The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard
till he came to a bunch of Grapes just
ripening
on a vine which
had been trained over a lofty branch.
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Aesop's Fables by Aesop |
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A blue-clad chauffeur sat at the wheel, upright, immobile, like some
scornful
statue.
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Orwell - Keep the Apidistra Flying |
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For some wood-daemon
has
lightened
your steps.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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They may be seen, in every stage of the process of
tumbling down, from the first slight
inclination
to such a dan-
gerous slope that it becomes a notice to quit to the occupiers.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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But if it were the
determining
principle
of the maxim, we must assume that we find not only a rational
satisfaction in the welfare of others, but also a want such as the
sympathetic disposition in some men occasions.
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Kant - Critique of Practical Reason |
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I oldways did me walsh and
preechup
ere we set to sope and fash.
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Finnegans |
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’
‘You damned, insolent young tick,
what’s
it got to do with YOU if he needed kicking?
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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This is called, using the
conquered
foe to augment one's own strength.
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The-Art-of-War |
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The requirement, in other words, was for a man with that special gift of rigid, ruthless and auto- matic
authority
which distinguishes the German corporal from all other human beings.
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Propaganda - 1939 - Foreign Affairs - Will Hitler Save Democracy |
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From the camera obscura have come the
photographic
camera and the computer screen; from movable type, movable electrons in silicon
50 Grey Room 05
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Kittler-2001-Perspective-and-the-Book |
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Fortune
befriends
the bold.
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Dryden - Virgil - Aeineid |
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pitiful it was to hear her moan,
And very pitiful to see her die
Ere she had yielded up her sweets, or known
The joy of passion, that dread mystery
Which not to know is not to live at all,
And yet to know is to be held in
death’s
most deadly thrall.
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Wilde - Charmides |
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Shall I, a queen, by rival chiefs adored,
Accept a
wandering
stranger for my lord?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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Sir, a game of jokes is
composed
partly of skill, partly of
chance; a man may be beat at times by one who has not the tenth part of his
wit.
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Oliver Goldsmith |
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Ibn Bassam, an Arabic contemporary, writing at Seville only ten
years after the death of the Cid, after
describing
his cruelty and
duplicity, adds:- "Nevertheless, that man, the scourge of his time,
was one of the miracles of the Lord in his love of glory, the prudent
firmness of his character, and his heroic courage.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v07 - Cic to Cuv |
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Otherwise
Hitler's ruthless Luftwaffe and fast-moving panzer divi-
sions would indeed have knocked out the Soviet Union
in a matter of weeks, as the
cocksure
prophets of Soviet
doom had with relish kept repeating.
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Soviet Union - 1952 - Soviet Civilization |
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The
generality
or universality of a bond.
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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page 10, paragraph 5, line 1
This sentence
translates
tshar tshad, which is a companion term to slong tshad (discussed in the previous note).
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Dudjom-Rinpoche-Mountain-Retreat-Ver5 |
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Ferrars
considered
it in that
light--a very gratifying circumstance you know to us all.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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Avery’s direst
predictions
came true: Calpurnia kept every fireplace in the house blazing, but we were cold.
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Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird |
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" Nor wish to understand them,"
said Frank: "that did
surprise
me.
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Childrens - Frank |
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On the return Journey he received the Black Yamiiri and other
teachings
from Lama Tralungpa.
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Dudjom Rinpoche - Fundamentals and History of the Nyingmapa |
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The wind hauls
wheelbarrows
of dirt.
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Trakl - The True Fate of the Bremen Town Musicians as Told by Georg Trakl |
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[275] NOSSIS { H 5 } G
With joy, it is likely,
Aphrodite
will receive this offering from Symaetha, the caul that bound her hair ; for it is delicately wrought and has a certain sweet smell of nectar, that nectar with which she, too, anoints lovely Adonis.
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Greek Anthology |
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1
respectively: and there can be little doubt that the
relative
superiority
of Preston is mainly owing to her large Catholic population.
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Sutherland - Birth Control- A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians |
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The idea of
cleansing
by "washing in Jordan" comes originally from the account
of Elisha's cure of Naaman as related in II Kings v.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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The age of a scaly
fish may be told by the size and the
hardness
of its scales.
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Aristotle |
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Blinded soul--I said to thee--I'm full of fire;
My
yearning
is mine only grief that burns.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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(1) By enlisting in its cause the interest of the
German's
religious
and moral needs : just as the
new academicians used scepticism for the same
reasons, as a preparation for Platonism (vide
Augustine); just as
just as Pascal even used moral
scepticism in order to provoke (to justify) thel
need of belief;
(2) By complicating and entangling it with
scholastic flourishes in view of making it more
## p.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate,
and the most
accurate
instrument by which to measure Life.
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Rilke - Poems |
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Afranius was killed by Caesar's
soldiers
after the last battle in Africa.
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Universal Anthology - v05 |
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Joyce
evidently
want< uS to imagine thaI w me_ thing of the na.
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Hart-Clive-1962-Structure-and-Motif-in-Finnegans-Wake |
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Like all that
pertains
to crime, it seemed never to have known
a youthful era.
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Hawthorne - Scarlett Letter |
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org/access_use#pd-us
We have
determined
this work to be in the public domain in the United States of America.
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Childrens - Child Verse |
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Atalanta took a prominent part in the hunt of the Calydonian boar, and received from
Meleager
the hide and head of the boar as her prize (Paus.
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Callimachus - Hymns |
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tsa way lama) A practitioner of
Vajrayana
can have several types of root guru: the vajra master who confers empowerment, who bestows reading transmission, or.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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"
"Ah, most of all I wouldn't want to continue
travelling
at all.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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But as for that other school of
historians, a perhaps still more " modern " school,
a voluptuous and
lascivious
school which ogles
life and the ascetic ideal with equal fervour, which
uses.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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The image of the superman that is
emblematic
of Nietzsche's thought
is not that of a release of repressions or a swerve into bestialization, as was imagined
by the booted evil Nietzsche readers of the 1930s.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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The fool of false dominion--and a kind
Of bastard Caesar, following him of old
With steps unequal; for the Roman's mind
Was modelled in a less terrestrial mould,
With passions fiercer, yet a judgment cold,
And an immortal instinct which redeemed
The
frailties
of a heart so soft, yet bold.
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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And then they
chucked some earth on to the coffin and I suddenly realized what it means for your
mother to be lying with seven feet of earth on top of her, and something kind of twitched
behind my eyes and nose, but even then the whipcord
breeches
weren’t altogether out of
my mind.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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The trees hang vaguely over the bank, and the land appears as though it
already
belonged
to the past.
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Tagore - Creative Unity |
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The
physicist
or chemist is not now required to prove
the ethical importance of his ions or atoms; the biologist is not
expected to prove the utility of the plants or animals which he
dissects.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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The
question
to be raised here is this: Is this circle
inescapable?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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[1047] And near the Ausonian false-tomb of Calchas one of the two brothers shall have an alien soil over his bones and to men sleeping in sheepskins on his tomb he shall declare in dreams his
unerring
message for all.
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Lycophron - Alexandra |
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Sometimes
I wander out of beaten ways
Half looking for the orchid Calypso.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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A lord might dare to lift the hat
To such a modest clay,
Since that my Lord, "the Lord of lords"
Receives
unblushingly!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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"
"Forty
thousand
rubles," said Herman coolly.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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They were Madam--and as I copied them myself in a feigned Hand
there can be no
suspicion
whence they came.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
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Oft as those sainted Rocks before him spread,
An unknown power
connects
him with the dead.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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How could we ever have trusted in a guaranteed adequacy, in an equal degree of complexity between our mental capacities and the conditions of our
individual
and collective survival?
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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Princeton:
Princeton
University Press.
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| Question: |
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Schwarz - Committments |
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Goes out with an
uncertain
smile.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Kipling - Poems |
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O'Brien makes it clear that such
individualism
will not be tolerated: "There will be no loyalty, except loyalty to the Party.
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Steven-Pinker-The-Blank-Slate 1 |
|
foreign aid
programs
offer another example of how imperi- alist policy masquerades as social reform within Third World nations.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
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' This rather assumes, as Mueller observed,
that the values of Islam trump anyone else's - which is what any follower of Islam does assume, just as any follower of any
religion
believes that theirs is the sole way, truth and light.
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Richard-Dawkins-God-Delusion |
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They say the
Embroidered
City is a pleasant place, but I had rather be
safe at home.
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| Question: |
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Li Po |
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"I have received several melancholy [letters] from the King”, Cornwallis
writes to Shore, "calling on me in the most
pressing
terms for assistance and
support.
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Cambridge History of India - v5 - British India |
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L7: [(2)
Inappropriateness
of asserting differentiation of truly existent and not truly existent with regard to any phenomenon]
.
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| Question: |
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Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
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It has survived long enough for the
copyright
to expire and the book to enter the public domain.
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| Question: |
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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There are
historians
who will tell you that the civil code has given the maximum to the lamily; others say that it has reduced the power of the lamily.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
*** END OF THIS PROJECT
GUTENBERG
EBOOK SIDDHARTHA ***
***** This file should be named 2500-8.
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse |
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‘Tis said a continual
dripping
will e’en wear a hollow in a stone .
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Bion |
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Instead of seeking a sudden divorce, both
universities
and nation-states still keep praying for the former's survival.
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| Question: |
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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We will then go on to others,
which are actually warm to the touch, and observe the
strength
and
degree of it.
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| Question: |
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Bacon |
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CATERPILLARS
Of
caterpillars
Fabre tells how day after day
Around the rim of a vast earth pot they crawled,
Tricked thither as they filed shuffling out one morn
Head to tail when the common hunger called.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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The little ones keep
everything
in
order.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen |
|
Care for her future greatness, for her
existence even, made it
absolute
on her to dispute the empire of the sea
with Carthage.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Napoleon - History of Julius Caesar - a |
|
[31]
Practically
a quotation from Ch'u Yuan's "Life," by Ss?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Li Po |
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Valley birds droned here and there, 8 we saw no
travelers
going back the way we came.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Du Fu - 5 |
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[p107] Instead, the years of their enslavement will have been
combined
with the years of their freedom in a single total, which is how the Hebrews themselves count it.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Eusebius - Chronicles |
|
Differing patterns of
attachment
result from differing patterns of interaction, rather than being a reflection of infant temperament, or instinct.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bowlby - Attachment |
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in the period
immediately
following
the war.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Soviet Union - 1944 - Meet the Soviet Russians |
|
Unless you have removed all
references
to Project Gutenberg:
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
|
foreign aid
programs
offer another example of how imperi- alist policy masquerades as social reform within Third World nations.
| Guess: |
|
| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Blackshirts-and-Reds-by-Michael-Parenti |
|
Having
converted
spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies and
using them for our own purposes.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The-Art-of-War |
|
I know but one
murderer
of all my hours--
whose name is Rome.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Poland - 1919 - Krasinski - Anonymous Poet of Poland |
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; but, in fact, the idea of "I" is
relative
only to those skandhas and not to any "self" imagined [by the Vaisesikas.
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| Question: |
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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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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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
|
A feature of the book is a section dealing with the
influence of the philosophies of the East upon those of
the West, so far as materials are now
available
for our
guidance in this respect.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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MISSION WORK AMONG THE POLES 51
ical
Eeformed
Church, with a Synodical Pres-
byterian form of government, which conducts
its affairs according to Church order.
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| Source: |
Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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We hit apeak last year, but it's been
downhill
ever since.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Lakoff-Metaphors |
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And ye, O high-born
beauties!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Victor Hugo - Poems |
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Thepresentholymanwasdestinedtopassthrough that ordeal, because he felt it to be a great
pastoral
duty to reprove vice, and topromotevirtue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v7 |
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But if atoms do not touch one another, why does an
agglomeration
of atoms not fall to pieces when it is struck?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Abhidharmakosabhasyam-Vol-1-Vasubandhu-Poussin-Pruden-1991 |
|
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and
great calamity, to be regarded as personal
conditions
(of the same
kind).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Tao Te Ching |
|
He came out on the landing above the
entrance
hall and looked about
him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
She is,"
continued
the detested Slave,
"She is right willing--strange if she were not!
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Wordsworth - 1 |
|
The celebrated enactments of Magna Charta as to personal security
and rights of
property
applied primarily to free men and to free tene-
ments, and of such there were a good many in the manor.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge Medieval History - v3 - Germany and the Western Empire |
|
The hours of labor were much longer than they are now; the
education
of the children was being neglected; the health and maternity of the women were being injured; and other objectiona- ble features were common.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Brady - Business as a System of Power |
|
(2) Ignorance, not due to the man's own previous negligence,
of some circumstances
material
to the issue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aristotle by A. E. Taylor |
|
Finally, Jonson would hardly have attacked a
man who stood so high at court as did
Mompesson
in 1616.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association |
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The_satires_of_Persius |
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The chief objects of pursuit upon these
occasions
were the gazelle, the ibex, the oryx, and perhaps some other kinds of antelopes.
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Universal Anthology - v01 |
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Even though there was nothing to see or film in the trenches, the
military
prohibited shooting on location simply because they did not want to supply the enemy with free intelligence reconnaissance.
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Kittler-Friedrich-Optical-Media-pdf |
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A liberal education will preserve our souls against the confusion, the negativism that harrass the
untrained
in the face of revolutionary changes.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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In return for his kindness, they fought more courageously, when they were under his command, so as to increase the honour and reputation of their general; but if any other at any time happened to be sent to command them, the
soldiers
would deliberately fight more weakly at the very height of the battle.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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For him, the existence of radical evil is
accompanied
by the experience of the radical absence of meaning.
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The Totalitarian Mind - Fischbein |
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The
distinctions
of moral values have
either originated in a ruling caste, pleasantly con-
scious of being different from the ruled-or among
the ruled class, the slaves and dependents of all sorts.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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Although an
official
of a Small
State himself, he nevertheless put into print that
a ship a span in length is no ship at all, and that,
should the Small States of Prussia be annexed,
what would happen to them was only what they
themselves in times gone by had done to smaller
territories; for they owed their existence to an-
nexations.
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Treitschke - 1914 - His Doctrine of German Destiny |
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