades. ~ Wayne Dyer,
580:All of the teams have great players, but the fans are a major part of it - your atmosphere is what you become. ~ Russell Wilson,
581:Dirk Moeller didn’t know if he could fart his way into a major diplomatic incident. But he was ready to find out. ~ John Scalzi,
582:Dr. F picked a few up and held them under the dim reading light beside him. “The Major Arcana. Impressive. ~ Melissa de la Cruz,
583:Grumbach adds, "John Money is a major figure, and what he says gets handed down and accepted as gospel by some ~ John Colapinto,
584:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America? ~ Dwight D Eisenhower,
585:Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts! ~ Mike Mignola,
586:Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns. ~ John Bell Hood,
587:The major factor that makes a great leader to fail emerge from the decision of people who surround him/her. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
588:The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system. ~ Norman Cousins,
589:When I got to the Senate, one of the things that most bothered me is this lack of urgency about the major issues. ~ Marco Rubio,
590:Every writer must bring three major factors to each story that he writes. They are ideas, artistry and craftsmanship. ~ Ben Bova,
591:Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day. ~ Ron Chernow,
592:I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism. ~ Don DeLillo,
593:I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole. ~ Bell Hooks,
594:Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life. ~ Oswald Chambers,
595:The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges. ~ Steve Case,
596:The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. ~ E O Wilson,
597:We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. ~ Jonathan Chait,
598:With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems. ~ Moon Bloodgood,
599:You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. ~ John Major,
600:As the crapulent major said, A man doesn’t need balls in this country, Captain. The women all have their own. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
601:Communications is the number one major in America today. CNN had 25,000 applicants for five intern jobs this summer. ~ Larry King,
602:Do not turn something trivial into a major source of agony by wasting time and energy thinking about it endlessly. ~ Haemin Sunim,
603:I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth. ~ John Hodgman,
604:It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse. ~ Shelly Crane,
605:I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. ~ Helmut Jahn,
606:I want to go to a place where I can go to a football game, take off my shirt, paint my chest and major in beer. ~ Andrew Ferguson,
607:I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it. ~ Laurie Metcalf,
608:Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. ~ Frank Herbert,
609:slight shifts in imagination can have deeper and more lasting impact on our lives than major efforts at change. ~ Katrina Kenison,
610:the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement. ~ Carol S Dweck,
611:The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy. ~ Noam Chomsky,
612:There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops. ~ Erwin Rommel,
613:Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. ~ Christopher Hitchens,
614:As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. ~ David Korten,
615:Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. ~ Dalai Lama,
616:Don't you see any contradiction between being a Christian and being the chauffeur for a major right-wing figure? ~ Haruki Murakami,
617:enabling Germans to become major producers of steel and with it one of the leading industrial powers of the world. ~ Thomas Sowell,
618:Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. ~ Steven Spielberg,
619:He was stiff as a drum-major and selfish as an Englishman, but a fairly conscientious pupil and a fairly upright man.  ~ Anonymous,
620:I am to be converted to the joys of knitting,' said Mrs. Ali, smiling at the Major.
'My condolences,' he said. ~ Helen Simonson,
621:I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage. ~ Mary Hughes,
622:I fantasized about being a psychology major when I first started school, and I took a handful of Psych 101 classes. ~ Claire Danes,
623:In the novels he was to write as an adult, transformation (along with liberation and celebration) was a major theme. ~ Tom Robbins,
624:My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive. ~ Jose Canseco,
625:Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games. ~ Jim Lee,
626:The Big Lie is a major untruth uttered frequently by leaders as a means of duping and controlling the constituency. ~ Adolf Hitler,
627:The United States survives so long as at least one of its major parties is politically and intellectually healthy. ~ Bret Stephens,
628:Vivian was an eccentric who not only marched to her own drummer but was usually the drum major of the crazy parade ~ Jenn McKinlay,
629:You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God. ~ Arthur C Clarke,
630:A major effort is required in order to improve performance in the recruitment of Americans. —KGB ANNUAL REVIEW, 1984 ~ Luke Harding,
631:In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made. ~ Alexander Haig,
632:Lying there, looking up at the stars, I took a few major cuss words out for a test drive before I started to cry. ~ Alecia Whitaker,
633:Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same."
--Reverend Lovejoy ~ Matt Groening,
634:Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start. ~ Daryl Hall,
635:The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ~ Henri Bergson,
636:To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress. ~ Ryuho Okawa,
637:A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death ~ Walter Willett,
638:America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. ~ Saul Alinsky,
639:Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads. ~ Ashley Graham,
640:I am not proud of the fact that major ingredients of my emotional history are available for purchase today at CVS. ~ Nicholson Baker,
641:I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard. ~ Cynthia McKinney,
642:I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity. ~ W Kamau Bell,
643:I said I was an English major, that I wanted to write someday, that I read the way other people ate chocolate. ~ Francesca Lia Block,
644:I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. ~ Kim Dae jung,
645:Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things. ~ Jim Rohn,
646:She was striking, she was unforgettable, and she was terrifying. Those were words that applied just fine to the major. ~ Evan Currie,
647:Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. ~ Jim Rohn,
648:The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help. ~ Irvin D Yalom,
649:The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think ~ Gregory Bateson,
650:The major reframe for the Superwoman/Man/Student is that competence is not a function of how many things you can do. ~ Valerie Young,
651:The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ~ Henri Bergson,
652:The market is always making mountains out of molehills and exaggerating ordinary vicissitudes into major setbacks. ~ Benjamin Graham,
653:There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss. ~ Jack Nicholson,
654:Where are we going?" I asked. "The main road leads to all of the major kingdoms."
"Not all of them," said Amar. ~ Roshani Chokshi,
655:Almost every major news medium on earth is either center-left or left. And the left around the world loathes America. ~ Dennis Prager,
656:beast did have one major purpose. That much I do know. A monumental plan to transform humanity and the human world. ~ Haruki Murakami,
657:Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it. ~ John Major,
658:It is very unique. I think what happens in a big, major institution is coaches get wrapped up in their own little deals. ~ Lisa Stone,
659:It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings. ~ David Luiz,
660:It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century. ~ Pete Hamill,
661:I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea. ~ Frank Wilczek,
662:People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films. ~ Monica Potter,
663:The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor. ~ Daryl Hall,
664:The major difference between a relationship and a novel draft is that you hae control over your novel's outcome. ~ Jordan E Rosenfeld,
665:The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think. ~ Gregory Bateson,
666:The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it. ~ Jim Rohn,
667:A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
668:Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. ~ John Major,
669:Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
670:He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. ~ Chris Bohjalian,
671:Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football. ~ Bobby Charlton,
672:[T]he act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help. ~ Irvin D Yalom,
673:The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times. ~ Jac Holzman,
674:The federal budget deficit isn't the nation's major economic problem and deficit reduction shouldn't be our major goal. ~ Robert Reich,
675:The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision. ~ Napoleon Hill,
676:There was just one problem, however, and it was a major one. I wasn’t choosing any of this. It was all happening to me. ~ Hyeonseo Lee,
677:TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty. ~ Bill Bixby,
678:We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom. ~ George W Bush,
679:What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics. ~ Michael Kinsley,
680:A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it. ~ Andrew Stanton,
681:Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for? ~ J M Coetzee,
682:Contrary to various economic theories of imperialism, Africa was not a major outlet for European investment or exports. ~ Thomas Sowell,
683:Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team. ~ Chad Ochocinco,
684:God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change. ~ Beth Moore,
685:I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate ~ Dean Kamen,
686:I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over. ~ Amanda Palmer,
687:If everyone practiced cherishing others, many of the major problems of the world would be solved in a few years. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso,
688:If there is one thing worse that the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. ~ G K Chesterton,
689:its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups ~ James MacGregor Burns,
690:I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us. ~ Tommy Bolin,
691:I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years. ~ Jennifer Weiner,
692:I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church. ~ Jon Bon Jovi,
693:Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy. ~ Harold Bloom,
694:There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue. ~ John McCain,
695:The subtle difference in our attitude can make a major difference in our future. It can be as simple as the language we use. ~ Jim Rohn,
696:Today Arnold Schwarzenegger made another major announcement. He said his lieutenant governor will be Xena, Warrior Princess. ~ Jay Leno,
697:Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. ~ John Major,
698:Broncos hockey game in southern Alberta, a team that played in the same Major Junior A league as the Vancouver Giants ~ Malcolm Gladwell,
699:Factories can be a major undertaking in a strongly typed language such as C++ but are almost trivial to implement in Python. ~ Mark Lutz,
700:Hillary Clinton has secured her place in history. She is the first woman to lead a major party's quest for the presidency. ~ Ari Shapiro,
701:I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal ~ Brian May,
702:I wish,’ said Lymond, ‘it would try a major key sometimes.’

‘Wind,’ Chancellor said, ‘is a melancholy creature. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,
703:No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact. ~ Walter Willett,
704:People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real. ~ Tullian Tchividjian,
705:Procurement policies of all of the major parastatals, it is a very important element of that processes that will continue. ~ Thabo Mbeki,
706:The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons. ~ Jimmy Carter,
707:The opportunity came up here, and presto, there you go. Sometimes that’s all you need for a major life change: a dream. ~ David Baldacci,
708:There are many women who come to see me about men', she said quietly. 'Men are a major problem for many women'. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
709:To be a retired major seems to me ideal. Too bad it's not possible to have eternally been nothing but a retired major. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
710:What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore. ~ Kellyanne Conway,
711:You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us. ~ Macklemore,
712:End of the World: The Major and Minor Signs of the Hour, by Dr. Muhammad al-'Areefi. Darussalam, New York, 2008.(page ~ Michael D Fortner,
713:Every day in Pittsburgh five million people travel across bridges that either need to be replaced or undergo major repairs. ~ Steve Kroft,
714:Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event. ~ Jeff Dunham,
715:Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil. ~ Ari Shapiro,
716:Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that. ~ Steve Garvey,
717:Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks. ~ Paul Keating,
718:The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. ~ Galina Vishnevskaya,
719:The World Health Organization has named antibiotic resistance as one of the three major health problems of the new century. ~ Ralph Nader,
720:An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte,
721:Every triumph over some major pathology, no matter how ringing the victory, is only a reprieve from the inevitable end. ~ Sherwin B Nuland,
722:I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. ~ John Major,
723:I could say it was a pleasure to meet you, Major Channing, but I would not wish to perjure myself so early in the evening. ~ Gail Carriger,
724:I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. ~ Dalai Lama,
725:I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine. ~ Jon Lovitz,
726:Major Eele observed Studdy clumsily thinking. He saw an opportunity to create a pleasant mischief and did so immediately. ~ William Trevor,
727:Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future. ~ Joel Hunter,
728:Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life. ~ Melina Marchetta,
729:poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed m ~ William Shakespeare,
730:She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision ~ Mike Fitzpatrick,
731:The major reason why Instagram works is that you can follow anyone out there and start following their photos immediately. ~ Kevin Systrom,
732:The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam. ~ Bill Ayers,
733:All things considered, our actions, thoughts and deeds are directed by two major things : knowledge and ignorance! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
734:Ascetics are “strict” only because they want to reserve a major portion of their lives for their passionate pursuit of God. ~ Gary L Thomas,
735:Every major failure in my life has been a direct result of a collapse in my self-discipline to do the little things every day. ~ Jeb Blount,
736:Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into its carefully chosen ranks. ~ Pat Conroy,
737:It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. ~ Kurt Cobain,
738:Major Nagel, was summoned to discuss “a basic Jewish action” scheduled to take place on August 31 and September 1. ~ Christopher R Browning,
739:Of the four major pathways to self-realization, jnana yoga, from the point of view of the beginner, is the most difficult. ~ Frederick Lenz,
740:One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party ~ Nikita Khrushchev,
741:So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. ~ Henry Louis Gates,
742:The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. ~ Richard M Nixon,
743:We pay to watch, read, or be in the presence of a flow experience. If quantified, you’d find it’s a major chunk of the GDP. ~ Steven Kotler,
744:You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality. ~ Roland Orzabal,
745:Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone, but there is a long way to go. ~ Richard Stallman,
746:A system that works for one person won't be perfect for another... Individuality is a major part of expanding knowledge. ~ Georges St Pierre,
747:Feely, who thought of books in terms of musical signatures, said that it [the book Penrod] was written in the key of C major. ~ Alan Bradley,
748:Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. ~ James MacGregor Burns,
749:Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future, and lack of imagination. ~ John C Maxwell,
750:the major difference between the big shot and the little shot is this: the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting. ~ Zig Ziglar,
751:What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. ~ Terry Pratchett,
752:You don't become an English major because you love books. You do it because you need books. It's a codependent relationship. ~ Tiffany Reisz,
753:I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom. ~ Jim McKelvey,
754:If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. ~ Gilbert K Chesterton,
755:It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man. ~ Calvin Coolidge,
756:I took some comp for non-comp major classes with Giacomo Bracali and Ludmila Ulela, who was a really famous composition teacher. ~ Jon Gordon,
757:I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter. ~ Dan Fogelberg,
758:Kepler’s third law, the square of the orbital period (T) of a planet is proportional to the cube of its semi-major axis (a). ~ Chris McMullen,
759:Last time Congress passed a major six-year transportation bill was in 1997, since then there have been 21 short-term extensions. ~ Ray LaHood,
760:One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves. ~ Cortney S Warren,
761:Opportunity only knocks once in this world,” he would say. Major Major’s father repeated this good joke at every opportunity. ~ Joseph Heller,
762:Paralympics... fascinating because just watching anyone with a major disability trying to do everyday chores is fun to watch. ~ Doug Stanhope,
763:The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice. ~ Dave Barry,
764:Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism. ~ Paul Ryan,
765:You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless. ~ Napoleon Hill,
766:Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States. ~ John McCain,
767:If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. ~ Louis Begley,
768:I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence. ~ Clive Barker,
769:I'm the ultimate organizer! My major at Stanford was "Organizational Behavior" so I love to multi-task and stay extra busy. ~ Gretchen Carlson,
770:Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. ~ Evgeny Morozov,
771:The finishing touch on my lush new lifestyle was to fill the refrigerator. I could afford to eat. This was major-label success! ~ Duff McKagan,
772:the major accomplishment of her life was producing two children who seemed to like each other even when no one else was looking, ~ Emma Straub,
773:To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. ~ Tony La Russa,
774:all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised. ~ Timothy Snyder,
775:Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy! ~ Brendon Urie,
776:I already have plans this weekend, so I’m leaving this for you. As the marketing major, this should be right up your alley, right? ~ Lex Martin,
777:I don't know what goes on in the crowd. I've had them show up and throw beer cans at me. I caused riots in most of the major cities. ~ Lou Reed,
778:I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing. ~ James Arthur,
779:I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to do--nothing. ~ Peter Manseau,
780:I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years. ~ Todd Haynes,
781:Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money. ~ Charles Bass,
782:My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. ~ Doris Lessing,
783:One of the major things I really want to work on now is female rage because that's not dealt with at all - and I have a lot of it. ~ Nan Goldin,
784:So there I was, feeling like the luckiest girl on earth. To be buried alive in such a majestic coffin! MAJOR life goal achieved!!!! ~ Rob Reger,
785:the myth of the secret society, if not the secret society itself, played a major role in nineteenth-century European history. ~ Michael Baigent,
786:A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself. ~ Criss Jami,
787:At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event. ~ Leonard Gardner,
788:I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly Chinese, which was my major. ~ Charles Soule,
789:I'm no longer sceptical. I no longer have any doubt at all. I think climate change is the major challenge facing the world. ~ David Attenborough,
790:I'm really calling for major jobs, because the wealthy are going create tremendous jobs. They're going to expand their companies. ~ Donald Trump,
791:It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
792:Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade ~ Frank Herbert,
793:Much of the shadow banking sector, a major contributor to the economic crisis, was also only possible because of taxhaven secrecy. ~ Vince Cable,
794:Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. ~ Nathalie Sarraute,
795:Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee. ~ Hillary Clinton,
796:The only thing that deeply frustrates me is the slow speed [of major labels]. The more people involved, the slower the pace. ~ Caroline Polachek,
797:Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. ~ John Major,
798:A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. ~ John Major,
799:Ah,” I said with a bleak smile. “What was a quaint and silly folk belief becomes a major news item when white people believe in it. ~ A J Hartley,
800:are we making sufficient progress to believe that our original strategic hypothesis is correct, or do we need to make a major change? ~ Eric Ries,
801:Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries. ~ Hu Jintao,
802:He’d gone broody & quiet, as if considering something major. Then boom—Good-bye Broody Brady, hello Lovesick Nutcase. ~ Natalie J Damschroder,
803:Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others. ~ Dannion Brinkley,
804:If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating. ~ Dolores Huerta,
805:It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist. ~ John Lennox,
806:I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on. ~ Nick Kroll,
807:The major difference between the 'best' and the 'average' is that the 'best' get as much pleasure from practice as performance. ~ Benjamin Zander,
808:The tories major announcement was to scrap the human rights act, because and I quote 'people get very frustrated with human rights'. ~ Tim Farron,
809:When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone’s life as a major factor. ~ Matt Haig,
810:When one would make a surprise attack on the enemy, he should avoid the major roads and seek out the lesser ones. Then attack. ~ Takeda Nobushige,
811:At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit. ~ Aimee Mann,
812:God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change. • • • What ~ Beth Moore,
813:Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. ~ Peter Singer,
814:I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. ~ Demetri Martin,
815:I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. ~ Graydon Carter,
816:If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well. ~ Miyamoto Musashi,
817:I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you. ~ John Lydon,
818:I now realize that to see the Major when he isn't really there must at least be preferable to seeing him when he really is there. ~ Sarah Caudwell,
819:I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals. ~ Oliver Kahn,
820:I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! ~ Angela Lansbury,
821:Leaders' major question is "why". If they lose, they ask "why". If they win, they ask "why". Their "whys" weave their wonders. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
822:Major Carson”—Reed gestured to a rather large man in drab clothing—“he’s a combat engineer and specialist in field expedient mayhem. ~ Evan Currie,
823:Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it. ~ John Major,
824:Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. ~ Tim Sanders,
825:The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously. ~ George W Bush,
826:The general public are not even aware of major decisions that will determine their fate, hence are in no position to influence them ~ Noam Chomsky,
827:The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself. ~ John Knowles,
828:They would find something simple and that would be the end of it. I'd just have to schedule my life around a surgery, nothing major. ~ Kate Bowler,
829:This show has been a major revitalization of my family life and personal life. It gave my family an avenue to speak to me honestly. ~ Willie Aames,
830:A guiding coalition made up only of managers—even superb managers who are wonderful people—will cause major change efforts to fail. ~ John P Kotter,
831:Construction in Boston is like a fifth major sport. You have the Patriots, the Bruins, the Celtics, the Red Sox and the Orange Cones.  ~ Julia Kent,
832:Deception through distortion of the truth of God is a major problem that confronts every generation and every Christian community. For ~ R C Sproul,
833:Did time really flow in such a steady and linear way? Couldn't this be a mistaken way of thinking, an error of major proportions? ~ Haruki Murakami,
834:Europe has always represented a major strategic opportunity to achieve our goal of creating and building an enduring global brand. ~ Howard Schultz,
835:Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. ~ Hilaire Belloc,
836:If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing. ~ John D MacDonald,
837:It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death. ~ Jordan Peterson,
838:It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. ~ Terence McKenna,
839:I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time. ~ James Franco,
840:The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. ~ M H Abrams,
841:We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway. Polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business. ~ Ralph Lauren,
842:You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity. ~ Elijah Wood,
843:A major hindrance to cancer effort has been a chronic, severe shortage of funds—a situation that is not generally recognized. ~ Siddhartha Mukherjee,
844:A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense. ~ Vince Flynn,
845:Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something. ~ David Bowie,
846:For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin. ~ Giancarlo Esposito,
847:George Washington became an official surveyor for Culpepper County at seventeen and a commissioned major in the militia at twenty; ~ Jennifer Senior,
848:I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that. ~ Shia LaBeouf,
849:I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot. ~ Al Franken,
850:I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most. ~ John Major,
851:In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society. ~ John Major,
852:In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom were hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities, and the like. ~ Timothy Snyder,
853:It really hasn't been demonstrated at any level by any major corporation that it can nurture what is euphemistically called creativity. ~ Peter Bart,
854:Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it. ~ Jim Rohn,
855:"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen. ~ George W Bush,
856:The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis. ~ Norman Davies,
857:The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find. ~ Max Mosley,
858:The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings. ~ Aaron Klein,
859:The silver lining of a major meltdown is that it gives managers a chance to send clear signals to employees about the company’s values, ~ Ed Catmull,
860:The TSA is under fire for major security lapses. The TSA has let through pipe bombs, knives, and the last three Nicolas Cage movies. ~ Conan O Brien,
861:Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933. ~ Paul Krugman,
862:We all talk to ourselves. A major key to success exists in what we say to ourselves, which helps to shape our attitude and mindset. ~ Darren Johnson,
863:When you are going through difficult times, remember: you might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here. ~ Paulo Coelho,
864:A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S. ~ Noam Chomsky,
865:Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers. ~ Jessica Livingston,
866:If you sit around and wring your hands as they're all doing now until something happens to a major American city, then it is too late. ~ James Inhofe,
867:It now seems obvious that the way we’re raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love. ~ Terry McMillan,
868:It's one of the two major fears of people. 'Cause one is social humiliation. And the other is something like mortality and death. ~ Jordan B Peterson,
869:It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us. ~ Hillary Clinton,
870:I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are. ~ Bailey Chase,
871:Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ~ Eric Hobsbawm,
872:After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. ~ Tony Judt,
873:As it is a major component of blood, water is vital for transporting oxygen to the brain. Heaven forbid that your blood should dry out. ~ Ben Goldacre,
874:Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. ~ E O Wilson,
875:every major riot by the black community of an American city since the Second World War has been ignited by a single issue: police tactics. ~ Anonymous,
876:Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work! ~ Delia J Colvin,
877:George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning. ~ Ralph Nader,
878:I'm a free agent so I'm probably gonna be signing a major deal that I'm gonna be announcing pretty soon, and a few good singles are coming out. ~ Tyga,
879:It is alarming to consider how many major life decisions we take primarily in order to minimise present-moment emotional discomfort. ~ Oliver Burkeman,
880:I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books eat ice cream every day. ~ Colleen Hoover,
881:Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals. ~ Margaret Mead,
882:The libido also made an early exit, as it does in most major illnesses—it is the superfluous need of a body in beleaguered emergency. ~ William Styron,
883:The observation of Major George Beckwith bears repeating: “Washington did not really outfight the British, he simply outspied us!” In ~ Brian Kilmeade,
884:Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies ~ Marc Andreessen,
885:I always say that it’s not really been a good day if you haven’t caused a major diplomatic incident by lunchtime,’ Otto said with a grin. ~ Mark Walden,
886:It is a sad but very real truth that there is no future for relationships where spaghetti and chocolate milk does not play a major role. ~ Chuck Tingle,
887:Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society. ~ A Bartlett Giamatti,
888:Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. ~ Napoleon Hill,
889:This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. ~ Lewis Black,
890:Yogi Bear - there's everything before Yogi Bear and there's everything after Yogi Bear. Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ. ~ T J Miller,
891:And then there was the headless horseman!” said Tiffany. “He had no head!” “Well, that is the major job qualification,” said the toad. ~ Terry Pratchett,
892:Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader. ~ Kenneth H Blanchard,
893:I miss live audiences, because it's like no other form of entertainment, where the audience is a major part of the production every night. ~ Mark Hamill,
894:I realized I'd never asked him about his major. Probably wasn't time travel.I didn't think our local college was quite that progressive. ~ Myra McEntire,
895:My fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. ~ George W Bush,
896:The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. ~ Iris Murdoch,
897:We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
898:we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. ~ Seneca,
899:Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing. ~ Maureen Johnson,
900:any list of major human developments include the establishment of other major faiths like Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. ~ Erik Brynjolfsson,
901:He's a cocky SOB. He knew the Nick Adams Stories. Probably a frustrated English major who graduated from college qualified to drive a cab. ~ Peter Heller,
902:If general perception changes from seeing the glass as 'half-full' to seeing it as 'half empty' there are major innovative opportunities. ~ Peter Drucker,
903:In a general way, a major goal of the propagandist is to seek some kind of authoritative backing for the belief he or she is propagating. ~ Randal Marlin,
904:It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. ~ Sinclair Lewis,
905:I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. ~ Elizabeth Edwards,
906:I will never stop grieving for my long-held wish for enduring love that does not reduce its major players to something less than they are. ~ Deborah Levy,
907:Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous. ~ Randy Alcorn,
908:Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor. ~ Kevin Costner,
909:Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, “I made a difference. ~ Charles Murray,
910:The 30-year-old tech titan billed the acquisition as part of a drive to build the "next major computing platform that will come after mobile. ~ Anonymous,
911:The primary fantasy bond is the core defense underlying our resistance to change. It is the major barrier to a full, rich existence. ~ Robert W Firestone,
912:Two major ideas should be taught to the children of every country. They are: the value of the individual and the fact of the one humanity. ~ Alice Bailey,
913:At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that. ~ John Legend,
914:I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition. ~ Robert Kagan,
915:I told him I wanted to major in creative writing and sit around in yoga pants and do nothing but write books and eat ice cream every day. ~ Colleen Hoover,
916:Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. ~ Morgan Freeman,
917:That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. ~ Elie Wiesel,
918:The demoralization that the debase­ment of the currency left in its wake played a major role in bring­ing Adolf Hitler into power in 1933. ~ Henry Hazlitt,
919:The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. ~ E O Wilson,
920:TL;DR: I got recruited out of a park to prevent Tristan from getting his ass kicked in a swordfight and they found out I was a CS major. ~ Neal Stephenson,
921:To me makeup is a major accessory. It can change an outfit, it can make the outfit, it can be the outfit, and that's why I like to play with it. ~ Rihanna,
922:What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme? ~ John Major,
923:Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people. ~ John Major,
924:All the major networks declared Barack Obama the winner at 11 last night, except for MSNBC, which declared Obama the winner six months ago. ~ Conan O Brien,
925:And then there was the headless horseman!" said Tiffany. "He had no head!"
"Well, that is the major job qualification," said the toad. ~ Terry Pratchett,
926:I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock. ~ Patricia McConnell,
927:I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you. ~ George Carlin,
928:I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination. ~ Vikas Swarup,
929:I feel saddened when people who have major friendships or marriages wind up on the outs. Because I think you lose a little piece of yourself. ~ Hugh Hefner,
930:I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists. ~ Erik Estrada,
931:It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership. ~ Tom T Hall,
932:No one really contemplates death when making these life decisions, thought the Major. If they did, what different choices might they make? ~ Helen Simonson,
933:There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men? ~ Arjuna Ardagh,
934:The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano! ~ Frank Zappa,
935:you can make some major shifts, create some tangible results, and someday wake up crying tears of giddy disbelief that you get to be you. And ~ Jen Sincero,
936:During critical junctures, a major event or confluence of factors disrupts the existing balance of political or economic power in a nation. ~ Daron Acemo lu,
937:Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough. ~ John C Maxwell,
938:For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. ~ Seneca,
939:He has two hunting dogs. The bright star over there is Sirius, and that’s part of Canis Major, and Procyon is part of Canis Minor.” Travis ~ Nicholas Sparks,
940:I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation. ~ Bob Dylan,
941:I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. ~ Clark Kerr,
942:If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!" ~ Rob Pruitt,
943:If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars. ~ Tamar Braxton,
944:Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally. ~ William J Clinton,
945:Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this. ~ Pete Domenici,
946:One of the major causes of mental health problems, he felt, was a lack of belongingness, the perception that we are cut off from our fellows. ~ Kristin Neff,
947:You are drunk, baby. Who made me drunk? I made you drunk, said the major. I made you drunk because I love you and because America is in the war. ~ Anonymous,
948:[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. ~ Edward O Wilson,
949:Four major existential concerns—death, meaning in life, isolation, and freedom—play a crucial role in the inner life of every human being and ~ Irvin D Yalom,
950:Franny thought the major accomplishment of her life was producing two children who seemed to like each other even when no one else was looking. ~ Emma Straub,
951:I didn't really have a major role in how it was described. I wanted it to be a collection of essays where each storyline could be contained. ~ Chelsea Martin,
952:I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in. ~ Diane von Furstenberg,
953:I thought I was going to be a math major. My parents were both accountants and wanted me to major in business. Math was our compromise. ~ Michael Silverblatt,
954:it’s a major accomplishment for sponsors like the Kochs that they’ve turned corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets. ~ Jane Mayer,
955:Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. ~ John Major,
956:Sergeant Major to a young soldier: “I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning, soldier.” Soldier: “Thank you very much, sir.” All ~ Mariana Zapata,
957:The major problem with performance management systems today is that they have become substitutes for the vital act of actually managing people. ~ Laszlo Bock,
958:We reject President Donald Trump's view. It was a mistake to say that 'the Islamic world divided into "good" and "evil"', a major wrongdoing. ~ Khaled Mashal,
959:Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. ~ Maggie Stiefvater,
960:Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries. ~ Saul Williams,
961:First I went to C.W. Post and I was a psychology and theater major and then I transferred to NYU's Tisch School of the Arts as a drama major. ~ John Leguizamo,
962:I had to find a way to get out from under this black cloud, this major time-out that God had assigned me to for whatever wrongs I’d committed. ~ Christa Allan,
963:I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. ~ Steven Pinker,
964:My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist. ~ Woody Allen,
965:My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state. ~ Max Blumenthal,
966:Playing for my country is the pinnacle of anyone's career. There's a major tournament coming up so I'm looking forward to being a part of that. ~ Peter Crouch,
967:The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. ~ John Major,
968:The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history. ~ Lawrence Summers,
969:The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it. ~ Ray Kroc,
970:Today, banking assets (that is, loans) in the world’s major economies are equivalent to around 150 per cent of those countries’ combined GDP. ~ Niall Ferguson,
971:Was that…was that some kind of demon?” he said. I looked over at the bottle and shook my head. “No. No, that was just a major-league asshole. ~ Craig Schaefer,
972:Computers are here to stay. It is a major challenge for the future to use computers efficiently in combinatorics without losing its special appeal. ~ Noga Alon,
973:Corruption and leaders who feel they are not accountable to the people who ‘elected’ them to their positions are major issues afflicting the nation ~ Anonymous,
974:I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work. ~ Bernardo Bertolucci,
975:I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen. ~ Don Ohlmeyer,
976:I've always said, "You make a lot of money in Major League Baseball, and it's all guaranteed, so what do you have to lose by going all out?" . ~ Prince Fielder,
977:John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him. ~ Paul Johnson,
978:One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming. ~ Paulo Freire,
979:Taryn was now thirty-four. She still had those major assets—she was blond, good-looking, with interesting places in all the interesting places. ~ John Sandford,
980:The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life. ~ F R Leavis,
981:The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels. ~ David Suzuki,
982:While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. ~ Timothy Keller,
983:You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications. ~ Atul Gawande,
984:although individuals and small events did affect the course of historical development, the influence of even major figures was strictly limited. In ~ Iain Pears,
985:As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin,
986:Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. ~ Dave Barry,
987:Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes ~ Curt Flood,
988:I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. ~ Jason Collins,
989:I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her. ~ Mike Pesca,
990:In the mid- to late '60s to the mid-'70s, when I was a student, there was a major change in the thinking about what art can be and how art is made. ~ Bill Viola,
991:I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
992:Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. ~ Marilyn Ferguson,
993:Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. ~ Jonathan Chait,
994:There are going to be questions about what major oil companies are doing with all of the resources they're accumulating. They can't escape that. ~ Pete Domenici,
995:Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it. ~ Jared Diamond,
996:America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world. ~ Kimberly Guilfoyle,
997:Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
998:I consider giving her crap about her lack of organizational skills, but decided not to. It took some major balls to be alone with a punk like me. ~ Katie McGarry,
999:In the second half of life there are two major tasks. The first is the recovery of personal authority. ~ James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life,
1000:It’s strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand. ~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
1001:Permanent and pervasive explanations for adversity turn minor complications into major catastrophes. They make it seem logical to give up. If, ~ Angela Duckworth,
1002:The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it. ~ John Major,
1003:The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot. ~ W H Auden,
1004:The major challenge of most executives is not understanding the practice of leadership - it is practicing their understanding of leadership. ~ Marshall Goldsmith,
1005:The major studios are by and large banks, and they give you what is by and large a loan to make a movie. Like banks, they want their money back plus. ~ Sean Penn,
1006:Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims. ~ Yousef Saanei,
1007:Video can seem like just another challenge to overcome, but I see a major increase in my business and brand awareness, all from the power of video. ~ Lewis Howes,
1008:While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1009:Yet the special thing about literature, the major art form of a Western civilization now ending before our very eyes, is not hard to define. ~ Michel Houellebecq,
1010:You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies. ~ Rick Warren,
1011:Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people. ~ James Alan Gardner,
1012:I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics. ~ James Brolin,
1013:If you don’t open that exit hatch this moment I shall zap straight off to your major data banks and reprogram you with a very large axe, got that? ~ Douglas Adams,
1014:It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
1015:It’s the nature of human experience, which is always in some form of motion, to veer off course—sometimes in major, but consistently in minor, ways. ~ David Allen,
1016:Residential space supply of nearly 1.4 billion sq ft is expected to come by 2015 out of the planned supply of 2.1 billion sq ft across 10 major cities ~ Anonymous,
1017:The Northeast is being hit with a major snowstorm. Forecasters said they've haven't seen a whiteout like this since last week's Oscar nominations. ~ Conan O Brien,
1018:There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice go for the Olympian. ~ Rick Riordan,
1019:This is the first major principle of decentralization: when attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized. ~ Ori Brafman,
1020:This wonderful and complex genitalic diversity was a major impetus for our earlier studies on male genitalia (Sinclair et al.1994; Cumming et al.1995) ~ Anonymous,
1021:AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching. ~ Mangosuthu Buthelezi,
1022:Boots, it’s college. We’re segregated regardless, whether it be by major or class. This is just the way things are here. It keeps everyone safe. ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
1023:It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts. ~ Jim Rohn,
1024:I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters. ~ Jello Biafra,
1025:No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation. ~ Milton Friedman,
1026:No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood. ~ Timothy Snyder,
1027:The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid. ~ Walter Willett,
1028:The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. ~ Nikolai Berdyaev,
1029:You don't bring about major political change simply by changing people's minds. It's their interests that need to be assailed, not their opinions. ~ Terry Eagleton,
1030:As American education and intelligence becomes replaced by feelings and emotion, not seeing the forest for the trees has become a major problem. ~ Walter E Williams,
1031:A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. ~ Francis Collins,
1032:Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them. ~ Uma Thurman,
1033:Golf, faced with declining youth participation in many markets, has made pace of play a major focus, both for the weekend duffers and the professionals. ~ Anonymous,
1034:I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people. ~ Anthony Hopkins,
1035:I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment! ~ Andy Andrews,
1036:I believe very strongly that corporations could and should be a major force for resolving social and environmental concerns in the twenty-first century. ~ Bill Ford,
1037:Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost ~ Russell Baker,
1038:it’s a major accomplishment for sponsors like the Kochs that they’ve turned corporate self-interest into a movement among people on the streets.” While ~ Jane Mayer,
1039:More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression... ~ Jean M Twenge,
1040:That's one of the major lessons: no president should ever take this nation to war without full public debate in the Congress and/or in the public. ~ Robert McNamara,
1041:The EPA, the Gestapo of government, pure and simply has been one of the major claw-hooks that the government maintains on the backs of our constituents. ~ Tom DeLay,
1042:A major fact of our present civilization is that more and more sin becomes collective, and the individual is forced to participate in collective sin. ~ Jacques Ellul,
1043:A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction. ~ Narendra Modi,
1044:Everything adds up to a major crisis. Humanity is faced with a global energy crisis ... The core of the crisis lies in the increasing shortage of oil. ~ George Soros,
1045:Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ~ Russell Baker,
1046:I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me. ~ Steven Yeun,
1047:The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. ~ Stuart Chase,
1048:The degree to which you feel in control of your time and your life is a major determinant of your level of inner peace, harmony, and mental well-being. ~ Brian Tracy,
1049:The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky. ~ Lukas Foss,
1050:There’s a reason I’m a history major, for chrissake—I deal in facts. Black and white. This happened at this time to this person and here’s the result. ~ Elle Kennedy,
1051:The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. ~ Nikolai A Berdyaev,
1052:Whenever there’s anything major happening in our family we need to inform both our dog and cat—this proposal by Chikako had become a firm family rule. ~ Hiro Arikawa,
1053:Whether anybody was home meant everything to a house. It was more than a major fact: it was the only fact.

The family was the house's soul. ~ Jonathan Franzen,
1054:While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
1055:If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ultimately, without a major resolution. ~ Anonymous,
1056:I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing. ~ Les Dawson,
1057:It is always dangerous to declare a turning point in history. We always tend to feel that, when we are alive, something really major is happening. ~ Thomas L Friedman,
1058:No matter whether my eyes were open or shut, I could still see it, the crapulent major’s third eye, weeping because of what it could see about me. ~ Viet Thanh Nguyen,
1059:Syllogism ―
Major premise: I can control my thoughts.
Minor premise: My feelings come from my thoughts.
Conclusion: I can control my feelings. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
1060:The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. ~ John Major,
1061:There are parties, and then there are huge, major, blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties. If you ever get a choice, go for the Olympian. ~ Rick Riordan,
1062:Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved. ~ Dick Cheney,
1063:When the entire country was watching one show there was a major discussion happening; is it possible for that to happen in a 1 million channel universe? ~ Judd Apatow,
1064:[Connor to Major Wentworth, grandson of King George]

"My fathers were lairds in the Highlands when yours were still farmin' kale back in Germany! ~ Pamela Clare,
1065:Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions ~ Dmitry Medvedev,
1066:Drama is not a genre for infant prodigies: I can't think of a dramatist who made a major reputation as early as, say, Keats or Rimbaud in lyric poetry. ~ Northrop Frye,
1067:I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act. ~ Juliana Hatfield,
1068:I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. ~ Simon Winchester,
1069:In accord with the reigning single standard, the major terrorist atrocities—or worse, aggression—are excluded from the canon of international terrorism. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1070:Instead of asking students to "declare their major" we should ask students to "list what they will do anything to avoid". It just makes a lot more sense. ~ Amy Poehler,
1071:Instead of asking students to “declare their major” we should ask students to “list what they will do anything to avoid.” It just makes a lot more sense. ~ Amy Poehler,
1072:I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party. ~ John McCain,
1073:Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater. ~ Sylvia Earle,
1074:of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To ~ Douglas Adams,
1075:Realize that the social media success equation isn't big moves on the chess board, it's little moves made every day that eventually add up to a major shift. ~ Jay Baer,
1076:There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership. ~ Tomson Highway,
1077:What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you. ~ Emma Donoghue,
1078:All other major faiths have founders who are teachers that show the way to salvation. Only Jesus claimed to actually be the way of salvation himself. ~ Timothy J Keller,
1079:As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation. ~ James Levine,
1080:I was an English major in college, though I ended up getting my degree in "General Stduies" because my grades were too bad to qualify for an English degree. ~ Josh Lieb,
1081:I went to North Texas State, one of the great jazz schools. When I realized I wasn't going to be Miles Davis, I switched my major to English and theater. ~ Peter Weller,
1082:Obesity is a hormonal disorder of fat regulation. Insulin is the major hormone that drives weight gain, so the rational therapy is to lower insulin levels. ~ Jason Fung,
1083:One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is. ~ Michael Tilson Thomas,
1084:So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together. ~ Ledisi,
1085:So it is a major part of maturity to accept not only your own shortcomings but those of the people you love, and help them not to fail when you can. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt,
1086:The other major kind of computer is the "Apple," which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer you basically just plug in and use. ~ Dave Barry,
1087:The Stock Market was down today. Two major businesses declared bankruptcy, consumer spending is at an all time low - in other words, Bush is back on the job. ~ Jay Leno,
1088:13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left. ~ Brian Tracy,
1089:A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist. ~ John Major,
1090:A major writer combines these three - storyteller, teacher, enchanter - but it is the enchanter in him that predominates and makes him a major writer. ~ Vladimir Nabokov,
1091:churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it. ~ Georgia Harkness,
1092:Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people. ~ James Alan Gardner,
1093:Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it. ~ Patrick Henry Hughes,
1094:I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things. ~ Mary Hart,
1095:If there was a war, a big war, a major war on the planet, it would be a nuclear war, and it would destroy all life, human and subhuman, on planet earth. ~ Benjamin Creme,
1096:Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ~ John Major,
1097:Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth. ~ Bud Selig,
1098:Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. ~ Douglas Coupland,
1099:People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1100:The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. ~ Jim Rohn,
1101:The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in who it sees as its heroes. ~ Joan D Chittister,
1102:We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States. ~ Kent Conrad,
1103:When you sign with a major label there is no guarantee that they are going to release it either unless you have a guarantee clause or a marketing clause. ~ Michael Sweet,
1104:And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world. ~ Jimmy Carter,
1105:If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. ~ Jasper Fforde,
1106:I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf. ~ Connie Chung,
1107:I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence. ~ Marya Mannes,
1108:Kind of a major paradox, wouldn’t you say? As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves. ~ Haruki Murakami,
1109:Regimented minds cannot grasp the concept of confrontation as an open exchange of major differences with a view to settlement through genuine dialogue. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi,
1110:The Major only glanced at the newspaper these days, tired of trying to comprehend a situation which defied comprehension, a war without battles or trenches. ~ J G Farrell,
1111:We are near 2010….2010!! Yet race, sex and religion still play a major role in a hate driven society. For the love of the future and humanity….let’s wake up. ~ Asher Roth,
1112:We have, in our day, witnessed the birth of the Therapeutic State. This is perhaps the major implication of psychiatry as an institution of social control. ~ Thomas Szasz,
1113:A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks ~ Scott McClellan,
1114:And if it gets out later, it has major potential to bite you in the ass. Like, you could lose an entire ass cheek. None of your clothes would fit anymore. ~ Suanne Laqueur,
1115:Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words. ~ Paul Kantner,
1116:I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay. ~ Garry Kasparov,
1117:One of the major functions of every culture has been to shield its members from chaos, to reassure them of their importance and ultimate success. ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
1118:So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner. ~ Ben Stein,
1119:The major thing that holds you back when you're trying to change a bad habit like eating, smoking, or drinking too much is your belief you are out of control. ~ Dan Ariely,
1120:Those who pose, suppose that everything goes the way of the dodos. Yet, I've met, some who bet on luck like a cashed check, that is, before a major wreck. ~ Joel T McGrath,
1121:We do not know the play. We do not even know whether we are in Act I or Act V. We do not know who are the major and who the minor characters. The Author knows. ~ C S Lewis,
1122:I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes. ~ Charles Schumer,
1123:I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. ~ George Carey,
1124:It was the first time that we had sort of articulated our major problem. She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other. ~ Miriam Toews,
1125:More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense. ~ Marc Andreessen,
1126:One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them. ~ Tony Evans,
1127:One of the major reasons why people are not doing well is because they keep trying to get through the day. A more worthy challenge is to try to get from the day. ~ Jim Rohn,
1128:Show me any major event on this planet, and I will show you the economic reason behind it. Commerce is all powerful, Miss Strange. Commerce rules our lives. ~ Jasper Fforde,
1129:The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia. ~ Helen Simonson,
1130:There are three major hurdles to overcome in crisis: dealing with pain; working with your attitude; and using the crisis as a wake-up and a cleanup call. ~ Elizabeth Lesser,
1131:They did an article in a major magazine, shortly after the war started. I think in '04. But they did an article which had me totally against the war in Iraq. ~ Donald Trump,
1132:They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot of commissions. ~ Peter Cundill,
1133:This debate over Genesis revealed a major disagreement among second-century Christians, a disagreement whose outcome would shape church doctrine ever after. ~ Elaine Pagels,
1134:We see very broad-based, moderate, growth. Most of the sectors are quite strong. I don't see any major potholes, and I believe [the economy] is strengthening. ~ Jamie Dimon,
1135:What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1136:When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations. ~ Philippe Petit,
1137:Worship plays a major role in the Christian daily life. Throughout Scripture we see worship from David dancing before the Lord to Jesus rejoicing in the Spirit. ~ T D Jakes,
1138:I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. ~ Frank Gehry,
1139:I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields. Before I had those outlets, my ego was all I had. ~ Kanye West,
1140:India is a youthful country. A country with such a major percentage of youth has the capability to change not only its own, but the fate of the entire world. ~ Narendra Modi,
1141:I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.” – Associated Press interview, 12-7-11 ~ Walter Mosley,
1142:Lately I had felt buffeted by others’ emotions. Their feelings would try to take me over, and that constituted a major part of the reason I’d felt so lost lately. ~ J D Horn,
1143:Major, to what extent did you act upon your feelings for Miss LaRoux?"

"Medium."

"Excuse me?"

"How am I supposed to answer that question? ~ Amie Kaufman,
1144:Men these days expect their wives to be as dazzling as their mistresses.”

That's shocking," said the Major. "How on earth will they tell them apart? ~ Helen Simonson,
1145:The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1146:The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time. ~ James Chanos,
1147:The world has an ending and a beginning. It begins with you and it ends with you. The end of the world occurs when you make a major transition in attention. ~ Frederick Lenz,
1148:Today, Muslim women have on average 3.1 children. Christian women have 2.7. There is no major difference between the birth rates of the great world religions. ~ Hans Rosling,
1149:Trines between major planets in a natal chart can make for an easy life, but they can also lead to laziness—unless there are other aspects that stimulate action. ~ Anonymous,
1150:Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups. ~ Michael Isikoff,
1151:For most people, the major hurdle in grasping modern insights into the nature of the universe is that these developments are usually phrased using mathematics. ~ Brian Greene,
1152:I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season. ~ Benjamin Bratt,
1153:I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. ~ William Howard Taft,
1154:I think that the major message of my life and what I hope to be remembered for is someone who managed to change the social sexual values of his time absolutely. ~ Hugh Hefner,
1155:Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India. ~ Jay Leno,
1156:Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being. ~ Delmore Schwartz,
1157:Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom. ~ Rudolph Rummel,
1158:No human difference matters much until it becomes a privilege, until it becomes the basis for oppression. Power is the vector that turns minor into major. ~ Michael Ignatieff,
1159:Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff. ~ Anne Robinson,
1160:The common people?—pah. What are they to us? You and I, mein Freund, we are lords of the earth, the great ones, the major men, the makers of supreme fictions. ~ John Banville,
1161:To me the question of the environment is more ominous than that of peace and war...I'm more worried about global warming than I am of any major military conflict. ~ Hans Blix,
1162:You said you wanted to know how to please me? Consider this lesson number one. Don't be afraid to ask for what you want. Hearing you say it is a major turn on. ~ Kendall Ryan,
1163:After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy. ~ Elisabeth Shue,
1164:And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners. ~ Alex Jones,
1165:As a major economic force worldwide, India and Indian companies have the opportunity to set the standards in Asia in terms of women's right to decent work. ~ Michelle Bachelet,
1166:At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. ~ Jim Henson,
1167:Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass. ~ P C Cast,
1168:It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human. ~ Michael Ignatieff,
1169:It wasn’t until after you had a major regret that you understood the importance of not putting things off or being scared to do something about your problems. ~ Mariana Zapata,
1170:I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. ~ Neko Case,
1171:Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying. ~ Ernest Hemingway,
1172:One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage. ~ John C Maxwell,
1173:She also demanded of me that, in my art, it should be real passion and not machinery that moved the branches. That was a major gift, the greatest of her bequests. ~ Magda Szab,
1174:Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday. ~ Steven Pinker,
1175:That’s the reason, as your congressman, I hold the holy Bible as being the major directions to me of how I vote in Washington, D.C., and I’ll continue to do that. ~ Paul Broun,
1176:...they seemed to accept things that to me were major catastrophes as part of the normal flow of life. For them, the crisis was the treatment, not the epilepsy. ~ Anne Fadiman,
1177:When you are an English major, they tell you that you can do anything, but what they really mean is that you could just as easily end up doing nothing. ~ Nora McInerny Purmort,
1178:You ignore traffic lights, speed limits, and social niceties. It has an illicit, energizing feel not unlike being in a major city during a blackout or a blizzard. ~ Dan Harris,
1179:Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one's parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of any maturing process. ~ Peter Taylor,
1180:For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain backward and impoverished. ~ Rodney Stark,
1181:General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
1182:I consider tribalism one of the worst aspects of human behaviour. A major contributor to confirmation bias, lack of innovation in public policy, war...
pg69 ~ Graeme Simsion,
1183:In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1184:It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. ~ Alfred North Whitehead,
1185:It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. ~ Fred Ward,
1186:Life is about choices. Every day we make them. From things as minor as what we should eat for breakfast to major things like if we should leave our family today. ~ Beth Ehemann,
1187:Most major universities now provide extensive courses online, many of which are free. MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) initiative has been a leader in this effort. MIT ~ Ray Kurzweil,
1188:She mentally rifled through birthplace (Portland, Oregon), college major (sociology), astrological sign (Virgo), favorite movie (The Apple Dumpling Gang—don’t judge ~ Anonymous,
1189:She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements. ~ Alice Munro,
1190:Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need. ~ Jimmy Carter,
1191:Virtually every Tea Party advocate I interviewed for this book has personally benefited from a major government service or has close family who have. ~ Arlie Russell Hochschild,
1192:Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it. ~ Charles Garfield,
1193:"Evita" obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing. ~ Elaine Paige,
1194:How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny. ~ J G Farrell,
1195:I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily. ~ Bernard Henri Levy,
1196:I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper. ~ Jack Kilby,
1197:I typically get around to most major cities at least once a year. I think people see that as their chance to go nuts for the year if they're into the style of music. ~ Girl Talk,
1198:One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm. ~ Scott Hall,
1199:The footage of labor bots' humanoid exo-shell faces melting down into fleshy puddles of goo played over and over again for months on all the major news networks. ~ Kevin Strange,
1200:Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem ~ Herman Cain,
1201:Given the large uncertainties at each major step of the case for reliance on a carbon tax, economists should reconsider their current support for such a policy. ~ Robert P Murphy,
1202:I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions. ~ Dalai Lama,
1203:I’m a psychology major for crying out loud!  I should be able to spot when someone can’t handle reality when I see it.  I can’t do this anymore.  Goodbye, Jessica. ~ Keary Taylor,
1204:I'm not a doom-and-gloom person. But I think there is a difference between transcendence and denial, and much of the Western world is in major denial today. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1205:In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ~ Thomas E Mann,
1206:I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however. ~ Charlie Munger,
1207:Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science. ~ Clara Shih,
1208:Terrorism is based on two major pillars: One is injustice, and the other is a certainty of attitude, the notion that their version of the story is the correct one. ~ Shirin Ebadi,
1209:The Kremlin’s information warfare was roughly equivalent to a hostile super PAC unleashing a major ad campaign, if not worse. Of course it had an impact. ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton,
1210:The problem with not having fought a major war for decades is that it is difficult to tell an experienced commanding officer from an inexperienced officer ~ Christopher G Nuttall,
1211:The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is. ~ Julian Assange,
1212:And because she was intelligent (she graduated from Permian in 1986 and went on to become an honors English major at Swarthmore College), she also felt ostracized. ~ H G Bissinger,
1213:Another nagging little question lodged like a bit of grapeshot in his chest. It was nothing major, but the place where he stored them all was running out of room. ~ John Darnielle,
1214:Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward. ~ Brendon Urie,
1215:I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands. ~ Rodney Brooks,
1216:I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. ~ John Major,
1217:I think we're inevitably going to be depressed when we focus the major part of our energy and attention on something that doesn't give us meaning, only material things. ~ Sam Keen,
1218:It took us months of buying all the Coke stock we could to accumulate $1 billion worth - equal to 7% of the company. It's very hard to accumulate major positions. ~ Charlie Munger,
1219:Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered “hit by pitch,” and would be eligible to advance to first base. ~ Randall Munroe,
1220:Major Major’s father had a Calvinist’s faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone’s misfortunes but his own were expressions of God’s will. ~ Joseph Heller,
1221:The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork. ~ Win Butler,
1222:The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. ~ Ray Bradbury,
1223:There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations. ~ David Korten,
1224:What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology. ~ Barry Commoner,
1225:When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion. ~ George Carlin,
1226:Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians! ~ George Carlin,
1227:But I must ask you, do you really understand what it means to be in love with an unsuitable woman?” “My dear boy,” said the Major. “Is there really any other kind? ~ Helen Simonson,
1228:Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn’t going to let her use my life as her second chance. ~ Malorie Blackman,
1229:her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality. ~ Anonymous,
1230:I thought it was amazing that I could get a diploma just for reading fiction. It was like being able to major in eating chocolate. (on majoring in literature) ~ Sarah Addison Allen,
1231:It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change... deep changes in life follow movements in imagination. ~ Thomas Moore,
1232:Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy particulars and relationships. ~ Michael Wolff,
1233:Right-wing pundits continually framed First Nations issues as a drain on taxpayers when, in fact, Indigenous communities were presenting a major growth opportunity. ~ Charlie Angus,
1234:The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States. ~ Dave Barry,
1235:The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages. ~ John Henry Holland,
1236:There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure ~ Ashley Bryan,
1237:To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do. ~ Jack Canfield,
1238:When avoidance of pain becomes the major emphasis of childbirth care, the paradoxical effect is that more women have to deal with pain after their babies are born. ~ Ina May Gaskin,
1239:When Ballesteros triumphed at the British Open in 1979, for his first major win, he hit so few fairways off the tee that he was often mistaken for a gallery marshall. ~ Dan Jenkins,
1240:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ Dalai Lama,
1241:A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. ~ Gregory Bateson,
1242:And if we believe it, and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as in heaven, there is no way we can rest content with major injustice in the world. ~ Tom Wright,
1243:BORN: 1856 George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman, Major Barbara), Dublin 1894 Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, Crome Yellow), Godalming, England DIED: 1934 Winsor McCay ~ Tom Nissley,
1244:But my shift to the serious study of economics gradually weakened my belief in Major Douglas's A+B theorem, which was replaced in my thought by the expression MV = PT. ~ James Meade,
1245:Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers. ~ Barbara Kingsolver,
1246:Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States. ~ George W Bush,
1247:I stay patient. I don't go out there and try to set a course record. That's probably one of my strengths and one reason I've been able to win major championships. ~ Annika Sorenstam,
1248:I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip. ~ Christa McAuliffe,
1249:Major instruments of social stability. Standard men and women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the products of a single bokanovskified egg. ~ Anonymous,
1250:The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try. ~ Harry Chapin,
1251:Therefore, a human is equivalent to about fifty Harry Potter books, and a major national library can contain about five million books – or about ten trillion bits. ~ Stephen Hawking,
1252:When I originally entered UCLA, I had planned to go for a film major, but I kept finding myself taking math classes for fun, 'cause I missed them from high school! ~ Danica McKellar,
1253:But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody. ~ Jane Mayer,
1254:Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. ~ David Guterson,
1255:Ever notice most people are major pains in the ass? I’d rather save myself the trouble of dealing with them and just avoid being around them to begin with. (Ravyn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1256:Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism. ~ Bernard Bailyn,
1257:Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. ~ Ayn Rand,
1258:Figure 1: The incidence of banking crises Source: Own calculations, based on the reported numbers of major bank failures in OECD economies, from Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) ~ John Kay,
1259:I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night. ~ Harold H Greene,
1260:I had a major surgery, a major abdominal surgery, and a mass was removed from my pelvic area, and I do have some more recovery to do. But everything seems to be fine. ~ Robin Quivers,
1261:I'm not trying to have Jake Gyllenhaal's baby. I'm not a major fashionista. I'm not going through a lesbian phase. I'm just normal. I'm just really freakin' normal. ~ Elizabeth Banks,
1262:I used to be hyper, throw crazy and not think about what I wanted to do with each pitch. Now I have a better understanding of what it is to be a major league pitcher. ~ Johan Santana,
1263:The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself. ~ Robert M Pirsig,
1264:the major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than the goal you achieve. ~ Chris Widener,
1265:The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and the works of Buddha. These are the major influences on the world. ~ RZA,
1266:The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. ~ Dalai Lama,
1267:When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors. ~ James MacArthur,
1268:Although he liked nearly everything else about himself, Keith hated his redeeming features. In his view they constituted his only major shortcoming -his one tragic flaw. ~ Martin Amis,
1269:Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people. ~ Lal Bahadur Shastri,
1270:As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe. ~ Eskinder Nega,
1271:But all should know that the people's participation in the elections will take the country forward ... an election full of excitement will be a major blow to the enemy. ~ Ali Khamenei,
1272:He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to. ~ Ford Madox Ford,
1273:I think the major role of the First Lady is to take care of the President so that he can best serve the people. And not to fail her family, her husband, and children. ~ Jackie Kennedy,
1274:Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career. ~ John George Nicolay,
1275:people outside of mental institutions need to have good morals so that the world will continue to work without any major interruptions—and happy endings will flourish. ~ Matthew Quick,
1276:Reform, prosperity, and peace, these are major challenges to the United States of America. I don't think I need any on-the-job training. I'm ready to go at it right now. ~ John McCain,
1277:The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism. ~ Khaled Abou El Fadl,
1278:The Chinese Communist Party is present in all major enterprises in China and manipulates or directly controls their decisions to achieve political and strategic aims. ~ Clive Hamilton,
1279:The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. ~ Eddie Vedder,
1280:The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death. ~ Stanislav Grof,
1281:You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear. ~ Aldous Huxley,
1282:A major part of living a life of self-motivation is having something to wake up for in the morning—something that you are “up to” in life so that you will stay hungry. ~ Steve Chandler,
1283:China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development. ~ Hu Jintao,
1284:forecasts, far short of the 1billion once expected. Consulting firm eMarketer suggests that Twitter's user growth will plateau in major developed markets within five years. ~ Anonymous,
1285:I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio ~ Dalton Trumbo,
1286:If you read only the New York Times- I said, 'Oh my God!' The readers of the New York Times are heading for a major, major breakdown shock if Trump is in fact elected. ~ Camille Paglia,
1287:If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats. ~ John Dingell,
1288:In communist Russia, their major organ was Pravda, which means "truth." The Russians knew how to read between the lines. They didn't take their literature literally. ~ Raymond Pettibon,
1289:In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements. ~ Elinor Ostrom,
1290:I think the four major pillars of work culture are punctuality, integrity, professional competence, and a sense of social responsibility or accountability.       I ~ Rajendra B Aklekar,
1291:More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one. ~ Dan Mangan,
1292:Religion is a major player in the poaching crisis. We've ignored it, we've accorded religion too much respect in this regard, and we've placed devotion above slaughter. ~ Brent Stirton,
1293:Take General Electric, for instance. Its happy ad jingle, “We Bring Good Things to Life,” doesn’t tell you that GE has been (1) a major maker of nuclear weapons parts, ~ Gloria Steinem,
1294:the best messaging system yet. One where SMS and non-SMS messages, all calls, come to all your devices automatically. It only had one major flaw. It’s trapped on an iPhone. ~ Anonymous,
1295:The Refugee Convention of 1951 was a major breakthrough, outlining the rights of those displaced across borders as well as the legal obligations of states to protect them. ~ Kofi Annan,
1296:The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime. In ~ Michelle Alexander,
1297:When it comes to BULLSHIT…BIG-TIME, MAJOR LEAGUE BULLSHIT… you have to stand IN AWE, IN AWE of the all time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. ~ George Carlin,
1298:All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
1299:And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed. ~ Allen Klein,
1300:Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children. ~ Gro Harlem Brundtland,
1301:For years there was this happy time when those controlling the major internet conduits were actually decent enough people. Or at least they weren’t predatory and vengeful. ~ Dave Eggers,
1302:I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to. ~ George Tenet,
1303:I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City. ~ Benjamin Netanyahu,
1304:I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent. ~ Cathy O Neil,
1305:So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense. ~ Kurt Loder,
1306:The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage. ~ Libba Bray,
1307:The major two differences between humans and animals are the language and the reason for killing each other, one does it for hunger, the other for power, hatred and greed. ~ Shikha Kaul,
1308:The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner. ~ Gordon B Hinckley,
1309:The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ~ Eddie Van Halen,
1310:the twelfth-century Song of Roland, which turns the bloody incident into a major conspiracy between the Arabs of Zaragoza and a traitor within Charlemagne’s own camp. ~ Susan Wise Bauer,
1311:This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. ~ David Bohm,
1312:This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. ~ Jon Secada,
1313:Because people who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were. ~ William Gibson,
1314:From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of capital loss of any investment or speculation. ~ Henry Hazlitt,
1315:Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have. ~ John Sculley,
1316:I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience. ~ Cindy Sherman,
1317:I don’t think buttons should automatically release someone from suspicion of murder.” “No, I suppose not.” He sighed as if this was a major failing of our modern society. ~ Amanda Flower,
1318:If you got a hit every third time that you went up to bat in the major leagues, you'd be the greatest hitter of all time. I think my average is a little better than that. ~ Brad Williams,
1319:I knew you’d make a champion wife, love!’
‘On the contrary! My husband will live under the cat’s foot.’
‘I’m very partial to cats,’ offered the Major hopefully. ~ Georgette Heyer,
1320:It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful. ~ Emraan Hashmi,
1321:It took three years to put Shakespeare's words together, there were a lot of words to be studied and a lot of words to be sorted out, and it proved to be a major project. ~ David Crystal,
1322:I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place. ~ Kirsten Dunst,
1323:Just as iGen’ers and Millennials are avoiding institutions such as religion and marriage, more and more of them are refusing to identify with the major political parties. ~ Jean M Twenge,
1324:My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues. ~ Robin Yount,
1325:(On the day of the 9/11 attacks, Rice was scheduled to deliver a speech on the major threats facing the land; the draft didn’t so much as mention bin Laden or al Qaeda.) In ~ Fred Kaplan,
1326:Particle physics suffers more from being infected by the socio-political mood of the day than from lack of spectacular opportunities for major and profound discoveries. ~ Leon M Lederman,
1327:The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
1328:The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. ~ Emily Greene Balch,
1329:The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third. ~ P J Plauger,
1330:We will build a Marine Corps based on 36 battalions, which the Heritage Foundation notes is the minimum needed to deal with major contingencies. Right now we only have 23. ~ Donald Trump,
1331:What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, ~ Joseph Heller,
1332:A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted. ~ Michael Foot,
1333:But her words haunted me for much of my life and played a major part in inhibiting and injecting with guilt what should have been a free and joyous expression of sexuality. ~ Oliver Sacks,
1334:define representation or . . . reduce it to something else” (7). One can at most describe some of its major features, “place it in a context where we know our way around” (7). ~ Anonymous,
1335:Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1336:In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. ~ Alan Dundes,
1337:I think many people are not seeing the change. They`re really upset with the current situation. We haven`t seen a major American city go up like this in quite some time. ~ Hillary Clinton,
1338:One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of what they will have to do when they get there! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1339:Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word "multicultural," you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life. ~ Jim Goad,
1340:What's interesting is there are $12 billion of breaks in the energy bill that passed, yet we see that the sixth major oil companies in America last year made $1.1 trillion. ~ Marty Meehan,
1341:Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail. ~ George Gilder,
1342:God often attaches a major weakness to a major strength to keep our egos in check. A limitation can act as a governor to keep us from going too fast and running ahead of God. ~ Rick Warren,
1343:have discovered that one of the major reasons many people haven’t had a lot of success with getting organized is simply that they have tried to do all five steps at one time. ~ David Allen,
1344:I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published. ~ Sally Kirkland,
1345:I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. ~ John Major,
1346:I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. ~ Carlos Alazraqui,
1347:I think a major act of leadership right now, call it a radical act, is to create the places and processes so people can actually learn together, using our experiences ~ Margaret J Wheatley,
1348:It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up. ~ Muriel Spark,
1349:I turned down a contract with a major network in New York my senior year of college in order to move to Los Angeles and pursue my acting career. But so far it's working out. ~ Justin Hires,
1350:So one might say that there was a second conspiracy to make it look like there was no conspiracy at first; and directed by a man who was apparently a major player in both! ~ Richard Belzer,
1351:The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties. ~ Nancy Pelosi,
1352:The four major vices of Kali-yuga are (1) illicit connection with women, (2) animal slaughter, (3) intoxication, (4) speculative gambling of all sorts. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhup da,
1353:The idea that the mind belongs to a separate realm, distinct from the body, was theorized early on, in major philosophical texts such Plato’s Phaedo (fourth century BC) ~ Stanislas Dehaene,
1354:The major way that society has come to agree on the rules of property is through the growth of common law, though more recently legislation has played an increasing role. ~ Milton Friedman,
1355:The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. ~ Kina Grannis,
1356:All of the jobs have gone away to satisfy the stockholders, so that's where the economy has gone. These major multinational corporations do not see their futures in America. ~ Henry Rollins,
1357:For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. ~ Umberto Guidoni,
1358:"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. ~ John Major,
1359:I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love. ~ Natalie Goldberg,
1360:I try and stay out of the sun for the most part. I wear a hat. I play golf. And I wear a hat. But I've had no problem - no major problem - but certainly no problem with skin. ~ Donald Trump,
1361:I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. ~ James Taylor,
1362:Look at Donald Trump: He loves to call out individual reporters by name, which leads to major problems in those reporters' lives. I certainly don't want to add to that myself. ~ Megyn Kelly,
1363:Many of the central ideas of the major religions cannot be reconciled, which gives the lie to the trendy tenet of pluralism that all religions at their core are the same. ~ Norman L Geisler,
1364:One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them. ~ Grant Cardone,
1365:Reverend Lovejoy: Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same. ~ The Simpsons/Season 7 Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily written by Jon Vitti,
1366:Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture. ~ Vladimir Putin,
1367:The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value. ~ Barry Ritholtz,
1368:There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare. ~ Margaret Drabble,
1369:We don't do time-travel. That's for amateurs. We're not time-travellers - we're historians. We 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. so much more classy. ~ Jodi Taylor,
1370:When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university. ~ Koichi Tanaka,
1371:Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic. ~ Anthony S Fauci,
1372:At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous ~ Paula Danziger,
1373:Every Christian, you see, has at least two major callings: (A) The call to use your vocation for the glory of God and the blessing of others; and (B) the call to make disciples. ~ J D Greear,
1374:From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality." ~ Soseki Natsume,
1375:I have studied all the sciences and all the major religions and can sum it up in one sentence. We become, have and attract what we think about and act upon correctly the most. ~ John Assaraf,
1376:I knew Chloe LOVED to read, but I was in the middle of a MAJOR life crisis! For once, couldn’t she just try focusing on ME instead of her stupid book characters?! Then ~ Rachel Ren e Russell,
1377:Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress. ~ Peter Senge,
1378:Location Thirteen is where you go when things turn odd,” Jack says. “When there’s a real crisis, or a major disaster… well, it’s time for Location Thirteen.”, FADE by Kailin Gow ~ Kailin Gow,
1379:major ramification of the ludic fallacy: how those whose job it is to make us aware of uncertainty fail us and divert us into bogus certainties through the back door. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
1380:One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. ~ Robert T Bakker,
1381:Spending comes just as natural to liberals in Minnesota and the Minnesota legislature as bashing decency comes to the editorial board of our major metropolitan newspapers. ~ Michele Bachmann,
1382:The ideal boss for a growing leader is probably a good boss with major flaws, so that one can learn all the complex lessons of what to do and what not to do simultaneously. ~ Warren G Bennis,
1383:The major point at which his reason and his sense of humor left him was when he approached the question of what people were really supposed to do with their time on Earth. He ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1384:The President faced the microphone with a look of utter helplessness, like a man reading My Pet Goat to a group of pre-schoolers as a major terrorist attack happens elsewhere. ~ Mike Resnick,
1385:The Uruguayans have a sort of purity. I don't know where they got it, and I doubt even if they know from where they got it. Perhaps they didn't kill off their major population. ~ Martin Amis,
1386:You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person. ~ Tracy Chapman,
1387:Almost none of the students in any major showed a consistent understanding of how to apply methods of evaluating truth they had learned in their own discipline to other areas. ~ David Epstein,
1388:A major shortcoming of the Resistance is the outnumbering, before long, of the genuine warriors by camera-carrying midgets intent on leaving a record of their purported heroism. ~ Coco Chanel,
1389:Everyone else believes in you. The major problem is that not all can let you know as in the way you may wish. Some will only let you know through their tests of criticism! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1390:Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong. ~ Ryan Holmes,
1391:Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect. ~ Jim Rohn,
1392:has observed that bin Laden in twenty of his twenty-four major speeches, both before and after 9/11, justified violence against America by citing its support for Israel. ~ Zbigniew Brzezi ski,
1393:However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious. ~ Garrett Hardin,
1394:I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a meeting for joint disarmament and arms limitations. ~ Gustav Heinemann,
1395:I would like to think that we have made much more progress, that we've come much further, to have someone like a Donald Trump to emerge as the nominee of a major political party. ~ John Lewis,
1396:Like the deepest secrets in a psychoanalysis, our lives stay hidden, harboring our precious information like a piece of decaying food behind a major molar in our country’s maw, ~ Larry Kramer,
1397:Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. ~ Ian MacKaye,
1398:Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that white people can actually be oppressed. ~ Barbara Smith,
1399:Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac. ~ Keith Ablow,
1400:My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
1401:Obama has committed the U.S. to war on the Islamic State. To then allow within a month an allied enclave to be overrun - and perhaps annihilated - would be a major blow. ~ Charles Krauthammer,
1402:The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments. ~ Ron Jaworski,
1403:The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time. ~ Jonny Greenwood,
1404:We shall often find in our story that the religious behavior of people who have not been major beneficiaries of modernity articulates a strongly felt need for the spiritual, ~ Karen Armstrong,
1405:A major mistake made by many start-ups around the world is focusing on the technology, the software, the product, and the design, but neglecting to ever figure out the business. ~ Reid Hoffman,
1406:As a matter of fact I don't know of one artist as long as I've been alive that they put in regular rotation in Boston who wasn't already on a major label with a huge deal behind them. ~ Slaine,
1407:Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize. ~ Herbert Asbury,
1408:Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. ~ Linus Pauling,
1409:I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event. ~ Ralph Metzner,
1410:I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life. ~ Dalai Lama,
1411:It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes. ~ Billy West,
1412:I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. ~ Robert Wise,
1413:Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
   ~ William Strunk,
1414:Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers. ~ William Strunk Jr,
1415:So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements. ~ Ann Coulter,
1416:That’s why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don’t say anything, they just nod. The nod means, ‘I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass, ~ Cassandra Clare,
1417:Today President Obama gave a major speech where he defended his handling of the economy. And there were tons of people in the audience, you know, since nobody had to be at work. ~ Jimmy Fallon,
1418:Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery"
~ Jim Harrison Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47) ~ Jim Harrison,
1419:You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it. ~ James Green,
1420:Back in the '80s and '90s, when there was still a record business, there was pressure on anyone who was fortunate to have a few hits on a major label to continue that success. ~ John Mellencamp,
1421:But listening to him [Barack Obama] speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in the state Senate. ~ Sarah Palin,
1422:For every new art form there's someone to come along and pronounce it dead, but rarely has an art form been born dead - as is the case with rock video, and its major outlet, MTV. ~ Greil Marcus,
1423:genocidal attack had punched inward past Crestwell to take out three of the Federation’s fourteen major extra-Solar star systems, with one hundred percent civilian casualties. But ~ David Weber,
1424:I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing? ~ Jack White,
1425:If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find. ~ Bubba Sparxxx,
1426:I should mention that I am a brilliant deflector. So brilliant that I could get a full scholarship to college and major in it, except why bother? I’ve already mastered the art. ~ Jennifer Niven,
1427:No, I'm pretty sure no one wants to explain last night's oh-so-fucking-fun events to this stodgy-as-hell crowd, who all look like they took a major pill of stick-up-their-asses. ~ Scarlett Dawn,
1428:OK, so the guy is cool, but... I mean own up, this is barking time, this is major lunch, this is stool approaching critical mass, this is... this is... total vocabulary failure! ~ Douglas Adams,
1429:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. ~ Michael Korda,
1430:The Mean Value Theorem is the midwife of calculus - not very important or glamorous by itself, but often helping to deliver other theorems that are of major significance. ~ Edward Mills Purcell,
1431:Then, about seven million years ago, something major happened. A group of new beings emerged from the tropical forests of Africa and began to move about on the open savanna. These ~ Bill Bryson,
1432:Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. ~ Carl Sagan,
1433:We lie. That's what we do. You're selling me a line of bullshit and you want me to sell you a line of bullshit back so you can write a major line of bullshit and be paid for it. ~ Jennifer Egan,
1434:when I arrived at Stanford in 1985, economics, not computer science, was the most popular major. To most people on campus, the tech sector seemed idiosyncratic or even provincial. ~ Peter Thiel,
1435:As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal. ~ Steven Pinker,
1436:A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries. ~ Peter Medawar,
1437:Do you know why men name their cocks?"
"No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter.
"So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger. ~ Linda Howard,
1438:I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy. ~ Betty Friedan,
1439:I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. ~ Steven Pinker,
1440:My problem was never with the major label, it was with the guy who we put our trust in and then wouldn't take my phone calls once we'd signed to a major label, who then quit. ~ John Britt Daniel,
1441:One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1442:One of the major reasons for the failure of Fink and the trunk cartels was the truly heroic activities of one of the most maligned railroad financiers of this era: Jay Gould. ~ Murray N Rothbard,
1443:The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts consciousness away from knowledge of the Divine. ~ Stephan A Hoeller,
1444:The difference with a major label and independent is mainly resources. That's the difference that I feel sometimes where I as an artist would have to be more creative and more patient. ~ Goapele,
1445:We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not. ~ Sean Lennon,
1446:Although they liberated some concentration camps, American troops reached none of the major killing sites of the Holocaust and saw none of the hundreds of death pits of the East. ~ Timothy Snyder,
1447:I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ Abraham Maslow,
1448:I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning. ~ Kiese Laymon,
1449:In college I had to major in something, so I was like, "Okay I like art history, so I will major in that." I never really had any ambitions to work in museums or anything, though. ~ Walter Martin,
1450:It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing. ~ Walter Cronkite,
1451:I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that. ~ Danny Brown,
1452:Sometimes, people forget my record of fiscal conservatism on major issues in the state legislature. The greatest example is my voting against the pension borrowing scheme in 1997. ~ Leonard Lance,
1453:The one major factor that motivated people was the work itself. If the work was exciting and interesting, the worker looked forward to doing it and was motivated to do a good job. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1454:Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1455:Do you drink coffee?”
“Coffee is one of my major food groups.”

Day, Sylvia (2012-05-24). Bared to You (Crossfire, Book 1) (p. 15). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. ~ Sylvia Day,
1456:I believe the purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. ~ Dalai Lama XIV,
1457:Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence. ~ Agnes Repplier,
1458:My major intention for coming to Hollywood - besides the fact that I was just enamored with acting from a very young age - was that I was tired of seeing wimpy Asian actors. ~ Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa,
1459:Robert Sternberg, the present-day guru of intelligence, writes that the major factor in whether people achieve expertise “is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement ~ Carol S Dweck,
1460:You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that. ~ John Major,
1461:I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them. ~ Amanda Plummer,
1462:If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world. ~ Stephen S Roach,
1463:I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did. ~ Richard Rodney Bennett,
1464:I learn from all our major competitors, whether they're in or out of the U.S. Wells Fargo is very actively, very aggressively, and very successfully building its U.S. investment bank. ~ Jamie Dimon,
1465:It is a major world power, and today it is an economic and military leader - no doubt about it. That is why America has a strong influence on the situation in the world in general. ~ Vladimir Putin,
1466:It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates. ~ John F Kennedy,
1467:I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens. ~ John Major,
1468:Love in your heart is good medicine for long live. Hatred in your blood is the major cause of heart failure! Love people, get transfused with a fresh blood and you'll live long! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1469:Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty? ~ Chris Christie,
1470:So the coffee came and I tasted it—a hot, foul, acidic, dual-carbon compound liquid—and I spat it out all over her. A major breach of human etiquette: apparently, I was meant to swallow ~ Matt Haig,
1471:Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news. ~ Bill Gates,
1472:The statistics were not merely inadequate; they lied. And the lies they told led the people who ran major league baseball teams to misjudge their players, and mismanage their games. ~ Michael Lewis,
1473:Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake. ~ Mary Robinson,
1474:For every organization needs performance in three major areas: It needs direct results; building of values and their reaffirmation; and building and developing people for tomorrow. ~ Peter F Drucker,
1475:I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way. ~ William Eldridge Odom,
1476:I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that. ~ Billy Crystal,
1477:Major Major's father had a good joke about opportunity. "Opportunity only knocks once in this world," he would say. Major Major's father repeated this good joke at every opportunity. ~ Joseph Heller,
1478:My fingers tightened on my waxed paper cup, sure now I knew why Minias was sitting at a table sipping coffee with me. I had a password. I had a reason to trade. I had a major problem. ~ Kim Harrison,
1479:Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete. In ~ Brian Tracy,
1480:Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again until the major problem of the plot is solved. ~ James Scott Bell,
1481:Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong. ~ Kofi Annan,
1482:We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time, from major seasons to the individual moments in our lives. We're also living with the consequences of those choices ~ Stephen R Covey,
1483:Because of the survivors’ advancing age, this year’s ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum may be the last major anniversary celebration to include more than a handful of people ~ Anonymous,
1484:I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. ~ Abraham H Maslow,
1485:I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture. ~ John Kasich,
1486:If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. ~ Zig Ziglar,
1487:I have so many wonderful people in my life. I've never had any major physical problems or an accident or anything like that. I'm a very, very lucky person, thus far, knock on wood. ~ Carrie Underwood,
1488:In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable. ~ John Linder,
1489:I think there's a vast difference between the Big12 and some of the other major conferences. I think it is tougher to score in this conference, just because of the emphasis on defense. ~ Eddie Sutton,
1490:It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty. ~ Gordon Allport,
1491:The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so. ~ Willie Morris,
1492:The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own. ~ John Flanagan,
1493:There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary. ~ Noam Chomsky,
1494:This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world. ~ Douglas Adams,
1495:Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves-and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential. ~ Grant Cardone,
1496:Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves—and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential. ~ Grant Cardone,
1497:Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. ~ Michael Parenti,
1498:When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this. ~ Frank Langella,
1499:And I was careful to balance out my meal with something from different major food groups. I got fried protein, tasty carbohydrates, and gravy.” “Gravy isn’t a food group.” “Say what? ~ Janet Evanovich,
1500:As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada. ~ Kenny Guinn,

IN CHAPTERS [150/464]



  223 Integral Yoga
   31 Christianity
   28 Occultism
   24 Philosophy
   19 Yoga
   17 Fiction
   16 Science
   15 Psychology
   11 Poetry
   5 Education
   5 Cybernetics
   4 Theosophy
   4 Hinduism
   3 Integral Theory
   2 Mythology
   2 Mysticism
   2 Kabbalah
   2 Buddhism
   1 Baha i Faith
   1 Alchemy


  117 The Mother
   68 Sri Aurobindo
   61 Satprem
   59 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   20 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   17 H P Lovecraft
   13 Carl Jung
   13 Aleister Crowley
   10 A B Purani
   9 Swami Vivekananda
   8 Aldous Huxley
   7 Plato
   7 James George Frazer
   6 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   5 Swami Krishnananda
   5 Sri Ramakrishna
   5 Norbert Wiener
   4 Jordan Peterson
   4 George Van Vrekhem
   4 Friedrich Nietzsche
   4 Alice Bailey
   3 Walt Whitman
   3 Plotinus
   3 Ken Wilber
   2 William Butler Yeats
   2 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   2 Rabbi Moses Luzzatto
   2 Patanjali
   2 Nirodbaran
   2 Joseph Campbell
   2 Friedrich Schiller
   2 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Baha u llah


   17 Lovecraft - Poems
   16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   15 Agenda Vol 08
   14 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   14 The Future of Man
   12 Questions And Answers 1953
   12 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   11 Record of Yoga
   10 The Life Divine
   10 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   10 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   9 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   9 Liber ABA
   9 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   8 The Perennial Philosophy
   8 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   8 Letters On Yoga IV
   7 The Golden Bough
   7 Questions And Answers 1956
   7 Questions And Answers 1955
   7 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   7 Agenda Vol 10
   7 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   6 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   6 City of God
   5 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   5 The Secret Doctrine
   5 On Education
   5 Cybernetics
   5 Agenda Vol 01
   4 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   4 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   4 Talks
   4 Some Answers From The Mother
   4 Raja-Yoga
   4 Questions And Answers 1954
   4 Preparing for the Miraculous
   4 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   4 Maps of Meaning
   4 Magick Without Tears
   4 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
   4 Aion
   4 Agenda Vol 13
   4 Agenda Vol 04
   4 Agenda Vol 03
   3 Whitman - Poems
   3 The Phenomenon of Man
   3 The Human Cycle
   3 Sex Ecology Spirituality
   3 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   3 Letters On Yoga II
   3 Letters On Yoga I
   3 Bhakti-Yoga
   3 Agenda Vol 12
   3 Agenda Vol 09
   3 Agenda Vol 07
   2 Yeats - Poems
   2 Words Of Long Ago
   2 Twilight of the Idols
   2 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   2 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   2 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   2 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
   2 The Bible
   2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   2 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   2 Schiller - Poems
   2 Prayers And Meditations
   2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
   2 On the Way to Supermanhood
   2 Letters On Poetry And Art
   2 Let Me Explain
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 General Principles of Kabbalah
   2 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   2 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   2 Agenda Vol 06
   2 Agenda Vol 02


0.00a - Introduction, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  The Qabalah is a trustworthy guide, leading to a comprehension both of the Universe and one's own Self. Sages have long taught that Man is a miniature of the Universe, containing within himself the diverse elements of that macrocosm of which he is the microcosm. Within the Qabalah is a glyph called the Tree of Life which is at once a symbolic map of the Universe in its Major aspects, and also of its smaller counterpart, Man.
  Manly P. Hall, in The Secret Teachings of All Ages, deplores the failure of modern science to "sense the profundity of these philosophical deductions of the ancients." Were they to do so, he says, they "would realize those who fabricated the structure of the Qabalah possessed a knowledge of the celestial plan comparable in every respect with that of the modern savant."

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   The Christian missionaries gave the finishing touch to the process of transformation. They ridiculed as relics of a barbarous age the images and rituals of the Hindu religion. They tried to persuade India that the teachings of her saints and seers were the cause of her downfall, that her Vedas, Puranas, and other scriptures were filled with superstition. Christianity, they maintained, had given the white races position and power in this world and assurance of happiness in the next; therefore Christianity was the best of all religions. Many intelligent young Hindus became converted. The man in the street was confused. The Majority of the educated grew materialistic in their mental outlook. Everyone living near Calcutta or the other strong-holds of Western culture, even those who attempted to cling to the orthodox traditions of Hindu society, became infected by the new uncertainties and the new beliefs.
   But the soul of India was to be resuscitated through a spiritual awakening. We hear the first call of this renascence in the spirited retort of the young Gadadhar: "Brother, what shall I do with a mere bread-winning education?"
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   It took the group only a few days to become adjusted to the new environment. The Holy Mother, assisted by Sri Ramakrishna's niece, Lakshmi Devi, and a few woman devotees, took charge of the cooking for the Master and his attendants. Surendra willingly bore the Major portion of the expenses, other householders contributing according to their means. Twelve disciples were constant attendants of the Master: Narendra, Rakhal, Baburam, Niranjan, Jogin, Latu, Tarak, the-elder Gopal, Kali, Sashi, Sarat, and the younger Gopal. Sarada, Harish, Hari, Gangadhar, and Tulasi visited the Master from time to time and practised sadhana at home. Narendra, preparing for his law examination, brought his books to the garden house in order to continue his studies during the infrequent spare moments. He encouraged his brother disciples to intensify their meditation, scriptural studies, and other spiritual disciplines. They all forgot their relatives and their
   worldly duties.

0.00 - THE GOSPEL PREFACE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  When we leave the field of art for that of spiritual religion, the scarcity of competent reporters becomes even more strongly marked. Of the day-to-day life of the great theocentric saints and contemplatives we know, in the great Majority of cases, nothing whatever. Many, it is true, have recorded their doctrines in writing, and a few, such as St. Augustine, Suso and St. Teresa, have left us autobiographies of the greatest value.
  But, all doctrinal writing is in some measure formal and impersonal, while the autobiographer tends to omit what he regards as trifling matters and suffers from the further disadvantage of being unable to say how he strikes other people and in what way he affects their lives. Moreover, most saints have left neither writings nor self-portraits, and for knowledge of their lives, their characters and their teachings, we are forced to rely upon the records made by their disciples who, in most cases, have proved themselves singularly incompetent as reporters and biographers. Hence the special interest attaching to this enormously detailed account of the daily life and conversations of Sri Ramakrishna.

0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
  Intellectually advantaged with no more than the child's facile, lucid eagerness to understand constructively and usefully the Major transformational events of our own times, it probably is synergetically advantageous to review swiftly the most comprehensive inventory of the most powerful human environment transforming events of our totally known and reasonably extended history. This is especially useful in winnowing out and understanding the most significant of the metaphysical revolutions now recognized as swiftly tending to reconstitute history. By such a comprehensively schematic review, we might identify also the unprecedented and possibly heretofore overlooked pivotal revolutionary events not only of today but also of those trending to be central to tomorrow's most cataclysmic changes.
  It is synergetically reasonable to assume that relativistic evaluation of any of the separate drives of art, science, education, economics, and ideology, and their complexedly interacting trends within our own times, may be had only through the most comprehensive historical sweep of which we are capable.

0.01 - I - Sri Aurobindos personality, his outer retirement - outside contacts after 1910 - spiritual personalities- Vibhutis and Avatars - transformtion of human personality, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Greatness is magnetic and in a sense contagious. Wherever manifested, greatness is claimed by humanity as something that reveals the possibility of the race. The highest utility of greatness is not merely to attract us but to inspire us to follow it and rise to our own highest spiritual stature. To the Majority of men Truth remains abstract, impersonal and far unless it is seen and felt concretely in a human personality. A man never knows a truth actively except through a person and by embodying it in his own personality. Some glimpse of the Truth-Consciousness which Sri Aurobindo embodied may be caught in these Evening Talks.
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0.02 - The Three Steps of Nature, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   common possession. In actual appearance it would seem as if it were only developed to the fullest in individuals and as if there were great numbers and even the Majority in whom it is either a small and ill-organised part of their normal nature or not evolved at all or latent and not easily made active.
  Certainly, the mental life is not a finished evolution of Nature; it is not yet firmly founded in the human animal. The sign is that the fine and full equilibrium of vitality and matter, the sane, robust, long-lived human body is ordinarily found only in races or classes of men who reject the effort of thought, its disturbances, its tensions, or think only with the material mind.
  --
   towards ideal social and economic conditions, by the labour of Science towards an improved health, longevity and sound physique in civilised humanity, the sense and drift of this vast movement translates itself in easily intelligible signs. The right or at least the ultimate means may not always be employed, but their aim is the right preliminary aim, - a sound individual and social body and the satisfaction of the legitimate needs and demands of the material mind, sufficient ease, leisure, equal opportunity, so that the whole of mankind and no longer only the favoured race, class or individual may be free to develop the emotional and intellectual being to its full capacity. At present the material and economic aim may predominate, but always, behind, there works or there waits in reserve the higher and Major impulse.
  And when the preliminary conditions are satisfied, when the great endeavour has found its base, what will be the nature of that farther possibility which the activities of the intellectual life must serve? If Mind is indeed Nature's highest term, then the entire development of the rational and imaginative intellect and the harmonious satisfaction of the emotions and sensibilities must be to themselves sufficient. But if, on the contrary, man is more than a reasoning and emotional animal, if beyond that which is being evolved, there is something that has to be evolved, then it may well be that the fullness of the mental life, the suppleness, flexibility and wide capacity of the intellect, the ordered richness of emotion and sensibility may be only a passage towards the development of a higher life and of more powerful faculties which are yet to manifest and to take possession of the lower instrument, just as mind itself has so taken possession of the body that the physical being no longer lives only for its own satisfaction but provides the foundation and the materials for a superior activity.

01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance: ignorance and suffering and incapacity and death were declared to be the very hallmark of things terrestrial. The Light that dwells above and beyond can be made to shed for a while some kind of lustre upon the mortal darkness but never altogether to remove or change itto live in the full light, to be in and of the Light means to pass beyond. Not that there have not been other strands and types of spiritual experiences and aspirations, but the one we are considering has always struck the Major chord and dominated and drowned all the rest.
   But the initial illusory consciousness of the Overmind need not at all lead to the static Brahmic consciousness or Sunyam alone. As a matter of fact, there is in this particular processes of consciousness a hiatus between the two, between Maya and Brahman, as though one has to leap from the one into the other somehow. This hiatus is filled up in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga by the principle of Supermind, not synthetic-analytic2 in knowledge like Overmind and the highest mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness Sachchidanandais ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and the Many still remain one, being and knowing themselves to be but various self-expressions of the One; it develops the spiritual archetypes, the divine names and forms of all individualisations of an evolving existence.

01.02 - Sri Aurobindo - Ahana and Other Poems, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulsesit is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not forgetting the so-called Metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the Metaphysicals has already been called into question. There is here, no doubt, some theology, a good dose of mental cleverness or conceit, but a modern intellectual or rather rational intelligence is something other, something more than that. Even the metaphysics that was commandeered here had more or less a decorative value, it could not be taken into the pith and substance of poetic truth and beauty. It was a decoration, but not unoften a drag. I referred to the Upanishads, but these strike quite a different, almost an opposite line in this connection. They are in a sense truly metaphysical: they bypass the mind and the mental powers, get hold of a higher mode of consciousness, make a direct contact with truth and beauty and reality. It was Buddha's credit to have forged this missing link in man's spiritual consciousness, to have brought into play the power of the rational intellect and used it in support of the spiritual experience. That is not to say that he was the very first person, the originator who initiated the movement; but at least this seems to be true that in him and his au thentic followers the movement came to the forefront of human consciousness and attained the proportions of a Major member of man's psychological constitution. We may remember here that Socrates, who started a similar movement of rationalisation in his own way in Europe, was almost a contemporary of the Buddha.
   Poetry as an expression of thought-power, poetry weighted with intelligence and rationalised knowledge that seems to me to be the end and drive, the secret sense of all the mystery of modern technique. The combination is risky, but not impossible. In the spiritual domain the Gita achieved this miracle to a considerable degree. Still, the power of intelligence and reason shown by Vyasa is of a special order: it is a sublimated function of the faculty, something aloof and other-worldly"introvert", a modern mind would term it that is to say, something a priori, standing in its own au thenticity and self-sufficiency. A modern intelligence would be more scientific, let us use the word, more matter-of-fact and sense-based: the mental light should not be confined in its ivory tower, however high that may be, but brought down and placed at the service of our perception and appreciation and explanation of things human and terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The intellectual, or more generally, the mental, is the intermediary, the Paraclete, as he himself will call it later on in a poem9 magnificently exemplifying the point we are trying to make out the agent who negotiates, bridges and harmonises the two other firmaments usually supposed to be antagonistic and incompatible.

01.03 - Mystic Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is not merely by addressing the beloved as your goddess that you can attain this mysticism; the Elizabethan did that in merry abundance,ad nauseam.A finer temper, a more delicate touch, a more subtle sensitiveness and a kind of artistic wizardry are necessary to tune the body into a rhythm of the spirit. The other line of mysticism is common enough, viz., to express the spirit in terms and rhythms of the flesh. Tagore did that liberally, the Vaishnava poets did nothing but that, the Song of Solomon is an exquisite example of that procedure. There is here, however, a difference in degrees which is an interesting feature worth noting. Thus in Tagore the reference to the spirit is evident, that is the Major or central chord; the earthly and the sensuous are meant as the name and form, as the body to render concrete, living and vibrant, near and intimate what otherwise would perhaps be vague and abstract, afar, aloof. But this mundane or human appearance has a value in so far as it is a support, a pointer or symbol of the spiritual import. And the mysticism lies precisely in the play of the two, a hide-and-seek between them. On the other hand, as I said, the greater portion of Vaishnava poetry, like a precious and beautiful casket, no doubt, hides the spiritual import: not the pure significance but the sign and symbol are luxuriously elaborated, they are placed in the foreground in all magnificence: as if it was their very purpose to conceal the real meaning. When the Vaishnava poet says,
   O love, what more shall I, shall Radha speak,
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   There have been other philosophical poets, a good number of them since thennot merely rationally philosophical, as was the vogue in the eighteenth century, but metaphysically philosophical, that is to say, inquiring not merely into the phenomenal but also into the labyrinths of the noumenal, investigating not only what meets the senses, but also things that are behind or beyond. Amidst the earlier efflorescence of this movement the most outstanding philosopher poet is of course Dante, the Dante of Paradiso, a philosopher in the mediaeval manner and to the extent a lesser poet, according to some. Goe the is another, almost in the grand modern manner. Wordsworth is full of metaphysics from the crown of his head to the tip of his toe although his poetry, perhaps the Major portion of it, had to undergo some kind of martyrdom because of it. And Shelley, the supremely lyric singer, has had a very rich undertone of thought-content genuinely metaphysical. And Browning and Arnold and Hardyindeed, if we come to the more moderns, we have to cite the whole host of them, none can be excepted.
   We left out the Metaphysicals, for they can be grouped as a set apart. They are not so much metaphysical as theological, religious. They have a brain-content stirring with theological problems and speculations, replete with scintillating conceits and intricate fancies. Perhaps it is because of this philosophical burden, this intellectual bias that the Metaphysicals went into obscurity for about two centuries and it is precisely because of that that they are slowly coming out to the forefront and assuming a special value with the moderns. For the modern mind is characteristically thoughtful, introspective"introvert"and philosophical; even the exact physical sciences of today are rounded off in the end with metaphysics.
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   The philosophical trend in poetry has an interesting history with a significant role: it has acted as a force of purification, of sublimation, of katharsis. As man has risen from his exclusively or predominantly vital nature into an increasing mental poise, in the same way his creative activities too have taken this new turn and status. In the earlier stages of evolution the mental life is secondary, subordinate to the physico-vital life; it is only subsequently that the mental finds an independent and self-sufficient reality. A similar movement is reflected in poetic and artistic creation too: the thinker, the philosopher remains in the background at the outset, he looks out; peers through chinks and holes from time to time; later he comes to the forefront, assumes a Major role in man's creative activity.
   Man's consciousness is further to rise from the mental to over-mental regions. Accordingly, his life and activities and along with that his artistic creations too will take on a new tone and rhythm, a new mould and constitution even. For this transition, the higher mentalwhich is normally the field of philosophical and idealistic activitiesserves as the Paraclete, the Intercessor; it takes up the lower functionings of the consciousness, which are intense in their own way, but narrow and turbid, and gives, by purifying and enlarging, a wider frame, a more luminous pattern, a more subtly articulated , form for the higher, vaster and deeper realities, truths and harmonies to express and manifest. In the old-world spiritual and mystic poets, this intervening medium was overlooked for evident reasons, for human reason or even intelligence is a double-edged instrument, it can make as well as mar, it has a light that most often and naturally shuts off other higher lights beyond it. So it was bypassed, some kind of direct and immediate contact was sought to be established between the normal and the transcendental. The result was, as I have pointed out, a pure spiritual poetry, on the one hand, as in the Upanishads, or, on the other, religious poetry of various grades and denominations that spoke of the spiritual but in the terms and in the manner of the mundane, at least very much coloured and dominated by the latter. Vyasa was the great legendary figure in India who, as is shown in his Mahabharata, seems to have been one of the pioneers, if not the pioneer, to forge and build the missing link of Thought Power. The exemplar of the manner is the Gita. Valmiki's represented a more ancient and primary inspiration, of a vast vital sensibility, something of the kind that was at the basis of Homer's genius. In Greece it was Socrates who initiated the movement of speculative philosophy and the emphasis of intellectual power slowly began to find expression in the later poets, Sophocles and Euripides. But all these were very simple beginnings. The moderns go in for something more radical and totalitarian. The rationalising element instead of being an additional or subordinate or contri buting factor, must itself give its norm and form, its own substance and manner to the creative activity. Such is the present-day demand.

01.04 - The Intuition of the Age, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   That is to say, the change has been in the soul of man himself, the being has veered round and taken a new orientation. It is this which one must envisage, recognise and consciously possess, in order that one may best fulfil the call of the age. But what we are doing instead is to observe the mere external signs and symbols and symptoms, to fix upon the distant quiverings, the echoes on the outermost rim, which are not always faithful representations, but very often distorted images of the truth and life at the centre and source and matrix. We must know that if there has been going on a redistribution and new-marshalling of forces, it is because the fiat has come from the Etat Major.
   Now, in order to understand the new orientation of the spirit of the present age, we may profitably ask what was the inspiration of the past age, the characteristic note which has failed to satisfy us and which we are endeavouring to transform. We know that that age was the Scientific age or the age of Reason. Its great prophets were Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists or if you mount further up in time, we may begin from Bacon and the humanists. Its motto was first, "The proper study of mankind is man" and secondly, Reason is the supreme organon of knowledge, the highest deity in manla Desse Raison. And it is precisely against these two basic principles that the new age has entered its protest. In face of Humanism, Nietzsche has posited the Superman and in face of Reason Bergson has posited Intuition.

01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The three or four Major orders I speak of in reference to conscious artistry are exampled characteristically in the history of the evolution of Greek poetry. It must be remembered, however, at the very outset that the Greeks as a race were nothing if not rational and intellectual. It was an element of strong self-consciousness that they brought into human culture that was their special gift. Leaving out of account Homer who was, as I said, a primitive, their classical age began with Aeschylus who was the first and the most spontaneous and intuitive of the Great Three. Sophocles, who comes next, is more balanced and self-controlled and pregnant with a reasoned thought-content clothed in polished phrasing. We feel here that the artist knew what he was about and was exercising a conscious control over his instruments and materials, unlike his predecessor who seemed to be completely carried away by the onrush of the poetic enthousiasmos. Sophocles, in spite of his artistic perfection or perhaps because of it, appears to be just a little, one remove, away from the purity of the central inspiration there is a veil, although a thin transparent veil, yet a veil between which intervenes. With the third of the Brotherhood, Euripides, we slide lower downwe arrive at a predominantly mental transcription of an experience or inner conception; but something of the Major breath continues, an aura, a rhythm that maintains the inner contact and thus saves the poetry. In a subsequent age, in Theocritus, for example, poetry became truly very much 'sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought', so much of virtuosity and precocity entered into it; in other words, the poet then was an excessively self-conscious artist. That seems to be the general trend of all literature.
   But should there be an inherent incompatibility between spontaneous creation and self-consciousness? As we have seen, a harmony and fusion can and do happen of the superconscious and the normally conscious in the Yogi. Likewise, an artist also can be wakeful and transparent enough so that he is conscious on both the levels simultaneouslyabove, he is conscious of the source and origin of his inspiration, and on the level plain he is conscious of the working of the instrument, how the vehicle transcribes and embodies what comes from elsewhere. The poet's consciousness becomes then divalent as it werethere is a sense of absolute passivity in respect of the receiving apparatus and coupled and immisced with it there is also the sense of dynamism, of conscious agency as in his secret being he is the master of his apparatus and one with the Inspirerin other words, the poet is both a seer (kavih) and a creator or doer (poits).
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   The consciously purposive activity of the poetic consciousness in fact, of all artistic consciousness has shown itself with a clear and unambiguous emphasis in two directions. First of all with regard to the subject-matter: the old-world poets took things as they were, as they were obvious to the eye, things of human nature and things of physical Nature, and without questioning dealt with them in the beauty of their normal form and function. The modern mentality has turned away from the normal and the obvious: it does not accept and admit the "given" as the final and definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible prophet. In revolt against the old and established order of truths and customs, against all that is normally considered as beautiful,ideals and emotions and activities of man or aspects and scenes and movements of Natureagainst God or spiritual life, the modern poet turns deliberately to the ugly and the macabre, the meaningless, the insignificant and the triflingtins and teas, bone and dust and dustbin, hammer and sicklehe is still a prophet, a violent one, an iconoclast, but one who has his own icon, a terribly jealous being, that seeks to pull down the past, erase it, to break and batter and knead the elements in order to fashion out of them something conforming to his heart's desire. There is also the class who have the vision and found the truth and its solace, who are prophets, angelic and divine, messengers and harbingers of a new beauty that is to dawn upon earth. And yet there are others in whom the two strains mingle or approach in a strange way. All this means that the artist is far from being a mere receiver, a mechanical executor, a passive unconscious instrument, but that he is supremely' conscious and master of his faculties and implements. This fact is doubly reinforced when we find how much he is preoccupied with the technical aspect of his craft. The richness and variety of patterns that can be given to the poetic form know no bounds today. A few Major rhythms were sufficient for the ancients to give full expression to their poetic inflatus. For they cared more for some Major virtues, the basic and fundamental qualitiessuch as truth, sublimity, nobility, forcefulness, purity, simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness; they were more preoccupied with what they had to say and they wanted, no doubt, to say it beautifully and powerfully; but the modus operandi was not such a passion or obsession with them, it had not attained that almost absolute value for itself which modern craftsmanship gives it. As technology in practical life has become a thing of overwhelming importance to man today, become, in the Shakespearean phrase, his "be-all and end-all", even so the same spirit has invaded and pervaded his aesthetics too. The subtleties, variations and refinements, the revolutions, reversals and inventions which the modern poet has ushered and takes delight in, for their own sake, I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone.
   Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.
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   Whether the original and true source of the poet's inspiration lies deep within or high above, all depends upon the mediating instrument the mind (in its most general sense) and speech for a successful transcription. Man's ever-growing consciousness demanded also a conscious development and remoulding of these two factors. A growth, a heightening and deepening of the consciousness meant inevitably a movement towards the spiritual element in things. And that means, we have said, a twofold change in the future poet's make-up. First as regards the substance. The revolutionary shift that we notice in modern poets towards a completely new domain of subject-matter is a signpost that more is meant than what is expressed. The superficialities and futilities that are dealt with do not in their outward form give the real trend of things. In and through all these Major and constant preoccupation of our poets is "the pain of the present and the passion for the future": they are, as already stated, more prophets than poets, but prophets for the moment crying in the wildernessalthough some have chosen the path of denial and revolt. They are all looking ahead or beyond or deep down, always yearning for another truth and reality which will explain, justify and transmute the present calvary of human living. Such an acute tension of consciousness has necessitated an overhauling of the vehicle of expression too, the creation of a mode of expressing the inexpressible. For that is indeed what human consciousness and craft are aiming at in the present stage of man's evolution. For everything, almost everything that can be normally expressed has been expressed and in a variety of ways as much as is possible: that is the history of man's aesthetic creativity. Now the eye probes into the unexpressed world; for the artist too the Upanishadic problem has cropped up:
   By whom impelled does the mind fall to its target, what is the agent that is behind the eye and sees through the eyes, what is the hearing and what the speech that their respective sense organs do not and cannot convey and record adequately or at all?

01.05 - Rabindranath Tagore: A Great Poet, a Great Man, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In an age when Reason was considered as the highest light given to man, Tagore pointed to the Vision of the mystics as always the still greater light; when man was elated with undreamt-of worldly success, puffed up with incomparable material possessions and powers, Tagore's voice rang clear and emphatic in tune with the cry of the ancients: "What shall I do with all this mass of things, if I am not made immortal by that?" When men, in their individual as well as collective egoism, were scrambling for earthly gains and hoards, he held before them vaster and cleaner horizons, higher and deeper ways of being and living, maintained the sacred sense of human solidarity, the living consciousness of the Divine, one and indivisible. When the Gospel of Power had all but hypnotised men's minds, and Superman or God-man came to be equated with the Titan, Tagore saw through the falsehood and placed in front and above all the old-world eternal verities of love and self-giving, harmony and mutuality, sweetness and light. When pessimism, cynicism, agnosticism struck the Major chord of human temperament, and grief and frustration and death and decay were taken as a matter of course to be the inevitable order of earthlylifebhasmantam idam shariramhe continued to sing the song of the Rishis that Ananda and Immortality are the breath of things, the birth right of human beings. When Modernism declared with a certitude never tobe contested that Matter is Brahman, Tagore said with the voice of one who knows that Spirit is Brahman.
   Tagore is in direct line with those bards who have sung of the Spirit, who always soared high above the falsehoods and uglinesses of a merely mundane life and lived in the undecaying delights and beauties of a diviner consciousness. Spiritual reality was the central theme of his poetic creation: only and naturally he viewed it in a special way and endowed it with a special grace. We know of another God-intoxicated man, the Jewish philosopher Spinoza, who saw things sub specie aeternitatis, under the figure or mode of eternity. Well, Tagore can be said to see things, in their essential spiritual reality, under the figure or mode of beauty. Keats indeed spoke of truth being beauty and beauty truth. But there is a great difference in the outlook and inner experience. A worshipper of beauty, unless he rises to the Upanishadic norm, is prone to become sensuous and pagan. Keats was that, Kalidasa was that, even Shelley was not far different. The spiritual vein in all these poets remains secondary. In the old Indian master, it is part of his intellectual equipment, no doubt, but nothing much more than that. In the other two it comes in as strange flashes from an unknown country, as a sort of irruption or on the peak of the poetic afflatus or enthousiasmos.
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   The spirit of the age demands this new gospel. Mankind needs and awaits a fresh revelation. The world and life are not an illusion or a lesser reality: they are, if taken rightly, as real as the pure Spirit itself. Indeed, Spirit and Flesh, Consciousness and Matter are not antinomies; to consider them as such is itself an illusion. In fact, they are only two poles or modes or aspects of the same reality. To separate or divide them is a one-sided concentration or abstraction on the part of the human mind. The fulfilment of the Spirit is in its expression through Matter; human life too reaches its highest term, its summum bonum, in embodying the spiritual consciousness here on earth and not dissolving itself in the Transcendence. That is the new Dispensation which answers to the deepest aspiration in man and towards which he has been travelling through the ages in the course of the evolution of his consciousness. Many, however, are the prophets and sages who have set this ideal before humanity and more and more insistently and clearly as we come nearer to the age we live in. But none or very few have expressed it with such beauty and charm and compelling persuasion. It would be carping criticism to point out-as some, purists one may call them, have done-that in poetising and aesthetising the spiritual truth and reality, in trying to make it human and terrestrial, he has diminished and diluted the original substance, in endeavouring to render the diamond iridescent, he has turned it into a baser alloy. Tagore's is a poetic soul, it must be admitted; and it is not necessary that one should find in his ideas and experiences and utterances the cent per cent accuracy and inevitability of a Yogic consciousness. Still his Major perceptions, those that count, stand and are borne out by the highest spiritual realisation.
   Tagore is no inventor or innovator when he posits Spirit as Beauty, the spiritual consciousness as the ardent rhythm of ecstasy. This experience is the very core of Vaishnavism and for which Tagore is sometimes called a Neo-Vaishnava. The Vaishnava sees the world pulsating in glamorous beauty as the Lila (Play) of the Lord, and the Lord, God himself, is nothing but Love and Beauty. Still Tagore is not all Vaishnava or merely a Vaishnava; he is in addition a modern (the carping voice will say, there comes the dilution and adulteration)in the sense that problems exist for himsocial, political, economic, national, humanitarianwhich have to be faced and solved: these are not merely mundane, but woven into the texture of the fundamental problem of human destiny, of Soul and Spirit and God. A Vaishnava was, in spite of his acceptance of the world, an introvert, to use a modern psychological phrase, not necessarily in the pejorative sense, but in the neutral scientific sense. He looks upon the universe' and human life as the play of the Lord, as an actuality and not mere illusion indeed; but he does not participate or even take interest in the dynamic working out of the world process, he does not care to know, has no need of knowing that there is a terrestrial purpose and a diviner fulfilment of the mortal life upon earth. The Vaishnava dwells more or less absorbed in the Vaikuntha of his inner consciousness; the outer world, although real, is only a symbolic shadowplay to which he can but be a witness-real, is only a nothing more.

01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must begin with the individual and within the individual. Man must "turn within, feel alive within himself", re-establish his living contact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself off. Man must learn to subordinate having to being. Each individual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon such individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller collectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses can a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur Thibon insistsand very rightlyupon the variety and diversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and not a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the reviewer of the London Times succinctly puts it: "Let us abolish our insensate worship of number. Let us repeal the law of Majorities. Let us work for the unity that draws together instead of idolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. Let us understand that it is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each should be in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an organic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he alone is qualified and able to do."
   So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or becoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in humanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God in his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no notion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for example, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the higher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will remain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled, guided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the sex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to remain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order. This, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the imposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total transformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different. The Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the Lowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the substance and form too of the Highest.

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  immense Majority of human beings.
  One must live in the consciousness of the Divine Unity to
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  fact (not a prediction). The incapacity of the vast Majority of
  human beings to become conscious of it is a fact which can in

01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In India, it is well known, the diversity of affiliations is colossal, sui generis. Two Major affiliations have today almost cut the country into two; and desperate remedies are suggested which are worse than the malady itself, as they may kill the patient outright. If it is so, it is, I repeat, the mediaeval spirit that is at:, the bottom of the trouble.
   The rise of this spirit in modern times and conditions is a phenomenon that has to be explained and faced: it is a ghost that has come out of the past and has got to be laid and laid for good. First of all, it is a reaction from modernism; it is a reaction from the modernist denial of certain fundamental and eternal truths, of God, soul, and immortality: it is a reaction from the modernist affirmation of the mere economic man. And it is also a defensive gesture of a particular complex of consciousness that has grown and lives powerfully and now apprehends expurgation and elimination.
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   Unlike the previous irruptions that merged and were lost in the general life and consciousness, Islam entered as a leaven that maintained its integrity and revolutionized Indian life and culture by infusing into its tone a Semitic accent. After the Islamic impact India could not be what she was beforea change became inevitable even in the Major note. It was a psychological cataclysm almost on a par with the geological one that formed her body; but the spirit behind which created the body was working automatically, inexorably towards the greater and more difficult synthesis demanded by the situation. Only the thing is to be done now consciously, not through an unconscious process of laissez-faire as on the inferior stages of evolution in the past. And that is the true genesis of the present conflict.
   History abounds in instances of racial and cultural immixture. Indeed, all Major human groupings of today are invariably composite formations. Excepting, perhaps, some primitiveaboriginal tribes there are no pure races existent. The Briton, the Dane, the Anglo-Saxon, and the Norman have combined to form the British; a Frenchman has a Gaul, a Roman, a Frank in him; and a Spaniard's blood would show an Iberian, a Latin, a Gothic, a Moorish element in it. And much more than a people, a culture in modern times has been a veritable cockpit of multifarious and even incongruous elements. There are instances also in which a perfect fusion could not be accomplished, and one element had to be rejected or crushed out. The complete disappearance of the Aztecs and Mayas in South America, the decadence of the Red Indians in North America, of the Negroes in Africa as a result of a fierce clash with European peoples and European culture illustrate the point.
   Nature, on the whole, has solved the problem of blood fusion and mental fusion of different peoples, although on a smaller scale. India today presents the problem on a larger scale and on a higher or deeper level. The demand is for a spiritual fusion and unity. Strange to say, although the Spirit is the true bed-rock of unitysince, at bottom, it means identityit is on this plane that mankind has not yet been able to really meet and coalesce. India's genius has been precisely working in the line of a perfect solution of this supreme problem.

01.12 - Goethe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The year 1949 has just celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great force of light that was Goethe. We too remember him on the occasion, and will try to present in a few words, as we see it, the fundamental experience, the Major Intuition that stirred this human soul, the lesson he brought to mankind. Goe the was a great poet. He showed how a language, perhaps least poetical by nature, can be moulded to embody the great beauty of great poetry. He made the German language sing, even as the sun's ray made the stone of Memnon sing when falling upon it. Goe the was a man of consummate culture. Truly and almost literally it could be said of him that nothing human he considered foreign to his inquiring mind. And Goe the was a man of great wisdom. His observation and judgment on thingsno matter to whatever realm they belonghave an arresting appropriateness, a happy and revealing insight. But above all, he was an aspiring soulaspiring to know and be in touch with the hidden Divinity in man and the world.
   Goe the and the Problem of Evil

01.13 - T. S. Eliot: Four Quartets, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The modern temper is especially partial to harmony: it cannot assert and reject unilaterally and categorically, it wishes to go round an object and view all its sides; it asks for a synthesis and reconciliation of differences and contraries. Two Major chords of life-experience that demand accord are Life and Death, Time and Eternity. Indeed, the problem of Time hangs heavy on the human consciousness. It has touched to the quick philosophers and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying soul for solution.
   A modern Neo-Brahmin, Aldous Huxley, has given a solution of the problem in his now famous Shakespearean apothegm, "Time must have a stop". That is an old-world solution rediscovered by the modern mind in and through the ravages of Time's storm and stress. It means, salvation lies, after all, beyond the flow of Time, one must free oneself from the vicious and unending circle of mortal and mundane life. As the Rajayogi controls and holds his breath, stills all life-movement and realises a dead-stop of consciousness (Samadhi), even so one must control and stop all secular movements in oneself and attain a timeless stillness and vacancy in which alone the true spiritual light and life can descend and manifest. That is the age-long and ancient solution to which the Neo-Brahmin as well the Neo-Christian adheres.

0.11 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  In theory, it applies to everyone. But the vast Majority of human beings fall into unconsciousness, and if there is a contact
  with pure Being it is quite unconscious. Very few persons are

0.13 - Letters to a Student, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  others remain half conscious like the vast Majority of human
  beings.

0.14 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  in relation to themselves and act accordingly. The vast Majority
  of men are like this.
  --
  For those who want always to progress, there are three Major
  ways of progressing:

0 1954-08-25 - what is this personality? and when will she come?, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Oh! But you see, from an occult standpoint, it is a selection. From an external standpoint you could say that there are people in the world who are far superior to you (and I would not disagree!), but from an occult standpoint, it is a selection. There are It can be said that without a doubt the Majority of young people here have come because it was promised them that they would be present at the Hour of Realization but they just dont remember it! (Mother laughs) I have already said several times that when you come down on earth, you fall on your head, which leaves you a little dazed! (laughter) Its a pity, but after all, you dont have to remain dazed all your lives, do you? You should go deep within yourselves and there find the immortal consciousness then you can see very well, you can very clearly remember the circumstances in which you you aspired to be here for the Hour of the Works realization.
   But actually, to tell you the truth, I think your lives are so easy that you dont exert yourselves very much! How many among you have truly an INTENSE need to find their psychic beings? To find out truly who they are? To find out what their roles are, why they are here? You just let yourselves drift. You even complain when things arent easy enough! You just take things as they come. And sometimes, should an aspiration arise in you and you encounter some difficulty in yourself, you say, Oh, Mother is there! Shell take care of it for me! And you think about something else.

0 1958-07-21, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   In fact, the immense Majority of human beings feel they are living only when they waste their energy. Otherwise, it does not seem to them to be life.
   Not to waste energy means to utilize it towards the ends for which it was given. If energy is given for the transformation, for the sublimation of the being, it must be used for that; if energy is given to restore something that has been disrupted in the body, it must be used for that.

0 1958-11-26, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Basically, the vast Majority of men are like prisoners with all the doors and all the windows shut, so they suffocate (which is quite natural), but they have with them the key that opens the doors and the windows, and they dont use it Certainly, there is a period when they dont know that they have the key, but even long after they do know it, long after they have been told, they hesitate to use it and doubt that it has the power to open the doors and windows, or even that it may be advisable to open them. And even once they feel that After all, it might be a good thing, a fear pursues them: What is going to happen once all these doors and these windows open? They become afraidafraid of losing themselves in this light and in this freedom. They want to remain what they call themselves. They love their falsehood and their slavery. Something in them loves it and remains clinging to it. They feel that without their limits, they would no longer exist.
   That is why the journey is so long, so difficult. For if one would truly consent no longer to be, everything would become so easy, so swift, so luminous, so joyousthough perhaps not in the way men conceive of joy and ease. At heart, there are very few beings who are not enamored of struggle. There are very few who would consent to having no darkness or who can conceive of light as anything other than the opposite of obscurity: Without shadow, there would be no painting. Without struggle, there would be no victory. Without suffering, there would be no joy. That is what they think, and as long as they think like that, they are not yet born to the spirit.

0 1959-06-03, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Indian National Congress: the formative freedom organization against the British that became India's Major political party under Jawaharlal Nehru after independence.
   ***

0 1960-10-08, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   For the placement of words is not the same in English and in French. In English, for example, the place an adverb occupies is of Major importance for the precise meaning. In French also, but generally its not the same! If at least it were exactly the opposite of English it would be easier, but its not exactly the opposite. Its the same thing for the word order in a series of modifiers or any string of words; usually in English, for example, the most important word comes first and the least important last. In French, its usually the opposite but it doesnt always work!
   The spirit of the two languages is not the same. Something always escapes. This must surely be why revelations (as Sri Aurobindo calls them) sometimes come to me in one language and sometimes in the other. And it does not depend on the state of consciousness Im in, it depends on what has to be said.

0 1961-11-05, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   According to Mother's wishes, the tape was erased up to this point. But years passed and circumstances changed, and when Satprem found the transcription of this conversation among his papers, he deemed it worthwhile to preserve the Major portion of it for its historical interest. Mother's difficulties are always the difficulties of the 'Terrestrial Work'; and this particular Asura, who disturbed the earth in such a particular way, could hardly be passed over in silence.
   See conversation of July 28, p. 279.

0 1961-12-20, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But I have two very serious objections. One, it would be a Major occult revelation (there would be a lot of occultismwhat people term miracles or things of that nature), a Major revelation. I hesitate to do that because I dont think its time yet. Mainly that. And then, in spite of everything, it would inevitably be far too personal, even if it werent written along personal linesfar too personal. And now isnt the time for that.
   There would inevitably be far too much of the physical person in it, and that isnt interesting. It would only be interesting if the Person, with a capital P, came to express Itself. That would be tremendous.

0 1962-01-09, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And that door was opened again only ten years later, in 1960. Even then, it was done with great careit was one of last years Major difficulties.
   (silence)

0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And each one is beginning to reveal its own particular nature. There are those stemming from peoples thoughts (I sense them in my body, not in the mind: the material consequence of peoples psychological state, and even their state of health). Some things are general and last a bit longer; others are momentary, lasting only a few seconds. The first step is to study the different vibrational qualitiesyou could practically draw diagrams: if we had a machine sensitive enough to record these things, it would produce all kinds of zigs and zags.2 Certain vibrations immediately stop or change or are dissolved or repelled. Others are adopted, as it were, and transformed. The Majority are simply pushed back and worked on from a distancequite a distance! I keep them at a fair distance (Mother laughs). Very few are let in. But some are let in for the sake of the experience, to see how much they upset the body. Theres also the effect of peoples permanent auras: I know a certain person is arriving by his auras effect on the body; because (laughing) each vibration has its particular effect on the bodyperfectly prosaic things, maybe, but by studying them you realize that each thing has its own law.
   The interchange of vibrations among people is something tremendous, and were swimming in it all, all, all the timeeven when were alone! Because these things travel: for instance, its enough for someones thought to come and strike against yours, and for you to think of him (which means responding)there is an immediate effect in the body. So to imagine that solitude would make yoga any easier is sheer childishness.

0 1962-09-26, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Sri Aurobindo preached the integral yoga which includes everything, so one can have all the experiences. Indeed, the universe was clearly created as a field of experience. Some people prefer the short, straight and narrow paths thats their business. Others like to dawdle along the wayand thats their business! And some are drawn to have all the experiences, and thus they often wander for a long time through the overmental world. And of course, the vast Majority of those who have RELIGIOUS aspirations are thus put in touch with various deities, where they stopits enough for them.
   But everything Ive just said is only one tiny part of the whole story.

0 1962-10-27, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But anyway, its right on the border of the higher hemisphere. Its the first expression of Consciousness as joy. I remember finding that same vibration of joy in Beethoven and Bach (in Mozart also, but to a lesser degree). The first time I heard Beethovens concerto in Din D Major, for violin and orchestra suddenly the violin starts up (its not right at the beginningfirst theres an orchestral passage and then the violin takes it up), and with the first notes of the violin (Ysaye was playing, what a musician!2), with the very first notes my head suddenly seemed to burst open, and I was cast into such splendor. Oh, it was absolutely wonderful! For more than an hour I was in a state of bliss. Ysaye was a true musician!
   And mind you, I knew nothing of all those worlds, I hadnt the slightest knowledge; but all my experiences came that wayunexpectedly, without my seeking anything. When I looked at a painting, same thing: something would suddenly open up inside my head and I would see the origin of the painting and such colors! One can get to that world directly from the vital, without going through all the mental gradations.

0 1963-06-22, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is somewhere a sort of capacity for acute discernment, which can very easily turn into a censor (its still there; probably it serves a purpose), and thats what demands certainties. The Major part of the being says, Its not my concern. I am here because You want me to be here. If You didnt want me to be here, I wouldnt be here. There is nothing like an attachment or a desire. (That went away quite a while ago! But now it has become an almost cellular condition.) And since You keep me here, it means I am doing something here, and if I am doing something here, thats all I need, thats why You keep me here. It comes full circle, of course.
   How long will it last? Thats not my concern. Maybe something would be a bit frightened if it were told the time it will take (we cant say, we cant foresee the reaction). So its best to keep quiet. But theres nothing of interest. Nothing to make interesting literaturenothing, nothing at all absolutely nothing.

0 1963-08-24, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   At times For the body its a constant worka constant laborvery tiny, of every instant, an unceasing effort, with, so to say, an imperceptible result (externally at any rate, quite nonexistent), so for someone who doesnt have my consciousness, its perfectly obvious that the body appears to wear out and age, to be slowly heading for decomposition: thats in everyones atmosphere and consciousness (Mother laughs), its the kind of appreciation and vibration thats being thrown all the time on this poor body, which besides is quite conscious of its infirmityit doesnt entertain any illusions! But that quiet, peaceful, but UNCEASING endurance in the effort of transformation makes it sometimes yearn for a little ecstasynot as an abolition or annihilation, not at all, but it seems to be saying, Oh, Lord, I beg you, let me be You in all tranquillity. In fact, thats its prayer every evening when people are supposed to leave it in peace (unfortunately they leave it in peace physically, but mentally they dont). But that I could cut off, I learned to cut off long, long ago, I could cut off, but something, I mean somewhere, someone doesnt approve! (Mother laughs) Obviously what the Someone the great Someonewants to see realized is perfect peace, perfect rest, and joy, a passive joy (not too active; a passive joy is enough), a passive, constant joy, WITHOUT forsaking the work. In other words, the individual experience isnt regarded as all-importantvery far from it: the help given to the whole, the leaven which makes the whole rise, is AT LEAST equally important. Ultimately, thats probably the Major reason for persisting in this body.
   Nothing inside asks any questions, there are no problems there; all the problems I am talking about are posed by the body, for the body; otherwise, inside, everything is perfect, everything is exactly as it should be. And totally so: what people call good, what they call evil, the beautiful, the ugly, the all that is a small immensity (not a big immensity), a small immensity that is moving more and more towards a progressive realization thats the correct phrasewithin an integral Consciousness which integrally (how should I put it?) enjoys, or I could say, feels the plenitude of what He doesdoes, is and so forth (its all the same thing). But this poor body

0 1963-09-28, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   That was my Major objection to the Buddhists: all that you are advised to do is merely to give you an opportunity to flee thats not pretty.
   But change, yes.

0 1963-12-31, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Do you have anything to tell me? You want to hear more in a minor keythis was a Major key!
   (To Sujata:) What about you, do you prefer gay or sad? (laughter)

0 1965-11-27, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There was the whole humanity that isnt quite animal anymore, that has benefited from mental development and created a certain harmony in its lifea vital, artistic, literary harmony and the vast Majority of which live satisfied with life. They have caught a sort of harmony and live in it a life as it exists in a civilized milieu, that is to say, somewhat cultured, with refinement in taste, refinement in habits. And this whole life has a sort of harmony in which they find themselves at ease, and unless something catastrophic happens to them, they live happy and content, satisfied with life. Those may be attracted (because they have taste, they are intellectually developed), they may be attracted to the new forces, the new things, the future life; for instance, they may mentally, intellectually become disciples of Sri Aurobindo. But they dont at all feel the need to change materially, and if they were to be forced to, it would be first of all premature and unjust, and it would quite simply create a great disorder and would upset their lives quite unnecessarily.
   It was very clear.

0 1965-12-25, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   All these feelings (what can we call them?) have a vibratory mode, with something very essential at their core and kinds of layers covering it; so the most central vibration is identical, and its as it inflates to express itself that it gets distorted. For love its perfectly obvious; in the vast Majority of cases it becomes outwardly something with a wholly different nature from the inner vibration, because its something turning in on itself, shriveling up and trying to pull to itself in an egoistic movement of possession. You WANT to be loved. You say, I love this person, but at the same time there is what you want, and the lived feeling is, I want to be loved. And so thats almost as great a distortion as the distortion of hatred, which consists in wanting to destroy what you love in order not to be tied down. Because you cannot obtain what you want from the object of your love, you want to destroy it in order to be freed; and in the other case, you shrivel up almost in an inner fury because you cannot obtain, you cannot gobble up what you love. (Laughing) In actual fact, from the standpoint of the deeper truth, there isnt much difference!
   Its only when the central vibration remains pure and is expressed in its original purity, which is a spreading out (what can I call it? Its something radiating out, a vibration spreading out in a glory, a vibration blossoming out, yes, a radiant blossoming out), then it remains true. And materially its expressed by self-giving, self-forgetfulness, the generosity of the soul. And thats the only true movement. But what people are used to calling love is as removed from the central vibration of true Love as hatred; only, the one turns in on itself, shrivels up and hardens, while the other strikes thats what makes the whole difference.

0 1966-02-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Now, to tell you the truth, we are on the upward curve again. I think we have really reached the bottom of incoherence, absurdity and ugliness the taste for the ugly and the unsightly, the dirty, the offensive. We have, I think, reached rock bottom. If its taken in the right way (and I think there are people who have taken it in the right way), it can lead you straight to the Yoga, straight. That is, you feel a sort of very deep detachment from all the things of this world, a very intense need to find something else, an imperious need to find something truly beautiful, truly fresh, truly good so, quite naturally, it leads you to a spiritual aspiration. And those horrors seem to have divided people: a minority who were ready have risen very high; a Majority who werent ready have gone down very low. Those are now wallowing in mud, and thats why we cant get out of it for the moment; and if it goes on, we will be moving towards a new war, and this time it will really be the end of this civilization I am not saying the end of the world, because nothing can be the end of the world, but the end of this civilization, which means we will have to build another. You may tell me that it will be very good, for this civilization is on the decline, its rotting away; but still, there were in it some beautiful things that deserved to be preserved, and it would be a great pity if all that disappeared. But if there is a new war, I can tell you that it will all disappear. For men are very clever creatures, and they have found the way to destroy everything. And they will use it, because whats the use of spending billions to make certain bombs if they arent to be used? Whats the use of discovering that a city can be destroyed in a few minutes if not to destroy it! One wants to see the fruit of ones efforts! If there is a war, thats what will happen.
   Quite appropriate. Well publish it in the next Bulletin.

0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And if you look at it from the wrong side, it1 is a tension, its like something that doesnt leave you a seconds respite. And its true, it doesnt allow you to fall asleep one minute; because in the ordinary consciousness, in the general ordinary life, rest means tamas. Rest means falling back into Inertia. So then, instead of a rest that benefits you, its a rest that stupefies you and then you have to make effort once more to recapture the consciousness you have lost. Thats how the vast Majority of people sleep. But now, the lesson is different: when I lie down to rest my body and work without moving (work with an activity that doesnt force the body to move), as soon as there is the slightest not exactly fall, but the slightest descent towards the Inconscient, something in the body immediately gives a startinstantly. It has been like that for a long time, two years, but now its instantaneous, and it very rarely happens there is true rest, which is an expansion and immensity of the being in full Light. Its magnificent.
   But during the day, there are perpetual lessons, all the time, all the time, for everything, all the time. The lesson is least pronounced when I have to write something or see people; but there, too, the exact quality of peoples vibration (not their permanent vibration but the vibration in them at that minute), the quality of their consciousness is immediately made known to me through certain reactions in my body (gesture on different levels of the body). The nerves began only a few months ago their work of transfer of power. (What I call transfer of power is that instead of the nerves being moved by and obeying complex and organized forces of Nature, of the character, of the material consciousness in the body, they attune themselves to and directly obey the divine Will.) Its the transfer from one to the other thats difficult: there is the entire old habit, and then the new habit to be formed. It was a rather difficult moment. But now there remain enough old vibrations to be able to gauge exactly (and this has nothing to do with thought, it isnt expressed in words or thoughts or anything like all that: just vibrations), to know exactly the state people near me are in. From that point of view the lesson is going on, its very interesting. And whats wonderful is that more often than not the most receptive vibration, conforming the most to what it should be, is in children, but the very small ones, the tiny tots. I see lots of people, but now I understand why: I learn enormously that way, through that contact (with people whom I dont know, sometimes whom I see for the first time, or whom I havent seen for years). Its very interesting.

0 1966-06-25, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Now, some people have heard his music, and in Russia, France and the U.S.A. as well, they have asked for permission to copy it and spread it around. And the strange thing is that those people dont know one another, but they have all had the same impression: tomorrows music. So to those who have asked Ive answered, Have some patience, in two years well give you a musical monument. Its much better to begin with a Major work, because it immediately gives the position, otherwise you might think its passing little inspirationsnot that: something that strikes you on the head and makes you bow before it.
   I read out the lines (in English, naturally), and with that he does the music. And the words are probably mixed in with the music, as he always does. But then, my reading is simply the clearest possible pronunciation, with the full understanding of whats being said, and WITHOUT A SINGLE INTONATION. I think I have succeeded, because at a weeks interval (I dont read every day), the timbre of the voice is always the same.

0 1967-02-08, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then, sometime yesterday morning, something very interesting occurred: a clear perception that the vast Majority of the cells (in THIS CASE: Im not talking about the whole body, I am talking about this particular spotthroat, nose, etc.), the vast Majority of the cells still have a sort of feelingwhich seems to be the result of innumerable experiences or of habits (its both; not clearly one or the other, but both)that Natures force, that is to say, the nature governing the body, knows what needs to be done better than the divine Power: its used to it, it knows better. Thats how it is. And then, when this new consciousness which is being worked out in the physical being (the mind of the cells) has caught hold of that, oh, it was as if it had caught hold of an extraordinary revelation; it said, Ah, Ive got you, you culprit! You are the one who is preventing the transformation.
   It was tremendously interesting. Tremendously interesting!

0 1967-02-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And finally, what was the occult influence of this Judaism on human evolution? The more I think about it, the more the threads of it all appear to me so tied up and entangled together that only a knowledge in overview seems capable of helping to bring out the essential. Well, Mother, I leave it all to you. I hope you will be able to tell me the way in which we here should approach the question and to give me the few Major elements on which I will be able to build my exposition.
   November, 1960

0 1967-03-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Some of the things I said in the Talk youve just read to me today, were true at the time, are still true for the Majority of people, but are no longer true for me.1 To the present vision, there is nothing that isnt willed and doesnt come purposely (not exactly deliberately, but with a precise aim in view), and it is AT THE SAME TIME a complete, multifaceted and integral whole (which is why its very difficult to grasp). But now the thing is very clearly felt. And that is since two or three days, following a very minute observationprecise and minute The centre of consciousness is fairly high up (gesture far above the head); in the past it was always there (gesture near the top of the head) and it would see things around and inside, but it seems to have ascended and the field of the consciousness is much vaster. Also, the body has become transparent, so to speak, and almost nonexistent; I dont know how to put it it doesnt obstruct the vibrations: all vibrations can go through. For example (Ill give an example to make myself understood, omitting details deliberately), I was asked for a certain amount of money, an increase. (On the material level a certain number of things are controlledby Motherfrom here, and which I have to pay for regularly.) So then, an increase was asked for. Not that the request was unreasonable, thats not it (it was an increase for something special, a daily increase), but I dont know why (because heregesture to the foreheadnothing happens, I am absolutely, not only blank, but transparent, and everything is allowed to go through unobstructed), when I had to take the decision, there was immediately a vision (but a vision, as I said, from above, which sees over a much larger field), of conflict, battle, and to the observation there was something (in Mother) very much displeased, like a protest. I wondered why. If it had been translated into words, there would have been indignation at that request (without there being in the consciousness the least reason for this indignation: it all becomes very, very impersonalvery impersonal). I went on looking with the vision of the consciousness, and then, as if automatically, through this mouth I asked how much this increase would amount to per week (because even the mental state that enables you to calculate isnt there at all: its only a question of consciousness). I asked someone who was there, and he told me. Then, there immediately came the decision: I will give so much once a week. And everything calmed down. Why and how and who? I havent the faintest idea.
   So I am forced to conclude that its a highly superior consciousness which sees things with reasons that completely elude us, sees how things must be done and sets them in motion (global gesture to indicate the play of forces) until they are done as they must be done. And where there was a person, it no longer exists there are no more persons: there are forces in movement that bring about certain material actions, but no more persons.

0 1967-03-07, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The vast Majority of human beings have a collective destiny. For them, the question does not arise.
   One who has an individualized psychic being can survive even in the midst of collective catastrophes, if such is the choice of his soul.

0 1967-04-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, but not so long ago, the Majority of the teachers were saying, Ah, we must do this here because its done everywhere. They have (smiling) already come a little way. But they still have a long way to go.
   But above all, what is most important is to get rid of that division. And they all have it in their mindseach and everyone of them! The division between living a spiritual life or living the ordinary life, having a spiritual consciousness or having an ordinary consciousness there is only ONE consciousness!

0 1967-05-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   For them, I mean the vast intellectual Majority, they cannot conceive of doing or being something without knowing what it is.
   We could also say this, if we enjoyed a joke: It is when you dont know it, that you are the most Divine.

0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If a world-war breaks out, it may not only destroy the Major portion of humanity but may even make living conditions for those who survive impossible due to the effects of the nuclear fall-out. In case the possibility of such a war is still there, will it not affect the advent of the Supramental Truth and of the New Race upon earth?
   Here is the answer:

0 1967-07-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In France its not a Majority, its a small minority.
   Is it? I dont know.

0 1967-07-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is quite simple. The Majority of children study because they are forced to by family, habit, current ideas, not because they want to learn and know. Until the motive for their studies is rectified, until they learn because they want to know, they will use all kinds of tricks to make their work easier and get results with the least effort.
   (July 13, 1967)

0 1967-08-02, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Till now, in the Majority of cases, this has signalled a conversion, a transformation, an illumination (depending on the case), but this case we were just talking about (the Tantric apprentice) came precisely as a result of that return of the Power (I knew it; he told me yesterday, but I knew it when he had his revolt). And all that came was just all the old revolts, all the old movements, which were previously so strong, so widespread, so ESTABLISHED, and had been as though halted in their expression by the withdrawal of the Power. So everyone was slumbering in his condition. Then, as soon as the Force started coming back and working again, it all woke up.
   But its not the full Presence yet, not the complete Presence of the being, which, through an incontrovertible omnipotence, changes things. And then, the body, with something so very moving in the simplicity of its prayer and its childlike astonishment, asks, Since You are there, how can that be? And all that is ready to be transformed is transformed. But it isnt yet (how can I explain?) the compelling thing (gesture of irresistible descent), the absolute authority that nothing can resistits not that, not yet, far from it.

0 1967-08-05, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have never known any will of mine for one Major event in the conduct of the world affairs to fail in the end, although it may take a long time for the world-forces to fulfil it.
   Sri Aurobindo

0 1967-08-12, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You know, it came to me as a discovery. The whole religion, instead of being seen like this (gesture from below), was seen like that (gesture from above). Here is what I mean: the ordinary idea of Christianity is that the son (to use their language), the son of God came to give his message (a message of love, unity, fraternity and charity) to the earth; and the earth, that is, those who govern, who werent ready, sacrificed him, and his Father, the supreme Lord, let him be sacrificed in order that his sacrifice would have the power to save the world. That is how they see Christianity, in its most comprehensive idea the vast Majority of Christians dont understand anything whatsoever, but I mean that among them there may be (perhaps, its possible), among the cardinals for instance who have studied occultism and the deeper symbols of things, some who understand a little better anyway. But according to my vision (Mother points to her note on Christianity), what happened was that in the history of the evolution of the earth, when the human race, the human species, began to question and rebel against suffering, which was a necessity to emerge more consciously from inertia (its very clear in animals, it has become very clear already: suffering was the means to make them emerge from inertia), but man, on the other hand, went beyond that stage and began to rebel against suffering, naturally also to revolt against the Power that permits and perhaps uses (perhaps uses, to his mind) this suffering as a means of domination. So that is the place of Christianity. There was already before it a fairly long earth historywe shouldnt forget that before Christianity, there was Hinduism, which accepted that everything, including destruction, suffering, death and all calamities, are part of the one Divine, the one God (its the image of the Gita, the God who swallows the world and its creatures). There is that, here in India. There was the Buddha, who on the other hand, was horrified by suffering in all its forms, decay in all its forms, and the impermanence of all things, and in trying to find a remedy, concluded that the only true remedy is the disappearance of the creation. Such was the terrestrial situation when Christianity arrived. So there had been a whole period before it, and a great number of people beginning to rebel against suffering and wanting to escape from it like that. Others deified it and thus bore it as an inescapable calamity. Then came the necessity to bring down on earth the concept of a deified, divine suffering, a divine suffering as the supreme means to make the whole human consciousness emerge from Unconsciousness and Ignorance and lead it towards its realization of divine beatitude, but notnot by refusing to collaborate with life, but IN life itself: accepting suffering (the crucifixion) in life itself as a means of transformation in order to lead human beings and the entire creation to its divine Origin.
   That gives a place to all religions in the development from the Inconscient to the divine Consciousness.

0 1967-10-11, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   [Origanum Majorana.]
   (To Satprem) Tell me, what is a new birth?

0 1967-11-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But even at this moment in time, the vast Majority the vast Majorityof human intellectuality is perfectly satisfied being busy with itself, satisfied with its little progress like this (Mother draws a microscopic circle). It doesnt even, doesnt even have a desire for something else!
   Which means the advent of the superhuman being may well it may very well go unnoticed, or not be understood. We cant say, because there is no analogy; its obvious that if one of the apes, the large apes, had met the first man, he would simply have felt he was a somewhat strange being, thats all. But now its different because man thinks, reasons.
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   But once that has been done (this is something Sri Aurobindo had said), once ONE body has done it, it has the capacity of passing it on to others; and I tell you, there is now (I am not saying in its totality and in detail, probably not), but here and there (scattered gesture to show various points on earth) people suddenly get one experience or another. Some of them (the Majority) get frightened, so naturally it goes away that is because they werent prepared enough within (if its not the little routine of every minute, always the same, they get frightened), and once they get frightened its over, it means they will need years of preparation for the experience to recur. But still, some arent; frightened; suddenly, an experience: Ah! something wholly new, wholly unexpected, which they had never thought of.
   Its contagious. That I know. And its the only hope, because if everyone had to go through the same experience again Well, I am ninety nowat the age of ninety people are tired, theyve had enough of life. To do this work one must feel as young as a small child.

0 1967-12-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Regarding the violent agitation in South India against the imposition of Hindi, the language of the North, as the official language. This same agitation in 1965 had led to an attack against the Ashram during which disciples were injured and buildings burned down. At the time the governor had not intervened to stop the rioters from attacking the Ashram. It may be recalled that the Majority of the disciples come from North India. In the last few days, trains, buses, post offices have been set on fire.)
   Did you notice the police at the gate? Its the minister (a minister who came here) who sent an order to the lieutenant governor to guard the Ashram.

0 1968-04-06, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But you see, with drugs, for instancetake chloroform used for operations: well, on every individual chloroform has different effects (they dont accept that in theory, but its a fact). We have S. here, who was an anesthetist, and the upshot of his experience is that it has a different effect on everyone. Some it hurls into unconsciousness (the large Majority, I think), but in certain cases, on the contrary, people are thrown into another consciousness.
   And its the same with everything.

0 1968-11-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Theyve discovered all that was hollow, false, unreal in the old way of seeing life, and they havent found anything to replace it with. A few rare individuals (we get their letters, or they come here) say that they came across Sri Aurobindos teaching and found it to be the salvation. But they are very few. And the Majority of people dont understand they dont have the intelligence needed to understand.
   So everywhere theyre sinking back; there has been an effort to emerge from that exclusive search for personal satisfaction, and it has led to extravagances; but now the very absurdity of those extravagances has become apparent, so theyre sinking back very deep, and they havent foundthey havent found the true path. Because its not a mental path.

0 1968-12-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And then You know that from every side Ive been trying to get Sri Aurobindo published [in France], in particular The Human Cycle. At last I got a letter from a certain J. B., who writes: For a long time now, a publisher (F.) has been asking me to create a collection in his publishing house. I thought of a few books, mostly foreign ones, grouped around a title such as Towards the spiritual mutation and focused on the present researches, individual and clumsy, often dangerous, but sincere and undertaken in a spirit quite different from that of the former generation, the spirit of a certain youth I am in contact with. The idea is to show these young people that their attempts and aspirations are legitimate, even if they have discovered them through drugs, since in many cases drugs alone have been able to unmoor them from the Cartesian rationalist bedrock, to put before them experiences that, at least, are positive, and to offer them directions and models. In other words, the aspect of amateurism and exoticism found in Z [another publisher] would be replaced here by a practical and technical side, wide open to all spiritual researches, whatever they may be, to all duly controlled metapsychical experiments, serious psychedelic experiments (I have T. Leary in mind, for instance), new theologies Naturally, there would be room, a Major place, for the Oriental endeavor. In sum, it would involve all researches and attempts to crack open that sort of corset within which the Western mind has been going in circles for such a long time. That does not in the least rule out, on the contrary, certain scientific worksof pure sciencein which, out of intrinsic necessity, this Cartesianism has already been singularly shaken. Of course, all that would make for quite an ill-assorted backdrop for Sri Aurobindos thought, a backdrop you will regard as unworthy of it. The planned Collection might be called Spiritual Adventures.
   We can try.

0 1969-01-01, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Certainly, according to the present experience, the Majority the vast Majorityof illnesses and bodily disorganizations come from the vital and the mind, from their influence.
   (silence)

0 1969-05-03, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The vast Majority of humanity is unconscious (what I call unconscious, that is, without contact with the Consciousness, not CONSCIOUSLY in contact with Consciousness), the vast Majority; but for one who is capable of being above circumstances with a clear and precise vision of the why and the how its wonderful.
   There.

0 1969-05-21, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Most people the vast Majority of peoplego into a sort of assimilative sleep: all the experiences they had in their lives, all they learned, the consciousness seems to ruminate over that. In the beginning (Thon knew a lot of things I dont know how he came to know them, but I verified them and found them to be correct), in the beginning, the span of time between two lives is very long, and its a sort of assimilative sleep in which the consequences of what one has learned develop inwardly. Then, as the psychic being is formed and as one grows more conscious, rebirths take place more and more closely, until the time when rebirth becomes the result of a choice: at a precise place, for a specific length of time. And then, depending on what the psychic being wants to do, depending on the action it has to do, the new birth may be near or distant. There, we have all possible differences. But in the formative stage, thats how it is: very distant rebirths. So then, Ive often wondered You see, Thon says there is a psychic STATE in which those beings rest (its true, there is such a place, I know it), but many people, especially at the beginning of their evolution, are quite tied down to the earth; I have seen quite a few people in trees, for instance. Very often I saw them in trees; often, while following someone [with the inner vision], I saw him enter into a tree; and often, while looking at a tree, I saw someone in it. I saw others who were oh, people clinging to a place they were interested in: for instance, I saw a man who was interested in nothing but his money, which he had hidden somewhere, and as soon as he left his body, he went there, settled there, and refused to budge from there! Incidentally (laughing), it had a curious result: it led people to discover the place! You see, it caused movements of forces, and some people felt it and thought, Oh, there must be something here.
   There was a time when I concerned myself with that a good deal, and I made a good number of discoveries (following Thons indications); later on, it no longer interested me. And now, quite lately, I have been reviewing all kinds of things, all kinds of things.

0 1969-05-24, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The body has reached a state of consciousness in which it knows that death can bring about a change, but isntisnt a disappearance (disappearance of the consciousness). And then, that idea the vast Majority of human beings have: the repose of death (Mother puts her hand on her mouth, as if before an extraordinary piece of nonsense). Not even that consolation. For most people, its the opposite of a repose. So then, there too, but even more acutely and intensely: The only, the SOLE hope is You, Lord, to be You. Let there be nothing but You. Let this separation, this difference disappear, it is MONSTROUS! Let it disappear. Then, let it be as You will: You in full activity, or You in complete reposeit doesnt matter in the least; whether it is this way or that way, either way its completely, completely unimportant; the important thing is that it should be You.
   Theres the absolute CERTITUDE (Mother clenches her two fists) that theres only ONE way out of all that, only ONEonly one, not two, theres no choice, there arent a few possibilities, theres only one: its the supreme Door. The Marvel of Marvels. All the rest all the rest is an impossibility.
  --
   I see, you know, because peoples consciousness is an open book for me (theres no difference, its an open book), and so I see: in the vast Majority of people, when things become really difficult, there is that idea (that sort of idea is always there): Oh, one day, all that will be over.What a joke!
   (silence)

0 1969-05-31, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   According to what others say or write or experience, I have seen that what the vast Majority of humanity fears the most is this perception of the Falsehood of it all, and all that leads to it. I know people (theyve written to me) who just these last few days have had terrible frights, because all of a sudden they were forcibly seized, something was beginning to touch them: the perception of the unreality of life. So that shows the immensity of the path still ahead. Which means that any hope of a solution near at hand seems childishness. Unless things take place differently.
   If things must follow the movement theyve followed till now How many centuries and centuries and centuries there have been. So the superman would only be one more stage, and after him there would be many other more things.

0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   A beast like a tiger or a lion kills only when its hungry. But to make moneythis is to make money With the women, its unconsciousness; I am sure the vast Majority of those who wear that, if they were told, Youre wearing on you the skin torn from a living and shrieking animal, it would give them nightmares the vast Majority. Very few would say, Why should I care! Very few.
   But the brutes are the ones whore getting rich.

0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Very far ahead, one does see the possibility (as you yourself said) of a materialization, but between now and then, there is something. Lately Ive discovered a great deal of things while looking in that direction. I saw (I dont know if I noted that, I think I forgot to write it), I saw that with most people who have children almost without wanting it, just like that, for them its a sort of (naturally, many women desire to have children, but without even knowing what it means), for the VAST Majority of educated people, that is to say, whose heads have been stuffed full of ideas about the faults one mustnt have, the qualities one must have and so on, all that they repressed in their beings, all the bad, pernicious instincts, it all comes out [in the child]. I remembered (I observed and saw), I remembered something I read very, very long ago; I think it was by Renan, he wrote somewhere that one should beware of parents who are good and very respectable, because (laughing) birth is a purge! And he also said: observe carefully the children of bad people, because those often are a reaction! So then, after that, after my experience, when I saw, I said to myself, But that man was right! For people, its a way of purging themselves. They throw out of themselves all that they dont want. There are some children here horrid! And thats it, you wonder, How come? Their parents are very good people. Its very interesting, because it gives the KEY of what should be doneby showing you what shouldnt be done, it gives you the key of what should be done.
   In that case, this prenatal education Y speaks of isnt a falsehood after all. Its something that may be true.

0 1970-01-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If that is not the goal of your life and you are ready to live the life of the great Majority of people, you can certainly go back to your family.
   Thats good, too. There are so many who ask, Why stay here? I thought it could be useful.

0 1971-06-26, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have the feeling that things are held like this (gesture of being immobilized under pressure): it is willed that Sri Aurobindos Centenary takes placeif there were a war, it would be difficult. In Delhi, they were thinking the war would break out within a weekthey had said that, again yesterday they told me its imminent. And at the same time there is something which goes like this (same gesture of immobilizing pressure) to keep things in this uncertain state so that Sri Aurobindos Centenary may have its full developmentso I see that mixture of things. The feeling is that the Centenary is the Major event, while at the same time the outer consciousness says that if there is war, it will be the end of the Centenary. There you are, thats how it is. So I dont see anything precise because things are like that, all intertwined. If I see something clearly, naturally Ill say so, but now I dont. Its mixed up, all mixed upcompletely mixed up. And there is an insistence on us, a pressure on us to be primarily concerned with the Centenary, for that to be our primary preoccupation; not to take current events too much into account, you know. Thats what I seenot so interesting! (Mother laughs)
   (Sujata:) But Mother, shouldnt the problem of India and Pakistan in fact be settled for the Centenary?

0 1971-08-21, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Now I am having some activities at night, completely new as I have never had before, extremely concrete and in which living people are mingled with those we call dead and they are the SAME, they are the same there.1 For example, last night there was a very long activity with many people, and among those people was Purani (I see him very often); Purani had a Major role, and M. and (whats his name?) D.D. and M. were quarreling!2 (laughter) And one thing after another. And I was like one of them, wearing strange clothes.
   I am discovering a world I didnt know, which is the world I wonder if its not the vital physical? There were dances, movements. That is, to put it in ordinary words: I have dreams such as I have never had before; only its not dreams, its an activity. Its a world I was totally unaware of, and which is like this (Mother interlaces her fingers to show a sort of interpenetration of the physical and that world).

0 1971-09-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But take this other example: I am trying to make Auroville a link between the old way of being and the new, but they are all sunk in. I mean they use their freedom to live in the most ordinary way. So its discouraging. There are somea fewwho are good, but the Majority is a subhumanity, an altogether animal humanity. So.
   Having to take care of ones own change is enough of a work as it is, no?
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   Quite a number of the tapes used to record these conversations were procured thanks to this very nice German man. We would also like to mention an American couple, M.R., who gave the Majority of the tapes, and a few others, with gratitude.
   This is what Mother wrote to Sujata's father, Prithwi Singh, in 1953 about the passing away of Sri Aurobindo: "At 1:26 in the morning, when I was in his room, he was steadily coming out of his body into mine; it was so much that I felt a physical friction in the cells of my body; with it a great power entered into me and I felt capable of resuscitating him. But when I told him, he said, 'No, it is purposely that I have left my body, I will not come back into it, I will return in a new body, the first body built in the supramental way.' But," Mother added, "he did not tell me the time when he would return."

0 1972-02-05, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   To want what the Divine wants in all sincerity is the essential condition for peace and joy in life. Almost all human miseries come from the fact that human beings are almost always persuaded they know better than the Divine what they need and what life is supposed to bring them. The Majority of human beings want other human beings to behave according to their own expectations and life circumstances to follow their own desires, hence they suffer and are unhappy.
   Only by giving oneself in all sincerity to the Divine Will does one gain the peace and calm joy that arises from the abolition of desires.

0 1972-02-16, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have never known any will of mine for any Major event in the conduct of the world affairs to fail in the end, although it may take a long time for the world-forces to fulfil it.
   (October 1932)

0 1972-03-29a, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   In your reply to the Swedish magazine, you emphasize, The Major obstacle to tolerance is not agnosticism but Manichaeism. That is also why religions will never be able to unite humanity, because they have remained Manichaean in their principle, because they are founded on morality, on a sense of good and evil, necessarily varying from one country to the next. Religions will not reconcile men with one another any more than they have reconciled men with themselves, or reconciled their aspiration to be with their need for action and for the same reasons, for in both cases they have dug an abyss between an ideal good, a being they have relegated to heaven, and an evil, a becoming, which reigns supreme in a world where all is vanity. I would like to quote here a passage from Sri Aurobindos Essays on the Gita which throws a clear light on the problem: To put away the responsibility for all that seems to us evil or terrible on the shoulders of a semi-omnipotent Devil, or to put it aside as part of Nature, making an unbridgeable opposition between world-nature and God-Nature, as if Nature were independent of God, or to throw the responsibility on man and his sins, as if he had a preponderant voice in the making of this world or could create anything against the will of God, are clumsily comfortable devices in which the religious thought of India has never taken refuge. We have to look courageously in the face of the reality and see that it is God and none else who has made this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and evil on which we are racked is his touch as much as happiness and sweetness and pleasure. It is only when we see with the eye of the complete union and feel this truth in the depths of our being that we can entirely discover behind that mask too the calm and beautiful face of the all-blissful Godhead and in this touch that tests our imperfection the touch of the friend and builder of the spirit in man. The discords of the worlds are Gods discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony.2 I believe that the characters of your books would not be seeking sacrifice and death so intensely if they did not feel the side of light and joy behind the mask of darkness in which they so passionately lose themselves.
   Sri Aurobindo has constantly stressed that, through progressive evolutionary cycles, humanity must go beyond the purely ethical and religious stage, just as it must go beyond the infrarational and rational stage, in order to reach a new spiritual and suprarational ageotherwise we will simply remain doomed to the upheavals, conflicts and bloody sacrifices that shake our times, for living according to a code of morality is always a tragedy, as one of the characters in Hope notes.

0 1972-03-29b, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   For instance, eating is still a Major problemits been ages since Ive derived any pleasure from eating, but now its become a real problem; well, any cellular contact with the divine Presence magnifies those things [like refusing food]. I mean all external processesfood and so onseem then so cumbersome! Without a doubt the next creation will use something else, another way of staying alive, but we dont yet know what it is. I have a feeling there already exists a certain type of foodan intermediary type of foodwhich is no longer like the old kind but isnt yet [the direct absorption of energy], and which has a minimal material basis. But we dont know anything about it, we dont know, nobody knows, we are still inexperienced; we have to find it but how?
   Nobody knows about it; nobody can say do this or do that. I dont know.

02.04 - The Right of Absolute Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A nation cannot claim the right, even in the name of freedom, to do as it pleases. An individual has not that right, the nation too has not. A nation is a member of humanity, there are other members and there is the common welfare of all. A nation by choosing a particular line of action, in asserting its absolute freedom, may go against other nations, or against the general good. Such freedom has to be curbed and controlled. Collective lifeif one does not propose to live the life of the solitary the animal or the saintis nothing if not such a system of controls. "The whole of politics is an interference with personal liberty. Law is such an interference; protection is such an interference; the rule which makes the will of the Majority prevail is such an interference. The right to prevent such use of personal liberty as will injure the interests of the race is the fundamental law of society. From this point of view the nation is only using its primary rights when it restrains the individual from buying or selling foreign goods." Thus spoke a great Nationalist leader in the days of Boycott and Swadeshi. What is said here of the individual can be said of the nation too in relation to the greater good of humanity. The ideal of a nation or state supreme all by itself, with rights that none can challenge, inevitably leads to the cult of the Super-state, the Master-race. If such a monster is not to be tolerated, the only way left is to limit the absolute value of nationhood, to view a nation only as a member in a comity of nations forming the humanity at large.
   A nation not free, still in bondage, cannot likewise justify its claim to absolute freedom by all or any means, at all times, in all circumstances. There are times and circumstances when even an enslaved nation has to bide its time. Man, in order to assert his freedom and individuality, cannot sign a pact with Mephistopheles; if he does so he must be prepared for the consequences. The same truth holds with regard to the nation. A greater danger may attend a nation than the loss of freedom the life and soul of humanity itself may be in imminent peril. Such a cataclysmic danger mankind has just passed through or is still passing through. All nations, however circumstanced in the old world, who have stood and fought on the side of humanity, by that very gesture, have acquired the rightand the might too,to gain freedom and greatness and all good things which would not be possible otherwise.

02.05 - Robert Graves, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Robert graves is not a Major poet, and certainly not a great poet. He is a minor poet. But in spite of his minor rank he is a good poet: here he presents up a jewel, a beautiful poem 1 both in form and substance. He has indeed succeeded, as we shall see, in removing the veil, the mystic golden lid, partially at least and revealed to our mortal vision a glimpse of light and beauty and truth, made them delightfully sink into and seep through our aesthetic sense.
   Like the poet his idol also is of a lower rank or of a plebeian status. He keeps away from such high gods as Indra and Agni and Varuna and Mitra: great poets will sing their praises. He will take care of the lesser ones, those who are moving in the shadow of the great ones and are hardly noticed. Even in these modern days, goddess Shitala, the healing goddess of epidemics, lives side by side with Durga.

02.06 - Vansittartism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This is the very core of the matter. Germany stands for a philosophy of life, for a definite mode of human values. That philosophy was slowly developed, elaborated by the German mind, in various degrees and in various ways through various thinkers and theorists and moralists and statesmen, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. The conception of the State as propounded even by her great philosophers as something self-existent, sacrosanct and almost divineaugust and grim, one has to addis profoundly significant of the type of the subconscient dynamic in the nation: it strangely reminds one of the state organised by the bee, the ant or the termite. Hitler has only precipitated the idea, given it a concrete, physical and dynamic form. That philosophy in its outlook has been culturally anti-Latin, religiously anti-Christian. Germany cherishes always in her heart the memory of the day when her hero Arminius routed the Roman legions of Varus. Germany stands for a mode of human consciousness that is not in line with the Major current of its evolutionary growth: she harks back to something primeval, infra-rational, infra-human.
   Such is the position taken up by Lord Vansittart who has given his name to the new ideology of anti-Germanism. Vansittartism (at least in its extreme variety) has very little hope for the mending of Germany, it practically asks for its ending.

02.09 - The Way to Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Common love, common labour and, above all, as the great French thinker, Ernest Renan,1 pointed out, common suffering that is the cement which welds together the disparate elements of a nationa nation is not formed otherwise. A nation means peoples differing in race and religion, caste and creed and even language, fused together into a composite but indivisible unit. Not pact nor balancing of interests nor sharing of power and profit can permanently combine and unify conflicting groups and collectivities. Hindus and Muslims, the two Major sections that are at loggerheads today in India, must be given a field, indeed more than one field, where they can, work together; they must be made to come in contact with each other, to coalesce and dovetail into each other in as many ways and directions as possible. Instead of keeping them separate in water-tight compartments, in barred cages, as it were, lest they pounce upon each other like wild beasts, it would be wiser to throw them together; let them brea the the same air, live the same life, share the same troubles, the same difficulties, solve the same problems. That is how they will best understand, appreciate and even love each other, become comrades and companions, not rivals and opponents.
   Ernest Renan: "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?"

02.12 - Mysticism in Bengali Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Bengali poetry was born some time towards the end of an era of decline in the Indian consciousness, almost towards the close of what is called the Buddhist period, but it was born with a veritable crown on its head. For it was sheer mystic poetry, mystic in substance, mystic in manner and expression. The poets were themselves mystics, that is to say spiritual seekers, sadhaks they were called Siddhas or Siddhacharyas. They told of their spiritual, rather occult experiences in an occult or oblique manner, the very manner of the ancient Vedic Rishis, in figures and symbols and similes. It was a form of beauty, not merely of truthof abstract metaphysical truth that rose all on a sudden, as it were, out of an enveloping darkness. It shone for a time and then faded slowly, perhaps spread itself out in the common consciousness of the people and continued to exist as a backwash in popular songs and fables and proverbs. But it was there and came up again a few centuries later and the crest is seen once more in a more elevated, polished and dignified form with a content of mental illumination. I am referring to Chandidasa, who was also a sadhak poet and is usually known as the father of Bengali poetry, being the creator of modern Bengali poetry. He flourished somewhere in the fourteenth century. That wave too subsided and retired into the background, leaving in interregnum again of a century or more till it showed itself once more in another volume of mystic poetry in the hands of a new type of spiritual practitioners. They were the Yogis and Fakirs, and although of a popular type, yet possessing nuggets of gold in their utterances, and they formed a large family. This almost synchronised with the establishment and consolidation of the Western Power, with its intellectual and rational enlightenment, in India. The cultivation and superimposition of this Western or secular light forced the native vein of mysticism underground; it was necessary and useful, for it added an element which was missing before; a new synthesis came up in a crest with Tagore. It was a neo-mysticism, intellectual, philosophical, broad-based, self-conscious. Recently however we have been going on the downward slope, and many, if not the Majority among us, have been pointing at mysticism and shouting: "Out, damned spot!" But perhaps we have struck the rock-bottom and are wheeling round.
   For in the present epoch we are rising on a new crest and everywhere, in all literatures, signs are not lacking of a supremely significant spiritual poetry being born among us.

02.12 - The Ideals of Human Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The earliest and the most persistent unit is the family: it may be called the atomic unit of the social body, ultimate and unbreakable, considered as such at least till now. Larger units were formed in course of time or simultaneously out of this original unit. Clan, tribe are extensions of the family. For the movement of extension, of continual enlargement is natural to a living organism, and the urge of the social life in man, his gregarious instinct, his sense of solidarity with his kind is so strong and irrepressible that he cannot rest content with the family alone, but extend its boundaries or make new adhesions to it for the formation of a still larger and more composite unit. The village was such a unit in the early days. It was a collective organization on a territorial basis: originally, however, the village too seems to have been if not wholly, at least in its Major portion, an extended family. It gradually grew into a heterogeneous body, yet strongly unified, not consisting merely of blood-relations but others needed for the social economy.
   Various other regional and parochial units also developed: baronies, kingdoms and princedoms, city states, all seeking to further extend and enrich the denotation of the social unit. A critical stage was reached when, out of the welter of all these various types of social unities, yet another type, of momentous consequences, emerged, called the nation. The nation absorbed all other lesser unities and soon grew into an extremely composite and yet living unity: its strong cohesiveness, in spite of a diversity of the component elements, no less than its ardent aggressiveness, is a remarkable characteristic attending the phenomenon. It looks as thoughat least it looked so till the other dayall the other previous attempts at a larger unity, since the formation of the original family unit, had one purpose in view, viz., the bringing forth of the national unit. Next to the family, the nation seems to be the stable unit, the other intervening ones were unstable comparatively and had only a temporary and contri butory function.

02.13 - On Social Reconstruction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The question now is to devise ways and means of materialising this ideal. Circumstanced as man is, in doubt and darkness with regard to his inner nature, one most often does not know one's true vocation; those who do know their minds and are sure of their "mission in life" are the fortunate few, and very few indeed they are. Of the vast Majority, some discover themselves only at the fag-end of their life or when they are already far too committed and in harness in alien fields and among alien faces; others do not discover themselves at all, they need no such revelation: these form the general mass in which the individuals have not developed so far as to come out into any bold relief, they are cast into the stereotype mould, moved more or less by the same general forces of nature and are indistinguishable from each other. It is upon this mass of uniformity that the totalitarian regimentation bases itself easily and naturally.
   Still even if human nature in the mass is like this, what the totalitarian system does is to fix and eternise the mould. To admit Nature as it is and leave it at that, to arrange and organize things within that given framework, is, to say the least, only another form of the old laissez-faire system. Take Nature as it is, but go farther and beyond. That is the problem of all human endeavour.
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   Money was always a power and those who had money were always powerful in all ages and countries. Poverty annuls the entire host of good qualities you may have, says the Sanskrit proverb. Only this money power has been shifted from class to class or section to section in a society. In the modern age the demand and tendency is that those who are the first and immediate agents in the chain of the production of wealth should be given all the profit and all the advantage (barring of course the State itself which has the prior and Major claim so long as it exists). The rest are considered as mere parasites. Those who do not thus directly produce or help in producing wealth are a burden upon the society and they have no justifiable place there: either they should change their vocation, declass themselves and become labourers or they must go to the wall, subsist somewhere somehow till they finally pass out of existence.
   This theory of money power, in spite of its factual or practical truth, is not the whole truth. This is, I should say, the very old I Ptolemaic social system, in a new garb, which turns round man as an economic and physicalbeing. The Copernican system would view man chiefly as a psychological centre. A truly rational economic system can be based upon such an inner view of the situation. A merely economic view would take man as nothing more than a wage-earning machine and that will give the society and its government a mechanistic pattern. It will forget this simple truism that a man's worth is not and need not be always commensurate with his wage-earning capacity or even his usefulness as a citizen (in the way the atom-bomb Scientists are proving useful today).

02.13 - Rabindranath and Sri Aurobindo, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Sri Aurobindo retired from the outer political world to devote himself more intensively to the discovery and conquestof a new consciousness and force, glimpses of which he was having at the time and which alone could save mankind and recreate it. From 1910 to 1914 he was, he said, silently developing this new power in seclusion and in 1914 he began to give to the world the result of his realisations through his monthly review Arya. In five Major sequences published month after month through several years, he envisaged, in the main, the progressive march of man towards a divine life on earth, towards the unity of mankind and a perfect social order. One of these serials was called The Future Poetry in which he traced the growth and development that world poetry is undergoing towards its future form that would voice the dawn of a New Age of the Spirit. Sri Aurobindo hailed those who feel and foresee this distant dawn behind the horizon as the Forerunners of the new Spirit, among whom he included Rabindranath, because he saw in Tagore's the first beginnings, "a glint of the greater era of man's living", something that "seems to be in promise." "The poetry of Tagore," Sri Aurobindo says, "owes its sudden and universal success to this advantage that he gives us more of this discovery and fusion for which the mind of our age is in quest than any other creative writer of the time. His work is a constant music of the overpassing of the borders, a chant-filled realm in which the subtle sounds and lights of the truth of the spirit give new meanings to the finer subtleties of life."
   Characterising Tagore's poetry, in reference to a particular poem, Sri Aurobindo once wrote: "But the poignant sweetness, passion and spiritual depth and mystery of a poem like this, the haunting cadences subtle with a subtlety which is not of technique but of the soul, and the honey-laden felicity of the expression, these are the essential Rabindranath and cannot be imitated because they are things of the spirit and one must have the same sweetness and depth of soul before one can hope to catch any of these desirable qualities." Furthermore: "One of the most remarkable peculiarities of Rabindra Babu's genius is the happiness and originality with which he has absorbed the whole spirit of Vaishnava poetry and turned it into something essentially the same and yet new and modern. He has given the old sweet spirit of emotional and passionate religion an expression of more delicate and complex richness voiceful of subtler and more penetratingly spiritual shades of feeling than the deep-hearted but simple early age of Bengal could know."

02.14 - Panacea of Isms, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Communism cannot save humanity. For if it means the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, well, a healthy normal society will not bear or tolerate it longno Dictatorship, whether of one or of many, is likely to endure or bring in the millennium. In that sense communism is only a fascismo of small people fighting against a fascismo of big people. A society is not normally made up of proletarians only: it does not consist merely of lotus-eaters nor does it consist of hewers of wood and drawers of water (peasants and labourers) alone. Even a proletariate society will slowly and inevitably gravitate towards a stratification of its own. In its very bosom the bureaucracy, the military, the officialdom of a closed body will form a class of its own. A Lenin cannot prevent the advent of a Stalin. Even if the proletarians form the Majority, by far a very large Majority, even then the tyranny of the Majority is as reprehensible as the tyranny of the minority. Communism pins its faith on struggle the class struggle, it says, is historically true and morally justifiable. But this is a postulate all are not bound to accept. Then again, if communism means also materialism (dialectical or any other), that also cannot meet and satisfy all the needs and urges of man, indeed it leaves out of account all the deeper yearnings that lie imbedded in him and that cannot be obliterated by a mere denial. For surely man does not live by bread alone, however indispensable that article may be to him: not even culture the kind admitted by communism, severely intellectual, rational, scientific, pragmaticcan be the be-all and end-all of human civilisation. Communistic Russia attempted to sweep away all traces of religion and church and piety; the attempt does not seem to have been very successful.
   As a matter of fact, Communism is best taken as a symptom of the disease society suffers from and not as a remedy. The disease is a twofold bondage from which man has always been trying to free himself. It is fundamentally the same "bondage which the great French Revolution sought most vigorously and violently to shake offan economic and an ideological bondage, that is to say, translated in the terms of those days, the tyranny of the court and the nobility and the tyranny of the Church. The same twofold bondage appears, again today combated by Communism, viz., Capitalism and Bourgeoisie. Originally and essentially, however, Communism meant an economic system in which there is no personal property, all property being held in common. It is an ideal that requires a good deal of ingenuity to be worked out in all details, to say the least. Certain religious sects within restricted membership tried the experiment. Indeed some kind of religious mentality is required, a mentality freed from normal mundane reactions, as a preliminary condition in order that such an attempt might be successful. A perfect or ideal communism may be possible only when man's character and nature has undergone a thorough and radical change. Till then it will be a Utopia passing through various avatars.

03.04 - Towardsa New Ideology, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The distinction between the attitudes that underlie these two conceptions was once upon a time greatly stressed by Vivekananda, who was the first to strike two or three Major chords that were needed to create the grand symphony of the Indian Renaissance. It is true Europe too had her Mazzini whose scheme of a new humanity was based on the conception of the duties of man. But his was a voice in the wilderness and he was not honoured in his own country.
   The malady of the modern age springs precisely from this poisonous source, viz., it views man as a bundle of rights and its problem of social organisation is the problem of safeguarding and, if possible, even of increasing individual and collective rights. Thus came into being the competitive societya society necessarily red in tooth and claw like Nature.

03.06 - Here or Otherwhere, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But is not The Gita's solution somewhat different? Sri Krishna urges Arjuna to be in the very thick of a deadly fight, not a theoretical or abstract combat, but take a hand in the direst man-slaughter, to do the deed (even like Macbeth) but yogically. Yes, The Gita's position seems to be thatto accept all life integrally, to undertake all necessary work (kartavyam karma) and turn them Godward. The Gita seeks to do it in its own way which consists of two Major principles: (1) to do the work, whatever it may be, unattachedwithout any desire for the fruit, simply as a thing that has to be done, and (2) to do it as a sacrifice, as an offering to the supreme Master of works.
   The question naturally turns upon the nature and the kind of workwhe ther there is a choice and selection in it. Gita speaks indeed of all works, ktsna-karmakt, but does that really mean any and every work that an ignorant man, an ordinary man steeped in the three Gunas does or can do? It cannot be so. For, although all activity, all energy has its source and impetus in the higher consciousness of the Divine, it assumes on the lower ranges indirect, diverted or even perverted formulations and expressions, not because of the inherent falsity of these so-called inferior strata, the instruments, but because of their temporary impurity and obscurity. There are evidently activities and impulsions born exclusively of desire, of attachment and egoism. There are habits of the body, urges of the vital, notions of the mind, there are individual and social functions that have no place in the spiritual scheme, they have to be rigorously eschewed and eliminated. Has not the Gita said, this is desire, this is passion born of the quality of Rajas? . . . There is not much meaning in trying to do these works unattached or to turn them towards the Divine. When you are unattached, when you turn to the Divine, these 'Simply drop away of themselves. Yes, there are social duties and activities and relations that inevitably dissolve and disappear as you move into the life divine. Some are perhaps tolerated for a period, some are occasions for the consciousness to battle and surmount, grow strong and pass beyond. You have to learn to go beyond and new-create your environment.

03.10 - Hamlet: A Crisis of the Evolving Soul, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Shakespeare himself records, in two other of his Major dramas, the mystery of two such stages preceding the one he deals with in Hamlet: one in Macbeth and the other in King Lear. Indeed these three mighty creations form a triology with the Karma of the human soul at different crises as its theme. King Lear represents human consciousness low down in the scale of evolution, almost at its starta nature primitive and barbarian. We seem to go back into a prehistoric world, a paleolithic age the domain of utter ignorance, of vulgar greed and hunger, where one sees the rank play of a raw and crude and aboriginal nature. Man is here simply the eater, a true brother of the rest of the animal kind, one in blood with the tiger and the wolf. He is the sheer biological or vital being the Rakshasainto whom the light of the Mind has not yet descended, at least not to the extent of effecting an appreciable change in his original and primitive texture. It is a world ruled by the mode of tamas. 1
   In Macbeth we move up one step farther; human consciousness attains here a higher level. Something of the mental being enters into the purely vital creature: instead of the Eater, the man with the mere stomach, we have here the Ruler, the Tyrant, the human being with its will and its arms that execute the will: the dominating motive is no longer hunger and greed and cruelty for cruelty's sake, but power and position and lordship, and the driving force, not blind passion and dark furysheer unconsciousness but deliberate resolution, foreseeing calculation and steady purposiveness; the Rakshasa gives place to the Asura. The Asura is the incarnation of conscious egotism, the will to dominate, to be the sole master and monarch; he is the self-aggrandising vaulting ambition. He does not seek to possess things for their own sake, not so much to enjoy them as to hold them as symbols of his royalty, of his personal worth and majesty. In Macbeth we have the world of the Asuraa creation of the mode of rajas.

03.11 - Modernist Poetry, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Well, the question is, has it succeeded? For here, as in everything else, nothing succeeds like success. Any theory may be as good as any other, but its test is only in the fait accompli. Neither Pound nor Eliot has that touch of finality and certainty, the definitiveness and au thenticity beyond doubt, the Q.E.D. that a Major and supreme creator imposes.
   Bottrall, a modernist poet himself, says in effect the same thing. His poetic credo runs in this wise:

03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   French and English being given the place of honour, now the question is with regard to the vernacular of those who do not speak either of these languages. We have to distinguish two categories of languages: national and international. French and English being considered international languages par excellence, the others remain as national languages, but their importance need not be minimised thereby. First of all, along with the two Major international languages, there may be a few others that can be called secondary or subsidiary international languages according as they grow and acquire a higher status. Thus Russian, or an Asiatic, even an Indian language may attain that position, because of wide extension or inherent value of popularity or for some other reason. Indeed, a national language cultivated and enriched by its nationals can force itself on the world's attention and fairly become a world language. Tagore was able to give that kind of world importance to the Bengali language.
   It may be questioned whether too many languages are not imposed on us in this way and whether it will not mean in the end a Babel and inefficiency. It need not be so and it is not going to be so. We must remember the age we are in, its composite structure, its polyphonic nature. In the ancient and mediaeval ages, the ages of separatism and exclusiveness of clans and tribes and regions, even in the later age of the states and nations, the individual group-consciousness was strong and sedulously fostered. Languages and literature grew and developed more or less independently and with equal vigour, although always through some kind of give and take. But the modern world has been made so inextricably one, ease of communication and free interchange have obliterated the separating boundaries, not only geographical but psychological. The modern consciousness has so developed and is so circumstanced that one can very easily be bi-lingual or even trilingual: indeed one has to be so, speaking and writing with equal felicity not only one's mother tongue but one or more adopted tongues. Modern culture means that.
   Naturally I am referring to the educated or cultured stratum of humanity, the lite. This restriction, however, does not vitiate or nullify our position. The Major part of humanity is bound and confined to the soil where they are born and brought up. Their needs do not go beyond the assistance of their vernacular. A liberal education, extending even to the masses, may and does include acquaintance with one or two foreign languages, especially in these days, but in fact it turns out to be only a nodding acquaintance, a secondary and marginal acquisition. When Latin was the lingua franca in Europe or Sanskrit in India, it was the lite, the intelligentsia, the Brahmin, the cleric, who were the trustees and guardians of the language. That position has virtually been taken in modern times, as I have said, by English and French.
   The cultivation of a world language need not mean a neglect or discouragement of the national or regional language. Between the two instead of there being a relation of competition there can be a relation of mutual aid and helpfulness. The world language can influence the local language in the way of its growth and development and can itself be influenced and enriched in the process. The history of the relation of English and the Indian languages, especially Bengali, is an instance in point.

04.03 - Consciousness as Energy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The dynamic becoming, becoming a power and personality of the omnipotent Divine, is a secret well known to the Yogis and mystics. Only it has not been worked out in all its implications, not given the full value and importance rightfully due to it. The reason is that although the principle was discovered and admitted, the proper key had not been found that could release and manipulate the Energy at its highest potential and largest amplitude. Because the Major tendency in the spiritual man till now has been rather to follow the path of nivtti than the path of pravtti, this latter path being more or less identified with the path of Ignorance. But there is a higher line of pravtti which means the manifestation of the Divine, not merely the expression of the inferior Nature.
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   Consciousness has a fourfold potential. The first is the normal consciousness, which is predominantly mental; it is the sphere comprising movements of which man is usually and habitually aware. It is what the Upanishad names Jgrat or jgaritasthna and characterises as bahipraja: it is the waking state and has cognition only of external things. In other words, the consciousness here is wholly objectivised, externalisedextrovert: it is also a strongly individualised formation, the consciousness is hedged in, isolated and contoured by a protective ring, as it were, of a characteristically separative personality; it is a surface formation, a web made out of day-to-day sensations and thoughts, perceptions and memories, impressions and associations. It is a system of outward actions and reactions against or in the midst of one's actual environment. The second potential is that of the Inner Consciousness: its characteristic is that the consciousness here is no longer trenchantly separative and individual, narrowly and rigidly egoistic. It feels and sees itself as part of or one with the world consciousness. It looks upon its individuality as only a wave of the universal movement. It is also sometimes called the subliminal consciousness; for it plays below or behind the normal surface range of consciousness. It is made up of the residuary powers of the normal consciousness, the abiding vibrations and stresses that settle down and remain in the background and are not immediately required or utilised for life purposes: also it contacts directly energies and movements that well out of the universal life. The phenomena of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the knowledge of the past and the future and of other worlds and persons and beings, certain more dynamic movements such as distant influence and guidance and controlling without any external means, well known in all yogic disciplines, are various manifestations of the power of this Inner Consciousness. But there is not only an outward and an inner consciousness; there is also a deeper or nether consciousness. This is the great field that has been and is being explored by modern psychologists. It is called the subconscious, sometimes also the unconscious: but really it should be named the inconscient, for it is not altogether devoid of consciousness, but is conscious in its own way the consciousness is involved or lost within itself or lies buried. It comprises those movements and impulsions, inclinations and dispositions that have no rational basis, on the contrary, have an irrational basis; they are not acquired or developed by the individual in his normal course of life experience, they are ingrained, lie imbedded in man's nature and are native to his original biological and physical make-up. As the human embryo recapitulates in the womb the whole history of man's animal evolution, even so the normal man, even the most civilised and apparently the farthest from his ancient moorings and sources, enshrines in his cells, in a miraculously living manner, the memory of vast geological epochs, the great struggles and convulsions through which earth and its inhabitants have passed, the basic urges of the crude life force, its hopes, fears, desires, hungers that constitute the rudimental and aboriginal consciousness, the atavism that links the man of today not only to his primitive ancestry but even to the plant worldeven perhaps to the mineral worldout of which his body cells have issued and evolved. Legends and fairy tales, mythologies and fables are a rationalised pattern and picture of the vibrations and urges that moved the original consciousness. It was a collectivea racial and an aboriginal consciousness. The same lies chromosomic, one can almost say, in the constitution of the individual man of today. This region of the unconscious (or the inconscient) is a veritable field of force: it lies at the root of all surface dynamisms. The surface consciousness, jgrat, is a very small portion of the whole, it is only the tip of the pyramid or an iceberg, the Major portion lies submerged beyond our normal view. In reflex movements, in sudden unthinking outbursts, in dreams and day-dreams, this undercurrent is silhouetted and made visible and recognisable. Even otherwise, they exercise a profound influence upon all our conscious movements. This underground consciousness is the repository of the most dark and unenlightened elements that grew and flourished in the slime of man's original habitat. They are small, ugly, violent, anti-social, chaotic forces, their names are cruelty, lust, hunger, blind selfishness. Nowhere else than in this domain can the great Upanishadic truth find its fullest applicationHunger that is Death.
   But this is the seamy side of Nature, there is also a sunny side. If there is a nadir, there must be a corresponding zenith. In the Vedic image, if man is born of the Dark Mother, he is also a child of the White Mother (ka and vet). Or again, if Earth is our mother, the Heaven is our fatherdyaur me pit mat pthiv iyam. In other words, consciousness extends not in depth alone, but in height alsoit is vertically extended, infinite both ways. As there is a sub-consciousness or unconsciousness, so also there is at the other end super-consciousness.
   Now this superconsciousness is the true origin of creation, although the apparent and objective creation starts with and is based upon Unconsciousness. All norms and archetypes belong to the superconsciousness; for the sake of material creation they are thrown down or cast as seed into the Unconscious and in this process they undergo a change, a deformation and aberration. All the Major themes of dream myths and prehistoric legends which the psychologists claim to have found imbedded in man's subconscient consciousness are in fact echoes and mirages of great spiritualsuperconscientrealities reflected here below. The theme of the Hero of the Dual Mother (Dark and Fair), of Creation and Sacrifice, these are, according to Jung, dramatisations of some fundamental movements and urges in the dark subconscient nature. Jung, however, throws a luminous suggestion in characterising the nature of this vast complex. The general sense, Jung says; is that of a movement forward, of a difficult journey, of a pull backward and downward, of yawning abysses that call, of a light that beckons. It is an effort, a travail of what lies imbedded and suppressed to come out into the open, into the normal consciousness and thus release an unhealthy tension, restore a balance in the individual's system. Modern psychology lays great stress upon the integration of personality. Most of the ills that human nature suffers from, they say, are due to this division or schism in it, a suppressed subconsciousness and an expressed consciousness seeking to express a negation of that subconsciousness. Modern psychology teaches that one should dive into the nether regions and face squarely whatever elements are there, help these to follow their natural bent to come up and see the light of the day. Only thus there can be established a unitary movement, an even consistency and an equilibrium throughout the entire consciousness and being.
   So far so good. But two things are to be taken note of. First of all, the resolution of the normal conflict in man's consciousness, the integration of his personality, is not wholly practicable within the scope of the present nature and the field of the actual forces at play. That can give only a shadow of the true resolution and integration. A conscious envisaging of the conflicting forces, a calm survey of the submerged or side-tracked libidos in their true nature, a voluntary acceptance, of these dark elements as a part of normal human nature, does not automatically make for their sublimation and purification or transformation. The thing is possible only through another force and on another level, by the intervention and interfusion precisely of the superconsciousness. And here comes the second point to note. For it is this superconsciousness towards which all the strife and struggle of the under-consciousness are turned and directed. The yearning and urge in the subconsciousness to move forward, to escape outside into the light does not refer merely to the march towards normal awareness and consciousness: it has a deeper direction and a higher aimit seeks that of which it is an aberration and a deformation, the very origin and source, the height from which it fell.
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   Man, we thus see, is an infinitely composite being. We have referred to the four or five Major chords in him, but each one has again innumerable gradations of vibration. Man is a bundle or dynamo of energy and this energy is nothing but the force of consciousness. To different modes or potentials of this energy different names are given. And what makes the thing still more complex is that all these elements exist simultaneously and act simultaneously, although in various degrees and stresses. They act upon each other, and severally and collectively impress upon the nature and character of the individual being and mould and direct his physical status and pragmatic life. A man can, however, take consciously a definite position and status, identify himself with a particular form and force of consciousness and build his being and life in the truth and rhythm of that consciousness. Naturally the limits and the limitation of that consciousness mark also the limits and limitation of the disposition he can effect in his life. When it is said that the spiritual force is not effective on the physical plane in mundane affairsBuddha, it is said, for example, has not been able to rid the earth or age, disease and death (although it was not Buddha's intention to do so, his purpose was to show a way of escape, of bypassing the ills of life, and in that he wholly succeeded)it only means that the right mode or potential of spiritual energy has not been found; for that matter even the mightiest mundane forces are not sovereignly effective in mundane affairs, otherwise the Nazi-Force would have been ruling the world today.
   Still it must be remembered that all these apparently diverse layers and degrees of being or consciousness or energy form essentially one indivisible unity and identity. What is called the highest and what is called the lowest are not in reality absolutely disparate and incommensurable entities: everywhere it is the highest that lies secreted and reigns supreme. The lowest is the highest itself seen from the reverse side, as it were: the norms and typal truths that obtain in the superconsciousness are also the very guiding formulas and principles in the secret heart of the Inconscience too, only they appear externally as deformations and caricatures of their true reality. But even here we can tap and release the full force of a superconscient energy. A particle of dead matter, we know today, is a mass of stilled energy, electrical and radiant in nature; even so an apparently inconscient entity is a packet of Superconsciousness in its highest potential of energy. The secret of releasing this atomic energy of the Spirit is found in the Science of Yoga.

04.04 - A Global Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Humanity is evolving and developing the various groupings to manifest fundamental aspects of its cosmic person. Ancient Egypt, for example, brought us in contact with an occult world and a subliminal consciousness. We know also of the nature of the Hebraic genius, the moral fervour, the serious, almost grim spirit of Righteousness that formed and even now forms a Major strain in the European or Christian culture and civilisation. The famous "sweetness and light" of the Hellenic mind supplied the other strain. The Roman genius for law and government is a well-known commonplace of history. Well-known also India's spirituality. All these modes of consciousness are elementsforces, energies and personalities that build up the godhead of humanity. Peoples and races in the past were the scattered limbs of the godhead-scattered and isolated from one another, because of the original unconsciousness and sharp egocentricity out of which Nature started its course of evolution. The disjecta membra are being collected together by a growing consciousness.
   Such then is the destiny of man and mankindman to rise to higher heights of consciousness beyond mental reason that are not governed by the principle of division, separation, antithesis but by the principle of unity, identity, mutuality and totality. In other words, he will take his seat in the status of his soul, his inner and inmost being, his divine personality where he is one with all beings and with the world. This is a rare and difficult realisation for man as he is today, but tomorrow it will be his normal nature. The individual will live in his total being and therefore in and through other individuals; as a consequence the nature too in each will undergo a divine transmutation, a marvellous sea-change.

04.05 - The Immortal Nation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   One may note three or four crises, practically rebirths, in India's life history. They correspond roughly with the great racial infiltrations or what is described as such by anthropologists, what others may describe as operations of blood transfusion. There was an original autochthonous people, the early humanity out of the stone age, usually called proto-Dravidians, whose remnants are still found among the older and cruder aboriginal tribes. Then the Dravidian infusion which culminated in the humanity, the Indian humanity, of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. Next the Aryan avatar. One usually begins Indian history with the Dravido-Aryan civilisation which is taken as the basic foundation, the general layout of the whole structure. The first shock or blow the edifice received was from the Greeks and then the Huns and Scythians the Tartars something that struck at the most essential element of Indian culture and character. Psychologically the new leaven was brought in and injected by Gautama Buddha the un-Vedic Buddha the external invasion and penetration was possible because of this opening already made from within. This injection was necessary as an antidote to the decline and fall that had set in sometime between the passing of Sri Krishna and the advent of Buddha. But traditional India absorbed this new leaven and came out with a renewed and enriched personality. The next Major shaking came with the Islamic inundation. This meant or would have meant a great and even catastrophic reversal, but this too in the course of centuries succeeded only in invigorating and enlarging the life and consciousness of eternal India. The last and perhaps the most dangerous assault came from the Europeans, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and finally, most of all, from the British. An absolutely matter-of-fact vitalistic Europe overran and overwhelmed a predominantly otherworldly spirit and almost succeeded in obliterating that spirit and replacing it by a replica of its own life-pattern and Weltanschauung. Even such a blow India could survive, not only so, could utilise it for her own purpose, for the greater fulfilment of her mission in life. She is coming out of that ordeal a towering personality, a godhead for the remoulding of humanity and earth-life.
   It may be argued that all nations and peoples are a mixture of various races and foreign strands which are gradually, soldered and unified together in course of time. The British nation, for example, is built upon a base of Celtic blood and culture (the original Briton), to which were added one by one the German (Angles and the Saxon), the Danish, the French. But what is to be noted is that the resultant is at the end some-thing very different from the start something unrecognisable when compared with the original pattern and genius. The resultant seems to be arrived at not by a gradual evolution and continuous transformation but by disparate echelons or , breaks, as it were, in the line. In France also or in Italy the growth and the unification were achieved through violent revolutions, eruptions and irruptions. In the former, a Gaelic and Iberian base and in the latter an Etruscan were all but swept off by the Roman rule which again saw its end at the hand of the Barbarians. The history of Greece offers a typical picture of the destiny of these peoples. Her life-line is sundered completely at three different epochs giving us not one but three different personalities or peoples: at the outset there was the original classical Greece, then the first and milder although sufficiently serious break came with the Roman conquest; the second catastrophic change was wrought by the Goths and Vandals which was stabilised in the Byzantine Empire and the third avatar appeared with the Turkish regime. At the present time, she is acquiring another life and body.

04.07 - Matter Aspires, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   For example, the computing machine. It has been developed to a marvellous extent. Not only big but complicated calculations are done by it, not only the four Major arithmetical operations, but higher algebraic and trigonometrical problems too are tackled successfully. The electronic computer seems to possess a veritable mathematical brain.
   It is asked now if the machine is capable of so much mathematics, may it not be capable also of poetic creation? The possibility has been discussed in a very lively and interesting manner in The Hibbert Journal (October, '49 and January, '50). The writer Sir Robert Watson-Watt thinks it is not impossible, indeed quite possible, for a machine to write, for example, a sonnet. Only the question will be with regard to the kind the quality and standardof the poetic creation. What will come out of the machine will depend upon what has been put into it, that is to say, what the brain that constructed it succeeded in transplanting into it. The writer after weighing the pros and cons arrives at the remarkable and amusing conclusion that a machine built by a second class brain may succeed in producing a poem of third class merit, but it can never produce anything first class. To produce a first class poem through a machine at least a first class brain' must work at it. But the pity is that a Shakespeare or a Milton would prefer to write straight away a poem himself instead of trying to work it out through a machine which may give out in the end only a second class or worse production.

05.02 - Physician, Heal Thyself, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is not that humanity does not know or feel the need of a radical change in itself. Everywhere man recognises that if the problems and difficulties that face him have to be solved satisfactorily, there must be a thorough overhauling of his outlook and nature; no mere tinkering with the superficial signs and symptoms of an organic disease by means of palliatives and expediencies and nostrums, but a Major operation. Indeed, if he wishes to be cured, he must transcend his present nature and be something else.
   And yet he does not change. He has not the sincere will to change. At least he takes the wrong way about it. And the reason is that he does not whole-heartedly adopt the course which he knows to be the only right thing. He is divided in his being: one part knows indeed, but another, the larger, the dynamic part does not profit by that knowledge, ignores it and pursues a contrary path, the accustomed groove of ignorance and laissez-faire.

05.03 - Bypaths of Souls Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This perhaps is not the general rule, especially on the higher levels, where the beings possess well developed and well organised individual personalities. It is more common in the earlier stages when the souls are just developing and are pliant and supple and can easily intermingle. But even on the higher reaches a merger is possible and does happen, when some special work has to be done. A god sometimes literally descends into a man, takes up the human soul within himself and becomes the man, transformed and transfigured, even as an Asura also may do the same thing. And human beings too on high altitudes of spiritual growth, Major souls, can combine and fuse together to form a single soulsuch may be the demand of their individual lines of growth or the demand of a Higher Will and Purpose.
   Reverting to the original question with which we started, we can say now that the birth of a soul is not like the birth of a living being or organism, that is to say, it does not happen at a given point of time. A soul is truly aja, unborn; it was always there imbedded as the element of secret consciousness in the bosom of the inconscient material Nature. Only it grew out, manifested itself, attaining gradually an individuality and an integrated personality. Neither can it be said that all souls originally, that is to say, at the very beginning of their evolutionary course, were of the same magnitude, equal in all respects. As we know the ultimate material particles the atoms of the different elements or their constituents, protons, etc.have not all the same mass or charge, even so the spiritual elements too have not the same potency or vibration: they are of varying sizes and strengths. The stress of the evolutionary urge in life expressed itself in multiple and varied figures and dispositions, variation being an inherent virtue of the stress. And the development too follows a chequered line: the direction, the tempo, the degree, the manner of the march all differ according to the case, each spark is or tends to be unique and sui generisand even erratic perhapsin its behaviour, like its physical counterpart, the indeterminate and indeterminable material particle. And yet all move towards a heightening, enlarging, deepening of the consciousness rivers flowing and broadening out in their meandering course to the sea: what was unformed, rudimentary, scarcely distinguishable from out of a homogeneous mass, detaches itself gradually, shapes itself into an organised individual entity and finally the fully conscious personality. But, as I have said, the growth does not follow a single one-track straight line: there can be a fusion of souls, the descent and integration of a being or soul from another level of consciousness into a developing soul or psychic element from out of Nature. In this sense then there can be a birth of souls too. The astronomers speak of novae, new stars that suddenly flare out in the sky, as if from nowhereeven though they or their elements were existent before the phenomenon happened. Souls too can come to birth in an analogous way. That is to say, it is due to a special descent of a formed being or consciousness into the human vehicle. The conception of the "twice-born caste" may be remembered in this connection. There is a physical birth and there is a spiritual birth: the latter takes place when the being on the physical plane, yet wholly belonging to evolving Nature, suddenly (it usually happens suddenly) opens and receives into itself a higher principle and becomes a conscious personality.
   The soul in Nature grows along a definite line and the descent also of higher principles overarching that soul happens also in the same line connecting it with its archetype in the supreme status. This we may call the Major line of development through various avataras one after another: but apart from this there may also be subsidiary formations that are its emanations or are added to it from elsewhere either temporarily or even permanently. The soul can put out derivative or ancillary emanations, parts of its being and consciousness, a mental or vital or even a subtle physical movement or formation which can take a body creating a temporary, a transient personality or enter into another's body and another personality in order to go through a necessary experience and gather an element needed for the growth of its being and consciousness. One can recall here the famous story of Shankaracharya Who entered into the body of a king (just dead, made him alive and lead the life of the king) in order to experience love and enjoyment, things of which, being a Sannyasi, he was innocent. Similarly one can take into one-self such parts and elements from others which he wishes to utilise for his growth and evolution. It is said that a man with low carnal instincts and impulses becomes an animal of that type in his next life. But perhaps it is truer to say that a part only the vital part of animal appetiteenters into or takes shape in an animal: the soul itself, the true or the whole being of the person, once become human, does not revert to animalhood. The animal portion in man that refuses to be taken up and integrated, sublimated into the higher human consciousness has to be satisfied and exhausted, as much as possible, in the animal way.
   There is also the other question asked very often whether men and women always follow different lines of growth or whether there may be intermixture of the lines. Although the soul is sexless, still it may be said that on the whole there are these two lines, masculine and feminine; and generally a soul follows the same line in its incarnations. The soul difference is not in the sex as we know it; but there is a disposition and character that mark the difference and each type, masculine or feminine, is that because of some special role to fulfil, a particular kind of work to be done in a particular way. The difference is difficult to define exactly; but one may say, in the language of the mystics, that it "is the difference between the left hand and the right hand. The mystics refer to the two sides of consciousness, that of light and that of force (chit-tapas), that is to say, knowledge and power. It is not that the two are quite separate entities, they are together and grow together; but in actuality one aspect is more in front than the other. The masculine aspect is often termed as the right hand and the feminine as the left hand of the conscious being. And in a general way man represents the knowledge aspect the conceptual dynamism and woman represents the executive dynamism. This definition however should not be taken absolutely or rigidly. So it can be said that a woman generally remains a woman in all her births and man like-wise remains a man. Here too, although there may not be a central metamorphosis, there may be a partial change: that is to say a part of a mantoo womanish, so to saymay enter a woman and live and fulfil itself or exhaust there; and the masculine part of a woman also can identify itself with its type and pattern in a man. The difference, however, between Purusha and Prakriti, philosophically, seems to be very definite and clear; but in actuality, when they take form and embodiment, it is not easy to define the principles or qualities that mark out the two. At the source when the difference starts, it is a matter of stress and temper and not any so-called division of labour as human mind ordinarily understands it.

05.07 - The Observer and the Observed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Now, there are four positions possible with regard to the world and reality, depending on the relation between the observer and the observed, the subject and the object. They are:(I) subjective, (2) objective, (3) subjective objective and (4) objective subjective. The first two are extreme positions, one holding the subject as the sole or absolute reality, the object being a pure fabrication of its will and idea, an illusion, and the other considering the object as the true reality, the subject being an outcome, an epiphenomenon of the object itself, an illusion after all. The first leads to radical or as it is called monistic spirituality the type of which is Mayavada: the second is the highway of materialism, the various avataras of which are Marxism, Pragmatism, Behaviourism etc. In between lie the other two intermediate positions according to the stress or value given to either of the two extremes. The first of the intermediates is the position held generally by the idealists, by many schools of spirituality: it is a Major Vedantic position. It says that the outside world, the object, is not an illusion, a mere fabrication of the mind or consciousness of the subject, but that it exists and is as real as the subject: it is dovetailed into the subject which is a kind of linchpin, holding together and even energising the object. The object can further be considered as an expression or embodiment of the subject. Both the subject and the object are made of the same stuff of consciousness the ultimate reality being consciousness. The subject is the consciousness turned on itself and the object is consciousness turned outside or going abroad. This is pre-eminently the Upanishadic position. In Europe, Kant holds a key position in this line: and on the whole, idealists from Plato to Bradley and Bosanquet can be said more or less to belong to this category. The second intermediate position views the subject as imbedded into the object, not the object into the subject as in the first one: the subject itself is part of the object something like its self-regarding or self-recording function. In Europe apart possibly from some of the early Greek thinkers (Anaxagoras or Democritus, for example), coming to more recent times, we can say that line runs fairly well-represented from Leibnitz to Bergson. In India the Sankhyas and the Vaisheshikas move towards and approach the position; the Tantriks make a still more near approach.
   Once again, to repeat in other terms the distinction which may sometimes appear to carry no difference. First, the subjective objective in which the subject assumes the preponderant position, not denying or minimising the reality of the object. The external world, in this view, is a movement in and of the consciousness of a universal subject. It is subjective in the sense that it is essentially a function of the subject and does not exist apart from it or outside it; it is objective in the sense that it exists really and is not a figment or imaginative construction of any individual consciousness, although it exists in and through the individual consciousness in so far as that consciousness is universalised, is one with the universal consciousness (or the transcendental, the two can be taken together in the present connection). Instead of the Kantian transcendental idealism we can name it transcendental realism.

05.09 - Varieties of Religious Experience, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The special gift of the Chaldean line of discipline lay in another direction. It cultivated not so much the higher lines of spiritual realisation but was occupied with what may be called the mid regions, the occult world. This material universe is not moved by the physical, vital or mental forces that are apparent and demonstrable, but by other secret and subtle forces; in fact, these are the motive forces, the real agents that work out and initiate movements in Nature, while the apparent ones are only the external forms and even masks. This occultism was also practised very largely in ancient Egypt from where the Greeks took up a few threads. The MysteriesOrphic and Eleusiniancultivated the tradition within a restricted circle and in a very esoteric manner. The tradition continued into the Christian Church also and an inner group formed in its heart that practised and kept alive something of this ancient science. The external tenets and dogmas of the Church did not admit or tolerate this which was considered as black magic, the Devil's Science. The evident reason was that if one pursued this line of occultism and tasted of the power it gave, one might very likely deviate from the straight and narrow path leading to the Spirit and spiritual salvation. In India too the siddhis or occult powers were always shunned by the truly spiritual, although sought by the many who take to the spiritual lifeoften with disastrous results. In Christianity, side by side with the Major saints, there was always a group or a line of practicants that followed the occult system, although outwardly observing the official creed. It is curious to note that often where the original text of the Bible speaks of gods, in the plural, referring to the deities or occult powers, the official version translates it as God, to give the necessary theistic value and atmosphere.
   But if occultism is to be feared because of its wrong use and potential danger, spirituality too should then be placed on the same footing. All good things in the world have their deformation and danger, but that is no reason why one should avoid them altogether. What is required is right attitude and discrimination, training and discipline. Viewed in the true light, occultism is dynamic spirituality; in other words, it seeks to express and execute, bring down to the material life the powers and principles of the Spirit through the agency of the subtler forces of mind and life and the subtle physical.

05.12 - The Soul and its Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   We may illustrate here a little. At the apex of the pyramid of existence is the Divine, the Supreme Person, the Purushottama. Even there as He begins to lean and look dawn, He expresses himself at the very outset as the dual personality of Ishwara and Shakti (the Divine Father and the Divine Mother)sa dvityam aicchat, as the Upanishad says. That is still the Divine in His highest transcendent status, partpara. Next, this dual or biune or divalent reality shows itself or throws itself further out in a fourfold valency of the dynamic truth consciousness, creating and leading the cosmic evolution. The Four Aspects of Ishwara, forming the male or purua line, are the great names: Mahavira, Balarama, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. And the corresponding four aspects of Ishwari form the other great quaternary: Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. They embody the four Major attri butes of the Divine in his relation to the created universe: Knowledge, Power, Love and skill in work. They also represent thus a divine fourfold order. The first embodies the Brahmin quality of large wisdom, wide comprehension, a vast consciousness; the second has the Kshatriya quality of force, dynamism, concentration and drive of energy; the third possesses the Vaishya quality of harmony, beauty, mutuality and the fourth has the Shudra quality of perfect execution, thoroughness in detailed working, order and arrangement.
   The higher Gods, like those, for example, envisaged in the Veda, may be considered each as an emanation of one or other of these Divine Aspects. They are dwellers of Swar or the Overmind. Varuna seems to be an emanation of Mahavira, a son of Maheshwari: for he is pre-eminently the god of the pure and vast consciousness who releases us from the triple bonds and shows us the winding way into the embrace of the infinite Mother. His associate, Mitra, is the lord of love and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) must have given birth to and inspired the Ribhus, who are artisans of divinity. The Puranic trinityBrahma, Vishnu and Shivawith lndra as the fourth member forms a parallel system embodying a similar conception.

05.13 - Darshana and Philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The procedure of European philosophy is different. There the reason or the mental light is the starting-point. That light is cast about: one collects facts, one observes things and happenings and then proceeds to find out a general trutha law, a hypothesisjustified by such observations. But as a matter of fact this is the ostensible method: it is only a make-believe. For mind and reason are not normally so neutral and impersonal, a tabula rasa. The observer already comes into the field with a definite observational angle and a settled viewpoint. The precise sciences of today have almost foundered on this question of the observer entering inextricably into his observations and vitiating them. So in philosophy too as it is practised in Europe, on a closer observation, if the observer is carefully observed, one finds not unoften a core of suppositions, Major premises taken for granted hidden behind the logical apparatus. In other words, even a hardened philosopher cherishes at the back of his mind a priorijudgments and his whole philosophy is only a rationalisation of an inner prejudgment, almost a window-dressing of a perception that came to him direct and in other secret ways. That was what Kant meant when he made the famous distinction between the Pure and the Practical Reason and their categories. Only the direct perceptions, the spiritual realisations are so much imbedded behind, covered so much with the mist of mind's struggle and tension and imaginative construction that it is not always easy to disengage the pure metal from the ore.
   We shall take the case of one such philosopher and try to illustrate our point. We are thinking of Whitehead. The character of European philosophical mind is well exemplified in this remarkable modern philosopher. The anxiety to put the inferences into a strict logical frame makes a naturally abstruse and abstract procedure more abstruse and abstract. The effort to present suprarational truths in terms of reason and syllogism clouds the issues more than it clarifies them. The fundamental perception, the living intuition that is behind his entire philosophy and world outlook is that of an Immanent God, a dynamic evolving Power working out the growth and redemption of mankind and the world {the apotheosis of the World, as he puts it). It is the theme which comes last in the development of his system, as the culminating conclusion of his philosophy, but it is the basic presupposition, the first principle that inspires his whole outlook, all the rest is woven and extended around this central nucleus. The other perception intimate to this basic -original perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and union, viz.,God and the World, Permanence and Flux, Unity and Multiplicity, the Universal and the Individual. The equal reality of the two poles of an integral truth is characteristic of many of the modern philosophical systems. In this respect Whitehead echoes a fundamental conclusion of Sri Aurobindo.

06.05 - The Story of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The one indivisible Reality and its pure consciousness: that is the origin. This Supreme Consciousness chose to objectify himself, bring himself out of himself, witness himself in play the Upanishad says, the One wished to have a second, a companion to himself, sa dwityam aichhat. This power of self-objectification is a free-will given to the consciousness to move out of its original unified status and move abroad and away, as it liked. Thus the Supreme saw himself as his own power of self-manifestation, and that is the Mother Consciousness, Adya Shakti, Aditiconsciousness-power, who again in her forward creative urge expressed herself in the first four Major Emanations (Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati). But this free urge, free to separate itself and proceed in an independent movement of self-expression and evolution precipitated itself immediately, almost as a logical consequence of its career of free choice, into the Denial, the Negation that is inconscience. So, against the Supreme, the Divine Consciousness, there stood out the utter unconsciousness: the Light disappeared into absolute Darkness. It was the result of a self-choice in the consciousness: but the end was the very opposite of consciousness.
   It was a dead silence, more silent than Death and more dead than Silence itself. And it was utter helplessness and hopelessness. The Divine Consciousness Aditisaw the terrible line of destiny that freedom had taken and ended in: she could stand it no longer and a cry went out for succour, for help. And the answer came immediate, a ray shot down from the one Supreme Consciousness and entered into the womb of Inconscience. Lo, the miracle, Matter was born, the first creation, the first manifestation of the Supreme Grace. Matter holds in it the spark of consciousness that is to grow and unfold itself, shine more and more into the enveloping gloom of Inconscience, illumining it farther and farther, pushing its frontiers ever backward and away.
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   In the graded descent, in the hierarchy of planes and levels, there appeared forces and beings also proper to each domain. The earliest, the first among them are the Asuras, rather the original Asuras the first quaternary (some memory of them seemed to linger in the Greek legend of Chronos and his brood). For they embody the powers of division, of Inconscience: they are the Affirmations of the Negation. Against the Asuras there came and ranged-at the first line of division, on the one side of the descent of the Light the first godheads, the Major powers and personalities of the Divine Consciousness. The battle of the gods and Titans for the possession of the earth has been going on ever since. The end will come one day: it will mean the dissolution of the forces of Negation, at least within the earthly sphere, and the establishment there of the reign of ,Light.
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07.25 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   There are many kinds of prayers. There is one external and physical, that is to say, simply words learnt by rote and repeated mechanically. It does not mean much. It has usually one result, however, making you quiet. If you go on repeating a few words or sounds for some time, it puts you into a state of calmness in the end. There is another kind which is the natural expression of a wish; you want a particular thing and you express it clearly. You can pray for an, object or for a circumstance, you can pray also for a person or for yourself. There is still another kind in which the prayer borders on aspiration and the two meet: it is the spontaneous formulation of a living experience; it shoots out of the depth of your being, it is the utterance of something lived within: it wants to express gratitude for the experience, asks for its continuation or seeks an explanation. It is then, what I said, almost an aspiration. Aspiration, however, does not necessarily formulate itself in words; if it uses words at all, it makes of them a kind of invocation. Thus, you wish to be in a certain condition. You have, for example, found in you something which is not in harmony with your ideal, a movement of obscurity or ignorance or even bad will. You wish to see it changed. You do not express the thing in so many words, but it rises up in you like a flame, an ardent offering of the experience itself which seeks increase and greatening to be made more clear and precise. It is true all this is capable of being expressed in words, if one tries to recall and note down the experience. But the experience, the aspiration itself is, as I say, like a flame shooting up and contains within it the very thing it asks for. I say asks for, but the movement is not at all that of a desire; it is truly a flame, the flame of purifying will carrying at its centre the very object which it wished to be realised. The discovery of a fault in you impels you to make it an occasion for more progress, for greater self-discipline, for further ascension towards the Divine. It opens out a door upon your future, which you wish to be clearer, truer, intenser; all that gathers in you like a concentrated force and tosses you up in a movement of ascension. It needs no expression in words. It is indeed a flame that leaps up. Such is true aspiration. Prayer usually is something much more external; it is about a very precise object. It is always formulated; for the formulation itself makes what a prayer is. You may have an aspiration and you can transcribe it into a prayer, but the aspiration itself exceeds the prayer. It is something much more intimate, much more self-forgetful, living only in the object it wishes to be or the thing to do, almost identified with it. A prayer can be of a very high quality. Instead of being a request for a fulfilment of your particular desire, it may express your thankfulness and gratefulness for what the Divine has done and is doing for you. You are not busy with your little self and its egoistic interests, you ask for the Divine's ways in you and in the world. This leads you to the border of aspiration. For aspiration too has many degrees and it is expressed on many levels. But the core of aspiration is in the psychic being, it is there at its purest, for there is its origin and source. Prayers come from the other, the lower or secondary levels of being. That is to say, there are physical or material prayers, asking for physical or material things, vital prayers, mental prayers; there are psychic prayers and spiritual prayers too. Each has its own character and its own value. I say again there is a certain type of prayer which is so spontaneous and so disinterested, more like an appeal or a call, generally not for one's own sake, but acting sometimes like an intercession with the Divine on behalf of others. Such a prayer is extremely powerful. I have seen innumerable cases where such a prayer had brought about its immediate fulfilment. It means a great faith, a great fervour, a great sincerity and also a great simplicity of heart, something which does not calculate, which does not bargain or barter, does not give with the idea of receiving. The Majority of prayers are precisely made with the idea of giving so that one may receive. But I was speaking of the rarer variety which also does exist, which is a kind of thanksgiving, a canticle or a hymn.
   To sum up then it can be said that a prayer is always formed of words. Words have different values, according to the state of consciousness of the person when he formulates it. But always prayer is a formulated thing. But one can aspire without formulating. And then, prayer needs a person to whom one prays. There is, of course, a certain class of people whose conception of the universe is such that there is no room in it for the Divine (the famous French scientist Laplace, for example). Such people are not likely to favour the existence of any being superior to themselves to whom they can appeal or look up for guidance and help. There is no question of prayer for them. But even they, though they may not pray, may aspire. They may not believe in God, but they may believe, for example, in progress. They may conceive of the world as a progressive movement, that it is becoming better and better, rising higher and higher, growing constantly to a nobler fulfilment. They can ask for, will for, aspire for such progress; they need not look for the Divine. Aspiration requires faith, certainly, but not faith necessarily in a personal God. But prayer is always addressed to a person, a person who hears and grants it. There lies the great difference between the two. Intellectual people admit aspiration, but prayer they consider as something inferior, fit for unintellectual persons. The mystics say, aspiration is quite all right, but if your aspiration is to be heard and fulfilled, you must also pray, know how to pray and to whomwho else but the Divine? The aspiration need not be towards any person; the aspiration is not for a person, but for a state of consciousness, a knowledge, a realisation. Prayer adds to it the relation to a person. Prayer is a personal thing addressed to a person for a thing which he alone can grant.

07.29 - How to Feel that we Belong to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The world progresses. And being in the world you too must progress. It is a progress, however, which the Divine effects in you without your knowledge or collaboration. The progress is therefore very slow; Nature does not calculate the time she takes for her work, she has eternity before her and she is not in a hurry. Centuries and millenniums are mere instants in her march forward. One day she will arrive at the goal she has fixed for her, even at the complete transformation of the body and the advent of the superman. But the work will be hastened if there is conscious collaboration from man. Most people, by far the largest Majority indeed, are not conscious of the action of the Divine in them. To be conscious means to be attentive of what is being done, to be receptive and to be passive to its influence. The more you give yourself and the more sincere you are, the swifter and the more assured is your realisation. You can do in a few moments what would otherwise take years. That is the aim of Yoga.
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07.45 - Specialisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But it is a very natural and spontaneous movement in man to change from one work to another in order to maintain a kind of balance. Change also means rest. We have often heard of great artists or scholars seeking for rest and having great need for it. They find it by changing their activity. For example, Ingres was a painter; painting was his normal and Major occupation. But whenever he found time he took up his violin. Curiously, it was his violin which interested him more than his painting. He was not very good at music, but he took great pleasure in it. He was sufficiently good at painting, but it interested him less. But the real thing is that he needed a stable poise or balance. Concentration upon a single thing is very necessary, I have said, if one aims at a definite and special result; but one can follow a different line that is more subtle, more comprehensive and complete. Naturally, there is a physical limit somewhere to your comprehensiveness; for on the physical plane you are confined in respect of time and space; and also it is true that great things are difficult to achieve unless there is a special concentration. But if you want to lead a higher and deeper life, you can comm and capacities which are much greater than those available to the methods of restriction and limitation belonging to the normal consciousness. There is a considerable advantage in getting rid of one's limits, if not from the point of view of actual accomplishment, at least from the point of view of spiritual realisation.
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08.01 - Choosing To Do Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   For, on this level, on the spiritual level, too many people,in fact, the Majority of those who take up the spiritual lifedo Yoga for personal reasons, all kinds of personal reasons : some because they are disgusted with life, others because they are unhappy, some others because they wish to have more knowledge, others again because they want to be spiritually great, yet others because they want to learn things so that they may teach them to others, and so On, there are a thousand personal reasons for doing the Yoga. But there are not many for doing the simple act of giving oneself to the Divinethis act in all its purity and consistencyso that the Divine may take one up and do with One what He wants. With that you go straight to your goal and never run the risk of making a mistake. But all the other motives are mixed up, tainted with ego and they can lead, you hither and thither and far away from the goal.
   This feeling that there is for you only one reason for existence, one single motive, the total complete perfect consecration to the Divine, to such a degree that you are unable to distinguish between yourself and the Divine, you become the Divine wholly, absolutely, without any personal reaction whatsoever intervening: this is the ideal attitude. And that is the only one with which you can progress safely in life, protected from everything, protected even from yourself for of all dangers the greatest is that which comes from one's own self, one's egoistic self.

08.21 - Human Birth, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Now, a fully formed conscious soul wanting to take birth looks generally from its psychic domain for a corresponding psychic light upon some place on earth. In its previous birth, before leaving the earthly atmosphere, it chose, as the result of its total experience in that life, the conditions of its future life, not in details, but more or less in a general way. Such cases are very exceptional. We here perhaps can speak of it, but for the Majority of the human population, even among the most well-educated, the question does not arise.
   Normally we are dealing with a soul that is growing, which is in the process of its growth. Now, there are all the stages of growth, from the tiniest spark that is becoming a little flame of light up to the fully conscious and fully formed being. This ascent of the soul in order to become a mature conscious being, having its own will and deciding its own destiny, takes thousands of years.

08.28 - Prayer and Aspiration, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   What you do has an inevitable and absolute consequence. This is a necessary concept at a given moment of the evolutionary process. It is meant to prevent men from becoming completely egoistic or doing what they do in a totally unconscious manner. There are many who are like that, the Majority, I suppose; they follow their impulses and do not ask what consequences their actions will have for themselves and for others. It is good then if someone told them with a severe air: "Take care, that has consequences which, last long, very long." There are religions that rose to warn you: "You will pay for that in another life," "If you commit this sin, you will go into hell for eternity" and so on. That is, however, a most fantastic story that man has invented; still, people are frightened and checked in some way. It spares them a moment for reflection before they run after their impulses, not always, sometimes the reflection comes after, a little late.
   In all religions people who declared that the consequences of Karma are rigorous and who gave these absolute rules, must have done so, I believe, to put themselves in place of Nature, to pull the strings that move ordinary men. For these rules are mental constructions, more or less sincere perhaps, cutting things into bits and telling you: "Do this, do that; it is not this, it is that." People are confused, frightened, they do not know what to do at the end.

08.37 - The Significance of Dates, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But if your calendar is adopted by almost the whole of mankind, then the symbol is capable of acting upon a very wide field. You can act upon the Major bulk population through this formation. As it is purely conventional, I repeat, it is fruitful only in the measure in which it has been accepted. If instead of millions of people who are now following the European calendar there were only three or four persons, then it would be symbolic only for these few. The thing itself has no value, its value depends upon the use you make of it.
   The conventions are useful as symbols, I said,that is, they are a means to put you in contact with what is more subtle, to put what is material in contact with the more subtle. That is their use.

10.01 - Cycles of Creation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The world, it seems, moves in cycles. There are periods of creation with a hiatus or a gap in between of dissolution. Present-day science too speaks of the universe proceeding in pulsations, that is to say, alternate expansion and contraction. Indian mythology speaks of alternate 'Pralaya' and 'Srishti'. The Indian system speaks also of 'Mahpralaya', utter dissolution or 'Yoganidr' of the Supreme. In other words, there are periods when the universe retires altogether into its origin and when it comes out it manifests itself in an entirely new way. In a given creation between two Major dissolutions, 'Mahpralaya', that is to say, in a Major cycle, there are minor cycles (epicycles) marked by minor dissolutions, 'Khandapralaya'.
   The present Major cycle aims, as I have said, at the manifestation of the Supermind and the installation of the supramental race. The cycle started, one does not know when, billions of years ago perhaps, but the principle of the creation seems to be clear enough. It has matter for its base, earth as its centre and man as its dynamic agent. For all we know there may be, there are other principles and modalities of creation. One may well conceive of air, for example, as the basis of creation and some other heavenly body, an airy globe in a far-off galaxy, for example, being the basis of creation and an airy creature as the vehicle for the play based upon that principle. Even fire may be the basic principle of another creation and salamander-like beings its natural inhabitants. There may be quite other principles or modes of creation conceivable or inconceivable by the human mind. However, we speak now of the present terrestrial creation of which we human beings are representative participants.
   The present cycle, the great cycle that is to say, has, as I have said, for its ultimate motive and purpose the advent and reign of the Supermind. But this proceeds through stages, each stage forming a minor or lesser cycle. The stages of these cycles are the different degrees of what is called evolution. The evolution starts upon the basis of an apparently simple substance and goes on unfolding gradually an inherent complexity. As we know, the different cycles of evolution in the past were at the outset a purely material universe of inorganic elements, then came the cycle of organic combinations, then the manifestation of life and next the mind and at present the mind at its peak capacity, which means the advent of the strange creature that has a miraculous destiny to accomplish. And that is to bring forth out of him the achievement and fulfilment of the next cycle. For the mind is there to bring forth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the laboratory and the vanguard as well of the Supermind.
  --
   The embodiment of the supramental, the supramental consciousness in its supramental body is indeed even now rather a far-off event. But the beginning of a supramentalised humanity, a section of it as the spearhead is quite a possibility in a comparatively near future. A race of elite in whom the grosser elements of humanhood, its physical animality and mentality have been purified of their dross, refined into something of the pure luminous reflection of the higher consciousness that is the immediate end for which the new force seems to be labouring. And the consequence too of this achievement is expected to be also very considerable. The whole human race or even a Majority of it is not likely to be transfigured into the elite, the race of the pioneers just referred to. The advent or the preparation of such a body will in its turn naturally influence the rest of mankind and act so effectively and largely that the human race in general will put on a different aspect, the aspect of a humanity not of the Kaliyuga but of the Satyayuga. That is what the general human mind has been aspiring for and calling "Ramarajya". A humanity with a radiant mind, a purified, generous, unegoistic, yet creative vital and a physical consciousness enjoying, revealing, building forms of true beauty seems to be a nearer and intermediary probability and animal-born humanity retaining its normal animal structure, still outgrowing its grosser movements and instincts, controlling and guiding, modifying and utilising them to higher purposes (Pashupati) may well be a happy stage towards the final appearance of the supramental race wholly transcending the frame of animality, born and existing in the purely supramental way.
   A supramentalised material universe or rather physical earth may itself put on a different, a radiant appearance and also the beings and creatures of the other levels of life and physical existence may also undergo a sea change, but of that nothing need be or can be previewed at present.

1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  The blending of the three fires, the merging of the three Rays, and the co-operation of the three Logoi have in view (at this time and within this solar system) the development of the Essence of the cosmic Lord of Love, the second Person in the logoic trinity. Earlier it was not so, later it will not be, but now it is. When viewed from the cosmic mental plane these Three constitute the PERSONALITY OF THE LOGOS, and are seen functioning as one. Hence the secret (well recognised as fact, though not understood) of the excessive heat, occultly expressed, of the astral or central body of the triple personality. It animates and controls the physical body, and its desires hold sway in the Majority of cases; it demonstrates in time and space the correspondence of the temporary union of spirit and matter, the fires of cosmic love and the fires of matter blended. A similar analogy is found in the heat apparent in this second solar system.
  d. The Atom. The inner fires of the atom can likewise be seen functioning along similar lines, their demonstration being already somewhat recognised by science. This being so there exists no necessity for further elaboration. [xxi]21

1.00c - DIVISION C - THE ETHERIC BODY AND PRANA, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  When the Logos has expanded His Consciousness on cosmic levels He can then transcend the logoic etheric web, and escape beyond the ring-pass-not of His objective manifestation. In thinking out this analogy we must hold closely in mind the fact that the seven Major planes of our solar system are the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical or the lowest cosmic plane.
  We might note here the accurate working out of the correspondence in matter and the radiatory correspondence is equally accurate.
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  Again in the solar system itself similar action will eventuate at the close of a Mahamanvantara. The Logos will withdraw within Himself, abstracting His three Major principles. [xxxvii]37 His body of manifestation the Sun [87] and the seven sacred Planets, all existing in etheric matterwill withdraw from objectivity and become obscured. From the usual physical standpoint, the light of the system will go out. This will be succeeded by a gradual inbreathing until He shall have gathered all unto Himself; the etheric will cease to exist, and the web will be no more. Full consciousness will be achieved, and in the moment of achievement existence or entified manifestation will cease. All will be reabsorbed within the Absolute; pralaya, [xxxviii]38 or the cosmic heaven of rest will then ensue, and the Voice of the Silence will be heard no more. The reverberations of the WORD will die away, and the "Silence of the High Places" will reign supreme.
  II. THE NATURE OF PRANA
  --
  c. These seven differentiations are the seven Major planes of our solar system.
  For purposes of clarity, we might here tabulate under the headings physical, systemic, and cosmic, so that the relationship and the correspondences may be apparent, and the connection to that which is above, and to that which is below, or included, may be plainly seen.
  --
  d. These Major seven planes of our solar system being but the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, we can consequently see the reason for the emphasis laid by H. P. B. [liv]52, [lv]53 upon the fact that matter and ether are synonymous terms and that this ether is found in some form or other on all the planes, and is but a gradation of cosmic atomic matter, called when undifferentiated mulaprakriti or primordial pre-genetic substance, and when differentiated by Fohat (or the energising Life, the third Logos or Brahma) it is termed prakriti, or matter. [lvi]54
  e. Our solar system is what is called a system of the fourth order; that is, it has its location on the fourth cosmic etheric plane, counting, as always, from above downwards.
  --
  The fourth subplane of the monadic plane is in a very real sense the place of transition from off the egoic ray (whichever that ray may be) on to the monadic ray; these three Major rays are organised on the three higher subplanes of the monadic plane in the same way that the three abstract subplanes of the mental are the group of transference from off the personality ray on to the egoic.
  The four lesser rays blend with the third Major ray of active intelligence on the mental plane and on the atmic plane. The four Logoi or planetary Spirits work as one, on the atmic plane.
  i. Another synthesis takes place on the synthetic second ray on the second subplane of the buddhic plane and the monadic plane, while the comparatively few Monads of will or power are synthesised on the atomic subplane of the atmic. All three groups of Monads work in triple form on the mental plane under the Mahachohan, the Manu, and the Bodhisattva, or the Christ; on the second or monadic plane they work as a unit, only demonstrating [120] their dual work on the atmic plane, and their essential triplicity on the buddhic plane. [lvii]55
  --
  The three Major head centres (the sequence varying according to ray) become active and a similar process is effected between them as was effected in the pranic triangle. From being three centres that react faintly to each other's vibratory movement (feeling the warmth and rhythm of each other, yet separated), the fire leaps from centre to centre, and each whirling wheel becomes linked by a chain of fire till there is a triangle of fire through which the kundalini and pranic fires radiate back and forth. Circulation is also carried on. The fire of kundalini produces the heat of the centre, and its intense radiance and brilliance, while the pranic emanatory fire produces ever increasing activity and rotation.
  As time elapses between the first and fourth Initiation, the threefold channel in the spine, and the entire etheric body is gradually cleansed and purified by the action of the fire till all "dross" (as the Christian expresses it) is burnt away, and naught remains to impede the progress of this flame.

1.00d - DIVISION D - KUNDALINI AND THE SPINE, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  1. In the head: The triangle of the three Major centres,
  a. The pineal gland,
  --
  c. The alta Major centre.
  2. In the body: The triangle of prana,
  --
  b. and c. The two Major sex organs in the male and female. [lxiv]62
  [136]
  --
  1. The three Major head centres (from the physical standpoint) are the:
  a. Alta centre,
  --
  The other fire of matter (the dual fire) is attracted upward, and merges with the fire of mind through a junction effected at the alta Major centre. This centre is situated at the base of the skull, and there is a slight gap between this centre and the point at which the fires of matter issue from the spinal channel. Part of the work the man who is developing thought power has to do, is to build a temporary channel in etheric matter to bridge the gap. This channel is the reflection in physical matter of the antaskarana [lxv]63 that the Ego has to build in order to bridge the gap between the lower and higher mental, between the causal vehicle on the third subplane of the mental plane, and the manasic permanent atom on the first subplane. This is the work that all advanced thinkers are unconsciously doing now. When the gap is completely [138] bridged, man's body becomes co-ordinated with the mental body and the fires of mind and of matter are blended. It completes the perfecting of the personality life, and as earlier said, this perfecting brings a man to the portal of initiationinitiation being the seal set upon accomplished work; it marks the end of one lesser cycle of development, and the beginning of the transference of the whole work to a still higher spiral.
  We must always bear in mind that the fires from the base of the spine and the splenic triangle are fires of matter. We must not lose this recollection nor get confused. They have no spiritual effect, and concern themselves solely with the matter in which the centres of force are located. These centres of force are always directed by manas or mind, or by the conscious effort of the indwelling entity; but that entity is held back in the effects he seeks to achieve until the vehicles through which he is seeking expression, and their directing, energising centres, make adequate response. Hence it is only in due course of evolution, and when the matter of these vehicles is energised sufficiently by its own latent fires that he can accomplish his long-held purpose. Hence again the need of the ascension of the fire of matter to its own place, and its resurrection from its long burial and seeming prostitution before it can be united with its Father in Heaven, the third Logos, Who is the Intelligence of matter itself. The correspondence, again, holds good. Even the atom of the physical plane has its goal, its initiations and its ultimate triumph.
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  How this fire at the base of the spine can be aroused, the form its progression should take (dependent upon the Ray), the blending of the fire with pranic fire and their subsequent united progression, are things of the past with many, and fortunately for the race, the work was achieved without conscious effort. The second blending with the fire of manas has to be effected. Scarcely as yet have men succeeded in directing the fire up more than one channel of the threefold column; hence two-thirds of its effect in the Majority is yet confined to the stimulation of the organs of race propagation. Only when the fire has circled unimpeded up another channel is the complete merging with the fire of manas effected, and only when it progresses geometrically up all the threewith simultaneous action and at uniform vibrationis the true kundalini fire fully aroused, and therefore able to perform its work of cleansing through the burning of the confining web and of the separating particles. When this is accomplished the threefold channel becomes one channel. Hence the danger.
  No more can be imparted concerning this subject. He who directs his efforts to the control of the fires of matter, is (with a dangerous certainty) playing with a fire that may literally destroy him. He should not cast his eyes backwards, but should lift them to the plane where dwells his immortal Spirit, and then by self-discipline, mind-control and a definite refining of his material bodies, whether subtle or physical, fit himself to be a vehicle for the divine birth, and participate in the first Initiation. When the Christ-child (as the Christian so beautifully expresses it) has been born in the cave of the heart, then that divine guest can consciously control the lower material bodies by means of consecrated mind. Only when buddhi has assumed an ever-increasing control [140] of the personality, via the mental plane (hence the need of building the antaskarana), will the personality respond to that which is above, and the lower fires mount and blend with the two higher. Only when Spirit, by the power of thought, controls the material vehicles, does the subjective life assume its rightful place, does the God within shine and blaze forth till the form is lost from sight, and "The path of the just shine ever more and more until the day be with us."

1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  These forms are the sumtotal of all spheres or atoms within the solar system, or within the solar ring-pass-not, and in their seven Major differentiations they are the [144] spheres of the seven Spirits, or the seven planetary Logoi.
  All lesser spheres ranging downward from these Major spheres, include all grades of manifestation down to the elemental essence on the arc of involution. [lxvi]64 We need to remember that on the Path of Involution, the action of Brahma is primarily felt, seeking the line of least resistance. On the Path of Evolution the work of the second Logos is felt, beginning at a point in time and space which hides the mystery of the second chain, but finding its point of accelerated vibration or the unification of the two modes of manifestationrotary-spiral-cyclicin the middle part of what we call the third chain. This is after all the blending of the activity of Brahma with the onward progress of Vishnu. We have the correspondence to this in the sumtotal of the effects brought about in the second and third root races.
  The activity of the second Logos is carried on under the cosmic Law of Attraction. The Law of Economy has for one of its branches a subsidiary Law of marked development called the Law of Repulsion. The cosmic Laws of Attraction and Economy are therefore the raison d'tre (viewed from one angle) of the eternal repulsion that goes on as Spirit seeks ever to liberate itself from form. The matter aspect always follows the line of least resistance, and repulses all tendency to group formation, while Spirit, governed by the Law of Attraction, seeks ever to separate itself from matter by the method of attracting an ever more adequate type of matter in the process of distinguishing the real from the unreal, and passing from one illusion to another until the resources of matter are fully utilised.
  --
  Three of these centres are called Major centres, as they embody the three aspects of the threefold MonadWill, Love and Intelligence:
  1. The Head centre....The Monad. Will or Power.
  --
  b. The very top of the head. A centre consisting of twelve Major petals of white and gold, and nine hundred and sixty secondary petals arranged around the central twelve. This makes a total of ten hundred and sixty-eight petals in the two head centres (making the one centre) or three hundred and fifty-six triplicities. All these figures have an occult significance.
  Just as the Monad is the sumtotal of all the three aspects, and of the seven principles of man, so is the head centre a replica of this, and has within its sphere of influence seven other centres with itself for synthesis. These seven centres are likewise divided into the three Major and the four minor centres, with their union and consummation seen in the gorgeous centre surmounting and enveloping them all. There are also three physical centres, called
  [169]
  a. The alta Major centre,
  b. The pineal gland,
  --
  with four lesser centres. These four lesser centres are blended in that centre which we call the alta Major centre and need not concern us. I would here also point out that there is a close connection:
  a. Between the alta Major centre and the throat centre.
  b. Between the heart centre and the pituitary body.
  --
  The second period, wherein the egoic ray holds sway, is not so long comparatively; it covers the period wherein the fourth and fifth triangles are being vivified, and marks the lives wherein the man throws his forces on the side of evolution, disciplines his life, steps upon the Probationary Path, and continues up to the third Initiation. Under the regime of the Personality Ray, the man proceeds upon the five Rays to work consciously with Mind, the sixth sense, passing first upon the four minor Rays and eventually upon the third. He works [176] upon the third Ray, or that of active Intelligence, and from thence proceeds to one of the subrays of the two other Major Rays, if the third is not his egoic Ray.
  Enquiry might naturally arise as to whether the egoic ray is necessarily one of the three Major rays, and if Initiates and Masters are not to be found upon some of the rays of mind, the minor four.
  The answer lies here: The egoic ray can always be one of the seven, but we need to remember that, in this astral-buddhic solar system, wherein love and wisdom are being brought into objectivity, the bulk of the monads are on the love-wisdom ray. The fact, therefore, of its being the synthetic ray has a vast significance. This is the system of the SON, whose name is Love. This is the divine incarnation of Vishnu. The Dragon of Wisdom is in manifestation, and He brings into incarnation those cosmic Entities who are in essence identical with Himself. After the third Initiation all human beings find themselves on their monadic ray, on one of the three Major rays, and the fact that Masters and Initiates are found on all the rays is due to the following two factors:
  First. Each Major ray has its subrays, which correspond to all the seven.
  Second. Many of the guides of the race transfer from one ray to another as They are needed, and as the work may require. When one of the Masters or Initiates is transferred it causes a complete re-adjustment.
  --
  This literally means that the three Major rays can each be subdivided (in connection with the Ego) into three divisions. This fact is also little appreciated.
  [178]
  --
  Another triangle in connection with our own planetary Logos is that formed by the seven Kumaras the four exoteric Kumaras corresponding to the four minor head centres, and the three esoteric Kumaras corresponding to the three Major head centres. [lxxvii]75, [lxxviii]76
  The second hint I seek to give, lies in the triangle formed by the Earth, Mars and Mercury. In connection with this triangle, the analogy lies in the fact that Mercury and the centre at the base of the spine in the human being are closely allied. Mercury demonstrates kundalini in intelligent activity, while Mars demonstrates kundalini latent. The truth lies hid in their two astrological symbols. In transmutation and planetary geometrising, the secret may be revealed.
  --
  Hearing on the astral plane is commonly called clairaudience, and means the ability to hear the sounds of the astral plane. It is a faculty that demonstrates throughout the entire astral body, and a man hears all over his vehicle and not only through the specialised organs, the ears, the product of physical plane action and reaction. This would necessarily be so, owing to the fluidic nature of the astral body. Man on the physical plane hears at the same time a certain range of sounds, and only a small and particular gamut of vibrations impinges upon his ears. There are many of the lesser sounds of nature which entirely escape him, while the Major group sounds are not differentiated at all. As evolution proceeds and the inner sense of hearing becomes acute, these other physical plane sounds will likewise swing into his ken, and he will be acutely conscious of all sounds on the astral, and the physical planea thing, which if possible now, would result in the shattering of the body. If the note of nature, for instance, were to strike but once upon the ear of a man (a note made up of the totality of vibrations produced by all dense material forms) his physical body would be completely disrupted. [192] He is not ready yet for such a happening; the inner ear is not duly prepared. Only when the threefold hearing is consummated will completed hearing on the physical plane be likewise permitted.
  Hearing on the mental plane is simply an extension of the faculty of differentiating sound. The hearing dealt with on all these planes is the hearing that has to do with the form, that concerns the vibration of matter, and that is occupied with the not-self. It has not to do with the psyche, or the telepathic communication that proceeds from mind to mind, but with the sound of the form or that power whereby one separated unit of consciousness is aware of another unit who is not himself. Bear this carefully in mind. When the extension of hearing becomes such that it concerns the psyche, then we call it telepathy or that wordless communication that is the synthesis of hearing on all the three lower planes and which is known by the Ego in the causal body on the formless levels of the mental plane.
  --
  These three Major senses (if I might so describe them) are very definitely allied, each with one of the three Logoi:
  Hearing The recognition of the fourfold word, the activity of matter, the third Logos.
  --
  When the Rods of Initiation are held in the hands of the Initiator in His position of power, and at the stated seasons, they act as transmitters of electric force from very high levels,so high indeed that the "Flaming Diamond" at certain of the final initiations (the sixth and seventh) transmits force, via the Logos, from outside the system altogether. We need to remember that this Major Rod is the one used on this planet, but that within the system there are several such Rods of Power, and that they are to be found in three grades, if it may be so expressed.
  First. The Rod of Initiation used for the first two initiations and wielded by the Great Lord, the Christ, the World Teacher. It is magnetised by application of the "Flaming Diamond"the magnetisation being repeated when each new world Teacher takes office. There is a wonderful ceremony performed at the time that a new World Teacher takes up His work. During the ceremony He receives His Rod of Power the same Rod as used since the foundation of our planetary Hierarchy and holds it forth to the Lord of the World, Who touches it [211] with His own mighty Rod, causing a fresh re-charging of its electric capacity. This ceremony takes place at Shamballa. [xci]89, [xcii]90

1.00 - Preliminary Remarks, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  This is true enough. In fact, the Majority of people who claim to have seen God, and who no doubt did see God just as must as those whom we have quoted, did nothing else.
  But perhaps their silence is not a sign of their weakness, but of their strength. Perhaps these great men are the failures of humanity; perhaps it would be better to say nothing; perhaps only an unbalanced mind would wish to alter anything or believe in the possibility of altering anything; but there are those who think existence even in heaven intolerable so long as there is one single being who does not share that joy.

1.01 - Adam Kadmon and the Evolution, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  the Kabbalah, wrote in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism:
  Adam Kadmon is a first configuration of the divine light

1.01 - Appearance and Reality, #The Problems of Philosophy, #Bertrand Russell, #Philosophy
  Such an argument, in my opinion, is fallacious; and of course those who advance it do not put it so shortly or so crudely. But whether valid or not, the argument has been very widely advanced in one form or another; and very many philosophers, perhaps a Majority, have held that there is nothing real except minds and their ideas. Such philosophers are called
  'idealists'. When they come to explaining matter, they either say, like

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  Concord. What has been said of the merchants, that a very large Majority, even ninety-seven in a hundred, are sure to fail, is equally true of the farmers. With regard to the merchants, however, one of them says pertinently that a great part of their failures are not genuine pecuniary failures, but merely failures to fulfil their engagements, because it is inconvenient; that is, it is the moral character that breaks down. But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matter, and suggests, beside, that probably not even the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they who fail honestly. Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savage stands on the unelastic plank of famine. Yet the Middlesex
  Cattle Show goes off here with _clat_ annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.

1.01 - Historical Survey, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  The Zohar is the next Major development. This book combining, absorbing, and synthesizing the different features and doctrines of the previous schools, made its dd but, creating a profound sensation in theological and philosophical circles by reason of its speculations concerning
  God, the doctrine of Emanations, the evolution of the

1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  but an overwhelming Majority of them. About the year 1900,
  it became apparent that there was something seriously wrong

1.01 - SAMADHI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  the religious aspiration of the vast Majority of human beings.
  Take, for instance, the English word God. It conveys only a

1.01 - Tara the Divine, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  emotions in our mind, which are Major dangers
  because they may lead us to accomplish negative acts.

1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  All this sheds some lightdim, it is true, and merely inferentialon the problem of the perennialness of the Perennial Philosophy. In India the scriptures were regarded, not as revelations made at some given moment of history, but as eternal gospels, existent from everlasting to everlasting, inasmuch as coeval with man, or for that matter with any other kind of corporeal or incorporeal being possessed of reason. A similar point of view is expressed by Aristotle, who regards the fundamental truths of religion as everlasting and indestructible. There have been ascents and falls, periods (literally roads around or cycles) of progress and regress; but the great fact of God as the First Mover of a universe which partakes of His divinity has always been recognized. In the light of what we know about prehistoric man (and what we know amounts to nothing more than a few chipped stones, some paintings, drawings and sculptures) and of what we may legitimately infer from other, better documented fields of knowledge, what are we to think of these traditional doctrines? My own view is that they may be true. We know that born contemplatives in the realm both of analytic and of integral thought have turned up in fair numbers and at frequent intervals during recorded history. There is therefore every reason to suppose that they turned up before history was recorded. That many of these people died young or were unable to exercise their talents is certain. But a few of them must have survived. In this context it is highly significant that, among many contemporary primitives, two thought-patterns are foundan exoteric pattern for the unphilosophic many and an esoteric pattern (often monotheistic, with a belief in a God not merely of power, but of goodness and wisdom) for the initiated few. There is no reason to suppose that circumstances were any harder for prehistoric men than they are for many contemporary savages. But if an esoteric monotheism of the kind that seems to come natural to the born thinker is possible in modern savage societies, the Majority of whose members accept the sort of polytheistic philosophy that seems to come natural to men of action, a similar esoteric doctrine might have been current in prehistoric societies. True, the modern esoteric doctrines may have been derived from higher cultures. But the significant fact remains that, if so derived, they yet had a meaning for certain members of the primitive society and were considered valuable enough to be carefully preserved. We have seen that many thoughts are unthinkable apart from an appropriate vocabulary and frame of reference. But the fundamental ideas of the Perennial Philosophy can be formulated in a very simple vocabulary, and the experiences to which the ideas refer can and indeed must be had immediately and apart from any vocabulary whatsoever. Strange openings and theophanies are granted to quite small children, who are often profoundly and permanently affected by these experiences. We have no reason to suppose that what happens now to persons with small vocabularies did not happen in remote antiquity. In the modern world (as Vaughan and Traherne and Wordsworth, among others, have told us) the child tends to grow out of his direct awareness of the one Ground of things; for the habit of analytical thought is fatal to the intuitions of integral thinking, whether on the psychic or the spiritual level. Psychic preoccupations may be and often are a Major obstacle in the way of genuine spirituality. In primitive societies now (and, presumably, in the remote past) there is much preoccupation with, and a widespread talent for, psychic thinking. But a few people may have worked their way through psychic into genuinely spiritual experiencejust as, even in modern industrialized societies, a few people work their way out of the prevailing preoccupation with matter and through the prevailing habits of analytical thought into the direct experience of the spiritual Ground of things.
  Such, then, very briefly are the reasons for supposing that the historical traditions of oriental and our own classical antiquity may be true. It is interesting to find that at least one distinguished contemporary ethnologist is in agreement with Aristotle and the Vedantists. Orthodox ethnology, writes Dr. Paul Radin in his Primitive Man as Philosopher, has been nothing but an enthusiastic and quite uncritical attempt to apply the Darwinian theory of evolution to the facts of social experience. And he adds that no progress in ethnology will be achieved until scholars rid themselves once and for all of the curious notion that everything possesses a history; until they realize that certain ideas and certain concepts are as ultimate for man, as a social being, as specific physiological reactions are ultimate for him, as a biological being. Among these ultimate concepts, in Dr. Radins view, is that of monotheism. Such monotheism is often no more than the recognition of a single dark and numinous Power ruling the world. But it may sometimes be genuinely ethical and spiritual.

1.01 - The Castle, #unset, #Arthur C Clarke, #Fiction
  When our supper ended in a muteness which the sounds of chewing and the smacking of lips gulping wine did not make more pleasant, we remained seated, looking one another in the face, with the torment of not being able to exchange the many experiences each of us had to communicate. At that point, on the table which had just been cleared, the man who seemed the lord of the castle set a pack of playing cards. They were tarot cards, larger than the kind we use for ordinary games or that gypsies employ for predicting the future, but it was possible to discern more or less the same figures that are painted in the enamels of the most precious miniatures. Kings, Queens, Knights, and Pages were all young people magnificently dressed, as if for a princely feast; the twenty-two Major Arcana seemed the tapestries of a court theater; and cups, coins, swords, clubs shone like heraldic devices adorned with scrolls and arabesques.
  We began to spread out the cards on the table, face up, and to give them their proper value in games, or their true meaning in the reading of fortunes. And yet none of us seemed to wish to begin playing, and still less to question the future, since we were as if drained of all future, suspended in a journey that had not ended nor was to end. There was something else we saw in those tarots, something that no longer allowed us to take our eyes from the gilded pieces of that mosaic.

1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  Those of you who can afford it will do better to have a room for this practice alone. Do not sleep in that room, it must be kept holy. You must not enter the room until you have bathed, and are perfectly clean in body and mind. Place flowers in that room always; they are the best surroundings for a Yogi; also pictures that are pleasing. Burn incense morning and evening. Have no quarrelling, nor anger, nor unholy thought in that room. Only allow those persons to enter it who are of the same thought as you. Then gradually there will be an atmosphere of holiness in the room, so that when you are miserable, sorrowful, doubtful, or your mind is disturbed, the very fact of entering that room will make you calm. This was the idea of the temple and the church, and in some temples and churches you will find it even now, but in the Majority of them the very idea has been lost. The idea is that by keeping holy vibrations there the place becomes and remains illumined. Those who cannot afford to have a room set apart can practice anywhere they like. Sit in a straight posture, and the first thing to do is to send a current of holy thought to all creation. Mentally repeat, "Let all beings be happy; let all beings be peaceful; let all beings be blissful." So do to the east, south, north and west. The more you do that the better you will feel yourself. You will find at last that the easiest way to make ourselves healthy is to see that others are healthy, and the easiest way to make ourselves happy is to see that others are happy. After doing that, those who believe in God should pray not for money, not for health, nor for heaven; pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish. Then the next thing to do is to think of your own body, and see that it is strong and healthy; it is the best instrument you have. Think of it as being as strong as adamant, and that with the help of this body you will cross the ocean of life. Freedom is never to be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.

1.01 - The Mental Fortress, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  But its use is not as the mind imagines in the arrogance of its knowledge and discoveries, for the mind always mistakes the instrument for the Master. We thought that the mental tool was both end and means, and that that end was an increasing, ever more triumphant and rigorous mastery over the mental field, which it has colonized with marvelous cities and less marvelous suburbs. But that is only a secondary end, a turbulent by-product, and it turns out that the Major effect of the Mind in man has not been to make him more intelligent (intelligent with respect to what? The mouse in its hole has the perfect intelligence for its own terrain), but to individualize him within his own species and endow him with the power to change while the other species were invariable and only individualized as a general type and finally to make him capable of casting a look at what exceeds his own condition. With this individualization and power of variation began the errors of man, his sins, his afflicting dualities; yet his capacity for error is also a secret capacity for progress, which is why all our moralities based on right or wrong and all our flawless heavens have failed and will forever fail if we were flawless and irreproachable, we would be a stagnant and infallible species, like the shellfish or the opossum. In other words, the Mind is an instrument of accelerated evolution, an evolver. In fifty years of scientific development, man has progressed more than during all the prescientific milleniums. But progress in what sense? To be sure, not in the sense of the fallacious mastery, nor in the quality of life or the degree of comfort, but in the sense of the mental saturation of the species. One cannot leave a circle unless one has individually and collectively exhausted the circle. One cannot step alone onto the other side; either everybody does it (or is capable of doing it) or nobody does it; the whole species goes together, because there is but one human Body. Instead of a handful of initiates scattered among a semianimal and ignorant human mass, the entire species is now undergoing its initiation or, in evolutionary terms, its supreme variation. We have not passed through the mental circle for the sake of sending rockets to the moon, but in order to be individually, innumerably and voluntarily capable of effecting the passage to the next higher circle. The breaking of the circle is the great organic Fact of our times. All the dualities and opposite poles, the sins of virtue and the virtues of sin, all this dazzling chaos were the instruments of the Work, the tensors, we could say, bending us to the breaking point against a wall of iron which is a wall of illusion. But the illusion falls only when one decides to see it.
  That is where we are. The illusion is not dead; it even rages with unprecedented violence, equipped with all the arms we have so obligingly polished up for it. But these are the last convulsions of a colossus with feet of clay which is actually a gnome, an oversized, overoutfitted gnome. The ancient sages of India knew it well. They divided human evolution into four concentric circles: that of the men of knowledge (Brahmins), who lived at the beginning of humanity, in the age of truth; that of the nobles and warriors (Kshatriya), when only three fourths of the truth was left; that of the merchants and middle class (Vaishya), who had only half of the truth; and finally ours, the age of the little men, the Shudra, the servants (of the machine, of the ego, of desire), the great proletariat of regimented liberties the Dark Age, Kali Yuga, when no truth is left at all. But because this circle is the most extreme, because all the truths have been tried and exhausted, and all possible roads explored, we are nearing the right solution, the true solution, the emergence of a new age of truth, the supramental age Sri Aurobindo spoke of, like the buttercup breaking its last envelope to free its golden fruit. If the parallel holds true between the collective body and our human body, we could say that the center governing the age of the sages was located at the level of the forehead, while that of the age of the nobles was at the level of the heart, that of the age of the merchants, at the stomach, and the one governing our age is at the level of sex and matter. The descent is complete. But that descent has a meaning a meaning for matter. Had we stayed forever at the forehead level of the divine truths of the mind, this earth and body would never have been changed, and we would have probably ended up escaping into some spiritual heaven or nirvana. Now, everything must be transformed, even the body and matter, since we are right in it. Ironically, this is the greatest service this dark, materialistic and scientific age may have rendered us: to compel such a plunge of the spirit into matter that it had either to lose itself in it or to be transformed with it. Absolute darkness is but the shadow of a greater Sun, which digs its abysses in order to raise up a more stable beauty, founded on the purified base of our earthly subconscious and seated erect in truth down to the very cells of our bodies.

1.01 - The Science of Living, #On Education, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  up of four Major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express
  themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the

1.028 - Bringing About Whole-Souled Dedication, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Inasmuch as the goal that is before us is the very purpose of life, it would be futile on our part to think that we can devote only half an hour of the day for this practice, and during all the rest of the twenty-three and one half hours of the day we can do other things which will throw dust on this little practice which has been done for half an hour. The Major part of the day is spent in activities which are not only not contri butory to success in the practice, but are contradictory, as well, and which completely disturb and upset the little result that we seem to be achieving through this little practice. So what is essential is that, in the beginning, taking for granted that we can be engaged in other activities for the Major part of the day for obvious reasons, we should see that though the activities are a different type, they need not be contradictory, because distinction is not necessarily opposition. We can have a distinct type of engagement because we cannot practise meditation throughout the day; but this distinct type of attitude, profession or function that we engage in should be such that it will at least not directly disturb the mood that we have generated in the practice called meditation, to which we have devoted ourselves for half an hour, one hour or two hours.
  The other point is that this practice will not bring results in only a few days. Sa tu drghakla nairantarya satkra sevita dhabhmi (I.14), says Patanjali. In many cases the result will not follow at all, due to obstructing prarabdhas. There were great seekers, sadhakas, who used to perform japa purascharana, the chanting of a mantra, for years and years together, with the hope of having the vision of the deity. But they had no vision of the deity. We hear of the story of the purascharanas performed by Sage Vidyaranya of yore, Yogi Sri Madhusudana Saraswati and others, but they had no vision. The reason mentioned is that they had obstructing prarabdhas.
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  It is necessary to reiterate that the only obstacle in the achievement of success in the practice of yoga is the absence of wholeheartedness. We are never whole-souled in our dedication, because of our subtly feeling the presence of other desirable things in the world which we consider as equally good, or at least to some extent. We never feel that things are useless, and that this is the only useful thing. Unless the feeling that everything else has no meaning whatsoever for our personal life, that everything except this wonderful undertaking called yoga has no meaning in our life unless this attitude of complete distaste towards everything extraneous arises in the mind, there cannot be whole-souled attention of the mind on the objective. That is why Patanjali has been crying that vairagya should be coupled with practice or abhyasa. We have practice or abhyasa without vairagya and, therefore, no result comes. Practice without vairagya is the attempt at fixing a portion of the mind, a fraction of the mind, on this objective called meditation, and sometimes allowing a Major part of the mind to engage itself in other things, which also look equally good to this unfortunate attitude of the mind.
  Whole-souled dedication to the practice is possible only when there is perfect understanding. Why is it that our mind is not entirely dedicated to this practice, and part of it is thinking of something else? The reason is that our understanding of the efficacy and the value and the worthwhileness of the practice is inadequate. Our faith in God, our trust in God, and our feeling that God is everything is half-baked it is not perfect. We do not have, even today, full faith that God is everything. "There is something else which is also good." Such thinking is lurking in the mind. "Though God is all alright, the scriptures say that but my subtle conscience says that there is something else also, something else that is also sweet. God is sweet, but there is something else also, equally sweet. Why should I not go there?.

1.02 - Groups and Statistical Mechanics, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  which link force and acceleration. In the vast Majority of practi-
  cal cases, however, we are far from knowing all the initial veloci-

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  time. The Majority of us had to stand all the way, while a few took turns at squatting on the scanty straw
  which was soaked with human urine. When we arrived the first important news that we heard from older
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  significance, or affective importance, that constitutes what is perhaps the Major responsibility of the limbic
  system that, and the (integrally related) inculcation and renewal of memory [integrally related, as it is
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  repertoire. In exceptional, non-normal circumstances that is, when a Major error has been committed
  such activity culminates in revolution: in modification of the entire story guiding affective evaluation and
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  constitutes one Major advantage of the development of intelligence. The abstract intelligence characteristic
  of the human being developed in parallel with rapid evolution of the brain rapid shift in quantity and
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  Megaliths have a relation to certain ideas concerning existence after death. The Majority of them are
  built in the course of ceremonies intended to defend the soul during its journey into the beyond; but they

1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  With the vast Majority of mankind the fine states of these
  passions are not even known, the state when they are slowly

1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  6:And since Yoga is in its essence a turning away from the ordinary material and animal life led by most men or from the more mental but still limited way of living followed by the few to a greater spiritual life, to the way divine, every part of our energies that is given to the lower existence in the spirit of that existence is a contradiction of our aim and our self-dedication. On the other hand, every energy or activity that we can convert from its allegiance to the lower and dedicate to the service of the higher is so much gained on our road, so much taken from the powers that oppose our progress. It is the difficulty of this wholesale conversion that is the source of all the stumblings in the path of Yoga. For our entire nature and its environment, all our personal and all our universal self, are full of habits and of influences that are opposed to our spiritual rebirth and work against the whole-heartedness of our endeavour. In a certain sense we are nothing but a complex mass of mental, nervous and physical habits held together by a few ruling ideas, desires and associations, -- all amalgam of many small self-repeating forces with a few Major vibrations. What we propose in our Yoga is nothing less than to break up the whole formation of our past and present which makes up the ordinary material and mental man and to create a new centre of vision and a new universe of activities in ourselves which shall constitute a divine humanity or a superhuman nature.
  7:The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for the deeper faith and vision which see only the Divine and seek only after the Divine. The next need is to compel all our lower being to pay homage to this new faith and greater vision. All our nature must make an integral surrender; it must offer itself in every part and every movement to that which seems to the unregenerated sensemind so much less real than the material world and its objects. Our whole being-soul, mind, sense, heart, will, life, body must consecrate all its energies so entirely and in such a way that it shall become a fit vehicle for the Divine. This is no easy task; for everything in the world follows the fixed habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that "That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore." Every vital fibre has to be persuaded to accept an entire renunciation of all that hitherto represented to it its own existence. Mind has to cease to be mind and become brilliant with something beyond it. Life has to change into a thing vast and calm and intense and powerful that can no longer recognise its old blind eager narrow self or petty impulse and desire. Even the body has to submit to a mutation and be no longer the clamorous animal or the impeding clod it now is, but become instead a conscious servant and radiant instrument and living form of the spirit.

1.02 - The 7 Habits An Overview, #The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, #Stephen Covey, #unset
  It's easy to see that independence is much more mature than dependence. Independence is a Major achievement in and of itself. But independence is not supreme.
  Nevertheless, the current social paradigm enthrones independence. It is the avowed goal of many individuals and social movements. Most of the self-improvement material puts independence on a pedestal, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  was able to start several of his Major works without further
  ado. Although one should also consider that his writings

1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  One has to admit to a Major flaw in the method, and first, to a flaw in the goal pursued. What do we know of the goal, really, sunk in matter as we are, blinded by the onrush of the world? Our first immediate reaction is to cry, It can't be here! It's not here! Not in this mud, this evil, this whirlwind, not in this dark and burdened world! We must get out at all costs, free ourselves from this weight of flesh and struggle and from that surreptitious erosion in which we seem to be eaten up by thousands of voracious trivialities. So we have proclaimed the Goal to be up above, in a heaven of liberated thoughts, a heaven of art and poetry and music any heaven at all is better than this darkness! We came here merely to earn the leisure for our own private heaven, bookish, religious, pictorial or aesthetic the long vacation of the Spirit free at last. So we have climbed and climbed, poeticized, intellectualized, evangelized; we have rid ourselves of all that might weigh us down, erected a protective wall around our eremite contemplations, our cloistered yoga, our private meditations, traced the white circle of the Spirit, like new spiritual witch doctors. Then we stepped into it, and here we are.
  But, in so doing, we are perhaps making as great a mistake as that of the apprentice human in his first lake dwelling who would have claimed that the Goal, the mental heaven he was gropingly discovering, was not in the commonplaceness of daily life, in those tools to carve, those mouths to feed, those entangling nets, those countless snares, but in some ice cave or Australasian desert and who would have discarded his tools. Einstein's equations would never have seen the light of day. By losing his tools, man loses his goal; by discarding all the grossness and evil and darkness and burden of life, we may go dozing off into the blissful (?) reaches of the Spirit, but we are completely outside the Goal, because the Goal might very well be right here, in this grossness and darkness and evil and burden which are gross and dark and burdensome only because we look at them erroneously, as the apprentice human looked erroneously at his tools, unable to see how his tying that stone to that club was already tying the invisible train of our thought to the movement of Jupiter and Venus, and how the mental heaven actually teems everywhere here, in all our gestures and superfluous acts, just as our next heaven teems under our eyes, concealed only by our false spiritual look, imprisoned in the white circle of a so-called Spirit which is but our human approximation for the next stage of evolution. Life... Life alone is the field of our Yoga, exclaimed Sri Aurobindo.4

1.02 - The Pit, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Athena. This necessity was emphasized in the most surprising way by the result of the Michelson-Morley experiments, when Physics itself calmly and frankly offered a contradiction in terms. It was not the metaphysicians this time who were picking holes in a vacuum. It was the mathematicians and the physicists who found the ground completely cut away from under their feet. It was not enough to replace the geometry of Euclid by those of Riemann and Lobatchevsky and the mechanics of Newton by those of Einstein, so long as any of the axioms of the old thought and the definitions of its terms survived. They deliberately abandoned positivism and materialism for an indeterminate mysticism, creating a new mathematical philosophy and a new logic, wherein infinite-or rather transfinite-ideas might be made commensurable with those of ordinary thought in the forlorn hope that all might live happily ever after. In short, to use a Qabalistic nomenclature, they found it incumbent upon themselves to adopt for inclusion of terms of Ruach (intellect) concepts which are proper only to Neschamah (the organ and faculty of direct spiritual apperception and intuition). This same process took place in Philosophy years earlier. Had the dialectic of Hegel been only. half understood, the Major portion of philosophical speculation from the Schoolmen to
  Kant's perception of the Antinomies of Reason would have been thrown overboard.
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  Incidentally, one of the greatest difficulties experienced by the philosopher-s-a difficulty almost insurmountable by the student; one which continually tends to increase rather than diminish with the advance in knowledge-is this: it is practically impossible to gain any clear intellectual comprehension of the meaning of philosophical terms employed. Every thinker has his own private conception of, and meaning for, even such common and universally used terms as " soul" and " mind"; and in the vast Majority of cases he does not so much as suspect that other writers may employ the same term under a different connotation. Even technical writers, those who sometimes take the trouble of defining their terms before using them, are too often at variance with each other. The diversity is very great, as stated above, in the case of the word
  " soul". We find one writer predicating of the soul that it is a, b, and c, while his fellow-students protest vehemently that it is nothing of the sort, but d, e, andf. However, let us suppose for a moment that by some miracle we obtain a clear idea of the meaning of the word. The trouble has merely begun. For there immediately arises the question of the relation of one term to the others.

1.02 - The Recovery, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  With the improvement of his health, he began to spend some hours sitting in a chair and devoting his entire time to spiritual, intellectual and creative activities. The accident had released him in a drastic manner from the 8 or 9 hours' labour of "correspondence". He could now take up the revision of all his Major works, one after another. The first to see the light of day was the first volume of his magnum opus, The Life Divine. It was the end of 1939, the year of World War II. The publication of the Arya of which the Divine Life was the basic theme, started in 1914, the year of World War I. Can we call these mere coincidences? The two other volumes came out on the heels of the first one and were extensively rewritten. He composed many sonnets also. We used to see his pen indefatigably writing away page after page. We could not know what was being written, because, except for the sonnets, he passed everything to the Mother. She received it as a gift from God and sent it on to Prithwi Singh for typing. Though his eyesight was bad, his typing was so neat and clean, done with such minute care, that Sri Aurobindo was very pleased with his work.
  So long as Sri Aurobindo could use his own eyes, we had no direct means of knowing what he was about. Of course, we could sometimes overhear or he would himself tell us about the topics, how far he had come, if something new he had added, etc. Purani and Satyendra were interested in The Life Divine, and the former would try to fish for some information regarding it. Sometimes Fate or Chance or even necessity helped us in knowing what the Master was doing.

1.02 - The Three European Worlds, #The Ever-Present Origin, #Jean Gebser, #Integral
  Restricting ourselves here primarily to the art of the Christian era, we can distinguish two Major self-contained epochs among the many artistic styles, followed today by an incipient third. The first encompasses the era up to the Renaissance, the other, now coming to a close, extends up to the present. The decisive and distinguishing characteristic of these epochs is the respective absence or presence of perspective; consequently we shall designate the first era as the "unperspectival," the second as the "perspectival," and the currently emerging epoch as the "aperspectival."'
  As we shall see, these designations are valid not only with respect to art history, but also to aesthetics, cultural history, and the history of the psyche and the mind. The achievement of perspective indicates man's discovery and consequent coming to awareness of space, whereas the unrealized perspective indicates that space is dormant in man and that he is not yet awakened to it. Moreover, the unperspectival world suggests a state in which man lacks self-identity: he belongs to a unit, such as a tribe or communal group, where the emphasis is not yet on the person but on the impersonal, not an the "I" but on the communal group, the qualitative mode of the collective. The illuminated manuscripts and gilt ground of early Romanesque painting depict theunperspectival world that retained the prevailing constitutive elements of Mediterranean antiquity. Not until the Gothic, the forerunner of the Renaissance was there a shift in emphasis. Before that space is not yet our depth-space, rather a cavern (and vault), or simply an in-between space; in both instances it is undifferentiated space. This situation bespeaks for us a hardly conceivable enclosure in the world, an intimate bond between outer and inner suggestive of a correspondence only faintly discernible between soul and nature. This condition was gradually destroyed by the expansion and growing strength of Christianity whose teaching of detachment from nature transforms this destruction into an act of liberation.
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  Although then unaware of its full significance, the present writer saw the mountain years ago and sensed its attraction. Certainly this attraction must have been sensed by others as well; it is no accident that Petrarch's discovery of landscape occurred precisely in this region of France. Here, the Gnostic tradition had encouraged investigation of the world and placed greater emphasis on knowledge than on belief; here, the tradition of the Troubadours, the Cathari, and the Albigensi remained alive. This is not to say that the affinity makes Petrarch a Gnostic, but merely points to the Gnostic climate of this part of douce France which is mentioned in the opening lines of France's first Major poetic work, the Chanson de Roland (verse16): "Li empereres Carles de France dulce."
  Petrarch's letter is in the nature of a confession; it is addressed to the Augustinian professor of theology who had taught him to treasure and emulate Augustine's Confessions. Now, a person makes a confession or an admission only if he believes he has transgressed against something; and it is this vision of space, as extended before him from the mountain top, this vision of space as a reality, and its overwhelming impression, together with his shock and dismay, his bewilderment at his perception and acceptance of the panorama, that are reflected in his letter. It marks him as the first European to step out of the transcendental gilt ground of the Siena masters, the first to emerge from a space dormant in time and soul, into "real" space where he discovers landscape.
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  There is yet another Major artist of that age who continues the discussion of this subject in advance of the definitive statements of Leonardo. Toward the end of his life, Pierodella Francesca furnishes a penetrating theory of perspective compared to which Alberti's seems amateurish and empirical. In his three books De Perspectiva Pingendi based anEuclid, which were written in collaboration with Luca Pacioli, he defines for the first time costruzionepittorica as perspective. He had himself been successful in the practical application of perspective during the time ofFoquet, i.e., the latter half of the fifteenth century, though after the brothers van Eyck (to mention only the outstanding figures). This had facilitated the ultimate achievement of perspectivity, the "aerial perspective" of Leonardo's Last Supper.
  Before returning to Leonardo, we must mention two facts which demonstrate better than any description the extent of fascination with the problem of perspective during the later Part of the fifteenth century when perspective becomes virtually normative (as in Ghiberti's modification of Vitruvius). In his DivinaProporzione, Luca Pacioli - the learned mathematician, translator of Euclid, co-worker with Pierodella Francesca, and friend of Leonardo - celebrated perspective as the eighth art; and when Antonio del Pollaiuolo built a memorial to perspective on one of his papal tombs in St. Peters some ten years later (in the 1490s), he boldly added perspective as the eighth free art to the other seven.
  --
  Let us, however, return to the question of perspectivity. We have noted that perspective is the pre-eminent expression of the emergent consciousness of fifteenth-century European man, the palpable expression of his objectivation of spatial awareness. Besides illuminating space, perspective brings it to man's awareness and lends man his own visibility of himself. We have also noted that in the paintings of Giotto and Masaccio this evident perception of man comes to light for the first time. Yet this very same perspective whose study and gradual acquisition were a Major preoccupation for Renaissance man not only extends his image of the world achieving spatialization but also narrows his vision - a consequence that still afflicts us today.
  Perspectival vision and thought confine us within spatial limitations. Elsewhere we have alluded to the antithesis inherent in perspective: it locates and determines the observer as well as the observed. The positive result is a concretion of man and space; the negative result is the restriction of man to a limited segment where he perceives only one sector of reality.
  --
  Space is the insistent concern of this era. In underscoring this assertion, we have relied only on the testimony of its most vivid manifestation, the discovery of perspective. We did, however, mention in passing that at the very moment when Leonardo discovers space and solves the problem of perspective, thereby creating the possibility for spatial objectification in painting, other events occur which parallel his discovery. Copernicus, for example, shatters the limits of the geocentric sky and discovers heliocentric space; Columbus goes beyond the encompassing Oceanos and discovers earth's space: Vesalius, the first Major anatomist, bursts the confines of Galen's ancient doctrines of the human Body and discovers the body's space; Harvey destroys the precepts of Hippocrates' humoral medicine and reveals the circulatory system. And there is Kepler, who by demonstrating the elliptical orbit of the planets, overthrows antiquity's unperspectival world-image of circular and flat surfaces (a view still held by Copernicus) that dated back to Ptolemy's conception of the circular movement of the planets.
  It is this same shape - the ellipse - which Michelangelo introduces into architecture via his dome of St. Peters, which is elliptical and not round or suggestive of the cavern or vault.
  --
  We shall in consequence designate as "temporic" artists those painters of the two Major artistic generations since 1880 (i.e., following the classicistic, romantic and naturalistic movements) who were engaged - doubtless unintentionally in concretizing time. From this point of view, all of the attempts by the various "movements" - expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and even tachism - show as their common trait this struggle to concretize and realize time. Understandably, such experimentation resulted in numerous faulty solutions; but as we noted earlier, such faults were equally unavoidable during the search for perspective and spatial realization.
  The unavoidable attempt to presentiate the past, for instance, was accompanied by a certain chaos; yet this very chaos is always evident wherever a once-valid world begins to undergo a transformation. In this instance many contemporary artists, including a Majority of the surrealists and later the tachists, were inundated by an inflation of time; a seemingly endless quantity of exhausted residua was dredged up and revived from the past, engulfing those artists unable to master this reawakened heritage. This has its parallel in the inflation of unconscious residua which have become conscious in the wake of efforts begun by Freud.
  Instead of the wholeness these artists had hoped for, they inherited a world of bits and pieces; instead of attaining the spiritual supremacy they had desired, they became decidedly psychistic. By "psychistic" we mean contemporary Western man's inability to escape from the confines of the psyche. Even among Picassos works we find those which mirror such psychic chaos and psychistic inflation. Had he created only pictures in this chaotic manner, we could not definitively number him among the greatest temporic artists; there are, however, many other works by Picasso, notably from the 1930s, that bring his temporic endeavours toward a solution. We shall consider here only two types of pictures: some specific portraits as well as a landscape painting. (The extent to which Picasso's still life paintings exemplify the concretion of time, and also to what extent temporic art is anticipated in impressionism and even in earlier art, as in the work of Delacroix, will be examined later in greater detail.)
  --
  This type of temporic portrait does not represent merely a willful or fortuitous playfulness of Picasso's style, but rather reflects his specific need to express and shape the uncontainable emergence of concrete time. This is evident from his early incomplete solutions, as well as from similar portraits by Braque done independently during the same period. Two of Picasso's paintings, Harlequin with a Guitar of 1918 and 1924, as well as his two Major works of 1925,
  La cage d'oiseau, and Nature morte la tte de pltre, further manifest his search for concrete time. Picasso himself underscored the importance of these two works by selecting them to appear among the reproductions of nineteen works printed in Sabarts' collection of 1935. In addition we refer the reader to two portraits of 1927, Buste de femme en Rouge and Femme, as well as to the Femme aubonnet rouge of 1932.

1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  This is, perhaps, a Major obstacle in the practice of yoga. Do not speak for some days. Take this vow: 'For any reason whatsoever, I will not speak.' When speaking is necessary, condition it by a principle that: 'I should regard it as most unavoidable; otherwise, I will not speak.' This is the discipline of speech, which is a very, very important discipline. There is also mental discipline in the form of japa and svadhyaya, with a little bit of meditation to the extent possible under the condition in which we are seated initially. And, there is physical discipline. These three disciplines should go together, by which what is intended is a total restriction of the movement of the mind towards extraneous factors which may distract the attention and diminish the intensity of the aspiration. The more we restrain the mind from its movement towards extraneous factors, the greater is the energy that is generated within, and automatically the aspiration becomes streng thened. When the energy is not allowed to leak out through other avenues or channels, then that energy naturally gets conserved, and the conserved energy increases the force of the aspiration. Energy is not destroyed. The principle of conservation of energy states that energy is indestructible it cannot be destroyed, but it can be increased or decreased by channelising it in different ways. It may appear that we have no energy at all because we have channelised the energy in some other way it has gone somewhere else. Not that it is absent it is there, but we have let it out, and so it looks as if it is not there.
  Therefore, we should block the avenues of the distraction of energy the channelising of it in various ways, in an unwanted manner and then conserve it so that this centralised force within us, which is the conserved energy, will give such a push to the aspiration within that the soul will rush to the Absolute like a bullet that has been fired by a gun. That kind of aspiration is referred to in this sutra of Patanjali tvra savegnm sanna.

1.038 - Impediments in Concentration and Meditation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Finally, Patanjali says there can be another problem anavasthitatva. Even if we gain the point of concentration, we cannot continue to fix our attention upon it for a long time. We have understood where to concentrate. We know where to fix the attention, but we cannot go on with this practice for a long time, perhaps not more than for a few seconds or minutes, because then the mind jumps. This is only a brother of the earlier obstacle of a similar character. All of these obstacles are ultimately due to certain hidden impressions of likes and dislikes which have not been properly detected, and which have been allowed to lie in ambush for a long time. They can set up various types of subtle reactions from inside all of which can come either in the form of an internal disturbance or an external irreconcilability with nature. These obstacles have been recounted as being the Major impediments to the practice of yoga. Vydhi styna saaya pramda lasya avirati bhrntidarana alabdhabhmikatva anavasthitatvni cittavikepa te antary (I.30) these are the distractions of the mind; these are the impediments; these are the obstacles of which one has to be very cautious.
  These obstacles can be reinforced, confirmed and made difficult to avoid by certain accessories which are known as the associate troubles dukha daurmanasya a
  gamejayatva vsapravs vikepa sahabhuva (I.31). These distractions have their own younger brothers which can join them in their actions and make it difficult for one to face them. These youngsters who create problems in association with these Major obstacles are five in number, as mentioned by Patanjali in this particular sutra that I cited.
  Dhukha is one obstacle sorrow in the mind. We have a subtle displeasure which we cannot express before others and, therefore, we have always an unhappy face. Sometimes we know its cause, and sometimes we do not. Somehow or other, for days and even months together, we are unhappy. We neither want to eat, nor can we sleep. We do not want to speak to anybody. We feel as if we are fed up with everything. What is the matter? Nobody knows. We cannot understand what has happened. This is a subtle cold war that is going on inside. It is a war, but it is a cold war a preparation for a hot war, if necessary. A moodiness sets in, which cause can be known if we are intelligent enough, and one cannot say that a sincere seeker can be unaware of the causes of all these moods. But even if the causes are known, they cannot be easily overcome, because what happens at this stage is that the centres of one's likes and dislikes somehow or other seem to get isolated and cut off from one's nature. This is a very great problem indeed.

1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  The Majority of initiatory ordeals more or less clearly imply a ritual death followed by resurrection or a
  new birth. The central moment of every initiation is represented by the ceremony symbolizing the death

1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
  ANSWER: If consultation among the first group of people assembled endeth in disagreement, new people should be added, after which persons to the number of the Greatest Name, or fewer or more, shall be chosen by lot. Whereupon the consultation shall be renewed, and the outcome, whatever it is, shall be obeyed. If, however, there is still disagreement, the same procedure should be repeated once more, and the decision of the Majority shall prevail. He, verily, guideth whomsoever He pleaseth to the right way.
  100. QUESTION: Concerning inheritance.

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  him, as with the vast Majority of men, logic is implicit, not
  explicit: he reasons just as he digests his food in complete

1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  change of Major dimensions in the human state, of which com-
  parative biology suggests the cause. The immense social distur-
  --
  are bound to follow, in the Majority and freely, the sole direction capa-
  ble of satisfying all their aspirations toward every imaginable form

1.03 - The Psychic Prana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  Thus the rousing of the Kundalini is the one and only way to attaining Divine Wisdom, superconscious perception, realisation of the spirit. The rousing may come in various ways, through love for God, through the mercy of perfected sages, or through the power of the analytic will of the philosopher. Wherever there was any manifestation of what is ordinarily called supernatural power or wisdom, there a little current of Kundalini must have found its way into the Sushumna. Only, in the vast Majority of such cases, people had ignorantly stumbled on some practice which set free a minute portion of the coiled-up Kundalini. All worship, consciously or unconsciously, leads to this end. The man who thinks that he is receiving response to his prayers does not know that the fulfilment comes from his own nature, that he has succeeded by the mental attitude of prayer in waking up a bit of this infinite power which is coiled up within himself. What, thus, men ignorantly worship under various names, through fear and tribulation, the Yogi declares to the world to be the real power coiled up in every being, the mother of eternal happiness, if we but know how to approach her. And Rja-Yoga is the science of religion, the rationale of all worship, all prayers, forms, ceremonies, and miracles.

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  None of these, however, satisfied the Majority as fulfilling the required conditions, until one Adept who had hitherto sat reclining, taking but little part in the discussions, spoke somewhat as follows :
  " There is a much more practical yet subtle method.

1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  throw the car into a Major skid but quite enough to report to our
  kinesthetic sense whether the car is in danger of skidding, and

1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  forms. Thus we are told that in France "the Majority of the peasants
  still believe that the priest possesses a secret and irresistible
  --
  the superstitious, who constitute, unfortunately, the vast Majority
  of mankind. One of the great achievements of the nineteenth century
  --
  minority or the dead weight of the Majority of mankind will prove
  the stronger force to carry us up to higher heights or to sink us
  --
  which the Majority of their simpler fellows still believed that they
  did actually produce. This great discovery of the inefficacy of
  --
  great Majority of mankind.
  The reader may well be tempted to ask, How was it that intelligent

1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  it has left no mark on the Majority of the animal forms that pre-
  ceded us on the earth and which still surround us. It may seem im-

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  The Major advantage of increased abstraction of representation apart from ease of communication is
  increased adaptive flexibility: alterations in abstract thought can proceed as if as if a game, without
  --
  constitutes the third Major threat to the continued stability of sociohistorically-determined adaptive cultural
  systems (as well as the Major factor in the complex elaboration of such systems). (The first two just a
  reminder were rapid natural environmental shift, independent of human activity, and contact with a
  --
  justifiable terror consideration of the consequences of such decomposition induces constitutes a Major
  impediment to the pursuit of redemptive change constitutes a formidable barrier to intrapsychic
  --
  experience. Every Major step forward therefore has some of the aspect of the revolutionary descent into
  madness; change shades qualitatively from the normal to the radical. The structure of this process

1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  The thunderbolt (vajra) is one of the Major symbols in Buddhist iconogra
  phy, signifying the spiritual power of Buddhahood (indestructible enlighten

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  There are several other Major activities the Mother started during this time and even participated in. A few of them have taken a premier place in our life and gained world-wide recognition. Though I did not hear the Mother talking about them to Sri Aurobindo as much as the foregoing activities, I saw them growing up under her aegis slowly, and by her power. I might just as well give a short description of some of them by way of illustration of her multitudinous activities, her intensity, drive, boldness and creative genius. We shall see how some institutions have developed from a nascent stage into banyan trees spreading their branches far and wide, and are inspiring countries with a new vision.
  The two Major activities that she took up during this period were the Ashram School and Physical Education which together form the Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education. Both of them, like the others, were born from tiny chromosomes and out of a compelling necessity, for the Japanese aggression had driven the children of the disciples in affected areas to seek shelter in the protecting arms of the Mother. She had now to devote much of her crowded time to the children who needed a special treatment, since they had not come for Yoga.
  It was a challenging problem suddenly thrown upon her by Nature. Our Ashram life also took a different turn; the old barriers completely broke down under this influx. No longer a hermitage of peace, silence and inner expansion and acquisition, it had to be tested in the crucible of outer life. We soon became one spiritual family. The Mother had to look after the mental, vital and physical health of the green ones, both boys and girls. Along with the necessity, means also came forward to meet the demand. Sisirkumar Mitra from Vishwabharati, with a long teaching experience, and Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya from Calcutta, an expert in physical culture, came and were given charge of the two wings of education, mental and physical. Particularly in young Pranab, the Mother found an excellent instrument for physical culture and with his help she quickly built up the centre of physical education. I don't need to discuss the place and raison d'etre of physical education in our Ashram life when Sri Aurobindo has done it so well in his essay on The Divine Body.[6] My vision being more earthly, I can see that it has served the most important purpose of keeping the inflammable material of young boys, girls and children under a strict supervision through compulsory activities from 4.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. or so. One can very well imagine what would have been the moral effect on them, had there not been this central control, especially when the children here are given a great freedom of movement. Those young people who have cut themselves off from these collective activities suffer much from psychological troubles. Most of the ills of the youth outside have their origin in having no occupation after college and school hours. After Sri Aurobindo's passing, the Mother gave me one sound counsel, "Be in the atmosphere," by which she meant that I should not isolate myself from the collective activities. When there was a demand for more holidays, the Mother remarked, "I have started the School so that the children may not knock about in the streets." Since then, Sisirkumar has resisted the pressure of the students for more holidays.

1.04 - The Future of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  single, Major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single,
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1.04 - The Need of Guru, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  Whatever we are now is the result of our acts and thoughts in the past; and whatever we shall be in the future will be the result of what we think end do now. But this, the shaping of our own destinies, does not preclude our receiving help from outside; nay, in the vast Majority of cases such help is absolutely necessary. When it comes, the higher powers and possibilities of the soul are quickened, spiritual life is awakened, growth is animated, and man becomes holy and perfect in the end.
  This quickening impulse cannot be derived from books. The soul can only receive impulses from another soul, and from nothing else. We may study books all our lives, we may become very intellectual, but in the end we find that we have not developed at all spiritually. It is not true that a high order of intellectual development always goes hand in hand with a proportionate development of the spiritual side in Man. In studying books we are sometimes deluded into thinking that thereby we are being spiritually helped; but if we analyse the effect of the study of books on ourselves, we shall find that at the utmost it is only our intellect that derives profit from such studies, and not our inner spirit.
  --
  There are, however, certain great dangers in the way. There is, for instance, the danger to the receiving soul of its mistaking momentary emotions for real religious yearning. We may study that in ourselves. Many a time in our lives, somebody dies whom we loved; we receive a blow; we feel that the world is slipping between our fingers, that we want something surer and higher, and that we must become religious. In a few days that wave of feeling has passed away, and we are left stranded just where we were before. We are all of us often mistaking such impulses for real thirst after religion; but as long as these momentary emotions are thus mistaken, that continuous, real craving of the soul for religion will not come, and we shall not find the true transmitter of spirituality into our nature. So whenever we are tempted to complain of our search after the truth that we desire so much, proving vain, instead of so complaining, our first duty ought to be to look into our own souls and find whether the craving in the heart is real. Then in the vast Majority of cases it would be discovered that we were not fit for receiving the truth, that there was no real thirst for spirituality.
  There are still greater dangers in regard to the transmitter, the Guru. There are many who, though immersed in ignorance, yet, in the pride of their hearts, fancy they know everything, and not only do not stop there, but offer to take others on their shoulders; and thus the blind leading the blind, both fall into the ditch.

WORDNET



--- Overview of noun major

The noun major has 4 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (2) major ::: (a commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines; below lieutenant colonel and above captain)
2. Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major ::: (British statesman who was prime minister from 1990 until 1997 (born in 1943))
3. major ::: (a university student who is studying a particular field as the principal subject; "she is a linguistics major")
4. major ::: (the principal field of study of a student at a university; "her major is linguistics")

--- Overview of verb major

The verb major has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (2) major ::: (have as one's principal field of study; "She is majoring in linguistics")

--- Overview of adj major

The adj major has 8 senses (first 5 from tagged texts)
                    
1. (38) major ::: (of greater importance or stature or rank; "a major artist"; "a major role"; "major highways")
2. (25) major ::: (greater in scope or effect; "a major contribution"; "a major improvement"; "a major break with tradition"; "a major misunderstanding")
3. (22) major ::: (greater in number or size or amount; "a major portion (a majority) of the population"; "Ursa Major"; "a major portion of the winnings")
4. (1) major ::: (of the field of academic study in which one concentrates or specializes; "his major field was mathematics")
5. (1) major ::: (of a scale or mode; "major scales"; "the key of D major")
6. major ::: (of greater seriousness or danger; "a major earthquake"; "a major hurricane"; "a major illness")
7. major ::: (of full legal age)
8. major ::: (of the elder of two boys with the same family name; "Jones major")


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun major

4 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major
   => commissioned military officer
     => commissioned officer
       => military officer, officer
         => serviceman, military man, man, military personnel
           => skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
             => worker
               => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
                 => organism, being
                   => living thing, animate thing
                     => whole, unit
                       => object, physical object
                         => physical entity
                           => entity
                 => causal agent, cause, causal agency
                   => physical entity
                     => entity

Sense 2
Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major
   INSTANCE OF=> statesman, solon, national leader
     => politician, politico, pol, political leader
       => leader
         => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
           => organism, being
             => living thing, animate thing
               => whole, unit
                 => object, physical object
                   => physical entity
                     => entity
           => causal agent, cause, causal agency
             => physical entity
               => entity

Sense 3
major
   => student, pupil, educatee
     => enrollee
       => person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
         => organism, being
           => living thing, animate thing
             => whole, unit
               => object, physical object
                 => physical entity
                   => entity
         => causal agent, cause, causal agency
           => physical entity
             => entity

Sense 4
major
   => discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
     => knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain
       => content, cognitive content, mental object
         => cognition, knowledge, noesis
           => psychological feature
             => abstraction, abstract entity
               => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun major
                                    


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun major

4 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major
   => commissioned military officer

Sense 2
Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major
   INSTANCE OF=> statesman, solon, national leader

Sense 3
major
   => student, pupil, educatee

Sense 4
major
   => discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick


--- Similarity of adj major

8 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major (vs. minor)
   => leading(predicate), prima(predicate), star(predicate), starring(predicate), stellar(prenominal)

Sense 2
major (vs. minor)

Sense 3
major (vs. minor)
   => better

Sense 4
major (vs. minor)

Sense 5
major (vs. minor)

Sense 6
major (vs. minor)

Sense 7
major (vs. minor)

Sense 8
major(postnominal)
   => senior (vs. junior)


--- Antonyms of adj major

8 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)
    => insignificant, peanut
    => secondary

Sense 2
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)

Sense 3
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)

Sense 4
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)

Sense 5
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)

Sense 6
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major)

Sense 7
major (vs. minor)

minor (vs. major), nonaged, underage

Sense 8
major(postnominal)

INDIRECT (VIA senior) -> junior


--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun major

4 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major
  -> commissioned military officer
   => captain
   => colonel
   => field-grade officer, field officer, FO
   => general officer
   => lieutenant
   => major
   => marshal, marshall
   => subaltern

Sense 2
Major, John Major, John R. Major, John Roy Major
  -> statesman, solon, national leader
   => elder statesman
   => Founding Father
   => stateswoman
   HAS INSTANCE=> Acheson, Dean Acheson, Dean Gooderham Acheson
   HAS INSTANCE=> Adenauer, Konrad Adenauer
   HAS INSTANCE=> Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
   HAS INSTANCE=> Alcibiades
   HAS INSTANCE=> Arafat, Yasser Arafat
   HAS INSTANCE=> Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk, Kemal Pasha, Mustafa Kemal
   HAS INSTANCE=> Attlee, Clement Attlee, Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee
   HAS INSTANCE=> Augustus, Gaius Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Octavian
   HAS INSTANCE=> Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans
   HAS INSTANCE=> Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley
   HAS INSTANCE=> Balfour, Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour
   HAS INSTANCE=> Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch
   HAS INSTANCE=> Begin, Menachem Begin
   HAS INSTANCE=> Ben Gurion, David Ben Gurion, David Grun
   HAS INSTANCE=> Bevin, Ernest Bevin
   HAS INSTANCE=> Bismarck, von Bismarck, Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto von Bismarck, Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, Iron Chancellor
   HAS INSTANCE=> Blair, Tony Blair, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair
   HAS INSTANCE=> Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
   HAS INSTANCE=> Bolivar, Simon Bolivar, El Libertador
   HAS INSTANCE=> Brandt, Willy Brandt
   HAS INSTANCE=> Brezhnev, Leonid Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev
   HAS INSTANCE=> Brutus, Marcus Junius Brutus
   HAS INSTANCE=> Burke, Edmund Burke
   HAS INSTANCE=> Caesar, Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar
   HAS INSTANCE=> Cassius, Cassius Longinus, Gaius Cassius Longinus
   HAS INSTANCE=> Chamberlain, Neville Chamberlain, Arthur Neville Chamberlain
   HAS INSTANCE=> Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
   HAS INSTANCE=> Chesterfield, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
   HAS INSTANCE=> Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Chung-cheng
   HAS INSTANCE=> Churchill, Winston Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
   HAS INSTANCE=> Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully
   HAS INSTANCE=> Cincinnatus, Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
   HAS INSTANCE=> Clemenceau, Georges Clemenceau, Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau
   HAS INSTANCE=> Clive, Robert Clive, Baron Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey
   HAS INSTANCE=> Cosimo de Medici, Cosimo the Elder
   HAS INSTANCE=> Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides
   HAS INSTANCE=> Davis, Jefferson Davis
   HAS INSTANCE=> Dayan, Moshe Dayan
   HAS INSTANCE=> de Gaulle, General de Gaulle, Charles de Gaulle, General Charles de Gaulle, Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle
   HAS INSTANCE=> Demosthenes
   HAS INSTANCE=> Deng Xiaoping, Teng Hsiao-ping, Teng Hsiaoping
   HAS INSTANCE=> de Valera, Eamon de Valera
   HAS INSTANCE=> Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield
   HAS INSTANCE=> Flaminius, Gaius Flaminius
   HAS INSTANCE=> Fox, Charles James Fox
   HAS INSTANCE=> Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Indira Nehru Gandhi, Mrs. Gandhi
   HAS INSTANCE=> Gladstone, William Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone
   HAS INSTANCE=> Gorbachev, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
   HAS INSTANCE=> Grey, Charles Grey, Second Earl Grey
   HAS INSTANCE=> Haldane, Richard Haldane, Richard Burdon Haldane, First Viscount Haldane of Cloan
   HAS INSTANCE=> Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton
   HAS INSTANCE=> Havel, Vaclav Havel
   HAS INSTANCE=> Hindenburg, Paul von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg
   HAS INSTANCE=> Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Tat Thanh
   HAS INSTANCE=> Jinnah, Muhammad Ali Jinnah
   HAS INSTANCE=> Kalinin, Mikhail Kalinin, Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin
   HAS INSTANCE=> Kaunda, Kenneth Kaunda, Kenneth David Kaunda
   HAS INSTANCE=> Kenyata, Jomo Kenyata
   HAS INSTANCE=> Kerensky, Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky
   HAS INSTANCE=> Khama, Sir Seretse Khama
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Kruger, Oom Paul Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
   HAS INSTANCE=> Lorenzo de'Medici, Lorenzo the Magnificent
   HAS INSTANCE=> Machiavelli, Niccolo Machiavelli
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   HAS INSTANCE=> Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
   HAS INSTANCE=> Marshall, George Marshall, George Catlett Marshall
   HAS INSTANCE=> Meir, Golda Meir
   HAS INSTANCE=> Metternich, Klemens Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich
   HAS INSTANCE=> Mitterrand, Francois Mitterrand, Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand
   HAS INSTANCE=> Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov
   HAS INSTANCE=> More, Thomas More, Sir Thomas More
   HAS INSTANCE=> Morris, Gouverneur Morris
   HAS INSTANCE=> Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak
   HAS INSTANCE=> Nansen, Fridtjof Nansen
   HAS INSTANCE=> Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser
   HAS INSTANCE=> Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru
   HAS INSTANCE=> North, Frederick North, Second Earl of Guilford
   HAS INSTANCE=> Ortega, Daniel Ortega, Daniel Ortega Saavedra
   HAS INSTANCE=> Paderewski, Ignace Paderewski, Ignace Jan Paderewski
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pericles
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pitt, William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Elder
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pitt, William Pitt, Second Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Younger
   HAS INSTANCE=> Pompey, Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Pompey the Great
   HAS INSTANCE=> Powell, Colin Powell, Colin luther Powell
   HAS INSTANCE=> Putin, Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
   HAS INSTANCE=> Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
   HAS INSTANCE=> Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu
   HAS INSTANCE=> Rockingham, Second Marquis of Rockingham, Charles Watson-Wentworth
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sadat, Anwar Sadat, Anwar el-Sadat
   HAS INSTANCE=> Schmidt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt
   HAS INSTANCE=> Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca
   HAS INSTANCE=> Smith, Ian Smith, Ian Douglas Smith
   HAS INSTANCE=> Smuts, Jan Christian Smuts
   HAS INSTANCE=> Suharto
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sukarno, Achmad Sukarno
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
   HAS INSTANCE=> Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yixian
   HAS INSTANCE=> Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
   HAS INSTANCE=> Themistocles
   HAS INSTANCE=> Tito, Marshal Tito, Josip Broz
   HAS INSTANCE=> Vargas, Getulio Dornelles Vargas
   HAS INSTANCE=> Verwoerd, Hendrik Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd
   HAS INSTANCE=> Waldheim, Kurt Waldheim
   HAS INSTANCE=> Walesa, Lech Walesa
   HAS INSTANCE=> Walpole, Robert Walpole, Sir Robert Walpole, First Earl of Orford
   HAS INSTANCE=> Warwick, Earl of Warwick, Richard Neville, Kingmaker
   HAS INSTANCE=> Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Azriel Weizmann
   HAS INSTANCE=> Wellington, Duke of Wellington, First Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Iron Duke
   HAS INSTANCE=> Wykeham, William of Wykeham

Sense 3
major
  -> student, pupil, educatee
   => art student
   => auditor
   => catechumen, neophyte
   => collegian, college man, college boy
   => crammer
   => Etonian
   => Ivy Leaguer
   => law student
   => major
   => medical student, medico
   => nonreader
   => overachiever
   => passer
   => scholar
   => seminarian, seminarist
   => sixth-former
   => skipper
   => underachiever, underperformer, nonachiever
   => withdrawer
   => Wykehamist

Sense 4
major
  -> discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
   => occultism
   => communications, communication theory
   => major
   => frontier
   => genealogy
   => allometry
   => bibliotics
   => ology
   => science, scientific discipline
   => architecture
   => engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology
   => futurology, futuristics
   => humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts
   => theology, divinity
   => military science
   => escapology
   => graphology
   => numerology
   => protology
   => theogony


--- Pertainyms of adj major

8 senses of major                          

Sense 1
major (vs. minor)

Sense 2
major (vs. minor)

Sense 3
major (vs. minor)

Sense 4
major (vs. minor)

Sense 5
major (vs. minor)

Sense 6
major (vs. minor)

Sense 7
major (vs. minor)

Sense 8
major(postnominal)


--- Derived Forms of adj major

2 of 8 senses of major                        

Sense 3
major (vs. minor)
   RELATED TO->(noun) majority#2
     => majority, absolute majority
   RELATED TO->(noun) majority#1
     => majority, bulk

Sense 7
major (vs. minor)
   RELATED TO->(noun) majority#3
     => majority, legal age


--- Grep of noun major
astrantia major
c major
c major scale
canis major
clusia major
command sergeant major
drum major
epilepsia major
john major
john r. major
john roy major
major
major-domo
major-general
major-league club
major-league team
major affective disorder
major axis
major depressive episode
major diatonic scale
major fast day
major form class
major key
major league
major leaguer
major lobe
major mode
major planet
major power
major premise
major premiss
major scale
major suit
major surgery
major term
major tranquilizer
major tranquilliser
major tranquillizer
majorana
majorana hortensis
majorca
majorette
majority
majority leader
majority operation
majority opinion
majority rule
majors
musculus pectoralis major
musculus rhomboideus major
musculus teres major
pectoralis major
pipe major
plantago major
publius cornelius scipio africanus major
rhomboideus major muscle
scale of c major
scipio africanus major
sergeant major
teres major
teres major muscle
thalassaemia major
thalassemia major
ursa major
variola major
variola major virus
vinca major
vis major



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Wikipedia - Canary Wharf -- Major business and financial district located in Tower Hamlets, London, England
Wikipedia - Canis Major Overdensity -- Disputed irregular galaxy located near the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Canis Major -- Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Wikipedia - Capitol Mall -- Major street in Sacramento, California
Wikipedia - Carey A. Randall -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Carl A. Youngdale -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Carl W. Hoffman -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Category:Major Penitentiaries of the Apostolic Penitentiary
Wikipedia - Catoptria majorellus -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Champ and Major -- Dogs immediate family members of Jill and Joe Biden
Wikipedia - Change the Game -- 2001 single by Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Static Major
Wikipedia - Char Dham -- Four major Hindu pilgrimage sites in India
Wikipedia - Charles Billingslea -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Charles D. Mize -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Charles F. Widdecke -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Wikipedia - Charles Ingram -- English novelist, computer repairman, army major, and fraudster
Wikipedia - Charles James Napier -- Major General, Governor of Sindh, and Commander-in-Chief in British India (1782-1853)
Wikipedia - Charlotte FC -- Planned Major League Soccer team in Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S.
Wikipedia - Chemical industry in China -- Major manufactoring industry in China
Wikipedia - Cherry Street, Toledo -- Major east-west roadway in Toledo, Ohio, United States
Wikipedia - Chesapeake Bay Bridge -- Major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland, spanning the Chesapeake Bay
Wikipedia - Chester R. Allen -- American Marine Corps Major General and Quartermaster General
Wikipedia - Chicago Tribune -- Major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Childish Major -- American rapper and record producer
Wikipedia - Chile at major beauty pageants -- Chile at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Chile Fracture Zone -- A major strike slip fault and fracture zone on the Antarctic-Nazca Plate boundary
Wikipedia - China at major beauty pageants -- China at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Chittagong Hill Tracts -- Buddhist-majority region in southeastern Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Chi Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Chowdur -- One of the major modern Turkmen tribes
Wikipedia - Christmas card -- A major type of greeting cards
Wikipedia - Chronica Majora -- Literary work by Matthew Paris
Wikipedia - Church of St Mary Major, Exeter
Wikipedia - Chylomicron -- One of the five major groups of lipoprotein
Wikipedia - Circle of fifths -- Relationship among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, their corresponding key signatures, and the associated major and minor keys;geometrical representation of relationships among the 12 pitch classes of the chromatic scale in pitch class space
Wikipedia - Citico (Chattanooga, Tennessee) -- Major settlement of the Coosa confederacy
Wikipedia - Clarence Major
Wikipedia - Clark Street (Chicago) -- Major north-south thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Clathrin -- Protein playing a major role in the formation of coated vesicles
Wikipedia - Clement A. Trott -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Cleveland News -- Former major newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio
Wikipedia - Cleveland Press -- Former major newspaper in Cleveland, Ohi
Wikipedia - Clifford B. Drake -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - CMLL Dia de Muertos (2019) -- Major Mexican professional wrestling show
Wikipedia - CMLL Dia de Muertos (2020) -- Major Mexican professional wrestling show
Wikipedia - Coast Guard Base Kodiak -- Major shore installation of the United States Coast Guard, located in Kodiak, Alaska
Wikipedia - Cold Water (song) -- 2016 song by Major Lazer
Wikipedia - Collinder 140 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Colombia at major beauty pageants -- Colombia at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Colorado River -- Major river in the western United States and Mexico
Wikipedia - Communipaw Ferry -- Major ferry service from New Jersey and New York
Wikipedia - Company sergeant major -- Commonwealth military rank
Wikipedia - Complex early seral forest -- Type of ecosystem present after a major disturbance
Wikipedia - Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations -- Nonprofit organization
Wikipedia - Congress of Berlin -- 1878 meeting of representatives of the major European powers
Wikipedia - Conrad of Montferrat -- 12th century Italian nobleman and a major participant in the Third Crusade
Wikipedia - Constance of Aragon, Queen of Majorca
Wikipedia - Convention of Vergara -- 1839 treaty ending the major fighting in the First Carlist War
Wikipedia - Cornelius E. Ryan -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Crawford Notch -- Major pass through White Mountains in New Hampshire, US
Wikipedia - Creeping normality -- The way a major change can be accepted as a normal situation if it happens slowly through unnoticeable increments of change
Wikipedia - Crenshaw Boulevard -- Major street in Los Angeles
Wikipedia - Cristoforo Majorana
Wikipedia - Croatia at major beauty pageants -- Croatia at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Cryogenian -- Second period of the Neoproterozoic Era, with major glaciation
Wikipedia - Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma Brewery -- major Mexican beer brewery
Wikipedia - C Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - CX Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Czech Republic at major beauty pageants -- Czech Republic at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Daniel J. O'Donohue -- U.S. Marine major general.
Wikipedia - Dashavatara -- Ten major incarnations of Vishnu, the Hindu god of preservation and life
Wikipedia - David C. Shanks -- U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - David F. O'Neill -- American Major general
Wikipedia - David G. Barr -- American Army Major General
Wikipedia - David Ross (Continental Congress) -- American planter, lawyer, Army major, and delegate
Wikipedia - David Semyonovich Abamelik -- Russian-Armenian general-major
Wikipedia - Dear Bruce Springsteen -- 1987 book by Kevin Major
Wikipedia - Dedication of Saint Mary Major
Wikipedia - Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major
Wikipedia - Delaware River -- Major river on the East Coast of the United States
Wikipedia - Delta Air Lines -- Major airline of the United States; founding member of SkyTeam
Wikipedia - Delta Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Delta Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Democratic Majority for Israel -- lobbying group advocating pro-Israel policies in the United States
Wikipedia - Democratic Party (United States) -- Major political party in the United States
Wikipedia - Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus
Wikipedia - Denmark at major beauty pageants -- Denmark at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Derivative work -- Expressive work created from a major part of a different, original artwork
Wikipedia - Designated Player Rule -- Major League Soccer rule
Wikipedia - Desvenlafaxine -- Medication used to treat major depressive disorder
Wikipedia - DeWitt Peck -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - D-flat major -- Major scale based on DM-bM-^YM--
Wikipedia - Dii Consentes -- A list of twelve major deities in the pantheon of Ancient Rome
Wikipedia - Dinghao Market -- Major electronics market in Zhongguancun, Beijing
Wikipedia - Dinka language -- Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan
Wikipedia - Disaster -- An event or combination of events resulting in major damage, destruction or death
Wikipedia - Dmitri Polyakov -- Soviet Major General, high-ranking GRU officer, and prominent Cold War spy
Wikipedia - Dominican Republic at major beauty pageants -- Dominican Republic at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Donald M. Weller -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Don Glaciation -- The Don Glaciation (MIS 16) was a major glaciation of eastern Europe, approximately 650,000 years ago.
Wikipedia - Dong Mingxiang -- Chinese major general
Wikipedia - Donna Feigley Barbisch -- U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - Do not Panic, Major Kardos -- 1982 film
Wikipedia - Double majors in the United States
Wikipedia - Draft:Battle of the Somme casualties controversy -- Major Western Front WWI battle involving France and Britain
Wikipedia - Draft:List of Sri Lankan Major generals -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - Draft:Major abdullah -- Indian Comedy YouTuber and Gamer
Wikipedia - Draft:MLW Spring Break -- 2018 Major League Wrestling event
Wikipedia - Dry Falls -- Scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, in central Washington scablands
Wikipedia - Dundas Street -- Major arterial road in southwestern Ontario
Wikipedia - Dzogchen Monastery -- major monastery of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
Wikipedia - Earl C. Long -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Eastern Air Lines -- Major American airline from 1926 to 1991
Wikipedia - Easter Sonata -- 1828 piano sonata in the key of A major, composed by Fanny Mendelssohn
Wikipedia - Easter -- Major Christian festival celebrating the resurrection of Jesus
Wikipedia - Ebisu, Shibuya -- Major district of Special ward in KantM-EM-^M, Japan
Wikipedia - Ecosystem of the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre -- The largest contiguous ecosystem on earth and a major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Ectoedemia vincamajorella -- Species of moth
Wikipedia - Ecuador at major beauty pageants -- Ecuador at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Edge city -- New unstructured settlement created near a major city
Wikipedia - Edward Albert Kreger -- American Major General
Wikipedia - Edward Gott-Getynski -- Major of Artillery in the Polish Army and underground resistance fighter
Wikipedia - Edwin B. Wheeler -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Edwin P. Parker Jr. -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - E-flat major -- Major scale based on EM-bM-^YM--
Wikipedia - Elbe -- Major river in Central Europe
Wikipedia - El Cajon Boulevard -- Major thoroughfare through San Diego, La Mesa and El Cajon, California and called "The Boulevard"
Wikipedia - El (deity) -- Northwest Semitic word meaning "god" or "deity", or referring (as a proper name) to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities
Wikipedia - Elephant in the room -- Obvious major problem that no-one mentions
Wikipedia - Eliza Armstrong case -- 1885 major UK scandal involving child prostitution
Wikipedia - El Salvador at major beauty pageants -- El Salvador at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Emile P. Moses -- American Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Epsilon Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Epsilon Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Ersari -- One of the major modern Turkmen tribes
Wikipedia - Eta Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - ETA political-military -- Majority faction of the ETA
Wikipedia - Eta Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Ethnic majority
Wikipedia - Ettore Majorana
Wikipedia - Eugene O. Major
Wikipedia - Euphrates -- Major river in Western Asia
Wikipedia - Executive Order 13769 -- United States Executive Order limiting refugees from Muslim-majority countries
Wikipedia - EZ Canis Majoris -- Binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Fali Homi Major -- Former Chief of the Indian Air Force
Wikipedia - Feige 55 -- White dwarf in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Feminist Majority Foundation -- Non-profit organisation in the USA
Wikipedia - Fernando E. Rodriguez Vargas -- Puerto Rican doctor and a Major in the U.S. Army
Wikipedia - Ferritin -- A protein complex that binds iron and acts as a major iron storage system. Intracellular and extracellular ferritin complexes have different ratios of two types of ferritin monomer, the L (light) chain and H (heavy) chain.
Wikipedia - Finland at major beauty pageants -- Finland at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - First Battle of Bull Run -- First major land battle of the American Civil War
Wikipedia - First Jewish-Roman War -- The first of three major rebellions by the Jews against the Roman Empire
Wikipedia - Five Families -- Five major New York City organized crime families of the Italian American Mafia
Wikipedia - Five Thieves -- In Sikhism, five major weaknesses of the human personality at variance with its spiritual essence
Wikipedia - FN Canis Majoris -- Variable star in Canis Major constellation
Wikipedia - Fothergilla major -- Species of flowering plant
Wikipedia - Four Courts -- Major court complex in Dublin, Ireland
Wikipedia - France at major beauty pageants -- France at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Francis B. Loomis Jr. -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Francis M. McAlister -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Francois al-Hajj -- Lebanese major general
Wikipedia - Frank C. Lang -- American Major general
Wikipedia - Fred E. Haynes Jr. -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach -- hereditary prince and major general in the German Imperial army
Wikipedia - Frederick M. Padilla -- U.S. Marine major general.
Wikipedia - Fritz Howard -- Fictional character featured in TNT's The Closer and its spin-off Major Crimes
Wikipedia - FS Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - F-sharp major -- Major scale based on F-sharp
Wikipedia - FutureLearn -- Massive open online course platform founded in 2012 as a company majority owned by the UK's Open University
Wikipedia - G 196-3 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Gamma Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Gamma Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Ganges -- Major river in southern Asia
Wikipedia - Gaskiers glaciation -- The last major glacial event of the Precambrian
Wikipedia - Geoffrey D. Miller -- Retired United States Army Major General
Wikipedia - Geological history of Earth -- The sequence of major geological events in Earth's past
Wikipedia - George B. McClellan -- American major general
Wikipedia - George J. O'Shea -- American Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - George S. Bowman Jr. -- American Major general
Wikipedia - George W. Smith (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Germany at major beauty pageants -- Germany at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Gheg Albanian -- one of two major varieties of Albanian
Wikipedia - Gin & Juice (DeVante Swing song) -- 1996 single by DeVante Swing and Static Major
Wikipedia - Girard Avenue -- Major commercial and residential street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Wikipedia - Gliese 412 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Gonville Bromhead -- British army major
Wikipedia - Gorg Blau -- Artificial reservoir on the island of Majorca in the Balearic Islands
Wikipedia - Governor-general -- Vice-regal representative of a monarch in an independent realm or a major colonial state
Wikipedia - Great capes -- The three major capes of the traditional clipper route
Wikipedia - Greater Caucasus -- Major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains
Wikipedia - Great Escarpment, Southern Africa -- Major topographical feature in southern Africa
Wikipedia - Great European immigration wave to Argentina -- Major immigration event took place in the late 19th and early 20th century
Wikipedia - Great Falls Tectonic Zone -- A major intracontinental shear zone between the Hearne craton and Wyoming craton
Wikipedia - Great Fire of London -- Major City of London fire of 1666
Wikipedia - Great Recession in the United States -- Major economic downturn in the United States
Wikipedia - Great Salinity Anomaly -- A significant disturbance caused by a major pulse of freshwater input to the Nordic Seas
Wikipedia - Great Southern and Western Railway -- Major railway company in Ireland (1844-1924)
Wikipedia - Great Stockholm Fire of 1625 -- Major city fire in Sweden
Wikipedia - Great Storm of 1703 -- Major 1703 storm in England and out at the English Channel
Wikipedia - Greece at major beauty pageants -- Greece at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Gree Electric -- Chinese major appliance manufacturer headquartered in Zhuhai, Guangdong
Wikipedia - Green Man Festival -- Major music festival held annually in Wales
Wikipedia - Gregon A. Williams -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Grito de Lares -- The first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Groombridge 1618 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Groombridge 1830 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Gutenberg Bible -- first major book printed
Wikipedia - Hacettepe University -- Major state university in Ankara, Turkey
Wikipedia - Hailong Market -- Major electronics market in Zhongguancun, Beijing
Wikipedia - Hakata Station -- Major railway and metro station in Fukuoka, Japan
Wikipedia - Halley G. Maddox -- U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - Halstead Dorey -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Hanger Lane -- Major road in the London Borough of Ealing
Wikipedia - Harold Benjamin Fiske -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Harold D. Campbell -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Harold J. Greene -- United States Army major general
Wikipedia - Harry Davis Watson -- British major-general
Wikipedia - Harry J. Malony -- U.S. Army Major general
Wikipedia - Harry Lovejoy Rogers -- U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - Harry Reid -- American politician, former Senate Majority Leader
Wikipedia - Harvey D. Williams -- African-American U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - Hathor -- Major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion
Wikipedia - HAT-P-13 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HAT-P-21 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HAT-P-3 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Hattori HanzM-EM-^M -- samurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan
Wikipedia - HD 111456 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 118203 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 119124 -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 233731 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 43197 -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 45184 -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 45364 -- Star in constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 47366 -- Star in the costellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 47536 -- star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 47667 -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 56405 -- Star in the costellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 56577 -- Star in the costellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 57821 -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - HD 68988 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 74389 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 80606 and HD 80607 -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 89744 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 91312 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HD 99706 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Health Care Service Corporation -- major American multistate health insurer and health maintenance organization
Wikipedia - Heathrow Airport -- Major international airport serving London, United Kingdom
Wikipedia - Henry R. Paige -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Herbert L. Wilkerson -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Herbert M. Jones -- U.S. Army major general
Wikipedia - Herbs de Majorca -- Spanish herbal drink, Majorcan herbal liquor
Wikipedia - Hereditarianism -- View that genetics plays a major role in determining human behavior
Wikipedia - Hermann Preusker -- German major
Wikipedia - Herman Poggemeyer Jr. -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Herman Wedel Major -- Norwegian psychiatrist
Wikipedia - High-density lipoprotein -- One of the five major groups of lipoprotein
Wikipedia - High Heat Major League Baseball
Wikipedia - HIP 57050 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Hippias Major
Wikipedia - Hippias major
Wikipedia - Hispavox -- Major Spanish record label owned by Hispavox, S.A.
Wikipedia - HOLMES 2 -- database of the United Kingdom government for major crimes
Wikipedia - Homelessness in India -- Major social issue in India
Wikipedia - Homer S. Hill -- American Major general
Wikipedia - Hospital Bend -- A major freeway junction in Cape Town
Wikipedia - Houston Metro -- Major public transportation agency the United States
Wikipedia - HR 4072 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - HR 5256 -- star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Hubble Deep Field -- Multiple exposure image of deep space in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Hudson Seaway -- A major seaway of North America during the Cretaceous Period
Wikipedia - Human rights in Muslim-majority countries -- Social public humans right for muslims majority continent
Wikipedia - Hungary at major beauty pageants -- Hungary at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Iapetus Suture -- One of several major geological faults caused by the collision of several ancient land masses forming a suture
Wikipedia - Iceland at major beauty pageants -- Iceland at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Ikebukuro Station -- Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - Illegal drugs in Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico has become a major transshipment point for drugs
Wikipedia - Illicit major
Wikipedia - Inchicore railway works -- IrelandM-bM-^@M-^Ys major rail engineering facility, Dublin
Wikipedia - Independent film -- Film done outside major film studio system
Wikipedia - Indian Ocean Gyre -- A large systems of rotating ocean currents. The Indian Ocean gyre is composed of two major currents: the South Equatorial Current, and the West Australian Current
Wikipedia - Insulin-like growth factor 2 -- A major fetal growth factor in contrast to Insulin-like growth factor 1, which is a major growth factor in adults.
Wikipedia - Intentona de Yauco -- Second and final major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Intermediate-density lipoprotein -- One of the five major groups of lipoprotein
Wikipedia - International Cocoa Initiative -- Geneva-based nonprofit funded by major chocolate makers to address child labour issues in cocoa production in West Africa
Wikipedia - Interstate 85 bridge collapse -- A massive fire collapsed a major commuter bridge in Atlanta, Georgia
Wikipedia - Interxion -- Major European datacenter and backbone operator
Wikipedia - Inverted pyramid (journalism) -- Communication of major details before minor details
Wikipedia - IOS 10 -- Tenth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 11 -- Eleventh major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 12 -- Twelfth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 13 -- Thirteenth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 14 -- Fourteenth and current major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 4 -- Fourth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 5 -- Fifth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 6 -- Sixth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 7 -- Seventh major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 8 -- Eighth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - IOS 9 -- Ninth major release of iOS, the mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia - Iota Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Iota Ursae Majoris -- Double binary star system in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - IPadOS 14 -- Second and current major version of iPadOS
Wikipedia - IPhone OS 1 -- first major version of the mobile operating system by Apple
Wikipedia - Ireland at major beauty pageants -- Ireland at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Irene Daniels -- Fictional character featured in TNT's Major Crimes
Wikipedia - Irish political scandals -- Major Political scandals in the Republic of Ireland
Wikipedia - Isabella of Majorca
Wikipedia - Ishikawa Kazumasa -- samurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan
Wikipedia - Ismail Ali Abokor -- Somali Politician and Major General
Wikipedia - ISO 639-1 -- International standard two-letter codes identifying major languages
Wikipedia - Istvan Majoros -- Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion
Wikipedia - Italian occupation of Majorca -- Fascist Italian control of the island of Majorca during the Spanish Civil War.
Wikipedia - Italy at major beauty pageants -- Italy at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Iteomyia major -- Species of fly
Wikipedia - Jack P. Juhan -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Jamaica at major beauty pageants -- Jamaica at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - James II of Majorca -- King of Majorca
Wikipedia - James Morris Colquhoun Colvin -- British army major
Wikipedia - Jan Andersson (Swedish Air Force officer) -- Swedish Air Force major general
Wikipedia - Jan Jonkers (politician) -- Dutch major and politician
Wikipedia - Japan at major beauty pageants -- Japan at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Japan National Route 1 -- Japanese road from Tokyo to Osaka, major road on the island of HonshM-EM-+ in Japan.
Wikipedia - Jehuda Cresques -- Cartographer from Palma, Majorca
Wikipedia - Johann Major -- German poet and theologian
Wikipedia - John Admire -- U.S. Marine major general.
Wikipedia - John Cass -- British politician and major figure in the early development of the slave trade
Wikipedia - John Henniker-Major, 4th Baron Henniker -- British politician
Wikipedia - John H. Masters -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - John Major Jenkins -- New Age writer
Wikipedia - John Major (philosopher)
Wikipedia - John Major -- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1990 to 1997
Wikipedia - John Marston (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - John M. Devine -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - John P. Condon -- American Major general
Wikipedia - John Raymond Broadbent (Major General) -- Australian general
Wikipedia - John R. Massaro -- 8th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Wikipedia - John Winterton -- British Army major general
Wikipedia - Joint Munitions Command -- Major Subordinate Command of the United States Army Materiel Command
Wikipedia - Jonas M. Platt -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Jonathan Majors -- American actor
Wikipedia - Jon Hall (programmer) -- Programmer and major contributor to the Linux project
Wikipedia - Joseph Ahearne -- Australian Surgeon-Major
Wikipedia - Joseph O. Butcher -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Judith Webb -- British Army major
Wikipedia - Julio Sanchez (The Closer) -- Fictional character featured in TNT's The Closer and its spin-off Major Crimes
Wikipedia - Kappa Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Kappa Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Karaikal Kailasanathar Temple -- major temple in Karaikal, India
Wikipedia - Karaikkal Ammaiyar -- major figure in early Tamil literature
Wikipedia - Karakoram -- Major mountain range spanning the borders between India, Pakistan, and China
Wikipedia - Karna -- Major character in the epic Mahabharata
Wikipedia - Kathleen Major -- British historian & college principal
Wikipedia - Kemao Market -- Major electronics market in Zhongguancun, Beijing
Wikipedia - Kennecott Utah Copper -- Major copper mining and refining company
Wikipedia - Kereta Api Indonesia -- Major operator of public railways in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Kesur Singh -- Risaldar-major in the British Indian Army
Wikipedia - Khan el-Khalili -- Major souk in Cairo
Wikipedia - Khongirad -- A major division of the Mongol tribes
Wikipedia - Kingdom of Majorca
Wikipedia - Kings of Colosseum (2019) -- 2019 Major League Wrestling professional wrestling event
Wikipedia - Kings of Colosseum (2021) -- 2021 Major League Wrestling professional wrestling event
Wikipedia - Know No Better -- 2017 EP by Major Lazer
Wikipedia - Kodashim -- Fifth of the six orders, or major divisions, of the Mishnah, Tosefta and the Talmud
Wikipedia - Krishna -- Major deity in Hinduism
Wikipedia - K Street (Washington, D.C.) -- Major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C.; a metonym for the United States lobbying industry
Wikipedia - Kuching International Airport -- Major international airport in Malaysia serving the city of Kuching, Sarawak
Wikipedia - Kunti -- A major character in the Hindu epic Mahabharata
Wikipedia - Kush Democratic Majority Party -- Political party in South Sudan
Wikipedia - KyM-EM-^Mto Station -- Major railway and metro station in Kyoto, Japan
Wikipedia - Labia majora -- Outer folds of the vulva
Wikipedia - Ladies Major League Wrestling -- Defunct American professional wrestling promotion
Wikipedia - Ladislav LipiM-DM-^M -- Slovenian major general
Wikipedia - La DM-CM-)fense -- Major business district in M-CM-^Nle-de-France, France
Wikipedia - Lairig an Laoigh -- Major mountain pass in Cairngorms, Scotland
Wikipedia - Lalande 21185 -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Lambda Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Majoris
Wikipedia - Lambda Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Laos at major beauty pageants -- Laos at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Last Glacial Period -- The most recent glacial period with major glaciations of the northern hemisphere (115 000 - 12 000 years ago)
Wikipedia - Law enforcement in the United States -- Major component of the US criminal justice system
Wikipedia - Lawrence Lotito -- American business owner, meteorologist, and USAF major
Wikipedia - Lee Majors -- American actor
Wikipedia - Lee Major -- American rapper
Wikipedia - Leonard B. Cresswell -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Leonard E. Rea -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Leroy Suddath -- American major general
Wikipedia - Levantine Arabic -- One of the 5 major dialects of Arabic, spoken in the Eastern Mediterranean littoral
Wikipedia - Light It Up (Major Lazer song) -- 2015 single by Major Lazer
Wikipedia - Ligovsky Avenue -- Major street in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Wikipedia - Limnodriloides major -- Species of annelid
Wikipedia - Lion's share -- Idiom which refers to the major share of something
Wikipedia - List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of broadsides of major World War II ships -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of California communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2010 census -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of current Major League Soccer broadcasters -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of ESPN Major League Soccer personalities -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of final standings of the World Marathon Majors -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - List of fires at major places of worship -- Wikipedia list article
Wikipedia - List of founders of major religions
Wikipedia - List of humor research publications -- List of books, journals, and major publications humor research
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Wikipedia - Local-express lanes -- Arrangement of carriageways within a major highway
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Wikipedia - Louie Provenza -- Fictional character featured in TNT's The Closer and its spin-off Major Crimes
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Wikipedia - Loya jirga -- Pashtun legal assembly convened for major national issues
Wikipedia - LS Canis Majoris -- Binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Lukanga Swamp -- Major wetland in Zambia
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Wikipedia - M101 Group -- Loose group of galaxies in Ursa Major
Wikipedia - MacOS Big Sur -- Current major version of the macOS operating system
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Wikipedia - Mac OS X Leopard -- Sixth major release of OS X
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Wikipedia - Maha Oya -- Major stream in the Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka
Wikipedia - Main Street (Los Angeles) -- Major north-south thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California
Wikipedia - Major 2nd -- Manga and anime series
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Wikipedia - Major District Road 82 (Punjab) -- District road in India
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Wikipedia - Major histocompatibility complex, class I-related -- Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
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Wikipedia - Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
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Wikipedia - Major National Dialogue -- Part of the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
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Wikipedia - Major Powell (screw) -- Twin screw driven steamboat
Wikipedia - Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada -- Informal group of sports leagues
Wikipedia - Major prophet -- Grouping of books in the Old Testament
Wikipedia - Major Public Appointments Select Committee -- Committee appointed by the Malaysian House of Representatives
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Wikipedia - Major trauma -- Injury that could cause prolonged disability or death
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Wikipedia - Major (United Kingdom) -- Military rank which is used by both the British Army and Royal Marines
Wikipedia - Major urinary proteins -- Proteins found in the urine and other secretions of many animals
Wikipedia - Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel site -- Archaeological site in Canada
Wikipedia - Major -- Military rank
Wikipedia - Malayo-Polynesian languages -- Major subgroup of the Austronesian language family
Wikipedia - Maliki -- One of four major schools of madhhab of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam
Wikipedia - Mandarin Chinese -- Major branch of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China
Wikipedia - Manouchehr Khosrodad -- Iranian military major general
Wikipedia - Manzur Quader -- Bangladeshi Politician And Retired Major
Wikipedia - Margaret MacDonald (nurse) -- Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Nursing service band; first woman in the British Empire to reach the rank of major
Wikipedia - Markdale Majors -- Canadian Intermediate (Senior) hockey team from the town of Markdale, Ontario
Wikipedia - Mark Kerr (Royal Navy officer) -- British Admiral and Major-General
Wikipedia - Massachusetts Avenue (Washington, D.C.) -- Major diagonal transverse road in Washington, D.C.
Wikipedia - Massimo Panizzi -- Italian Army Major General
Wikipedia - Matthew C. Horner -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Maximo Gomez -- Dominican Major General
Wikipedia - May's theorem -- Social choice theory on superiority of a simple majority voting
Wikipedia - Medal of Major Milan Tepic -- Republika Srpska medal
Wikipedia - Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II -- Major theatre of operations during the Second World War
Wikipedia - Mekong -- Major river in Southeast Asia
Wikipedia - M-EM-^Lkubo Tadayo -- samurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan
Wikipedia - M-EM-^Lmiya Station (Saitama) -- Major railway station in Saitama, Japan
Wikipedia - M-EM-^Lsaka Station -- Major railway and metro station in Osaka, Japan
Wikipedia - Mesozoic-Cenozoic radiation -- The third major extended increase in biodiversity in the Phanerozoic
Wikipedia - Messier 41 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Messier 82 -- A starburst galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Major art museum in New York City, United States
Wikipedia - Metropolitan Parkway (Detroit area) -- Major thoroughfare in Metro Detroit
Wikipedia - Metropolitan Routes in Cape Town -- Major inntra-city road routes
Wikipedia - Mexican Revolution -- |major nationwide armed struggle in Mexico between 1910 and 1920
Wikipedia - Mexico at major beauty pageants -- Mexico at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Michael P. Ryan (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Micheal Barrett -- 17th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Wikipedia - Michigan Avenue (Chicago) -- Major north-south thoroughfare in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Wikipedia - Milan Tepic -- Major in the Yugoslav People's Army
Wikipedia - Miles Hawk Major -- 1930s British monoplane
Wikipedia - Millennium Challenge 2002 -- Major war game exercise
Wikipedia - Minnesota Monarchs -- Major League Volleyball franchise
Wikipedia - Minor Earth Major Sky (song) -- 2000 single by A-ha
Wikipedia - Mishnah -- The first major written collection of the Oral Torah.
Wikipedia - Mississippi River -- Major river in the United States
Wikipedia - Missouri River -- Major river in the central United States
Wikipedia - Mitch McConnell -- U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Senate Majority Leader
Wikipedia - Mixed electoral system -- Electoral system that combines a plurality/majoritarian voting system with an element of proportional representation
Wikipedia - Mizar -- Sextuple star system in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - MLW Battle Riot -- Major League Wrestling match type
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Wikipedia - Mnemonic major system
Wikipedia - Mockbuster -- A movie created with the intention of exploiting the publicity of another major motion picture with a similar title or subject
Wikipedia - Moeketsi Majoro -- 6th Prime Minister of Lesotho
Wikipedia - Mohammed Abdullah Saleh -- Yemeni major general
Wikipedia - Mohammed Shuwa -- Nigerian Army Major General and murder victim
Wikipedia - Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo -- Nigerian female army major
Wikipedia - Mono River -- Major river of eastern Togo
Wikipedia - Monpa people -- Major tribe of Arunachal Pradesh,India
Wikipedia - Moondog Coronation Ball -- Landmark popular music event; regarded as the first major rock and roll concert
Wikipedia - Moral Majority -- American Christian right-wing political organization
Wikipedia - Moscow Conservatory -- Musical educational institution with major performance venue
Wikipedia - Motion Picture Association -- Trade organization representing major American film studios
Wikipedia - Mu Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Music written in all 24 major and minor keys
Wikipedia - Muslim world -- Muslim-majority countries, states, districts, or towns
Wikipedia - Mu Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Nagoya Station -- Major railway and metro station in Nagoya, Japan
Wikipedia - Naito Parkway -- major thoroughfare in Portland, Oregon, USA
Wikipedia - Narcissism in the workplace -- A serious issue that may have a major detrimental impact on an entire organization.
Wikipedia - Nashville SC -- Major League Soccer expansion franchise that began play in 2020
Wikipedia - National Dog Show -- Major televised annual dog show in Philadelphia, PA USA
Wikipedia - Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War) -- Major faction in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939
Wikipedia - National Register of Historic Places listings in Major County, Oklahoma -- Wikimedia list article
Wikipedia - National Route 1A (Vietnam) -- Major north-south highway in Vietnam
Wikipedia - Natural disaster -- Major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth
Wikipedia - Naval order of 24 October 1918 -- German Imperial Navy operation intended to provoke a major battle with the British Royal Navy near the end of World War I
Wikipedia - Neapolitan chord -- major chord on music theory
Wikipedia - Nels H. Nelson -- United States Marine Corps Major general
Wikipedia - Nels Running -- US Major General
Wikipedia - Nepal at major beauty pageants -- Nepal at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Netherlands at major beauty pageants -- Netherlands at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - New Madrid Seismic Zone -- Major seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States
Wikipedia - Newman (Seinfeld) -- Major character on the TV show Seinfeld
Wikipedia - New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico) -- Major political party in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Newspaper of record -- Major newspapers that are considered authoritative
Wikipedia - New York City blackout of 1977 -- Major electricity blackout
Wikipedia - New Zealand Labour Party -- |Major New Zealand political party
Wikipedia - New Zealand Liberal Party -- Major New Zealand political party
Wikipedia - New Zealand National Party -- |Major New Zealand political party
Wikipedia - Ng'ambo -- Major part of Zanzibar City, Tanzania
Wikipedia - NGC 2204 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 2207 and IC 2163 -- Pair of colliding spiral galaxies in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 2354 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 2360 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 2362 -- Open cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 2374 -- Star cluster in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - NGC 3669 -- Spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - NGC 4036 -- Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - NGC 4041 -- Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Nicola Calipari -- Italian major general and SISMI military intelligence officer
Wikipedia - Nile -- Major river in Africa and the longest river in the world
Wikipedia - Non-Aligned Movement -- Group of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc
Wikipedia - Nordzucker -- Major German sugar manufacturer
Wikipedia - Norketamine -- The major active metabolite of ketamine
Wikipedia - Norma Major -- Wife of British Prime Minister
Wikipedia - Normanby Fiveways -- Intersection of five major roads in Queensland, Australia
Wikipedia - North American Soccer League (1968-1984) -- Defunct major soccer league in the United States and Canada
Wikipedia - North Atlantic Gyre -- A major circular system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Northeast blackout of 2003 -- Major blackout in August 2003
Wikipedia - North Luzon Expressway -- Major controlled-access highway in the Philippines
Wikipedia - North Pacific Gyre -- A major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - North-South Expressway northern route -- Major interstate expressway in Malaysia
Wikipedia - Northwest Airlines -- 1926-2010 major airline, merged into Delta Air Lines
Wikipedia - Norway at major beauty pageants -- Norway at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - NR Canis Majoris -- Binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Nu1 Canis Majoris -- Binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Nu2 Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Nu3 Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Nu Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Obama Boulevard -- Major thoroughfare in Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw district of Los Angeles
Wikipedia - Octuple champion -- Boxer who won major world titles in eight different weight classes
Wikipedia - Ohio River -- Major river in the midwestern United States
Wikipedia - Olympic Games -- Major international sport event
Wikipedia - Omega Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Omega Ursae Majoris -- Binary system in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Omicron1 Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Omicron2 Canis Majoris -- Variable star in constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Omicron Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Operation Spring Awakening -- The last major German offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II
Wikipedia - Operation Storm -- Military offensive and the last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence
Wikipedia - Orchard Road -- Major road and intersection in Singapore
Wikipedia - Origenist Crises -- Two major theological controversies in early Christianity involving the teachings of followers of the third-century theologian Origen of Alexandria
Wikipedia - Orlo K. Steele -- U.S. major general
Wikipedia - Orville Lynn Majors -- American serial killer
Wikipedia - Oscar F. Peatross -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Oscar Micheaux -- writer and first major African-American film director
Wikipedia - Oscar R. Cauldwell -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - OS X El Capitan -- Twelfth major release of macOS
Wikipedia - OS X Mavericks -- Tenth major release of OS X
Wikipedia - OS X Mountain Lion -- Ninth major release of OS X
Wikipedia - Over-the-top media service -- Content provider that distributes streaming media independently of major broadcast, cable, or satellite television distribution services.
Wikipedia - Oxford Street -- Major road in the City of Westminster in London
Wikipedia - Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War -- Major military operations in the American Civil War
Wikipedia - Padma River -- Major river in Bangladesh and India
Wikipedia - Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum -- Rapid (in geological terms) global warming, profound changes in ecosystems, and major perturbations in the carbon cycle which started about 55.0 million years ago
Wikipedia - Pan-African orogeny -- series of major Neoproterozoic orogenic events which related to the formation of the supercontinents Gondwana and Pannotia
Wikipedia - Panama at major beauty pageants -- Panama at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Pancha-Dravida -- One of the two major groupings of Brahmins
Wikipedia - Pancha-Gauda -- One of the two major groupings of Brahmins
Wikipedia - Papal majordomo
Wikipedia - Paraguay at major beauty pageants -- Paraguay at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Parallel key -- Major and minor scales with same tonic
Wikipedia - Paralympic Games -- Major international sport event for people with disabilities
Wikipedia - Parsons State Hospital -- major teaching hospital in USA State of Kansas
Wikipedia - Partido Republicano PuertorriqueM-CM-1o -- Former major political party in Puerto Rico
Wikipedia - Pashupata Shaivism -- Oldest of the major Shaivite Hindu schools
Wikipedia - Patrick Major -- British historian and professor
Wikipedia - Paul Bernard Malone -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Paul W. Baade -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Peasants' Revolt -- Major uprising across large parts of England in 1381
Wikipedia - Peru at major beauty pageants -- Peru at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Peter Kurz -- German politician; Lord major of Mannheim
Wikipedia - Petko Vasiljevic -- Major in First Serbian Uprising
Wikipedia - Philip H. Torrey -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Philip Meldon -- Irish cricketer and Major
Wikipedia - Philippines at major beauty pageants -- Philippines at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Philz Coffee -- US coffee company and coffeehouse chain, considered a major player in third wave coffee
Wikipedia - Phi Ursae Majoris -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Pi1 Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Pi Canis Majoris -- Binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Pierfrancesco Majorino -- Italian politician
Wikipedia - Pinwheel Galaxy -- Spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Plantago major -- Species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae
Wikipedia - Plurality (voting) -- The candidate or proposition that polls more votes than any other, but not necessarily with a majority
Wikipedia - PNC Financial Services -- Major bank based in Pittsburgh
Wikipedia - Poland at major beauty pageants -- Poland at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Polar ice cap -- High-latitude region of an astronomical body with major parts covered in ice
Wikipedia - Pontifical Roman Major Seminary
Wikipedia - Port Newark-Elizabeth Marine Terminal -- A major component of the Port of New York and New Jersey
Wikipedia - Port of Chittagong -- major port in Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Port of Immingham -- Major port located near Immingham, England
Wikipedia - Port of Ipswich -- Major port in Suffolk, England
Wikipedia - Posterior cruciate ligament -- One of four major ligaments of the knee
Wikipedia - Potsdam Agreement -- 1945 agreement between the major 3 Allies regarding the end of World War II
Wikipedia - Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major -- R-28 piston aircraft engine family
Wikipedia - Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846 -- Piece by Johann Sebastian Bach
Wikipedia - Prelude in C major, Op. 11, No. 1 (Scriabin)
Wikipedia - Prelude in E major, Op. 11, No. 9 (Scriabin)
Wikipedia - Prelude in F major, Op. 49, No. 2 (Scriabin)
Wikipedia - Province -- A major administrative subdivision within a country or sovereign state
Wikipedia - Psi Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Psoas major muscle -- Long fusiform muscle located in the lumbar region
Wikipedia - Psoas minor muscle -- Long, slender skeletal muscle located anterior to the psoas major muscle
Wikipedia - Puerto Rico at major beauty pageants -- Puerto Rico at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Puntofijo Pact -- 1958 power-sharing arrangement between three of Venezuela's major political parties
Wikipedia - Pyotr Krechetnikov -- Russian major-general
Wikipedia - Que Calor -- 2019 song by Major Lazer featuring J Balvin and El Alfa
Wikipedia - Quirino Avenue -- Major street in Manila, Philippines
Wikipedia - Raffles Place -- Major financial district of Singapore
Wikipedia - Rainbow Bridge (Niagara Falls) -- Major crossing of the Niagara River
Wikipedia - Ralph S. Keyser -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Ralphs -- American major supermarket chain
Wikipedia - Ramon Llull -- 13th and 14th-century Majorcan writer and philosopher
Wikipedia - Rashidun Caliphate -- The first major caliphate established after the death of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
Wikipedia - Rathvon M. Tompkins -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - R Canis Majoris -- binary star system in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Reckless driving -- Major moving traffic violation
Wikipedia - Rector Major of the Salesians
Wikipedia - Red River of the South -- Major river in the southern United States
Wikipedia - Regimental combat team -- Provisional major U.S. infantry unit
Wikipedia - Republican Party (United States) -- Major political party in the United States
Wikipedia - Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Rheic Ocean -- ancient ocean which separated two major palaeocontinents, Gondwana and Laurussia
Wikipedia - Rheinische Post -- Major daily German regional newspaper
Wikipedia - Rhetorical modes -- Major types of writing and speaking
Wikipedia - Rhone -- Major river in Switzerland and France
Wikipedia - Rho Ursae Majoris -- Red giant star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Ridge Road (Western New York) -- Major road dating before the 19th century
Wikipedia - River Mersey -- Major river emptying into Liverpool Bay
Wikipedia - Robert Blake (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Robert J. Skinner -- Air Force major general
Wikipedia - Robert R. Rowland -- USAF major general and Second World War flying ace
Wikipedia - Robert S. Beightler -- American Major General who served in WWII
Wikipedia - Rocky Mountains -- Major mountain range in western North America
Wikipedia - Rodney D. Fogg -- Major General of the United States Army
Wikipedia - Roger Noble -- Major General in the Australian Army
Wikipedia - Roman province -- Major Roman administrative territorial entity outside of Italy
Wikipedia - Ronald Bramwell-Davis -- English cricketer and Major-General
Wikipedia - Ronald P. Clark -- United States Army major general
Wikipedia - Ross T. Dwyer -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Rothschild loans to the Holy See -- Series of major financial loans arranged between the Rothschild family and the Holy See of the Catholic Church
Wikipedia - Route 1 (Hong Kong) -- Major road in Hong Kong
Wikipedia - Row- and column-major order
Wikipedia - Row-major order
Wikipedia - Roxas Boulevard -- Major street in Metro Manila, Philippines
Wikipedia - Royal Opera House -- opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London
Wikipedia - Roy E. Lindquist -- American World War II Major General
Wikipedia - Russell A. Sanborn -- U.S. Marine major general.
Wikipedia - Russell Taylor (The Closer) -- Fictional character featured in TNT's The Closer and its spin-off Major Crimes
Wikipedia - Russia at major beauty pageants -- Russia at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - RX J0720.4M-bM-^HM-^R3125 -- Neutron star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Sakai Tadatsugu -- samurai of the Sengoku era; major samurai ally of the Tokugawa clan
Wikipedia - Sakya -- One of four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism
Wikipedia - Salic law -- Major body of Frankish law governing all the Franks of Frankia under the rule of its kings during the Old Frankish Period
Wikipedia - Sampaguita Pictures -- Defunct Philippine major film studio
Wikipedia - Samudra manthan -- Major episode in Hinduism
Wikipedia - Samuel Major Gardenhire -- American novelist
Wikipedia - Sam W. Westbrook III -- US Air Force major general
Wikipedia - Sancha of Majorca
Wikipedia - San Fernando Road -- major street in the City and County Los Angeles
Wikipedia - Sanhattan -- Major business district located in Santiago, Chile
Wikipedia - Santanyi -- Municipality on Majorca, Balearic Islands
Wikipedia - San'yM-EM-^M Main Line -- Major railway line in Japan
Wikipedia - Saskatoon Blades -- Major junior ice hockey team based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Wikipedia - Scott L. Fitzgerald -- American politician, Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader
Wikipedia - Scott Major -- Australian actor and director
Wikipedia - Search for Majora -- 1949 film
Wikipedia - Seattle Sounders FC -- American Major League Soccer team
Wikipedia - Second Battle of Bull Run -- Major battle of the American Civil War
Wikipedia - Second Battle of Corinth -- Major battle of the American Civil War
Wikipedia - Second Crusade -- 12th-century crusade, the second major crusade
Wikipedia - Second plague pandemic -- Major series of epidemics, 14th-19th centuries
Wikipedia - Seine -- Major river in northern France
Wikipedia - Sendai Station (Miyagi) -- Major railway and metro station in Sendai, Japan
Wikipedia - Sergeant Major of the Army -- Senior enlisted member of the U.S. Army
Wikipedia - Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps -- Senior enlisted member of the U.S. Marine Corps
Wikipedia - Seth Williams (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General and Quartermaster of the Marie Corps during World War II
Wikipedia - Severe storms in Australia -- Major weather events
Wikipedia - Shaganappi Trail -- Major super-4 expressway in the northwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta
Wikipedia - Shahbag -- major neighbourhood and thana in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Shahjalal International Airport -- International airport in Bangladesh, major airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Wikipedia - Shaivism -- One of the major traditions within Hinduism, and reveres Shiva as the Supreme Being
Wikipedia - Shaktism -- A major sect of Hinduism
Wikipedia - Sharon Nesmith -- Major General in the British Army
Wikipedia - Shawne Major -- American mixed media artist
Wikipedia - Shibe Park -- Philadelphia major league stadium from 1909 to 1970; known as Connie Mack Stadium from 1953 to 1970
Wikipedia - Shibuya Station -- Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - Shinagawa Station -- Major railway station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - Shinjuku Station -- Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - Shortages related to the COVID-19 pandemic -- Medical material and other goods shortages that are a major issue
Wikipedia - Shutdown of thermohaline circulation -- An effect of global warming on a major ocean circulation.
Wikipedia - Sidney S. Wade -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Sidus Ludoviciana -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Siegel modular form -- Major type of automorphic form in mathematics
Wikipedia - Siege of Corinth -- Major battle of the American Civil War
Wikipedia - Siege of Namur (1692) -- Major engagement of the Nine Years' War between the French and the Grand Alliance (1692)
Wikipedia - Sigma1 Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Sigma2 Ursae Majoris -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Sigma Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Silent majority -- Concept in politics
Wikipedia - Simon bar Giora -- Leader of one of the major Judean rebel factions during the First Jewish-Roman War
Wikipedia - Singapore at major beauty pageants -- Singapore at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Sir John Campbell, 1st Baronet -- British Army major-general
Wikipedia - Sistema IbM-CM-)rico -- Major system of mountain ranges in Spain
Wikipedia - Situs inversus -- Congenital condition in which the major visceral organs are reversed from their normal positions
Wikipedia - SiyM-CM-"vash -- Legendary Iranian prince and a major figure in Shahnameh
Wikipedia - Skanda Purana -- Medieval era Sanskrit text, one of eighteen major Puranas
Wikipedia - Skeletal muscle -- One of three major muscle types
Wikipedia - SM Kamrul Hassan -- Major General of Bangladesh Army
Wikipedia - Snake River -- Major river in the northwestern United States
Wikipedia - Solano Cassamajor -- Belgian acrobatic gymnast
Wikipedia - Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812 (Schubert) -- 1824 piano sonata by Franz Schubert
Wikipedia - Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, K. 521 -- Piano composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wikipedia - Sonata in D major for piano four-hands, Op. 6 (Beethoven) -- 1797 sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
Wikipedia - Sorensen Parkway -- Major street in Omaha, Nebraska
Wikipedia - South Africa at major beauty pageants -- South Africa at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - South American Plate -- Major tectonic plate which includes most of South America and a large part of the south Atlantic
Wikipedia - South Luzon Expressway -- Major controlled-access highway in the Philippines
Wikipedia - South Pacific Gyre -- A major circulating system of ocean currents
Wikipedia - Spain at major beauty pageants -- Spain at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Stadsholmen -- Island constituting the majority of Gamla stan in Stockholm, Sweden
Wikipedia - St. Albert Trail -- Major road in Edmonton and St. Albert, Alberta
Wikipedia - Static Major -- American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Kentucky
Wikipedia - Steny Hoyer -- House Majority Leader
Wikipedia - St. Louis City SC -- Major League Soccer expansion franchise that is expected to begin play in 2023
Wikipedia - St. Mary Major
Wikipedia - Stormfront (website) -- First major racial hate website, known for white supremacy, antisemitism, and Holocaust denial
Wikipedia - Storming of the Bastille -- Major event of the French Revolution
Wikipedia - Strade dei vini e dei sapori -- Collection of routes in Italy through major regional food and wine production areas
Wikipedia - Strand, London -- Major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster, London, England
Wikipedia - Sua Cara -- 2017 single by Major Lazer
Wikipedia - Subclavian artery -- Major arteries of the upper thorax, below the clavicle
Wikipedia - Sudzucker -- Major German sugar manufacturer
Wikipedia - SuperClash III -- Major professional wrestling show
Wikipedia - SuperFight (2019) -- 2019 Major League Wrestling professional wrestling event
Wikipedia - Suture (geology) -- Joining together of separate terranes along a major fault zone
Wikipedia - SU Ursae Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Sweden at major beauty pageants -- Sweden at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Switzerland at major beauty pageants -- Switzerland at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Sydney Fish Market -- Major fish market in Sydney, Australia
Wikipedia - Symphony in C major (Wagner)
Wikipedia - Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly
Wikipedia - Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum
Wikipedia - Syrtis Major quadrangle -- One of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars
Wikipedia - Systema Naturae -- Major work by Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus
Wikipedia - System bus -- A single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system
Wikipedia - Taira clan -- Major Japanese clan of samurai
Wikipedia - Tamas Major -- Hungarian actor
Wikipedia - Tau Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Tau Ursae Majoris -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Television consumption -- Major part of media consumption in Western culture
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Wikipedia - Temple of Divus Augustus -- major temple in Rome built to commemorate Roman emperor, Augustus
Wikipedia - Teresa King -- Retired Sergeant Major in the US Army
Wikipedia - Thailand at major beauty pageants -- Thailand at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - The Back Porch Majority -- American folk music group
Wikipedia - The Big One (motorsport) -- American car racing term for a major crash
Wikipedia - The Bush (Alaska) -- Regions in Alaska not connected to major transportation networks
Wikipedia - The Corso, Manly -- Major pedestrian street in Sydney
Wikipedia - The Crash/Major League Wrestling show -- Mexican professional wrestling show
Wikipedia - The Crash VIII Aniversario -- Major Mexican professional wrestling show
Wikipedia - The Devil (Tarot card) -- Fifteenth Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks
Wikipedia - The Egoist (periodical) -- major English Modernist periodical founded in London, running from 1914 to 1919
Wikipedia - The Galloping Major (film) -- 1951 film by Henry Cornelius
Wikipedia - The Iron Bridge -- Bridge across the River Severn in Shropshire, England, the first major bridge in the world to be made of cast iron.
Wikipedia - The Iron Major -- 1943 film directed by Ray Enright
Wikipedia - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D -- 2015 action-adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask -- 2000 action-adventure video game published by Nintendo
Wikipedia - The Major and the Minor -- 1942 film by Billy Wilder
Wikipedia - The Major (film) -- 2013 film
Wikipedia - The Major Religions -- A textbook on religions and religious texts
Wikipedia - The Major Transitions in Evolution -- Book by John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary
Wikipedia - The Paseo (Kansas City, Missouri) -- Major roadway in Kansas City, Missouri
Wikipedia - The Plain Dealer -- Major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Wikipedia - The Sigismund Bell -- large bell located in Wawel Cathedral, Krakow. Major Polish national symbol.
Wikipedia - Theta Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Theta Ursae Majoris -- Star system in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - The Weinstein Company -- American mini-major film studio
Wikipedia - Third Servile War -- Major slave rebellion against the Roman Republic (73-71 BC)
Wikipedia - Thomas A. Hauke -- 20th century American attorney and politician, former Majority Leader of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Wikipedia - Thomas J. Hayes III -- United States Army major general
Wikipedia - Tikal -- Ruins of major ancient Maya city
Wikipedia - Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
Wikipedia - Timeline of glaciation -- Chronology of the major ice ages of the Earth
Wikipedia - Timeline of human evolution -- Chronological outline of major events in the development of the human species
Wikipedia - Timeline of investigations into Donald Trump and Russia (January-June 2018) -- Major events in 2018 related to the investigations into links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials
Wikipedia - Timeline of plant evolution -- Chronological outline of major events in the development of plants
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Afghanistan -- Sequence of major events of ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Afghanistan
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in April 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Croatia -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Croatia
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in February 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (January-May 2020) -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in India
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (June-December 2020) -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in India
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Indonesia
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in July 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal -- Sequence of major events in the ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Nepal
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in October 2020 -- Sequence of major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Pakistan
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Romania
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Russia
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Singapore
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Spain
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in the Philippines
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Turkey
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Uruguay -- Sequence of major events in ongoing COVID-19 viral pandemic in Uruguay
Wikipedia - Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Major events in a virus pandemic
Wikipedia - Timeline of the evolutionary history of life -- Current scientific theory outlining the major events during the development of life
Wikipedia - Timothy A. Guden -- Command sergeant major of the Training and Doctrine Command
Wikipedia - Tokyo Station -- Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - Tom Mboya -- Kenyan politician that played a major role in the founding in a sovereign Kenyan state
Wikipedia - Tom Rennie -- British Army major general
Wikipedia - Tragic hero -- Stock character; hero with a major flaw that leads to their eventual death and downfall
Wikipedia - Trans Brazilian Lineament -- A major shear zone that developed in the Precambrian
Wikipedia - Trap shooting -- One of the three major disciplines of competitive clay pigeon shooting
Wikipedia - Treatise on Law -- Thomas Aquinas' major work of legal philosophy
Wikipedia - Trinidad -- The larger of the two major islands which make up the nation of Trinidad and Tobago
Wikipedia - Trista Vick-Majors -- American Antarctic biogeochemist and microbial ecologist
Wikipedia - Tropical Atmosphere Ocean project -- Major international effort that instrumented the tropical Pacific Ocean with deep ocean moorings
Wikipedia - Troy E. Black -- 19th Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Wikipedia - Tuesdee Testa -- First female jockey to race in a major Thoroughbred race at Santa Anita Park (1969).
Wikipedia - Turkmen tribes -- Major modern Turkmen tribes
Wikipedia - Two-round system -- Voting system used to elect a single winner where a second round of voting is used if no candidate wins an absolute majority in the first round
Wikipedia - Tyranny of the majority -- The situation in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those and at the expense of an individual or minority group
Wikipedia - Ueno Station -- Major railway and metro station in Tokyo, Japan
Wikipedia - UGC 8837 -- Dwarf galaxy located in Ursa Major
Wikipedia - UK miners' strike (1984-85) -- Major industrial action to shut down the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent colliery closures
Wikipedia - Ukraine at major beauty pageants -- Ukraine at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Undermajordomo Minor -- 2015 novel by Patrick deWitt
Wikipedia - United Airlines -- Major airline of the United States; founding member of Star Alliance
Wikipedia - United States Army Corps of Engineers -- Federal agency under the Department of Defense and a major Army command
Wikipedia - United States Naval Forces Korea -- Major shore command of the United States Navy in South Korea
Wikipedia - Upper Peninsula of Michigan -- Northern major peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan
Wikipedia - Upsilon Ursae Majoris -- Binary star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Ursa Major Cluster -- A spiral-rich galaxy cluster of the Virgo Supercluster
Wikipedia - Ursa Major -- Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Wikipedia - USB 3.0 -- Third major version of the Universal Serial Bus standard
Wikipedia - Usuli -- Majority group inTwelver Shi'a Islam
Wikipedia - UW Canis Majoris -- Beta Lyrae variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Uzboi-Landon-Morava -- Series of channels and depressions that may have carried water across a major part of Mars
Wikipedia - Vaisakhi -- Major spring time Sikh festival, harvest and traditional new year festival for many Hindus
Wikipedia - Vartry Reservoir -- Major water supply scheme for Dublin city, Ireland
Wikipedia - Venezuela at major beauty pageants -- Venezuela at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Venlafaxine -- Medication used to treat major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia
Wikipedia - Very low-density lipoprotein -- One of the five major groups of lipoprotein
Wikipedia - Vidura -- Major character of the epic Mahabharata
Wikipedia - Vietnam at major beauty pageants -- Vietnam at Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth
Wikipedia - Vilazodone -- Medication used to treat major depressive disorder
Wikipedia - Villa Deportiva Nacional -- Major sports venue in Lima, Peru
Wikipedia - Violin Sonata in A-flat major (Ries) -- 1800 composition by Ferdinand Ries
Wikipedia - Violin Sonata in E-flat major (Ries) -- 1804 sonata by Ferdinand Ries
Wikipedia - Vistula -- Major river in Central and Eastern Europe
Wikipedia - Vito Addabbo -- American major general
Wikipedia - Vladimir Rusakov -- Soviet Army major general
Wikipedia - Vocal Majority -- American men's chorus based in Dallas, Texas
Wikipedia - Volta-Congo languages -- Hypothetical major branch of the Niger-Congo language family
Wikipedia - VY Canis Majoris -- Red hypergiant in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Wafiq Jizzini -- Lebanese major general
Wikipedia - Waimea River (Kauai) -- Major river on the island of Kauai in the U.S. state of Hawaii
Wikipedia - Wall Street Crash of 1929 -- Major stock market crash in 1929
Wikipedia - Walter Henry Gordon -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Walter M. Robertson -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - Walter Short -- U.S. Army Major general
Wikipedia - WarGames (2003) -- 2003 Major League Wrestling supercard event
Wikipedia - WarGames (2018) -- 2018 Major League Wrestling supercard event
Wikipedia - Wayuu language -- Major Arawakan language spoken in the Guajira Peninsula
Wikipedia - W Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Weighted Majority Algorithm
Wikipedia - Western African Ebola virus epidemic -- 2013-2016 major outbreak of Ebola virus disease mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
Wikipedia - Westfield Booragoon -- Major regional shopping centre in the city of Perth, Western Australia
Wikipedia - Westwood Boulevard -- Major street in Los Angeles, California
Wikipedia - Whitworth Porter -- English major-general
Wikipedia - Wilbur F. Simlik -- American Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Willard Ames Holbrook -- Major General of US Army
Wikipedia - William Cadogan (politician) -- Irish politician, and a cavalry major in Oliver Cromwell's army
Wikipedia - William C. Chip -- American Major general
Wikipedia - William E. Cole -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - William G. Joslyn -- American Major General
Wikipedia - William J. Walker -- United States Army major general
Wikipedia - William J. Whaling -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - William L. McKittrick -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - William O. Wooldridge -- United States Army soldier and the first Sergeant Major of the Army
Wikipedia - William P. Battell -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General and Quartermaster General
Wikipedia - William R. Collins -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - William T. Fairbourn -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - William W. Davies (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - William W. Eagles -- U.S. Army Major General
Wikipedia - William W. Stickney (USMC) -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - Windows 3.0 -- Third major release of Microsoft Windows
Wikipedia - Winnecke 4 -- Optical double star in the constellation Ursa Major.
Wikipedia - Winnipeg Ice -- Canadian major junior ice hockey team in Winnipeg
Wikipedia - Winter Olympic Games -- Major international sporting event
Wikipedia - Wisconsin Avenue -- Major thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and its Maryland suburbs, United States
Wikipedia - WISE 0713M-bM-^HM-^R2917 -- Brown Dwarf star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - WISE 1405+5534 -- Brown dwarf in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Women's major golf championships
Wikipedia - Wood B. Kyle -- U.S. Marine Corps Major General
Wikipedia - World Education Forum -- Representative body of major education-related organization
Wikipedia - World Hockey Association -- Defunct ice hockey major league from 1972 to 1979
Wikipedia - WR 7 -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - W Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Xeremia -- Bagpipe from Majorca
Wikipedia - Xi1 Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Xi2 Canis Majoris -- Star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Xiamen Dada-Exhibition of Modern Art -- Major exhibition that emerged from the Chinese 85 New Wave art movement
Wikipedia - Xi Ursae Majoris -- Star in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - XTE J1118+480 -- Star system in the constellation Ursa Major
Wikipedia - Xueta Christianity -- Syncretic religion on the island of Majorca, Spain followed by the Xueta people
Wikipedia - Yahoo! data breaches -- Major data breaches which occurred at Yahoo!
Wikipedia - Yehuda Fuchs -- Israeli Major general
Wikipedia - Yellow River -- Major river in China
Wikipedia - Yokohama Station -- Major railway and metro station in Yokohama, Japan
Wikipedia - Yossi Bachar -- Israeli Major general
Wikipedia - Young Fine Gael -- Autonomous youth wing of major Irish political party Fine Gael
Wikipedia - Youth detention center -- Type of prison for people under the age of majority
Wikipedia - Zambezi -- Major river in southern Africa
Wikipedia - Zaza Chkhaidze -- Georgian major general
Wikipedia - Z Canis Majoris -- Variable star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Zeta Canis Majoris -- Binary star in the constellation Canis Major
Wikipedia - Zeynab Begum -- Fourth daughter of Safavid king Tahmasp I (r. 1524-1576), major Safavid stateswoman
Wikipedia - Zubair Group -- Group of major volcanic islands in the Red Sea
Wikipedia - Zucker Hillside Hospital -- major teaching and psychiatric hospital
Major Owens ::: Born: June 28, 1936; Died: October 21, 2013; Occupation: New York State Senator;
James Wolfe ::: Born: January 2, 1727; Died: September 13, 1759; Occupation: Major;
Philip Sheridan ::: Born: March 6, 1831; Died: August 5, 1888; Occupation: Major;
Robert Clive ::: Born: September 25, 1725; Died: November 22, 1774; Occupation: Major;
George Pickett ::: Born: January 16, 1825; Died: July 30, 1875; Occupation: Major;
Nathanael Greene ::: Born: August 7, 1742; Died: June 19, 1786; Occupation: Major;
   Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account for 1 percent of the total U.S. workforce. Many jobs often thought to be overwhelmingly done by immigrants are in fact majority native-born: 51 percent of maids are U.S.-born, as are 63 percent of butchers and meat processors, and 73 percent of janitors.
Majora Carter ::: Born: October 27, 1966; Occupation: Urban Revitalization Strategist;
Dick Armey ::: Born: July 7, 1940; Occupation: Former Majority leader;
Dick Gephardt ::: Born: January 31, 1941; Occupation: Former Majority leader;
John Major ::: Born: March 29, 1943; Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom;
Lee Majors ::: Born: April 23, 1939; Occupation: Voice Actor;
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Pro Stars (1991 - 1992) - Originally intended to air on ESPN, the show centers on Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson and Wayne Gretzky fighting crime and helping children, often protecting the environment as well. These three were chosen to represent the pinnacle of all four major American professional sports in the early 1990s. Whi...
The Twilight Zone (1959 - 1965) - Creator Rod Serling wrote and produced the majority of episodes in the series which aired from 1959 to 1964 and hosted the twisted sci-fi legend. Soon to be famous actors such as Robert Redford, William Shatner and Burt Reynolds as well as established stars were featured in spine-tingling episodes....
Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1990 - 1991) - 1889...the Paris International Exposition. A great gathering of culture, science, and technology. Yet, in the middle of an air of joyous people and great expectations for the 20th century is tension in the seas with word of a sea monster on the prowl, crisis among the major powers over territories.....
Major Dad (1989 - 1993) - Major John MacGillis is a conservative, by-the-book, die-hard Marine. Polly Cooper is a pacifistic, liberal journalist. Nonetheless, when the two meet, there's instant and intense chemistry between them and they get married less than 24 hours later. Now Polly (and her kids from a previous marriage)...
NOVA (1974 - Current) - Seen in more than 100 countries, NOVA is the most watched science television series in the world and the most watched documentary series on PBS. It is also one of television's most acclaimed series, having won every major television award, most of them many times over.
Major League Baseball on CBS (1955 - 1993) - Major League Baseball on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States. CBS was notably the first network to air baseball in full color. On August 11, 1951, CBS' flagship tel...
Major League Baseball on ABC (1976 - 1995) - Major League Baseball on ABC is the title of a program that televises Major League Baseball games on the American Broadcasting Company. The program has appeared in various forms c. 1953-1965 (ABC Game of the Week), 19761989 (Monday Night Baseball, Thursday Night Baseball, and Sunday Afternoon Baseb...
Major League Baseball on NBC (1947 - 2000) - Major League Baseball on NBC is the de facto branding for weekly broadcasts of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on the NBC television network. Major League Baseball games first aired on the network from 1947 to 1989, when CBS acquired the broadcast television r...
TNBC (1992 - 2002) - TNBC (or Teen NBC) is an American teen-oriented programming block that aired on NBC from September 12, 1992 to September 7, 2002. The Saturday morning block featured live-action series primarily in the form of scripted teen sitcoms geared toward teenagers and young adults, the majority of which...
Major (anime) (2004 - 2018) - The series has been adapted into an anime series produced by NHK and Studio Hibari titled Major ( Mej) (using katakana instead of the manga's English characters).The first episode aired on November 13, 2004. The series ran for six seasons [3] and the final episode originally aired on September...
The Familiar of Zero (2006 - 2012) - Louise Franoise Le Blanc de La Vallire is a self-absorbed mage in a world of wands, cloaks, and royalty. Although she studies at Tristain Academy, a prestigious school for magicians, she has a major problem: Louise is unable to cast magic properly, earning her the nickname of "Louise the Zero" fro...
Harts of the West (1993 - 1994) - After suffering a minor heart attack and a major midlife crisis Chicago lingerie salesman Dave Hart (Beau Bridges) says adios to the big city, uproots his less than enthusastic family and heads west in search of his inner hombre
Battle of the Network Stars (1976 - 2017) - Battle of the Network Stars was the name of nineteen U.S. television specials featuring competitions among teams of popular television performers representing the three major broadcast networks at that time: ABC, CBS, and NBC.
Def Comedy Jam (1992 - 1997) - Def Comedy Jam was not the first comedy special featured on HBO but it was one of the few that had a majority African American comedian showcase.Premiering in 1992 it was produced by Hip Hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons and hosted by a young up and coming Martin Lawrence. Known infamously for its b...
Commando Cody - Radar Men from the Moon (1952 - 1952) - Commando Cody is a freelance civilian scientist who has owns a laboratory, in this facility he has a full staff of assistants, a rocket ship with ability to travel to the moon and the his own personal rocket pack. Cody is called to action when various military and major facilities are attacked and t...
Fox Major League Baseball (1996 - Current) - Fox Major League Baseball is the Fox Broadcasting Company's presentation of Major League Baseball games, produced by Fox Sports. Baseball debuted on Fox on June 1, 1996. Under its current contract with the league, Fox Sports will continue to carry Major League Baseball telecasts through at least 202...
ESPN Major League Soccer (1996 - Current) - ESPN Major League Soccer is a promotion of Major League Soccer on ESPN, ESPN2, and ABC with simulcasts on ESPNHD and ESPN2HD. Major League Soccer on ESPN2 debuted in 1996, the league's first season, and is guaranteed to stay on the network till at least 2022. From 1996 to 2006, the weekly soccer mat...
Major League Fishing (2012 - Current) - Major League Fishing (MLF) is a professional bass fishing league and television show that airs on Outdoor Channel, World Fishing Network and Discovery Channel. The league was established in partnership between the Professional Bass Tour Anglers' Association (PBTAA) and Outdoor Channel as an answer t...
ESPN Major League Baseball (1990 - Current) - ESPN Major League Baseball is a presentation of Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN2. ESPN's MLB coverage debuted on April 9, 1990 with three Opening Day telecasts.
ESPN College Basketball (1979 - Current) - ESPN College Basketball is a blanket title used for presentations of college basketball on ESPN and its family of networks. Its coverage focuses primarily on competition in NCAA Division I, holding broadcast rights to games from each major conference, and a number of mid-major conferences.
MLS Soccer Sunday (2015 - Current) - MLS Soccer Sunday is a presentation of Major League Soccer produced independently by ESPN and Fox Sports Sunday evenings primarily on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, Fox Sports 1 and Fox. Spanish-language simulcasts are broadcast on ESPN Deportes and Fox Deportes.
USA Thursday Game of the Week (1979 - 1983) - The USA Thursday Game of the Week is a former television program that broadcast Major League Baseball games on the USA Network. In 1979, 22 teams (all but the Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros, New York Mets, and St. Louis Cardinals) participated in a one-year cable deal with United Artists Television...
Formula One (1953 - Current) - Put simply, since its inception in 1950, the Formula One race series has been world television's most iconic and well-known race series. The first race aired on TV was the 1953 British Grand Prix which was broadcast by the BBC. Since then the series has now expanded to major worldwide coverage with...
Tennis on NBC (1955 - Current) - Tennis on NBC is the de facto branding used for broadcasts of major professional tennis tournaments that are produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States. The network's tennis coverage normally airs during the afternoon; however for several weeks in...
Snagglepuss (1961 - 1961) - Snagglepuss lives in a cavern, which he constantly tries to make more habitable for himself. No matter what he does, however, he always winds up back where he started or worse off than he was before. In some episodes, Snagglepuss is chased by Major Minor, a tiny-sized hunter. A few episodes involved...
The Academy of Country Music Awards (1972 - Current) - The Academy of Country Music Awards, also known as the ACM Awards, were first held in 1966, honoring the industry's accomplishments during the previous year. It was the first country music awards program held by a major organization. The Academy's signature "hat" trophy was first created in 1968. Th...
Major Payne(1995) - Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC p...
Selena(1997) - Selena Quintanilla was a major figure in Tejano music, a Grammy-winning recording artist, a beloved star in the American Southwest and Mexico, and seemed poised to cross over into mainstream popularity on the U.S. pop charts when she was murdered on March 31, 1995 by the president of her fan club. W...
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home(1986) - A space probe appears over 23rd century earth, emanating strange sounds towards the planet, and apparently waiting for something. As time goes on, the probe starts to cause major storms on earth and threaten its destruction. James T. Kirk and crew are called upon once again to save mankind. They dis...
Rookie of the Year(1993) - Rookie of the Year is a light-hearted comedy about a 12-year-old baseball fan who, despite his love for the sport, can't play the game at all. During one Little League contest, he breaks his arm. After it heals, it miraculously becomes a super-human arm that can out-pitch any player in the major lea...
The Pirate Movie(1982) - After attending a pirate-themed local carnival, '80s girl Mabel (Kristy McNichol, "Family," "Empty Nest," LITTLE DARLINGS) is knocked unconscious, beginning her fantasy about being trapped in the days when pirates roamed. The daughter of a Major General, Mabel falls for wayward pirate Frederick (Ch...
Night Of The Comet(1984) - Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) is a movie theater employee and her sister Samantha (Kelli Maroney) is a cheerleader. When a comet appears for the first time in several decades, the great majority of humanity disappears. Regina and Samantha are among the few people left on Earth, having to deal with...
Police Academy(1984) - Public safety takes a turn for the worse in this hit comedy, which spawned a long-running franchise. As a crime wave sweeps through a major city, the mayor decides that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive qualifications for police officers, so she opens the door of the city's Police...
Shock Treatment(1981) - ROCKY HORROR's Brad (Cliff DeYoung) and Janet Majors (Jessica Harper) find themselves trapped in a TV studio world. After Brad is committed to the mental hospital on "Dentonvale," his captors convince Janet that the only way to help him is to become a star herself. But sinister mogel Farley Flavor...
Lost in Space(1998) - Professor John Robinson, his wife Maureen, their daughters Judy and Penny, and son Will are selected to be the first family to colonize outer space. Piloted by Major Don West, the Jupiter 2 takes off to Alpha Prime, the only other habitable planet in the galaxy. En route, their spacecraft is sabotag...
Almost Heroes(1998) - Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman) directed this comedy about two hapless explorers hard-drinking trapper Bartholomew Hunt (the late Chris Farley in his last major role) and foppish Leslie Edwards (Matthew Perry) who lead an ill-fated 1804 expedition through the Pacific Northwest in a hop...
Bram Stoker's Dracula(1992) - Based On Bram Stoker's Classic 1897 Novel, This Film From Director Francis Ford Coppola And Screenwriter James V. Hart Offers A Full Blooded Portrait Of The Immortal Transylvanian Vampire, The Major Departure From Bram Stoker's Novel Is One Of Motivation As Count Dracula Is Motivated More By romance...
Major League II(1994) - Those Cleveland Indians are at it again! After losing in the ALCS the year before, the Indians are determined to make it into the World Series this time! First, though, they have to contend with Rachel Phelps again when she buys back the team. Also, has Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn lost his edge? Are Ja...
House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute(2001) - High school student Jon Jon Harris (Marques "Batman" Houston) sees a ripe opportunity for a major party when he snags the job house-sitting for his rich Uncle Charles (David Roberson). The mansion comes with a white Mercedes, and although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or have peopl...
Congo(1995) - Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to fini...
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith(2005) - After the Clone Wars the Galactic Republic has suffered major setbacks. After the rescue of Chancellor Palpetine, Obi-Wan and Anakin are confronted by Dooku who engages them in battle, killing Dooku. Fleeing and crash-landing on the planet Coruscant, Anakin reunites with his wife Padme who is pregna...
Death Wish(1974) - This drama about a man who takes the law into his own hands was wildly controversial upon first release, sparking much debate about the perceived pro-vigilante stance of the story, and established Charles Bronson as a major box office draw in the United States. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is a lib...
Bowfinger(1999) - Aspiring film director Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) has a script that he thinks will make him a success. It's a sci-fi movie written by his accountant. The title is "Chubby Rain", and if Bobby can get major star Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) for his movie, then producer Jerry Renfro (Robert Downey Jr....
Private Resort(1985) - Jack (Depp) and his buddy ben (Morrow) check in at a posh Florida resort, planning to spend every hour in hot pursuit of gorgeous babes. But their plans hit a major detour when they try to bed the wife of a conniving jewel theif (Ector Elizondo). They'll have to outsmart him, a nasty security guard...
The Long Kiss Good Night(1996) - Small Town Schoolteacher Samantha Caine Has Had Amnesia For About 8 Years But After A Major Car Accident Her Memories Begin Flooding Back Mainly Of Once Being An Assassin For The C.I.A.
Fast Forward(1985) - Eight young people from Ohio who are dancers, come to New York, to compete in a major talent competition. But when they get there, they learn that they have to wait 3 weeks before they take part in it. So they try to do their best to survive in the Big Apple before competition, and get some lessons...
Teenagers From Outer Space(1959) - A group of aliens land on Earth and intend to use it as a herding ground for their major food source the gargons (lobsters). However one of their party, Derek decides to not to go through with the plan due that there is intelligent life on the Earth. The others laugh at him and continue to go throug...
The Firm(1993) - In this drama, based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, Mitch McDeer (Tom Cruise) is a young man from a poor Southern family who has struggled through Harvard Law School to graduate fifth in his class. Mitch is entertaining offers from major firms in New York and Chicago, but when Memphis-ba...
Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow(1994) - In a major stumbling block toward better international relations, America's most laughable police officers are sent to Russia to fight crime in this comedy. In Moscow, master criminal Konali (Ron Perlman) has marketed a new computer game that has an unusual hidden featureit allows him to bring down...
976-Evil 2: The Astral Factor(1991) - In this straight-to-video sequel to the 1988 horror film, Patrick O'Bryan returns as Spike, again battling the supernatural in a college town. The majority of the plot deals with pretty Robin (Debbie James), a coed who learns that her dean, Prof. Grubeck (Rene Assa), is a rotting ghost who uses astr...
The Insider(1999) - The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he was...
Up The Academy(1980) - Mad Magazine's ill-fated attempt to enter the movie world is a tale of several young men sent off to a military academy. This comedy was unfortunately hacked up before its' release and was so revilied (forgive the pun) that Rob Leibman, who had a major role in the movie, asked to have his name remov...
The Substitute(1996) - After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale (Tom Berenger, MAJOR LEAGUE, TV's "October Road") is visiting his high school love Jane (Diane Verona, THE JACKAL). She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After tha...
Metropolis(1927) - In 1927, noted director Fritz Lang created a film masterpiece titled "METROPOLIS", a silent science fiction film with a film budget of $200 Million, having being shot and filmed for 2 years, and the film became a major classic among motion pictures. The film inspired many films, including STAR WARS...
A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) - Set in 1913 Mexico, "A Fistful of Dynamite," is a story about a former Irish terrorist (James Coburn) who befriends a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger), and who together play a major, often reluctant part in the Mexican Revolution.
Side Out(1990) - Midwestern law student comes to California for one summer to work for his uncle. Instead, hangs out at the beach and chases waitresses. Teams up with a washed-up King of the Beach, and the rookie wins a major beach volleyball tournament.
Inchon(1982) - A war epic directed by Terence Young and based on the Battle of Inchon during the Korean war, starring General Douglas MacArthur (played by legend Lawrence Oliver), Barbara Hallsworth (played by Jacqueline Bisset), and U.S. Major Frank Hallsworth (Ben Gazarra). The film starts in 1950, with a North...
The Driller Killer(1979) - Director Abel Ferrara's (BAD LIEUTENANT) first major feature has an infamous reputation but is actually more of an art film than a straightforward bloodletter. Tortured and penniless artist Reno (Ferrara) and his girlfriends Carol (Carolyn Marz) and Pamela (Baybi Day) hang out at their New York loft...
The Long Good Friday(1980) - Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is one of England's most notorious gangsters. On the eve of a major business deal, things get explosive. His rivals are getting lethal in their attempts to destroy him, but Shand isn't about to back down.
Looking for Mr. Goodbar(1977) - This film has gained historic value, being one of Richard Gere's very first in a major part as a bipolar, crazy sex-athlete - two years before 'American Gigolo'. But it is really Diane Keaton's film. Based on the novel from 1975 by Judith Rossner, which provoked much discussion, because a woman bac...
Major League(1989) - An exotic dancer marries the owner of a baseball club. He does not survive the honeymoon and she is in control of his ball club. Looking at a small stadium, she wants to move to warmer climes where some new stadiums have been built, but her lease has only one escape clause, poor attendance. She fiel...
The Langoliers(1995) - While en route to Boston, a handful of travelers on an airplane awaken to find the majority of the people on the plane have vanished. When they finally land on the ground, they find the airport's abandone
A Winner Never Quits(1993) - "Young Pete Gray, at the age of 10, lost his arm after being run over by a milk truck, but that didn't discourage him from trying to realize his life-long dream - to play Major League Baseball in Yankee Stadium. Carradine portrays this true-life hero from the 1940's
Deep Cover(1992) - Laurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of his dope-addict father, whom he saw die in a liquor-store robbery. DEA agent Jerry Carver (Charles Martin Smith) orders Stevens to work as an undercover operative on a major case...
No Tomorrow(1999) - Rap star Master P directed and stars in this action drama. Maker (Master P), a hip-hop music mogul and crime boss, helps broker a deal between Noah (Gary Busey), a major dealer in illegal arms, and a consortium of extremist groups. However, Maker was cut out of the loop at the last minute and he's e...
The Show(1995) - This documentary offers viewers an in depth look at the world of hip-hop and rap music as it chronicles a diverse group of performers preparing to give a major concert at Philadelphia's Armory. Interspersed amongst the preparations are interviews with rappers past and present, looks at their persona...
My Family(1995) - Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a recently...
Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!(1986) - Charlie Brown has a problem: He has to write a book report over the Christmas holidays which is due on the first day back. There is one major distraction on his mind and that is the big new year's party all of his friends are attending. He tries inviting the object of his desires, The Little Red-Hai...
Major League: Back to the Minors(1998) - At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match...
The Program(1993) - Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying.
Breaker! Breaker!(1977) - Breaker! Breaker! is a 1977 film starring Chuck Norris. The story follows a truck driver, John David "J.D." Dawes (Norris), who must infiltrate a desert town and save his brother, Billy (Michael Augenstein), who is imprisoned by the town's corrupt judge (George Murdock). The majority of the movie, h...
Omen III: The Final Conflict(1981) - Damien (Sam Neill) has grown up and is now a major player in world politics. Needless to say, unless he can be stopped in time, mankind is doomed.
No One Would Tell(1996) - Always feeling shy, sweet sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins has never been in a relationship or felt like a part of any major teenage crowd. But then she finds herself surprised to find that Bobby Tennison, the star athlete and most popular guy in school is interested in her. At first, Stacy feels fl...
Super Ducktales(1989) - For their mother's birthday, the Beagle Boys secretly alter the city plans for a major roadway so that it runs directly through Scrooge McDuck's Money Bin. With no alternative, Scrooge must have his Bin physically moved and he decides to hire an accountant to keep track of his assets for the move. T...
Zootopia(2016) - In a city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals who have abandoned traditional predator/prey roles in favor of civilized coexistence, uptight rabbit police officer Judy Hopps is forced to work with charismatic fox con artist Nick Wilde to crack a major case involving the mysterious disappearance of s...
Steamboy(2004) - Steamboy ( Suchmubi?) is a 2004 Japanese steampunk animated action film produced by Sunrise, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira. The film was released in Japan on July 17, 2004. Steamboy is one of the most expensive Japanese animated...
Bigger Fatter Liar(2017) - Kevin, a young tech genius, uses his smarts to slack off and create video games. When he realizes a major game executive has stolen his idea, Kevin and his best friend, Becca, set out to get revenge through a series of elaborate pranks. This is a direct-to-video sequel/remake to the 2002 film "Big F...
Big Momma's House(2000) - Big Momma's House is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell, written by Darryl Quarles and Don Rhymer, and starring Martin Lawrence as FBI agent Malcolm Turner. The majority of the film took place in Cartersville, Georgia, but the film was shot on location in California. The prime shoo...
Go Tell The Spartans(1978) - A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.
Stick It(2006) - A cocky teenager learns some important lessons about playing by her own rules in this comedy drama. Haley Graham is a gifted 17-year-old gymnast with a strong rebellious streak -- strong enough that she walked away from her teammates on the eve of a major international tournament because she'd had e...
Reel Evil(2012) - Struggling filmmakers - Kennedy, Cory and James - finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the-scenes' documentary for a major studio production. But their dream job quickly turns into a nightmare when they explore the legendary, haunted location and find...
When It Was A Game(1991) - This film consists solely of 8mm and 16mm film taken by players and fans from 1934 and 1957. All but a few minutes of the film are in color. Included is color footage of past major league players and ballparks, many of the parks now defunct. Also included are literary readings, remembrances by forme...
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie(2015) - In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinair...
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence(2004) - With Major Motoko Kusanagi missing, Section 9's Batou is assigned to investigate a string of gruesome murdersseemingly at the hands of faulty gynoids, or sex robots. But when a faulty gynoid leaves Batou a cryptic message, he begins to question the cause of their malfunctions. Suspicions of politic...
Ghost in the Shell (2017)(2017) - In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people's minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified t...
Flying Leathernecks(1951) - Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal.
Dr. Goldfoot And The Girl Bombs(1966) - The foppish mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Lost Continent(1951) - Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crashlands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing. They meet up with a native girl, a big lizard, and some dinosaurs.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture(1979) - An alien phenomenon of unprecedented size and power is approaching Earth, destroying everything in its path. The only starship in range is the U.S.S. Enterprise--still in drydock after a major overhaul. As Captain Decker readies his ship and his crew to face this menace, the legendary Admiral James...
Out Of Annie's Past(1995) - Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change th...
Savage City(1974) - A woman becomes a prostitute, and ends up in major trouble.
Excessive Force(1993) - Chicago PD detective Terry McCain is mercilessly efficient against serious criminals, therefore hated. After a major coup, his personal love-ones are targeted, a rookie partner is bomb-murdered. Realizing there must be an accomplice within the force, he goes undercover. Slowly it becomes clear he's...
Shrieker(1998) - Clark, a young Mathematics major at University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrang...
Mr. Deeds(2002) - Preston Blake, hoping to be a disc jockey as a young man, slowly worked his way up and founded Blake Media, a major corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations with 50,000 employees. After 82-year-old Blake freezes to death on the summit of Mount Everest with a triumphant smile on...
Set It Off(1996) - Four Black women, all of whom have suffered for lack of money and at the hands of the majority, undertake to rob banks. While initially successful, a policeman who was involved in shooting one of the women's brothers is on their trail. As the women add to the loot, their tastes and interests begin t...
Monsters University(2013) - In this prequel to "Monsters Inc" we are joined by a young Mike Wazowksi who has just enrolled as a scaring major at Monsters University, the biggest college in all of Monstropolis. The studious Mike meets a slacking student named James Sullivan (or Sulley as he likes to put it) and they quickly gai...
The Dirty Dozen(1967) - A US Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers in World War II.
The Toxic Avenger Part III(1989) - Subtitle: "The Last Temptation Of Toxie". Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. So he decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission(1985) - Major Reisman is "Volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Admission(2013) - A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
Treasure Planet(2002) - he film's prologue depicts Jim Hawkins as a five-year-old (voiced by Austin Majors) reading a storybook in bed. Jim is enchanted by stories of the legendary pirate Captain Flint and his ability to appear from nowhere, raid passing ships, and disappear in order to hide the loot on the mysterious "Tre...
Godzilla (Gojira)(1954) - In Ishir Honda's 1954 classic, nuclear tests unleash the unstoppable radioactive beast known as "Gojira", or "Godzilla", upon Japan's major cities. In order to stop the creature's colossal rampage, ship captain Hideto Ogata, paleontologist Kyohei Yamane, his daughter Emiko, and Dr. Daisuke Serizawa...
Rambo(2008) - 20 years after the events in Afghanistan, amid the political protests of the crisis in Burma, ruthless military officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads an army of Tatmadaw soldiers to pillage small villages in a campaign of fear. He watches with indifference as innocent villagers are forced into mine-infest...
Ten Who Dared(1960) - Major John Wesley Powell leads an expedition through the Grand Canyon to chart the Colorado River.
42(2013) - A deep look into the life of Jackie Robinson, the first African American player to play in Major League Baseball. Signing in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers, a young Robinson is just pushing to be seen as equal as every other player in the league during a time when American society feverishly argued...
Rise of the Guardians(2012) - In the ancient times the Guardians of the major holidays had to work to stop the evil Pitch Black from engulfing the world in darkness. The only one that had the knowledge and power to stop him was Jack Frost. Jack Frost recruited the "Guardians" of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Sandman, and th...
Big Time Movie(2012) - Big Time Rush are going international for the first time as they take their own private plane to London at the start of a major world tour. When they get their they meet up with a secret agent codenamed "Moon" who has a plan to jam the world's radio signals to stop the success of upstart bands such...
https://myanimelist.net/anime/11917/Major__World_Series -- Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/1842/Major_S3 -- Drama, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/3226/Major_S4 -- Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/32324/Major_2nd -- Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/36565/Major_2nd_TV -- Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/40504/Major_2nd_TV_2nd_Season -- Comedy, Sports, Drama, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5028/Major_S5 -- Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shounen, Sports
https://myanimelist.net/anime/5029/Major_Movie__Yuujou_no_Winning_Shot -- Action, Sports, Shounen
https://myanimelist.net/anime/558/Major_S2 -- Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Sports
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36 Hours (1964) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 55min | Thriller, War | 19 February 1965 (USA) -- Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can get details about the Allied invasion of Europe out of him. Director: George Seaton Writers:
42 (2013) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 8min | Biography, Drama, Sport | 12 April 2013 (USA) -- In 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era when he was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers and faces considerable racism in the process. Director: Brian Helgeland Writer:
A Civil Action (1998) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama | 8 January 1999 (USA) -- A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving a major company responsible for causing several people to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town's water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career. Director: Steven Zaillian Writers:
Amistad (1997) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 35min | Biography, Drama, History | 25 December 1997 (USA) -- In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free. Director: Steven Spielberg Writer:
Are You Being Served? ::: TV-PG | 28min | Comedy | TV Series (19721985) -- The misadventures of the staff of a retail floor of a major department store. Creators: Jeremy Lloyd, David Croft
Babylon 5 ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (1993-1998) Episode Guide 111 episodes Babylon 5 Poster -- In the mid 23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years. Creator:
Babylon 5 ::: TV-PG | 45min | Action, Adventure, Drama | TV Series (19931998) -- In the mid 23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years. Creator:
Batman (1989) ::: 7.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 6min | Action, Adventure | 23 June 1989 (USA) -- The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker. Director: Tim Burton Writers:
Battlestar Galactica (1978) ::: 6.9/10 -- PG | 2h 28min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 18 May 1979 (USA) -- After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. Directors: Richard A. Colla, Alan J. Levi (uncredited) Writer:
Bowfinger (1999) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 37min | Comedy | 13 August 1999 (USA) -- When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him. Director: Frank Oz Writer:
Brockmire ::: TV-MA | 30min | Comedy, Drama, Sport | TV Series (20172020) -- A famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife's serial infidelity decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town a decade later. Creator:
Chicago Hope ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | TV Series (19942000) -- The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago. Creator: David E. Kelley
Come Fly with Me ::: TV-MA | 29min | Comedy | TV Series (20102011) The Little Britain team parodies the various types of characters associated with life in a major British airport. That includes flight and ground staff from regular - and low budget ... S Stars: Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Lindsay Duncan Available on Amazon
Defending Your Life (1991) ::: 7.2/10 -- PG | 1h 52min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 5 April 1991 (USA) -- In an afterlife way station resembling a major city, the lives of the recently-deceased are examined in a court-like setting. Director: Albert Brooks Writer: Albert Brooks
Eastbound & Down ::: TV-MA | 28min | Comedy, Drama, Sport | TV Series (20092013) -- Many years after he turned his back on his hometown, a burned-out major league ballplayer returns to teach Physical Education at his old middle school. Creators:
Extreme Engineering ::: 50min | Documentary | TV Series (2003- ) Episode Guide 77 episodes Extreme Engineering Poster Each episode of Extreme Engineering features a major construction and engineering project. Some projects are completed ones, like the new Hong Kong airport. Other projects are those under ... S Stars: Danny Forster, Joseph Giotta, Larc Spies Available on Amazon
Fearless (1993) ::: 7.1/10 -- R | 2h 2min | Drama, Thriller | 5 November 1993 (USA) -- A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash. Director: Peter Weir Writers: Rafael Yglesias (novel), Rafael Yglesias (screenplay)
Flying Leathernecks (1951) ::: 6.5/10 -- Approved | 1h 42min | Action, Drama, War | 28 August 1951 (USA) -- Major Kirby leads The Wildcats squadron into the historic WWII battle of Guadalcanal. Director: Nicholas Ray Writers: James Edward Grant (screenplay), Kenneth Gamet (story)
Franklin & Bash ::: TV-14 | 1h | Comedy, Crime, Drama | TV Series (20112014) -- Lawyers and lifelong friends Jared Franklin and Peter Bash are recruited by a large firm's major partner after winning a high-profile case. Creators:
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (2015) ::: 6.7/10 -- Kkaku Kidtai Shin Gekijban (original title) -- Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie Poster -- Newport-City 2029: Major, an advanced female cyborg, is in charge of the anti-terrorism etc. unit reporting directly to the government. Taking out terrorists and freeing hostages at an embassy doesn't go smoothly. Major investigates why. Directors: Kazuchika Kise, Kazuya Nomura
Julius Caesar (1953) ::: 7.3/10 -- Not Rated | 2h | Biography, Drama, History | 4 June 1953 (USA) -- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony. Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Writer:
Kajillionaire (2020) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Crime, Drama | 25 September 2020 (USA) -- A woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning. Director: Miranda July Writer: Miranda July
Koffee with Karan ::: TV-14 | 1h | Comedy, Talk-Show | TV Series (2004 ) -- Celebrity host Karan Johar gets up close and personal with various Bollywood personalities and discusses their major career milestones. Stars: Karan Johar, Shahid Kapoor, Shah Rukh Khan
L.A. Law ::: TV-PG | 46min | Drama | TV Series (19861994) -- The lives and work of the staff of a major Los Angeles law firm. Creators: Steven Bochco, Terry Louise Fisher
Law & Order: Criminal Intent ::: TV-14 | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (20012011) -- This series focuses on the NYPD's Major Case Squad, a force of detectives who investigate high-profile cases, whilst also showing parts of the crime from the criminal's point of view to the audience. Creators:
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013) ::: 7.2/10 -- The Butler (original title) -- Lee Daniels' The Butler Poster -- As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. Director: Lee Daniels Writers:
Major Crimes -- Not Rated | 43min | Action, Crime, Drama | TV Series (20122018) ::: The Closer (2005) spin-off series, which follows Captain Raydor of the Los Angeles Police Department. Creator: James Duff
Major Dundee (1965) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 3min | Adventure, War, Western | 15 March 1965 (Denmark) -- In 1864, due to frequent Apache raids from Mexico into the U.S., a Union officer decides to illegally cross the border and destroy the Apache, using a mixed army of Union troops, Confederate POWs, civilian mercenaries, and scouts. Director: Sam Peckinpah Writers: Harry Julian Fink (story), Harry Julian Fink (screenplay) | 2 more credits
Major League (1989) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 1h 47min | Comedy, Sport | 7 April 1989 (USA) -- The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her. Director: David S. Ward (as David Ward) Writer:
Million Dollar Arm (2014) ::: 7.0/10 -- PG | 2h 4min | Biography, Drama, Sport | 16 May 2014 (USA) -- A sports agent stages an unconventional recruitment strategy to get talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Baseball. Director: Craig Gillespie Writer: Tom McCarthy (screenplay) (as Thomas McCarthy)
Mimino (1977) ::: 8.2/10 -- PG | 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama | 27 March 1978 (Soviet Union) -- Local Georgian pilot Mimino dreams of flying airplanes for major international airlines. To realize his aspirations, he goes to Moscow where he encounters a fellow comrade from the Caucasus, the Armenian Rubik. Many misadventures ensue. Director: Georgiy Daneliya Writers: Revaz Gabriadze, Viktoriya Tokareva | 1 more credit
Mirage (1965) ::: 7.3/10 -- Approved | 1h 48min | Mystery, Thriller | 23 September 1965 (UK) -- An accountant suddenly suffers from amnesia. This appears related to the suicide of his boss. Now some violent thugs are out to get him. They work for a shadowy figure known simply as The Major. Director: Edward Dmytryk Writers:
Mission Hill ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19992002) The misadventures of a group of disparate roomates who live in a hip neighborhood in a major city. Creators: Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein Stars:
Mission Hill ::: TV-14 | 30min | Animation, Comedy, Drama | TV Series (19992002) The misadventures of a group of disparate roomates who live in a hip neighborhood in a major city.
NCIS ::: NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service (original tit ::: TV-14 | 1h | Action, Crime, Drama | TV Series (2003 ) -- The cases of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service's Washington, D.C. Major Case Response Team, led by Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Creators:
North Country (2005) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Drama | 21 October 2005 (USA) -- A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. Director: Niki Caro Writers:
Northwest Passage (1940) ::: 7.1/10 -- 'Northwest Passage' (Book I -- Rogers' Rangers) (original title) -- Northwest Passage Poster -- Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected. Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway (uncredited) | 1 more credit Writers:
Ocean's Twelve (2004) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 5min | Crime, Thriller | 10 December 2004 (USA) -- Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001). Director: Steven Soderbergh Writers: George Nolfi, George Clayton Johnson (characters) | 1 more credit
Pitch ::: TV-14 | 1h | Drama, Sport | TV Series (20162017) -- A young pitcher becomes the first woman to play in the Major Leagues. Creators: Dan Fogelman, Rick Singer
Privileged ::: 45min | Comedy | TV Series (20082009) A Yale-educated journalism major reluctantly becomes a live-in tutor for two spoiled grand-daughters of a Palm Beach cosmetics business magnate. Creator: Rina Mimoun Stars:
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956) ::: 6.6/10 -- The Battle of the River Plate (original title) -- Pursuit of the Graf Spee Poster In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship. Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Writers: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Stars:
Roadies ::: TV-MA | 1h | Comedy, Drama, Music | TV Series (2016) -- A road crew helps with a rock band's major multi-city tour. Creator: Cameron Crowe
Runaway Jury (2003) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 7min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 17 October 2003 (USA) -- A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer. Director: Gary Fleder Writers: John Grisham (novel), Brian Koppelman (screenplay) | 3 more credits
Rush (1991) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 2h | Action, Crime, Drama | 17 January 1992 (USA) -- Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment. Director: Lili Fini Zanuck Writers: Kim Wozencraft (book), Peter Dexter (screenplay) (as Pete Dexter)
Sayonara (1957) ::: 7.1/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 27min | Drama, Romance | 20 December 1957 (Japan) -- A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer. Director: Joshua Logan Writers: Paul Osborn (screen play), James A. Michener (based on the novel by) Stars:
Shot Caller (2017) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 18 August 2017 (USA) -- A newly released prisoner is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California. Director: Ric Roman Waugh Writer:
Silent Movie (1976) ::: 6.7/10 -- Passed | 1h 27min | Comedy | 16 June 1976 (USA) -- A film director and his strange friends struggle to produce the first major silent feature film in forty years. Director: Mel Brooks Writers: Mel Brooks (screenplay), Ron Clark (screenplay) | 3 more credits
Star Wars: Clone Wars ::: TV-Y7 | 2h 13min | Animation, Action, Adventure | TV Series (20032005) -- The events and battles of the Galactic Republic's last major war are recounted. Stars: Mat Lucas, James Arnold Taylor, Andr Sogliuzzo | See full cast &
Sweet Land (2005) ::: 7.1/10 -- PG | 1h 50min | Drama, Romance | 31 July 2008 (Brazil) -- In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications. Director: Ali Selim Writers: Will Weaver (short story "A Gravestone Made of Wheat"), Ali Selim Stars:
The 10th Victim (1965) ::: 6.6/10 -- La decima vittima (original title) -- The 10th Victim Poster -- In the 21st Century, where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress agrees to kill a "victim" to get a major TV sponsorship deal, but romantic entanglements between the two complicate matters. Director: Elio Petri
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) ::: 7.9/10 -- Passed | 1h 52min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 12 May 1950 (USA) -- A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel. Director: John Huston Writers: Ben Maddow (screen play), John Huston (screen play) | 1 more credit
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) ::: 7.1/10 -- Approved | 1h 55min | Action, Adventure, Romance | 20 October 1936 -- The Charge of the Light Brigade Poster -- A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children. Director: Michael Curtiz Writers:
The Company Men (2010) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 44min | Drama | 11 February 2011 (USA) -- The story centers on a year in the life of three men trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing at a major company - and how that affects them, their families, and their communities. Director: John Wells Writer:
The Dirty Dozen (1967) ::: 7.7/10 -- Not Rated | 2h 30min | Action, Adventure, War | 22 October 1967 (UK) -- During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. Director: Robert Aldrich Writers:
The East (2013) ::: 6.8/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 28 June 2013 (UK) -- An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations. Director: Zal Batmanglij Writers:
Their Finest (2016) ::: 6.8/10 -- R | 1h 57min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7 April 2017 (USA) -- A former secretary, newly appointed as a scriptwriter for propaganda films, joins the cast and crew of a major production while the Blitz rages around them. Director: Lone Scherfig Writers:
The Kill Point ::: TV-MA | Action, Crime, Drama | TV Series (2007) -- A group of military veterans, who recently returned home from serving in Iraq, band together to pull off a major bank heist. Creator: James DeMonaco
The Living Daylights (1987) ::: 6.7/10 -- PG | 2h 10min | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 31 July 1987 (USA) -- James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications. Director: John Glen Writers:
The Lost City of Z (2016) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG-13 | 2h 21min | Adventure, Biography, Drama | 21 April 2017 (USA) -- A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s. Director: James Gray Writers:
The Major and the Minor (1942) ::: 7.4/10 -- Passed | 1h 40min | Comedy, Romance | 24 December 1942 (Mexico) -- A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major. Director: Billy Wilder Writers:
The Night of the Generals (1967) ::: 7.3/10 -- PG | 2h 28min | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 24 February 1967 (USA) -- In 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau (Omar Sharif) of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades. Director: Anatole Litvak Writers: Joseph Kessel (adapted for the screen by), Paul Dehn (adapted for the screen by) | 3 more credits
The Outrage (2010) ::: 6.8/10 -- Autoreiji (original title) -- The Outrage Poster -- The boss of a major crime syndicate orders his lieutenant to bring a rogue gang of drug traffickers in line, a job that gets passed on to his long-suffering subordinate. Director: Takeshi Kitano Writer:
The Program (1993) ::: 6.5/10 -- R | 1h 52min | Action, Drama, Romance | 24 September 1993 (USA) -- Several players from different backgrounds try to cope with the pressures of playing football at a major university. Each deals with the pressure differently, some turn to drinking, others to drugs, and some to studying. Director: David S. Ward Writers:
The Rookie (2002) ::: 6.9/10 -- G | 2h 7min | Drama, Family, Sport | 29 March 2002 (USA) -- A Texas baseball coach makes the major league after agreeing to try out if his high school team made the playoffs. Director: John Lee Hancock Writer: Mike Rich
The Shape of Things (2003) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 36min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 16 May 2003 (USA) -- A quiet, unassuming man begins to change in a major way as a result of meeting a new, art-student girlfriend, and his friends are unsettled by the transformation. Director: Neil LaBute Writers:
They Call Me Trinity (1970) ::: 7.5/10 -- Lo chiamavano Trinit... (original title) -- They Call Me Trinity Poster A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen. Director: Enzo Barboni (as E.B. Clucher) Writers: Enzo Barboni (story and screenplay) (as E.B. Clucher), Gene Luotto (dialogue)
Waar (2013) ::: 7.9/10 -- 2h 10min | Action, Crime, Drama | 16 October 2013 (Pakistan) -- The efforts of the Pakistani security forces in their fight against terrorism and how the lives of security officials are affected. A retired security officer returns to save Pakistan from a major terrorist attack. Director: Bilal Lashari Writer:
We Were Soldiers (2002) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 18min | Action, Drama, History | 1 March 2002 (USA) -- The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. Director: Randall Wallace Writers:
Wish I Was Here (2014) ::: 6.7/10 -- R | 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama | 25 July 2014 (USA) -- A struggling actor, father and husband finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his family and his career. Director: Zach Braff Writers:
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A.D. Police (TV) -- -- Plum -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mecha Shounen -- A.D. Police (TV) A.D. Police (TV) -- Set a few years before Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, A.D. Police chronicles the tales of Mega-Tokyo's special police division designed to control rogue Boomers in the city. A.D. Police Officer Kenji Sasaki faces a major dilemma: he loses another partner to a rabid boomer. A day after he's sent off-duty, he receives a new partner in the form of German cop Hans Kleif. Funny thing is that Kenji sucker-punched Hans at a bar the night before. Not only does Kenji face the everyday task of controlling Boomers, he has to learn to adjust with his new partner. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films -- 9,576 6.01
Akage no Anne -- -- Nippon Animation -- 50 eps -- Novel -- Slice of Life Historical Drama -- Akage no Anne Akage no Anne -- Life isn't easy for Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan with a vast imagination and a short temper. In a twist of fate, she gets taken into the Cuthbert house in Avonlea. The elderly occupants Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were looking for a young boy to help in the fields, but they're in for quite a shock when they realize Anne is a girl. -- -- Adapted from the acclaimed classic by L. M. Montgomery, Akage no Anne portrays Anne's upbringing from 11 to 17 years of age and her encounters and separations with various people. Only time will tell what major decision Anne has to make that will change her life forever. -- -- 22,831 7.69
Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova -- -- SANZIGEN -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Seinen -- Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio: Ars Nova -- In the year 2039, the drastic effects of global warming have caused sea levels to rise, resulting in major loss of land. To ensure humanity learns its lesson, a fleet of powerful warships equipped with advanced weaponry emerges, causing overwhelming defeat for naval forces throughout the world. Calling themselves the Fleet of Fog, each ship has a "Mental Model," a humanoid avatar which represents the ship's heart, its "Union Core." Each model has a different personality but all follow an unknown authority known as the Admiralty Code, who have implemented a blockade to prevent humans from traveling across the sea. -- -- Seventeen years after the blockade, Gunzou Chihaya, a National Marine Academy alumnus, stumbles upon I-401 and its Mental Model, Iona, who sides with mankind for unknown reasons. Utilizing this newfound hope of achieving peace for humanity, Gunzou and his friends form a group of privateers, known as the Blue Steel, as they set out on a dangerous journey. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll, Discotek Media -- 133,603 7.39
Armitage III: Poly-Matrix -- -- AIC -- 1 ep -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Adventure Police Romance Mecha -- Armitage III: Poly-Matrix Armitage III: Poly-Matrix -- In the year 2046 humans are moving away from using robots and begin to trust them less and less. In this time life becomes very perilous for the beings known as seconds. The seconds are the most recent line of robots, as far as the public knows. This is the world Detective Ross Sylibus lives in. Detective Sylibus is transferred to Mars by his request after his partner was killed by a robot. As he arrives he falls headfirst into a murder where a country singer on his flight was murdered. He steps off the plane and watches as a scene unfolds and he meets his partner, Armitage a female cop with a major attitude. A rash of murders begins when yet more women are killed. As the investigation is continued a secret is uncovered. There is another line of robots known as Thirds. More and more Thirds turn up missing, as a serial killer who is intent on wiping out all the Thirds runs rampant. Armitage in her quest to put the murderer to justice reveals a secret. She herself is a Third. -- -- (Source: ANN, edited) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- Movie - Apr 20, 1996 -- 12,616 7.07
Atom: The Beginning -- -- OLM, Production I.G, Signal.MD -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Mecha Seinen -- Atom: The Beginning Atom: The Beginning -- Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal hero Astro Boy up until his birth is just about to start! -- -- (Source: Showgate) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 27,301 6.84
B-gata H-kei -- -- Hal Film Maker, TYO Animations -- 12 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy Ecchi Romance School Seinen -- B-gata H-kei B-gata H-kei -- Most people, including the girl herself, would say that first year high school student Yamada is beautiful and perfect. Despite this, she is working towards a peculiar goal: to have sex with one hundred men by the end of high school. -- -- Trying to put some sense into her head, Yamada's best friend, Miharu Takeshita, points out a major flaw in that plan—she is completely inexperienced with men. However, the reason behind this is that Yamada thinks her lady parts look strange and believes others will judge her for it. As a result, Yamada decides that her first time must be with a fellow virgin, since they will not hurt or scare her. After a fateful encounter, she sets her sights on the shy and average Takashi Kosuda, an aspiring photographer with a heart of gold. -- -- With contending rivals for his affection and her own raging hormones, Yamada must find ways to seduce Kosuda and take his cherry. However, as she gets closer to Kosuda, she finds herself increasingly enjoying their time spent together. -- -- 330,273 6.92
Burn the Witch -- -- Studio Colorido -- 3 eps -- Manga -- Action Magic Fantasy Shounen -- Burn the Witch Burn the Witch -- Historically, 72% of all the deaths in London are related to dragons, fantastical beings invisible to the majority of the people. While unknown to most, some people have been standing up to these dragons. -- -- Only inhabitants of Reverse London who live in the hidden "reverse" side of London can see the dragons. Even then, only a selected few become qualified enough as witches or wizards to make direct contact with them. -- -- The protagonists of the story are witch duo Noel Niihashi and Ninny Spangcole. They are protection agents for Wing Bind (WB), an organization for dragon conservation and management. Their mission is to protect and manage the dragons within London on behalf of the people. -- -- (Source: Official Site) -- Movie - Oct 2, 2020 -- 142,807 7.16
Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon-hen -- -- OLM -- 31 eps -- Original -- Action Game Shounen -- Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon-hen Cardfight!! Vanguard: Shinemon-hen -- This is the story of "Shinemon Nitta", the future manager of Card Capital. -- -- 10 years before the reunion of Aichi Sendou and Toshiki Kai, the card shop run by the Tokura family "Card Capital" was going out of business. Then came the attempt to take over the store by Esuka Hibino, the owner of a major card shop. -- -- In order to protect Card Capital, Shinemon Nitta stands up as the "Self-proclaimed Manager!" -- -- (Source: Cardfight!! Vanguard Wiki) -- TV - Aug 24, 2019 -- 2,599 6.54
Chuuka Ichiban! -- -- Nippon Animation -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Drama Shounen -- Chuuka Ichiban! Chuuka Ichiban! -- The story takes place in 19th century China during the Qing Dynasty, where the Emperor was weakened and the country was close to chaos. It is also during a fictitious era called "The Era of the Cooking Wars". It was an era in which top chefs with different cooking styles tried their best to improve their skills and to become the best chef in China. It is a country where insulting a high-grade chef or fooling around with cooking could land a person in a jail, and impersonating a top-chef is as good as usurpation of authority. Chefs compete with each other in order to gain respect and even power, but also with the risks of losing everything. -- -- The country of China has four major regions: Beijing, Szechuan, Shanghai, and Guangdong. -- -- The beginning of the story takes place in Szechuan, Mao's birthplace. -- -- After the death of Mao's mother, Pai, who was called the 'Fairy of Cuisine', Mao becomes a Super Chef in order to take the title as Master Chef of his mother's restaurant. However, before he takes his mother's place as Master Chef, he continues to travel China in order to learn more of the many ways of cooking, in the hopes of becoming a legendary chef, just like his mother. During his journey, he meets great friends and fierce rivals who wish to challenge him in the field of cooking. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- 16,108 7.62
City Hunter Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Mystery Comedy Shounen -- City Hunter Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes City Hunter Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes -- Ryo Saeba is the top "City Hunter" around and he takes on cases with his partner Kaori. A model named Ai Shindo has been attacked and hires him to be her bodyguard. Shinji Mikuni, the president of an IT company that has hired Ai for its ad campaign, turns out to be an old friend of Kaori, and they become involved. Meanwhile, mercenaries are gathering in Shinjuku... and a major arms dealer arrives in Japan with a new weapon, but with Mikuni in the picture, Ryo and Kaori are growing apart... -- -- (Source: Official Website) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Feb 8, 2019 -- 8,074 7.42
Cluster Edge -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Fantasy Military Sci-Fi -- Cluster Edge Cluster Edge -- Cluster Edge Academy isn't just any school; it's THE school, where the offspring of the elite come together to prepare for their roles running a world where artificial soldiers and religious sects are major factors in the battle for total control. Which may be part of why new transfer student Agate Fluorite doesn't quite seem to fit in. It's not just that Agate's enthusiastic attitude stands out among the somber, brooding balance of the student body. There's something about him that demands notice, even from jaded honors students like Beryl Jasper, and from the moment of arrival he's been at the center of a series of mysteries that not even Agate understands. Because Agate's not just another student, he's part of a something so momentous, and dangerous, that the world that built Cluster Edge may not survive its passing. -- -- (Source: Sentai Filmworks) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 9,408 6.34
Cyber City Oedo 808 -- -- Madhouse -- 3 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Police Sci-Fi -- Cyber City Oedo 808 Cyber City Oedo 808 -- It is the year 2808. Three convicts are recruited as members of the Cyber Police to keep major criminal activity in Oedo (formerly Tokyo) in check. In return, their life sentences will be reduced by a few years for every mission accomplished. However, to ensure that these convicts are doing their job, the police have secured special collars around their necks. If they attempt to remove their collars or fail to meet the time limit of their mission, the collars will self-destruct. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Central Park Media -- OVA - Jun 21, 1990 -- 20,664 7.17
Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier -- -- Brain's Base, Japan Vistec, Shaft -- 50 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Mecha Shounen -- Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier -- Skull, the evil leader of the terrorist organization known as Black Ghost, has nine powerful cyborgs under his control. But Dr. Isaac Gilmore, the Black Ghosts cybernetics scientist, decides to go rogue, helping the cyborgs turn against Skull and his evil organization. -- -- Black Ghost wishes to start the next major world war by flooding the market with weapons of mass destruction. It seems the nine brave cyborgs have their work cut out for them, as Black Ghost is determined to bring those nine cyborgs down. -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Sony Pictures Entertainment -- TV - Oct 14, 2001 -- 26,587 7.26
Domestic na Kanojo -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Shounen -- Domestic na Kanojo Domestic na Kanojo -- In their teenage years, few things can hurt people more than the heartaches that come with unrequited love. Such is the case for Natsuo Fujii, who has found himself entranced by his school's ever-cheerful teacher Hina. Deflated by this unreachable desire, Natsuo humors his friends and attends a mixer. There he meets Rui, a girl whose lack of excitement rivals that of himself. After bonding over their mutual awkwardness, Rui takes Natsuo to her house and asks him to have sex with her, hoping that the experience will stop her friends from treating her like a clueless child. With his hopeless feelings towards Hina still on his mind, Natsuo hesitantly agrees. -- -- Equally unfulfilled by their "first times," the two decide to part ways as strangers. However, before he even has a chance to process this experience, Natsuo's father drops a major bombshell: he is getting remarried, and his new wife Tsukiko Tachibana is coming over now to meet Natsuo. As if that was not enough of a shock, her daughters—and, in turn, Natsuo's new sisters—are Hina and Rui Tachibana, the woman he's in love with and the girl with whom he shared his first night. Now, Natsuo must come to terms with the feelings he has for his step-siblings as his eyes open to a darker side of love. -- -- 451,362 6.75
Domestic na Kanojo -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Drama Romance School Shounen -- Domestic na Kanojo Domestic na Kanojo -- In their teenage years, few things can hurt people more than the heartaches that come with unrequited love. Such is the case for Natsuo Fujii, who has found himself entranced by his school's ever-cheerful teacher Hina. Deflated by this unreachable desire, Natsuo humors his friends and attends a mixer. There he meets Rui, a girl whose lack of excitement rivals that of himself. After bonding over their mutual awkwardness, Rui takes Natsuo to her house and asks him to have sex with her, hoping that the experience will stop her friends from treating her like a clueless child. With his hopeless feelings towards Hina still on his mind, Natsuo hesitantly agrees. -- -- Equally unfulfilled by their "first times," the two decide to part ways as strangers. However, before he even has a chance to process this experience, Natsuo's father drops a major bombshell: he is getting remarried, and his new wife Tsukiko Tachibana is coming over now to meet Natsuo. As if that was not enough of a shock, her daughters—and, in turn, Natsuo's new sisters—are Hina and Rui Tachibana, the woman he's in love with and the girl with whom he shared his first night. Now, Natsuo must come to terms with the feelings he has for his step-siblings as his eyes open to a darker side of love. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 451,362 6.75
Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world. -- -- One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce? -- -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other. -- -- 135,584 7.75
Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Web manga -- Slice of Life Comedy -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. -- Subaru Mikazuki is a 23-year-old mystery novel author, major introvert, and an awkwardly shy person. He would much rather stay home to read a book than go outside and interact with others. Further exacerbating this life of solitude, his parents tragically died in an accident many years ago, leaving him alone in the world. -- -- One day, while giving offerings at his parents' grave, Subaru runs into a small grey and white cat named Haru, which he ends up taking home with him. Subaru, however, has never taken care of anyone else in his life—can he even take care of a cat? Haru is grateful toward Subaru, as he gives her all the food she wants—a luxury for a cat who is used to a rough life on the streets. But she notices that Subaru can't even seem to take care of himself! Will she be okay with this dunce? -- -- Doukyonin wa Hiza, Tokidoki, Atama no Ue. tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a human and a cat who try to foster an understanding with each other. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 135,584 7.75
Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works -- -- Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Action Fantasy Magic Supernatural -- Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works -- This is the adaptation of the second route of the popular visual novel: Fate/stay night. In this route, Rin Toosaka will be the major female character. Revelations about Shirou and his destiny will be made. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Jan 23, 2010 -- 179,902 7.40
Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works -- -- Studio Deen -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Action Fantasy Magic Supernatural -- Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works Fate/stay night Movie: Unlimited Blade Works -- This is the adaptation of the second route of the popular visual novel: Fate/stay night. In this route, Rin Toosaka will be the major female character. Revelations about Shirou and his destiny will be made. -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- Movie - Jan 23, 2010 -- 179,902 7.40
Finder Series -- -- - -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Yaoi -- Finder Series Finder Series -- Twenty-three-year old Takaba Akihito is a young freelance photographer who takes pride in his work and seeks to get a major "scoop." After he takes photographs of the business dealings of crime lord Asami Ryuichi, Asami kidnaps and rapes him, beginning a sadomasochistic relationship between them as they find themselves continually drawn to one another. Fei Long, a rival Chinese boss who blames Asami for his father's death, takes an interest in Takaba, as well, seeking a way to get revenge. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- OVA - Feb 29, 2012 -- 17,256 6.50
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Harem Comedy Supernatural Romance Ecchi Fantasy School -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season continues the story of Genestella students Ayato Amagiri and Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, who have progressed to the next round of the Phoenix Festa after a long and strenuous battle with sisters Irene and Priscilla Urzaiz. -- -- Despite Julis and Ayato's best attempts, the fact that Ayato's powers have been sealed is no longer a secret. Now at a major disadvantage, the duo must come up with a plan if they are to have any hope of winning the Phoenix Festa. Only one thing is for sure: the troubles heading their way are only going to get more insurmountable from here on. -- -- 333,044 7.06
Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Sci-Fi Harem Comedy Supernatural Romance Ecchi Fantasy School -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season -- Gakusen Toshi Asterisk 2nd Season continues the story of Genestella students Ayato Amagiri and Julis-Alexia von Riessfeld, who have progressed to the next round of the Phoenix Festa after a long and strenuous battle with sisters Irene and Priscilla Urzaiz. -- -- Despite Julis and Ayato's best attempts, the fact that Ayato's powers have been sealed is no longer a secret. Now at a major disadvantage, the duo must come up with a plan if they are to have any hope of winning the Phoenix Festa. Only one thing is for sure: the troubles heading their way are only going to get more insurmountable from here on. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 333,044 7.06
Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Shounen -- Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- Gintoki and his Yorozuya friends (or rather, employees suffering under labor violations), Shinpachi and Kagura, continue to scrape by in the futuristic, alien-infested city of Edo. They take on whatever work they can find while trying not to get involved in anything too dangerous. But when Katsura, the leader of the Joui rebels and Gintoki's long-time acquaintance, disappears after being brutally attacked by an unknown assassin, Shinpachi and Kagura begin an investigation into his whereabouts and the identity of the assailant. Meanwhile, Gintoki takes on a seemingly unrelated job: the blacksmith Tetsuya requests that Gin recover a strange and powerful sword called the Benizakura which was recently stolen. -- -- As the two investigations gradually intersect, the Yorozuya crew find themselves in the midst of a major conspiracy that hinges on the sinister nature of the Benizakura sword. Gintoki resolves to take the fight directly to the enemy headquarters, and together with a few unexpected allies, sets out on one of his most perilous jobs yet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Apr 24, 2010 -- 121,059 8.52
Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Comedy Historical Parody Samurai Shounen -- Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen Gintama Movie 1: Shinyaku Benizakura-hen -- Gintoki and his Yorozuya friends (or rather, employees suffering under labor violations), Shinpachi and Kagura, continue to scrape by in the futuristic, alien-infested city of Edo. They take on whatever work they can find while trying not to get involved in anything too dangerous. But when Katsura, the leader of the Joui rebels and Gintoki's long-time acquaintance, disappears after being brutally attacked by an unknown assassin, Shinpachi and Kagura begin an investigation into his whereabouts and the identity of the assailant. Meanwhile, Gintoki takes on a seemingly unrelated job: the blacksmith Tetsuya requests that Gin recover a strange and powerful sword called the Benizakura which was recently stolen. -- -- As the two investigations gradually intersect, the Yorozuya crew find themselves in the midst of a major conspiracy that hinges on the sinister nature of the Benizakura sword. Gintoki resolves to take the fight directly to the enemy headquarters, and together with a few unexpected allies, sets out on one of his most perilous jobs yet. -- -- Movie - Apr 24, 2010 -- 121,059 8.52
Grancrest Senki Tsuisou -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Fantasy -- Grancrest Senki Tsuisou Grancrest Senki Tsuisou -- A recap of major events and notable characters from the first 11 episode of Grancrest Senki. -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Special - Mar 24, 2018 -- 9,466 6.53
Gravitation -- -- Studio Deen -- 13 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Music Romance Shoujo Shounen Ai -- Gravitation Gravitation -- All Shuichi ever dreamed about was following in the footsteps of his pop idol, Ryuichi Sakuma and the band Nittle Grasper. Together with his best friend Hiro, Shuichi's formed a band called Bad Luck and they've even managed to get signed to a major recording label! Unfortunately, the studio deadlines are looming and Shuichi still hasn't finished the lyrics for any of the songs. What he needs is a little inspiration... but he's been running a little low in that department lately. While Hiro recommends finding a girlfriend, fate has other things in store for him... -- -- Walking through the park late one night, Shuichi's latest lyrics flutter away and land at the feet of a stunning stranger that takes his breath away. Unfortunately, that mysterious stranger happens to be the famous novelist Eiri Yuki, who completely crushes the young singer by telling him he has "zero talent". Now, Shuichi's so annoyed that he's managed to finish his song just so he can find and confront Yuki once again. But, are his actions really motivated by anger, or has he actually fallen in love? -- -- (Source: RightStuf) -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 103,035 7.00
Initial D Battle Stage 2 -- -- A.C.G.T. -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Cars Sports Drama Seinen -- Initial D Battle Stage 2 Initial D Battle Stage 2 -- This is simply the OAV summing up the major events and battles of "Initial D 4th Stage" much like the "Initial D Battle Stage" original summed up the first 3 seasons. Additionally, has 2 extra battles from the manga that were not incorporated into the original 4th Stage. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- OVA - May 30, 2007 -- 23,148 7.64
Innocence -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Military Sci-Fi Police Psychological Mecha -- Innocence Innocence -- With Major Motoko Kusanagi missing, Section 9's Batou is assigned to investigate a string of gruesome murders—seemingly at the hands of faulty gynoids, or sex robots. But when a faulty gynoid leaves Batou a cryptic message, he begins to question the cause of their malfunctions. Suspicions of politically motivated murder and an illegal "ghost" quickly crop up, drawing Batou and his partner Togusa into a perilous web of conspiracy. -- -- As their investigation goes on, the line between man and machine continues to blur, and reality and perception become indistinguishable. Confronting strange and dangerous foes, Batou and Togusa explore a futuristic world filled with machines and living dolls but utterly devoid of humanity. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment, Funimation -- Movie - Mar 6, 2004 -- 135,632 7.82
Kagewani: Shou -- -- Tomovies -- 13 eps -- Original -- Mystery Horror Supernatural Thriller -- Kagewani: Shou Kagewani: Shou -- After surviving the onslaught at Sarugaku headquarters, Sousuke Banba resumes his investigation of the Kagewani monster hybrids. Armed with the ability to harness the Kagewani's power, the researcher now has a means to eliminate the creatures. But despite the benefits of this skill, it has one major drawback: Sousuke now struggles to maintain his sanity, with the power threatening to consume his body. -- -- Soon, threats old and new begin to rear their heads, as the upper echelons of Sarugaku become active once again and an assassin with a personal vendetta sets her sights on Sousuke. Nevertheless, he resolutely forges ahead on his mission, determined to track down the origins of the Kagewani and eliminate their threat once and for all. -- -- 16,441 6.44
Kakumeiki Valvrave -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Military Space Mecha -- Kakumeiki Valvrave Kakumeiki Valvrave -- In the 71st year of the True Era, humans have successfully expanded into space and have started living in independent galactic colonies. The world itself is split between two major nations: the Atlantic Rim United States (ARUS) and the Dorssia Military Pact Federation (Dorssia)—superpowers that wage war against each other on Earth and far into outer space. In this war-torn era, a third faction comprised of Japan and Islands of the Oceanian Republic (JIOR), reside peacefully and prosper economically, maintaining neutrality between themselves and their militant neighbors. -- -- Kakumeiki Valvrave commences in an outer space JIOR colony, where 17-year-old Haruto Tokishima's peaceful life is turned upside down as a sudden Dorssian fleet breaches the neutral colony. Their objective is to seize the Valvraves: powerful, but rumored mechanized weapons hidden deep within Haruto's school, Sakimori Academy. In the ensuing chaos, Haruto stumbles upon one of the targeted Valvraves. With his friends' lives in peril, Haruto enters the mecha and seals a contract for its power in exchange for his humanity. With the aid of L-elf—an enigmatic Dorssian agent and gifted strategist—Haruto and the Valvrave initiate a revolution to liberate the world. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- TV - Apr 12, 2013 -- 146,237 7.16
Kanon Kazahana -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance Slice of Life Supernatural -- Kanon Kazahana Kanon Kazahana -- The spring has come since Yuuichi reunited with Ayu, and lives of all major characters are back on track. When Mishio visits Makoto's birthplace, however, a miracle happens before her eyes. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - May 3, 2003 -- 12,300 6.74
Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- -- MAPPA -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Drama Fantasy Military Shounen -- Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e Katsute Kami Datta Kemono-tachi e -- With the initiation of the Patrian civil war came the creation of half-beast, half-human soldiers—a development of the outnumbered Northerners in a desperate attempt to counter the overwhelming Southern forces. Able to quickly dominate battlefields and achieve victory with ease, the soldiers' godlike abilities earned them the name "Incarnates." However, as the war raged on, the Incarnates encountered a problem involving the beasts inside them that they were unable to rectify by ordinary means. -- -- Once the war was over, mysteries and accounts of the Incarnates submitting to the misfortune of their war days surfaced. Aware of the horrors they faced during the war, Special Sergeant Major and former captain of the Incarnates Hank Henriette becomes a Beast Hunter—those who take the lives of Incarnates who have succumbed to the issues they experienced on the battlefields. -- -- After witnessing her father, a former Incarnate soldier, meet his end at the hands of one such Beast Hunter, Nancy Schaal Bancroft resolves to hunt the man who took her father's life. However, Nancy's eye-opening encounter with the Beast Hunter influences her to instead seek the reason behind her father's death and the Incarnates' problematic existence in society. -- -- 95,746 6.40
Kiddy Grade -- -- Gonzo -- 24 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Super Power Ecchi Mecha -- Kiddy Grade Kiddy Grade -- In the distant future, humanity has taken to the skies and colonized many planets throughout the universe. An agency known as the Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs (GOTT) has been formed to maintain order. Within GOTT, a secret squad of enhanced human beings—known as the ES Unit—carry out secret missions to put a stop to major galactic crimes. Two such operatives are the lowly C-ranked Éclair and Lumière. -- -- Despite being on the bottom of the totem pole, the pair wield formidable powers: Éclair's superhuman strength and lipstick whip and Lumière's ability to take control of any computer. Together, they can take on any mission that GOTT throws at them. But as they complete more and more missions, the duo begin to uncover a major conspiracy that leaves them questioning everything they know about themselves and the entire galaxy. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 9, 2002 -- 40,723 7.21
Kingdom 3rd Season -- -- Studio Signpost -- ? eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Military Seinen -- Kingdom 3rd Season Kingdom 3rd Season -- Following the successful Sanyou campaign, the Qin army, including 1,000-Man Commander Li Xin, inches ever closer to fulfilling King Ying Zheng's dream of unifying China. With a major geographical foothold in the state of Wei now under its control, Qin sets its sights eastward toward the remaining warring states. -- -- Meanwhile Li Mu—an unparalleled strategist and the newly appointed prime minister of the state of Zhao—has taken advantage of Zhao's temporary truce with Qin to negotiate with the other states without interruption. Seemingly without warning, Ying Zheng receives news that armies from the states of Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han, Yan, and Qi have crossed into Qin territory. Realizing too late the purpose behind Li Mu's truce with Qin, Zheng quickly gathers his advisors to devise a plan to address the six-state coalition army on their doorstep. For the first time in history, the state of Qin faces complete destruction and must use every resource and strategy at their disposal to prevent themselves from being wiped off the map. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 42,809 8.38
Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo -- -- Yumeta Company -- 25 eps -- Visual novel -- Harem Music Comedy Drama Magic Romance School Shoujo -- Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo -- Seiso Academy is a prestigious high school that sorts students into two majors: General Studies, characterized by distinct grey uniforms, and Music Studies, characterized by pristine white uniforms. While rushing to class one morning, General Studies student Kahoko Hino has a chance encounter with Lili, a small fairy searching for someone with the ability to see her. Lili flies away, and Kahoko, puzzled by their meeting, continues on her way. -- -- Later that day, the participants of a school-wide music competition are announced, and all of them are, unsurprisingly, Music Studies students—at least until Kahoko's name is read out. Immediately tracking down Lili, the small fairy gifts Kahoko a magical violin and convinces her to participate in the competition. -- -- Kiniro no Corda: Primo Passo follows Kahoko's endeavors alongside Lili, as the young student must now face the challenges of competition and go head-to-head against her competitors while navigating a new world of classical music. -- -- TV - Oct 2, 2006 -- 87,783 7.46
Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate -- -- AIC Build -- 12 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Romance School -- Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate Koi to Senkyo to Chocolate -- Yuuki Oojima is a member of his high school's Food Research Club, whose main activity is eating snacks bought with funds allocated to them by the school. However, this peaceful and wasteful lifestyle is under threat as the upcoming student election draws near. Satsuki Shinonome, a major candidate and the head of the department of financial affairs, campaigns on a platform that includes disbanding meritless clubs such as the Food Research Club and redirecting their budgets to proper ones. -- -- Understandably, the Food Research Club is in an uproar over this development, with president Chisato Sumiyoshi vowing to preserve it. But what can they even do to stop the highly competent and popular Satsuki from getting elected? -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- TV - Jul 6, 2012 -- 191,814 7.07
Koukaku Kidoutai -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Mecha Police Psychological Sci-Fi Seinen -- Koukaku Kidoutai Koukaku Kidoutai -- In the year 2029, Niihama City has become a technologically advanced metropolis. Due to great improvements in cybernetics, its citizens are able to replace their limbs with robotic parts. The world is now more interconnected than ever before, and the city's Public Security Section 9 is responsible for combating corruption, terrorism, and other dangerous threats following this shift towards globalization. -- -- The strong-willed Major Motoko Kusanagi of Section 9 spearheads a case involving a mysterious hacker known only as the "Puppet Master," who leaves a trail of victims stripped of their memories. Like many in this futuristic world, the Puppet Master's body is almost entirely robotic, giving them incredible power. -- -- As Motoko and her subordinates follow the enigmatic criminal's trail, other parties—including Section 6—start to get involved, forcing her to confront the extremely complicated nature of the case. Pondering about various philosophical questions, such as her own life's meaning, Motoko soon realizes that the one who will provide these answers is none other than the Puppet Master themself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- Movie - Nov 18, 1995 -- 482,343 8.29
Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 -- -- Production I.G, Sola Digital Arts -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Military Sci-Fi Police Mecha Seinen -- Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 Koukaku Kidoutai: SAC_2045 -- The year is 2045, and artificial intelligence has undergone tremendous developments. Governments use them as weapons, engaging in never-ending warfare to sustain their economies. The mercenary group GHOST, headed by Major Motoko Kusanagi, is no stranger to this landscape. However, the rapid innovation of this technology causes a new threat to loom over the horizon. -- -- Having left Public Security Section 9, Kusanagi and her group are involved in many operations worldwide related to these proxy wars. But a seemingly simple job of locating an arms dealer drags GHOST into a hidden conflict against cybernetically enhanced individuals, who have inexplicably gained extreme intelligence and physical abilities. Dubbed "post-humans," their emergence sets off a chain of events leading to the reunion of Section 9. Armed with a new mission, it is up to Kusanagi and her reestablished team to prevent global chaos at the hands of these post-humans. -- -- ONA - Apr 23, 2020 -- 26,133 6.67
Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie -- -- Production I.G -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Police Psychological Mecha -- Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie Koukaku Kidoutai: Shin Movie -- In the year 2027, a year following the end of the non-nuclear World War IV, a bomb has gone off in Newport City, killing a major arms dealer who may have ties with the mysterious 501 Organization. Public Security official Daisuke Aramaki hires full-body cyber prosthesis user and hacker extraordinaire, Motoko Kusanagi, to investigate. -- -- (Source: Wikipedia) -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Jun 20, 2015 -- 40,670 7.47
Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau -- -- J.C.Staff -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Mystery Super Power Drama Fantasy Shoujo -- Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau -- In a world covered by an endless sea of sand, there sails an island known as the Mud Whale. In its interior lies an ancient town, where the majority of its inhabitants are said to be "Marked," a double-edged trait that grants them supernatural abilities at the cost of an untimely death. Chakuro is the village archivist; young and curious, he spends his time documenting the discovery of newfound islands. But each one is like the rest—abandoned save for the remnants of those who lived there long ago. -- -- For the first time in six months, another island crosses the horizon, so Chakuro and his friends join the scouting group. During the expedition, they find vestiges of an archaic civilization. And inside one of its crumbling remains, Chakuro discovers a girl who will change his destiny and the world inside the Mud Whale as he knows it. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Netflix -- 172,781 7.19
Ladies versus Butlers! -- -- Xebec -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Harem Comedy Romance Ecchi School -- Ladies versus Butlers! Ladies versus Butlers! -- Hino Akiharu lost his parents when he was small and was adopted into his uncle's family. He didn't want to be a burden on his uncle's family and decides to enter a free boarding school as a butler, Hakureiryou high school. However, his delinquent boy-like appearance frightens the girls, who make up the majority of the students. Unable to get along with the classmates, Akiharu meets his childhood crush Saikyou Tomomi. -- 177,445 6.63
Lime-iro Senkitan -- -- Studio Hibari -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Drama Ecchi Harem Historical Mecha Supernatural -- Lime-iro Senkitan Lime-iro Senkitan -- Around the the 37th year of the Meiji Era (1904), in the midst of the Russo-Japanese war, the small Japanese army, in need of assistance, uses its special flying (thanks to a benevolent demon) ship, the Amanohara, to attack Russia's major base at Port Arthur (Lushun). -- -- Umakai Shintaro, a Russian diplomat originally from Japan, defects and goes to Sapporo to teach at a girls academy. However, that girls academy is not typical—it is on board the Amanohara, and the five girls Shintaro teaches are known as the Raimu Unit—girls with the ability to summon powerful beings to fight for them. Shintaro eventually becomes their teacher and general in battle, and so the six embark on a weird and excessively erotic journey, as Shintaro helps the girls overcome their weaknesses, become stronger for the final stand at Lushun, and also understand the motives of the "Russian Spiritual Corps" that assist the opponent, which, unfortunately, has one member whom Shintaro knew well... -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Jan 4, 2003 -- 9,174 5.96
Mahoutsukai Tai! (TV) -- -- Madhouse, Production Reed -- 13 eps -- - -- Sci-Fi Comedy Magic Romance School -- Mahoutsukai Tai! (TV) Mahoutsukai Tai! (TV) -- The aliens have been defeated, and the Bell has been transformed into a gigantic cherry tree. Now, the brave Magic User's Club must reconvene to deal with a new problem. Apparently, some inconsiderate persons left a skyscraper sized cherry tree in the middle of Tokyo, and it's become a major inconvenience to everyone in the city. Even though they have no idea who could have done such a thing, the Club feels strangely responsible and springs into action. Meanwhile, a mysterious person is spying on the magic club in the form of a small boy. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Media Blasters, Nozomi Entertainment, NYAV Post -- 8,995 6.77
Major 2nd (TV) 2nd Season -- -- OLM -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama Shounen -- Major 2nd (TV) 2nd Season Major 2nd (TV) 2nd Season -- After recovering from the inner struggles he faced in the past, Daigo Shigeno continues to play baseball and is now the captain of Fuurin Private Academy Middle School's baseball team. Alongside Mutsuko Sakura, his classmate from elementary school, he aims to lead the team to glory. However, due to unexpected circumstances, Fuurin's baseball team is left with only six members: Daigo, Mutsuko, Yayoi Sawa, Tao Sagara, Seira Kandori, and Hiromu Tanba. Left with mostly female players and lacking in experience, the team struggles to gain confidence and trust from the new recruits—Akira Nishina, Anita Kabashima, and Chisato Fujii. Facing challenges such as having no proper coach, problematic recruits, and a limited number of members, Daigo's resolution is put to the test as he tries to bring the team together in time to participate in their first ever tournament. -- -- 14,548 7.57
Major 2nd (TV) -- -- OLM -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major 2nd (TV) Major 2nd (TV) -- Daigo, the son of renowned baseball player Gorou Shigeno, believes he has to live up to his father's name by becoming an all-star player himself. With great dreams, as soon as he reaches fourth-grade, he promptly joins the same little league baseball team his dad played on, the Mifune Dolphins. However, things don't go as planned. After only the first couple of practices, Daigo's lack of talent and inherent baseball sense shows, and his confidence is crushed. Unable to bear the pressure of living up to his father, a baseball prodigy, he quits the team in less than a year. -- -- Two years later, now in sixth-grade, a transfer student joins Daigo's class. This student turns out to be Hikaru, the son of Gorou's lifelong friend and fellow baseball star, Toshiya Satou. One day, Daigo's mother receives a call from the Dolphins requesting players for a game, so she forces Daigo to attend. To Daigo's surprise, he finds Hikaru there. Even more shocking is that despite his father's occupation, Hikaru has never played baseball before! -- -- Unlike Daigo, though, Hikaru immediately picks up the game demonstrating excellent performance. Needless to say, Daigo and Hikaru are polar opposites of each other. But this friction will inevitably thrust both of these inexperienced children into the world their fathers cherish—the world of baseball. -- -- 26,091 7.46
Major: Message -- -- SynergySP -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major: Message Major: Message -- Thirteen years after achieving major success with the Indiana Hornets, Gorou Honda's career as a pitcher ended abruptly after sustaining a horrible injury. Inspired by his father, who continued playing baseball despite major setbacks, Gorou plans to restart his baseball career and play in a new position. However, his strong dedication to train has puzzled his family, especially his young daughter Izumi, who is frustrated with the absence of her father from her lives. Faced by another tough obstacle, Gorou once again decides to prove his resolve through his beloved sport. -- -- OVA - Dec 17, 2010 -- 25,639 8.20
Major Movie: Yuujou no Winning Shot -- -- Xebec -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sports Shounen -- Major Movie: Yuujou no Winning Shot Major Movie: Yuujou no Winning Shot -- Goro briefly returns to Japan after a triumphant campaign in the US. He is heading towards Fukuoka where he played baseball when he was a fifth grader. Having just moved into a new town, this is where Goro faced a critical point in his life. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Movie - Dec 13, 2008 -- 17,485 8.01
Major S1 -- -- Studio Hibari -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Sports Drama Shounen -- Major S1 Major S1 -- Gorou Honda, a little boy obsessed with baseball, has always admired his father, Shigeharu. Wishing to follow in his father's footsteps, Gorou dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. In turn, his son's starry-eyed admiration encourages Shigeharu to keep persevering, despite his late wife's death and his unsatisfying position on the second-string team Blue Ocean. -- -- Unfortunately, an elbow injury forces Shigeharu off the team, and he falls into despair. However, after an offhand joke from his childhood friend, Shigeharu reevaluates his choices and decides to keep playing, leaving behind his prime position as pitcher and taking up the bat. Now motivated more than ever, Gorou works hard to carve his way in the Japanese Little League. -- -- 82,609 8.26
Major S2 -- -- Studio Hibari -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S2 Major S2 -- Gorou Honda has finally returned to Mifune East Junior High School, surprising his friends upon arrival. Now, Gorou is once again surrounded by those he holds closest, and he strives to continue playing and enjoying the game he loves most. -- -- However, things do not go as planned, as Gorou is reminded of the harsh realities of baseball as he copes with an injury he sustained while playing baseball at Hitaka Little. Between new rivals, old friends, and mending broken relationships, Gorou must overcome challenges he has never faced before. -- -- His goal of attending elite baseball high school Kaido may not be far from his reach, but complicated circumstances may stop him in his tracks once again. How will he deal with the immense pressures of the game? And will he ever be able to find the type of baseball he loves most? -- -- TV - Dec 10, 2005 -- 59,966 8.24
Major S3 -- -- Studio Hibari -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S3 Major S3 -- Having bid farewell to his former teammates at Kaido High School's baseball club, Gorou Honda returns to his hometown eager to continue playing. Attending a new high school proves to be more difficult than he initially expected, as Tetsufumi Egashira's merciless slandering of his name prevents Gorou from being accepted into any school with an existing baseball team. -- -- Left with no other options, Gorou joins Seishuu High School, where his childhood friend Kaoru Shimizu also attends. However, Seishuu has always been an all-girls school until two years ago, so there is not yet a dedicated men’s baseball team. -- -- But nothing will stop Gorou in his pursuit of Koshien. He must now create a baseball team from scratch with the seven male students at Seishuu, but all of them are complete amateurs! He decides to train the incompetent team up to nationally competitive levels, but such a feat is easier said than done. Will Gorou once again perform miracles? Or will he give up on achieving his goal of defeating Kaido with his own team? -- -- TV - Jan 6, 2007 -- 57,739 8.26
Major S4 -- -- SynergySP -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S4 Major S4 -- Having finished high school, Gorou Honda sets his sights on becoming a professional baseball player. His dreams are much more ambitious than becoming a Japanese Baseball League player, so he instead decides to move to the birthplace of his beloved sport, America, in order to play in the Major League. -- -- However, Gorou finds that the Major League players are much faster, stronger, and more driven than he is. Nonetheless, he is eager to catch up with them. In order to do so, Gorou must first conquer the ranks of the Minor League, where numerous skilled players compete in the grueling rise to the Majors. -- -- Gorou learns that he will have to adapt to the stark differences of American culture and push himself to new extremes as his race to join the Major League begins. -- -- TV - Jan 5, 2008 -- 54,640 8.23
Major S5 -- -- SynergySP -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Shounen Sports -- Major S5 Major S5 -- The Baseball World Cup is nearing, and Gorou Honda is eager to represent his country. However, one small problem stands in his way: the team roster has already been selected, and he is not a part of it. -- -- Nonetheless, Gorou remains adamant to join. He becomes a practice pitcher for the Japanese national team, hoping to demonstrate his incredible speed and skills to the team's manager. Fortunately, Gorou is given the chance to prove his worth: he must show an impressive performance in the upcoming practice match involving the veteran Japanese team and the young players who hope to replace them. -- -- The World Cup will bring together some of the strongest players from around the globe. It will also set the stage for Gorou's long-awaited showdown with his longtime rival, Joe Gibson. -- -- TV - Jan 10, 2009 -- 58,815 8.44
Major S6 -- -- SynergySP -- 25 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major S6 Major S6 -- The intense Baseball World Cup has reached its conclusion. Gorou Honda has regained his passion for baseball and is once again back in full gear. He has secured a team position with the Hornets and has travelled back to America to prepare for his spectacular debut as a Major League pitcher. -- -- However, Gorou encounters a sudden series of unexpected issues and devastating events follow, crushing his motivation and potentially reducing the baseball career that he has worked tirelessly to maintain into crumbs. In the final season of Major, Gorou must yet again overcome immense hardship in order to save his baseball career. This time there is no simple solution, as the problem is deeply rooted within his own mind... -- -- TV - Apr 3, 2010 -- 51,845 8.37
Major: World Series -- -- SynergySP -- 2 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Shounen Sports -- Major: World Series Major: World Series -- Gorou Shigeno's journey with the Indiana Hornets continues as they seek to win the prestigious World Series. However, after an unexpected accident during the match with his fated rival, his quest in becoming the world's best becomes more challenging. Undaunted, Gorou continues to put the weight of his dreams into every pitch he makes, and forges a path towards his desired future through high-speed pitching. -- -- OVA - Dec 16, 2011 -- 30,421 8.34
Ma Shen -- -- Thundray -- 16 eps -- Web manga -- Game Drama -- Ma Shen Ma Shen -- Mahjong holds a major influence over the world. Mahjong masters are highly respected, and these players compete to become the leading player: the Mahjong King! Players from across the world come together to duel one another. -- ONA - Jun 28, 2016 -- 1,481 N/A -- -- Future Card Buddyfight Battsu: All-Star Fight -- -- OLM, Xebec -- 8 eps -- Card game -- Game -- Future Card Buddyfight Battsu: All-Star Fight Future Card Buddyfight Battsu: All-Star Fight -- The fifth season of Future Card Buddyfight. -- 1,471 6.62
Mazica Party -- -- OLM -- ? eps -- Original -- Game Magic Fantasy -- Mazica Party Mazica Party -- The franchise's story centers on wizards who gather mazica in order to save the world. Junior high school student Kezuru wakes up after a strange dream featuring himself as a wizard, a creature called "mazin," and a mysterious girl. The next day, his friend Kuracchi proudly shows off the newly launched Mazica Party card game. To Kezuru's shock, all the characters drawn in the game's cards are just like the ones in his dream. -- -- Meanwhile, Kezuru receives a notification for an event at the major international company Mazica. Intrigued, Kezuru goes to the Mazica Store as directed, only to meet the Mazica CEO himself, Jeff Johns. Johns says, "I have great expectations for you," and hands Kezuru Mazica Gear. -- -- On his way back home, Kezuru is attacked by an airship-like creature. Just when he thinks, "this is it!" to himself, his Mazica Gear erupts and a magic book appears. When he scratches a card, he seals a contract with Barunya, a "mazin" creature that is an odd remixed fusion between an airship and a cat. -- -- The mysterious girl Anya says Kezuru and those of his ilk will be "the true wizards who save the world." Amid all these mysterious revelations, Kezuru enrolls in the Mazica Academy and engages in Mazica Party card battles alongside his partner mazin. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- 627 N/A -- -- Kairisei Million Arthur -- -- - -- 2 eps -- Card game -- Game Music Fantasy -- Kairisei Million Arthur Kairisei Million Arthur -- The animated promotional videos for Square Enix's Kairisei Million Arthur RPG mobile card game launched for iOS and Android on November 19, 2014. It is a sequel to the original game. -- ONA - Nov 18, 2014 -- 623 5.50
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 -- -- Sunrise -- 25 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi Space Drama Mecha -- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Mobile Suit Gundam 00 -- In the distant future, mankind's dependence on fossil fuels will lead to their complete depletion, an energy crisis unlike anything the world witnessed. Out of retaliation and fear, humanity began focusing at an alternative source of energy: solar power. Different nations have united together to form three major factions—the Union of Solar Energy and Free Nations, the Advanced European Union, and the Human Reform League. Each of these sectors has access to a solar power generator, which gives them limitless energy. -- -- As a result, countries that were once dependent on the sale of fossil fuels are now plunged in poverty, leading to years of warfare and internal strife over the control of solar energy. Amid this chaos, an unknown paramilitary organization appeared identifying themselves as "Celestial Being," aspire to end all warfare through armed intervention by using mysterious and technologically advanced Mobile Suits known as Gundams. -- -- Mobile Suit Gundam 00 follows the story of Celestial Being's Gundam Meisters Setsuna F. Seiei, Lockon Stratos, Allelujah Haptism, and Tieria Erde. These four dive into the devastating battle between the three superpowers to accomplish their goal of changing the world. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- 187,895 8.14
Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future -- -- Sunrise -- 1 ep -- Original -- Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Final Plus: The Chosen Future -- In year 74 of the Cosmic Era, the civil war raging between the earthbound Naturals and space-dwelling Coordinators comes to a close. Suffering a major setback, Kira Yamato pilots the Strike Freedom Gundam and leads the Archangel and its crew in a desperate bid to destroy the Requiem, a super-weapon intended to wipe out most human life in the universe. -- -- Alongside Kira fights his best friend and rival Athrun Zala, an ace pilot who must defend himself against the wrath of his former subordinate Shinn Asuka, pilot of the powerful Destiny Gundam. Shinn believes Athrun to be a traitor, an obstacle in the course of the universe's peaceful future. -- -- As life-or-death mobile suit brawls are waged for the fate of the galaxy, a sprawling war between humans who are incapable of understanding one another draws to its conclusion. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Dec 25, 2005 -- 20,840 7.42
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Romance Sci-Fi -- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team -- In year 0079 of the Universal Century, the Earth Federation initiates Operation Odessa—a full-scale assault to retake a major Ukrainian city from the Principality of Zeon. It is a success, and the remaining Zeon forces scatter across the globe. The Earth Federation gains the upper hand in the One Year War and deploys its ground troops around the planet to hunt down the stragglers. -- -- As part of the deployments, Ensign Shiro Amada is transferred to Southeast Asia to take command of the 08th MS Team—a special squadron of RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type pilots. In their first guerilla operation, Shiro's team is tasked with distracting the Zeon forces while Federation ground troops locate a mysterious new Zeon weapon. Everything goes according to plan until Shiro runs into Aina Sahalin, an ace Zeon pilot he met in an earlier battle, during a skirmish. Their reunion weakens his resolve to continue fighting, and now the young commander Shiro must prove his loyalty to the Federation—or be branded a traitor. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Bandai Entertainment -- OVA - Jan 25, 1996 -- 64,230 8.03
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Romance Sci-Fi -- Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team -- In year 0079 of the Universal Century, the Earth Federation initiates Operation Odessa—a full-scale assault to retake a major Ukrainian city from the Principality of Zeon. It is a success, and the remaining Zeon forces scatter across the globe. The Earth Federation gains the upper hand in the One Year War and deploys its ground troops around the planet to hunt down the stragglers. -- -- As part of the deployments, Ensign Shiro Amada is transferred to Southeast Asia to take command of the 08th MS Team—a special squadron of RX-79[G] Gundam Ground Type pilots. In their first guerilla operation, Shiro's team is tasked with distracting the Zeon forces while Federation ground troops locate a mysterious new Zeon weapon. Everything goes according to plan until Shiro runs into Aina Sahalin, an ace Zeon pilot he met in an earlier battle, during a skirmish. Their reunion weakens his resolve to continue fighting, and now the young commander Shiro must prove his loyalty to the Federation—or be branded a traitor. -- -- OVA - Jan 25, 1996 -- 64,230 8.03
Mon-Soni!: Senritsu no Lucifer, Tada Hitotsu no Hajimari no Uta -- -- LIDENFILMS -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Game Music Fantasy -- Mon-Soni!: Senritsu no Lucifer, Tada Hitotsu no Hajimari no Uta Mon-Soni!: Senritsu no Lucifer, Tada Hitotsu no Hajimari no Uta -- Golden Week Special episode of Monsuto Anime. -- -- "Change the world with music? Foolish." -- -- Lucifer's world stops after her band disbands. Meaningless days pass, until she meets her cousin Satan and his bandmate Ibaraki Douji. They ask her to join their indie band, the "Wicked Pistols." Satan talks about his dream of going major after winning the MONSTERS ROCK competition, only for Lucifer to reject him outright. However, Lucifer's heart begins to thaw after a certain event... -- -- (Source: Official YouTube Channel) -- ONA - May 3, 2017 -- 1,257 6.23
Mushishi -- -- Artland -- 26 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Slice of Life Mystery Historical Supernatural Fantasy Seinen -- Mushishi Mushishi -- "Mushi": the most basic forms of life in the world. They exist without any goals or purposes aside from simply "being." They are beyond the shackles of the words "good" and "evil." Mushi can exist in countless forms and are capable of mimicking things from the natural world such as plants, diseases, and even phenomena like rainbows. -- -- This is, however, just a vague definition of these entities that inhabit the vibrant world of Mushishi, as to even call them a form of life would be an oversimplification. Detailed information on Mushi is scarce because the majority of humans are unaware of their existence. -- -- So what are Mushi and why do they exist? This is the question that a "Mushishi," Ginko, ponders constantly. Mushishi are those who research Mushi in hopes of understanding their place in the world's hierarchy of life. -- -- Ginko chases rumors of occurrences that could be tied to Mushi, all for the sake of finding an answer. -- -- It could, after all, lead to the meaning of life itself. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 641,581 8.69
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- -- ixtl, Satelight -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- Since 1973, an invasion of aliens upon Earth known as BETA has driven human civilization to destruction. In order to defend themselves from this enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, its efforts could only slow down the impending defeat, and mankind has been forced to abandon the major areas of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, they have been caught in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory. -- -- Now in 2001, Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of the next-generation of Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its TSF international mutual development unit, the Prominence Project. -- -- Yui Takamura (a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan) is given the responsibility of the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, heads to the same destination. -- -- They never had any idea just how drastically their encounter would change their fates. -- -- This story of internal dilemma takes place during the development of the new Tactical Surface Fighters, the most crucial and effective weapons against BETA. And this time, the stakes are much higher than a handful of lives and our sanity. -- -- All we can do is fight. -- -- (Source: Muv-Luv Total Eclipse Official English Website, edited) -- 81,759 7.11
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- -- ixtl, Satelight -- 24 eps -- Visual novel -- Action Military Sci-Fi Mecha -- Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse -- Since 1973, an invasion of aliens upon Earth known as BETA has driven human civilization to destruction. In order to defend themselves from this enormous mass of enemy force, mankind has developed large humanoid arms called Tactical Surface Fighters and deployed them to its defense lines through out the world. However, its efforts could only slow down the impending defeat, and mankind has been forced to abandon the major areas of the Eurasian Continent. For 30 years, they have been caught in an endless war against BETA without any hopes of victory. -- -- Now in 2001, Imperial Japan faces difficulties in the development of the next-generation of Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF) as it defends the front lines of the Far East. The UN has proposed a joint development program between Imperial Japan and the United States as a part of its TSF international mutual development unit, the Prominence Project. -- -- Yui Takamura (a surface pilot of the Imperial Royal Guards of Japan) is given the responsibility of the project and sets off to Alaska. Meanwhile, Yuya Bridges, also a surface pilot of the US Army, heads to the same destination. -- -- They never had any idea just how drastically their encounter would change their fates. -- -- This story of internal dilemma takes place during the development of the new Tactical Surface Fighters, the most crucial and effective weapons against BETA. And this time, the stakes are much higher than a handful of lives and our sanity. -- -- All we can do is fight. -- -- (Source: Muv-Luv Total Eclipse Official English Website, edited) -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 81,759 7.11
Nanbaka -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Comedy Drama -- Nanbaka Nanbaka -- Nanba is the world's most formidable prison, built to incarcerate criminals who are too slippery to stay in ordinary confinement. The four inmates who occupy Cell 13 are particularly cunning on that behalf, having escaped every other prison with a perfect success rate. There is Juugo, a specialist in locks who has spent the majority of his life in prison; Uno, a gambler with great intuition; Nico, an otaku whose body reacts strangely to drugs; and Rock, a bruiser with a love for food. The daily shenanigans of the four prisoners always cause trouble for the building supervisor, Hajime Sugoroku, who desperately tries to prevent them from breaking out of Nanba. -- -- Nanbaka follows the comedic, sparkle-filled exploits of these prisoners and their guards. From three square meals a day to sports festivals, prison life in Nanba isn't actually that bad—and it is the closest these four have to a home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 247,115 7.34
Natsuyuki Rendezvous -- -- Doga Kobo -- 11 eps -- Manga -- Supernatural Drama Romance Josei -- Natsuyuki Rendezvous Natsuyuki Rendezvous -- Ryousuke Hazuki is a young man whose heart has been stolen away, stopping by the local floral shop daily in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful Rokka Shimao, the shop's owner. In hopes of getting close to her, he decides to get a part-time job at the shop, but before he is able to make his move, he runs into a major roadblock: in her apartment dwells a ghost who claims to be Rokka's deceased husband. -- -- Atsushi Shimao has quietly watched over his widowed wife ever since he passed three years ago. However, Hazuki is the first person to ever notice him, and the two quickly find themselves at odds: the jealous Shimao attempts to thwart the suitor's advances and possess his body, while Hazuki simply wants the ghost to pass on for good, allowing Rokka to move on from the past and him to be with the one he loves. As both men refuse to let go of their desires, an unusual relationship forms between a troubled woman, an unrelenting ghost, and a stubborn man in love. -- -- 68,410 7.28
Ojamajo Doremi -- -- Toei Animation -- 51 eps -- Original -- Comedy Magic -- Ojamajo Doremi Ojamajo Doremi -- Harukaze Doremi considers herself to be the unluckiest girl in the world. Her parents are always fighting, her little sister makes fun of her, and her crush pines after another girl. If only Doremi could just wave a magic wand, she would have a much better life—or so she used to think. -- -- After a mishap with a real witch, Doremi becomes an apprentice witch herself, and it turns out she's pretty horrible at that, too. -- -- Now she and her two friends must study to become better at magic so they can become good witches. That is, if they can focus on their magic studies! -- -- The three apprentices will need all the luck they can get if they want to pass the witch exams and become full-fledged witches. Only then will Doremi's debt to the witch Majorika be repaid. Until then, Doremi will remain a useless little witch girl! -- -- Licensor: -- 4Kids Entertainment -- 40,996 7.22
Ojamajo Doremi Sharp -- -- Toei Animation -- 49 eps -- Original -- Comedy Magic Shoujo -- Ojamajo Doremi Sharp Ojamajo Doremi Sharp -- At the end of the first season, Doremi and her friends all had to give up their witch powers and be normal girls again. This also meant that they couldn't see Majorika, Lala, and the fairies again. The MAHO-Dou was also deserted and the door to the Majokai was locked. -- -- The Queen, having seen all this through her crystal ball, secretly makes it so that Doremi and co. all end up heading into the Majokai again, with the excuse to return Majorika's hair dryer. However they end up stumbling into a garden, and one of the roses reveals a baby! -- -- The Queen tells the girls that they must raise the baby for a whole year. To help them, they receive newer and stronger witch powers than before! The adventure isn't over yet! -- 16,308 7.35
One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island no Bouken -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Adventure Comedy Super Power Fantasy Shounen -- One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island no Bouken One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island no Bouken -- The story of the Hand Island no Bouken special is set a little before the events of One Piece Film Z and depicts a major "Hand Island" incident during the New World storyline. The story is set at "Cannon Town" where a parent and a child work as craftspeople. The incident revolves around them and a commodore of a marine base. The special will also have a flashback scene to the story in the first chapter of the manga, but with new animation. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- Special - Dec 15, 2012 -- 39,400 7.65
Osomatsu-san -- -- Studio Pierrot -- 25 eps -- Original -- Comedy Parody -- Osomatsu-san Osomatsu-san -- The majority of the Matsuno household is comprised of six identical siblings: self-centered leader Osomatsu, manly Karamatsu, voice of reason Choromatsu, cynical Ichimatsu, hyperactive Juushimatsu, and lovable Todomatsu. Despite each one of them being over the age of 20, they are incredibly lazy and have absolutely no motivation to get a job, choosing to live as NEETs instead. In the rare occurrence that they try to look for employment and are somehow able to land an interview, their unique personalities generally lead to their swift rejection. -- -- From trying to pick up girlfriends to finding the perfect job, the daily activities of the Matsuno brothers are never dull as they go on all sorts of crazy, and often downright bizarre, adventures. Though they desperately search for a way to improve their social standing, it won't be possible if they can't survive the various challenges that come with being sextuplets! -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 144,631 8.00
Re-Kan! -- -- Pierrot Plus -- 13 eps -- 4-koma manga -- Comedy School Seinen Supernatural -- Re-Kan! Re-Kan! -- Hibiki Amami would be a regular high school girl if it weren't for one thing: a sixth sense that allows her to see ghosts. Rather than being scared, Amami is more interested in befriending and helping the apparitions. This often leads to her human friends witnessing paranormal activity as the ghosts try to help Amami with everyday tasks. -- -- The majority of Amami's friends accept that she has a sixth sense, but Narumi Inoue—a girl who is terrified of the supernatural—refuses to acknowledge that ghosts are real. Though she is scared and stubborn, Inoue goes along with the rest of her friends, who decide to take up Amami's mission of helping ghosts however they can. -- -- 53,580 6.76
Seiken Tsukai no World Break -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Fantasy Harem Romance School Supernatural -- Seiken Tsukai no World Break Seiken Tsukai no World Break -- Seiken Tsukai no World Break takes place at Akane Private Academy where students who possess memories of their previous lives are being trained to use Ancestral Arts so that they can serve as defenders against monsters, called Metaphysicals, who randomly attack. Known as saviors, the students are broken up into two categories: the kurogane who are able to use their prana to summon offensive weapons and the kuroma who are able to use magic. -- -- The story begins six months prior to the major climax of the series during the opening ceremonies on the first day of the school year. After the ceremony is over, the main character, Moroha Haimura, meets a girl named Satsuki Ranjou who reveals that she was Moroha's little sister in a past life where Moroha was a heroic prince capable of slaying entire armies with his sword skills. Soon afterwards he meets another girl, Shizuno Urushibara, who eventually reveals that she also knew Moroha in an entirely different past life where he was a dark lord capable of using destructive magic but saved her from a life of slavery. Can those whose minds live in both the present and the past truly reach a bright future? Delve into the complex world of Seiken Tsukai no World Break to find out! -- 244,980 6.88
Seiken Tsukai no World Break -- -- Diomedéa -- 12 eps -- Light novel -- Action Fantasy Harem Romance School Supernatural -- Seiken Tsukai no World Break Seiken Tsukai no World Break -- Seiken Tsukai no World Break takes place at Akane Private Academy where students who possess memories of their previous lives are being trained to use Ancestral Arts so that they can serve as defenders against monsters, called Metaphysicals, who randomly attack. Known as saviors, the students are broken up into two categories: the kurogane who are able to use their prana to summon offensive weapons and the kuroma who are able to use magic. -- -- The story begins six months prior to the major climax of the series during the opening ceremonies on the first day of the school year. After the ceremony is over, the main character, Moroha Haimura, meets a girl named Satsuki Ranjou who reveals that she was Moroha's little sister in a past life where Moroha was a heroic prince capable of slaying entire armies with his sword skills. Soon afterwards he meets another girl, Shizuno Urushibara, who eventually reveals that she also knew Moroha in an entirely different past life where he was a dark lord capable of using destructive magic but saved her from a life of slavery. Can those whose minds live in both the present and the past truly reach a bright future? Delve into the complex world of Seiken Tsukai no World Break to find out! -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 244,980 6.88
Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Music Sci-Fi -- Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ Senki Zesshou Symphogear AXZ -- Hibiki Tachibana has defeated many powerful enemies, saved countless innocent lives, and escaped from numerous desperate situations, but she is currently finding herself unable to escape from her most desperate situation yet—summer homework! Although her high school life is relatively unremarkable, her career as a member of the military organization S.O.N.G. is anything but. Using powerful, ancient armor known as Symphogear, Hibiki and her teammates work with the United Nations to deal with international disputes and disasters. -- -- During a mission briefing at headquarters, Hibiki is made aware of a mysterious organization known as the Bavarian Illuminati, who has been responsible for several major disasters in the past and currently operate in the war-torn country Val Verde. Together, Hibiki and her team infiltrate one of the Bavarian Illuminati's manufacturing plants and free hundreds of slaves. Exposed, alchemists Saint-Germain, Cagliostro, and Prelati reveal themselves as the organization's top brass, and—using alchemical powers—declare a global revolution while sacrificing thousands of lives. Faced with yet another threat to the world's survival, Hibiki and her allies must confront the Bavarian Illuminati in their most difficult and destructive battle yet. -- -- 28,551 7.59
Shadowverse (TV) -- -- Zexcs -- 48 eps -- Card game -- Game Fantasy -- Shadowverse (TV) Shadowverse (TV) -- The hottest battle is about to begin! While attending Tensei Academy, Hiro Ryugasaki ends up acquiring a mysterious smartphone. It comes installed with the popular card game, Shadowverse! Meeting new rivals, facing major tournaments, forging bonds with friends... Shadowverse leads Hiro to all sorts of new experiences, all that serve to "evolve" him. -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- 10,772 5.70
So Ra No Wo To -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Original -- Military Sci-Fi Music Slice of Life -- So Ra No Wo To So Ra No Wo To -- On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire. -- -- It is under these circumstances that the 1121st platoon of the Helvetian army, stationed at the Clocktower Fortress in Seize, receives a new recruit in the young and spirited Kanata Sorami. Having joined the military to fulfill her dream of learning to play the bugle, she excitedly accepts the tutelage of the Sergeant Major, Rio Kazumiya, who happens to be a skilled trumpeter. Working alongside them are the aloof mechanic, Noël Kannagi, the feisty gunner, Kureha Suminoya, and the compassionate Captain Felicia Heideman; together, they experience the beauty of life in Seize and the lasting joy of a community that has persevered in spite of the crumbling world around them. -- -- 138,496 7.55
So Ra No Wo To -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 12 eps -- Original -- Military Sci-Fi Music Slice of Life -- So Ra No Wo To So Ra No Wo To -- On the outskirts of the country of Helvetia rests the tranquil town of Seize. Upon its cobbled streets, citizens go about their daily lives, undisturbed by the increasingly tense military relations between Helvetia and the neighboring Roman Empire. -- -- It is under these circumstances that the 1121st platoon of the Helvetian army, stationed at the Clocktower Fortress in Seize, receives a new recruit in the young and spirited Kanata Sorami. Having joined the military to fulfill her dream of learning to play the bugle, she excitedly accepts the tutelage of the Sergeant Major, Rio Kazumiya, who happens to be a skilled trumpeter. Working alongside them are the aloof mechanic, Noël Kannagi, the feisty gunner, Kureha Suminoya, and the compassionate Captain Felicia Heideman; together, they experience the beauty of life in Seize and the lasting joy of a community that has persevered in spite of the crumbling world around them. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Nozomi Entertainment -- 138,496 7.55
Souten no Ken -- -- APPP -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Action Historical Martial Arts -- Souten no Ken Souten no Ken -- A mysterious man known as "the King of Death" roams the streets of pre-war Shanghai in this action-packed prequel to Fist of the North Star. -- -- Shanghai in the 1930s is a dangerous place. Foreign governments and Chinese factions have carved the city into different quarters, each with its own laws and government, and all rife with corruption. As the major powers vie for political control, the streets are left to local gangs. Life is cheap, and death is always near. -- -- In days past, one man walked these mean streets battling the forces of evil. He was known only as Yan Wang, "the King of Death." Few knew who he really was, but many knew that he was a master of Hokuto Shinken - Fist of the North Star - a lethal martial art. He disappeared years ago after dispatching the city's worst gangsters, and is now rumored to be in Japan. Various people have come to Japan in search of him, but who will find him first? -- TV - Oct 5, 2006 -- 9,764 6.69
Space Cobra -- -- Tokyo Movie Shinsha -- 31 eps -- Manga -- Action Adventure Sci-Fi Space -- Space Cobra Space Cobra -- Meek salaryman Johnson discovers that he is in fact the notorious (and reportedly dead) space pirate Cobra, with a new face and altered memories. Embedded in his left arm is Cobra's unique Psychogun, a famous weapon powered by his own will. Having recovered his past, his partner-in-crime Armaroid Lady, and his spaceship, he journeys across the galaxy seeking adventure. -- -- On his travels he will hunt for the galaxy's ultimate weapon, rob museums, break into and out of maximum-security prison, infiltrate a drug ring in the brutal and deadly sport of Rugball, engineer a coup on an alien world, confront the Pirate Guild's most fearsome leaders, and do much else besides—smoking cigars, chasing women and cracking jokes all the while. -- -- This, the 1982–83 Cobra TV anime, adapts the Cobra manga from the beginning, covering the first three major stories and building to a grand conclusion with some shorter one-off tales interspersed along the way. (The 1982 Cobra film has only a loose connection to the TV series—though it involved the same director and some of the same animators.) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Nozomi Entertainment -- TV - Oct 7, 1982 -- 16,559 7.70
Street Fighter II Movie -- -- Group TAC -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Martial Arts Shounen -- Street Fighter II Movie Street Fighter II Movie -- Get your quarters ready, because the world's top fighters are about to go head to head in this explosive animated adaptation of the classic Street Fighter II arcade game! M. Bison's plan to crush those who would oppose his organization, Shadowloo, is simple: brainwash the strongest martial artists around with his dreaded psycho power, and turn them into living weapons! To stop him, Interpol agent Chun-Li must team up with Major Guile of the United States Air Force, but that's no small feat. -- -- They'll have to put aside their differences and learn to work together, and fast. Bison is closing in on Ryu, a traveling vagabond said to be the best fighter in the world. Fortunately (or not), Ryu is a hard man to find, but the same can't be said of his eternal rival, Ken. And it might just be through Ken that Bison will get what he wants! Can the World Warriors beat Bison to the punch? -- -- (Source: Discotek) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- Movie - Aug 6, 1994 -- 24,371 7.17
Street Fighter II Movie -- -- Group TAC -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Martial Arts Shounen -- Street Fighter II Movie Street Fighter II Movie -- Get your quarters ready, because the world's top fighters are about to go head to head in this explosive animated adaptation of the classic Street Fighter II arcade game! M. Bison's plan to crush those who would oppose his organization, Shadowloo, is simple: brainwash the strongest martial artists around with his dreaded psycho power, and turn them into living weapons! To stop him, Interpol agent Chun-Li must team up with Major Guile of the United States Air Force, but that's no small feat. -- -- They'll have to put aside their differences and learn to work together, and fast. Bison is closing in on Ryu, a traveling vagabond said to be the best fighter in the world. Fortunately (or not), Ryu is a hard man to find, but the same can't be said of his eternal rival, Ken. And it might just be through Ken that Bison will get what he wants! Can the World Warriors beat Bison to the punch? -- -- (Source: Discotek) -- Movie - Aug 6, 1994 -- 24,371 7.17
Suisei no Gargantia -- -- Production I.G -- 13 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Mecha -- Suisei no Gargantia Suisei no Gargantia -- In the distant future, a majority of humans have left the Earth, and the Galactic Alliance of Humanity is founded to guide exploration and ensure the prosperity of mankind. However, a significant threat arises in the form of strange creatures called Hideauze, resulting in an interstellar war to prevent humanity's extinction. Armed with Chamber, an autonomous robot, 16-year-old lieutenant Ledo of the Galactic Alliance joins the battle against the monsters. In an unfortunate turn of events, Ledo loses control during the battle and is cast out to the far reaches of space, crash-landing on a waterlogged Earth. -- -- On the blue planet, Gargantia—a large fleet of scavenger ships—comes across Chamber and retrieves it from the ocean, thinking they have salvaged something of value. Mistaking their actions for hostility, Ledo sneaks aboard and takes a young messenger girl named Amy hostage, only to realize that the residents of Gargantia are not as dangerous as he had believed. Faced with uncertainty, and unable to communicate with his comrades in space, Ledo attempts to get his bearings and acclimate to a new lifestyle. But his peaceful days are about to be short-lived, as there is more to this ocean-covered planet than meets the eye. -- -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- 289,134 7.49
Suite Precure♪ -- -- Toei Animation -- 48 eps -- Original -- Action Magic Fantasy Shoujo -- Suite Precure♪ Suite Precure♪ -- Major Land is a colorful world of music where instruments and notes come to life. During an annual concert event, Hummy, the cat songstress of Major Land, prepares to sing the "Melody of Happiness," capable of spreading happiness to worlds beyond. However, Mephisto, the king of Minor Land, interrupts the event and rewrites the score into the "Melody of Sorrow"—a dissonant composition that would instead cause despair when performed. In order to prevent this from happening, Hummy is tasked with finding the Precure, renowned warriors with an unmatched passion for music, and recreating the Melody of Happiness. -- -- Hummy arrives in Kanon Town, home of musically-inclined athlete Hibiki Houjou and studious baker Kanade Minamino. Engaging only in endless bickers, Hibiki and Kanade were formerly best friends and have since fallen out of touch. Their activities are stopped short by an unwelcome guest—the songstress of Minor Land, Siren. -- -- When Siren turns an important record into a gigantic monster, the girls' hearts resonate with the desire to protect what they hold dear and the two transform into the Suite Precure! As legendary warriors, Hibiki and Kanade will have to put their personal squabbles aside if they wish to protect the happiness of the world. -- -- TV - Feb 6, 2011 -- 12,492 7.26
Summer Wars -- -- Madhouse -- 1 ep -- Original -- Sci-Fi Comedy -- Summer Wars Summer Wars -- OZ, a virtual world connected to the internet, has become extremely popular worldwide as a spot for people to engage in a large variety of activities, such as playing sports or shopping, through avatars created and customized by the user. OZ also possesses a near impenetrable security due to its strong encryption, ensuring that any personal data transmitted through the networks will be kept safe in order to protect those who use it. Because of its convenient applications, the majority of society has become highly dependent on the simulated reality, even going as far as entrusting the system with bringing back the unmanned asteroid explorer, Arawashi. -- -- Kenji Koiso is a 17-year-old math genius and part-time OZ moderator who is invited by his crush Natsuki Shinohara on a summer trip. But unbeknownst to him, this adventure requires him to act as her fiancé. Shortly after arriving at Natsuki's family's estate, which is preparing for her great-grandmother's 90th birthday, he receives a strange, coded message on his cell phone from an unknown sender who challenges him to solve it. Kenji is able to crack the code, but little does he know that his math expertise has just put Earth in great danger. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, GKIDS, Warner Bros. Japan -- Movie - Aug 1, 2009 -- 435,444 8.08
Tamako Love Story -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Tamako Love Story Tamako Love Story -- As she edges toward the end of her high school life, the energetic but generally clueless third-year Tamako Kitashirakawa has only one major concern: pulling off a stunning baton performance at the Usagiyama Marching Festival. But all too soon, she is confronted by the reality that all her friends have big plans for their futures; she, on the other hand, just operates with the moderate goal of continuing to work at her family's restaurant. -- -- Under the same brilliant sky, Mochizou Ooji intends to study at a university in Tokyo, leaving behind his family, friends, and most importantly, his first and only love Tamako. Unfortunately, the shy admirer cannot bring himself to declare his love, and Tamako is yet unaware that she is the source of such anguish. With time quickly running out, Mochizou must confess his feelings to Tamako soon, or his dream of romance will never be fulfilled. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- Movie - Apr 26, 2014 -- 265,378 7.98
Tamako Love Story -- -- Kyoto Animation -- 1 ep -- Original -- Comedy Romance Slice of Life -- Tamako Love Story Tamako Love Story -- As she edges toward the end of her high school life, the energetic but generally clueless third-year Tamako Kitashirakawa has only one major concern: pulling off a stunning baton performance at the Usagiyama Marching Festival. But all too soon, she is confronted by the reality that all her friends have big plans for their futures; she, on the other hand, just operates with the moderate goal of continuing to work at her family's restaurant. -- -- Under the same brilliant sky, Mochizou Ooji intends to study at a university in Tokyo, leaving behind his family, friends, and most importantly, his first and only love Tamako. Unfortunately, the shy admirer cannot bring himself to declare his love, and Tamako is yet unaware that she is the source of such anguish. With time quickly running out, Mochizou must confess his feelings to Tamako soon, or his dream of romance will never be fulfilled. -- -- Movie - Apr 26, 2014 -- 265,378 7.98
Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 -- -- DR Movie, Kinema Citrus -- ? eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Drama Fantasy -- Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari Season 2 -- Second season of Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari. -- TV - Oct ??, 2021 -- 251,232 N/A -- -- Nanbaka -- -- Satelight -- 13 eps -- Web manga -- Action Comedy Drama -- Nanbaka Nanbaka -- Nanba is the world's most formidable prison, built to incarcerate criminals who are too slippery to stay in ordinary confinement. The four inmates who occupy Cell 13 are particularly cunning on that behalf, having escaped every other prison with a perfect success rate. There is Juugo, a specialist in locks who has spent the majority of his life in prison; Uno, a gambler with great intuition; Nico, an otaku whose body reacts strangely to drugs; and Rock, a bruiser with a love for food. The daily shenanigans of the four prisoners always cause trouble for the building supervisor, Hajime Sugoroku, who desperately tries to prevent them from breaking out of Nanba. -- -- Nanbaka follows the comedic, sparkle-filled exploits of these prisoners and their guards. From three square meals a day to sports festivals, prison life in Nanba isn't actually that bad—and it is the closest these four have to a home. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 247,115 7.34
Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 4th Season -- -- AIC -- 4 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Harem Space Comedy Shounen -- Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 4th Season Tenchi Muyou! Ryououki 4th Season -- The entire Jurai and Masaki family is in a celebratory mood as Nobuyuki and Rea are finally tying the knot! In the days leading up to his father's wedding, Tenchi reunites with those he met throughout his journey as well as gets acquainted with some new family members. Though this is a blissful time where everyone is finally together, there is one major bump in the road: Rea holds a major secret that will change the fate of her future child and disturb the balance of the Masaki family. -- -- OVA - Nov 30, 2016 -- 5,731 6.64
Tetsuwan Atom (1980) -- -- Tezuka Productions -- 52 eps -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Mecha Shounen -- Tetsuwan Atom (1980) Tetsuwan Atom (1980) -- Set in a future where machines have advanced to the point of autonomy and become a point of major contention in the political and social realms, Astro Boy (1980) chronicles the struggles of a crime-fighting young robot named Atom. Created in the image of his enigmatic inventor's deceased son, Atom survives rough beginnings, getting saved and adopted by the benevolent Dr. Ochanomizu. In his pursuit of justice, Atom finds himself in the midst of numerous clashes with various factions, and is often faced with the harsh realities of the world. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Manga Entertainment -- TV - Oct 1, 1980 -- 10,650 7.14
Texhnolyze -- -- Madhouse -- 22 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Psychological Drama -- Texhnolyze Texhnolyze -- Texhnolyze takes place in the city of Lux, a man-made underground city that has crumbled after years of neglect and lack of repairs. Citizens of Lux have come to refer to their home as simply "The City" and treat it as though it has a mind and will of its own. Three major factions battle to control Lux: Organo, a group of "professionals" who collaborate with the criminal underworld that controls Texhnolyze (prosthetics), the Salvation Union, a populist group that seeks to disrupt Organo's business, and Racan, a collection of young individuals with Texhnolyzes that use their abilities for personal gain. -- -- Ichise was once an orphan who has made a place for himself in Lux as a prize fighter. One day, a fight promoter grows angry with him and the altercation that follows results in Ichise losing an arm and a leg. Before death can take him, Ichise is found by the scientist Eriko Kamata, who uses him as a test subject for her newly designed Texhnolyze. With these powerful new limbs at his disposal, Ichise begins to work for Oonishi, the leader of Organo. He soon meets a mysterious young girl, Ran, who has the power to see possible futures. Together, they soon realize that Lux is on the brink of war and collapse, and that they may be the only ones who can save The City. -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 187,926 7.76
Toki-iro Kaima -- -- - -- 4 eps -- - -- Horror Shounen -- Toki-iro Kaima Toki-iro Kaima -- Anime adaptation of the same name horror manga by Suzumiya Wayu, serialized in Shogakuan's Weekly Shonen Sunday special issue. -- OVA - Apr 20, 1989 -- 343 N/A -- -- Mechano: Scientific Attack Force -- -- - -- 3 eps -- - -- Comedy Dementia Fantasy Horror Music Parody -- Mechano: Scientific Attack Force Mechano: Scientific Attack Force -- Three 10-minute videos present a trippy view into the minds of their creators. Brought together by Pierre Taki of Denki Groove, Mechano: Scientific Attack Force features three shorts done in very different styles. -- -- The three short films are: -- -- "Plastic Gun Man" - a 3D Western spoof -- "World Meccano Triangle" - a music video reminiscent of '90s era screensavers -- "Haiirogaoka no Soridaijin" (translated as "Prime Minister of Gray Hill") - an anime-style animated video parody of Akira Mochizuki's famous 1977 manga, Yuuhi ga Oka no Souri Daijin -- OVA - Sep 1, 1995 -- 334 N/A -- -- Hwasan Golae -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Horror Thriller -- Hwasan Golae Hwasan Golae -- In the year 2070, mankind faces a life threatening crisis due to huge earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Korea is in a state of anarchy and Busan is swarming with refugees. Young street dealer Ha-jin has the ability to communicate with whales – a fact she keeps hidden from everyone. One day, a onearmed woman named Baek Sang-won asks Ha-jin to join her in the gules whale hunt. Painful memories lead Ha-jin to turn down the offer initially, but she eventually ends up joining Baek. As she makes friends on the ship, she grows curious about the gules whale and learns that every crew member has a sad gules story. The madness in the crews’ eyes as they try to kill the gules brings Ha-jin’s trauma to the forefront of her mind – and she experiences her own madness. -- -- (Source: Korean Film Biz Zone) -- Movie - Sep 10, 2015 -- 322 N/A -- -- Shin Gakkou no Yuurei -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Horror Demons Supernatural Thriller School -- Shin Gakkou no Yuurei Shin Gakkou no Yuurei -- Following the popularity of the original omnibus OVA, this release offers 4 more stories but in animation only. -- OVA - Jun 11, 1999 -- 316 N/A -- -- Burning Village -- -- - -- 10 eps -- - -- Fantasy Horror -- Burning Village Burning Village -- Animal folk tales set in the titular community, in which local eccentric Ohahai retells several popular fairy tales with considerable license. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- OVA - May 1, 1989 -- 314 N/A -- -- Petit Petit Muse -- -- - -- 26 eps -- Original -- Cars Horror Kids -- Petit Petit Muse Petit Petit Muse -- Two twins, Ara and Ari, aspire into the world of fashion. Ara wants to become a fashion model, while her sister, Ari, wants to become a fashion designer. They meet a man named Yorang, who is the fashion designer in Heaven. -- 311 N/A -- -- Kaibutsu-kun: Demon no Ken -- -- Shin-Ei Animation -- 1 ep -- - -- Comedy Horror Kids Shounen -- Kaibutsu-kun: Demon no Ken Kaibutsu-kun: Demon no Ken -- Based on the shounen manga by Fujiko Fujio. -- -- Note: Screened as a triple feature with Doraemon: Nobita no Daimakyou and Ninja Hattori-kun: Nin Nin Ninpo Enikki no Maki. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Mar 13, 1982 -- 307 N/A -- -- Fire Emblem Heroes Book III Movie:Cohort of the Dead -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Game Horror Supernatural Fantasy -- Fire Emblem Heroes Book III Movie:Cohort of the Dead Fire Emblem Heroes Book III Movie:Cohort of the Dead -- A mini movie released on the Fire Emblem Heroes website in honor of a major plot twist in Book 3. -- Special - Jul 21, 2019 -- 292 6.23
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 -- -- Bones, Kinema Citrus -- 11 eps -- Original -- Drama -- Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 -- Middle school student Mirai Onozawa is dissatisfied with her family circumstances and, in a moment of frustration, wishes to tear everything apart. Unfortunately, these destructive thoughts seem to come true in the form of a magnitude 8.0 earthquake just a few moments later. -- -- When summer vacation begins, Mirai reluctantly takes her younger brother Yuuki to Odaiba, where a robot exhibition that he wanted to go to is being held. However, while they are in the exhibition center, the fury of a major earthquake shakes the Kanto region; helpless, both kids witness the devastating power of this natural disaster as it brings the city to its knees. -- -- In its aftermath, they stumble upon Mari Kusakabe, a motorcyclist and single mother who decides to help the young siblings. Aiming to return to their homes and reunite with their families, the group sets off on a long and hard journey through the decimated city. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Maiden Japan -- 244,963 8.05
Toshokan Sensou -- -- Production I.G -- 12 eps -- Novel -- Action Military Comedy Romance -- Toshokan Sensou Toshokan Sensou -- Toshokan Sensou tells the story of Kasahara Iku, the first woman to join the Library Task Force. In the near future in Japan, the Media Enhancement Law has been forced upon the population censoring all books and media. To counter this, the Library Defense Force was created. To protect themselves against the Media Enhancement Law Commission, all major libraries are fully equipped with a military Task Force, who take it upon themselves to protect the books and freedom of media of the people. -- -- This anime follows Iku and her fellow soldiers as they protect various special books and artifacts from the oppression of the Media Enhancement Law Commission. A love story, war story, and comedy all rolled into one. -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media -- 62,996 7.48
Tsugu Tsugumomo -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Ecchi School Seinen -- Tsugu Tsugumomo Tsugu Tsugumomo -- When "ordinary boy" Kagami Kazuya meets the beautiful tsukumogami Kiriha, his life gets turned upside-down. As a "Taboo Child" who draws the supernatural towards him, he receives orders from the God of the Land, Kukuri, to become an exorcist and defeat these evil forces. And so, he and Kiriha do battle. -- -- To find out information on these supernatural beings, Kazuya and his friends set up a counselor's club at school. But behind the typical-seeming troubles he hears about, he uncovers a major plot to target Kukuri... -- -- In addition to the sadistic-yet-beautiful tsukumogami Kiriha, the situation draws other girls to Kazuya to join the fray! -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- 63,366 7.49
Tsugu Tsugumomo -- -- Zero-G -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Action Comedy Supernatural Ecchi School Seinen -- Tsugu Tsugumomo Tsugu Tsugumomo -- When "ordinary boy" Kagami Kazuya meets the beautiful tsukumogami Kiriha, his life gets turned upside-down. As a "Taboo Child" who draws the supernatural towards him, he receives orders from the God of the Land, Kukuri, to become an exorcist and defeat these evil forces. And so, he and Kiriha do battle. -- -- To find out information on these supernatural beings, Kazuya and his friends set up a counselor's club at school. But behind the typical-seeming troubles he hears about, he uncovers a major plot to target Kukuri... -- -- In addition to the sadistic-yet-beautiful tsukumogami Kiriha, the situation draws other girls to Kazuya to join the fray! -- -- (Source: Crunchyroll) -- -- Licensor: -- Crunchyroll -- 63,366 7.49
Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters: Battle City Special -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Adventure Fantasy Game Shounen -- Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters: Battle City Special Yu☆Gi☆Oh! Duel Monsters: Battle City Special -- A special episode of 'Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters' aired in between episodes 88 and 89. Mainly narrated by Anzu, the special recaps the major events of the Battle City tournament, beginning from the Pharaoh's meeting with Ishizu, and retelling several important duels including Yugi and Seto's tag duel, and Yugi's duels against Jonouchi and Bakura, up to Jonouchi's battle with Rishid on the Battle Ship. The special ends with Anzu wishing the series a happy new year. -- Special - Jan 1, 2002 -- 15,905 7.11
Zero no Tsukaima -- -- J.C.Staff -- 13 eps -- Light novel -- Action Adventure Harem Comedy Magic Romance Ecchi Fantasy School -- Zero no Tsukaima Zero no Tsukaima -- Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière is a self-absorbed mage in a world of wands, cloaks, and royalty. Although she studies at Tristain Academy, a prestigious school for magicians, she has a major problem: Louise is unable to cast magic properly, earning her the nickname of "Louise the Zero" from her classmates. -- -- When the first year students are required to perform a summoning ritual, Louise's summoning results in a catastrophic explosion! Everyone deems this to be yet another failure, but when the smoke clears, a boy named Saito Hiraga appears. Now Louise's familiar, Saito is treated as a slave, forced to clean her clothes and eat off the ground. But when an unfamiliar brand is found etched on Saito's hand from the summoning ritual, it is believed to be the mark of a powerful familiar named Gandalfr. -- -- Wild, adventurous, and explosive, Zero no Tsukaima follows Saito as he comes to terms with his new life and as Louise proves that there is more to her than her nickname suggests. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation, Geneon Entertainment USA, Sentai Filmworks -- 668,146 7.31
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Fantasia in C major (Haydn)
Fantasia in G major, BWV 572
Feminist Majority Foundation
Feralia major
Ferdinand of Majorca
Fernando Pereira (major)
F-flat major
First Major ministry
Flute Sonata in A major, BWV 1032
Flute Sonata in B-flat major (attributed to Beethoven)
Flute Sonata in C major, BWV 1033
Flute Sonata in E-flat major, BWV 1031
Flute Sonata in E major, BWV 1035
F major
Fort Minor: We Major
Fothergilla major
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu
Frankfurt Major
FS Canis Majoris
FS Canis Majoris variable
F-sharp major
Galasa major
Galloping Major
Gamma Canis Majoris
Gamma Ursae Majoris
Garrison sergeant major
Gemini Major
Generals and Majors
George Major
George N. Parks Drum Major Academy
George Wilson (major)
Gerri Major
G-flat major
Gibraltar Major Residential Areas
G major
Gmina Ulan-Majorat
Gnome-Rhne Mistral Major
Grande valse brillante in E-flat major (Chopin)
Gryllotalpa major
G-sharp major
Guzmania 'Major'
Harmonic major scale
Harpa major
Harpendyreus major
Harpsichord Concerto in A major, BWV 1055
Harpsichord Concerto in E major, BWV 1053
Helicis major
Henry Charles Sirr (town major)
Henry Young (major)
Herbs de Majorca
Hippias Major
Hippopotamus major
HMBS Lawrence Major
Homoeodera major
Howard Major Buckley
Human rights in Muslim-majority countries
Hybla Major
Idia majoralis
Illicit major
In a Major Way
In G Major
International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'
Iota Canis Majoris
Iota Ursae Majoris
Irne Major
Isabella of Majorca
Istvn Major
Istvn Majoros
James Berry (major-general)
James Earl Major
James III of Majorca
James II of Majorca
James IV of Majorca
James Major
James Patrick Major
Jnos Major
Japalura major
Jen Major
John Blagrave (major)
John C. Major
John Henniker-Major, 3rd Baron Henniker
John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker
John Major
John Major (17th-century English MP)
John Major (disambiguation)
John Major (philosopher)
Johnny Majors
Jonathan Majors
Joseph Bartholomew (major general)
Jozef Majoro
Juglans major
Julia Major (sister of Caesar)
Kamajors
Kappa Canis Majoris
Kappa Ursae Majoris
Ken Major
Keyboard Variations in C major (Haydn)
Killing of Tessa Majors
Kingdom of Majorca
KomlsMajorTusndy approximation
Kuala Lumpur Major
Kumw Majoracki
Kyrie in F major, K. 33
Labia majora
La fille du tambour-major
Lagarosiphon major
Lake Major, Nova Scotia
Lambda Canis Majoris
Lambda Ursae Majoris
Langobardia Major
Lee Elliot Major
Lee Major
Lee Majors
Lehlohonolo Majoro
Leishmania major
Lo Major
Leon Major
Let Me Live (Rudimental and Major Lazer song)
Leuconitocris major
Light It Up (Major Lazer song)
Lionel Major
List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises
List of California communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2010 census
List of captain-majors of Portuguese Ceylon
List of Captains-Major of Bissau
List of Captains-Major of Cacheu
List of final standings of the World Marathon Majors
List of fires at major places of worship
List of fleets and major commands of the Royal Navy
List of Major 2nd volumes
List of major achievements in sports by nation
List of major and official Austronesian languages
List of major archbishops of the Syro-Malabar Church
List of Major Archbishops of Thiruvananthapuram
List of major arms industry corporations by country
List of major bases and units of Tactical Air Command
List of major biblical figures
List of Majorcan consorts
List of major cities in U.S. lacking inter-city rail service
List of major Creative Commons licensed works
List of Major Crimes episodes
List of major crimes in Singapore
List of major crimes in Singapore (2000present)
List of major crimes in Singapore (before 2000)
List of major crimes in the United Kingdom
List of Major Dad episodes
List of major employers in Louisville, Kentucky
List of Majority Leaders of the Michigan Senate
List of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota House of Representatives
List of Majority Leaders of the Minnesota Senate
List of major/minor compositions
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Anhui
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Beijing
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Chongqing
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Fujian
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List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Guangdong
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List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Guizhou
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List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Hebei
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List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Tianjin
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Tibet
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Xinjiang
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Yunnan
List of Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Zhejiang
List of major opera composers
List of major paintings by Masaccio
List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust
List of major power outages
List of major SEC enforcement actions (200912)
List of major springs in Florida
List of major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments
List of major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments
List of major surface ships of the Turkish Navy
List of Major Vegetation Groups in Australia
List of Major volumes
List of Major volumes (2140)
List of Major volumes (4160)
List of Major volumes (6178)
List of major World War II warships built by minor powers
List of monarchs of Majorca
List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
List of New Mexico communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2000 census
List of purported relics of major figures of religious traditions
List of stars in Canis Major
List of stars in Ursa Major
List of symphonies in A-flat major
List of symphonies in A major
List of symphonies in B-flat major
List of symphonies in B major
List of symphonies in C major
List of symphonies in D-flat major
List of symphonies in D major
List of symphonies in E-flat major
List of symphonies in F major
List of symphonies in F-sharp major
List of symphonies in G major
List of Texas communities with Hispanic majority populations in the 2000 census
List of the highest major summits of Azerbaijan
List of the highest major summits of Canada
List of the highest major summits of Colorado
List of the highest major summits of North America
List of the major 100-kilometer summits of North America
List of the major 3000-meter summits of California
List of the major 3000-meter summits of the Rocky Mountains
List of the major 4000-meter summits of Alaska
List of the major 4000-meter summits of North America
List of the major 4000-metre summits of Canada
List of the most isolated major summits of Canada
List of the most isolated major summits of North America
List of titles, honours and major awards received by Yesudas
List of top female medalists at major artistic gymnastics events
List of U.S. communities where English is not the majority language spoken at home
List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000
List of U.S. communities with Asian-American majority populations
List of U.S. communities with Hispanic-majority populations in the 2000 census
List of U.S. communities with Hispanic-majority populations in the 2010 census
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Lists of U.S. cities with non-white majority populations
Llantwit Major
Llucmajor
London Majors
Lopidea major
Louis Majorelle
Lute concerto in D major (Vivaldi)
Luton Major
LynxUrsa Major Filament
LynxUrsa Major Supercluster
Macrianus Major
Magnificat in E-flat major, BWV 243a
Major
Major's
Major's Hill Park
Major's long-fingered bat
Major's long-tailed tenrec
Major's pine vole
Major's tufted-tailed rat
Majora
Major achievements in curling by nation
Major achievements in field hockey by nation
Major achievements in figure skating by nation
Major achievements in gymnastics by nation
Major achievements in handball by nation
Major achievements in judo by nation
Major achievements in luge by nation
Major achievements in roller hockey by nation
Major achievements in swimming by nation
Major achievements in table tennis by nation
Major achievements in volleyball by nation
Major achievements in water polo by nation
Major actinide
Major adverse cardiovascular events
Major alar cartilage
Major (American musician)
Majorana
Majorana equation
Majorana fermion
Major Anderson
Major and minor
Major aortopulmonary collateral artery
Major appliance
Major Arcana
Major archbishop
Major archiepiscopal church
Majorat
Major Barbara
Major Barbara (film)
Major basic protein
Major B. Harding
Major Bloodnok
Major Bludd
Major Boobage
Major Booth
Major Bowes
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
Major Brabazon-Plank
Major Bummer
Majorcan giant dormouse
Majorcan hare
Majorcan midwife toad
Majorcan Union
Major capsid protein VP1
Major Case Squad
Majorca Shepherd Dog
Major Chandrakanth
Major characters in the works of Madeleine L'Engle
Major chord
Major Churches Network
Major Cineplex
Major crimes
Majorda
Major Dad
Major Damage
Major Decisions
Major Depression Inventory
Major depressive disorder
Major depressive episode
Major de Sarri
Major Dhyan Chand Hockey Stadium, Jhansi
Major Dhyanchand Hockey Stadium, Lucknow
Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium
Major Dhyan Chand Sports College, Saifai
Major (disambiguation)
Majordomo
Major Downes
Major Drilling Group International
Major Dundee
Major duodenal papilla
Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change
Majorel
Majorelle Blue
Majorelle Garden
Major Emmerdale storylines
Majorera Assembly
Majorera donkey
Majorero
Majorero Progressive Party
Majorette (dancer)
Majorettes in Space
Major facilitator superfamily
Major facilitator superfamily domain-containing protein 9
Major Figgas
Major film studios
Major (fly)
Major fourth and minor fifth
Major Fred C. Dobbs
Majorganj (community development block)
Major Garrett
Major general
Major-General's Song
Major general (Australia)
Major-General commanding the Household Division
Major-General George R Pearkes Building
Major general (India)
Major General of the Defence Staff (France)
Major-general (Sri Lanka)
Major-general (United Kingdom)
Major General Wallace F. Randolph (ship)
Major Gilbert Field Airport
Major Grey's Chutney
Major Harris (singer)
Major Havoc
Major Hazelton
Major Henderson incident
Major Henk Fernandes Airport
Major histocompatibility complex
Major histocompatibility complex, class II, DP alpha 1
Major histocompatibility complex, class II, DQ alpha 1
Major histocompatibility complex, class I-related
Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
Major Holley
Major Hoople's Boarding House
Majori
Majorian
Majorica pearl
Majorie Homer-Dixon
Major intrinsic proteins
Majoritarian democracy
Majoritarianism
Majority
Majority Act (India)
Majority bonus system
Majority Coalition Caucus
Majority criterion
Majority decision
Majority draw
Majority (film)
Majority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines
Majority function
Majority government
Majority judgment
Majority Labor Party
Majority leader
Majority minority
Majority opinion
Majority problem (cellular automaton)
Majority report
Majority report (Poor Law)
Majority rule
Majority Rules!
Majority Social Democratic Party of Germany
Majorization
Major Jacob Hasbrouck Jr. House
Major John Andr Monument
Major Justino Mario Cuesto Air Base
Major Key (album)
Major Lance's Greatest Hits Recorded Live at the Torch
Major Land Resource Areas
Major Lazer
Major Lazer discography
Major Lazer Essentials
Major Lingo
Major Lloyd W. Williams
Major Locrian scale
Major Major
Major Major Major Major
Major Maker
Major Malfunction
Major (manga)
Major Mapleleaf
Major Matt Mason
Major ministry
Major/Minor
Major minor
Major Minor Records
Major Minus
Major Mitchell's cockatoo
Major Moves
Major National Dialogue
Major Nelson
Major non-NATO ally
Major Occultation
Major orders
Major Organ and the Adding Machine
Major Owens
Major Pain 2 Indee Freedom: The Best of Hed P.E.
Major Parkinson (album)
Major party
Major Pillar Edicts
Major Plains, Victoria
Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era
Major prophet
Major Publications
Major religious groups
Major Reuben Colburn House
Major Riddle
Major Ridge
Major Ritchie
Major Rock Edicts
Major Rohde Hawkins
Major royal jelly protein
Majors Airport
Major scale
Majors Creek, New South Wales
Majors Creek, Queensland
Major second
Major Seminary, Ghent
Major Seminary of Bogot
Major Series Lacrosse
Major seventh
Major seventh chord
Major sixth
Major skink
Major sperm protein
Majors Place, Nevada
Major sports event hosting in Britain during the 2010s
Major Star
Majorstuen
Major sublingual duct
Major Sundarrajan
Major (surname)
Major (Sweden)
Major Taylor
Major Taylor Velodrome
Major third
Major thirds tuning
Major Title
Major Tom
Major Tom (Coming Home)
Major town houses of the architect Victor Horta (Brussels)
Major trauma
Major trauma centre
Major (United Kingdom)
Major University
Major urinary proteins
Major vault protein
Major Victory
Major Waldemar Fydrych
Major Whirlwind
Major Wilson's Last Stand
Major Wingate
Major Without a Deal
Malvina Major
Manila Major
Manoba major
Marcus Major
Mark Major
Mark Major (lighting designer)
Marshall Major
Mass in B-flat major, K. 275
Mass in C major
Mass in C major, K. 167 "in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis"
Mass in C major, K. 220 "Sparrow"
Mass in C major, K. 257 "Credo"
Mass in C major, K. 258 "Piccolomini"
Mass in C major, K. 259 "Organ solo"
Mass in C major, K. 262 "Missa longa"
Mass in C major, K. 337 "Solemnis"
Mass in C major, K. 66 "Dominicus"
Mass in D major, K. 194
Mass in F major, K. 192
Mass in G major, K. 140 "Pastoral"
Mass in G major, K. 49
Mass in G major (Poulenc)
Megophrys major
Melianthus major
Mid-major
Miles Hawk Major
Millsaps Majors
Minor Chords and Major Themes
Minor Earth Major Sky
Minor Majority
Minor major seventh chord
Minuet in G major
Minuets in G major and G minor
Miro Major
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Mnemonic major system
Money Is Still a Major Issue
Monolopia major
Monroe Alpheus Majors
Moral Majority
Morris Major
Morris Minor and the Majors
Mount Major
Mrs. Major Tom
Mu Canis Majoris
Mural paintings of the conquest of Majorca
Music written in all major and/or minor keys
Mu Ursae Majoris
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
MyMajorCompany
My Way (Major Harris album)
Nance-Major House and Store
Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory
New Majority
New Majority (Chile)
New Ten Major Construction Projects
Nocturne in E-flat major
No independence before majority rule
Norma Major
Nototriton major
NR Canis Majoris
Nu1 Canis Majoris
Nu2 Canis Majoris
Nu2 Canis Majoris b
Nu3 Canis Majoris
Nu Canis Majoris
Nu Ursae Majoris
Nyakibanda Major Seminary
Nyctibatrachus major
Nyctophilus major
NYSE Arca Major Market Index
Omega Canis Majoris
Omega Ursae Majoris
Omicron1 Canis Majoris
Omicron2 Canis Majoris
Omicron Canis Majoris
Omicron Ursae Majoris
Organization of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority)
Organization of Iranian People's Fedai Guerrillas Majority Left Wing
Orville Lynn Majors
Pagrus major
Palace of the Kings of Majorca
Palau Reial Major
Plmajor
Panagaeus cruxmajor
Papal majordomo
Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority
Pectoralis major
Pelayo Rodrguez (majordomo)
Pelvis justo major
Penthaleus major
PGL Major: Krakw 2017
Philippines at major beauty pageants
Phi Ursae Majoris
Pi1 Ursae Majoris
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major
Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major
Piano Quartet in E major (Saint-Sans)
Piano Sonata in A-flat major, D 557 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in A major, D 664 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in B-flat major, K. 498a
Piano Sonata in B major, D 575 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in C major
Piano Sonata in C major, D 279 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in C major, D 613 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in C major, D 840 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in D-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in D major, D 850 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in E-flat major, D 568 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in E major, D 157 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in E major, D 459 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in F major, K. 547a
Piano Sonata in F major (Sibelius)
Piano Sonata in G major, D 894 (Schubert)
Piano Sonata in G major (Tchaikovsky)
Piano Trio in A major (attributed to Brahms)
Pi Canis Majoris
Pilot major
Pimpinella major
Pipe major
Pi Ursae Majoris
Plantago major
Platoon sergeant major
Polistes major major
Polonaise in A-flat major
Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53
Pontifical Roman Major Seminary
Portal:Gastropods/Major topics
Portal:Greater Los Angeles/Other Major Coastal Cities
POW Camp 115, Whitecross, St Columb Major
Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 531
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 846
Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 870
Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp major, BWV 848
Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998
Prelude in C major
Prelude in E-flat major (John Ireland)
Prelude in E-flat major (Rachmaninoff)
Prelude in E major, Op. 11, No. 9 (Scriabin)
Prelude in F major, Op. 49, No. 2 (Scriabin)
Prelude in G-flat major (Rachmaninoff)
Prelude (Toccata) and Fugue in E major, BWV 566
Premiership of John Major
Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents Convention, 1993
Proconsul major
Procottus major
Psi Ursae Majoris
Psoas major muscle
Pterostylis major
Puncturella major
Quartet Movement in B-flat major (Tchaikovsky)
Quartet Movement in E-flat major (Shostakovich)
Quartet Movement in F major, B.120 (Dvok)
Quatuor brillant in A major (Joseph Kreutzer)
"Major" John Buchanan
Reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada by Justice Major
Recorder Sonata in C major, HWV 365 (Handel)
Rectus capitis posterior major muscle
Regimental sergeant major
Regimental Sergeant Major of the Army (Australia)
Republican Majority for Choice
Rhomboid major muscle
Rho Ursae Majoris
Richard Henry Major
Richard Major
Risaldar-major
Robert Major
Robert Steele (drum major)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Majorca
Romanian Greek Catholic Major Archeparchy of Fgra and Alba Iulia
Romanian major
Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in A major (Mozart)
Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in D major (Mozart)
Rondo in A major for Violin and Strings, D 438 (Schubert)
Rondo in E-flat major (Chopin)
Row- and column-major order
Rule of the Major-Generals
Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Saint Augustine Major Seminary
Saint-Gall de Ouidah Major Seminary
Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham
Samuel C. Major
Sancho of Majorca
Sancia of Majorca
Sndor Major
Sandra Major
Sant Antoni de Vilamajor
Sant Pere de Vilamajor
Sarangesa majorella
Scherzo in A-flat major (Borodin)
Search for Majora
Second Major ministry
Seeking Major Tom
Selina Majors
Semi-major and semi-minor axes
Septimal major third
Serenade in E-flat major (Saint-Sans)
Serenade in F major (Stanford)
Sergeant major
Sergeant major (disambiguation)
Sergeant major (fish)
Sergeant major general
Sergeant major instructor
Sergeant Major of the Army
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps
Sergeant major signals
Service in B-flat major, Op. 10 (Stanford)
Shadow Cabinet of John Major
Shahid Major Pradeep Tathawade Udyan
Shanghai Major
Shirley Majors
Sigma1 Ursae Majoris
Sigma2 Ursae Majoris
Sigma Canis Majoris
Sigma Ursae Majoris
Silent majority
Silent Majority (disambiguation)
Silent Majority (hip hop group)
Simple majority
Sinfonia in B-flat major for two oboes, two horns and strings
Sinfonia in D major, BWV 1045
Smith of Wootton Major
Socialist Party of Majorca
Sonata for Two Pianos in D major (Mozart)
Sonata in B-flat major for piano four-hands, D 617 (Schubert)
Sonata in C major for keyboard four-hands, K. 19d
Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812 (Schubert)
Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, K. 521
Sonata in D major for piano four-hands, Op. 6 (Beethoven)
Sonata in G major for two flutes and basso continuo, BWV 1039
Sonata No. 6 in E-flat major (J. C. F. Bach)
Sonatina in F major (attributed to Beethoven)
Sonatina in G major (attributed to Beethoven)
Speirs and Major Associates
SS Alexander Majors
Staff sergeant major
St. Andrews Major
StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019
Static Major
St Brides Major
St Brides Major (community)
St Columb Major
Stephensia major
St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major
St. Mary's Malankara Major Seminary
St. Mary's Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church Kuravilangad
Stress majorization
String Quartet in A major (Bliss)
String Quartet in E-flat major (1823) (Mendelssohn)
String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 (Boccherini)
Subedar-major
Subminor and supermajor
Supermajority
Supermajority amendment
Suzanne Riccio-Major
Symphony in A major "Mannheim No. 2" (Stamitz)
Symphony in B-flat major "Mannheim No. 3" (Stamitz)
Symphony in D major, Op. 3, No. 2 (Stamitz)
Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 11, No. 3 (Stamitz)
Symphony in F-sharp major (Korngold)
Symphony in G major "Mannheim No. 1" (Stamitz)
Symphony in X Major
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Symphony No. 1 in D major
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Symphony No. 6 in F major
Symphony No. 7 in A major
Sympistis major
Syro-Malabar Catholic Major Archeparchy of ErnakulamAngamaly
Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archeparchy of Trivandrum
Syrtis Major
Syrtis Major Planum
Szlakiem Walk Majora Hubala
Taifa of Majorca
Tams Major
Tania Major
Tau Canis Majoris
Tau Ursae Majoris
Teres major muscle
Terry Major-Ball
Texans for a Republican Majority
Thailand at major beauty pageants
The Black Major
The Court Martial of Major Keller
The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D
The Major BBS
The Majority
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
The Major Religions
The Major Transitions in Evolution
The Man from Majorca
The Old Rectory, St Columb Major
Theta Canis Majoris
Theta Ursae Majoris
The Trumpet-Major
Thiotricha majorella
Thirty Cases of Major Zeman
Thomas Jefferson Majors
Thomas Major
Thomas Savage (major)
Thorner v Major
Timea Majorov
Timeline of major crimes in Australia
Timeline of major famines in India during British rule
Timeline of major U.S. environmental and occupational health regulation
Timeline of St Columb Major
Timocratica major
Tina Majorino
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major, BWV 564
Toccata and Fugue in F major, BWV 540
Tom Major-Ball
Toronto St. Michael's Majors
Trismelasmos major
Trista Vick-Majors
Troop sergeant major
TrueMajority
Trumpet major
Twenty Variations in G major (Haydn)
Tyranny of the majority
Tyranny of the Majority (album)
Ukraine at major beauty pageants
Ukrainian Catholic Major Archeparchy of KyivGalicia
Ulmus hollandica 'Major'
Union for the Presidential Majority (Djibouti)
Upsilon Ursae Majoris
Ursa Major
Ursa Major (album)
Ursa Major Arc
Ursa Major Cluster
Ursa Major Dwarf
Ursa Major (excavator)
Ursa Major I Dwarf
Ursa Major II Dwarf
Ursa Major in Chinese astronomy
Ursa Major Moving Group
User:Majora/FTA paper
USS Major (DE-796)
UW Canis Majoris
Vacations in Majorca
Vietnam at major beauty pageants
Vinca major
Viola Concerto in G major (Telemann)
Violin Concerto in D major
Violin Concerto in E major (Bach)
Violin Sonata in A major, D 574 (Schubert)
Violin sonata in A major (HWV 361)
Violin sonata in A major (HWV 372)
Violin Sonata in D major (attributed to Mozart)
Violin Sonata in F major (Mendelssohn, 1820)
Violin Sonata in F major (Mendelssohn, 1838)
Vocal Majority
VY Canis Majoris
Walter Major
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 42 (Chopin)
Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, No. 1 (Chopin)
Waltz in E major (Chopin)
Weighted majority algorithm (machine learning)
Western major district of Helsinki
William Douglas (Major General)
William James Major
William Major
William T. Major
World Marathon Majors
W Ursae Majoris
W Ursae Majoris variable
Xi1 Canis Majoris
Xi2 Canis Majoris
Xi Canis Majoris
Xi Ursae Majoris
Z Canis Majoris
Zeiss Major Planetarium
Zeta Canis Majoris
Zygomaticus major muscle



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difficulties -- cowardice - depres. - distract. - distress - dryness - evil - fear - forget - habits - impulse - incapacity - irritation - lost - mistakes - obscur. - problem - resist - sadness - self-deception - shame - sin - suffering
practices -- Lucid Dreaming - meditation - project - programming - Prayer - read Savitri - study
subjects -- CS - Cybernetics - Game Dev - Integral Theory - Integral Yoga - Kabbalah - Language - Philosophy - Poetry - Zen
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