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What I Learned In College

I: Random Samplings

Dan Best

(performed 12/14/01)

(revised 12/31/01)

(LIGHTS UP)

The rule for the formation of the present, the imperfect, and the future indicative passive of the first and second conjugations is an easy one with few exceptions: simply substitute the passive endings for the active ones (1). These archaic statues have an air of aloofness, too, which is not unnatural, for the Greeks were at once devoted to goodness and to reason (2). Chromatin can thus be visualized as a string of nucleosome beads linked by 10-100 base pairs of DNA (3). Kann man der Wettervorhersage immer trauen? (4) The decomposition of hydrazone involves an anionic intermediate (5).

But they found no significant fringe shift whatever! (6)

O Zeu Basileu, to chreema ton nukton hoson (7). My original attempt to get hold of the Other’s free subjectivity through his objectivity-for-me is sexual desire (8). But if divine and civil law alike represent no more than the will of rulers, where can justice be found? (9) A chemical approach to the analysis of sea urchin development has gone hand in hand with the operative approach from the start (10). Hic tibi fabor enim quando haec te cura remondet (11), it is appreciated that each of the individual groups will have pKa values that are influenced by the environment (12).

Yet at the same time by the means-end schema we block our view of the essential relations (13). The nicotinamide mononucloeotide (NMN) adenyl transferase catalyzes the reaction (14). It’s a miserable life for the girls who cannot play the game of love (15). Thus kinetin seemed to have an antisemesence effect, which was later shown to be due to its maintenance of protein and nucleic acid synthesis and therefore its regulation of the protein-soluble nitrogen equilibrium (16). Autar epei speisan t’epiov th’oson eethele thumos, oi men kakkeiontes eban oikonde hekastos (17). All were subject to the static symmetry of the composition, the dynamic symmetry of its axial vectors, under the dominance of the divine presence (18).

But they found no significant fringe shift whatever! (6)

In this task we wish first to enquire whether perhaps the mere concept of a categorical imperative may not also provide us with the formula containing the only proposition that can be a categorical imperative (19). Proteolytic enzymes have the ability to restore the elements of water by a process of hydrolysis that involves only the protein, the proteolytic enzyme and the water in which both are dissolved (20). Difficile est hoc de omnibus confirmare; sed tamen est certum quod respondem (21). Nein, das sind nicht die Manner, mit denen ich Deutsch gesprochen habe (22). Many of the characteristics of the group are obviously those of all generalized eutherians, the edentates having departed little from the original mammalian plan (23).

(Had enough?)

The history of frontal representation occupies a span much longer than that of this book, but it is highlighted at the end of our period by being applied as an invariable law, to certain themes, as it continues to be later (24). The main uses of participles is as follows (25): ammi de mantis eu edios agoreue theopropias hekatoio (26). Also when the plasmid DNA containing the polyoma insert of the <lambda> DNA containing a single copy of the polyoma chromosone was isolated and injected, no polyoma infection resulted (27). Every question presupposes a being who questions and a being which is questioned (28). Possibly if we utilized highly complicated chemical techniques, we could follow the movement of particular base sequences through mitosis and meiosis, and, upon fertilization, into newly created zygotes (29).

But they found no significant fringe shift whatever! (6)

Archaeology is a destructive science, ruining its sites in the process of excavation (30). Let us say, then, that the only reason for performing an action A rather an alternative action B is that doing A will make mankind (or perhaps all sentient beings) happier than will doing B (31). The concept of purely morphological, typological species was never applied absolutely (32). There is a longstanding distinction between the metaphysical attributes of God (aseity, eternity, infinity, etc) and God’s moral attributes (goodness, love, wisdom,etc.) (33) Opoteroi de heemon erxontai epi ameinon pragma, adeelon panti pleen ee to theo (34). The work’s createdness, however, can obviously be grasped only in terms of the process of creation (35).

(LIGHTS DOWN)

 

REFERENCES (just to avoid lawsuits–i.e., not delivered in the piece)

  1. Wheelock, F.M. Latin: An Introductory Course Based on Ancient Authors. Barnes and Noble, New York, 1963, p. 84.
  2. Kagan, D. Botsford & Robinson’s Hellenic History, 5th ed., revised. Macmillan, New York, 1969, p. 117.
  3. Gilbert, S.F. Developmental Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1985, p 357.
  4. Grundlehner, P. Sprich Deutsch, 2nd ed. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1983, p. 91.
  5. Streitweiser Jr., A. & Heathcock, C.H. Introduction to Organic Chemistry. McMillan, New York, 1976, p. 398.
  6. Giancoli, D.C. Physics: Principles with applications. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980, p. 625.
  7. Aristophanes. The Clouds, 2.
  8. Cumming, R.D. (ed.). The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Vintage Books, New York, 1965, p. 210.
  9. Smith, M. The Ancient Greeks. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1960, p. 79.
  10. Karp, G. & Berrill, N.J. Development, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1981, p. 208.
  11. Virgil. Aeneid. I: 261.
  12. Montgomery, R. & Swenson, C.A. Quantitative Problems in the Biochemical Sciences. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1976, p.130.
  13. Hofstadter, A. (trans.). Martin Heidegger: Poetry, Language, Thought. Harper & Row, New York, 1971, p. 146.
  14. Montgomery, R. & Swenson, C.A. Quantitative Problems in the Biochemical Sciences. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1976, p 235
  15. Horace. Odes. III: 12: 1. In Michie, J., The Odes of Horace. Washington Square Press, New York, 1963, p. 165.
  16. Galston, A.W, & Davis, P.J. Control Mechanisms in Plant Development. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970, p. 124.
  17. Homer. Odyssey. VII: 228-229.
  18. Brown, F.E. Roman Architecture. George Braziller, New York, 1982, p. 27.
  19. Paton, H.J. (trans.). Immanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals. Harper & Row, New York, 1964, p. 88.
  20. Neurath, H. "Protein Digestive Enzymes." In Organic Chemistry of Life: Readings from Scientific American. W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1973, p. 312.
  21. Cicero. Pro Archia. VII: 4-6.
  22. Rogers, R.M. & Watkins, A.R. German Through Conversational Patterns, 3rd ed. Harper & Row, New York, 1981, p. 250.
  23. Young, J.Z. The Life of Vertebrates. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981, p. 445.
  24. Strong, D. Roman Art. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, 1976, p. 255.
  25. Joint Association of Classical Teachers’ Greek Course. Reading Greek: Grammar, Vocabulary, and Exercises. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1978, p. 298.
  26. Homer. Iliad. I: 384-385.
  27. Fristrom, J.W. and Spieth, P.T. Principles of Genetics. Chiron Press, Inc., New York, 1980, p. 505.
  28. Cumming, R.D. (ed.). The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Vintage Books, New York, 1965, p. 111.
  29. Fristrom, J.W. and Spieth, P.T. Principles of Genetics. Chiron Press, Inc., New York, 1980, p. 152.
  30. Thomas, D.H. Archaeology. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 1969, p. 169.
  31. Smart, J.J.C. & Williams, B. Utilitarianism for and against. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973, p. 30.
  32. Futuyma, D.J. Evolutionary Biology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1979, p. 190.
  33. Hick, J. Philosophy of Religion, 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983, p. 82.
  34. Socrates. Apologia. XXXIII: 21-23.
  35. Hofstadter, A. (trans.). Martin Heidegger: Poetry, Language, Thought. Harper & Row, New York, 1971, p. 58.
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