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1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.
My answer: "I tried to rein in my impatience and not begrudge my inactivity, but to value this quiet time for its own sake." Stephen Lawhead, Merlin
Something I have a problem with myself.
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The Gelderlander is a good-moving carriage horse of presence that can also be used under saddle; the Gronnigen is heavier and has very powerful quarters.
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"They progressed up the long dining-hall in a series of bounds or jumps." -- C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader"Posts: 226 | Registered: Mar 2005
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I'm cursed. The first book I picked up was too short by two pages. The second had a 123 but it was blank. This is the third:
EDIT: (Ooooh, the fifth sentence! I'm really bad at this reading everything thing):
quote: "They haunted house and attic, But not the forest, and hid in eaves and swung From highest beams, avoiding light of day; Even their name is of the vesper hour.
Ovid's Metamophoses, Book IV, at the end of the story of Salmacis and Hermaphroditus. It's describing how Minyas' daughters became bats.
quote: Because all there on the bridge was one with the Force,...Obi-wan might be able to able to temporarily reverse the polarity of the electrodrivers in the general's mechanical hands.
Sorry, the whole sentence was way to long. This is the begining and end of it.
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The book I have next to me (Accelerated Learning: A User's Guide; Alistair Smith, Mark Lovatt and Derek Wise) only has 120 pages. Oh well....
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Um, the nearest books are all board books... Let me find one with 123 pages...
*"The words are Willa Cather's; if you print them, of course, you'll have to get her permission.
I happened to pick up American Ballads & Folk Songs, John and Alan Lomax. That's part of the note on a song; the first four sentences are the words of the song.
"His was the only face the water could have shown her, for what other living person was linked to her by blood and love?" --Enchantment by Guess Who.
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(It's on my computer table because, being the dork that I am, I'm rereading the entire series before starting Shadow of the Giant.)
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quote:Your final exam will count for 28 percent of your final grade.
Although the closest book to me is not physically a book yet--it's what I'm editing right now on my computer. Maybe I'll do this later when I actually have a book more close by.
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quote:Companion or whore, ruby or glass, it was all the same to him if she allowed herself to be reduced to a shiny bauble, crafted for display and contracted to sparkle, when he knew her to be so much more.
From an essay entitled "Whores and Goddesses: the Archetypal Domain of Inara Serra" by Joy Davidson in the collection Finding Serenity, edited by Jane Espenson.
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quote:Its success can be traced, however, not to the legal arguments its proponents have marshaled -- these are, as we shall see, extremely weak -- but to public dissatisfaction with many of the decisions of the Supreme Court reached relying on the abstract, principled view of the Constitution, particularly Roe v. Wade but also other unpopular decisions like those outlawing prayer in the public schools, and to public suspicion of judges having the power that the principled view assigns them.
--Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom, 1993
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In dealing with the chapter contributors, a publisher may in some circumstances use an agreement of the same type, especially if the contributors are to receive royalty shares.
Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
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I love fear nothing! I'm at work, so the only books I have are school books.
"The pam tuag or burial ceremony is the most important event in the Hmong Society." - Handbook for Teaching Hmong-Speaking Students
This one's further from me, but more interesting:
"'It is a qi that is supremely great and supremely unyielding'" - Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy.
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quote: Yet the nature of hominid diets has proved elusive because hominids were, and modern humans still are, quintessential generalists.
Human Diet, Ungar and Teaford.
I picked up my physiology and engineering stats textbooks before this one, but they both had problem sets on page 123.
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An unsigned, student-written book review should be cited in the same manner as other unsigned student works, with a parenthetcial citing the work under review if relevant:
Book Note, Let Us Reason Together, 112 Harv. L. Rev. 958 (1999) (reviewing Pierre Schlag, The Echantment of Reason (1998)).
The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, 17th Ed.
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"He went in without seeing the paper on the floor." ~ Chronicle of a Death Foretold, by Gabriel-Garcia Marquez
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A count of these variations gives a numerical value expressed as RMS granularity. - The FIlmmaker's Handbook
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"Whereas growing up amidst poverty early in life has a strong adverse effect on individual's cognitive ability, experiencing poverty during adolescence has an especially negative effect on young people's school achievement."
quote:A more effective strategy than trying to abbreviate the earlier stages arbitrarily is to perform them as efficiently as possible or to pick practices that require less design.
Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Steve McConnell, Microsoft Press, 1996
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In treatises on many kinds of cultivated lands, certain varieties are said to withstand certain climates better than others: this is very strikingly shown in works on fruit trees publishhed in the United States, in which certain varieties are habitually recommended for the northern, and others for the southern States; and as most of these varieties are of recent origin, they cannot owe their constituional differences to habit.
From Mathematical Methods for Economics by Michael W. Klein.
Fun Stuff (No, I mean it...really! I'm a math/econ double major, so mathematical economics has to be a fun class fro me)
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Sorry but nearest book was the phone book.. I went to yellow pages cuz the white pages didn't have page numbers!! Posts: 295 | Registered: Jul 2004
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