Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shall increase our defense expenditure. We don't feel we are bearing our proper share. Certainly our troops aren't properly equipped, they haven't got the proper supplies. We shall have an independent nuclear deterrent. Precisely what that deterrent will be is obviously a matter for further consideration. But the Russians have the big SS-8, -19 and -20 movable ballistic missiles, which are not in SALT. We have to have our deterrent to that. I'm very much for three deterrents: American, ours and the French. It's very much better than...
...neutron bomb. We did not give enough support to President Carter on the neutron bomb. He was asking for European opinion, and European opinion was: "It is a matter for you." It was not wholly a matter for him. We should have said quite clearly, we believe this is the most effective antitank weapon we can have, and that it would be advisable from the viewpoint of Europe's defense to go ahead with it. He did not get the view in Europe that he was asking for. I think it's a greatpity. I think the Conservative...
There is nothing at all absurd about the human condition. We matter. It seems to me a good guess, hazarded by a good many people who have thought of it, that we may be engaged in the formation of something like a mind for the life of this planet. If this is so, we are still at the most primitive stage, still fumbling with language and thinking, but infinitely capacitated for the future. Looked at this way, it is remarkable that we've come as far as we have in so short a period, really no time...
...once again tiny parasites, and the whole cycle begins anew. Which one is the predator, then, and which one the prey? This underwater dance lends Thomas' new book its title and occupies the first essay; its implications echo through all that follows. Life may not be a matter of eat or be eaten; it may boil down to eating and being eaten...
...sonnet. A receptive mind encounters something in nature; the object out there is gradually drawn into the thinking subject; reflection occurs, hypotheses are put forward and tested, a pulse of excitement becomes audible; suddenly, everything coalesces, time stands still for a moment, an image is born out of matter and spirit. If Wordsworth had gone to medical school, he might have produced something very like the essays of Lewis Thomas...