I am embarrassed to tell it, so rudimentary it seems, like an infant’s discovery that her hand is her own. But that is what I was then, an infant.
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Donatella demeyin artık anısı var diyoruz
“I’m surprised you’re so judgmental,” said Chaos. “I heard about
what you did with that princess. What was her name— Diana?”
“I have no idea who you’re talking about,” Jacks said smoothly,
though Evangeline noticed him tense just as he had when LaLa had
said that Jacks had been obsessed with Princess Donatella.
Schopenhauer ile benzer yönü
His philological and literary work earned him widespread fame at a young age. Yet he was always financially dependent on his parents—a benevolent but uncomprehending and rigidly conventional father and a withholding, judgmental mother (maternal imagery in Leopardi’s poetry is usually negative)
For ‘mafia’ was widely taken to refer not to an organization, but to a mixture of violent passion and ‘Arabic’ pride that supposedly dictated Sicilian behaviour. ‘Mafia’, as viewed by many, was a primitive notion of honour, a rudimentary code of chivalry obeyed by the backward people of the Sicilian countryside.
Admission of Turkey to the Public Law of Europe and the Rudiments of Formal Reform
In his inaugural speech to the Council of State in 1868, Abdul Aziz, the successor of Sultan Mecid who had enacted the two Reform edicts cited above, vowed to protect and defend the members of all nationalities as "children of the same fatherland." Yet, in spite of all these professions and asssurances, intermittently reasserted up to the 1876 Constitution and beyond, "No genuine equality was ever attained." [10] The reason was evident. The reforms were a repudiation of fundamental socio-religous traditions deeply enmeshed in the Turkish psyche, and institutionalized throughout the Empire. When the 1856 edict was proclaimed:
" Many Moslems began to grumble: 'Today we lost our sacred national rights which our ancestors gained with their blood. While the Islamic nation used to be the ruling nation, it is now bereft of his sacred right. This is a day of tears and mourning for the Moslem brethren.' [11] "
Within few years (1859), these reations culminated in what is known as the Kuleli revolt in the capital. Army officers joined hands with Muslim clergymen and teachers in an attempt to overthrow the regime in protest against what they considered to be sumbisliveness to foreign powers, and the illegimitimacy of the act of granting equal rights to the Christians.
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10. Roderic H. Davison, "Turkish Attitudes Concerning Christian-Muslim Equality in the Nineteenth Century," American Historical Review 59 (July 1954), p. 848
11. Şerif Mardin, The Genensis of Young Ottoman Thought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962), p. 18
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If we define a “primitive language” as something that resembles the rudimentary “me sleep here” type of English—a language with only a few hundred words and without the grammatical means of expressing any finer nuances—then it is a simple empirical fact that no natural language is primitive. Hundreds of languages of simple tribes have now been studied in depth, but not one of them, be it spoken by the most technologically and sartorially challenged people, is on the “me sleep here” level.
At times the debates have been extreme, especially on the side of the Normanists, with Adolf Hitler infamously stating: ‘Unless other peoples, beginning with the Vikings, had imported some rudiments of organisation into Russian humanity, the Russians would still be living like rabbits.’ With statements like this, it’s not difficult to understand the opposition to Viking connections and the dilemma for Slavic scholars forced to choose between a view crediting a superior, foreign people with creating their entire nation or an alternative story that is at odds with the written sources.
Din
“İbtidai sistemlərdə, mümkündür ki, din avam kütlələri çətinliklərə mübarizədə istiqamətləndirmək və ölkə daxilində asayişi qorumaq üçün faydalı idi. Ancaq hazırda faydasız rudiment kimi kəsilib atılmalıdır. Onun yerini elm, texnika, fəlsəfə və vicdan doldura bilir”
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Bats
There are two kinds of vision:
the seeing of things, which belongs
to the science of optics, versus
the seeing beyond things, which
results from deprivation. Man mocking the dark, rejecting worlds you do not know: though the dark
is full of obstacles, it is possible to have
intense awareness when the field is narrow
and the signals few. Night has bred in us
thought more focused than yours, if rudimentary:
man the ego, man imprisoned in the eye,
there is a path you cannot see, beyond the eye’s reach, what the philosophers have called
the via negativa: to make a place for light
the mystic shuts his eyes—illumination
of the kind he seeks destroys
creatures who depend on things.
