It is not solely or chiefly in virtue of the divine image that man effectively resembles God, but in virtue of his consciousness of being an image and the movement whereby the soul, passing in a way through itself, avails itself of the factual resemblance in order to attain to God.
Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat__raceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over__he was nevertheless one of those people whose personality proved to be the bane of modern mathematicians. She was neither a flat nor solid shape. She showed no symmetry at all. Trigonometry, Calculus and Statistics all proved useless. Her Pie Chart was a muddle of arbitrary wedges, her Line Graph, the silhouette of the Alps. And just when one listed her under Chaos Theory__utterfly Effects, Weather Predictions, Fractals, Bifurcation diagrams and whatnot__he showed up as an equilateral triangle, sometimes even a square.
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Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat__raceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over__he was nevertheless one of those people whose personality proved to be the bane of modern mathematicians. She was neither a flat nor solid shape. She showed no symmetry at all. Trigonometry, Calculus and Statistics all proved useless. Her Pie Chart was a muddle of arbitrary wedges, her Line Graph, the silhouette of the Alps. And just when one listed her under Chaos Theory__utterfly Effects, Weather Predictions, Fractals, Bifurcation diagrams and whatnot__he showed up as an equilateral triangle, sometimes even a square.
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