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1."... against the anomie of half-built places-confirmed an Enlightenment vision of the attainability of human happiness that has had a long life in the national mythology of American success."

Source:  Jacobson, Joanne. "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" Nation 269.22 Dec. 27 1999: 30

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2." In addition to the categorical imperative, Kant tells us, practical reason has as its presupposition and requires belief in the attainability of the 'highest good', understood as the proportionate and exceptionless union of virtue and happiness."

Source:  Firestone, Chris L. "Kant and religion: conflict or compromise?" Religious Studies 35.2 June 1 1999: 151-153

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3." Rather than jumping to any easy conclusions at this point, Davison succeeds in capturing the nature of the tragic in Camus: the picture of a man like Meursault snatching happiness from the absurd and treasuring it before death."

Source:  Williams, James S. "Camus: The Challenge of Dostoevsky" Journal of European Studies 28.4 Dec. 1 1998: 425-427

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4." In other words, there will always be tragic circumstances in which happiness and the moral life are not reconcilable."

Source:  Drury, Shadia B. "Augustinian Radical Transcendence: Source of Political Excess" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 27

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5."... Meininger writes, [A] successful life is not a life that excludes all tragic events, but a life in the knowledge that real happiness cannot be found without accepting tragedy too."

Source:  Fitzgerald, Jennifer. "Geneticizing disability: the Human Genome Project and the commodification of self" Issues in Law & Medicine 14.2 Sept. 22 1998: 147

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6."... In this circumstance, caution and circumspection are much to be preferred over pseudo-"gutsy" extrapolations that give rise to baseless fears, preemptive war, and a tragic, avoidable loss of human life."

Source:  Paine, Christopher. "A not unreasonable failure?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 60.5 Sept. 1 2004: 72-74

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7." In his De fide divina (Disputatio 2) Ripalda explained that this had to do with the attainability, knowability, or lovability of the object; see Sectio 1, n. 2-3; see also De ente supernaturali 1, Disputatio 46, Sectio 8, no. 39; and Jose Maria..."

Source:  Perry, John F. "Juan Martinez de Ripalda and Karl Rahner's supernatural existential" Theological Studies v59.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 442-457

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8." Data collected as a part of Project Target were used to field-test suitability of test items, reliability, and attainability of standards related to 35-1b bench press, extended arm hang, flexed..."

Source:  Winnick, Joseph P.,Short, Francis X. "THE BROCKPORT PHYSICAL FITNESS TEST" Palaestra 16.1 Jan. 1 2000: 20

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9." Such nonideal realities pose difficult choices between contending viewpoints regarding the requirements and attainability of international justice."

Source:  Falk, Richard. "The Pursuit of International Justice: Present Dilemmas and An Imagined Future" Journal of International Affairs 52.2 Mar. 22 1999: 409

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10."... disguise.(28) Nonetheless, critics would agree that Plato's magnetic theory provides a clear and recognizable impetus to the pastoral's characters who do not voice any overt doubt about the existence or attainability of ideal love."

Source:  Gregorio, Laurence A. "Silvandre's Symposium: The Platonic and the Ambiguous in L'Astree" Renaissance Quarterly 52.3 Sept. 22 1999: 782

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11." Seducing and beguiling, they arrive with everything that suggests the easy attainability of a pleasant world."

Source:  Amato, Joseph A.,Amato, Anthony. "Minnesota, Real and Imagined: A View from the Countryside" Daedalus 129.3 June 22 2000: 55

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12."... 'world-dependency theory' but as a political statement as well as an expression of the 'attainability of future hopes and aspirations' (1994: 521)."

Source:  Armstrong, Rita. "Insufficiency and lack: between production and consumption in a longhouse economy 1909-1996" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute v4.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 511-531

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13." My purpose was to show that (a) if, as it seemed, McCloskey's reason for rejecting correspondence theories and for accepting a coherence theory of truth is based on the essential attainability..."

Source:  Maki, Uskali. "Performance Against Dialogue, or Answering and Really Answering: A Participant Observer's Reflections on the McCloskey Conversation" Journal of Economic Issues 34.1 Mar. 1 2000: 43

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14." Layered with plot over subplot, both tragic and funny, the story turns unexpectedly and reaches deeply--even philosophically--into the nature and purpose of human life and death."

Source:  Henry, Tanu T. "Kipligat's Chance" Black Issues Book Review 6.6 Nov. 1 2004: 70-71

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15."... the tragic power and legitimacy of Lene's dream of happiness' (p. 84) - both interpretations rather too much based on character - the reader seeks for guidance towards an overall vision."

Source:  Horstmann-Guthrie, Ulrike. "The Changing Image of Theodor Fontane" Journal of European Studies 29.1 Mar. 1 1999: 109-111

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16." 5. Attainability Finally, do the preceding four characteristics suggest an attainable system?"

Source:  Johnsen, Dawn E. "Functional departmentalism and non judicial interpretation: who determines constitutional meaning?" Law and Contemporary Problems 67.3 June 22 2004: 105-148

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17."... share of the Group's energy was devoted to emphasizing the attainability of C[S.sub.1].) Can any degree of efficiency make it possible for a steadily climbing world population to consume more tomorrow than today and still more the day after?"

Source:  Shapiro, Stanley. "Sustainability in historical perspective: Canada's conserver society studies revisited" Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis 30-31 Jan. 1 2002: 459-485

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18." The participants were asked to look at eight color photographs of human faces and then indicate the emotion in the face by rating their perception of various feelings (anger, sadness, happiness, disgust, fear, surprise)."

Source:  Woitaszewski, Scott A.,Aalsma, Matthew C. "The contribution of emotional intelligence to the social and academic success of gifted adolescents as measured by the multifactor emotional intelligence scale--adolescent version. (Social and Emotional Development" Roeper Review 27.1 Sept. 22 2004: 25-31

19."... and zoo life makes more human deaths inevitable. "Is it any wonder that these tragic captive elephants, deprived of any semblance of the life intended for them by nature, mercilessly..."

Source:  Smith, Jessica. "Bill would limit use of elephants" Washington Times June 14 2000: 8

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20." Witnessing Jason's tragic experiences afforded me a highly personal vantage for viewing the fears and stereotypes that average people embraced and allowed to alienate them from a former friend who was no longer average."

Source:  Siplon, Patricia. "Scholar, Witness, or Activist? The Lessons and Dilemmas of an AIDS Research Agenda [*]" PS: Political Science & Politics 32.3 Sept. 1 1999: 577

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21." The raveled skein of yarn that is story's tragic element, the labyrinthian free-falls of choice, the momentum of things out of control, of fear and human failings."

Source:  Kirshenbaum, Binnie. "From Pure Poetry" Tikkun 15.2 Mar. 1 2000: 57

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22." The 'coward's' tragic suicide suddenly becomes a narratively sanctioned murder as Denthor is kicked onto the fire but only so his engulfed body can spectacularly fall to its death for our viewing pleasure."

Source:  Aoun, Steven. "Lord of the Rings: the Return of the King" Metro Magazine .142 Sept. 22 2004: 204-205

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23." More than its representation of the endlessly repeated fall of the mighty, what makes Chaucer's version of the tragic view of life intolerably heavy when taken straight is its sense of the radical limitations of human knowledge and power."

Source:  Gruenler, Curtis. "DESIRE, VIOLENCE AND THE PASSION IN FRAGMENT VII OF THE CANTERBURY TALES: A GIRARDIAN READING" Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 52.1 Sept. 22 1999: 35

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24." In many Christian circles, the turn-of-the-century mood focuses on the arrival of the Christian millennium, a thousand-year period of happiness and human perfection when Jesus will reign on Earth (see Evangelicals Calm Millennium Fears)."

Source:  Asch, Kim. "Y2K Malaise Rounds Out 20th Century" Insight on the News 15.6 Feb. 15 1999: 40-41

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25." Tolczyk begins by discussing works of fiction from the late 1920s which deal with revolutionary violence and portray the "executioners as tragic heroes" who overcame residual moral scruples by viewing their brutality as "tragic necessity." In one of these stories, the hero who routinely signs death..."

Source:  Hollander, Paul. "See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the SousetCamp Experience" New Criterion 18.6 Feb. 1 2000: 75

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