"
Fra Fulgenzio believed " that he had insight into their designs: how-
ever, this one thing is certain, that he had the fatigue and anxiety of being
on the watch the greater part of the night, to some using the language
of entreaty, to others that of command, while he endeavoured to enlighten
all as to the danger which they would evoke, the trifling nature of the
matters in question, and the scandal which it would bring upon the Order;
but it was chiefly veneration for his
authority
that stilled the storm.
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Sarpi - 1868 - Life of Fra Paolo Sarpi |
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These princesses were the
daughters
of the Niogo of Kokiden.
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Epiphanius Wilson - Japanese Literature |
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12
These problems have become more acute with film and televi- sion, and even the
diagnostic
novel (unlike the experiments of the avant garde) seems to be aimed at suggesting to the reader that certain experiences are his own.
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Luhmann-Niklas-the-Reality-of-the-Mass-Media |
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even earlier than that; instead of the old monastic black powder, which I
attempted
to correlate with perspective itself, this was done by a Swiss chemist and an Austrian field marshal lieutenant named Franz von Uchatius, who will also be presented m the next lecture as the direct forefather of film technology.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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1 Adolf Hitler, Die Reden Hitlers am Parteitag der
Freiheit
(Munich, 1935), p.
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Trakl - ‘. . Und Gassen enden schwarz und sonderbar’- Poetic Dialogues with Georg Trakl in the 1930s and 40s |
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e
moleskin
wallet, lit.
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Pattern Poems |
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Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing
technical
restrictions on automated querying.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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She is often unable to keep
anything
on her stomach for days at a time.
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Adorno-T-Authoritarian-Personality-Harper-Bros-1950 |
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More than anyone else he demonstrated the
importance
of real- life childhood events for the develop- ment of later psychopathology.
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A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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In return for my
kindness
you've made me the laughingstock of the city.
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Life-of-Galileo-by-Brecht |
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In note 56, to the Third Life,
adopts an explanation, that this prophecy is not intended to apply, in reference to the Kings of Munster generally, of whom, nine or ten came to a violent death ; but, rather to the kings,
descending
from ^ngus alone,
son.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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The Bellman looked scared,
And was almost too
frightened
to speak:
But at length he explained, in a tremulous tone,
There was only one Beaver on board;
And that was a tame one he had of his own,
Whose death would be deeply deplored.
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Lewis Carroll |
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It
is, of course, possible—almost
everything
is possible—that the
wrong play got into the folio, that Meres was mistaken, that the
piece acted and printed in 1594 was not Shakespeare's; but it is also
possible that all the world is mad, except the inhabitants of lunatic
asylums.
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Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v05 |
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His mind is after all rather the recipient
and
transmitter
of knowledge, than the originator of it.
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Hazlitt - The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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from behind which Nietzsche's literary appearance had
The antagonism between the two artistic impulses within the soul thus remains every bit as valid as their
relationship
as ?
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Sloterdijk - Thinker on Stage |
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By soft
persuasion
didst thou win my love,
And pledge by every vow that men can swear,
Then tossed thy words into the empty air,
A sport for wanton winds and clouds above.
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Catullus - Stewart - Selections |
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Les Amours de Cassandre: CLII
Moon with dark eyes, goddess with horses black,
That steer you up and down, and high and low,
Never remaining long, when once they show,
Pulling your chariot endlessly there and back:
My desires and yours are never a match,
Because the passions that pierce your soul,
And the ardours that inflame mine so,
Court
different
desires to ease their lack.
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Ronsard |
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The Romans and the chiefs of the Arabian tribes occupy
the parts on this side the
Euphrates
as far as Babylonia.
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Strabo |
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ein & bad hem seke
in
Eufemians
house; 375
ffor ?
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Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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To think historically is
almost the same thing now as if in all ages history
had been made
according
to the theory "The
smallest possible amount in the longest possible
time!
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Nietzsche - v06 - Human All-Too-Human - a |
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Many coal mines in
Scotland
are wrought in this manner,
and can be wrought in no other.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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I have got so
vicious a bent to idleness, and have ever been so little a man of
business, that it will take no
ordinary
effort to bring my mind
properly into the routine: but you will save a "great effort is worthy
of you.
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Robert Burns- |
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The comparison is suggestive because in the one case as in the other an architectural form was proclaimed as the key for the
capitalistic
condition ofthe world.
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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Then when from quiet rest torn, her
delirium
over, Attis at
once recalled to mind her deed, and with lucid thought saw what she had
lost, and where she stood, with heaving heart she backwards traced her
steps to the landing-place.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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To disagree with three-fourths of England on all points is one of the
first elements of vanity, which is a deep source of
consolation
in all
moments of spiritual doubt.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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let him Consider how this can
be Explain’d to our
Understandings
with that _Perspicuity_ or Clearness
which is requisite in all _Demonstrations_, and Which He Himself is used
to present us with upon other Occasions.
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Descartes - Meditations |
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_he's_
dreaming
nothing dreary.
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë |
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I would to Heaven I could take a cruise with you
through the brokers, which would be the
pleasantest
affair possible,
only I am afraid I should make a losing voyage of it.
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Selection of English Letters |
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After the war is over there will be powerful forces drawing young people away from the liberal studies- But there will be other powerful forces operating in the
opposite
direction-
The vindication of democracy by victory will raise a vast number ot questions as to the meaning of democracy, of the conditions economic and psychological and spiritual under which democracy can thrive.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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133 Some 300 people,
including
Gracchus, are killed in a riot that breaks out during a political rally.
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Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome_nodrm |
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There is Napierski, the analyst of
his reflections; there are the
youthfully
fiery tem-
peramental poets, Nowicki and Andrzej Niemo-
jewski; there is Adam Szymanski, whose prose
"Sketches" have the melancholy of a song of
Siberian exiles; there is the optimistic Roleslaw
Prus (Alexander Glowacki), a powerful plastic
talent, the disciple of positivism, the bonds of which
he breaks, however, when it proves too narrow
for him, an adept in accurate science and a writer
of strong, manly sentiment.
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Poland - 1911 - An Outline of the History of Polish Literature |
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On
November
13th, 1895, I was brought
down here from London.
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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Queen of the vales the Lily answered, ask the tender cloud,
And it shall tell thee why it
glitters
in the morning sky.
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blake-poems |
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:_ sweet
Meridian
_1669_.
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Donne - 1 |
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”
O could you but hear it, at
midnight
my laugh:
My hour is striking; come step in my trap;
Now into my net stream the fishes.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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I do not assent to all the
opinions
of Mr.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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”
The keeper saw that her dress was old and faded; the small
black shawl had
evidently
been washed and many times mended;
the old-fashioned knitted purse she held in her hand was lank
with long famine.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v27 - Wat to Zor |
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Two later works derived from that period, Rene, and Atala, evidencing the new sensibility, greatly influenced the development of the Romantic
Movement
in France.
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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I should feel the same duty towards all who possessed the same disposition but I feel it especially towards you since you have aspirations which are so noble, and since you are not only my brother in
character
no less than in blood but are one with me as well in the pursuit of goodness.
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The Letter of Aristeas to Philocrates |
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” The Altar is composed of three
Anacreontean
lines, three trochaic tetrameters, three phalaecians, eleven iambic dimeters, three anapaestic dimeters, and three choriambic tetrameters.
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Pattern Poems |
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For why such raptures, flights, and fancies,
To her who durst not read romances;
In lofty style to make replies,
Which he had taught her to
despise?
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| Source: |
Swift - Battle of the Books, and Others |
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And
first they are not afraid of death--no small evil, by
Jupiter!
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| Source: |
Erasmus - In Praise of Folly |
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CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
My sinful earth these rebel powers array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting
thy outward walls so costly gay?
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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), and against those who rise
superior
to its dead level.
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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)
were the greater part of the actus
legitimi
and the
5.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b |
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UjejsH, in fact,
is always and
definitely
on the side of the angels.
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Poland - 1915 - Poland, a Study in National Idealism - Monica Gardner |
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And proves further, that order was Charles Davers, and many other knights left, That the earl should miscarry London, and gentlemen, and other persons unknown, then the Lord Keeper and the Justice which flocked
together
about the Lord Keeper,
might have been good witness: but being openly spoken, (as you say) hundred more
might have testified yet none spake besides.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Complete Collection of State Trials for Treason - v01 |
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The _Principles of
Political
Economy_
yielded to none of its predecessors in aiming at the
scientific appreciation of the action of these causes, under the
conditions which they presuppose; but it set the example of not treating
those conditions as final.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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| Source: |
Appoloinaire |
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425
Thou in this dredful cas for me purveye;
For so
astonied
am I that I deye!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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A monk asked: "Between Buddha and
sentient
beings, who is the host and who is the guest?
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Thiyen Uyen Tap |
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This is only possible to the degree that these works offer themselves as limits within which the transformation o f nonsense into sense (or the reverse) describes the temporal pressure which pushes understanding a sentence into
Reproduced with
permission
of the copyright owner.
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| Source: |
Brett Bourbon - 1996 - Constructing a Replacement for the Soul |
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Paul is very often most
inadequately
rendered,
and there are slovenly phrases which would never have come from Ben Jonson
or any other good prose writer of that day.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Table Talk |
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This is the type of moment spoken of on the single page inserted at the start ofEcce Homo:
On this perfect day, when
everything
is ripening and not only the grape turns brown, the eye of
/53
the sun just fell upon my life; I looked back, I looked forward, and never saw so many and such good things at once.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Nietzsche Apostle |
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Perhaps it lacked a mother's loving
attention, or perhaps the father's death removed the wage-earner of the
family and the child
thenceforth
lacked the necessities of life.
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Applied Eugenics by Roswell H. Johnson and Paul Popenoe |
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Everything that is
about to happen is known beforehand; who then
cares to wait for it
actually
to happen ?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v01 - Birth of Tragedy |
|
Galleries of
literary
portraits.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
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In some
rare instances it is so very strong as not to be ruptured by such
intercourse, and the nature of the
difficulty
not being understood, the
husband has sued for a divorce.
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| Source: |
Knowlton - Fruits of Philosophy- A Treatise on the Population Question |
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"
Bonadea responded with
something
quite profound: "Oh, Ul- rich!
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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With Cicero's
death, and the
transformation
of the republic into an empire, eloquence
lost its noblest use, the defence of liberty.
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| Source: |
Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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Micro-lenders have been upgraded to offer
services
to this customer base under a special licensing regime, and eight out of seventy applicants were initially chosen.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kleiman International |
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Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Devils |
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Unfortunately
the systems staff will not be available until Monday, to apply fixes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoesvky - The Brothers Karamazov |
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SHE shall not soon
forget the occurrences of this day; she shall find that she has poured
forth her tender tale of love in vain, and exposed herself for ever
to the
contempt
of the whole world, and the severest resentment of her
injured mother.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Lady Susan |
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Cảo thơm lần giở
trước
đèn,
Phong tình có lục còn truyền sử xanh.
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Nguyễn Du - Kieu - 01 |
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That the serenity of achieved certainty is rooted in groundless instability: ever since the modern metaphilosophical questionings of motives, the philosophical quest for the peace of the
thinking
soul has also had to learn to live with this suspicion.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
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You have to buy rye bread instead of
household
bread, because the rye loaves, though
dearer, are round and can be smuggled in your pockets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
America-s-Deadliest-Export-Blum-William-pdf |
|
What indeed does man know
about
himself?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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Voulez-vous que nous en
prenions?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Albertine Disparue - a |
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"
LXXI
Friend, lay hold with a desperate grasp, ere it is too late, on Freedom,
on Tranquility, on
Greatness
of soul!
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| Source: |
Epictetus |
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well content indeed, for never wight
Since Troy's young shepherd prince had seen so
wonderful
a sight.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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There's not enough
For
everybody
as it is in there.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Yea, and I think there will be more than this:
Is not the world a
terrible
thing, a vision
Of fierce divinity that cares not for us?
| Guess: |
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| Source: |
Lascelles Abercrombie - Emblems of Love |
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Alas, poor people, of an
unfledged
will
Most fitly expressed by such a callow voice!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Browning - 4 |
|
During the early months of life an infant shows many of the
component
responses of what will later become attachment behaviour, but the or- ganized pattern does not develop until the second half of the first year.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Secure-Base-Bowlby-Johnf |
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That was theirs too, but they were
frightened
to go inside.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Animal Farm |
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Mais j'avais déjà
transmis l'ordre et, pour ne pas me
retarder
davantage, j'allai sonner à
ma porte, sans avoir plus pensé que j'avais affaire à M.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Proust - Le Cote de Guermantes - v3 |
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Of
the value of her direct
cooperation
with me, something will be said
hereafter, of what I owe in the way of instruction to her great powers
of original thought and soundness of practical judgment, it would be a
vain attempt to give an adequate idea].
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill |
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Creio bem que, em um mundo
civilizado
perfeito, não haveria outra arte que não a prosa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pessoa - Livro do Desassossego |
|
The east, within the
boundaries
of the Ionian sea, was
given to Antony; the western provinces to Caesar;
and Lepidus had Africa.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plutarch - Lives - v7 |
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"How greatly this page here resembles a thousand other pages, and how hard it is to be
40 Grey Room 05
Typecase showing the divided
compartments
for each character.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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The
cltmtntsl
attriblllel oftheSianaoftheZodiacoreccnainlynohelp.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
McHugh-Roland-1976-The-Sigla-of-Finnegans-Wake |
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It is the
opposite
of
syneresis.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose de Espronceda |
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O Lord God
grant that whilst I live, my pen may
be
employed
in thy honor; and if this my body be predestined
by thee one day to be destroyed by fire, grant that it be for no
light cause, but for thee and for thy Word.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v17 - Mai to Mom |
|
CONSPIRACIES
AGAINST THE SENATE (690) 340
IX.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
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”
The
countryman
only shook his head.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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3 We have lost a
powerful
safeguard by the death of Servius Sulpicius.
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Cicero- Letters to and from Cassius |
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Not translated in the Bohn;
evasively
translated by Ker.
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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Here is an example:
We shall emerge from this war well on our way to having a permanently planned and managed economy; and if business controls the goals of that planning, that will mean management also of all
relevant
social and cultural life.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Both language and the
nonsense
in the Wake are a dreaming into the world, not into ourselves.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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A washed-out
smallpox
cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain.
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Eliot - Rhapsody on a Windy Night |
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WHAT PUBLICITY CAN DO 107
conducted by at , Illinois, which
has been incorporated under the name of the
Excelsior
Manufacturing
Company with a capital
of $10,000,000, of which $5,000,000 is Preferred
and $5,000,000 Common.
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Louis Brandeis - 1914 - Other People's Money, and How Bankers Use It |
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In his other relations also, his
character
is enfeebled.
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The Letters of Abelard and Heloise - 1st Letter |
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But religious faith its empirical ecclesiastical form has another side, by which necessarily comes into
conflict
with knowledge.
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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2 They then agreed that, since Gallienus was far away and Aureolus was usurping the
imperial
power, some emperor ought to be chosen, and, indeed, the best man, lest there should arise some pretender.
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Historia Augusta |
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When the Eternal walks forth, the
harmonic
choirs, borne on the wings
of the wind to the borders of the sunny arch, chant His praise,
joining the melody of their golden harps.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Text and
interpretation
uncertain.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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It is ironic that the communist world bank of rage achieved its most important success in the form of an
unintended
side effect.
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Sloterdijk-Rage |
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One
sometimes
feels that it is only with a front of
brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all.
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Oscar Wilde |
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