The document which recommended that such a directive be issued reads in part:
It must be considered whether a decision to proceed with a program
directed
toward determining feasibility prejudges the more fundamental decisions (a) as to whether, in the event that a test of a thermonuclear weapon proves successful, such weapons should be stockpiled, or (b) if stockpiled, the conditions under which they might be used in war.
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NSC-68 |
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Or did you say--
_Someone_
said 'Come'--I heard it as I bowed.
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Robert Frost - A Mountain Interval |
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Despite the estimation of Cardinal de Bausset, former Bishop of Alais, that
Chateaubriand
was ".
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Chateaubriand - Travels in Italy |
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Wisdom
consists
in knowing, with reserve (aidos), one's place in society and in the world-in other words, in having a sense ofmankind's limits.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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This secularized, existentialist way of thinking about incarnation (''secular'' in the sense of no longer presupposing that the sphere of a spiritual God will be accessible to us) projects quite a messy picture, a picture that is a far cry from the neat separation between a spiritual God and his creatures made from dirt, complete with the occasional possibility of bridging their
ontological
distance through incarnation.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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instead of being
enslaved
to an external master, we are now enslaved to a master within.
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Hegels Philosophy of the Historical Religions |
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For that Thou givest my soul some strength
Of that high
strength
which rules the stars,
To brave the time and wait the length,
I bless Thy name and kiss my scars.
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Tennyson |
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The new place of America in the world as a whole, the awakened interest in other peoples, other cultures must
inevitably
draw the minds of men away from the mere practicalities of living.
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Propaganda - 1943 - Post War Prospect of Liberal Education |
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It was an
interchange
of amenities over the dinner-table ; a flattery of power on the one side, and puns on the other; and what the public took for the criticism upon a play, was a draft upon the box-office, or re miniscences of last Thursday's salmon and lobster sauce.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v2 |
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Johnson has well remarked that
"to circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the
narrowness
of
the definer"--which shall exclude all gnomic and satiric verse, and so
debar the claims of Hesiod, Juvenal, and Boileau, it is impossible to
deny that Pope is a true poet.
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Alexander Pope |
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tu uina
Torquato
moue consule pressa meo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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People
naturally
seek the picture of life in that
philosophy which makes them most cheerful-
that is to say, in that philosophy which gives the
highest sense of freedom to their strongest instinct.
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Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
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The general that
hearkens
not to my counsel nor acts upon it, will suffer defeat: -- let such a one be dismissed!
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The-Art-of-War |
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"
observed
one
of his attendants.
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Childrens - Little Princes |
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mismo: los
innumerables
que no conocen ma?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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This is not contravened by Trakl's "it is," which the poet chose for its
paradoxical
force: I n this context "it is" means that "what is not, is.
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Theoder-Adorno-Aesthetic-Theory |
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To what extent other stockholders divide the clouded
prospects
with the Buckleys the record does not show.
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Lundberg - The-Rich-and-the-Super-Rich-by-Ferdinand-Lundberg |
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Man
founders
in deceit, all the age of his life.
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Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are
(8) the
rejoicing
of my heart.
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Childrens - Psalm-Book |
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The neutrality of the Ostrogoths, which Byzantine diplomacy had secured,
gave
Belisarius
every chance of fair play.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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Tania well nigh expired when he
Turned to her and discordantly
Intoned it,
manuscript
in hand.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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--Et la lampe s'etant resignee a mourir,
Comme le foyer seul illuminait la chambre,
Chaque fois qu'il poussait un
flamboyant
soupir,
Il inondait de sang cette peau couleur d'ambre!
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Baudelaire - Fleurs Du Mal |
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I shall base my account on the work of Davies and his
colleague
Michael Brooke because it lends itself especially well to being cast in the language of species 'experience' of ancestral
worlds.
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Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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If an
individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
copying, distributing, performing,
displaying
or creating derivative
works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
are removed.
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Blake - Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
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Mostly it wants, in these times, the
influence
that resides in latentforce.
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Schelling - The Diplomacy of Violence |
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In addition, at
Aquileia
he killed Maximus the tyrant, who had murdered Gratian and had taken control of Gallia, [175] and executed his son Victor, who had been made Augustus while still an infant.
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Aurelius Victor - Caesars |
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Poor, gallant Benedek,
presently to be transferred from Venetia to Bohemia, in
order that an archduke might win in Italy, while the
general,
assigned
to command in a Bohemia that he did
not know an ill-organised army that did not know him,
was to be broken for his failure--the scapegoat's last
services to the incompetence of a selfish dynasty.
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Robertson - Bismarck |
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;
coon, and probably coloured like Titian” (Notes on | ledge of the degrees of things, or taste, presupposes
Du Fresnoy, note 37); and, though the point has a perfect knowledge of the things
themselves
: that
been disputed, such is the general judgment of the colour, grace, and taste, are ornaments, not substi-
best modern authorities.
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William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a |
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A dance divine, that, time after time, resumed,
Broke, and re-formed again,
circling
every way,
Merged and then parted, turned, then turned away,
Mirroring the curves Meander's course assumed.
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Ronsard |
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H e was very wretched;
yet his pride prevented his
evincing
aught beyond a con-
tempt for the tributes offered her.
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Madame de Stael - Corinna, or Italy |
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Even the man who executed it,
though a barbarian
according
to Greek notions, might
have some claim to be considered as the representative
of a sacred cause.
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Demosthenese - 1869 - Brodribb |
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Satisfied with his
analysis
of what had gone wrong a5 primarily an athlete's slipup-anyone can jump too short on occasion-Ulrich, whose nerves were s~ in excellent shape, quietly fell asleep, with precisely the same delight in the descending spirals of fading con- sciousness that he had dimly felt·during his defeat.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
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The constables, also, discovered, between the bed and sacking of the
unhappy man, a shirt and neck-handkerchief both marked with the initials
of his name, and both hideously
besmeared
with the blood of the victim.
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Poe - 5 |
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Partiality and concurrence of
circumstances
?
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Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
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Should a sufferer be very dear to us, we divest
ourselves
of pain
by the performance of acts of sympathy.
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Human, All Too Human- A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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What result could be reached from the
investigations
then carried on into the origin and
?
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Pleiderer - Development of Theology in Germany since Kant |
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But the attempt at
friendship
that this letter marshaled was no longer simply that of bourgeois openhanded communication, and the concept of friendship that was invoked through this demanding philosophical missive was no longer that of a communication between a national public and its classicist.
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Sloterdijk - Rules for the Human Zoo |
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Summer, when all our labours are fulfilled, or sweet autumn when our hunger is least and lightest, or the winter when no man can work – for winter also hath delights for many with her warm
firesides
and leisure hours – or doth the pretty spring-time please you best?
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Bion |
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The maenis, for instance, is good at the
breeding
time.
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Aristotle copy |
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One must be able to bite in order
to resist
worshipping
at this shrine.
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Nietzsche - v08 - The Case of Wagner |
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This was
followed
in 1985, on Burke's instigation,
by the impeachment of the most conspicuous of the Company's offi-
cers, Warren Hastings.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v05 - Bro to Cai |
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'
So Catherine, who had a
handsome
way
Of fitting out her favourites, conferr'd
This secret charge on Juan, to display
At once her royal splendour, and reward
His services.
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Bryon - Don Juan |
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The cloot has unfortunately broke, but I have provided a fine
buffalo-horn, on which I am going to affix the same cipher which you
will
remember
was on the lid of the cloot.
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Robert Burns- |
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I am sure
Christine
will
take me in for the night--
_Helmer_.
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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen |
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They
believed
that these spirits 'were' the world.
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Tarthang-Tulku-Mother-of-Knowledge-The-Enlightenment-of-Yeshe-Tsogyal |
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F-I-',x =;ia =--= -r==
yoi=a=ir
A:a i-i4- -n=ii{;=!
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Sloterdijk - Spheres - v1 |
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On this point
humility
must be the order of the day.
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Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
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Therefore thou knowest of the
existence
of objects
only by means of seeing, feeling them, &c.
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Fichte - Nature of the Scholar |
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At least there are no differences of opinion about the method of Ritual for begetting the
resolution
thought for
?
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Richard-Sherburne-A-Lamp-for-the-Path-and-Commentary-of-Atisha |
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At the
critical
moment, the leader of an army acts like one who has climbed up a height and then kicks away the ladder behind him.
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The-Art-of-War |
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This is
precisely
the issue.
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Sloterdijk-Cynicism-the-Twilight-of-False-Consciousness |
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was conduct
befitting
brave men.
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Diodorus Siculus - Historical Library |
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"
%+%#*
" # " " 1?
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Dzongsar-Khyentse-Longchen-Nyingthig-Practice-Manual |
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The airplanes were always hidden under
camouflage
nets
or in large, old barns.
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| Source: |
Orwell - 1984 |
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In
swimming
he topped thee,
had more of main!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
|
Many years have already elapsed since
Mallarme?
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Mεᴙleau-Ponty-World-of-Pεrcεption-2004 |
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"
The laugh was
repeated
in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an
odd murmur.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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She was like a dowsing rod pointing to hidden springs-in this case, the necessity of
replacing
modem man's pas- sive, merely intellectual, rational attitude with "values.
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Musil - Man Without Qualities - v2 |
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Even those who had often seen him were at first in
doubt whether this were truly the brilliant and
graceful
Monmouth.
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Macaulay |
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tait d'abord , et
finissait
par las-
ser en e?
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Madame de Stael - De l'Allegmagne |
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Generated for (University of
Chicago)
on 2014-08-20 04:05 GMT / http://hdl.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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Ông làm quan Tả Thị lang Bộ Lại, quyền
Thượng
thư Bộ Binh.
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stella-03 |
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Certainly,
newspaper
publishing was not a practice of the Counter-Reformation clergy.
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Cult of the Nation in France |
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The music alone,
Ovid thought, might hardly suffice to
overcome
so many watchful eyes.
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v1 |
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Further
reproduction
prohibited without permission.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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It is from Fleury,
dated Light
Infantry
Camp, Highlands.
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Hamilton - 1834 - Life on Hamilton - v1 |
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For only in this way does life become
possible
in its true
• See CM, W 17a [61].
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| Source: |
Heidegger - Nietzsche - v1-2 |
|
'
In our new chronotope, the relentless dynamic of historical movement has weakened, and, in any case, the
momentum
of tem- poral procession has stalled in the meantime.
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Gumbrecht - Steady Admiration in an Expanding Present - Our New Relationship to Classics |
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Mais, sans oser les regarder qu’à la dérobée, je
sentais que ces apprêts pompeux étaient vivants et que c’était la
nature elle-même qui, en creusant ces
découpures
dans les feuilles, en
ajoutant l’ornement suprême de ces blancs boutons, avait rendu cette
décoration digne de ce qui était à la fois une réjouissance populaire
et une solennité mystique.
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Proust - A La Recherche du Temps Perdu - Du Côté de Chez Swann - v1 |
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If Tom is up, I shall go to him
directly and get it over, and when we meet at breakfast we shall be all
in high good-humour at the
prospect
of acting the fool together with
such unanimity.
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| Source: |
Austen - Mansfield Park |
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The prestige of the
Imperial
House is great enough
to effect by its own unaided powers many impor-
tant national tasks.
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Treitschke - 1915 - Germany, France, Russia, and Islam |
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Able and witty, but without any principle of mo-
rality, the regent laid himself open to criticism of the
sharpest
kind;
and young Arouet was not the most merciful of his judges.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
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By my _Own Nature_ in _Particular_ I
understand
the _Complexion_ or
_Association_ of all those things which are given me by God.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Descartes - Meditations |
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You could protect honest citizens against insurance
companies
and employers by restricting the national database to non- coding regions of the genome.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Richard-Dawkins-Unweaving-the-Rainbow |
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" And all the while you sing out that canzone,
Think you that Maent lived at Montaignac, One at Chalais, another at
Malemort
HardoverBrive foreveryladyacastle,
Each place strong.
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
|
It was only after the
accession
of his late gracious majesty George the Third, that Dr.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v3 |
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I have heard your quick breaths
And seen your arms writhe toward me;
At those times
--God help us--
I was
impelled
to be a grand knight,
And swagger and snap my fingers,
And explain my mind finely.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane - War is Kind |
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con giunta di tre altre
traduzioni
dall'inglese, una dal tedesco,
e tre canzoni dell'autore.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v12 |
|
--when I
introduced
my wife to my friend.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Selection of English Letters |
|
We have yet the action itself to consider : the
states of consciousness that
accompany
it, the yea
or nay which follows upon its performance: does
the value of an action lie in the subjective states
which accompany it?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
Mark the
quantity
of the syllables in the verbs Pratsta,
lauda, and the nouns Industrie, arma.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Latin - Bradley - Exercises in Latin Prosody |
|
She flows through my reality,
air, mixed with the salt sea-swell:
into my soul's ecstasy,
pours the essence of the eternal;
Ever-fresh sachet, that scents
the dear corner's
atmospheric
light,
hidden smoke, of the burning censer,
in the secret paths of night.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Andre Breton - First Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924 |
|
297 302; A
Treatise
on Insanity, "Feigned mania: the method of ascertaining it," pp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
|
Look how the senators ape the clown,
And don the motley and hide the gown,
But yonder a fast-rising frown
On the people's
forehead
lowers.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
1
The force of
nationality
was in Bismarck's eyes' an illusion
and a fiction' unless it was backed by a material power
strong enough to enforce its claims.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Robertson - Bismarck |
|
We may
therefore
fairly say.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edmund Burke |
|
How did the state
originate?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
I will
accompany
thee.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Universal Anthology - v01 |
|
I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen
months at any rate, so that if I may not write
beautiful
books, I may at
least read beautiful books; and what joy can be greater?
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Wilde - De Profundis |
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_Robert
Elsmere_ is of course a masterpiece--a masterpiece of the "genre
ennuyeux," the one form of
literature
that the English people seems
thoroughly to enjoy.
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Oscar Wilde |
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Brutus, the son of Marcus, was no
inelegant
speaker; and that for the time he lived in, he was well versed both in the Greek and Roman literature.
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Cicero - Brutus |
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I am not here to write a full volume of
detailed
criti- cism, but two things I do claim which I have not seen in reviewers'essays.
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Ezra-Pound-Instigations |
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Explicit
Secundus
Liber.
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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152-171)
THE NOMINATION AND
ELECTION
OF THE
PRESIDENT
1.
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Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
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The essay is both more open and more closed than
traditional
thought would like.
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Adorno-The Essay As Form |
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Translated
by
Horace B.
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Nietzsche - v02 - Early Greek Philosophy |
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I said; this is what Critias, or some
philosopher
has
told you.
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Plato - Apology, Charity |
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Patrick to that
Province—His
Preaching at Cashel, and the Conversion of King ^ngus with his People —St.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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He and I
tried to get
Williams
to understand that boy, and make a picture of Jack
that would be worthy of Jack.
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Twain - Speeches |
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This is a model of confession that honors truthfulness without
concerning
itselfwith truth.
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Constructing a Replacement for the Soul - Bourbon |
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