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certain sense

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In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. Franz Kafka

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. Ernest Mandel

Decision theory, as it has grown up in recent years, is a formalization of the problems involved in making optimal choices. In a certain sense - a very abstract sense, to be sure - it incorporates among others operations research, theoretical economics, and wide areas of statistics, among others. Kenneth Arrow

Long after Plato's time the concept of the Ideas still represented the sphere of aloofness, independence, and in a certain sense even freedom, an objectivity that did not submit to ‘our' interests. Max Horkheimer

In a certain sense the liberation of slaves is the destruction of property - property acquired by descent or by purchase, the same as any other property. Abraham Lincoln

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind. Anne Sexton

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