" How impossibly old-fashioned is it if I regu- larly feel that in this type and under these conditions of
interaction
it should be exclusively my privilege to be "available" or not?
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Gumbrecht - Infinite Availability - On Hyper-Communication and Old Age |
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Yet if we
remember
his whole mood, his complete
mental situation with its practically fixed affective condition, it
is more reasonable to see his self-accusations as of schizophrenic
nature.
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Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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111 I
POLISH LITERATURE
THAT so little
attention
has been given in England to
Polish literature is unjust, but intelligible.
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Poland - 1911 - Polish Literature, a Lecture |
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Dark
shepherdess
of many a golden star,
Dost see me, Mother Night?
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Euripides - Electra |
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The mind is most agreably surpris'd,
When a well-woven Subject, long disguis'd,
You on a sudden
artfully
unfold,
And give the whole another face, and mould.
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Boileau - Art of Poetry |
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The other was, lest he might be thought to
avoid it out of fear to do an ungracious thing to the House of
Commons, who were sorely troubled at the
displacing
of Harry
Vane, whom they looked upon as removed for having done them
those offices they stood in need of; and the disdain of so popu-
lar an incumbrance wrought upon him next to the other.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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In the autumn the four
sows had all
littered
about simultaneously, producing thirty-one young
pigs between them.
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Orwell - Animal Farm |
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And thou alone shalt groan for long,
bewailing
and lamenting unceasingly the unhappy overthrow of her towers.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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While not purporting to offer fresh archaeological evidence, he
established
a 'tourist route' through that antiquity which many other travellers would follow.
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Chateaubriand - Travels to Italy |
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To the same class belongs the history of the foundation of the city itself, which was
designed
to connect the origin of Rome with Latium and with Alba, the general metropolis of the Latins.
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The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.2. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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For verily his great Bow does the Bowman draw close by the Scorpion’s sting, and a little in front stands the
Scorpion
[Scorpio] at his rising, but the Archer rises right after him.
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Aratus - Phaenomena |
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The ASaiksa perfects his
faculties
as he has obtained the result of Arhat; since he obtains this result in nine spheres, so too there is perfecting of the faculties.
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Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-3-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991-PDF-Search-Engine |
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Thus
unhappily ended, says Osorius, the
expedition
of Magalhaens.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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No less
an authority than the divine Plato himself (thus
does Schopenhauer call him), upholds another pro-
position : that all beauty lures to procreation,—that
this precisely is the chief characteristic of its effect,
from the lowest
sensuality
to the highest spirituality.
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Nietzsche - v16 - Twilight of the Idols |
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Dear Juliet
Good and Bad Reasons for Believing144
Now that you are ten, I want to write to you about something that is
important
to me.
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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Some must go off: and yet by these I see,
So great a day as this is
cheapely
bought
Mal.
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shakespeare-macbeth |
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If the Soviets had put nuclear weapons in orbit and we shot at them with rockets the results might be serious, but not the same as if the Soviets had put
missiles
on home territory and we shot at those missiles on their home grounds.
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Schelling - The Art of Commitment |
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And the apostles did bear witness of the
resurrection
of Jesus Christ with great power; and great grace was upon them all.
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Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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Knowledge of the enemy's
dispositions
can only be obtained from other men.
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The-Art-of-War |
|
Project
Gutenberg is a
registered
trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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XLIV
Ever in memory dwells the restless thought,
He might a thousand times have had the fair;
And -- mad and
obstinate
-- had, when besought,
A thousand times refused such beauty rare;
And such sweet joy was whilom set at nought,
Such bright, such blessed moments wasted were;
And now he life would gladly give away
To have that damsel but for one short day.
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Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
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143)
Justice now becomes the heading for a
homeostatic
the necessity of which is based on the ?
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Peter-Sloterdijk-Thinker-on-Stage |
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They arrived after
consecrating
their persons as if to works of piety, and offered and prostituted the most chaste and precious among them.
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Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
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If there is now talk in Bonn about the credible embodiment of principles in politics, then this formulation borrows from the conscience model from
classical
moral philosophy.
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Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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34
Seek not to know which song or saying yields 37
As long as tinted haze the mountain covered 38
Ye speak of
raptures
that are void and friendless 39
?
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Cuando invitado
un conocido autor á la
representacion
de una de sus obras en uno de
estos teatros, le dicen durante ó despues de ella: _¡Cuánto habrá V.
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Jose Zorrilla |
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Il faut qu'on soit censé venir simplement--y
eût-il cinq cents personnes--faire une visite à la
princesse
de
Guermantes, par exemple.
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Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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5
plan, which no mortal ever thought of; that he should singly execute what would sprain a dozen of modern doctors of the tribe of Issachar ; that he should have success against all
opposition
; challenge his adversaries to fair disputations, without any offering to dispute with him ; write, read, and study twelve hours a-day, and yet appear as untouched by the yoke, as if he never wore it ; compose three disser tations each week, on all subjects, however uncom mon, treated in all lights and manners, by himself, without assistance, as some would detract from him ; teach in one year what schools and universities teach in five ; offer to learn—to speak, and —to read ; not to be terrified by cabals, or menaces, or insults, or the grave nonsense of one, or the frothy satire of another; but he should still proceed and mature this bold scheme, and put the church, and all that, in danger.
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Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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H e admired the j udgment of his friend,
who, nevertheless, he said, was far from anticipating the
reprehensible life Miss E dgarmond had since led: a mar-
riage between O swald and herself now, he added, would
be an eternal insult to L ord N evil' s memory;
appeared, during his son' s fatal
residence
in F
passed a whole summer at L ady E dgarmond'
who, it
rance, had
s, solacing him-
self by superintending the education of his favourite L ucy.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
|
3, a full refund of any
money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
electronic
work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
of receipt of the work.
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Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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There are therefore no grounds for
accepting
the two orders ol symptoms essential for the character ization ol general paralysis: the symptoms of dementia and paralysis" in the Appendix to Doumic's French translation of the 2nd, revised and expanded edition of Wilhelm Gnesinger's Die Pathologie und Therapie depsychischen Krakheiten (Traite des maladies mentales.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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In 1647 he headed a
conspiracy
to place the
Ming prince Lu on the throne.
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Waley - 170 Chinese Poems |
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It is
mentally
and morally injurious to man to do
anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour
are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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Knightley’s eyes had
preceded
Miss
Bates’s in a glance at Jane.
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Austen - Emma |
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You were alarmed at my repinings, and, if the truth be told,
despaired
of my salvation.
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| Question: |
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise |
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During the
Chenyuan
era (785–804) of the Tang dynasty, he built the Quynh* Lâm Temple at his native village.
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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Further reproduction
prohibited
without permission.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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What word of grace in such a place
Could help a
brother’s
soul?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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Of the
American
president it is claimed, as well as of the Athenian archon and the Roman consul, that, with certain qualifications, they were nevertheless simply the heirs of monarchical power, of which the kings were supposed to have been deprived by the appropriate revolutions.
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SIMMEL-Georg-Sociology-Inquiries-Into-the-Construction-of-Social-Forms-2vol |
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English
Biblical
Criticism, and English Scholarship in the
Thirteenth Century, in Dublin Review, 1898, 1-21, 356-373.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v01 |
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Joyous notes, a
sounding
harpsichord's intrusion.
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| Question: |
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This crowd too
Chrysippus
places in the fruitful
family of Menenius.
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| Question: |
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Horace - Works |
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_("Ho,
guerriers!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Hugo - Poems |
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I didn't expect him to do
so, for he was very willing to do
whatever
you wanted.
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| Question: |
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Ezra-Pounds-Chinese-Friends-Stories-in-Letters |
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Whatever Nietzsche alleges about these
magnitudes
is transformed into praise of the foreigner in itself: ''As my father I am already dead and as my mother I am still alive.
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| Question: |
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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The United States is not an
exceptional
case.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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This is further
evidence
that the Tibetan ascription of these three texts (the AA, MSA, and ROV) to the same author is highly questionable.
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| Question: |
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Buddhist-Omniscience |
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"He is a
charming
man"--"But after all what did he mean?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Eliot - Prufrock and Other Observations |
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These were the men out there that night,
When Hell loomed close ahead;
Who saw that pitiful, hideous rout,
And
breathed
those gases dread;
While some went under and some went mad;
But never a man there fled.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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At any rate, they
[the
Americans]
have never fought "for the balance of power »
in Europe.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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Passing the covered way to the roof I mount overhead,
Where Troy's
children
were hurling an idle javelin shower.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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Macc-
don, too, and its rise to
importance
under king Philip,
deserves at least a short notice.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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It is wilfulness and
delight in the wilfulness of it, if he now, perhaps, gives his approval
to that which has
heretofore
been in ill repute--if, in curiosity and
experiment, he penetrates stealthily to the most forbidden things.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Human, All Too Human |
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A THANKSGIVING TO GOD, FOR HIS HOUSE
Lord, thou hast given me a cell,
Wherein to dwell;
A little house, whose humble roof
Is weather proof;
Under the spars of which I lie
Both soft and dry;
Where thou, my chamber for to ward,
Hast set a guard
Of
harmless
thoughts, to watch and keep
Me, while I sleep.
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Robert Herrick - Lyric Poems |
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In short, we are in the presence of an activity to which it would be necessary to ascribe an
incalculably
higher and more extensive intellect
than the one we are acquainted with.
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Nietzsche - Works - v15 - Will to Power - b |
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This lively fiction serves the poet
as a medium for satirizing foibles of the laity
and
corruption
in the Church; it should not,
however, be taken too seriously as a "picture
of the times.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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However, this distinction is so
dramatic
that it becomes qualitative.
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Schwarz - Committments |
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^
immeasurable and inconclusive influence on the outcome ot federal elections is all that is
possible
by way of democratic control of entrepreneurial decisions.
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| Question: |
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
In Enzensberger's poem about the
inventor
of the mechanical clock it is said:
Different
words and wheels.
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| Question: |
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Thus the work of art resem- bles the object of perception: its nature is to be seen or heard and no attempt to define or analyse it, however valuable that may be afterwards as a way of taking stock of this experience, can ever stand in place of the direct
perceptual
experience.
| Guess: |
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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In light of present trends, the Soviet Union will not withdraw and the only conceivable basis for a general settlement would be spheres of
influence
and of no influenced "settlement" which the Kremlin could readily exploit to its great advantage.
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NSC-68 |
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How smooth and even they do bear themselves,
As if allegiance in their bosoms sat,
Crowned with faith and constant
loyalty!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare |
|
94 | PHILOSOPHICAL
INVESTIGATIONS
INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN FREEDOM
12.
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Schelling-Philosophical-Investigations-into-the-Essence-of-Human-Freedom |
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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,
And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,
And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire
Girdled round with the belt of an
amethyst
ring.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Poems |
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Taurina is in Thebes,
When
Swellfoot
wishes that she were in hell!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Shelley |
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I offered Being for it;
The mighty
merchant
smiled.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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For the object here thought pre sented a priori in intuition and thus can never contain more or less than the conception, because the conception
the object has been given by the definition -- and primarily, that '"ithout
deriving
the definition from any other source
conception
conceptions
?
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
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So obedient are even the elements themselves to
the universe, abiding
patiently
wheresoever (though against their
nature) they are placed, until the sound as it were of their retreat,
and separation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
|
--But
wherefore
all this vain debate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Iliad - Pope |
|
So true is it,
that the faith, which saves and sanctifies, is a
collective
energy, a
total act of the whole moral being; that its living sensorium is in the
heart; and that no errors of the understanding can be morally arraigned
unless they have proceeded from the heart.
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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Peacefully general astonishment assisted by
regrettitude
had put a term till his existence: he saw the family saggarth, resigned, put off his remainders, was recalled and scrapheaped by the Maker.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Finnegans |
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Wolfius applies
sKeivois
to
the Argians, Jec.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenes - Leland - Orations |
|
No
nation is more passionately fond of nature, whether in its grander
aspects, or in the
charming
arrangements of potted flowers which take
the place of our borders in their pleasure grounds.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Amy Lowell - Chinese Poets |
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And should I then
presume?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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T.S. Eliot |
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according to
conditions
of its form (time) in respect to all representa
tions, in so far as these representations must be conjoined H priori in one conception, conformably to the unity of apper
ception.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason |
|
The old man seemed not to heed it, but calmly
ascended the stair, which wound
narrower
and narrower toward
the top.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v14 - Ibn to Juv |
|
It is not by chance that, in the gospel
according
to Zarathustra, the sun-the star of Apollo-plays the role of the exemplary Being, and it falls to the new prophet to perfect himself in imitation of the sun.
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Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
|
09, 3'5"4
thuartpcatrick
( _ 'H O I Four Paragraphs')
The Thunderword (m 'Flot Four Paragraphs') till TibbA' Eve (i.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Now there is a great
difference
between that
which we are advised to do and that to which we are obliged.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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Deprived of my father's aid, I was also exempted from the
restraints
and
reticences by which that aid had been purchased.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
|
Please do not assume that a book's
appearance
in Google Book Search means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The_satires_of_Persius |
|
The enclosure of commons and waste lands certainly
tends to increase the food of the country, but it has been asserted
with confidence that the enclosure of common fields has frequently had
a
contrary
effect, and that large tracts of land which formerly
produced great quantities of corn, by being converted into pasture both
employ fewer hands and feed fewer mouths than before their enclosure.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
|
He
was so kind and holy and often and often she thought and thought could
she work a ruched teacosy with embroidered floral design for him as a
present or a clock but they had a clock she noticed on the mantelpiece
white and gold with a
canarybird
that came out of a little house to tell
the time the day she went there about the flowers for the forty hours'
adoration because it was hard to know what sort of a present to give or
perhaps an album of illuminated views of Dublin or some place.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
James Joyce - Ulysses |
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O most unhappy Hakon
Herdebred!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v16 to v20 - Phi to Qui |
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—Why does our conscience prick
us after
ordinary
social gatherings?
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A city in the
territory
of the Bruttii, near the
western coast, and often confounded with the prece-
ding.
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To him the Indians, Scythians, Garamantes, and Aethiopians sent
legations
with gifts.
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The Senate confined itself to
despatching
commissioners, some to
Hannibal, who gave them no attention, and others to Carthage, where they
arrived only when Saguntum had ceased to exist.
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A fourth
dramatic
work of
this author, The Siege of Urbin, has been with justice described
as 'a capable and sympathetic play.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Obviously
mammal in
weight of bosom you remark that she has in front well to the fore two
protuberances of very respectable dimensions, inclined to fall in the
noonday soupplate, while on her rere lower down are two additional
protuberances, suggestive of potent rectum and tumescent for palpation,
which leave nothing to be desired save compactness.
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James Joyce - Ulysses |
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In
his letters Frederick often yearned for the new
Athens away on the Seine, and bewailed the envy
of jealous gods, who had
condemned
the son of
the Muse to rule over slaves in the Cimmerian
land of the North.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great |
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Not
spoiling
the ship for a ’aporth of tar?
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2 G When he heard that the praetor Gaius Servilius had crossed the straits to Sicily in order to take over the command of the war, the praetor Lucullus disbanded his soldiers, and burned his
palisades
and fortification works, so as not to leave to his successor any useful resources for the conduct of war.
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And woe unto me if I could not laugh at your marvelling, and had to
swallow all that is repugnant in your
platters!
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Legamen ad paginam Latinam 12 1 During this same period the Scythians attempted to plunder in Crete and Cyprus as well, but everywhere their armies were likewise stricken with
pestilence
and so were defeated.
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But Sir John did not sport long
with the curiosity which he delighted to raise, for he had at least as
much
pleasure
in telling the name, as Miss Steele had in hearing it.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Now this Manetho, in the second book of his
Egyptian
History, writes concerning us in the following manner.
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Eusebius - Chronicles |
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even religious people considered it their duty
to inflict on the
children
of their love.
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Childrens - Children's Sayings |
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But the passage in which the
accusation
occurs
is a mass of anachronisms; it was evidently written in one of the
well known Coleridgean fits of 'fun,' as Lamb called them, that is
to say, of one-sided crotchet; and the corruption alleged is that
of a purely fanciful standard of Elizabethan English which appears
to have been blended for himself by the critic out of two such
isolated, anything but contemporary, and singularly different,
exemplars as Latimer and Hooker.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Your orange hair in the void of the world
The sentiments apparent
Would you see
You rise the water unfolds
I only wish to love you
The world is blue as an orange
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
Even when we sleep we watch over each other
Donkey or cow,
cockerel
or horse
I looked in front of me
If I speak it's to hear you more clearly
We two take each other by the hand
At dawn I love you I've the whole night in my veins
She looks into me
A single smile disputes
Translated by A.
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