</p>2. Despite the contingencies of time, space, and history, human societies the world over have confronted the same existential problems and have come to remarkably similar solutions, differing only in superficial details.* s7 q8 ~! m5 W
3. Although he was known to be extremely reserved in his public behavior, scholars have discovered that his diaries were written with uncommon frankness.9 c8 n$ s0 B1 _1 ]
4. With the burgeoning of scientific knowledge, work on the new edition of a textbook begins soon after completion of the original.4 \: \6 k# q x) j
5. She is most frugal in matters of business, but in her private life she reveals a streak of prodigality.8 ^7 D, F' {' a# P s4 J
6. If the state government's latest budget problems were anomalous, it would not be useful to employ them as illuminating examples in the effort to avoid the inevitable effects of shortsighted fiscal planning in the future.
2 c9 u3 V5 T( h, ]+ b& s7. Just as some writers have despaired of the capacity of language to express meaning, Giacometti bewailed the failure of art to convey reality.0 @2 S+ c/ N$ W3 v
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1. In spite of the fact that it is convenient to divide the life span of animals into separate stages such as prenatal, adolescent, and senescent, these periods are not really distinct.8 |% W/ V# E* N( H- e' ^
2. Although the number of reported volcanic eruptions has risen exponentially since 1850, this indicates not increasing volcanic activity but rather more widespread and systematic record keeping.
' A# Y9 V# P6 B7 ^4 i1 P7 f5 T v3. The challenge of interpreting fictional works written under politically repressive regimes lies in distinguishing what is organic to an author's beliefs, as opposed to what is imposed by political coercion.2 J" w# G# q+ i$ i
4. I am often impressed by my own tolerance of other people's idiocies: what is harder to appreciate is that they, in their folly, are equally engaged in putting up with mine.
) w3 [2 }7 O( V( g( w; x j5. Despite vigorous protestations, the grin on the teen-ager's face belied her denial that she had known about the practical joke before it was played on her parents.
5 J) q8 n* B: V# O: L! Y6. Far from undermining the impression of permanent decline, the tawdry statue seemed emblematic of its blighted surroundings.
! v% h8 O. P8 ^! V; O7. Despite the fact that it is almost universally proscribed, the practice of indentured servitude still persists in many parts of the world.( ], {7 V9 i s; _+ W. A
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1. We first became aware that her support for the new program was less than wholehearted when she declined to make a speech in its favor.' @. K/ V/ v& A9 h; t
2. When a person suddenly loses consciousness, a bystander is not expected to diagnose the problem but to attempt to counter its effects by starting vital functions if they are absent.2 I8 _) }; w* J6 X# @# d- R8 m0 X0 S
3. The remark was only slightly humorous, inviting a chuckle, perhaps, but certainly not a. guffaw.# h" V+ @/ K7 q% H
4. Doors were closing on our past, and soon the values we had lived by would become so obsolete that we would seem to people of the new age as quaint as travelers from an ancient land.
( t$ f3 x% {9 x N3 h# R* z* f% j5. Ability to select is the test of the perceptive historian, a history, after all, consists not only of what the historian has included, but also, in some sense, of what has been left out.7 B0 ~ o8 w' S; T6 [, g) d
6. Some artists immodestly idealize or exaggerate the significance of their work; yet others, disdaining to exalt the role of the artist, reject a transcendent view of art
2 Y- n- s) [! E% U' f# Z7. Estimating the risks of radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant is a technical question, but one whose answer then becomes part of a value-laden, emotionally charged policy debate about whether to construct such a plant.
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/ q& v% ~0 y& Y" z1. Because modern scientists find the ancient Greek view of the cosmos outdated and irrelevant, they now perceive it as only of historical interest.) f1 ]2 W4 Y" k8 }
2. Religious philosopher that he was. Henry More derived his conception of an infinite universe from the Infinite God in whom he believed, a benevolent God of plenitude whose nature was to create abundance
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3. While some argue that imposing tolls on highway users circumvents the need to raise public taxes for road maintenance, the phenomenal expense of maintaining a vast network of roads necessitates reliance on these general taxes. |