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Making Hamburger Recipes Is Easy And Fun ... When I was a kid Wimpy from the old Popeye cartoon show was one of my favorite characters because he expressed a deep love and obsession with hamburgers on a bun. Wimpy was always looking for hamburgers and wasn’t happy unless his plate was piled high with steaming hot hamburgers...

Making Better Word Choices - 4 Examples ... Writers face many decisions when working on a project. Choosing the correct word for a certain situation is one choice that writers often either struggle with or make an incorrect choice...

Save Money On Electric Bills By Making Your Own Solar Power For The Home ... By making your own panels in order to provide solar power for the home, you can reduce the upfront costs and begin recouping the cost of your panels much sooner....

Investing In Film Making - 17 Necessary Points ... Remember the key factor is never invest in a film making project, until and unless you are sure that you would be able to bare the loss of the amount invested and some more bucks over and above that....

Making A Deal With HDTV ... With the abilities it has, making a deal with HDTV is not really as difficult as it might at first appear....

Making The Right Decisions On Individual Health Insurance ... First, before you start thinking about how much a California individual health insurance coverage will cost you, evaluate your needs first. Take note of your existing health conditions, evaluate your lifestyle, ask around for medical family history, and so on...

The centuries-long wars with the Saracen, when everything of the East was the enemy, and the subsequent, now over, era of Western imperialism, when Eastern cultures were despised by us, have caused a block in European thinking, making it hard for us to acknowledge what we all owe to the East. Two great religions have influenced Europe, we say: Christianity and Judaism, but we scarcely mention Islam, which has been the third. We are the heirs, we claim proudly, of Greece and Rome, but seldom think of the Arabs, the Persians, the Moors, who, through Spain, fed culture into a Europe that was considered a poor and backward place, with a culture far below the dazzling civilizations of the cities of North Africa, Spain, the Middle East, India.
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)

It is a good lesson—though it may often be a hard one—for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864)

Byron’s revealing line, “And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ‘Tis that I may not weep,” suggests that the comic sense is parasitical upon the tragic. In order to avoid our tragic encounters with the transitoriness of passing fact, the fading of beauty, the destructive consequences of moral evil, alienation from the primary source of value, we make fun. The making of fun where no real occasion for fun exists is essentially what comedy is about. Tragedy and comedy are, indeed, but two masks worn by the same character alternately, depending on the exigencies of the moment; that is, depending upon which mask best represents him in such a way as successfully to reduce the unacceptable tensions of his ambience. Thus the obvious truth of Socrates’ argument at the end of the Symposium. Both tragedy and comedy are but one-sided expressions of the ironic sensibility.
—David L. Hall, U.S. educator. “Eros Descending,” Eros and Irony: A Prelude to Philosophical Anarchism, State University of New York Press (1982)