We tore the tarry rope to shreds
With blunt and bleeding nails;
We rubbed the doors, and scrubbed the floors,
And cleaned the shining rails:
And, rank by rank, we soaped the plank,
And
clattered
with the pails.
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Wilde - Selected Poems |
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It’s
hopeless
trying to knock a polo ball about in this muck.
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Orwell - Burmese Days |
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Voisin, "De l'idiotie," Report read to the Academy of medicine on 24 January 1843,
rcpublished
by D.
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Foucault-Psychiatric-Power-1973-74 |
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tu uina
Torquato
moue consule pressa meo.
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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an
superado
el curso y vengarse asi?
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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Rather, nature should be exposed in all its catastrophic contingency and indeterminacy, and human agency assumed in the whole un- predictability of its consequences-- viewed from this perspective of the "other Hegel," the revolutionary act no longer
involves
as its agent the Luka?
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Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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The Supreme Being might, undoubtedly, have
accompanied his revelations to man by such a succession of miracles,
and of such a nature, as would have
produced
universal overpowering
conviction and have put an end at once to all hesitation and
discussion.
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Malthus - An Essay on the Principle of Population |
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"I believe," she said, "I
was quite mista'en in my
thoughts
of you: but there is so mony cheats
goes about, you mun forgie me.
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Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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BATTUS (not proof against the tactless reference; apostrophising)
[38] O
beautiful
Amaryllis, though you be dead, I am true, and I’ll never forget you.
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Theocritus - Idylls |
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Elsewhere, in V, 32, we get a glimpse ofthe immensity ofthe space that opens up be re the soul which "knows"-that is, which accepts Stoic doctrine:
It knows the beginning and the end, and the Reason which tra verses universal substance, and which
administers
the All through out eternity, in accordance with determinate periods.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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Do you know it, the Temple with vast peristyle,
And the lemons, bitter, marked by your teeth,
And the grotto fatal to imprudent guests,
Where the
vanquished
dragon's ancient seed sleeps?
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19th Century French Poetry |
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” One thinks; but that this “one is
pre-
cisely the famous old "ego," is, to put it mildly,
only a supposition, an assertion, and
assuredly
not
an “immediate certainty.
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Nietzsche - v12 - Beyond Good and Evil |
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cease going
tillafter
they are Men.
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Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
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The color, the most
beautiful
I ever have seen.
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Childrens - Children's Rhymes and Verses |
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At length, the praises of
agriculture having been exemplified in the sagacious observation that,
had
Alexander
been holding the plough, he would not have run his friend
Clytus through with a spear, this tried, and serviceable old friend
was banished by public edict in saecula saeculorum.
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Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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" Well, the most
contagious
fiend bids me pack: "Via!
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v23 - Sha to Sta |
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, and individuals have
been
frequently
obliged, by indirect means, to pay more than 10 per
cent.
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Ricardo - On The Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation |
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The
fact was, Socrates,
studying
Heraclitus, had become convinced that the
reason why men fell into error was because they did not know themselves,
or their own thoughts, because what they called thoughts were mere
opinions, mere fragments of thoughts.
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Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson |
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I got up and walked
straight out without
touching
my coffee.
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Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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He was under a heap of slain,
and so
trampled
by the feet of horsemen
that it was difficult to recognize him.
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Abelous - Gustavus Adolphus - Hero of the Reformation |
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Those new-set teeth shall drink her blood:
So look'd the Raetian mountaineers
On Drusus:--whence in every field
They learn'd through immemorial years
The Amazonian axe to wield,
I ask not now: not all of truth
We seekers find: enough to know
The wisdom of the princely youth
Has taught our erst victorious foe
What prowess dwells in boyish hearts
Rear'd in the shrine of a pure home,
What
strength
Augustus' love imparts
To Nero's seed, the hope of Rome.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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Exiled and more am I; impure,
A
murderer
in a stranger's hand:
CASTOR.
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Euripides - Electra |
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I take your strong chords--I
intersperse
them, and cheerfully pass them
forward.
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Whitman |
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In bitter grief
henceforward
shall I reign,
Day shall not dawn, I weep not nor complain.
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| Question: |
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Chanson de Roland |
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It is a very tall bird,
measuring six feet, and
sometimes
eight.
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| Question: |
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Childrens - Brownies |
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As he was to begin his journey too early on the morrow to see any of the
family, the
ceremony
of leave-taking was performed when the ladies moved
for the night; and Mrs.
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Austen - Pride and Prejudice |
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" he shouted, long and loud;
And "Who wants my
potatoes?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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And some say that the Graces in the
Acropolis
are his work; and they are clothed figures.
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Diogenes Laertius |
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652,
according
to the Annals of Tighernach, 3 and of
2
See ibid.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v8 |
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Sir John had dropped hints of past
injuries and disappointments, which justified her belief of his being
an unfortunate man, and she
regarded
him with respect and compassion.
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Austen - Sense and Sensibility |
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A complex system can have a more complex environment and is capable of processing a greater amount of irritation internally, that is, it can
increase
its own complexity more rapidly.
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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He emerges as a well-defined and sympathetic character, the sorely harrowed victim of a
relentless
fate, which is stronger than, yet
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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XXXIX
Who when the shamed shield of slaine Sansfoy
He spide with that same Faery champions page,
Bewraying him, that did of late destroy 345
His eldest brother, burning all with rage
He to him leapt, and that same envious gage
Of victors glory from him snatcht away:
But th' Elfin knight, which ought that warlike wage
Disdaind
to loose the meed he wonne in fray, 350
And him rencountring fierce, reskewd the noble pray.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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old, and rich, and
childless
too,
And yet believe your friends are true?
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Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
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The personnel of the Commission once
determined
upon, there was a
struggle, which lasted for six months, over the nature of its powers.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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This
gratitude
has not left me since.
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Sloterdijk-Derrida-An-Egyptian |
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He served in this
capacity
exactly five days.
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| Question: |
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Jose de Espronceda |
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4 A revo-
lutionary
situation exists when control of the government becomes "the ob-
2 See George Quester, Offense and Defense in the International System (New York: Wiley, 1977); Robert Jervis, "Cooperation under the Security Dilemma," World Politics 30, no.
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Revolution and War_nodrm |
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He emerges as a well-defined and sympathetic character, the sorely harrowed victim of a
relentless
fate, which is stronger than, yet
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A-Skeleton-Key-to-Finnegans-Wake |
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A complex system can have a more complex environment and is capable of processing a greater amount of irritation internally, that is, it can
increase
its own complexity more rapidly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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Niklas Luhmann - Art of the Social System |
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XXXIX
Who when the shamed shield of slaine Sansfoy
He spide with that same Faery champions page,
Bewraying him, that did of late destroy 345
His eldest brother, burning all with rage
He to him leapt, and that same envious gage
Of victors glory from him snatcht away:
But th' Elfin knight, which ought that warlike wage
Disdaind
to loose the meed he wonne in fray, 350
And him rencountring fierce, reskewd the noble pray.
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| Question: |
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Where is our English
chivalry?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Wilde - Selected Poems |
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The
archdeacon
again raised his
hat, and another salutary escape of steam was effected.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v25 - Tas to Tur |
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I
daren’t
ask
Cargill for another joint ’
‘Go to the other butcher-what’s his name?
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - A Clergyman's Daughter |
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Thine was the sword that Drusus drew,
When on the Breunian hordes he fell,
And storm'd the fierce
Genaunian
crew
E'en in their Alpine citadel,
And paid them back their debt twice told;
'Twas then the elder Nero came
To conflict, and in ruin roll'd
Stout Raetian kernes of giant frame.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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The images are
provided
for educational, scholarly, non-commercial purposes.
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| Source: |
Arisotle - 1882 - Aristotelis Ethica Nichomachea - Teubner |
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III
Astolpho wandered through that palace wide,
Observing al the future lives around:
When those already woven he had spied
Upon the fatal wheel for finish wound,
He a fair fleece discerned that far outvied
Fine gold, whose
wondrous
lustre jewels ground,
Could these into a thread be drawn by art,
Would never equal by the thousandth part.
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| Source: |
Ariosoto - Orlando Furioso |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
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"
{19c} "No art is
discovered
at once and absolutely.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The
chronology
of the Lesbia poems is quite uncertain.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Catullus - 1866b - Poetry - Slater |
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The two dances were scarcely concluded before Catherine found her arm
gently seized by her
faithful
Isabella, who in great spirits exclaimed,
“At last I have got you.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Austen - Northanger Abbey |
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The flower I gave thee once
Was
incident
to a stride,
A detail of a gesture,
But search those pale petals
And see engraven thereon
A record of my intention.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stephen Crane |
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At first sight, it might appear that in proportion as these carvings are more
primitive-looking, so they are anterior to those of the upper storey ; but
examined more closely they betray traces here and there of comparatively
mature art, which suggest that their defects are due rather to the clumsiness
and inexperience of the particular
sculptors
responsible for them than to
the primitive character of plastic art at the time when they were produced.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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But as she sat allone and
thoughte
thus, 610
Thascry aroos at skarmish al with-oute,
And men cryde in the strete, `See, Troilus
Hath right now put to flight the Grekes route!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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( Les formules finales abonde dans
Rabelais
et sont souvent empreintes de malice populaire.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Sandulescu-Literary-Allusions-in-Finnegans-Wake |
|
421
In the learning of the magical liberation, the Five Point explains its daytime waking practice and its night-time
dreaming
practice.
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Thurman-Robert-a-F-Tr-Tsong-Khapa-Losang-Drakpa-Brilliant-Illumination-of-the-Lamp-of-the-Five-Stages |
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"
Must
The old man clasped his trembling hands
together
as if in
prayer; and he said, with an agonized and broken voice:
"O Sir Keith, you are my master, and there is nothing I
will not do for you; but only this one night you will let me
remain with the yacht?
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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It was a technology
transfer
from Peking to Hanover that first put the new geometry of book printing and print technology into words.
| Guess: |
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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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"
"I did them in the last two
vacations
I spent at Lowood, when I had no
other occupation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jane Eyre- An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë |
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"
and that is the way it is going to be
recorded
against her.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Twain - Speeches |
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252
Friedrich
Kittler / Universities
?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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To her sweet but
burdened
soul
All that here she may control--
What of bitter memories,
What of coming fate's surmise,
Paris' passion, distant din
Of the war now drifting in
To her quiet--idle seems;
Idle as the lazy gleams
Of some stilly water's reach,
Seen from where broad vine-leaves pleach
A heavy arch; and, looking through,
Far away the doubtful blue
Glimmers, on a drowsy day,
Crowded with the sun's rich gray;--
As she stands within her room,
Weaving, weaving at the loom.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
|
Replied the Tsar, our country's hope and glory:
Of a truth, thou little lad, and peasant's
bantling!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Talisman |
|
" But it is for the very same reason that I strongly disagree with his identification of the
humanities
as an intellectual dimension that necessarily and unavoidably transforms its objects into texts (in other words: as an intellectual dimension for which "reading" is the exclusive intellectual operation).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht - Reactions to Geoffrey Galt Harpham's Diagnosis of the Humanities Today |
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Fair wavy
hair fell about the
shoulders
of the Green Knight, and a great beard
like a bush hung upon his breast (ll.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Gawaine and the Green Knight |
|
Nearchus stated that among
certian Indian peoples a girl was put up as the prize of victory in a boxing
match ; the victor
obtained
her without paying a price.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of India - v1 |
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O mind, a sister mind from the high summit of the world calls you, to be the
boundary
between heaven and hell.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Bruno-Cause-Principle-and-Unity |
|
The sick, despairing, grew
reckless
of precautions and restraints,
for nothing availed.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ovid - 1934 - Metamorphoses in European Culture - v2 |
|
—Reputed
Festival
of St.
| 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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"
I should
willingly
have refused the proposed honour, but I could not get
out of it.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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"
This argument appears to be a denial of the
validity
of our test.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Turing - Can Machines Think |
|
The Greek
Christian
Poets, and the English Poets.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v02 |
|
) can copy and
distribute
it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Edgar Allen Poe |
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That best of faulchions, which through iron case
Of cuirass or of casque was wont to bite,
Youthful
Rogero from the scabbard snatched,
And with the martial Dane his valour matched.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ariosto - Orlando Furioso - English |
|
Su enano pie calzaban
Chinelas de brocado: sus tobillos
Ajorcas primorosas adornaban
Hechas de gruesas perlas, que horadaban
Por su grueso mayor áureos arillos:
Sus brazos dobles sartas de corales,
Sus orejas riquísimos zarcillos:
Y, á usanza de las Moras principales,
Ostentaba
sus uñas nacaradas
Con azul costosísimo miniadas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jose Zorrilla |
|
The methodological ideal of critical theory has been given a contemporary restatement in Jiirgen Habermas,
Knowledge
and Human Interests (Boston, 197I), and Theory and Practice (Boston, 1973).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adorno-Jargon-of-Authenticity |
|
En nuestros
análi
sis de la acumulación de invenciones casuales en grandes tendencias no perseguimos la huella del espíritu del mundo en su andadura por el tiem po, tampoco percibimos la voz de la historia del ser.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Esferas - v3 |
|
I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the
way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll
find everything
unchanged
and he'll be able to forget the time in
between all the easier".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka |
|
It placed first things first
according
to common sense as well as to the well-known Douhet dictum that command of the air must be won before it can be exploited.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
brodie-strategic-bombing-in-ww2 |
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In the middle of that forest, and in a place well watered, and
encompassed
with fair fields, Colman raised the famous monastery of Land or Lann-Elo.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v9 |
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"
Liverpool
Daily Post and Mercury.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
|
Thought I, but one had
breathed
purest aire,
And must she needs be false because she's faire?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Donne - 1 |
|
1 A large proportion of them had taken
active part in the popular house of the provincial legisla-
tures; 2 six of them had served in the Stamp Act Congress;
practically all of them were members of
committees
of cor-
respondence.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arthur Schlesinger - Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution |
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Why should false
painting
imitate his cheek,
And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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The water
caressed
the shore so gently!
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19th Century French Poetry |
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This
provoked
a burst of mirth.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v04 - Bes to Bro |
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A woman entered quietly and deftly where
the first
penitent
had knelt.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
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La idea del
transmisor
-sea de lo que sea- puro, olvi
dado de sí, totalmente transferido al remitente, se ha liquidado am
pliamente por sí misma debido a un simple aumento de la atención
a los puntos problemáticos.
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Sloterdijk - Esferas - v2 |
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French academics and intellec- tuals, newly unemployed, wanted back their power and
therefore
pro- claimed a revolution.
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Kittler-Universities-Wet-Hard-Soft-And-Harder |
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But they are few, and all romance has flown,
And men can prophesy about the sun,
And lecture on his arrows--how, alone,
Through a waste void the
soulless
atoms run,
How from each tree its weeping nymph has fled,
And that no more 'mid English reeds a Naiad shows her head.
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Oscar Wilde - Poetry |
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He had his sperrits all foulen on him; to vet, most griposly, he was bedizzled and debuzzled; he had his tristiest
cabaleer
on; and looked like bruddy Hal.
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Finnegans |
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8 Nor is it any great act of mercy,
Conscript
Fathers, to grant pardon to the wives and children of outlawed men.
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Historia Augusta |
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Even this they will not do; for
after
debasing
themselves by the practice of the foulest and most
infamous vices, these most detestable of all men endeavor to
deprive the brave of the rewards that are due to them.
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Warner - World's Best Literature - v22 - Sac to Sha |
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, from 1648 to
1717, different kinds of
disasters
desolated the
Polish soil and nation.
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Poland - 1910 - Protestantism in Poland, a Brief Study of its History |
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"
Ch'ang Chi said, "If he's lost a foot and is still
superior
to the Master, then how far above the common run of men he must be!
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Chuang Tzu |
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He cast the net over Phrynon, and then he easily dragged down his
entangled
opponent and killed him.
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Polyaenus - Strategems |
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Frequently this is
identified
with falsehood.
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Sartre - BeingAndNothingness - Chapter 2 - On Lying |
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Fallibility, I would say, is the
condition
of the possibility of such metaphysical experience.
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Adorno-Metaphysics |
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Awareness of
universals
is called _conceiving_, and a
universal of which we are aware is called a _concept_.
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Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell |
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Intellectual knowledge of the view, however, ,is not sufficient to reach enlightenment because we have to
meditate
on what we have to understand.
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Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-The-Life-Spiritual-Songs-of-Milarepa |
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